Viviane Elbee

Congratulations 🎉 on being on the best seller list!

This is so fun

a screenshot of zoom with an arrow pointing to "settings"

a screenshot of zoom settings with "my account" highlighted and a circle around "view advanced features"

zoom on a web browser, with an arrow pointing to "AI Companion" and the first 3 of many AI features listed

PSA to my fellow Zoom users -- it's automatically turned on a bunch of A.I. features without asking you✌️

to turn all 32 of them off, go to "Settings" --> "My Account" --> "View advanced features"

it'll open up your browser and list a SHITTON of A.I. features, many of which will be on (scroll!)

Hachette Book Group is looking for Editorial Assistant, Little, Brown & Co. Hachette Book Group is looking for Editorial Assistant, Little, Brown & Co. Learn more or Jobvite a friend.

I'm hiring for an editorial assistant here at L,B!

If you're someone who is interested in literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, memoirs, and nonfiction that deals with big ideas, please apply here: jobs.jobvite.com/careers/hach...

Cautionary tale: I asked Gemini to transcribe a 1-page PDF from The Morning Post from the early 1800s. I was interested in testing its accuracy.

It hallucinated a full transcription of book review that doesn't exist and then invented false citations when I asked where the review was from.
#AI

What absolutely floors me is that normies like me know this and have known this for a while, and yet, the people who are ostensibly in fields that are coming to rely on this faulty tech somehow don't.

LULU AND THE OTHERS, my first picture book, illustrated by the amazing AG Ford, will be out next week!
I hope to catch you at the virtual launch event on 2/12 (with Ariel Rogers, Executive Director of Friends of Bonobos), or at a bookstore near you.
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Hurray! It’s almost time for the #50PreciousWords 2026 International Writing Contest.
Keep an eye on this website:
viviankirkfield.com/category/50p...
@viviankirkfield.bsky.social

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I can’t emphasize enough that you should talk to students about this. You’ll both learn why this kind of ad is effective (through the generally low skepticism of ads younger folks express) but also you get to watch the light go off as they realize what the downside is. It’s really interesting.

What a great half time show! 🎉

Yes, they could be happy being themselves.

More Job Cuts at S&S After confirming on Monday that the publisher had made limited reductions to its staff, Simon & Schuster made another round of layoffs later in the week. More than a dozen jobs have been cut, mostly o...

My art director, Laurent Linn, is no longer at Simon & Schuster Children's. I found out on Wed. I can't post more about it on social media because (1) my feelings are too big right now, and (2) I don't want to post something I later regret. cont'd

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... #KidLit

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

All about KidLitArtPostcard — Gina Perry Illustrations

#KidLit FYI: The next postcard event is Thursday, January 8th. www.ginaperry.com/postcard #kidlitartpostcard

Merry Christmas to you too

I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.

A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.

If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!

The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys “If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."

"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."

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OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.

The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

fry from futurama says " and it 's all thanks to the books at my local library .. " ALT: fry from futurama says " and it 's all thanks to the books at my local library .. "

Step 1: Sign up for a FREE library card at your local library today.

Step 2: Enter a world of possibilities.

Step 3: Share some of the library joy that is sure to come.

Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

AP finds a secretive Border Patrol intelligence program detains Americans for “suspicious” travel. Critics call it mass surveillance.

Thanks for sharing! I’m glad your son’s letter was published.

I noticed that chocolate was unbelievably expensive at the grocery store (Harris Teeter) near me too. So, like you, I didn’t buy any. Maybe Costco will have some chocolate for cheaper?

Happy book birthday 🎉

Getting ready to mail postcards announcing the December 15 release of my next #pb Butterfly Sea. I’m sure you will fall in love with @marielaurecouet.bsky.social artwork! Gorgeous! #CanKidLit #Kidlitmegafeed #booklaunch #pre-order #coverart #butterfly #photography #pretendplay #imagination

Yikes

Thank you for sharing! I didn’t even notice this before…

Now seems like a good time to recommend this book. “Everybody needs help sometimes.”