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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Me, during a 4.9 earthquake apparently.

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Not gonna lie I'm starting to think the grim reaper might be MAGA.

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Men: Women shouldn't vote because they're too weak and frightened to see the harsh realities of the world. My husband: Why are we watching this documentary about a guy who beheaded his mom? Me: LOOK I NEED SELF CARE AND SOMETHING CALMING BEFORE THE BEDTIMES

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

This peace on earth tastes funny

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

This is 47 (yes I'm a Winter Solstice baby) 🤓

White woman at the beach looking pretty good for her age actually

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Gift idea for your author friends! #authorcommunity #giftideas I bedazzled my critique partners ARC for some bookshelf bling! I'M GONNA GET YOU BACK is an amazing angsty YA romance coming your way on 5/19/26

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Do I have a crush on Olivia Benson or do I have a crush on relentless competence? Por qué no los dos?

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Please tell me someone gets this reference 🤣🤣 #halloween

The champagne from Belly and Jeremiah's wedding but it's a costume

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

A haunted house but it's all adults who are annoyed that your YA book feels like it's written for teenagers.

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Colleen is such a champion in the book community- please help if you can!!

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

In good news (which I know I need these days), my book Drew Leclair Gets a Clue (which has been challenged in four states, and had been pulled from shelves in one county in Florida) seems to have been restored to shelves! Not sure if it's been relocated to YA but I'll take the win 🎉

Cover for Drew Leclair Gets a Clue (white girl cartoon style holding a magnifying glass)

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

To be clear, my expectations are "people who have means should be willing to get fired over fascism." Jimmy Fallon already has millions. He has a late-night career far longer than the average lifetime career of most pro athletes. He could walk away now and be FINE.

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Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic @grubreport.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Thanks to @katrynwrites.bsky.social and her podcast WRITE WHERE IT HURTS, I am now getting serotonin bursts from Amy Poehler's new podcast A GOOD HANG which is already a great thing alone but it took me to this opening of the first episode.

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Elio is brilliant and it's hard not to assume that Disney so spectacularly shit the bed on marketing because of its themes of inclusion and acceptance.

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Take note, querying authors! I was 250 rejections and several books in the hole when I did DVPit and it changed my life 🥰

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Middle Grade Coast-to-Coast @mgcoast2coast.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Looking for books to foster #mentalhealthawarenessmonth conversations? Check out WE ARE NOT ALONE by @katrynwrites.bsky.social in this hopeful story about a recent cancer survivor finding new friends and moving on from grief. #mentalhealth #middlegrade #mglit #kidlit #EduSky #TLSky

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Taking a short break in my 100 days to share because this is important. Not only is Colleen a great person, she's also been uplifting #kidlit throughout dealing with cancer and she's a gem in this community. www.gofundme.com/f/colleen-ca...

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Donate to Colleen Cadiz’s Cancer Journey, organized by Melody Ross

This Go Fund Me has been created for the Cadiz Family, whose wife, Colleen, has been battl… Melody Ross needs your support for Colleen Cadiz’s Cancer Journey

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Hi, all! Realizing that I'm spending problem amounts of time online and overwhelmed when I could be writing/calling my reps and responding to local issues. For the next 100 days, I'm gonna be offline and focused on that work. Bye for a bit! 👋🏻 #writingcommunity #resist #author

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Hi, #booksky ! I'm trying to make a big push to get my org to commit to buying more books by marginalized authors, even for the non-culture-specific book giveaways like Summer Reading. Drop your book (last 5 years) in picture book, CB, MG, YA (fiction, but especially nonfiction! Give me your joy!

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

So thrilled to see that Drew Leclair Gets a Clue was chosen by a Michigan middle schooler as Canton Public Library's best books! It makes me so happy to see that kids are still discovering this book after three years 🥹 #middlegrade #middlegradebooks #kidsbooks #mglit

Canton Public Library's "kids pick best books" form. 11 year old says that their pick, DREW LECLAIR GETS A CLUE (cover pictured) is their favorite because of the twists in the mystery, the queer rep, and it being a good book in general"

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I'm so glad I've been saving for 15 years for a trip outside the country and that I'm leaving in a month, when airline safety is a total shitshow. This... tracks, honestly 🫠🥴

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 14/02/2025

This. Ana on the Edge has been challenged or banned in more US states, counties, school districts, and libraries than I can even keep track of. My sales don’t rise because of them, they stagnate. And fewer trans and nonbinary kids get to see themselves in stories as a direct result.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Hey disabled writers on Bluesky! Reply to this post with either: 1. The publication you're proudest of, something that's cool about it, and a link to read it. ~OR~ 2. Something you love writing about. Can be the minutia of motorcycle repair, or as simple as "Dragons."

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I know I'm not doing the Lord's work but spite is fuel, right?

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I admit, I was prepared for heartbreak and ups and downs but not the weight of disappointment on my chest as I wade through this industry. #MGlit #authors #publishing

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

America just basically told everyone with disabilities to eff off, but what else is new, I guess? 😖

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

My senator's form rejection of my thoughts on the issues is... Something #california

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Hey California peeps! Schiff's voicemail is full but Padilla's is open! Keep calling to support Democrats holding the floor to oppose RFK. Just left my voicemail and moving on to email!

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Ally Ally Oxenfree @allymalinenko.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

HERE IT IS! BROKEN DOLLS COMING SEPTEMBER 2025 That quote had me in literal tears. Share and you're in the drawing for copies of all three books.

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Write Where It Hurts is back for 2025! *Write Where It Hurts is a podcast dedicated entirely to the mental health and emotional issues that come up surrounding this business we call publishing! open.spotify.com/episode/2cbZ...

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

So is TikTok gone again? I had to get a new phone and it's undownloadable despite all the "benevolent General Krull" messages about Trump they posted last month...

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Me: How am I supposed to live a normal life now that I've finished my revision?? What do I do with my time?? 😵‍💫 My husband: I don't know, maybe write a newsletter or update your web- Me: MAYBE I WRITE ANOTHER BOOK! #author #writingcommunity #kidlit

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Ellen Oh @ellenoh.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I'm so disappointed in the Democrats. They talk so much but do so little. They go to the treasury and let themselves be politely turned away. Meanwhile when martial law is illegally declared in South Korea ...

Woman politician grabs rifle from soldier

South Korean politician climbs over blockade wall

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Hi, all! Write Where It Hurts podcast is coming back Monday for 2025! We're recording soon and, boy, we have a LOT of feels after the shitshow that was January. What are YOUR big publishing feels these days? #authorcommunity #writingcommunity #writewhereithurts www.instagram.com/p/DFyFNC1SGy...

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Confession time: Book bans have killed my creative energy in the kidlit space. I haven't had an idea come alive for nearly two years because of it and I'm not sure when I'll write another MG book Not a great badge of honor TBH 🫤

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Proud to be a member- have you joined yet, authors? 🤓

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

AABB stands with our trans members, friends, colleagues, heroes, and the countless trans Americans who will be affected by this needlessly cruel Executive Order from the Trump Administration. We are proud to do so alongside so many of our comrades in the fight against book bans.

Statement on the Trump administration's january 20,2025 EO Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary and Gender Non Conforming Americans

On January 20, the White House issued an executive order stating that
the United States government will only recognize two sexes, male and
female, as defined “at conception.” The ripple effect of this order will
undoubtedly affect public schools, public libraries, and the literature
that is shelved in both.
Among the many harms it causes, the order targeting transgender,
intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming Americans threatens
unconstitutional censorship that could have a grave impact on literature
for years to come. In dismissing trans, intersex, and nonbinary identities,
the order blacklists LGBTQIA+ literature and invites the government to
dictate the perspectives, beliefs, and identities that can exist in public
forums receiving federal funding, amounting to financial coercion
through the arbitrary withholding of funds. This censorship may begin
with LGBTQIA+ perspectives, but it will not end there: allowing the
government to censor one group erodes the First Amendment rights of
all Americans, creating a precedent for silencing dissenting voices.

If allowed to stand, the order will create new funding requirements
imposed not only on federal entities, but private citizens and
institutions who contract with them. Those requirements can and will be
manipulated to dictate speech. The broader chilling effect on literature
could be even harder to undo. Writers rely on funding from sources like
the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for
the Humanities, as well as the state-level institutions they fund.
Trans, nonbinary, and intersex experience is vastly underrepresented in
literature but disproportionately targeted by bans. During the 2022-2023
school year, 30% of books banned included LGBTQIA+ characters or
themes. Such censorship robs us of perspectives that enrich the
American story. Though the executive order in question tries to paint
LGBTQIA+ people and allies as bullies enforcing their perspective on

others through “legal and other socially coercive means,” that’s exactly
what the order itself does, just as book-banning pressure groups have
done since 2020 in school boards and libraries around the country. The
fate of trans, intersex, and nonbinary people is not a political ideology,
it’s a matter of human rights, civil rights, and freedom of expression.
Government erosion of those rights should concern all Americans,
regardless of their investment in LGBTQIA+ literature specifically.

This executive order is censorship, pure and simple, and it has no place
in a free society. It must be rescinded or stayed as soon as possible, and
at the latest, before the earliest implementation deadline, February 19,
2025. Financially blacklisting trans, intersex, and non-binary
perspectives will rob us of a vital literature yet to be written while
insulting the dignity of LGBTQIA+ people everywhere. This return to
McCarthyism by other means is a leap backwards to a grim chapter of
American history.
Sincerely, the undersigned,
• American Booksellers
Association
• American Booksellers for Free
Expression
• Andrews McMeel
• Annie's Foundation
• Audio Publishers Association
• Authors Against Book Bans
• Berry Powell Press
• Cardinal Rule Press
• Charlesbridge Publishing
• Chestnut Publishing House
• Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
• Deborah Sloan and Company
and Kidsbuzz
• Developmental Texts
• Empowering Latino Futures
• EveryLibrary
• Firewater Media Group
• Florida Freedom to Read Project
• Foreword Reviews

• Freedom to Read Project
• Gryphon Publishing Consulting,
LLC
• Independent Book Publishers
Association (IBPA)
• IngramSpark
• Judging by the Cover: A
Bookstore
• Lafayette Citizens Against
Censorship
• Lambda Literary
• Latino 247 Media Group
• Lee Wind, author
• Levine Querido
• Library Futures
• Livingston Parish Library
Alliance
• Louisiana Citizens Against
Censorship
• Macmillan Children's Publishing
Group
• The National Book Critics Circle
• National Coalition Against
Censorship

• NorthSouth Books
• Nosy Crow
• Patagonia
• Publishers and Writers of San
Diego and Orange County
• PEN America
• PFLAG Fresno
• PubWest
• Rattling Good Yarns Press
• Read Freely Alabama
• Red Comet Press LLC

• Rutherford County Library
Alliance
• Sara Paretsky, Writer
• SCBWI
• SEAT
• SparkPoint Studio
• St Tammany Library Alliance
• Stone Bridge Press
• Texas Freedom to Read Project
• Walker Books Group for
Candlewick Press, Holiday House
Books, and Peachtree Publishing
• We Need Diverse Books

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Kwame Mbalia @kwamembalia.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

New animated cover just in time for @barnesandnoble.com preorder sale. Use PREORDER25 as a discount code for a 25% discount. @erinentrada.bsky.social

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Where are my mystery writing/reading friends? If you write or read in the vein of @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social @ellecosimano.bsky.social @mpmthewriter.bsky.social @theallycarter.bsky.social Jesse Q Sutanto & Elise Bryant, what feeds are you following? I need more of these books in my life

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Happy World Read Aloud Day! Today, I'm reading from We Are Not Alone (best for grades 5-8) Comment below if you'd like a 5- read aloud passage and I'll send you a link! #teachsky #WRAD #reading

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Okay, deep breath, I uninstalled Threads and switched my bio to updates only. This wasn't a 'meta' decision (though I hate that tool work every fiber of my being), but an algorithmic decision. I didn't like what it took to have a relevant voice, or what it did to my brain when posts did take off.

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a cartoon of a horse standing at a podium with the words seriously hold your applause below him

ALT: a cartoon of a horse standing at a podium with the words seriously hold your applause below him

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Katryn Bury @katrynwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is so specific, but my sister was in such a devastated book hole after Onyx Storm that she harassed me into revising my romantic myself for her to recover and... Can Rebecca Yarros write a new book every time I need a personal trainer to help me hit a deadline? Because this WORKS. #revising

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Kathryn Holmes @kathrynholmes.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

We made it through January by the skin of our teeth! Here are a few things I enjoyed this month (featuring books by @janaemarksbooks.bsky.social and @katrynwrites.bsky.social, some NYC attractions, and an outstanding key lime cheesecake): kathrynholmes.substack.com/p/the-roundu...

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The Roundup: January 2025

Wow, so January felt like a whole year, huh.

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