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Read Your World @readyourworld.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Save the Date! Our IG live with author @leslieadame.bsky.social is Thurs, 10/8/26, 2 pm ET! Leslie Adame is a first-gen Mexican American author who enjoys giving back and telling stories about characters not often found in books or films. www.instagram.com/readyourworl... #ReadYourWorld #kidlit

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#PreDV Day 1 starts now! Use today to practice your pitches before #DVPit on 9/30! Feel free to offer advice to your fellow #DVpit hopefuls and make some connections & friends! As always have fun and be respectful! Go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info

September 21-22, 2026 8AM-5PM ET
PreDV 2026
Sept 21-22, 2026 8:00-5:00PM ET
Practice your #DVpit pitches on Bluesky using #preDV!
give fellow #DVpit hopefuls feedback on their pitches on Bluesky & receive feedback from agented authors & volunteers.
Go to dvpit.carrd.co/#dvpartypredv for rules & more info

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

ICYMI: UPDATED DATES! Due to a holiday on September 21st, we have expanded PreDV to be 2 days long! You can post your pitch practices on both September 21 & 22, 2026 from 8-5PM ET!

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Vroman's Bookstore @vromansbookstore.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Leslie Adame, in conversation with Tamika Burgess, (Inland Empire represent!) launches her amazing new middle-grade fantasy novel CHLOE VEGA AND THE AGENTS OF MAGIC! Signed copies of both Leslie and Tamika's books available at the store, while supplies last!

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Leslie Adame @leslieadame.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The cover for the second installment of the Chloe Vega series, CHLOE VEGA AND THE MISSING UNSEEN! 🥳 I’m SO excited for everyone to dive into this one. It officially releases on October 6, 2026 🤍 shout out to Francisco J. Santoyo for the artwork!

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Serena Haas @serenahaas.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I did an interview with the wonderful #middlegrade #fantasy author #leslieadame for the first book in her #chloevega series. If you haven't had a chance to read this very timely magic school book, I highly suggest picking it up. audreycecilemoore.substack.com/p/an-intervi...

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An Interview with Leslie Adame, Author of Chloe Vega and the Agents of Magic

Author Interview #11

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@lasmusasbooks @lasmusasbooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Happy book birthday to @leslieadame.bsky.social for her debut, Chloe Vega and the Agents of Magic. A new Latinx middle grade fantasy where a secret magical academy, an evil sorcerer, & a powerful, coveted gem awaits one girl in her quest to reunite her family. Perfect for fans of Claribel A. Ortega!

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Leslie Adame @leslieadame.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

✨ IT’S FINALLY HERE! ✨ Today my debut novel, CHLOE VEGA AND THE AGENTS OF MAGIC, is officially out in the world! And thank you to everyone who has supported me on this journey, your encouragement means the world to me! 📚 Available now wherever books are sold! All links are in my bï0 ❤️

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Middle Grade Escapades @mgescapades.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

CHLOE VEGA AND THE AGENTS OF MAGIC by @leslieadame.bsky.social releases tomorrow! We hope you're as excited as we are to celebrate #MGEscapades #MiddleGradeBooks #BookReleaseDay

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Amanda Hunt @thenextgenlib.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

A remarkable & fast-paced #MG #fantasy debut that deals w/ magic & real-world issues out 9/16: bookshop.org/a/102434/978... #library #books #librarian #bookrecommendation #librarians #tlsky #skybrarian #skybrarians @leslieadame.bsky.social

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Leslie Adame @leslieadame.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I’m so happy for New York 😭😭

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Middle Grade Escapades @mgescapades.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Check our our latest author spotlight with @leslieadame.bsky.social! Leslie talks about inspiration and what she hopes readers will get from CHLOE VEGA AND THE AGENTS OF MAGIC #MGEscapades #MGEAuthorSpotlight #MiddleGradeBooks Read the post here: middlegradeescapades.com/2025/06/16/a...

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Veronica Bane @veronicabane.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

WHO’S READY TO PARTY??? Mary E. Roach and I decided it was time to celebrate indie bookstores with a little Indie Bookstore Prë0rder Party! 🕺 We already have over 70 authors signed on to promote the party… won’t you join us? More info below! 🧵

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Middle Grade Escapades @mgescapades.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Check out the Simon & Schuster Fall Preview with #MiddleGradeEscapades author @zombicatures.bsky.social here!

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Angela Hsieh @hisiheyah.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

GEOZOOLOGY got its first starred review! Thank you to the folks at @ala-booklist.bsky.social!

An edited panel from the graphic novel LU AND REN'S GUIDE TO GEOZOOLOGY. Lu holds her face in her hands, stars in her eyes, and says, "BOOKLIST *STARRED* REVIEW??"

Illustrated graphic with an excerpt from the Booklist review of LU AND REN'S GUIDE TO GEOZOOLOGY. The excerpt reads: "Migrating guinea pig mountains, island-size axolotls, and floating bands of cloudlike jellyfish are just a few of the delightfully imaginative geozoological phenomena in Hsieh’s clever debut graphic novel... This smart, grounded, and gentle fantasy is a quiet standout."

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Leif B. Lemmon @leiflemmon.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

AAAAAA LOOK AT THEM

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Leslie Adame @leslieadame.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

CHLOE VEGA arcs have arrived! 🥹

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Leslie Adame @leslieadame.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

There’s such a thing as an AI Film Festival? 😭 plz no

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Middle Grade Escapades @mgescapades.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

CHLOE VEGA AND THE AGENTS OF MAGIC by @leslieadame.bsky.social !

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Middle Grade Escapades @mgescapades.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

#ChildrensBookWeek continues with more of our amazing Escapaders! These books are available for pre-order now, and we can't wait to read them #MGEscapades #MiddleGradeBooks

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Lacey N. Dunham (she/her) @bookbent.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

List of arts orgs that have lost their National Endowment for the Arts funding, including the small press I work for in my day job. $2.8 million in funding. A small drop in bucket for the federal govt overall budget, but a devastating amount for these arts orgs. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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NEA GRANT TERMINATION TRACKER

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Asian Author Alliance @asianauthors.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Happy #AANHPI Heritage Month! Get to know a few amazing Asian Authors by using our Starter Pack go.bsky.app/VDxKNDN And also some amazing Pacific Islander authors here: www.pacificislanderbooks.org

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Sarah J. Mendonca @sarahjmendonca.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Check out my website to find out how to get your own signed bookplate and stickers for AN ENCANTADORA’S GUIDE TO MONSTROS AND MAGIC! #kidlit #booksky

Pre-order campaign stickers for AN ENCANTADORA’S GUIDE TO MONSTROS AND MAGIC!

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Leslie Adame @leslieadame.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

HAPPY INDIE BOOKSTORE DAY!! 🥳🥳

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Stan Yan - Kidlit Graphic Novelist @zombicatures.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

@barnesandnoble is offering 25% off preorders with code PREORDER25 4/23-4/25 for all members (+10% for prem members). Send me proof of purchase to get a signed #teammisfortune bookplate, bookmark, and outtakes at stanyan.me/team-misf.... @SimonKIDS @TheTobiasAgency #bnpreorder

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Leslie Adame @leslieadame.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Y’all SPRINT to Barnes and Noble because they are having a ✨sale✨and if you haven’t pre-ordered CHLOE VEGA, you definitely should now! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/chloe-vega... Also don’t forget that indie bookstore day is 4/26, and the link for that is here: bookshop.org/p/books/chlo... #booksky

Barnes and Noble pre-order sale of 25% off, pre-order CHLOE VEGA AND THE AGENTS OF MAGIC to get a discount!

BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Twelve-year-old Chloe Vega’s biggest fear is that her undocumented parents will be detained by immigration. That is, until she learns that her parents are actually part of a secret magical society…and that the suspicious looking police officers who have been hanging around their block are henchmen for an evil sorcerer determined to settle a decades-old score.

Just when Chloe discovers that she has powers, too, her parents are kidnapped. In order to rescue them, she’ll need to harness her abilities at an elite academy, run by the very agency who exiled her parents from the magical world.

Finding herself in the center of a magical war that might destroy everything she has ever known, Chloe can’t shake the feeling that the Agents of Magic are hiding secrets. With her parents’ lives hanging in the balance, she must uncover who is truly on her side and fast to save her family—and the world itself.

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Sarah J. Mendonca @sarahjmendonca.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

For day two of Indie Bookstore Week, we’re celebrating Elephant Ear Books in my hometown of Plymouth, MI. Opened in November 2024, this new bookstore was the vision of Melissa Schabel after 20 years working as a librarian. #indiebookstore #bookstore #plymouthmi

Why shop indie? It helps keep your dollars local.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16/04/2025

If you're a writer, research & write stories about anti-fascist resistance. If you're a game designer, make games about resistance. If you're a teacher, teach about the history of resistance. Every culture worker alive right now has a pressing responsibility to do this. Our lives depend on it

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Sara F. Shacter @sarashacter.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Thanks to @slj.com and @amandamacgregor.bsky.social for including Georgia Watson and the 99 Percent Campaign in the Take Five series! @regalhouse.bsky.social

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Leslie Adame @leslieadame.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I turned 21 in 2020, in the middle of a global pandemic, and I have not known peace in my adulthood since 😭

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Michael Leali @michaelleali.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I don’t understand why HarperCollins refused to join other major publishers and sign the letter to Congress in support of IMLS. So, I wrote a letter to HarperCollins. Libraries and librarians need our support. Authors and industry professionals, please sign this letter using this form. 👇 🙏 📚

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CL Montblanc @clmontblanc.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

PRIDE OR DIE IS ✨OUT✨ NOW! four years ago I wrote a chaotic gay mystery with zero hopes in my heart—only the desire to make something that would’ve brought me joy as a teen. all I can think right now is just how grateful I am for all of you. love y’all and hope the book brings you a smile or two 💕

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Middle Grade Escapades @mgescapades.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Thank you to Teen Librarian Toolbox for featuring books from four of our authors in their Take Five series! #MGEscapades #MiddleGradeBooks

A graphic with the text: FEATURED BOOKS: Take 5. www.teenlibrariantoolbox.com.

A graphic with the text: FEATURED BOOKS. The image shows the novels "The Memory Spinner", "Chloe Vega and the Agents of Magic", "The Many Misfortunes of Eugenia Wang", and "Georgia Watson and the 99 Percent Campaign".

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Shana Targosz @shanatargosz.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Signed books at Powell's Books on Hawthorne AND Powell's City of Books on Burnside ✨️ #signedbooks

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Rosiee Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

OH HEY IVE GOT SOME NEWS! After having an absolute blast as a contributor for BEING ACE I am thrilled to tag along as a co-editor for its sequel, BEING ARO! @madelinedyer.bsky.social and I will announce the full lineup sometime after our open submissions period next month! Stay tuned for details!

A book deal announcement on a green background with the aromantic flag in the corner. Text reads:

Editor of BEING ACE Madeline Dyer and author of TARNISHED ARE THE STARS and FIRE BECOMES HER Rosiee Thor's BEING ARO, an anthology of short stories in multiple genres from contemporary to fantasy to science fiction that celebrate and explore the sub-identities of the aromantic spectrum from a mixture of established and emerging YA writers, to Tamara Grasty at Page Street, in a nice deal, in an exclusive submission, for publication in summer 2026, by Saba Sulaiman and Amy A. Collins at Talcott Notch Literary Services (world English). Translation: Amy A. Collins
acollins@talcottnotch.net

White text on a green background reads: open call for submissions for new and emerging writers open March 31-April 28. More details to follow. This will be a paid opportunity

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person. I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

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Leslie Adame @leslieadame.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

CHLOE VEGA AND THE AGENTS OF MAGIC is officially available to request on NetGalley and Edelweiss! If you’re a lucky soul who gets to read this book ahead of time, I hope I make you proud 🥰

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Middle Grade Escapades @mgescapades.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Middle Grade Escapades has some incredible covers! Check out the MGE website in our bio to learn more about our books. #MGEscapades #MGECoverHighlights #MiddleGradeBooks

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Shana Targosz @shanatargosz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Announcing the Pre-Order Campaign for River of Spirits! ✨ In only a few short weeks, THE UNDERWILD: RIVER OF SPIRITS will be released! Pre-order from your favorite bookshop or request from your local library & fill out the form in my linktree to get these special, limited edition pre-order gifts:

Graphic of the cover of THE UNDERWILD: RIVER OF SPIRITS featuring a dark haired girl rowing a boat on a raging river, while glowing moths surround her. Text reads: The Underwild River of Spirits. Submit your pre-order receipt to receive…” (continued on next slide)

Image showing the items included in the pre-order incentive gift pack. These include: A double-sided bookmark featuring the cover illustration by Danlin Zhang @danlinz_art, Sticker set featuring cover art by Danlin Zhang @danlinz_art, A signed bookplate featuring art by Marcella @mariamarcelw. Bonus! If you order from an independent bookstore you'll also receive a special, limited edition recipe card featuring art by Shana.

Image detailing an item included in the pre-order incentive gift pack. Slide features the original art sketch for the bookplate with art by Marcella. Sketch includes two young girls, a fox, a dragon, a small figure on a boat, a raven, a magpie, and other small items featured in the book.

Image detailing items included in the pre-order incentive gift pack. Slide features the double-sided bookmark with art by Danlin Zhang. Front of the bookmark shows Senka, the main character, on a boat on a raging river. The back side of the bookmark shows a dragon chimera in the waters. Four different stickers featuring details of the same illustrations are also pictured on the slide.

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

another reminder that SO LET THEM BURN is eligible for the 2025 Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book. if anyone on the committee wants to nominate... 👉🏿👈🏿

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Leslie Adame @leslieadame.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I’m just saying, IMAGINE if Chloe Vega, a book about a first-gen kid w/ undoc parents going to a magic school, made it on the NYT bestsellers list during a time like this? How wild would that be! This is your gentle reminder that pre-orders and first-week sales count towards lists like those!

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Middle Grade Escapades @mgescapades.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This week we want to highlight the bright, dynamic cover of CHLOE VEGA AND THE AGENTS OF MAGIC by @leslieadame.bsky.social ! Artist: Francisco J. Santoyo #MGEscapades #MGECoverHighlights #MiddleGradeBooks

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Adrianna Cuevas @adriannacuevas.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

February Reads! March reads will be way less since I got an edit letter yesterday. One of my fav reads this month was the unpublished journal of a man who walked the Camino and shared with me by his daughter, a librarian who sponsored me for a school visit. Happy reading! #readingwrapup

List of books- Taco Tuesday, Dust & Grim, Max in the House of Spies, We are Not Strangers, Beetle and the Hollowbones, Dreamover, Stars in their Eyes, Chickenpox, The Girl Who Sang, Blood City Rollers, Love at Full Tilt, Dear Dad, Stories of the Islands, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Garlic and the Witch, Damsel

List of books- Too Bright to See, Coco, A Haunted Girl, Letters From Cuba, American Murderer, Chloe Vega and the Agents of Magic, Navigating with You, Sorceline, IRL, That’s Not My Name, Ghosts of Bitterfly Bay, Plain Jane and the Mermaid, Kaya and the ocean, The Flicker, Primera Caida, Across So Many Seas

Book covers-Frida y el misterio del anillo del Pavo real y yo, The Last Dragon on Mars, Mike Burger’s Camino de Santiago Journal.
Reading Stats- 8 audiobooks, 8 DNFs (not included in the graphic), 14 graphic novels, 3 libros en español

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