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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 · 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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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 · 01/12/2025

Too many of us have a patch (or many patches) in this quilt that represent a deep loss. Here is mine. 💙

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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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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

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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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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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 · 03/08/2025

And I really hope that all the fans of @delilahsdawson.bsky.social & @sarahgailey.bsky.social don’t miss these boundary-smashing reads that tackle the ills of capitalism and magically explode penises, respectively. All with razor-sharp writing at every turn.

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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 · 26/07/2025

From the vault! 25 years ago, the once and future YA editors Liesa, Kieran, and Wendy all hung out in the same book series as writers… 😉

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Happy Pride to Labyrinth Road’s two proudly queer books on the @bankstreetlibrary.bsky.social Best of the Year list! ARIEL CRASHES A TRAIN and SCHOOL FOR INVISIBLE BOYS—which also got an Outstanding Merit added designation!! 🎉🎉🌈

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

My Sunday read is Animal Instinct by @amyshearn.bsky.social and it’s perfection. It’s also making me think how wild it is that we live our lives as if they are ours, and other people are basically living our same lives. Best line so far: “Seamless Rube Goldberg device of horniness”

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Enjoying a cheese-laden bean chili nacho casserole on my sunny porch at lunchtime is my non-traditional shavuot celebration today. I commit to finding & creating joy & Pride where I can. Would love to hear how everyone else is celebrating the holiday and honoring the idea that joy is resistance.

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I was 5 miles from the actual Labyrinth Road—the imprint’s namesake—dealing with a very tough personal situation, when I heard that LR has *our first MG NYT bestseller!* Baltimore is brutal & beautiful & always both at once, so this just makes sense. Huge 🎉 for THE DRAGON’S APPRENTICE!

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

#Baltimore represents. 👊 Check out this B&N bookseller’s shirt (& his mask!) He was very excited to hear about Labyrinth Road being a Baltimore-named imprint, and he told me he is working hard to make that Pikesville store a safe and inclusive place for every reader. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ @itsladarrion.bsky.social

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

For the second time in two years on this same block, I have come to a fork in the road. #Baltimore

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Attention Emma Steinkellner fans! Get ready for another perfectly funny, endearing, relatable MG graphic novel — *Dazed and Confused* but make it MG and sweet & goofy and full of a diverse range of kids figuring out who they are. ❤️

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I’m standing on a cliff’s edge at the moment in my life, figuratively. So I did it literally & found it strangely comforting. (When the outside matches the inside?) Then I got lost on the trail back & the cliff landmark helped me find my way. Sometimes cliffs can also be our north stars, maybe.

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

And super proud that Labyrinth Road author @andrewauseon.bsky.social is out there protesting for our rights to read!

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Spending the morning with my two favorite Maggies after getting a jump on next weekend’s indie bookstore day with these two purchases at Watchung Booksellers @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

What’s the best way to wish an author a happy birthday? Buy their book or request it at your library! Bonus—if you wish @esmesymessmith.bsky.social a happy Bday this way you get a fantastic read! SIR CALLIE books have four 🌟 reviews, an ALA Top Ten Rainbow list title, & two USA today bestsellers!

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This webinar is free to sign up for!! Today at 12:30 EST. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in better understanding Jewish history; Jewish diaspora; & how unconscious antisemitic bias manifests in certain common tropes and traps, particularly in our industry. (Conscious language FTW!)

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Happy Book Birthday to this adventure-packed trilogy conclusion! The third book confronts the baked-in misogyny that demonizes (literally) women who refuse to accept being subjugated. Discover a rich world with intersectional themes that empowers us to refuse to be made the villains in our story!

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Happy Labyrinth Road Book Birthday to this cozy light horror MG mystery from acclaimed author Shaun David Hutchinson! Such a perfect read to curl up with on a snowy night. (And, bonus— the first stand-alone in the series made the ALA Rainbow List yesterday!)

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Yay the 2025 ALA Rainbow List is up!! Huge congrats to Top Ten (!) title Ariel Crashes a Train, and to Blood City Rollers, School for Unusual Monsters, & Alex Wise Vs the End of the World, among so many great books on the list. Labyrinth Road is here for queer publishing, always. 🌈

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Happy to have some good news to share— can we celebrate that @emilyshapiro24.bsky.social has been promoted to associate editor? 🎉 And Emily remains as dedicated as I am to filling Labyrinth Road with inclusive, commercial reads for every kid out there!

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Wrestling once again with the question of how to process horrible truths revealed about someone you loved or admired? These novels by @debcaletti.bsky.social & @coreyannhaydu.bsky.social are beautiful, powerful, cathartic reads revolving around this very theme.

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Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Labyrinth Road’s second full year of publishing! Our 2024 titles include 3 indie next selections; one Amazon best book of the year; one New York Times, Indie National, USA Today & Publishers Weekly bestseller; one National Book award longlist honor; and 8 total “best of the year” list spots!

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