This is a book-banning bill with a HEAPING side of bigotry. I've called my reps. Please consider calling yours, even if you don't think they'll listen. We've got to be grit in the works, friends. Every little bit helps.

Ohhh, gorgeous! Can't wait to read it!

Had a great time chatting with the readers at Island Books Kids Book Club! They had excellent questions and thoughtful comments about The Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls, the immigrant experience, parentification, and living in a library. Keep reading, young humans!

Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social heroes @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social and Ed Underhill, we have some slides that can be shared by anyone about this, with particular reps to target. Let's kill this bill in committee.

Two things I'm discovering: 1) You can do a lot of things one-handed with time and patience 2) The things you need your good hand for, you *really* need your good hand for

solidarity with all marginalized people in Kansas. you are not alone. together we are going to build the better world we all deserve.

All hands on deck, folks. This will effectively eliminate all books by queer authors and about queer lives, even books with secondary characters, books where the author or a character uses they/them pronouns. This bill will erase identities and harm kids. And it won't stop at public schools.

No, it isn't parents who should decide what kids can read. No, it isn't politicians either. And no, it isn't librarians. Readers are who should decide what they read. Age doesn't come into the right to read. Not sure how many different ways I can say this.

I’m tired but needed to draw something. Inspired by Woody Guthrie.

If you're researching queer history in England, farm records might be one of the last places you'd check. Yet for #LGBTQHistoryMonth, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares how he's tracing queer histories within our farm archives, and gives tips for future research. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

I wrote a piece for an Utah paper about why books that deal with sex and assault are important for teens and shouldn't be labeled as pornography and banned. This is a major issue in my home state where many do not believe sex scenes in books are ever justified. www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...

Ohhhh, this looks EXCELLENT!

Traveling to see family for spring break? Why not have your kids take a little time out to interview their elders about their childhood! I've got a free kid-friendly downloadable interview guide on my website, with tips and sample questions: www.jandersoncoats.com/the-unexpect...

Siiiiiiiiigh.

Gonna need people to support middle grade and YA titles bc where do we think adult readers come from!! If kids don’t have good books to read from like 8 - 12 they are going to stop reading 😭😭😭😭

🚨 DEADLINE EXTENSION: You can now apply to be part of The Unbanned Book Network until Friday, February 20th! 📖 bit.ly/UBNapplication

I hear a lot of people saying that ai makes art accessible.. well I personally think that's bullshit- so I made this to drive my point home. #regalsart #illustration #fuckai #digitalart

ICYMI! I love @bookshop.org and I'm so glad people can buy more kinds of books from them. 📚❤️📚

I needed this today. Maybe you do, too.

nErDcamp is a lot of fun, and Bellingham is a gorgeous college town. PNW writer/teacher friends, you should go - it's free and makes a delightful day trip!

Last year I made some Valentines for anti-book censorship advocates. Feel free to use and distribute as you see appropriate this year, too: buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Yes. This. And the obnoxious self-serving garbage coming from library "leadership" is almost always salt in the wound.

My grandma had a Very Eastern European name on her birth certificate. When she was thirteen or so, she chose the name Sylvia and that's what everyone called her. I wrote a whole damn book about it. A name is a gift, not an obligation. You can always refuse a gift if it's not right for you.

This whoooooooole thread.

The thing about ebooks as a substitute is that it ignores two major needs of teen readers: autonomy (the ability to get a book without going through parents) and community (the ability to pass a book around to all their friends.)

Giving this a little bump. Free paperback of a queer YA dystopian romance! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

So I bought this little butter churn and made some butter. Small nerdy hobbies like this one bring me an inordinate amount of joy.

Delighted to announce that you can get an ebook copy of my #ya #historical, The Wicked and the Just, from the awesome folks at @bookshop.org! Come for #medieval teens behaving badly, stay for colonizers getting some comeuppance. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

This is an important point. Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist. The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes. So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.

Putting the final touches on my newsletter - it goes out tomorrow. Would love to include you! 😊 www.jandersoncoats.com/newsletter

I've reread this like 3 times. Freed herself from slavery by running away, *went back a week later bc the slaver was talking shit, set his house on fire, and then escaped again is absolutely incredible queen shit

This is the last day to push on this & we're not halfway to the 200 story goal. If you know anyone in NM, make sure to send this their way

I spy The Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls on the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social's 2026 Rise Feminist Book Project List, along with some amazing company! See all the titles here: www.ala.org/srrt/2026-ri...

The face of a cat who is no longer experiencing the joys of free feeding now that her new chewable meds make her hungry literally all the time. On the plus side, this does mean she scarfs down said meds so fast I almost lose fingers.

PNW friends - this looks like such a fun event!

GD do I love a folk song that goes hard.

I know this might be a silly thing to be excited about (and possibly super-ordinary for a lot of folks), but this is the first time I've seen one of my books on TikTok! www.tiktok.com/@vivian.jose...

Everything is burning down, but today was awards day in the #kidlit world. One small nice thing to hold onto while you make your calls and maybe kick a few dollars toward a good cause.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Update: each pill costs $3 and she needs to take one twice a day. 🙃

This whole lovely thread.

If your kid is in Pony Club or a horsey 4H club and you need activities for unmounted meetings, I've got a some for you, inspired by my middle-grade action-adventure book, The Night Ride! Freely available to everyone. Find them here: www.jandersoncoats.com/the-night-ride

📖 Welcome to The Unbanned Book Network! This is a new program from WNDB designed to break the mold on what children are reading in classrooms while also combatting censorship, which disproportionately targets both diverse books and marginalized authors. 📖 bit.ly/UBNapplication

Who has no thumbs and has been prescribed yet another medication to keep herself from scratching her own face into hamburger?

For author friends following the Anthropic theft case.

As a wave of book banning continues across the country, I wanted to reshare this important research from @trevorproject.bsky.social on how book bans affect LGBTQ+ youth. Books save lives. ❤️

Excerpt from Revolutionary Letter № 8 by Diane di Prima

I mean. Depends on the book, right? Plenty of middle grade books go hard. But if you want something hopeful, middle grade has got you. Hope is something middle grade can do exceptionally well.

Effing cosigned.

Friends, I love Pentiment so much, and I loved watching this little video.