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Mary

@knoxdiver.bsky.social
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Library YA selector. Queen of Unrestrained Book Buying. Candle connoisseur. Fairy book mother. Opinions are my own. she/her

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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
If your "YA" book can be reclassified as adult without adding/changing any material, you had no right to call it YA at any point. YA authors & publishers need to remember their true audience: teenagers. Bring back true YA for actual teen readers.
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I've spent 7 years of my professional life fighting book bans over "inappropriate" material. It feels like a slap in the face for publishers to turn around & say "jk this book was adult all along", meanwhile books for 13-15 year olds are harder & harder to find. WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE???
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I think it's highly disrespectful to teen readers & librarians/teachers fighting book bans when authors & publishers publish "crossover" YA books, then recategorize them to double dip from the adult market.
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Did any other library people notice Macmillan & HarperCollins just hiked up their audiobook prices? Macmillan's almost doubled (from $50ish to $90-100ish), and Harper's are now up to $130. Note: these are YA prices. Adults are always more expensive.
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I'm so sorry to hear about Teegs!
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
To be fair, those cats are definitely your family.
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Danielle (TBQ) @thebookqueen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
😩 And the hits just keep on coming . . . estimate for the roof repair is going to be $375 (insurance won't touch it) and thankfully they can do it next week before another storm hits. Disabled and struggling hard this year, anything helps ❤️ www.paypal.com/paypalme/the... ko-fi.com/danielletbq
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Robert Brookes 🌿 @sphynxian.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
my heart goes out to all the talented creatives at Bungie who struggled under catastrophic mismanagement for years trying to make a good game who will likely be thrown into the worst games job market in history
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Hey all, urgent call for all of you this morning: OPM's trying to change RIF rules to make our federal government more like the private sector more than ever. PLEASE file a comment by May 4th. www.regulations.gov/document/OPM...
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Curious who these publishers are who told SARAH DESSEN to try writing ROMANTASY. That feels so disrespectful to me.
From a publisher's weekly article: and the next two projects were canceled. Meanwhile, the YA book market had changed, Dessen said. Romantasy and fantasy were on the rise and contemporary wasn’t selling. Several publishers turned down her next projects. More than one advisor suggested she try writing a romantasy novel. But it just isn’t who she is as a writer, she said. “Part of having a long career is knowing what you do and focusing on that. You have stay true to yourself, especially when it comes to writing,” she told PW. Dessen never stopped writing novels, she just stopped selling them for several years. “It was really frustrating and demoralizing,” she said.
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
To all my bookish & library people, please sign & share this! Putting an article with more context in the reply.
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
www.keranews.org/news/2026-04...
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Irving Public Library Board advances proposed changes to collections policy, modifies some revisions
The move comes after weeks of back-and-forth over how the current development policy should be changed, if at all.
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
To all my bookish & library people, please sign & share this! Putting an article with more context in the reply.
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
www.change.org/p/reject-pro...
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Sign the Petition
Reject proposed changes to Irving's library policies
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KERA News @keranews.org · 06/04/2026
The potential revisions would remove most mentions of “diversity” and outline certain new standards of acceptance for books and other library materials. kerane.ws/47FYps2
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Irving Public Library Board seeks to alter key policy language, remove most mentions of 'diversity'
The potential revisions would remove most mentions of “diversity” and outline certain new standards of acceptance for books and other library materials.
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I haven't made the switch yet. This sounds so irritating!
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I understand why Swalwell’s district congressional staff may want to stay on in order to help constituents. But there’s no reason for any campaign staff to stay on.
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Does anyone know if Random House shuttered their Underlined paperback imprint? It is very hard to find information because Underlined is also their publicity group's name. This is like Macmillan formerly having an imprint named... Imprint.
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I'm not much of a verse person (although two YA I adore are Thirty Talks Weird Love by Alessandra Narváez Varela and How the Boogeyman Became a Poet by Tony Keith Jr.) so this list will probably be a better help to you popgoesthereader.com/58-middle-gr...
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58 Middle Grade Books In Verse In Celebration Of National Poetry Month – Pop! Goes The Reader
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
one easy and free way to do this is to email the library and thank them for whatever they're doing that you like
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This was my library during my college years, and I am saddened to hear of their board pushing for censorship & discrimination.
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The Stars lost, and I'm on page 162 of a romance novel but the characters haven't even kissed yet. I have spent the afternoon yelling "SCORE ALREADY" at both my tv & my book.
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Shelly Romero @shellyromero.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
PRH having a slew of layoffs just months after S&S did theirs is just so disheartening. It’s hard not to feel jaded. I feel so bad for all my editorial colleagues and for the fact that Dial BYFR has been completely shuttered. We need books. Children need books. And those editors deserved better.
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 19/03/2026
This is sad. I have so many Dial books on my childhood reading shelves www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Layoffs, Moves at Penguin Young Readers as Dial Imprint Shuttered
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of PYR established in 1961, has been closed, resulting in a number of layoffs and moves within the division.
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Camryn Garrett @dancingofpens.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The Third Annual #KidLit4Ceasefire Fundraiser is live! We're raising money for three families in Gaza who are in dire need of aid. I have two signed ARCs of my next book, IN BETWEEN DAYS, available, but there are tons of other goodies! www.32auctions.com/organization...
#KidLit4Ceasefire Third Annual Fundraiser from March 17th to April 2nd. 
Signed ARC of In Between Days by Camryn Garrett. There's my headshot and a cover of the book!
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
That is WILD. I remember a couple years ago when we were joking she wrote that spy movie.
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I'm sorry, what now??
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
FYI to all the authors: the next B&N preorder sale is March 24-27 so GET THOSE GRAPHICS READY. Available for books, ebooks, and audiobooks!
A screenshot from the Barnes & Noble website with information about their upcoming preorder sale. The sale runs from March 24-27, and provides 25% off physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks using code PREORDER25. Only for premium and rewards members.
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This is a super random ask, but if anyone has an ARC of Midnight on the Celestial by Julia Alexandra that they don't mind parting with, I would love to have it. She's my cousin, and that feels a little like family history.
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
AYOOOOO
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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Also, publishing comes in cycles. I think people feel threatened when something is BIG bc it might make it harder for them. But eventually YOUR thing is going to be the BIG thing people are shitting on. Probably won't feel so good then. We all gotta be a little more empathic with each other, is all
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I desperately wish B&N had not put a hard stop on New Adult as a category. Clearly it is a desired categroy for books. Readers want them! But you can't keep screwing over Actual Teen Readers by ignoring 13-16 year olds in favor of publishing for 19-22 year olds. STOP IT.
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
There's a YA book coming out in a month with a 21 year old love interest. AUTHORS & PUBLISHERS: YOU CANNOT KEEP DOING THIS. Are you aware these headhunters are looking for any opportunity, any excuse to ban books? YOU CANNOT HAVE A LOVE INTEREST IN THEIR 20s IN A BOOK FOR TEENS.
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Yeah, I'd say you have a right to feel alllllll the feelings about that. I am so sorry!
A gif from The Waterboy: a white woman holds a sign in a window that says "want me to kill them?"
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
OHHHHHHH okay. I eas worried it meant you could not now register for the copyright. Still stinky about the suit, but at least there's no copyright funny business (aside from an egregious error to begin with).
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Wait wait wait, they messed up, and you can't file??
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 27/08/2025
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
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Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Sadly, Stars are currently admin-less while the search is on for another.
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
@hockeyviz.com I heard you were talking about Miro Over Here so I had to come visit
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
@hillarymonahan.bsky.social you need to see this twitter.com/pinkglitteri...
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
❤️❤️ I'm very sorry for your loss.
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Cutco knives
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Martha Brockenbrough @marthabee.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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Sara Campbell @smwordsmith.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Labeling things in this way is ridiculous. I just addressed this in a presentation with librarians. GNs are not desserts. This isn’t the way to encourage lifelong readers.
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Courtenay Taylor @paxwest @courtenaytaylor.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Please join us in supporting AI protections for actors and all creatives in gaming! We love what we do and want to get back to work with a fair deal ❤️#levelupthecontract #videogamestrong #sagaftrastrike #gameawards
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I just see the pitches/concepts, and I think, "that's so cool!" and go to press "like" before I WRENCH my finger away. Every. Single. Time. I just wanna like the interesting premises!! 😭
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
One thing I have not missed on Twitter that is abundant on Bluesky is pitch contests. I live in fear that I'm going to inadvertently fuck up someone's day just by liking their cool post.
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Good
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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I had 2 ipods, and they lived just long enough for their warrenties to die (after only a year). When I went to the apple store for help, they were like "yeah, we won't help, you should just buy a new one", and it put me off forever.
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