Cover of INK WITCH by Steph Cherrywell
I love this book so much. Funny, smart, loving and clever, it's basically everything I could want in a middle grade novel.
@stephcherrywell.com
Another great way to give kids a strong start is to fully fund libraries. 😍
Anne Hathaway bought the rights to a novel about a tradwife influencer who wakes up in 1855 and has to actually live the life she's been selling online. The book is called Yesteryear. It came out 3 days ago. The film rights were already sold to Hathaway, who will produce and star.
Holy shit, I have NEVER been more excited for a movie.
My husband really wants a Maine Coon, and I do not, but this is a good advertisement for them (our current pact is that if he gets a MC I can get a Sphynx so we have one normal cat between us).
Seems to me the AMA needs to come out in favor of UBI
Ooh that looks great
READ @catfitzpatrick.net talking to @publisherswkly.bsky.social !
"Part of our determination to be funny and irreverent is undoubtedly about resisting the reduction of your humanity to your suffering. We’re like: no, we have many jokes and bright colors, thank you very much!"
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Exactly what Kate said.
Whenever someone asks me where the Mayor should get the $150 million more funds for NYC public libraries, the answer is the cops. Period.
Aw good.
Wait Morgan did you know that Trans Central Station was what we called the apartment that Bryn et al lived in?
(Chillul hashem is basically "desecration of the name of G-d" in case you're wondering how much chill I have)
And it's trochaic!
ok but actually it is a chillul hashem.
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Where and How Book Censorship Is Impacting Children’s Publishing Right Now.
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Just got news that my book is going into its fourth printing.
It has been out for three days
A coffee cup in the classic NYC Greek design but it says "we are happy to inspire you" instead of "serve you"
I really hate LA.
I saw someone compare anti ai zealots to the most annoying vegans and, yeah that is in fact what I've become.
川 LIT HUB An Open Letter to the Jewish Book Council From a Concerned Group of Jewish Writers "WE ARE JEWISH AUTHORS WHO BELIEVE IN JEWISH BOOKS, AND FOR WHOM PALESTINIAN LIBERATION IS A MORAL IMPERATIVE."
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It wasn't that amusing tbh. I think someone called her to complain about someone else? Unclear.
Take it from me, if your elderly Jewish mother asks you if you want to hear (another) "amusing story about the garden club," that is not a genuine inquiry.
this one I don't like.
Aaron Swartz was hounded and persecuted by overzealous prosecutors for a mass JSTOR download until he committed suicide.
Sam Altman says that he deserves to violate copyright law in perpetuity because otherwise he can't make a fortune from a large language model.
We are in the wrong timeline.
"If a bird is within 50 feet of a coop, it probably belongs to the owner of that coop, so don't fuck with it. birds further out are probably wild birds, and thus open to be collected."
"what if a bird has one leg within range and one leg out?"
"what if you shut the fuck up?"
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All 4!
I bought a bunch of potatoes for mashing!
I survived my wisdom teeth extraction! Now my face feels like a mister potato head.
I tell my students that writing is an exercise in figuring out what you think; it's not a place to deposit what you've already worked out.
If you step on a frictionless surface, momentum takes over and you just slide; there's nothing to interact with, which means there's nowhere to stand.