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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That really would be a limited edition

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey, #Teachers, #Librarians, #SchoolLibrarians, #BookPosse, ARC sharing groups: The Boy from Elsewhere ARCs are here! 🪶Young teen romantasy 🪶Short and sweet 🪶But also snarky and sarcastic because it's me Let me know if you want an ARC by reposting / acting excited! @simonkids.bsky.social

Box of advance reading copies for The Boy from Elsewhere by Betsy Uhrig. Cover features a boy and a girl amid a mysterious swirl of feathers. Back cover header reads "Even an ordinary girl can be brushed by a feather of magic."

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"He is a LIVE JACK RUSSELL TERRIER. His eyes are fathomless pools of knowledge reflecting all the pathos of great literature." the-toast.net/2015/07/15/t...

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The Pitch Meeting for Wishbone - The Toast

"His eyes are fathomless pools of knowledge reflecting all the pathos of great literature."

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David Autovino @davidautovino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Shel Silverstein somehow clocking AI all the way back in 1981

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

First pages for my upcoming MG The Boy from Elsewhere (April 2027) are in! It's always so exciting to see the book looking like a book! Also to notice all the repeated words that waited until this stage to make themselves known 🙄. #MGlit #kidlit @simonkids.bsky.social

Title page for The Boy from Elsewhere by Betsy Uhrig: black-and-white image of title with swirling feathers and a boy and girl reaching for each other.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking

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The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrusta-tion of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything scary or unpleasant, like snakes or slime, especially in a cheerful household magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself-but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory. And while the pansies-put dry in a vase-would probably last a day, looking like ordinary pansies, be-fore they went greyish-dun and collapsed into magic dust, something like an ivory thimble would begin to smudge and

crumble as soon as you picked it up.) The best way to do it was to have a fairy as a member of your household, because she (it was usually a she) could lay a finger on the kettle just as it came to a boil (absentminded fairies could often be recognised by a pad of scar-tissue on the finger they favoured for kettle-cleaning) and murmur a

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You really have to admire the delicate, painstaking world-building that enabled “Lowell is wiry and strong from years of bookselling.” (From The Bookshop Below by Georgia Summers)

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feral bat @feralhattie.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Writing stories is an excellent way to give the mean voice in your head a job.

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There’s always that one glass at the vacation rental.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 22/08/2026

Who doesn't love a beach read? (Other than the books.) Cartoons by Christopher Weyant, Ellis Rosen and Brendan Loper, and Roz Chast.

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Little Free Library @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

How amazing is this art installation at Leadenhall Market in London?!

Books suspended from the ceiling create a whimsical canopy above a narrow, covered walkway between buildings.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

PD Eastman has already covered this

Aa children's picture book called Flap Your Wings. Two bird parents hatch a crocodile egg and try to teach it to fly.

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Lynda Mullaly Hunt @lyndamh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

An ARC giveaway ! Please comment to enter. Sharing would be appreciated 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Ends 8/18 #mglit #kidlit #Howtobuildamiracle #mgGrit #CapeCod

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My childhood copy is long lost, but this one is the annotated edition, signed!

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Playing an accordion on a boat? Was there nothing she couldn’t do?

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

In six days god created heaven and earth. On the seventh day he rested and his cat walked over his keyboard long story short here we are. #InternationalCatDay

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

write the book you want to read because you will have to read it over and over and over when revising

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Panel 1
Caption: With the windows open in the summer heat, a breeze blows through the punctuation factory, scattering newly-minted marks across the countryside.

Image: a small factory with windows open and punctuation marks coming out

Panel 2
Caption: Confused locals find their conversations peppered with unexpected pauses and unwanted emphasis.

Image: Two people talking as punctuation marks float around them One says

This, is “very odd”

The other replies

…(Indeed)*

Panel 3
Caption: Naturalists note that the effect is not limited to human communication.

Image: A duck on a pond surrounded by punctuation marks says
Qu’ack?

Panel 4
Caption: Fortunately, a cloud of exclamation points drift into a district council meeting which proceeds with unusual efficiency

Image: Councillors talk in a cloud of exclamation points
Something must be done!! !
Close the windows! !!
Install air conditioning! !!
Immediately!!! !

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Los Angeles Public Library unveils the world’s largest pop-up book www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/07/dani...

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dangutmanbooks.bsky.social @dangutmanbooks.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Some illustrators I know post videos of themselves drawing their artwork. It’s fascinating to watch. So I thought you folks might be interested to see how MY creative process works…

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

✨Major Cover Reveal! ✨Feast your eyes on this dazzling cover for The Boy from Elsewhere (coming 4/13/27 from McElderry/S&S)! Art is by Yuta Onoda, designed by Rebecca Syracuse @bookdesignbee.bsky.social. 🐦‍⬛ More at www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Bets.... #kidlit #MGLit #romcom #romantasy #teenlit

A teen girl and boy grasp hands amid a swirl of black feathers and sparkling light.

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

How does this baby bird know my high school balance beam routine?

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Honestly, all books should end this way.

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Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

World’s. best. tags. 🤣 #alaac26

5 tags on a conference badge:

1. Black one with Trek lettering says “Starfleet Academy Librarian”

2, Red one says Maybe Libraries are the real punk rock

3. White one says “get in loser, we’re saving democracy.”

4. Purple one says Heated Library with two hockey sticks around it.

5. Last one is white and says Unite Against Book Bans in rainbow text

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It turns out I've been unknowingly doing Wordle in Hard Mode all along, and I think that might be a metaphor for my life.

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Wordle’s Hard Mode Is Actually Easier, 730 Million Games Show

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Kip Wilson @kipwilsonwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I hear it's Amazon prime day and B&N has their pre-order sale going too, so I'd love it if you would pre-order my anti-fascist middle-grade debut from your local indie or from Bookshop.org, offering free shipping for anti-prime day today! TYSM!!!! bookshop.org/p/books/back...

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Summer reading! Comic by Ryan Pagelow (bunicomic.com)

A hot dog ties ropes to two trees, then is seen reading a book in a hammock made from a hot dog bun.

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I drove by the actual inn from Widow’s Bay and felt like I was gawking at a celebrity!

Large gray house that was filmed for the exterior of the haunted inn in Widow’s Bay.

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I love libraries. If you’ve checked out my books from a library or - even better - asked a library to carry my books, thank you for supporting an institution so vital. Libraries are so important right now. The more activity and support they get, the better.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Famous authors asking you out

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Readers of #BookSky Announcing The Porter Square Review of Books! Starting RIGHT NOW, the PSRB will publish one review, written by a PSB libromancer or a Writer in Residence every week or so...

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Announcing The Porter Square Review of Books

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The editorial letter when your plot has gotten away from you…

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It's PM official! I have a new upper-MG coming in spring of 2027! THE BOY FROM ELSEWHERE is a rom-com-antasy featuring a 14-year-old human girl, a fae boy, lots of clam references, and a Ramones soundtrack. Stay tuned for more... #kidlit #MGlit

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report for Betsy Uhrig's THE BOY FROM ELSEWHERE, a comic fantasy in which a 14-year-old misfit is befriended by a startlingly gorgeous boy who turns out to be a fae bounty hunter in need of her extensive knowledge of her small town, but the changeling he's looking for has no morals and no interest in being found, to Karen Wojtyla at Margaret K. McElderry Books, for publication in spring 2027, by Ammi-Joan Paquette for Aevitas Creative Management.

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

“Doldrums” appeared on an eighth-grade geography word list, and this is why I got it very, very wrong.

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Who knew sentence diagrams could be elegant little pieces of art? (From This Is a Book of Sentence Diagrams by Man Martin)

Diagrammed cow verse from "Old MacDonald" titled "The Other Animals Were Equally Annoying."

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 24/05/2026

Make way for goslings and more goslings and even more goslings Photo by Mary Ellen. www.universalhub.com/2026/make-wa... #Boston #WestRoxbury #geese #honklings

Goose followed by 17 goslings outside old West Roxbury HS

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I have to assume that in the fullness of time, at least once, a mouse has used a mushroom as an umbrella. That’s enough to keep me going.

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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

If you get an email like this, don’t trust it unless you get confirmation from the other VPs, Lawrence Random and Stanley House

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

“The perfect amount of ghost is unclear” pretty much nails my revision angst.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I don’t exactly have scientific data to support this, but I firmly believe that the sound of rain on the roof enhances the reading experience by at least 57%.

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Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I’ve said it many times, but it’s worth repeating: Ramona Quimby is one of the greatest female characters in literature, up there with Emma Bovary.

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The Real Kim Shady @kimmysunshine.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

“You’re still metal” I tell myself as I gingerly hold the handrail

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