I wish I could be in two places at once! 🥲

I am at the Gaithersburg MD Book Festival tomorrow (free! Come!) and was just stopped in the elevator by a total stranger. “I know you. You have a reputation. You were the only person at the Decatur Book Festival who could get an Oreo from their forehead to their mouth with no hands.”

California friends! I’ll be chatting it up with my buddy @thiendog.bsky.social at Bookshop Santa Cruz tomorrow at 4pm! Come say hi!

this was a treat!

Return to Sender is out today! I wrote a little bit about it and where it came from (and where I came from!) over here: verabee.substack.com/p/return-to-... Take a look, pick up a copy, share it with a kiddo. <3

It’s book! Hooray book. 🥰Consider pre-ordering book at your local independent bookstore!

Look! @VeraBrosgol.bsky.social and I made it into @publisherswkly.bsky.social’s IN BRIEF! @01firstsecond.bsky.social @powells.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Talking to my pal Betsy about my new book!

A last Rat Cruise post, as we finally reach Adak Island: open.substack.com/pub/verabee/...

Today at Powell’s Books, with the amazing Maria van Lieshout! Come say hi!

I'm talking to my friend Vera about her book at the B&N in Hillsboro on 5/9 -- come on out!

I’m going on tour for my very first novel! Come see me! 🌟

Please come to the legendary @powells.bsky.social in Portland where I will be in conversation with the talented picture book creator, Caldecott Honoree and graphic novelist @verabrosgol.bsky.social about Song of a Blackbird. Hope to see you there! #powellsbooks #graphicnovel #ww2 #authorevent

I love a good walking blog. "I pass a house where maybe ten years ago I saw a woman in her early sixties playing with a large, fluffy dog in the side yard. I remember specifically thinking about how happy she looked, how at ease." @cariluna.bsky.social

She’s making ceramics now.

For my free patrons: How my teen friends and I started making photo copied black and white minicomics, going to conventions, meeting our heroes, and eventually got For Reals published: www.patreon.com/posts/122891...

I’m such a massive fan of Gabriel’s paintings, and travelogues, and the American landscape. His train journals are delicious.

Today is a good day! @katebeaton.bsky.social has a new book out and I think you will love it. It has biting, and mermaids, and boats, all of which are very much my jam. She’s one of my very favorite authors and humans and perhaps it will be your jam too. 🦈

For those who love good science communication: @verabrosgol.bsky.social wonderful series on being the artist-in-residence on an invasive species research boat in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. (thumbnail is a cartoon of the bundled artist on small boat with two vacationing rats)

#akleg Well, this is insane. Mendenhall Glacier will get 700k visitors this year and have two staffers to manage the facilities. Good luck keeping the bathrooms clean and keeping people safe from bear encounters.

A new post over on Rat Cruise: open.substack.com/pub/verabee/... Content warning: rats. At least three rats.

A drawing of Pat drawing Vera drawing. w/ @verabrosgol.bsky.social #sketches

A real nice time in Juneau. Turns out I love it in February too.

A new Rat Cruise post over at my Slugstack: open.substack.com/pub/verabee/...

Did you know: I have a middle-grade book coming out in May! It's my first illustrated prose novel, and the title may be familiar to some of you, but I promise it's very different. (But no less weird.) I hope you like it. 😌 You can see a a lil preview here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I can’t wait to visit Juneau next week!

Here are all my Hourly Comics in one place: verabee.substack.com/p/hourly-com...

Hourly Comic Day! Still on my bullshit!!! #hourlycomicday2025 #hourlycomicday