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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 3h

Much sympathy and good wishes for the extraction!

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Harold Underdown @hunderdown.bsky.social · 21h

I'm excited, if a bit late, to announce my workshop, "Publishing Trends, Market Shifts, and Opportunities," coming up October 27 and 29 via Boyds Mills. $59. There will be handouts and a recording. Details and registration here: boydsmills.org/workshop/pub...

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Publishing Trends, Market Shifts, and Opportunities - Boyds Mills

Learn more about publishing trends in children's literature by veteran editor Harold Underdown, from market shifts, to new opportunities!

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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 19h

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

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Katie Kennedy @katiewritesbks.bsky.social · 17h

It's the right time to pick up a copy of DID YOU HEAR WHAT HAPPENED IN SALEM? #Halloween

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Josh @joshadams47.bsky.social · 21h

None of my neighbors have terrorized our state by killing, detaining, deporting, surveilling, withholding benefits Minnesotans have a right to, or caused untold mental trauma through their actions. But he has. And he needs to keep Minnesotans, by all of our names, out of his goddamn mouth.

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Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is one of the saddest things I've ever seen on social media.

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This morning I looked up one of the other companies in Hachette's building & learned about London's "Magic Circle" law firms: "A&O Shearman, Clifford Chance, Freshfields, Linklaters, and Slaughter and May." Don't those sound like a fantasy novel waiting to happen? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_C...

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Magic Circle (law firms) - Wikipedia

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You would think! But people with the experience we want would all have started during the pandemic, & there wasn’t a lot of hiring then, and those that were are locked in where they are. Sigh.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time"

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Go to www.hachettebookgroup.com/about/careers/ and apply for "Senior Designer, Workman Running Press Group, Children's"!

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Careers

Discover your dream job.

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No, sorry. This is a senior designer role and you've got to come in knowing how to put together a full book to current publisher standards.

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Holy Jesus God, if you have 4+ years experience as a professional full-time book designer (preferably in children's) and want full-time work, get in touch! We're trying to hire someone!

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's Banned Books Week. My fellow librarians, listen carefully: your book displays should be almost exclusively writers who are alive. Yes, I know classic literature is also being banned, but most of those authors are dead. They aren't suffering financially from bans and challenges.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?

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The Author Village @theauthorvillage.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"THE VICIOUS CYCLE is Kyle Lukoff's BEST Book EVER!" Congratulations to @kylelukoff.bsky.social on the release of his new picture book, THE VICIOUS CYCLE (illustrated by Priscilla Tey). Happy book birthday and welcome to the world! theauthorvillage.substack.com/p/the-viciou...

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THE VICIOUS CYCLE is Kyle Lukoff's BEST Picture Book Ever!

A New Instant Classic Picture Book is Here

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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 06/10/2026

Come work with me!!! BOOM! is hiring a full-time comic editor to the team! This role doesn’t report to me so I won’t be heavily involved in the hiring process, but our whole team is amazing and you’ll get to work with all of us! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

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Editor, BOOM! Studios Open to Remote (Open to Remote) at Penguin Random House — New York, NY | LinkedIn Jobs

Apply for Editor, BOOM! Studios Open to Remote (Open to Remote) at Penguin Random House in New York, NY. Full-time Mid-Senior level role. See responsibilities, qualifications, and similar jobs on Link...

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Also pretty racist, as it happens!

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 05/10/2026

Nappy is a site offering free stock photos of Black and brown people. (The site says they’re going offline in a few months due to a falloff in demand bc of AI. Maybe Internet Archive can do their thing here?) [nappy.co]

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Nappy | Beautifully Diverse Stock Photos

Beautiful photos of Black and Brown people, for free. For commercial and personal use.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This enrages me so deeply I don't know what to say. Being able to control your body is *the* most basic freedom, one which is necessary for the exercise of all other freedoms possible in a liberal democratic society

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026

All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison

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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

People like to ask "what would your life be like if genAI disappeared?" and I find the answer "the exact same as it is now" to be silly. No it would not be the same! I would get back the time that I currently use complaining about and arguing against that particular brand of determined stupidity.

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Totally agree. If she said “Hey, a life thing happened, I can’t do the tour” — understandable, it happens, we’ll reschedule (maybe). It’s the smug, flippant, aren’t-I-special tone about her email that grates more than anything else.

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Found this book I edited in 2013 in a neighborhood Little Free Library this morning. It’s a truly thrilling nonfiction spy story with a great cover & photo placement (if I do say so myself). Glad to see it so well-loved, and that new readers can find it now.

The cover of THE NAZI HUNTERS by Neal Bascomb, about the search for Adolf Eichmann, featuring a large silver dagger over a red and black picture of Eichmann and his fellow Nazis.

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also, the publisher budgeted time (energy) & money for this tour — two limited resources that can’t just be reallocated to other books at this late stage. If she’d announced this 6 or even 3 months ago, other authors could benefit from the decision. At this point, she just screws everyone.

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

this woman’s public persona and book claim to combat, which is why I followed her. I am SO annoyed and disappointed by her statement and actions, and on behalf of her pub team, that I probably won’t buy the book. Bah!

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the tour IN YOUR PUB MONTH because you “aren’t feeling it” & want to “do things differently” isn’t admirable & boundary-breaking. Pending a major illness or life event (which, sure, could be happening here): it’s actually HUGELY SELFISH & ENTITLED behavior—exactly the kind of inconsiderateness >

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

publicists, booksellers, sales reps, even readers (as tickets had been sold to her events), and the hopes of dozens of people — from her agent, editor & publisher through bookstore owners — for the revenue & publicity that would make the book a quick bestseller & a long-term success. To cancel >

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I just got an email from an adult nonfiction author I follow who announced she’s decided to cancel her book tour this month because she wants to trust herself and let things be easy … and I am SO, SO MAD AT HER. Like, lady, WTF? That tour represents already hundreds of hours of work by >

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

mistakes were made

california post headline: california squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition

photo depicts a squirrel in mid-flight from a tree branch, apparently about to attack an owl who has the most "are you fucking KIDDING me" look in history

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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"On October 3rd, he asked me what day it was." In honor of the day, I bring you a Jane Austen × Mean Girls (2004) mashup. It is not Wednesday, so I am not wearing pink. But my hair is at least tidy, which was all my ambition. Get in, losers.

Mrs. Bennet yapping at the Netherfield Ball

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have lived in NYC for 26 years & I did not know we have grants for artists!

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We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🚨 Applications for WNDB’s Walter Dean Myers Grants are officially open! 💻 bit.ly/2026WalterGrants 📅 Applications close at 11:59 PM on October 31st, 2026

Red graphic titled “Walter Grants: Applications Now Open”. A subtitle beneath that says, “$2000 grant opportunity for diverse, unpublished writers and illustrators.” In the lower left hand corner is an illustration of a writer sitting at a table and typing on their laptop. In the lower right hand corner is a light blue starburst that says, “Accepting Applications Through October 31st”.

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy birthday! I enjoy your posts every day.

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, in the middle of my physical, my PCP pulled out his phone and asked Claude a question. He then asked it to rephrase the scientific answer for me as a laywoman/patient—and THEN told Claude it was wrong! I was flabbergasted by the whole thing.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

83 today! You’re welcome, New York.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

shirley jackson you tell em www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

ar and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise
—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. Moreover, a reader has an advantage over a beginning writer in not being a beginning reader; before he takes up a story to read it, he can be presumed to have read everything from Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac. No matter whether he reads a story in manuscript as a great personal favor, or opens a magazine, or—kindest of all—goes into a bookstore and pays good money for a book, he is still an enemy to be defeated with any kind of dirty fighting that comes to the writer's mind.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/10/2026

it’s become so normal for people to disclose their rapes to appeal to people’s humanity around rape cases that we don’t think about how disgusting the need to do that is put the worst moment of your life out for public consumption, so that half the comments can call you a liar.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Sounds great.

According to experts I interviewed, the internet is about to get more frustrating. These agents may cause a cascading chain of problems that shake the foundations of digital infrastructure. Chances are good that you're about to live through an era of online chaos.
The internet was built for humans with limited time and patience. AIs don't have those restraints. You'll probably have to fight with robots over concert tickets and booking appointments. Small businesses could drown in machine-made pestering. AIs don't look at ads, and websites that rely on them are already crumbling. You'll be buried in endless loops of proving you're human. And if you use these AI tools, some may betray you.

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The answer: 81! And despite liking the candidates, I deleted nearly all of them unread!

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s a children’s book, but if you never read NUMBER THE STARS by Lois Lowry, it’s a lovely & powerful novel about the Danish Resistance during WWII. The Danish Resistance Museum there is great too.

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have updated my allocation at least twice now, with clear documentation, and it’s STILL wrong in the system. Not looking forward to having to call the hotline.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a great thread of Remembering Some Guys.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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