Paradise of Exiles: Making Masks in Venice open.substack.com/pub/beingini...

Storytime! (no unaccompanied adults... must bring children ages 0-5) 👨‍👦☺️ Denver Public Library: Central Children's Library 10 W 14th Ave, Denver, CO 80204 Date: Sunday, November 16, 2025 Time: 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm (Mountain Time) denverlibrary.libcal.com/event/14839203

I was on the radio! In Kansas! Next up, Colorado Matters (in November... CPR.org)... but first, here's Kansas Public Radio, with Dan Skinner, on his show "Connections"... (Thanks, Dan!) kansaspublicradio.org/podcast/conv...

Seattle area friends! I'll be at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, Washington, on Saturday, Sept 27th, at 11:00. I'll be reading Xin's and my picture book and chatting with kiddos and parents. If you're in the area, bring the littles with you and say hi! www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/storyt...

Drop-in meet & greet party at Barbed Wire Books on Saturday, September 6th, from 10am-1pm, celebrating the launch of Xin Li's and my new picture book YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Call or email the shop to reserve your copy of You Are Not Alone or any of my Savvy Books: 303-827-3630 [email protected]

9 Questions with Author Ingrid Law

This was my first introduction to Andrea Gibson and it made me cry then, and makes me cry now. They were a master of the human condition.

apnews.com/article/andr...  Poet Andrea Gibson, candid explorer of life, death and politics, dies at 49 😭

Happy Tuesday, Friends! I’m excited ro share my review for this powerful picture book: YOU ARE NOT ALONE, written by @ingridlaw.bsky.social and illustrated by Xin Li! #picturebooks #bookreview open.substack.com/pub/carissam...

Book Review: You Are Not Alone - Thank you, Carissa Mina, for the wonderful review.

First industry review, from Publishers Weekly 😃📚♥️

Happy Arbor Day! This recent book of mine culminates in an Arbor Day school assembly, fitting for a story that stars an heirloom apple tree, lone survivor of a vanished orchard, and the secrets concealed in its bark and branches.

Emily Pérez's poem featured at the top of this essay by Devin Kelly is a doozy. (as is the essay) Definitely a poem I needed to read this week. Oof.

Fun and amazing to have Savvy on this list of @kirkus_reviews top 500 books (children’s and adult) of the last 25 years. Thanks, Kirkus! Thanks, Team Savvy! Makes me want to make a top 500 books list from my own reading life these past 25 years.

What an honor to have two books on Kirkus's list of Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far)! Congratulations to Anne Ursu, Ingrid Law, and all the authors on this epic list. @anneursu.bsky.social @ingridlaw.bsky.social

So happy to share my sister's again (she's brilliant): rattle.com "Even So" by Michelle Visser (selected for online publication by the poetry journal Rattle and posted on 3/27/25).

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Help public libraries today by: ✅ Downloading an ebook ✅ Registering for a program ✅ Sharing a post from your library ✅ Emailing staff and thanking them ✅ Mark your calendar to attend the next library board of control meeting ✅ Ask 5 friends to do the same

We got a Costco membership for the first time in our lives today. They asked why & I said because treat your workers well, you value diversity, & you didn’t cave in to authoritarian demands. He said: “We’ve been getting lots of folks saying that, thanks for joining.” Who needs a gallon of ketchup?

New T-shirt... continuing to build my collection of clothes that speak for me (for the days I actually leave the house). #AABB #AuthorsAgainstBookBans #ForOurLibraries #FreePeopleReadFreely #UniteAGainstBookBans

In an effort to share helpful tools for panic attacks etc, here's one to try if you or someone you know needs help finding a moment of calm. The 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique: Find 5 things you can see, 4 things you can touch, 3 things you can hear, 2 things you can smell, and 1 thing you can taste.

If you're a published author or illustrator (indie or trad, short stories & anthologies also count!), PLEASE join me as a member of Authors Against Book Bans. I'm the Colorado state co-leade, and we've already got stuff cooking to support a new bill protecting school libraries from book-banning.

Picture book cover time! I'm excited to share the cover for YOU ARE NOT ALONE, my first publication in ten years, illustrated by Xin Li; published and edited by Lauri Hornik at Rocky Pond Books and @penguinkids.bsky.social. Out August 26, 2025, but available for preorder now at your local bookstore.

Sunset, Long’s Peak @longmontco.bsky.social

Reminder that your favorite local indie bookstores make a lot of their yearly income during the holiday season. Go shop local today. ❤️

My Thanksgiving-themed window display was the first I ever got to create at the bookstore a couple years ago. I loved working on the enormous shopping list. (And emptying the whipped cream cans for “safety”—oh, hardship!) Happy Thanksgiving! #thanksgiving #bookstores #booksgiving #shoplocal

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

Spotted this bit of graffiti downtown the other day. I love it when the literal “writing on the wall” feels like just the thing I need to be reminded of in a certain moment. Thought it would make for a good first post here on Bluesky. Hello!