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Don’t miss this unique chance to get direct access! Eric Smith, founder of Neighborhood Literary (who is closed to queries until January 2026) will be available solely for consultation ticket holders at the Storytellers Conference. Secure your consultation ticket before they're gone! Link in bio!
“Momentum is more important than inspiration.” Pam Muñoz Ryan on writing staying creative. #storytellersconference25 #lkbf
Writers: The editors & agents aren’t behind a velvet rope at our conference—they’re in the room with you. 💬 Small-group convos 🍴 Intimate lunch & learns 📚 40+ industry pros 🤝 Real connection, zero pressure Let’s story. 🎟️ tickets are selling fast. www.latinxstorytellersconference.com/registration
Pam Muñoz Ryan and me at the #LKBFStorytellers conference
💯 that app is so depressing
Not sure about the smaller text. I wish it were a fake pulp comic cover or sub heading. Could be just me. Saw lots of fun pulp covers in New Britain this past weekend
“How to Report ICE” regional zines - Print this single page zine and hand it out or place it in public areas. Northern California Southern California Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Durham Massachusetts NYC Philly Pittsburgh and more states drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Happy birthday!
Today is my birthday! To celebrate, I am giving away 2 copies of THE KING OF BOOKS (Feiwel & Friends). To enter: 🐯 like 🐯 share this post I will announce 2 winners on Friday, September 12th! #KidLit #EduSky #Skybrarians
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"Great Falls took money from the library to fund public safety; Yellowstone County does the same with Yellowstone Art Museum" If you haven't been paying attention, *several* communities stole library budget money to fund more cops this year. dailymontanan.com/2025/09/04/a...
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It's just a sports ban. It's just a bathroom ban. It's just a healthcare for kids ban. It's just a military service ban. It's just a federal jobs ban. It's just a university housing ban. It's just a passport & visa ban. It's just one Constitutional right. It's just your status as free citizens.
Prof. DeGraff's speaks about his personal experience briefly and then about the colonial and post-colonial history of his native #Haiti. He starts with 1492 and violence of changing the name of the island, just before the genocide and slavery, with French used as a weapon. #Linguistics #History
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
A bunch of Latinx writers were former classroom teachers who pursued writing as a full-time career. Many of us, due to the lack of movement in publishing have had to return to the classroom, myself included. I left teaching 20 yrs ago, but I'm back bc freelancing doesn't have health insurance.
A bunch of us went back to the classroom
The NYT says this started with the Kennedy Center? No, it started in our schools. They used “protect the children” to gain permission from Americans to censor K-12 History. Then, they came for higher ed. Now, they are coming for our museums. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Teachers! Librarians! Writers! Check out educators' favorite ways to increase student access to nonfiction books they'll love. tinyurl.com/ycy4adrp #kidslovenonficiton #kidlit #edusky @ldelia.bsky.social @wendygarland.bsky.social @lisaljrogers.bsky.social
Farewell, Quinn. There was nobody like you.
I have stopped publishing on Substack. Newsletter is on my site (Adriprints.com)
The DeSantis administration currently has at least seven Florida Highway Patrol troopers just on anti-chalk duty: Two watching from a Dunkin Donuts next door and five more parked in the lot right behind them.
Booklet of labor songs prepared by AFL-CIO Department of Education for the AFL-CIO Pamphlet Division, 1983 archived by @volumesdesign.library #PeoplesGDArchive #GDHistory
Goodness, chronic illness is awful this year, but I'm finally making videos again, and I just have to say: Humans are ridiculous. In good ways, in bad ways, in all the ways. Case in point: This tiny hedgehog on a wagon, from 1500 - 1100 BCE Iran (photo © Louvre) 🏺 #archaeology #ArchaeologySky
😭 maybe @stephenking.bsky.social was busy that day.
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This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Yes. Steven Miller told ICE to stop targeting criminals and grab anyone who LOOKS undocumented. www.salon.com/2025/06/10/j...
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
Exactly! Someone in the regime must be a fan
ploy!
There’s no more papal indulgences right? But I’m guessing it’s televangelist-type plea for money?
Looking for more engagement on Bluesky? I've compiled tips with t he help of others in the community: publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bl... #BlueSkyTips
Nice! Did Stephen King ever write back? I’m a big fan but haven’t ever written to say so. It felt creepy after reading Misery! 😆
Americorps helped return $83 million to working class Americans through their tax return assistance program. Weird how the Trump admin cut the program that helped poor people pay fewer taxes, while bending over backwards to give massive tax breaks to billionaires. Very populist.
Recently met a HS grad whose Americorps job suddenly disappeared when the entire program was axed in April. 2025 budget for it was $1.3 billion. When he got the news, he was on his way to Texas to paint low income houses. He'd been helping people living in poverty to prepare tax returns before that.
I love the angles and color in this photo!
Father Michael Pfleger, a priest for more than 50 years, said this about Trump: “Look into your mirror and address the violence coming from the White House ... of cutting Medicare/Medicaid … address the violence of refusing to ban assault weapons.” More here: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-det...
You have to organize. I don't know what else to tell people. And organizing is not sexy and it is difficult and it matters that you be persistent. We need long-distance runners right now.
I think it might be a cicada killer wasp?
I saw the weirdest bug on the sidewalk, wanna see?
Thank you Meridian Magazine for including MAYBE JUST ASK ME! in your back-to-school book list!! www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa... @edusky.bsky.social #edusky
TOPIC: How do you know when to move on from a project? Is there an expiration date on your work? And how do you deal with the mountain of defunct research, drafts and sketches--not to mention the emotional toll of saying goodbye? #kidlitchat
Woohoo! It's #kidlitchat night! Going live at 9 pm Eastern, 6 Pacific (but the hashtag is always on). Join in if you can--you never know, there may be PIE. :-) See you soon.
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Our assignment was just read and respond. 🤷🏻♀️
The fact that this administration is hell bent on punishing Kilmar Abrego Garcia while rewarding Ghislane Maxwell tells you all you need to know about their violent racism and misogyny.
Hahah! Probs working folks like me thinking they’re not gonna have time in the future? I have to go back to school for the first time in 20 yrs to meet state credential requirements and I am feeling so weird about it. I was excited about the reading HW though. Super interesting.
🚨 It’s the 20th anniversary of Katrina + FEMA workers are warning us: cuts + censorship are gutting the agency meant to keep us safe. Delayed disaster response = lives at risk. Sign the Katrina Declaration + demand Congress protect FEMA. 👉 www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina-declaration
Don’t let the government regulate your reading www.bookbanpetition.us
Goodreads issues can be solved through their forums. I had a bunch of books mistakenly linked to me there and I sent in a request through their goodreads librarians forums.
People outside of the U.S. see the country clearer than most of the people in the country. And all I hear from comrades in other countries is: "Are you all aware that you are living under a fascist government already?"
Same to you!!
Sending good invoice vibes (to us both) 🫠
We are testing the Discord this weekend, and I will try to send out invites next week. If you left a 💜 in the original post, I will DM you the invite here. If your DMs are not open, I will ask you to email me for the link.
GAD for the win!
Dolly’s Imagination Library has given away millions of books to kids and “was inspired in large part by a man who couldn’t read: her late father, Robert Parton. One of 15 brothers and sisters growing up on a farm in rural Tennessee, he was needed in the fields. There wasn’t much time for school.”
Oh noo
I sent an email this morning, in case it inspires others.
heck, even when amazing things don’t happen, being kind probably made a difference for someone else that day—and that’s something to be happy about.
New look for my cutie girl, Cleo! #yorkiepapillon
NEW: A federal judge in Miami has ruled that operations at the controversial detention facility Alligator Alcatraz must begin to wind down, ordering state and federal officials to stop transferring detainees there and relocate current detainees within 60 days.
We all need eel facts, right?
The next target of book banners? Romance books. The where, when, how, and why of romance books being the next step in the process of dismantling literacy and institutions of democracy. bookriot.com/the-next-boo...
If you're a researcher interested children, literacy education, and books, this conference is for you. More info: www.childrensliteratureassembly.org/conference.h... @ncte.org @nctecla.bsky.social #edusky #kidlit
🙌 this + I hated pregnancy (nearly killed my kidneys)
Oh no.
😳 wow. tacky. (also white supremacist)
things are pretty bad but I think this next cartoon is really gonna turn it all around
You can check out the Boston Public Library’s unbelievable Special Collections in person at the newly renovated reading room: www.bpl.org/special-coll... We’re also working to digitize even more of these treasures & make them searchable & accessible from anywhere in the world. @bpl.boston.gov
I also used to live by a nature preserve between 2 rivers in FL and would see herons and egrets and sandhill cranes regularly. It’s one of the few things I miss from FL. (swamp/marsh nature, friends and family)
Rep. Vince Perez lays out the facts: Hispanic and White Texans each make up about 40% of our state’s population, equal in number. But under the proposed map, 26 of the 38 congressional districts, 70% of our state’s congressional delegation, will be controlled by White majority districts. #txlege
NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.
It did! I hadn’t seen them since I left FL. I used to see little blue and great herons very often near Cape Canaveral. We saw this heron, a bunch of cormorants and osprey.
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...
Kickstarter! Be better! I’ve stuck with Kickstarter through a lot of shit because the fine folks at Kickstarter United had my back - now we all have to have theirs. Sign this petition for a minimum livable wage and a codified 4 day work week for our colleagues at Kickstarter United.
Thimble Islands off the coast of CT. Saw some stunning skies and neat birds including this heron.
NYC: Kidlit Drinks are back! Thursday, September 18, at the Dickens in Hell’s Kitchen.
Oh how great it would be if every Black player on Texas and Ohio State boycotted the game until Texas cancels the redistricting vote and Ohio pulls their National Guard from DC. Those players have so much power and they don’t even use it.
Find your friends. Hug your kids. Choose your fight.
It’s hard to talk about problems in the comics industry without people taking it personally, but the prevalence of Substack is a big one. This is NOT a “vaguepost” about anyone specifically, but it’s not easy to keep seeing good folks keeping a bad platform going.
“Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don’t, then you are wasting your time on Earth.” Roberto Clemente, born on this day in 1934
This is another reason why we need to support actual, free public education.
SMH 🤦🏻♀️ what a world we live in
Why are books so "expensive"? Because so many people participate in making them, and their work is valuable. New podcast episode out discussing where bookstores get their books, and in the process, we discuss how and why books cost what they do! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gHaUo6MpA_E #booksky
if anyone replies to this with “you just have the wrong size” i WILL hunt you for sport #comic
It is so hard!!
#NationalNeverGiveUp Day #resist
We’re not that far from this 😑
It was Beverly Johnson’s class beverly-johnson.ca sorry couldn’t remember her last name
I took the craftsy class by Beverly something and LilypaDesigns in case you’re interested. She also does custom bras
This is why I started making my own. I hate the materials or they’re too loose or tight or 😫
For sure!!
Need to work on your fictional worldbuilding? @stacylwhitman.bsky.social is running a full-day online workshop that will help you take your MS to the next level: www.eventbrite.com/e/everything...
On Friday afternoon, when we spoke, Andry Hernandez Romero was getting ready to do hair and makeup for a client. He said that he’s lost most of his makeup products, but hopes to rebuild his kit. www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
“I want the world to know that being Venezuelan is not a crime,” Andry Hernandez Romero told me in an exclusive interview. www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
