Just look at this amazing cover! So excited for this!!

Last weekend I attended a launch event for Aaron Reynolds' newest book, TROUBLING TONSILS. It prompted me to dig up a page from my daughter's baby book from when I knew Aaron in another life!

This Pride Month, we're recommending FLAMBOYANTS by @iamgmjohnson.bsky.social & Charly Palmer! From the New York Times–bestselling author of All Boys Aren’t Blue comes an empowering set of essays about Black and Queer icons from the Harlem Renaissance. bit.ly/3H3O7aI

Terminology Tip: People often see my book and call it a "prose novel" (sometimes even after I specifically say it's a novel-in-verse). "Prose" is just a fancy way of describing writing in normal paragraph form. If it's not a graphic novel, verse, or another hybrid form, it's written in prose.

Someone on Nextdoor complaining about baby foxes in their yard, and I'm like: Nooooooo, send them to meeeeee. 🥹

Going to try to start posting here every day as a little experiment. Feeling a little lost in the social media world right now (as many people are). Here's a video of my dog frantically trying to get dry after his bath. (Note the growling - he NEEDS every last drop of that water GONE!)

It's #ChildrensBookWeek and we're featuring our author's books to celebrate! Check out these amazing books that have already released, and stay tuned for more #MGEscapades #MiddleGradeBooks

Feeling like nobody "gets" what you do as a school librarian? Join tonight #TLskyChat tonight & we will problem solve 2gether!

Thank you so much for having me 💜💜💜

Summer is about to get off to a great start with this season's releases from Middle Grade Escapades! Preorder these books now, and stay tuned for part 2, because we have lots more to share #MGEscapades #MiddleGradeBooks

We love indie bookstores! This weekend, head to your local indie and pick up some amazing middle grade books from the Escapaders and share the love! #IndieBookstoreDay #MiddleGradeEscapades

Multiple MGE authors have items up for auction to fundraise for the @ndkidlit.bsky.social scholarship! Check out amazing offerings from @nicolemhewitt.bsky.social, @cassfederman.bsky.social, and @emilydeibert.bsky.social here: ndkidlit.org/fundraising-... #MGEscapades #Fundraiser #MiddleGradeBooks

💸🧠 #ndkidlitauction LIVE: Bid: Signed/personalized hardcover of THE SONG OF ORPHAN'S GARDEN by @nicolemhewitt.bsky.social + swag! champ.ly/7MkdRmhN #pictu#ndkidlitauction#picturebooks #diversebooks #childrensbook #autism #autismacceptance #writingcommunity #writinghelp #mentalhealth #booksky #charity #nonprofit

Had such a fun day signing books with @authorsarafujimura.bsky.social and @jenniferwagh.bsky.social! Signed copies are available at B&N Oswego!

Watch for this auction, live on the 15th!! So many great items up for bid!

Chicagoland friends, join us!!

Flashback to one of my favorite reviews on the blog... (Go read it - I promise it's fun!) feedyourfictionaddiction.com/2014/04/5-st...

So excited to be featured on The Children's Book Review today, in conversation with Megan E. Freeman! @meganefreeman.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social #MGLit #kidlit 📚👍🏼 #Booksky 💙📚 www.thechildrensbookreview.com/fantasy-meet...

Yay for travel reading!!

Thanks for spreading the word about these MG debuts!! (Including mine!)

School visit today! Hanging out with the 6th graders at Big Hollow Middle School!

Check out my interview over at Literary Rambles and enter for a chance to win THE SONG OF ORPHAN'S GARDEN!! #MGLit #kidlit 📚👍🏼 #Booksky 💙📚 www.literaryrambles.com/2025/01/debu...

My MG author group has joined Bluesky! Hope you'll follow us for some fun and great MG reads!! #MGLit #kidlit 📚👍🏼 #Booksky 💙📚

Getting fan art would be the dream!! It doesn’t happen often with MG. (Though, now that I think about it, there are some very talented young artists who might send me something?)

Our authors are: @leslieadame.bsky.social @ryanjamesblack.bsky.social @careybk.bsky.social Jess Callans C.M. Cornwell @emilydeibert.bsky.social @cassfederman.bsky.social @nicolemhewitt.bsky.social

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our First Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 12, 2025. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...

President Trump's DOE has made themselves clear: they will support book banners in their efforts to strip our institutions of learning of the books that define them. So let us be perfectly clear: we're going to do whatever we can to try and stop them.

Cristina Rouvalis‬ ‪@cristinarouvalis2.bsky.social‬ · Excited for January 21 launch of our debut MG novel, Snoopers & Sneakers. Kirkus called it "a delightful cozy mystery with sprightly young investigators at the reins." lydiaandcristina.wordpress.com/about/

Tomorrow!!

Can you believe my coworkers threw a midnight release party just for me? 🎉 What’s that you say? Those decorations look like they’re for a ✨different✨ just-released title? You must be mistaken. 😂 My friends celebrated me at the midnight party anyway. They're the best! #kidlit #MGLit 📚👍🏼 #Booksky 💙📚

So very happy for my friend @nicolemhewitt.bsky.social whose DEBUT BOOK, The Song of Orphan's Garden, comes out TODAY!! 🥳🥳 Get you to a bookstore, friends! Mine is already en route!

Happy Book Birthday to The Song Of Orphan Garden by @nicolemhewitt.bsky.social A novel in verse! @mackidsbooks.bsky.social #BookPosse

Sharing this spreadsheet again of Black families in Altadena who need our help; Altadena is a historically Black community and there are real fears that this is what permanently displaces people who have lived in the area for 30 or 40 years. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Thank you, Lisa, for sharing this fun interview and your lovely review!! lisalovesliterature.bookblog.io/2025/01/16/e...

Happy reading!!

Chicago-area folks, come join me! January 25th at 1pm!

Authors when they get their author copies...

Got this adorable custom Funko from my mom for Christmas! New author photo?

I get extra excited when someone says they love the maps from the preorder campaign because my daughter drew them (& colored them for the campaign). She did an amazing job! The map pictured is the version Brob draws in his journal, and the other side is a more "official" map. Both are gorgeous!!

I know lots of people have already said this, but definitely a writing retreat. Preferably one somewhere with beautiful nature to look at and people to talk books with ONLY in the evenings after I've gotten my writing done. #kidlitchat

This is such a great list of ALL the YA mystery thrillers!!

The cookie recipes in this post look amazing!! (Posting this mostly so I remember to show them to my daughter next week when she comes home from school - but you should all enjoy them too!) www.allthebooksihaventread.com/blog-1/2024/...

Pre-order THE SONG OF ORPHAN'S GARDEN or request it from your library to receive: ✨ color double-sided map print (illustrated by my daughter Danielle!) ✨ wildflower seeds ✨ sticker ✨ bookmark ✨ custom signed bookplate (tune featured is used in my book trailer if you want to hear it!) International

Okay, I need some more Bluesky education. I really want to use this site more. Starter Packs are great for finding people to follow, but then I still need to create (or follow) feeds to see those people's posts specifically, right?

Boosting…

🔊 The #writingcommunity voted & we’re Announcing Path2pub’s 2025 Pitch Event: #P2Ppit 2025’s first pitch event!! #P2Ppit stands for Path to Publication Pitch. It’s a Twitter/Bluesky pitch event for writers to post pitches of their books either for industry participation or 🧵

I'm donating a 30-minute AMA call & 10-page critique to the Support TK auction! (I was a freelance editor in a past life, so I promise I'll be helpful!) There are over 150 items in the auction!! I have a trans daughter, so I know how important resources are for trans kids. A literal lifesaver!

Absolutely loved this book about a blood witch with diabetes, and it just made the New York Public Library list of 2024 Best Books for Kids!! Congrats @clarewonders.bsky.social!!

Me: Siri, directions to Taco Bell Siri: One option is on blah blah road in blah blah. It’s 296 miles away and gets 2 stars on Yelp. Would you like me to take you there? Me: No, no I would not. 😂😂😂