Another fabulous week of school visits—this time in Oklahoma. Thanks to all the rock star librarians, the enthusiastic readers, and the dedicated teachers. My heart is full of gratitude. 🐶📖🙏🏼💕🎉

What a delight to hear @mccallhoylebooks.bsky.social interviewed on one of my favorite podcasts, Middle Grade Matters! Give it a listen: open.spotify.com/episode/4iji... #kidlit #middlegrade @shannonballoon.bsky.social

Another fantastic day visiting Prosper ISD schools. Thank you Boyer Elementary and Lilyana Elementary for allowing me to talk with your students about dogs, and books, and writing! 📚🐶📝

Might need tissues nearby as this one by @mccallhoylebooks.bsky.social is up next in the front porch! #ShadowMountainPublishing #BookPosse #MissingZarley

Would love to see my hometown friends to celebrate FOREVER RIPLEY’s book birthday this Saturday at The Storybook Market on the square in Gainesville, GA. 🎈🎂📚🎂🎈I’ll be signing books and sharing posters and other book goodies! 🎁🎁

Florida educators and book friends, can you help me spread the word about this special event in Clermont, FL, Thursday, 9/4? There will be rescue dogs, books, and free book swag. 🎉🎉

📓Another school visit!✏️Number 5 of 58ish in the books! 3 sessions, grades 2-5, the cutest lunch bunch EVER, and several pictures of me with odd facial expressions. Thank you Partin Settlement Elementary for a fabulous day! 📚✂️🚌 #schoolvisit #authorvisit

Oh! It's #MMGM #IMWAYR! @mccallhoylebooks.bsky.social Shadow Mountain FOREVER RIPLEY and @nationalgeographic.bsky.social HOCKEY! A NUMBERS GAME! msyinglingreads.blogspot.com/2025/09/mmgm...

HaPpY, HaPpY book birthday to Forever Ripley by @mccallhoylebooks.bsky.social from #bookposse!

Just picked up our copy of @mccallhoylebooks.bsky.social's new release FOREVER RIPLEY. Cannot wait to dig into this!!! @scbwi.bsky.social @scbwi-sobreeze.bsky.social #kidlit #middlegrade

3…2…1…lift off…we have a book 📚🚀FOREVER RIPLEY released today! School visit 4/58 is a wrap for this school yr. I celebrated the sweetest book birthday bash at Canoe Creek K-8 in Kissimmee, FL, with an extraordinary media specialist & her precious students & thriving book club! Much more to follow!

📚School visits 2 & 3 of 53 in the books📚 Thanks to the amazing Newton Co media specialists already connecting kids, books, & authors so early in the school year! They put in hours of prep, were putting out fires when I arrived, & had more classes waiting for them when I left. True super heroes! 🦸‍♀️

Sometimes when the world feels like too much, the best thing to do is go to the front porch, listen to the rain fall, and write by hand with a good dog at your side. 🙏🏼📝📚🌧️

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I had a helper today on my first school visit of the year. It was a smallish group and close to home. And they were reading MILLIE, so I had to take Edith, right? 💜🐶📖 #authorvisit #kidlit

Less than 3 weeks till 📘🚀 Visit my website for details on school visits, free book swag, and more! 🎈🎊#kidlit #booklaunch

Less than one month till 📙🚀 Head over to Goodreads for a chance to win one of ten copies! 🐶🧡 #giveaway

Fun book swag! Visit mccallhoyle.com for details on gifts and goodies!

A look at Ohio's Cover to Cover, one of the country's oldest children's bookstores | USA Today

NEW EPISODE! @joycekay.bsky.social with The Seymour Agency joins us to explore the challenges and opportunities in today’s publishing landscape. 📚 #kidlit #writers #writingcommunity #amquerying #querytip #writingpodcast #podcast #scbwi www.writerswithwrinkles.net/navigating-k...

Hop on Goodreads for a chance to win a copy of the MILLIE paperback releasing 9.5 with BONUS chapters from Big Guy’s point of view. 🐶💕 #goodreads #giveaway

I love that my pups love book mail as much as I do! Author copies arrived. FOREVER RIPLEY launches 9.2.25. 📙🚀 #bookmail

A wise older dog - Ripley - protects her "girls" - Charlie and her mom - as her body slows and they grieve the loss of Charlie's dad. Addressing grief head-on, @mccallhoylebooks.bsky.social provides support to families finding own their way, with gentle pacing and careful honesty. #mglit

Cannot wait to read this new book by @mccallhoylebooks.bsky.social #BookPosse

Wanted to share some great summer/fall reads for middle schoolers. 💙📚@victorpineiro.bsky.social @alangratz.bsky.social @mccallhoylebooks.bsky.social

Thanks to all the librarian and author friends have sent me ALA pictures of Ripley. 🙏🏼❤️📖 #ala25

Thank you, Schneider Family Book Award Committee!

BRB sobbing in the corner over this #MG #book by @mccallhoylebooks.bsky.social that addresses grief straight on that’s perfect for middle grade readers. Out 9/2: bookshop.org/a/102434/978... #library #books #tlsky #skybrarian #skybrarians #librarian #bookrecommendation #librarians

I have no willpower, but it’s late and I’m just going to read a few pages! #bookposse @mccallhoylebooks.bsky.social

⛱️The GLMA Summer Institute 📚exceeded expectations! I’m home and feeling inspired to read and write and looking forward to next year’s school visits and teaching. 👏🫶🙌

You have Greenwald's GAME CHANGER books in your #MGLit and YA library, right? Awesome, awesome books. yabookscentral.com/the-right-ca...

I loved this new one by @annbraden.bsky.social It’s out in the world now!!Addy & Caleb are headed to our next #bookposse reader @teachlovesbooks.bsky.social @nancyrosep.bsky.social

Educators, reviewers, readers, friends, FOREVER RIPLEY is coming. How to Help: 1. Like, share, comment on posts 2. Ask public/school libraries to order a copy 3. Educators & reviewers, request a copy for review on Edelweiss or Netgalley & leave a review 4. Pre-0rder anywhere books are sold 🩷📖🐕🙏🏼

@elavannostrand.bsky.social, this heartwarming and beautiful book is headed your way. Prepare to have all the feelings. There are so many readers who will appreciate this story. Thanks @mccallhoylebooks.bsky.social and Shadow Mountain for sharing with #bookposse!

So excited to kick off summer reading with two of my favorite authors at Little Shop of Stories on Saturday in Decatur, GA—2:00 to 4:00. Hope to see you there! 🩷🎉📖 #kidlit

So excited to co-present with media specialist extraordinaire, Tracy Scaglione, at GLMA in June. Hoping to see lots of GA educators and media specialists! 🎉

Hey there, #bookposse friends. Look what @mccallhoylebooks.bsky.social and Shadow Mountain publishers have shared with us! Super excited to read and share with all of you!

Gearing up for lots of book launch festivities! #authorvisit #schoolvisit

Support indie bookstores! Join Danny, Kelly, and I for kid friendly book events tomorrow at VA Highlands Bookstore, 12-2, 4/26! 🩷📖🎉

Come celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with us! 🐶📖🩷

Saying goodbye to Osceola School students and heading back to my 8th graders today. 🍏 🩷✏️

Super fun week of school visits in Osceola, FL! My educator/author 🩷 is over flowing with gratitude for the media specialists that pour THEIR ❤️’s into kids, books, and their media centers. #NationalLibraryWeek

Such a fun trip to #TXLA Thanks to Shadow Mountain Publishing, to all the amazing authors, and most of all, thanks to all the amazing librarian book champions. You are appreciated more than you know. 🙏🏼🎉📖🐶 #childrensauthor #kidlit #childrensbook

Hoping to see lots of librarian and educator friends at TLA! 📚📚📚 #txla25 #tla25

It’s a wrap! Read Across America Week was amazing! School visits, book fairs, pet food donations, cute puppets, amazing readers, and of course the school librarians and media specialists who make it all happen. Next up, TomeCon, SCBWI Spring Mingle, TLA, & more! Hope to see YOU soon. 📖🩷 #schoolvisit

So excited to share share the book of my heart with the world. Ripley’s story was inspired by the sudden, unexpected death of my father but is about so much more than grief. It’s about friendship, and growing up, & celebrating the loves of those we love most! 💛🐶📖 #kidsbook #childrensbook

Look who I spied in my daughter's Scholastic flyer today! Right there next to Wimpy Kid and Grumpy Monkey...Way to go, @mccallhoylebooks.bsky.social! @scbwi-sobreeze.bsky.social @scbwi.bsky.social #kidlit #MG #writingcommunity

Schools, and libraries, and bookstores! Oh, my! Very busy week of meeting friends old and new! 📕🐶✏️🍎 #schoolvisit #authorvisit #indiebookstore

Happy and honored to hang out with teen writers and their librarians (one of whom is a former student) last night at FCPL. They all had such amazing story ideas. 🩷📖🩷 #authorvisit #teenwriter #kidlit

Educator/Librarian friends in North GA, please help spread the word—this is a free, public event for aspiring teen writers, Tuesday at 6:30 PM at the Cumming Branch of Forsyth County Public Library. See library website for details. 📖✍🏽 #teenwriter #forsythcountypubliclibrary