If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting. - @lianabrooks.bsky.social #BookSky #KidLit #BookPromo

Happy book birthday to @michelleknudsen.bsky.social and The Cursed Princess Club!

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

SFWA is thrilled to announce our Winter Worlds of Giving, running Nov 1 to Jan 31. Join us on the campaign trail! We're fundraising to support our mainly volunteer-run services, and we want to support YOU in your writing goals all along the way. Learn more below! 👇👀 www.sfwa.org/winter-world...

My new book comes out Nov 25! It’s the 1st in a series of YA novelizations of LambCat’s amazing CURSED PRINCESS CLUB webcomic and graphic novels. Please consider pre-ordering a signed copy from the Brooklyn @wordbookstores.bsky.social! And come to the launch party if you’re local! See links in bio!

Heyo! Want a signed copy of The King Must Die? There are a bunch at Fireside Books & More, Redwood City's new indie bookstore! You can visit in person (highly recommend--it's lovely) or shoot them an email: orders[at]firesiderwc.com firesiderwc.com

👆 At Quasar, join us for Science Fact in Science Fiction, helmed by @kashinggiwa.bsky.social & featuring @juliannesf.bsky.social, @stevendbrewer.com, @bertoliverboehmer.bsky.social, & @gkbyrne.bsky.social. We're going to chat about a wide range of ways to integrate science well in our storytelling!

My new middle grade fantasy INTO THE WILD MAGIC is out in the world today! Available in print, ebook, and audiobook wherever you like to buy those things! Also at the library! As always, you can get signed copies of this or any of my books through Lofty Pigeon Books in Brooklyn, NY.

Tonight 6pm ET. Come and join us for a discussion and maybe some readings. www.youtube.com/live/LnbHDy7...

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

Well this is quite shit. Heads up

#WriterBeware: Another fake agency doing the solicitation thing: Collins Literary Guild. Web domain just 54 days old, multiple ludicrously false claims of repped books, and a roster of AI "literary agents" w/ bios cribbed from Sanford Greenburger Associates collinslitguild.com

We Here is distributing Bluesky invite codes to community members and we currently have more requests than codes! if you have extras, you can share them with us here. forms.gle/1ygU6Tg59yoA...

Going on submission imminently, and for the first time since the pandemic took publishing in its teeth and gave it a shake. Writer friends, I'm having feelings. 🎉 🫣. So grateful for @teeess.bsky.social--both his excitement and his steady calm.

Hi everyone! Brand new in this space—👋 I am the author of two middle grade fantasies published with Macmillan: 🐉 Rise of the Dragon Moon 🔥 The Edge of Strange Hollow