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MG/YA Constellation Series - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association Join us on March 21-22 for a full roster of master classes, author showcases, and mentorship sessions celebrating excellence in MG/YA SFF!

SFWA's Constellation Series is back a full slate from our MG/YA team. 🥳

Join us March 21-22 for master classes, mentorship, & readings, featuring traceybaptiste.bsky.social, vriccithode.bsky.social, ctaylorbutler.bsky.social, & more! These events are OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, but you need to register! 👀👇️

MG/YA Constellation Series - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association Join us on March 21-22 for a full roster of master classes, author showcases, and mentorship sessions celebrating excellence in MG/YA SFF!

Excited to share our Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) FREE virtual mini MG/YA conference March 21-22 with workshops, presentations, and readings by Tracey Baptiste, Darcie Little Badger, Christine Taylor Butler, Vanessa Ricci-Thode, and more. Click the link to register!

🎉♥️ Happy for you, Shari. Hugs from south o’ the border. 😊

Mark Ruffalo Fires Back at James Cameron After ‘Avatar’ Director Slammed Netflix-Warner Bros. Deal: ‘Are You Also Against the Monopolization That a Paramount Acquisition Would Create?’ Mark Ruffalo fired back at James Cameron after the 'Avatar' director said that Netflix buying Warner Bros. Discovery would be 'disastrous.'

Hopefully, this is a sign more people in Hollywood will call James Cameron out on his bullshit.

Let's try this again 👋

Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.

I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

Congrats on the dragon boat team! ⭐️

Promotion for Book Riot podcast. Woman wearing a blue coat and pink hat and scarf. Text: “Oh, come on, you can get rid of this one book? What that aren’t living library every day don’t understand is that collections are built with intention, very deliberately, and curated very carefully. Every book is on that shelf for a reason.” Martha Hickson, Librarian/THE LIBRARIANS, film participant

I usually hate my photos, but I’m not mad at this promo for THE LIBRARIANS & the BookRiot podcast. This pic was taken in Berlin @ the Empty Library, site of the 1933 Nazi book burning. That moment will stay w me forever. It’s a reminder of the stakes of censorship.
@thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

i should apply for this

We need to dismantle ICE and CBP when Democrats are in the majority.

In the meantime, we cannot send another cent to DHS without massive reforms to protect the American people.

House passes SAVE America Act, sending Trump-backed election bill to the Senate The legislation would overhaul federal election laws in all 50 states by imposing new voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements. But it faces a daunting path in the Senate.

Terrible. The bill now goes to the Senate. Make those calls. 202-224-3121
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks.

Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

I know I’m really late to the whole DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL extravaganza, but I’m loving every minute. It’s the apocalypse + Hunger Games + Solo Leveling + tonally Terry Pratchett. Writer’s aside: @mattdinniman.bsky.social is a tracking genius (and arguably a regular genius). I cannot even imagine how

Artist uses Harry Potter books to make portraits of murdered trans women A Vermont-based artist is making a statement after using Harry Potter books to make powerful portraits of murdered trans women.

I spent a long time trying to figure out what to do with my Harry Potter books, because just dumping them in a little free library felt wrong. So I mailed them to this artist who was turning them into portraits of murdered trans women

www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/11/a...

Uh oh.

Amazon Plans to Transform Publishing with New AI Content Marketplace www.itp.net/digital-cult...

Industry Insiders Raising Funds for Minnesotans in Need Amid ICE’s violent crackdown, two publishing professionals have launched an online auction to benefit nonprofits providing aid to Minnesotans and immigrants. Around 500 items and services have been do...

Book people showing up. Love it. ❤️ www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

A poster advertising an author signing. The top text reads OLA Super Conference Book Signing. There are two circles featuring the faces of Casey Lyall and Jessica Vitalis with text in between that says Friday, Jan 30th, 10 am and their names listed below. Two book covers are shown below that. One on the left for The League of Littles which shows three kids in action poses and a leaping hamster. The one on the right is for Unsinkable Cayenne which shows a girl and dog standing on train tracks, looking up at birds in the sky. Orange arrows in the centre point at either book. The top one pointed at The League of Littles says that it is a Silver Birch Express nominee. The bottom one pointed at Unsinkable Cayenne says that it is a Red Maple nominee. The bottom text says 'find us at the HarperCollins booth!'

If you're headed to @onlibraryassoc.bsky.social's Super Conference this week, make sure you stop by the HarperCollins booth @ 10 am on Friday! @jessicavitalis.bsky.social and I will be signing copies of our @forestofreading.bsky.social nominated books! (And I've got fun swag to hand out!) #OLASC2026

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That bird's got some deep (dark) thoughts--lol! What an amazing picture.

From the Lighthouse January, 2026 Progress, not perfection

My January newsletter just went out. We're in the dead of winter, and the world is feeling pretty dark. A lot of people are in a lot of pain. This month I share why I'm trying to focus on slow growth over perfection. I hope you'll read (and subscribe, at the bottom).

This is the sort of contract that if you were entertaining signing it, your friends should smash through a window, do roll on the floor, leap up in a feral pounce and slap it out of your hands

From the Lighthouse A Different Approach to Setting Annual Goals

New newsletter share--in which I talk about new goal setting traditions and why writers should read Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes books. Subscribe if you want to keep hearing about what I'm up to, including my sometimes inane--but possibly insightful--thoughts about life, writing, and book things.

This is so important. More and more research shows that brains develop responsively—to trauma, to treatment, to words, to thoughts, to a culture that takes women’s (and girl’s) labor and service for granted. So yeah, maybe girl brains are more mature sooner, but WHY?

At this point we are all in serche of leachecrauffte! Or…dealing with crafty leaches at any rate. 🙄

This made my day, Effie. The next (and obvious) question is…which to choose?

Butcher of the Forest by @premeemohamed.com …and recommending it to everyone who will listen. Also loved To Shape A Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose, and Red in Tooth and Claw by Lish McBride!

Graphic for The King Must Die Giveaway. The background is from the cover, illustrated by Eleonor Piteira, but with a purple/orange tint. A Black woman stands before an alien sky--a glowing sun and and dramatic rings.

THE KING MUST DIE has been out for a whole month! To celebrate, I’m giving away 3 signed + personalized author copies. To enter, repost this and comment below with the last great story you read!

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

Love this one. If you’re needing to reflect and get a little meta this holiday season, I highly recommend.

This image shows thirteen book covers around the text: The Leading Ladies Fantasy Bundle: November twelfth through December fourth. The books are: Stephanie Burgis's The Harwood Spellbook: The Complete Series, Intisar Khanani's Sunbolt, Tansy Rayner Roberts's Power and Majesty, Tilly Wallace's The Stormborne Vine, Jacquelyn Benson's The Stolen Apocalypse and Empire of Shadows, Victoria Goddard's The Sisters Avramapui Omnibus and The Redoubtable Pale Avramapui, Charlotte English's Hell and High Water, Krista Ball's The Dark Abyss of Our Sins: the Complete Series, Suzannah Rowntree's Tall and Dark, and R.J. Blain's Silent Stalker and Blood Bound.

Only 2 days left to snap up the Leading Ladies fantasy @storybundle.bsky.social , including my complete Harwood Spellbook romantasy boxed set with 9 to 11 other fantasy novels by amazing authors like @kristadb1.bsky.social , @jbensonink.bsky.social & more: storybundle.com/fantasy

#romancelandia