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BookBreak @bookbreak4schools.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Happy book birthday to: Black Point by @jacquelinewest.bsky.social We can’t wait to read it! Thank you for being part of BookBreak!

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#BlackPoint by @jacquelinewest.bsky.social was featured in Thursday's #newbooks haul! Full Video: youtu.be/fFxHJ8oXfh8 Buy all the Books: bookshop.org/lists/n... #booksky #atheneumbooks @simonandschuster.bsky.social

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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?

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Cindy Schwind @cindyschwind1.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Loved this page turner by @jacquelinewest.bsky.social Small town, abandoned hotel…secrets come to the surface when a new family arrives to restore the hotel but they are not welcomed into the community…Our next #bookposse reader is @teachlovesbooks.bsky.social @simonteen.bsky.social

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It’s going to be relatively warm in Minnesota next week. I suggest Schumer and Jeffries come here. Do a shift or two at a school. Do oversight at the Whipple. Spend some time with a few of the thousands of Minnesotans who’ve been protecting their neighbors for months. Don’t squander this.

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Cindy Schwind @cindyschwind1.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

It has arrived!! ❤️🖤The upcoming YA horror from author @jacquelinewest.bsky.social Small town secrets, a haunted hotel, insiders & outsiders, climate change… #bookposse has a wait list for this one! Publishes 7/26! @simonkids.bsky.social @simonbooks.bsky.social

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Jacqueline West @jacquelinewest.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I have news. 🖤 BLACK POINT, coming summer 2026. YA horror. Folklore and climate change and insiders vs. outsiders and a hotel full of ghosts. Can't wait to share it with all of you.

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Jacqueline West @jacquelinewest.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

This creepy and magical book is out in the world TODAY, and I'm excited for every reader who finds it. 🖤

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Ally Ally Oxenfree @allymalinenko.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

While the King quote on the front is amazing, the back ones also make me cry happy tears! Thanks @chuckwendig.bsky.social Daka Hermon @jacquelinewest.bsky.social @shakirahwrites.bsky.social @lorienlawrence.bsky.social

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Our statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling in Mahmoud v Taylor. Image thread with alt text. 1/4

Today's Supreme Court decision, though couched in the language of freedom and inclusivity, is a tragic failure for both the right to read and the rights of LGBTQIA+ people. Authors Against Book Bans stands firmly and fiercely against the decision and its rationale. To allow parents to "object" to the presence of positive books about the lives and rights of LGBTQIA+ people is to allow them to "object" to the existence of LGBTQIA+ students, parents, educators, and others in the wider community. You cannot “opt out” of reality, no matter what today’s majority opinion states. These books belong on shelves and these stories belong in classrooms and curricula.

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Supremes say parents can opt out of letting their kids listen to LGBTQ stories. Can parents similarly opt out of kids listening to stories that DON'T have LGBTQ themes or incidents? 🤣

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Dear friends, tonight we're raising money for @wck.org--through poetry! We're streaming live from 8-10 PM Eastern on my twitch channel: twitch.tv/csecooney. You don't need an account to watch, just if you wanna join the chat! Read all about our illustrious poets here: csecooney.com/2025/06/11/p...

Poster for Poets for World Central Kitchen. The background is black, framed with the faces of 22 poets. The text reads: Poets for World Central Kitchen. Friday, June 27th. 8 PM - 10 PM Eastern. Streaming live on twitch.tv/csecooney. Donate at: https://donate.wck.org/poetsforwck

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Jacqueline West @jacquelinewest.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Fifteen years ago today, I became a published author. It feels impossible -- both that it's been so long, and that it happened at all. Fifteen years, and somehow, The Shadows is still finding its way to readers. Happy birthday, little book. 🖤 #mglit #thebooksofelsewhere #middlegrade

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I do not understand telling creatives to "shut up about politics." One, this is life in this world. You can acknowledge being part of it, or you can pretend you're immune until you find out you're wrong. Two, there are plenty of creatives doing the latter. If you don't like us, follow them 🤷‍♀️

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

A thought for the book clubs! Set aside a little time at the start of meetings to fight for the right to read. Members send emails, sign petitions, write postcards. Research local candidates. 10-15 minutes tops & then onto the book, wine, fun. Amplify your activism. Celebrate your community.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I’m going to write this novel and the next one and the one after and I have no clue if my agent will like them or be able to sell them or how much they’ll sell for or to whom or how well they’ll perform, but none of that matters because the only thing I can control is the work I put in. Let’s write.

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SpookyMiddleGrade @spookymiddlegrade.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

"Are you sure you want to go camping?" Spooky books for camping! (Disclaimer: All of these books actually exist and were compiled by a real person) spookymiddlegrade.com/2025/05/27/a...

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Are You SURE You Want to Go Camping? 5 Scary Stories for Young Campers

Here are some stories that will give you chills on summer nights.

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Jacqueline West @jacquelinewest.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I am one of the 1,350 individuals and organizations who signed the open letter to HarperCollins in support of IMLS, libraries, and library workers across the United States. #libraries #librarians #library #books #amreading (Thanks to @michaelleali.bsky.social for the leadership.)

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Jacqueline West @jacquelinewest.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Apparently the ebook of my YA horror novel LAST THINGS is on sale for $0.99 right now via Bookshop.org (and other places, but you could just ignore those and get it here) bookshop.org/p/books/last...

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Last Things

Check out Last Things - "Everything I love in a book."—Victoria Schwab, author of #1 New York Times bestseller This Savage Song<stro...

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Sara Tantlinger @saratantlinger.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Firmly in the "I keep forgetting I have a book coming out this year" state of mind, but my debut collection of weird nature & cosmic horror will be here in October! Digital ARCs coming soon. Publicity info attached in graphic for those interested✨ Pre-orders: darkmattermagazine.shop/products/cya...

Info graphic with press release for Cyanide Constellations and Other Stories by Sara Tantlinger. Publicity requests at publicity@darkmattermedia.group and wholesale info at wholesale@darkmattermedia.group

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Jacqueline West @jacquelinewest.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

As a fellow lifelong Wednesday fan, all I can say is YES YES YES

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Jacqueline West @jacquelinewest.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"In the real world, the world of cause and effect, when we tear down the best among us and provide bogus reasons for why we did it, reality will eventually come for us." Here's hoping. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

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Opinion | George Saunders: Shame on the White House

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 10/05/2025

I think about this comic at least once a week

- I want things to be different
- *smashes everything*
- oh no

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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

My National Book Award-winning novel Last Night at the Telegraph Club was banned statewide in South Carolina because it includes descriptions of "sexual conduct." Why are book banners so scared of sex? I wrote about this in the @scdailygazette.com today. scdailygazette.com/2025/05/08/w...

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An author responds: Why is sex so scary to book banners? • SC Daily Gazette

Commentary from Malinda Lo, the author of one of the books the State Board of Education ruled must be pulled from K-12 library shelves.

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Jacqueline West @jacquelinewest.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Know what’s great about pre-ordering books (besides supporting writers and booksellers, obvs)? If you’re like me, by the time the book arrives, you’ll have forgotten that you ordered it, so it’s like getting a delightful surprise gift from a past version of yourself @novarensuma.bsky.social 🖤

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Jacqueline West @jacquelinewest.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

"It is not reasonable to expect public school teachers to be complicit in hiding the existence of an entire group of people. And there is no way for a school to make LGBTQ+ students and families invisible without doing tremendous harm to all their students." macleans.ca/society/how-...

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How My LGBTQ Kids’ Book Ended Up at the U.S. Supreme Court - Macleans.ca

My book Pride Puppy is about love and inclusion. Watching its message get twisted by hate and misinformation has been devastating.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The Institute for Museum and Library Services had a whole 266.7 million dollar budget.... I cannot believe I had to pay taxes for this.

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Darcy Marks @darcymarks.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

There's still time to enter this Halfway to Halloween MG book giveaway over on Instagram! 🎃 www.instagram.com/p/DIyg8cqRRq...

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James Kennedy @iamjameskennedy.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

After a 6-year hiatus, the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival returned to Minneapolis on Saturday! Thanks to @jacquelinewest.bsky.social for being a tremendous co-host, and to all the talented young film filmmakers. Here's to next year!

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

It's only in a broken unhappy nation that you have to think about the president many times a day. On top of everything else, narcissists are just...exhausting

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Jacqueline West @jacquelinewest.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Lord, social anxiety + social media makes for one poisonous cocktail

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Sarah Allen @sarahallen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Arbor Day is tomorrow so LETS DO A GIVEAWAY!!! Let's spread some books and plant some trees!! Enter here: www.facebook.com/sarahthewrit...

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Jacqueline West @jacquelinewest.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Really proud (and lucky) to be a Minnesotan.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

While you're distracted by a SCOTUS case about inclusive books in schools, the new leader at the IMLS is demanding that state librarians share what their grant money is being used for. I told you this would happen, and here it is.

Email sent from IMLS to state librarians reads: "Pursuant to 20 USC § 9134 and your obligations under the Grant Award Guidance and Statement of Assurances and Certifications, please provide IMLS with the following information:

Whether and how federal taxpayer dollars provided to you under the Grants to States program have been used, or are still being used, to subsidize programs that conflict with government policy as found below:
Executive Order 14151, Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing, and
Executive Order 14253, Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History, and
Executive Orders 13899 and 14188, Combating Anti-Semitism and Additional Measures To Combat Anti-Semitism, and
Executive Order 14168, Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, and
Executive Order 14202, Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias, and
Executive Order 14190, Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling, and
How federal taxpayer dollars provided to you under the Grants to States program are being used to facilitate access to resources that cultivate an educated and informed American citizenry, and
How you plan to involve your agencies in the upcoming celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States of America?

Kindly provide this information by Monday, May 5, 2025 to stateprograms@imls.gov with the subject line “Response to IMLS Request for Information.”

IMLS appreciates your dedication to serving the American public."

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SarahWBooks @sarahwbooks.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Visit ordway.org/festival/ for details!

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Ally @allyoutthere.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

MYSTERY JAMES DIGS HER OWN GRAVE pubs in less than 6 months! If you haven't, please sign up for my newsletter. Everyone has a newsletter, but mine is scary. And you can read it while you're enjoying your morning coffee or tea. allyoutthere.beehiiv.com/subscribe #spookymiddlegrade #kidlit

A copy of a book called MYSTERY JAMES DIGS HER OWN GRAVE atop of a pile of fake worms. Cover shows a girl with a shovel in a cemetery with a ghost hovering behind her.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”

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Alder (Ash) Van Otterloo @aldervanotterloo.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Hey babes! If your local classroom, writing/reading club, or homeschool group would love a children's author visit, let's connect!! I do virtual and local (Kitsap County) writing Q&As, readings, and personalized skill-focused mini-workshops on a generous sliding scale. 🖤🏳️‍🌈

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Jacqueline West @jacquelinewest.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

On 4/26, I'll be co-hosting (with the brilliant @iamjameskennedy.bsky.social) the Mpls screening of the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival! Tickets are free! There will lyrics about children's literature set to famous Broadway tunes!! Come join us!!! #kidlit www.ticketleap.events/tickets/90se...

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90-Second Newbery Film Festival 2025 - MINNEAPOLIS SCREENING

The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival is an annual video contest in which young readers create short movies that tell the entire stories of Newbery award-winning books. Creative takes are encouraged: th...

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