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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This morning I enjoyed my coffee in a mug given to me by a friend / former coworker who credited me & my sex-positive platform with helping her shed shame around celebrating her body and proudly showing cleavage. Then I saw an email advertising an imprint of “clean” YA books & had a rage meltdown.

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Happy Book Birthday @coreyannhaydu.bsky.social for her brilliant, immersive adult debut! I really couldn’t put it down, and recommend to anyone who has experienced complicated friendships as a child or adult; complicated feelings about becoming a mom; and complicated relationship with a mom.

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

“In cultures where even discussion of sex is taboo, predators flourish…The existence of sex in a book does not automatically make it pornography, and by diluting the meaning of that word we make it more difficult to protect kids.” YES. Thank you, thank you, thank you @shannonhale.bsky.social. 😭❤️

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Belated Happy #BookBirthday to the 2nd book in this NYT bestselling series packed with dragons, laughs, and wonderful metaphorical reminders of the value of making sure everyone has access to knowledge and (everyday) magic. Perfect light fantasy short reads! (And check out the dragon sprayed edges!)

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Three x a year, we have launch meetings where our souls are healed as we hear about our colleagues’ amazing books that will give kids joy & inspiration & reflection. The Random House Children’s Spring ‘27 list is 🔥! And today I got to present this new incredible book from @rantingowl.bsky.social 💙

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History Can't Hide from Kahlil Greene @historycanthide.skystack.xyz · 24/01/2026

There's No Such Thing As The "Last Straw" • The BLM movement teaches us that there will never be an execution so unjust that it converts supporters of state violence into abolitionists. Change requires fighting, not waiting.

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There's No Such Thing As The "Last Straw"

The BLM movement teaches us that there will never be an execution so unjust that it converts supporters of state violence into abolitionists. Change requires fighting, not waiting.

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The world is too much and what are days? But we must wish a one day belated #BookBirthday to this incredible graphic novel that brings readers the most adorable queer tween vampire roller derby you’ve ever seen. If you want to escape into goodness, please indulge in this read. ❤️

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

No spoilers, but if you watched the new Stranger Things episodes and fist-pumped the air for the thematic meaning of that final scene of episode 4, then you really have to read Terry Benton-Walker’s ALEX WISE VS THE END OF THE WORLD. Just saying! Here for all the stories of self-acceptance=power ❤️

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is such a moving read, and an important one for anyone too young to remember the AIDS crisis in the 80’s. The personal losses I had at that time paired with the understanding that the mass deaths occurred largely because of bigotry & stigma were formative in shaping my professional self.

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Packy Anderson @packyanderson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I mean, you don't have to understand the science to use it. Just open the curtain a little, a little like opening your heart a little through a poem. Then, much like the emotions flowing through the poem, the cooler air can flow into the shower without pushing the curtain.

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Me: “My shower curtain is billowing in at me in the shower.” Him: “You can fix that with science.” Me: “I failed science in high school. Do you think I can solve this by writing a deeply emotional poem?”

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chelsea bridge 🩸 @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

if you didn't follow the VA governor race you didn't know that Earle-Sears ran like a billion anti-trans campaign ads and Spanberger didn't flinch or pull a Newsom. going all-in against trans people is a losing move, especially when the federal government has made harming and killing us a priority.

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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Middle grade author James Ponti discusses how the recent Louvre heist, with its stranger-than-fiction twists, made a mockery of his research as a mystery writer buff.ly/6XygwYi

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Happy #BookBirthday to Deeba Zargarpur!! The second Farrah Noorzad adventure is even better than the first! The kid characters are appealing, vulnerable, and so funny, and this time there’s a magic school storyline… who doesn’t love a magic school, especially when it’s for Jinn?? 😍😍

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Headed to the office to present Spring 2026 books to librarians (AKA our warriors)! Yes it’s election day and I am wearing my Jewish identity & my belief in Batman’s hope & my passion for our freedom to read and hoping that NY and NJ can fight back today against sexual predators & right wing bigots!

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

We were so lucky to have a visit from our lovely Labyrinth Road author, graphic novel creator/middle-grade expert Emma Steinkellner! Emma even drew on our illustrator wall! 😍 It’s the perfect season to check out Emma’s bestseller, THE OKAY WITCH, & grab her NELL OF GUMBLING fairy tale comic diaries!

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Happy (belated) Book Birthday here to @esmesymessmith.bsky.social for the publication of the conclusion to Labyrinth Road’s first MG series! These characters and the author who brought them to life have sustained me & given me (& so many readers) hope. 💙 We can always challenge unjust authority.

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

A bright spot of good news to end the week!

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Nik Korpon @nikkorpon.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

We've been sitting on this for a year and are stoked to talk about it. Jorge and I wanted to write THE CAT PROPHECIES: CLAW QUEST and show all the beautiful things about Colombia, and we're very fortunate Labryrinth Road wanted to publish it. We can't wait for everyone to meet Tito and the gang.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

🚨! My friend found this caveat in an ER consent form she was pressured to sign before reading (see alt text for the highlighted sentence of concern). EVERYONE needs to speak up on this—a president’s executive order could stop an ER from necessary treatment?? @aclu.org

"I understand that the hospital may be required, depending on actions taken to implement the President's Executive Orders, to cease offering certain care procedures or medications, and that such cessation could happen at any time and without any advance notice."

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

If, like me, you are a mother who took tylenol at some point during pregnancy and have a child with neurodivergency, please remember during any fake science announcements today that fake science doesn’t become more real just when it’s directed at our most vulnerable pressure points. 💙

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Tomorrow RFK Jr and Trump plan to announce their “big news” about autism. Nothing they do is rooted in science, disability awareness or common decency. Remember to protect your digital space. Safeguard your spoons. Check on one another. Lean into the community for support

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Spoon Saving Social Media Tips and How to Resist Online

The current political landscape is having a devastating impact on the health of those within the disability community. A look at how we can save spoons and leverage our unique powers to resist.

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

This GF apple cake is here to remind you that tonight through Wed is Rosh Hashanah, & next Wed evening through Thurs is Yom Kippur. For many Jewish people, these are the most sacred holidays of the year. Please don’t schedule meetings w/ Jewish colleagues or expect email replies on these days!

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Esme Symes-Smith @esmesymessmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

If I were to host a watchalong of A KNIGHT'S TALE with a no-holds-barred Sir Callie Q&A in October would anyone be interested?

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a man with blonde hair wearing a knight 's armor smiles for the camera

ALT: a man with blonde hair wearing a knight 's armor smiles for the camera

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

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Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way

The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

There are a lot of articles this week about the middle grade category. I have so many thoughts on this topic, as both a longtime editor of some mainstay middle-grade series, and a parent of a 12-year-old.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 01/09/2025

If you’ve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, you’ve seen the former are more likely to die.

Figures showing deaths from smallpox and polio and cases of measles before and after vaccines were introduced for each respective disease. All three figures show declining rates after vaccine introduction

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

This is a five-alarm fire, except the fire is our government and what’s burning is our collective safety and wellbeing

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/08/2025

On the same day the FDA restricted access to COVID vaccines, the CDC director was sacked and top CDC scientists are resigning. And it’s barely been two weeks since an antivax conspiracy theorist fired 180 bullets at CDC headquarters. None of this is making America healthier. What a disaster.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I guess I'm not surprised, but this fucking sucks and is fucking horrible, so call your reps, clang the pots and pans, make noise.

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Is it me or are similes reproducing in manuscripts lately like gremlins doused in water? (😉) I am finding myself slashing more of them than ever & distracted by them in submissions. Authors: be judicious w/ similes. Make them count, & trust your descriptions to do the work the rest of the time!

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Emma / Miss Print @msprint.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Taking a page from @runwithskizzers.bsky.social and reminding you that you can do anything you’d normally do while wearing a mask to protect yourself and others. (#SaturdayLibrarian here and visiting my extremely immunocompromised mom at the rehab center.)

Picture of my in a black and pink ensemble in my lobby with a matching pink N95 mask.

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Because editing yourself TEACHES YOU HOW TO EDIT. And also write! When you have to take out all the "justs" and "reallys" yourself, you're aware of not putting them in there the next time you write. This is the whole process. This is the whole point of the practice of writing.

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Brooklyn!! Come see @itsladarrion.bsky.social at Taylor & Co. Books next Friday night!!

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

NYT recommends @shauniedarko.bsky.social’s creepy mystery with themes of anti-bullying & identity, SCHOOL FOR INVISIBLE BOYS, for kids going into middle school! “Haunting and heartfelt.” This one was also a NYPL Best Book of the Year and a Bank Street Best Book. 💙

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

It would be a very good time to start masking unless you’re ok with small children dying for your convenience.

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Beautiful day to sit by the water and devour the ARC of this wonderful read from a debut author, which also happens to be @emilyshapiro24.bsky.social’s first solo acquisition for Labyrinth Road!

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

And Labyrinth Road has *two* books on the NYT list this week, as Dragon’s Apprentice stays on the middle grade paperback list for a 4th month straight!! Never gets old to see the name of the street from my painful childhood immortalized next to books that can help other kids escape hard times!

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Publishing has so many painful moments— time to celebrate a happy one!! 🎉

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

ICYMI! This is a thrilling reunion for me and Brandon, and exciting news for all fans of epic fantasy. 💙

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Five years after I packed up 20 boxes of books when I left my old job, I am finally unpacking & loving the reminders of all I published at Simon Pulse. Eternally proud to have worked with Christa Desir on these stories that challenged stereotypes and saved lives.

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Happy #BookBirthday @itsladarrion.bsky.social! So thrilled for readers to see how Malik’s story deepens in this second book, & all the crucial themes woven into an action-packed story of magic & resilience. This is a book to inspire the kind of conversations we should all be having. 💙

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I’m going to reiterate this, and add to follow the accounts of Andrea’s wife, poet Megan Falley. I am floored daily by the wisdom and human truth pouring freely from Megan—about grief, love, & the Why of everything. It’s kind of the only thing making any sense to me right now.

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