Boston, where you can read a book while your team clinches a spot in the playoffs...

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Middle Grade Book Review--Great series! YouTube video by Ellen Mulholland, children's author

If you love kidlit or are looking for your next favorite story, I have a YouTube channel for that.
Quick, mini reviews of my favorite (mostly middle grade) stories.
Check it out here. Please like, share, subscribe, follow, recommend... all the good stuff 🫶
#kidlit
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Tweet suggesting an escape room set in a well-stocked bookstore with marked exits and a one-hour time limit to escape.

Good luck! 😂

Congratulations! I was there a few hours ago and overheard a mom talking about it with her kid! 🦋

I asked A.I. to complete my novel using my own writing style and it did my laundry, went shopping, cleaned the kitchen and spent the rest of the day dicking around online.

Sign on nature trail says “Entering sensitive wildlife area”

If you can’t say something nice, please don’t say anything at all.

Potentially interesting data point. I put up a little display with three books just marked "Weird" "Weirder" and "Weirdest" and so far the 2 "Weird" books have sold but not the others.

How we treat our main characters

Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March Madness: Key Matchups in the NCAA Little Women Tournament Meg vs. Beth Known as the sizzling hot sister, Meg March specializes in getting good looks and her outside game is unstoppable. She moves well with...

"Meg March specializes in getting good looks, and her outside game is unstoppable. She moves well without the ball and moves well at balls. But Meg’s vanity causes her to choose ill-fitting high-heeled boots known to cause ankle injuries."
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Your password must contain a character with a tragic backstory.

Yours too! Love the blended stripes!

An orange cat and a tuxedo cat pushing his paws into her head as she sleeps

Happy to oblige!

I keep looking for a central repository of charity auctions of interest to writers and readers, but none seems to exist. So I am going to start tracking them in this thread. Feel free to message need if you know of an auction I should include.

I'll be traveling to a handful of places to share my next book, 102, when it comes out in April! If you are in/near any of these spots, please come and say hello and hear me talk about it! bit.ly/read102

A six-panel comic called Signs of Spring, Ranked. In panel 1, #10 is Robin, showing an american robing standing on a lawn - not always a useful sign since robins are quietly present in winter in many areas. In panel 2, there's #9: Daffodil - nice, mundane, #8: Skunk Cabbage - unusual, cool, and #7: Dutchman's Breeches, a flower that looks like a pair of underwear with a hole - lol. In panel 3, there's #6: Turkey vulture migrating - gloriously ominous, a humbling reminder of life's transience, and #5: very very small bunny - wow, the little ears. In panel 4 there's #4: Snake sunbathing, with a gartersnake warming itself - underappreciated, looks cozy, and #3: Woodcock going peent - the perfect sound. In panel 5 there's a wood frog calling from a pond, and #2: small frogs yelling as loud as they can, with a wood frog floating in a pool inflating itself to make a loud quack - they crave love, or at least they crave the external fertilization of 1500 gelatinous eggs. In panel 6, there's a drawing of a spring peeper and #1, Even smaller frogs yelling, with a spring peeper sitting on the ground making loud calls - yes, YES.

Signs of spring, ranked. An older comic. Feel free to argue with my ranking.

The Little Bunny from Goodnight Moon Accepts an Award First of all, I must thank the comb. And the brush! And my God, the bowl full of mush! My warriors. My champions. This award will be next to you on...

"First of all, I must thank the comb. And the brush! And my God, the bowl full of mush! My warriors. My champions. This award will be next to you on the bedside table VERY soon."

My great-grandmother was the only person I know who ever had these, so…

With Edward Gorey illustrations 😍!

My entire goal in writing now is to veer off in unpredictable directions and leave autocorrect’s little robot head spinning.

if you were good at these books, the rest of us are counting on you to tell us when something is AI

From the Merriam-Webster Archives: 50 Postcards For lovers of the English language and American history alike, this deluxe boxed collection of fifty postcards features art and ephemera from the storied arc...

Coming soon!

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Oven clock, we meet again.

Behind the Book: Gennifer Choldenko’s Writing Process

@mgwg.bsky.social
March 16, 2026
7 pm CT
Free gennifercholdenkoswritingprocess.eventbrite.com
NYT bestseller & Newbery Honor winner Gennifer Choldenko shares craft tips. Find out the writing tips & tricks she uses with her own books. #kidlit

A sidewalk vendor with a giant vat labeled “AI Slop”

Roz Chast, from this week’s New Yorker

This one is probably on your radar already but the forthcoming Mac Barnett

This is in fact how I make myself do almost anything.

This frog nailed my sixth-grade look!

Single-panel cartoon by Ellis Rosen. Scene is a literary agent's office, but sitting on both sides of the desk are dogs, not people. The agent holds a manuscript and is telling the eager-looking client: "If you introduce a stick in act one, somebody needs to throw it."

Cartoon of shrieking snowperson

My live, on-the-scene weather report for today. (Art by DWWilliamson)