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Rowen MacCarald (he/they)

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Author of over 80 nonfiction books for the educational market and the picture book How Mom Met Mama. www.rowenmaccarald.com

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Rowen MacCarald (he/they) @author-maccarald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NETTLE & BONE x THE ECHO ARCHIVES + Dark Academia To stop an ancient ghost from bringing back weapons of mass magical destruction, Reme must turn to a fellow acolyte who researches magic but scares spirits and a powerful water spirit with a troubling interest in Reme’s grandmother. #DVPit #A #F #TV
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Rowen MacCarald (he/they) @author-maccarald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
WITCHLORE x A FEAST FOR THE EYES When a genderqueer teen discovers they’re a raven shifter, they accidentally expose their new community to a dangerous stalker who’s searching for the shapeshifters’ century-old stash of mystical objects. #DVPit #YA #CF #TV #ND
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Rowen MacCarald (he/they) @author-maccarald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reme’s impulsiveness has led to friction with their superiors at the Temple of Learning, but if Reme can’t stop their estranged family from bringing back ancient weapons of mass magical destruction, they won’t survive long enough to get kicked out. NETTLE & BONE + Dark Academia #DVPit #A #F #TV #ND
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Rowen MacCarald (he/they) @author-maccarald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
WITCHLORE x A FEAST FOR THE EYES When a genderqueer teen’s newly discovered identity as a raven shifter leads them to a community they never knew they had, they must team up with their ex and a new love interest to save the shifters from a magical stalker. #DVPit #YA #CF #TV #ND
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Rowen MacCarald (he/they) @author-maccarald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A DARK & DROWNING TIDE x THE ECHO ARCHIVES + Dark Academia Reme stole their grandmother’s ghost and escaped their wealthy, scheming family to seek a new life at the Temple of Learning, but the ancestral spirit Reme thought they destroyed survived and is now seeking revenge. #DVPit #A #F #TV #ND
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Rowen MacCarald (he/they) @author-maccarald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NETTLE & BONE x THE ECHO ARCHIVES + Dark Academia Reme stole their grandmother’s shade and escaped their scheming family to join the Temple of Learning, but they must face the literal ghosts of their past to stop the family’s plot to awaken ancient weapons of magical destruction. #DVPit #A #F #TV
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Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
👻🌑COVENANT🔮🕯 ✨️gothic gaslamp romantasy✨️ 💜 second chance romance 🖤 opposites attract 🌑 gothic decadence 👻 big spooky house 🏳️‍🌈 bi awakening 💙 achillean main romance 🧡 sapphic side romance 🏳️‍⚧️ trans and plus-sized rep 🥀 horror as a metaphor for grief 🔮 Victorian setting 🕯 occult magic #QueerPit #FR #A
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Rowen MacCarald (he/they) @author-maccarald.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
WITCHLORE x A FEAST FOR THE EYES When a gender-questioning teen discovers they’re a raven shifter, they accidentally expose their new community to a supernatural stalker willing to do anything to get his hands on the shapeshifters’ century-old stash of mystical objects. #QueerPit #YA #F #TV #ND
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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
#QueerPit #YA #F #R When Zenora, an autistic trans garden witch with a brown thumb, accidentally becomes responsible for the Allflower, she must work with a rival music witch to care for it without getting caught—or falling madly in love. WICKED X LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Magic lesson melody and zenora
Collage picnjc harp garden flower two girls one blonde one with curly hairI wave back, stunned, then turn to Melody. "Is your suitcase sentient?"
"Sapient. And only temporarily," she says, waving me off. It does not work.
I stare at her, mouth agape, wheels turning in my mind as I try to understand what she just said. "You can temporarily make things sapient?"
She blinks owlishly. "Oh, I can permanently make things sapient."
The force with which my body reels back is brain-rattling. "What poor objects have you cursed with permanent sapience?"
Melody crosses her arms, face turning pink. "Just my toothbrush. I like when she sings with me. Her name's Leah."
"Why did you make your toothbrush sapient?"
"Why didn't you?" Melody sticks her tongue out. She's a walking nightmare. What have | gotten myself into? Sapience is the hardest of change and creation magics. It requires an extraordinary amount of power that only few witches have access to. Fern is one, but after a harrowing incident with a killer pomegranate, he doesn't dip his toes in that pool anymore.
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Rowen MacCarald (he/they) @author-maccarald.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
NETTLE & BONE x ECHO ARCHIVES + Dark Academia To stop an ancient ghost from bringing back weapons of mass magical destruction, Reme must turn to a fellow acolyte who researches magic but scares spirits and a powerful water spirit with a troubling interest in Reme’s grandmother. #QueerPit #NA #F #TV
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Eri Webb | they/she @weaverwebb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🌃 00s Chicago 🧙‍♂️ An arcane underworld 🔥 A trans combat alchemist 🎸 His hex-slinging punk ex-best friend 💥 A magic mass attack ☄️ A strongman's political rise 👹 A meme-loving doomsday cult 🖤 A girl with a literal hole in her heart ...the end of the world as we know it? #A #F #DF #UF #EF #QueerPit
WIP unofficial book cover for Those Who Create and Destroy by Mabel Harper and Eri Webb, featuring protagonists Jules Nimri and Rory Navarrete. Art by Eri Webb.
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Alexis ☕ is querying @abookishchai.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
DON’T LET THE FOREST IN X YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES Portrait of a Fawn- YA Speculative Horror 🦌 #revpit 2026 Winner 🥀creeping dread horror 🥀bickering spirit hunters 🥀queer rep: bisexual fmc 🥀a haunted, forest-infested theater #Queerpit #YA #H #SPF
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Rowen MacCarald (he/they) @author-maccarald.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
NETTLE & BONE x THE ECHO ARCHIVES w/ Dark Academia vibes. Reme stole their grandmother’s ghost and escaped their wealthy, scheming family to seek a new life at the Temple of Learning, but the ancestral spirit Reme thought they destroyed survived and is now seeking revenge. #QueerPit #NA #F #TV #ND
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R Lochlann @runesword.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Genderfluid berserker Eydrun battles witch-hunting paladins, an eldritch zombie apocalypse, & her own repression to protect Darja, the nascent sorceress & “best friend” waiting for her back home. A hurt/comfort epic w/ swordfights by one of the top 7% longsword fighters in the world. #queerpit #F #A
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Melanie is querying @melanielocke.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A dying mage and his partner research a way to wield magic without killing its mage, but their love turns to tragedy, leaving them separated, soulless, and immortal. Centuries later, their reincarnated souls must help the immortals die before their pain consumes the world. #Queerpit #A #F #ND
Digital art, by me. A plant filled greenhouse as background, with a table and several shimmering stones laying atop it. A man with long brown hair and light brown skin sits against the table, reading a notebook titled "Notes of Ash Carpenter". He wears purple floorlength robes baring one shoulder, and beneath his colarbone sits a shimmering stone. Beside him stands a taller, bulkier man with black hair, a bear and a fair skin. He wars a green tunic, brown pants and boots, and holds several books against his chest. He has his free arm wrapped around the other man.
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Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🏳️‍🌈👻🌑COVENANT🔮✨️🕯 When a being from beyond the grave heralds the apocalypse, there are only two witnesses: Rowan and Darshil, bitter ex-lovers who must brave London’s occult underbelly and save the world from eternal darkness, all while grappling with their unresolved feelings. #QueerPit #FR #A
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Rowen MacCarald (he/they) @author-maccarald.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
WITCHLORE + A FEAST FOR THE EYES When a gender-questioning teen’s newly discovered identity as a raven shifter leads them to a community they never knew they had, they must team up with their ex and a new love interest to save the shifters from a magical stalker. #QueerPit #YA #F #TV #ND
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Beth Hollar Gier @bethhgier.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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Beth Hollar Gier @bethhgier.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵
The front cover of a scientific journal titled Ornithologist, dated 1 April 2025. The main headline reads: “BIRDS: DECODED - Groundbreaking New Science.” Below that, a subheading says: “What are the UK’s birds really saying? Pioneering new research provides the answers.”
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Naomi Danis @naomidanis.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Bold, outspoken trailblazer, Congresswoman Bella Abzug (1920–1998) was never a sugar-and-spice girl. ABZUGLUTELY! BATTLING, BELLOWING BELLA ABZUG, a picture book by @saraharonson.bsky.social, illustrated by Andrea D’Aquino, tells her story. lilith.org/articles/fem...
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Sylvia Liu @sylvialiu.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
For Read Across America, I'm joining a bunch of wonderful children's poets to read from the anthology IF I COULD CHOOSE A BEST DAY (ed by Irene Latham & Charles Waters). WHEN: March 3, 2025 at 1 p.m. EST (Sign up here: courage.thewritingbarn.com/free-virtual...)
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/02/2025
Sharing these numbers because I wasn't aware of them myself. In the US: * 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized * 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia * 1 to 3 in 1000 die If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time
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Measles – NFID
Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease that can result in severe, sometimes permanent, complications including pneumonia, seizures, brain damage, and even death
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Sarah Aronson @saraharonson.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Join us!!!! For community. Inspiration. Motivation. Accountability!
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Hilary Elizabeth Margitich @hilarymargitich.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Hey, friends! Please join kidlit authors Karen M. Greenwald, Nancy Churnin, and me as we partner with Reader to Reader, a 501(c)(3) organization during the month of March. We will be collecting new children’s books to help a school without a library build one! Stay tuned! #bookhero #kidlit
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Dale-Marie Bryan @dmb-free2beeme.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Check out my new post about surviving in scary times. dalemariebryan.substack.com/p/to-hell-in...
dalemariebryan.substack.com
To Hell in a Handbasket
Day 49, Year 13 in Glasshalfull
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Jocelyn Rish @jocelynrish.com · 18/02/2025
While organizing the @kidlitforla.bsky.social auction, we connected with Rohan, an amazing 13-year-old who lost his home in the fires but is working to get books to other kids who who lost everything. This thread has details on how to help. #kidlit #booksky #writers #authors #illustrators #books
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Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Speaking of comics: Whether this new administration “observes” it or not, it’s still Black History Month. Here’s a list of great comics by Black creators, and/or centering Black characters & stories 🕊️ 📚 bookshop.org/lists/graphi...
bookshop.org
Graphic Novels for Black History Month
Graphic novels created by Black authors/artists, and/or centering Black stories and culture.
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✨Griet ✨ @grietbird.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
they start with the least protected groups then they work their way up this is fucking terrifying
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Joyce Uglow, award-winning kidlit picture book poet @jpuglow.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Magic in a Drop of Water by @jwbottom.bsky.social is stunning! Her call to action for us to ensure #cleanwater is clear. Check it out! Ask your library to add it to their collections. Write a positive vibes #bookreview.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 12/02/2025
President Trump banning the Associated Press from an event over their usage of "Gulf of Mexico" instead of "Gulf of America" may seem more absurd than alarming, but Trump's attacks on the free press are no joke.
ap.org
AP statement on Oval Office access | The Associated Press
The Associated Press issued this statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace: As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs
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NPR @npr.org · 12/02/2025
The Associated Press says the White House blocked it from covering an official event on Tuesday because it did not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. By @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social
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White House blocks AP from event for using 'Gulf of Mexico'
The Associated Press says the White House blocked it from covering an official event on Tuesday because it did not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
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Lisa Pett @lisa70.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Today is Internal Day of Women and Girls in Science. I give you Dinosaur Lady by Linda Skeers. A nonfiction children’s book about Mary Anning, who, at 12 years old, discovered the first plesiosaur skeleton in 1811. #childrensbooks #womeninstem #booksky
kirkusreviews.com
DINOSAUR LADY | Kirkus Reviews
A new picture-book biography of the pioneering scientist and finder of bones.
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Beth Hollar Gier @bethhgier.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
My first book - IT’S LIKE WE TOUCHED THE MOON - launches in August! Really hoping MG readers will enjoy it! 🚀🚀🚀 Stand by for more info …
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Pragmatic Mom @pragmaticmom.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
81 Children’s Books for Young Activists buff.ly/3Vur0ur via @pragmaticmom #ReadYourWorld #Activists #BlackHistoryMonth #KidLit #picturebooks #middlegrade
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81 Children's Books for Young Activists - Pragmatic Mom
75 Children's Books for Young Activists, a book list to inspire the next generation of youth to become activists for change.
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Joyce Uglow, award-winning kidlit picture book poet @jpuglow.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Join me online on March 8 #PB at @thewritingbarn thewritingbarn.com/class/free-p... STUCK! The Story of La Brea Tar Pits available at bushelandpeckbooks.com
Book launch image
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Scott Hadland, MD @drscotthadland.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues: - Develop new cancer treatments for kids - Are curing sickle cell disease - Build new tech to help premature babies survive - Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose - And more #NIH #MedSky #research #science
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Lee Wind @leewind.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Proud to stand up in this statement connecting the dots between our current president's Executive Order on Gender and how it will impact #kidlit books with #LGBTQ+ content -and how it constitutes censorship. This is a tipping point. If left to stand, other communitys' books will be targeted next.
Statement on the Trump Administration’s January 20, 2025 Executive Order Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming Americans
On January 20, the White House issued an executive order stating that the United States government will only recognize two sexes, male and female, as defined “at conception.” The ripple effect of this order will undoubtedly affect public schools, public libraries, and the literature that is shelved in both.
Among the many harms it causes, the order targeting transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming Americans threatens unconstitutional censorship that could have a grave impact on literature for years to come. In dismissing trans, intersex, and nonbinary identities, the order blacklists LGBTQIA+ literature and invites the government to dictate the perspectives, beliefs, and identities that can exist in public forums receiving federal funding, amounting to financial coercion through the arbitrary withholding of funds. This censorship may begin with LGBTQIA+ perspectives, but it will not end there: allowing the government to censor one group erodes the First Amendment rights of all Americans, creating a precedent for silencing dissenting voices.If allowed to stand, the order will create new funding requirements imposed not only on federal entities, but private citizens and institutions who contract with them. Those requirements can and will be manipulated to dictate speech. The broader chilling effect on literature could be even harder to undo. Writers rely on funding from sources like the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the state-level institutions they fund.
Trans, nonbinary, and intersex experience is vastly underrepresented in literature but disproportionately targeted by bans. During the 2022-2023 school year, 30% of books banned included LGBTQIA+ characters or themes. Such censorship robs us of perspectives that enrich the American story. Though the executive order in question tries to paint LGBTQIA+ people and allies as bullies enforcing their perspective on
others through “legal and other socially coercive means,” that’s exactly what the order itself does, just as book-banning pressure groups have done since 2020 in school boards and libraries around the country. The fate of trans, intersex, and nonbinary people is not a political ideology, it’s a matter of human rights, civil rights, and freedom of expression. Government erosion of those rights should concern all Americans, regardless of their investment in LGBTQIA+ literature specifically.This executive order is censorship, pure and simple, and it has no place in a free society. It must be rescinded or stayed as soon as possible, and at the latest, before the earliest implementation deadline, February 19, 2025. Financially blacklisting trans, intersex, and non-binary perspectives will rob us of a vital literature yet to be written while insulting the dignity of LGBTQIA+ people everywhere. This return to McCarthyism by other means is a leap backwards to a grim chapter of American history.
Sincerely, the undersigned,
• American Booksellers Association
• American Booksellers for Free Expression
• Andrews McMeel
• Annie's Foundation
• Audio Publishers Association
• Authors Against Book Bans
• Berry Powell Press
• Cardinal Rule Press
• Charlesbridge Publishing
• Chestnut Publishing House
• Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
• Deborah Sloan and Company
and Kidsbuzz
• Developmental Texts
• Empowering Latino Futures
• EveryLibrary
• Firewater Media Group
• Florida Freedom to Read Project
• Foreword Reviews
• Freedom to Read Project
• Gryphon Publishing Consulting,
LLC
• Independent Book Publishers
Association (IBPA)
• IngramSpark
• Judging by the Cover: A
Bookstore
• Lafayette Citizens Against
Censorship
• Lambda Literary
• Latino 247 Media Group
• Lee Wind, author
Logos of many of the signing organizations, the list of which continues with • Levine Querido
• Library Futures
• Livingston Parish Library
Alliance
• Louisiana Citizens Against
Censorship
• Macmillan Children's Publishing
Group
• The National Book Critics Circle
• National Coalition Against
Censorship
• NorthSouth Books
• Nosy Crow
• Patagonia
• Publishers and Writers of San
Diego and Orange County • PEN America
• PFLAG Fresno
• PubWest
• Rattling Good Yarns Press • Read Freely Alabama
• Red Comet Press LLC
• Rutherford County Library Alliance
• Sara Paretsky, Writer • SCBWI
• SEAT
• SparkPoint Studio
• St Tammany Library Alliance
• Stone Bridge Press
• Texas Freedom to Read Project • Walker Books Group for
Candlewick Press, Holiday House
Books, and Peachtree Publishing • We Need Diverse Books
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Sarah Aronson @saraharonson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
It is always an honor to chat with @brokentusk1.bsky.social! www.umakrishnaswami.com/blog/process...
umakrishnaswami.com
Process Talk: Sarah Aronson on Abzuglutely: Battling, Bellowing Bella Abzug — Uma Krishnaswami
You know you’ve heard this quip before: “This Woman’s Place is in the House — The House of Representatives.” But do you know who said it? Bella Abzug (1920-1998) was a lawyer, politician, social activ...
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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