Are you an author in search of a New Years Resolution? Are you an author in search of a New Years Resolution that specifically has nothing to do with finishing your draft? Here's one: Resolve to join Authors Against Book Bans & help protect the right to read.

If you live in Oakland PLEASE consider writing in via this extremely easy form to our city officials to urge them to REJECT a contract w FLOCK surveillance cameras, which shares data directly with ICE and DHS. Keep our neighbors safe. FLOCK OUT OF OAKLAND actionnetwork.org/letters/no-f...

Were you thrilled & motivated by election results on Tuesday and want in on the next one? If you're a published writer, join us! We provide resources, connect each other to collective actions, and support each other!

Writers! Want some cool tips on writing a pitch? Join me & @lisamooreramee.bsky.social for a Highlights mini! $59 @highlightsfound.bsky.social #kidlit #writingcommunity

Colleen and I were at Books Inc. at the same time-- she predated me, and she was there for years after I left. I'm genuinely gutted to hear they cut her role with the B&N purchase. She deserves better from a company she gave so many years to.

Join Jen and me to learn all about pitching your novel!

Oh SHIT. Two birds with one stone and neither were for immigration. It was to hassle black folk and make a sizzle real about it and to help Wells Fargo out. Fucking crazy shit.

Worth noting LBJ used the National Guard to protect and expand civil rights; DJT is doing exactly the opposite.

ICE arrested 36 Chinese & Taiwanese immigrants after raiding an LA nightclub. That's them, ziptied on the sidewalk. Yo Asians—if you weren't already outraged and mobilizing on behalf of others, guess what? That "First they came for the..." poem has gotten up to us. www.latimes.com/california/s...

CONCENTRATING them. Into CAMPS.

Bro I have a BRAIN.

The Freedom Read-In morning lineup includes @padmatv.bsky.social @federicoerebia.bsky.social @rajanilarocca.bsky.social @taradairman.bsky.social @debbimichiko.bsky.social @marthafreeman.bsky.social @robinstevenson.bsky.social @maggietokudahall.bsky.social

Is there some rule I do t know about about not starting g on time? I’m at a campus lecture. The room is full. The speaker is here. Supposed to start at 11. It’s only 9 minutes after but still why the hell aren’t they starting?!

Our class is coming up soon!

Were they even ICE agents? This is so frightening.

Are you a published or publishing writer/illustrator/translator? You can join Authors Against Book Bans. We share knowledge, resources, & mobilization opportunities at both the national & local levels. Don't fight for the right to read alone!

We will never be a monarchy. Know that. To quote the LOTR trilogy: Gondor has no king. Gondor needs no king.

This is why my mom asked for a better news source tonight. Because she got a text about a loved one who is desperately trying to save their work from the CDC takedown and was like “Is Trump shutting down science? Why didn’t they say anything about that on the news?”

Canadian here, ummm Americans…what are you doing? Seriously are y’all in a coma? Why aren’t you taking to the streets? Where is the outrage?! A full on dismantling of your democracy is happening RIGHT NOW. You’re just watching. S Korea and Brazil took care of it in a day. What are you doing?

Hearing the air traffic controller telling the helicopter about the plane and hearing helicopter pilot acknowledge they saw it means the focus shouldn’t be on the air traffic controller who it would appear did his job exactly as he was supposed to.

So hard when the doggo doesn’t eat the food she’s been loving. Like is it stale? How would I know?

I went back to an old ms thinking it was an awful lot of words and surely some of them were good only to find it was mostly me rewriting the same three scenes over and over again. A novel it is not. Awful it is #authorthreads

Too often book bans and challenges makes us feel we have to defend our books and prove they don’t contain the material the banners claim. But we need to realize they already know and don’t care. We need to be on the offensive and fight bans and fight for the freedom to read. #AABB

I freely admit I enjoy rage watching some of the RHO franchises but I always want to shake them and ask how do you not remember that you’re being filmed? That this lie you’re telling will be revealed when the episode airs?

Tired of the “democrats are to blame” rhetoric. Naw. Y’all got what you asked for. Leave us out of it.

I saved this on TikTok right before it went dark. Now I’m bringing it to Bluesky ❤️

Yesterday’s writing session looked like me reading 10k horrible words and wondering what the hell past Lisa was even doing. #bluewriters

It’ll make me so happy if TikTok returns and the predominant posts are all about hating on the orange menace. Because if it’s the opposite? And creators tout him as some kind of savior?! Well then it dies again.

And just like that, the US banned a social media app before assault weapons that cause massacres in schools. #gunreformnow #schools

What are we all watching tomorrow morning instead of the thing we have no desire to see or hear news stories about?

Damn if I don’t cry every single time watching Wicked.

Why I am fine with Eat the Rich: Jeff Bezos announcing that he's marrying his next wife, Lauren Sanchez, in a lavish $600m ceremony. They live in Florida. $600m would cover 2 years of FL k-12 free lunch programs. Last year the state discontinued the office that helped schools file for free lunches.

Um…what happened to Bluesky being an escape of the trash fire that the bird became? Is this a - this is why we can’t have nice things- moment?

"Against legal advice, a Moms For Liberty member’s book rating website will now be the determining factor in which books get banned from St. Francis Area Schools Libraries. " Did I not say that just last week? This is Minnesota, an anti-book ban law state. www.hometownsource.com/abc_newspape...

My first job was working for Alex Haley. And he knew basically everybody. One day Bob Dylan came into the office. What does one say to Bob frickin Dylan? What I said was, sorry Mr Haley isn’t in today. 😬🤪

The 57 Bus has gender and queer people in it. That’s what they’re banning. I say this as a person and a writer who is queer, and to explain to those of you (not Dashka) who don’t understand why books are getting banned. Banners claim to be against “obscenity” but they’re really against queer folks

Here’s the thing. Both Kyle and Dorit know the drill. This whole argument is fake af. #RHOBH

Looking to support Black women kidlit authors for…reasons? I suggest: Tracey Baptiste Karen Strong Mariama Lockington Jordan Ifueko Tracy Deonn Nikki Grimes Janae Marks Alicia D Williams Dhonielle Clayton Angie Thomas Nic Stone Leah Johnson Kekla Magoon Renee Watson Ibi Zaboi Kalyn Bayron

Signed book make great holiday gifts! 📚🎁 Come see @lorienlawrence.bsky.social and me at Barnes and Noble in Mount Kisco, NY this Saturday 12/7 at 2pm! We’ll be there to sign and personalize any of our middle grade books. If you’re in the area, we hope to see you there! ❄️

We need to keep talking about how weird it is for people to think they should have a say in reading choices for anyone's kids but their own. You're not in charge of what other people's children eat or wear or when they go to bed. Why on earth would you get to choose what they read?

Yo yo yo want to name a character in a future book of mine? Now's your chance. And you can support a great cause!

What’ll happen when RFK is in charge tho

Can everyone support Sarah McBride by calling their congress people and saying they absolutely do not support anti-trans bathroom bans? If they can do it in congress, they'll make it illegal for trans people to USE A PUBLIC RESTROOM nationwide. Please. Cis people, too - there aren't enough of us.

It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety

Got my tickets for tomorrow night!

Is everybody’s house a total wreck after the holidays or just mine?

These universities swore up and down that we had to tolerate literally admitted white supremacists hosting speaking engagements because ✌🏾free speech✌🏾 but now calling for an end to the brutality is just too controversial for campus.