Hey! I have a children's book writing workshop starting April 27. You can get feedback on your manuscript from a group of your peers, including a published writer (me!). Maybe I'll see you there?
For more info:
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Michelle Cusolito is a cool person and she has a new kids' nonfiction book coming out this Tuesday about national trees! Books about the environment are even more important than ever nowadays. Check out ROOTED IN WONDER, on sale March 31!
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@mcusolito.bsky.social
A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
As hard as we are fighting, book bans are having an impact on the books being written and published. To put this another way, a very small number of well-funded people who don't write books, don't teach books, don't work in libraries are trying to decide what books are available for everyone else
We’re doing a query drive to raise money to help relieve acute food insecurity among families sheltering in place. Come through!
Do you want to get up to 4000 words of your children's novel/chapter book read? What about up to 1000 words of two picture books?
If so, join the Kidlit Manuscript Workshop! You'll get feedback from your peers, including me!
Why not make writing a priority in 2026?
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Meet author Eric Bell!
Today on the blog Robyn interviews @ericbellwriter.bsky.social in advance of our FREE event for all creatives: "Arting When Able - What to Do When You Can't Be Creative." Event details can be found at the end of the interview. easternpennpoints.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/c...
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🐻🐻🐻Scholarship applications are now available for the 2026 annual Pocono retreat! 🌲 Members on the EastPA mailing list: Check Your Inboxes!📨Contact our regional team epa@SCBWI.org if you would like to receive the informational email and application link 📩 Held at the Highlights Foundation Apr 24-26🌲
Join East PA authors and illustrators for a night of camaraderie and books @childrensbookworld.bsky.social ✍️🤩 #authorevent #illustratorevent Lots of local members...Will you be there? @nicolemwolverton.bsky.social @danakramaroff.bsky.social @brianbiggsstudio.bsky.social @berrietr.bsky.social and...
My books have been out for 7-8 years, but I stopped opening royalty statements a few years ago because I was scared of how "bad" they'd look.
Recent circumstances compelled me to take the plunge and open one, and I'm glad I did.
Does anybody else have this hangup with book-related finances?
A depressed traffic light? It's missing the go.
Hi Christa! 😄
Writers! I’ll critique a query letter and first page for 5 people in exchange for a donation to a food bank, local restaurant with a free-meal program, program collecting funds for people in need of food, etc.
If you need food, or know someone who does, DM me or comment below.
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I've been thinking about spicing up my reading next year with some ~Reading Challenges~. Does anyone have any categories they like? I'm especially excited about "A book written by the author of another book I dislike" lol
Favorite picture book in recent memory is CABOOSE by @100scopenotes.bsky.social and @ohtruth.bsky.social. This hippo child chooses chaos by messing with the front of the school lineup. Then he gets sent to the back, and does the same exact thing. Truly an agent of anarchy.
Friendly reminder that book platform The StoryGraph can do everything Goodreads can do, plus many additional features, and it has the added benefit of not being owned by corrupt billionaire and free speech suppressor Jeff Bezos.
app.thestorygraph.com
Bjork - All Neon Like
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Eric Bell (me!) is running an event for Blue Stoop on Thursday, 3/27 from 4-5pm ET, called Writing for Young Readers: See the World From a Younger POV! It's free on Zoom.
Hey all! I'm running a free virtual event through Blue Stoop on Thursday, 3/27 from 4-5pm ET. It's going to be generative writing structured around the idea of writing a young person's book. All kidlit folks are welcome! To preregister: www.bluestoop.org/events/
advantage Lucy - Metro
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Enjoy!
Today I want to spread some positivity in the world.
If you reply to this post, I'll recommend a song for you.
If you want to mention some music you enjoy, you can, or you go for the chaos option and not give me any hints lol
Feel free to laugh at my foibles. That's okay by me!
You can search books by over 20 moods. You can leave half and quarter star ratings. You have access to reading recs and fun stats based on your history. You can transfer all your Goodreads ratings to StoryGraph, so you don't have to worry about starting over.
Did I mention it's not owned by Bezos?
Friendly reminder that book platform The StoryGraph can do everything Goodreads can do, plus many additional features, and it has the added benefit of not being owned by corrupt billionaire and free speech suppressor Jeff Bezos.
app.thestorygraph.com
If you're near Blue Bell, PA and want to hear from some children's authors, join Charles A Bush, Jess Callans, @ericbellwriter.bsky.social, and me at the Wissahickon Valley Pub Library on 3/13. Come with questions!
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Hey school friends.
I've posted about how I do school visits and library workshops. But I'm also more than happy to show up to GSAs (or other equivalent groups) for free and talk to your kids about what it's like to be a published queer (and neurodivergent) author.
iamericbell.com for contact.
After a few seconds of thinking, it came to me. It helps that there are repeated digits throughout the number 😅
I have a feeling this is going to keep being relevant for a while.
Look who cartwheeled onto Bluesky: the irrepressible Zack, from my ALAN COLE books. Give him a follow and say hi 👋
Post from John Perricone 3d • Several years ago l invited a Buddhist monk to speak to my Senior elective class, and quite interestingly, as he entered the room, he didn't say a word (that caught everyone's attention). He just walked to the board and wrote this: "EVERYONE WANTS TO SAVE THE WORLD, BUT NO ONE WANTS TO HELP MOM DO THE DISHES." We all laughed. But then he went on to say this to my students: "Statistically, it's highly unlikely that any of you will ever have the opportunity to run into a burning orphanage and rescue an infant. But, in the smallest gesture of kindness -- a warm smile, holding the door for the person behind you, shoveling the driveway of the elderly person next door -- you have committed an act of immeasurable profundity, because to each of us, our life is our universe."
Been thinking about this a lot (not tagging the sender, for their privacy). Most of us won't have the chance for for grand, capital-R Resistance heroics. But every one of us will have a thousand small choices to make about how to live our lives and where to draw lines. Use them well.
Howdy! I've enjoyed your work on the JUSTIN CASE series very much over the years. 😊
It's a shame that millions of Harry Potter fans will never realize how much of a hateful, spiteful bigot JK Rowling is.