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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I can’t think of anyone who wouldn’t appreciate a little Krampus craft!

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Maybe the first scene of Toy Story 9: The Reckoning. Cue ominous soundtrack...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Hi my name is Scamly Emailtwat. I'm reaching out to you about your book to tell you why it's unique using a composite of comments already made online about it. I am definitely real & not a tumble dryer and have not already emailed this to 65 million other authors today. I AM LONELY PLEASE LOVE ME."

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Somehow this seems especially cold.

Toy Story toys poking out of a trash bag. Jessie is putting on a brave face.

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Kate Halena @katehalena.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Keep writing. You didn’t create all these fictional people and ruin their lives just to abandon them halfway through.

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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just sayin’

Illustration of a mouse sitting on a stack of books. Text: Reading is resistance.

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For fans of brainy, sly comics...Also pink fluffy mammoths.

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

👻Spooky books + 🍬candy = the perfect Halloween pairing! Free shipping today and tomorrow from Bookshop.org: bookshop.org/beta-search?.... #kidlit #MGlit @simonkids.bsky.social

Spooky Books for Kids graphic featuring The Polter-Ghost Problem and Mind over Monsters

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If I let my mind wander at all, I’d wind up at the airport.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.

A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That definitely counts as acting excited! Thanks, Cindy!

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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 · 29/09/2026

They bring up some thought-provoking questions!

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Great! DM the address and I’ll send it along!

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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 · 25/09/2026

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’d never heard of Gallery Twist, and now I need to go there!

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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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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I wrote three middle-grade books in this category! Check them out! (Library humor)

Covers of three books: Double the Danger and Zero Zucchini, Welcome to Dweeb Club, and The Polter-Ghost Problem

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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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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thanks! Looking forward to your heist caper!

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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 · 09/09/2026

The one place you’d actually love to work on site!

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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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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Many details here seem off (including those hourly rates). Other articles on the site present as recent developments things that happened years ago.

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In case your YA includes 14-year-olds 🤞, The Boy from Elsewhere (McElderry/S&S) is out 4/13/27. A human misfit, a fae bounty hunter, and an unecessary number of clam puns…

Book cover featuring a girl, a boy, and a swirl of black feathers

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A couple of those items might actually be aliens. Definitely double check!

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

I’m so glad to hear that! Thank you!

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Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Always G! Those two are going to sit there chatting quietly and reading their hardcover books. The rest are pure chaos.

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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 · 19/07/2026

All this time I thought he stepped on a Pop Tart

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