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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026

We are at the break glass moment on the Democratic Party and its treatment of transgender people, and it is my opinion that if we don’t act now and loudly demand to be heard, we will suffer the consequences of their shift.

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Callie C. Miller @thesupercallie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Still absolutely GLOWING about this starred review!!

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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on

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Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BOISE, ID - I am here! And I have TWO events for you. Monday, Sept 21, 6:30pm - event for DREAM BIG at the Library! at Hillcrest rdbooks.org/event/2026-0... Tuesday, Sept 22, 7pm - it’s the book launch for CHRISTMAS IN AUSTENLAND at Rediscovered Books rdbooks.org/event/2026-0...

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thank you for telling me so!

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The upside of getting older is laughing with delighted surprise at a post, moving to give it a like, then seeing that I already did at some point in the unknowable past.

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This looks like a meme my son and his friends would share that says HYPERTROPI ANTELOPI or whatever

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I read it assuming the punchline would be, “The one you feed.”

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Six Dettmar @sixdettmar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’M AT THE URGENT CARE I’M AT THE TACO BELL I’M AT THE COMBINATION URGENT CARE AND TACO BELL

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Well, in my later posts that's exactly what I'm trying to find out. Didn’t get a good sample of answers, though.

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Anyway—there's a compromise solution I see people use that could give a sense of page turns without implying you've, say, preemptively decided your manuscript is a 48-page book with printed endpapers or whatever. They number their spreads with just a [1], [2], [3]...

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

(In the interest of not impugning someone I don't intend to, the author in question was a Mr. G)

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As an illustrator, I'm trying to remember if I've ever been given another author's manuscript that was already paginated. I believe I was a couple times by one high-profile author whose name I don't feel like typing. In one case I agreed with his pagination and followed it. In another I changed it.

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I would say a manuscript could show it's making good use of page turns with a mere section break. My PB manuscripts tend to have these discrete sections of text set apart by blank lines. But in the example I've included, not every break is meant to be a page turn, so maybe I am confusing the issue.

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Okay, I got some context from another author that adds to this—they say they've heard from editors that they should be showing a good sense of page turns in their manuscripts. I think there's more than one way to do this.

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is good context, anyway—thank you, Michelle.

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Thanks, Maggie! I'm going to be doing some crits soon and I guess I'll steer clear of discussing this unless I see an obvious red flag (like that the author's proposed pagination seems to be pitching a 36-page picture book).

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I guess I don't see what's gained by trying to dictate the pagination. At worst I'd worry you come off looking controlling or presumptuous (or even ignorant—some authors just end up proving they don't know how many pages PBs are). At best...actually what IS the best case scenario here?

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I don't do this, and don't think I ever would—especially in a manuscript I don't intend to illustrate myself, because I tend to think page turns are ultimately the illustrator's decision. But I see it in a lot of manuscripts, and I realize a lot of my assumptions might be out of date.

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Got a Q for all the picture book authors: Do you put pagination in your manuscripts? Not just breaks in the text to indicate where you *think* pages might begin and end, but actual notes indicating this text is page 1, this is 2-3, and so forth?

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm inclined to think it was just the initials, or the fact that his name would come after mine in an alphabetical list of creators.

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today is not the first day I've gotten one of those overlong, AI-written literary community marketing emails, but it is the first time I've gotten one for Aaron Reynolds.

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

More often than I'd like I get hooked by one of those incomplete Threads posts you see on Instagram, open the app to read the rest, and declare anew, "Well! That wasn’t worth it."

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

THOSE ROBOTS NEED TO LEAVE MIKE WAZOWSKI ALONE

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

As I scrolled past I thought I saw him blink—I had to go back and stare for a full minute to be sure I’d imagined it

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Nat Gertler, only mildly scarier @nat.gertler.com · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry, in his prime, could chew every bit of the scenery, swallow the whole camera, and spit them out in exactly the shape that the work called for. For his most noted roles, casting anyone else would have made for a very different result. It is so good that he was around.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026

This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

That first one’s got his own breakfast cereal

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Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Distilling a message is some of the most sophisticated thinking & writing I've done in my entire life. It's why poems can eviscerate with just a few words. It's the soul of wit, etc.

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Callie C. Miller @thesupercallie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

shoponceuponatime.com/signed-books...

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Lia @iliadele.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Baby Yaga 🏡

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

She’s the worst. You’re great, though. For the time being.

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Of course, more often than not the "book" is actually a spouse who sits there while another waits in line, and moving the spouse isn't something I feel like I can recommend

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The 90s were about three fifths Ozes, if you remember

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The prep isn't as bad as it used to be -- pills, not the drink -- and you'll have one, uh, busy evening and then you go in and get the greatest nap of your life and then eat a glorious meal. Get yourself checked out.

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

This rhetoric is ideal for listeners who believe trans women are an issue that they're supposed to care about, but don't actually have any real-world experience with them. The hypothetical trans girl who's supposedly causing all this trouble in the WNBA is the perfect tool for the conservative movement. She can't fight back, she can't disprove anyone's assumptions, and she can't garner sympathy when she's the target of hate. The perfect trans girl is the one who only exists in the imagination of the loudest cis people. Her monstrousness, the need to "protect young girls in a locker room" from her, gives them permission to enact policies that in reality only harm the anonymous girls, cis and trans, who want to play sports without the invasive scrutiny of gender-obsessed adults.

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Adam Rex @adamrex.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

edutainment sea monkey stressed fork-tender Oobleck

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