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sharimaurer.bsky.social @sharimaurer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Congrats to @tlsimpson.bsky.social on his 4 book deal for his Baller Bots middle grade series. Get ready for "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers meets Space Jam" fun! And so wonderful that he gets to work with @meggaertner.com again.

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Meg Gaertner is OPEN to submissions @meggaertner.com · 13/08/2026

Now that I’m back from a second maternity leave (thank you, Minnesota’s Paid Leave Act!), I’m eager to find my next favorite story. So, in honor of my son’s first birthday tomorrow(!), @fluxbooks.bsky.social and @jollyfishpress.bsky.social are opening to submissions! 🎉🎉🎉 1/2

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T.L. Simpson @tlsimpson.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

My sophomore novel COPE FIELD was named a Printz Honor Book today. I'm overwhelmed with gratitude to far too many people to name here. I want to say that never in my wildest dreams would I have believed this could happen, but I have always dreamed big. And you should, too.

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Meg Gaertner is OPEN to submissions @meggaertner.com · 08/10/2025

Recently devoured all of Tana French’s novels and craving more. Any recommendations for what I should read next?

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Meg Gaertner is OPEN to submissions @meggaertner.com · 29/09/2025

Received some cool news while on maternity leave: My YA sci-fi, THE ORACLE HAS QUESTIONS, made the top 150 in the Novelry’s Next Big Story contest (in which there were more than 22,000 entries!)!

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Catherine Arguelles @arguellescath.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Just finished this absolutely delightful MG mystery on NetGalley and I LOVED IT!!! Check it out! #mg #mgmystery #kidlit

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Jolly Fish Press @jollyfishpress.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

We are thrilled that THE SONGBIRD AND THE RAMBUTAN TREE by Lucille Abendanon is the #ForewordINDIES Gold Winner for Juvenile Fiction! ❤️ www.forewordreviews.com/awards/winne...

2024 GOLD Winner for Juvenile Fiction

The Songbird and the Rambutan Tree

Contributor(s) Lucille Abendanon
Publisher Jolly Fish Press
ISBN-13 978-1-63163-820-6
Publication Date Jan 23, 2024

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Meg Gaertner is OPEN to submissions @meggaertner.com · 10/06/2025

Today’s the day! Happy pub day to @sabkleckner.bsky.social and her absolutely delightful cast of characters in THE COMPLEX ART OF BEING MAISIE CLARK!

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Jolly Fish Press @jollyfishpress.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

We are excited to share that CHASING STARS by @meggaertner.com is a 2025 Childrens Book Council Favorites Award winner! 💫 In this middle grade Hi-Lo novel, a twelve-year-old girl struggles to adapt to big changes within her familly. northstareditions.com/jolly-fish-p...

Chasing Stars
by Meg Gaertner
A 2025 CBC Favorites Award Winner

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Meg Gaertner is OPEN to submissions @meggaertner.com · 15/05/2025

Psyched to get to work with @jengelmattern.bsky.social to bring this gorgeous story into the world!!!

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Flux Books @fluxbooks.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

“A heartfelt story... MIGHTY MILLIE NOVAK shows how life’s shake-ups can quickly put everything in perspective and help us see what makes us mighty.” —@jmillwrites.bsky.social, author of WE GOT THE BEAT Available now! 🛼 @elizabethwriter.bsky.social northstareditions.com/flux/mighty-...

“A heartfelt story full of feelings, messiness, and roller derby! Mighty Millie Novak shows how life’s shake-ups can quickly put everything in perspective and help us see what makes us mighty. Millie’s derby family rolled their way into my heart!” —Jenna Miller, author of We Got the Beat

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Flux Books @fluxbooks.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

“@tlsimpson.bsky.social's frank, unflinching portrait of two defiant teens struggling to transcend brutal violence is a crackling alchemy of baseball and punk rock....A rare, relentless, gorgeous gem of a novel...” — @sarahlariviere.bsky.social (RIOT ACT) northstareditions.com/flux/cope-fi...

“Simpson’s frank, unflinching portrait of two defiant teens struggling to transcend brutal violence is a crackling alchemy of baseball and punk rock that shook me, made me cheer, and kept me up all night. A rare, relentless, gorgeous gem of a novel, recommended for anyone who's ever had something to fight.” —Sarah Lariviere, author of Time Travel for Love and Profit

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Flux Books @fluxbooks.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

“@sabkleckner.bsky.social delivers a heartwarming, giddiness-inducing journey.” —@matthewhubbard.bsky.social, author of THE LAST BOYFRIENDS RULES FOR REVENGE and THE REBEL'S GUIDE TO PRIDE THE COMPLEX ART OF BEING MAISIE CLARK releases June 10! northstareditions.com/flux/the-com...

“Sabrina Kleckner delivers a heartwarming, giddiness-inducing journey in search of what it means to define your identity, proving that coming of age is not only a complex art but also a masterpiece of coloring outside the lines!” —Matthew Hubbard, author of The Last Boyfriends Rules for Revenge and The Rebel’s Guide to Pride

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Jolly Fish Press @jollyfishpress.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

We're glad to share that THE SONGBIRD AND THE RAMBUTAN TREE by Lucille Abendanon has been selected as a 2025 Independent Book Publishers Association Award winner! ❤️ This middle grade historical fiction debut is available now. northstareditions.com/jolly-fish-p...

The Songbird and the Rambutan Tree
by Lucille Abendanon

2025 IBPA Book Award Winner
Middle Grade Fiction

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Meg Gaertner is OPEN to submissions @meggaertner.com · 05/05/2025

Great news! CHASING STARS, my middle grade hi-lo (high-interest, low reading level) novel published through @jollyfishpress.bsky.social is a 2025 CBC Favorites Award Winner in the Middle Grade category! That means 6th-8th graders across the country read it and rated it as one of their favorites!

Shows the cover of CHASING STARS, a middle grade hi-lo novel, which has a frozen, forest-encircled lake in the background, and two girls’ held hands in the foreground, complete with friendship bracelets.

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Jolly Fish Press @jollyfishpress.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Author Nancy Carlson visited Glen Lake Elementary to read her new book, A SWING FOR SAMARA, at the school that inspired it! 💙 This book shows the power of community and highlights the the right that all children have to play. Available now! northstareditions.com/jolly-fish-p...

A smiling woman, Nancy Carlson, standing at a microphone with an open copy of a picture book entitled A Swing for Samara

A large number of elementary-school aged children sitting on a gym floor, attentively listening while Nancy reads to them.

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Flux Books @fluxbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

THE LAMPLIGHTER is a 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist! Congratulations, @cjbell.bsky.social! northstareditions.com/flux/the-lam...

The Lamplighter
by Crystal J. Bell
A 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist
Young Adult Fiction

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Flux Books @fluxbooks.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The wait is over! COPE FIELD by @tlsimpson.bsky.social is available now. Don't miss this thrilling, romantic, and poignant YA contemporary about courage and surviving abuse. ❤️⚾️ northstareditions.com/flux/cope-fi...

Cope Field
by T. L. Simpson
Now Available

Black and white illustration of a teenage boy dressed in a baseball uniform and baseball helmet, holding a bat. He is shielding his face using the helmet.

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Flux Books @fluxbooks.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

WHAT WE DID TO EACH OTHER by Josuee Hernández is available to request for early review! 📕 Out 9/30/25. netgalley.com/catalog/book... edelweiss.plus?sku=16358310... Two Latinx teens grapple with the power and privilege of whiteness until their actions put them on a dangerous collision course.

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Jolly Fish Press @jollyfishpress.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

THE SONGBIRD AND THE RAMBUTAN TREE by Lucille Abendanon is a A 2024 Freeman Book Awards Winner! 💙 Available now. northstareditions.com/jolly-fish-p...

The Songbird and the Rambutan Tree

A 2024 Freeman Book Awards Winner

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Meg Gaertner is OPEN to submissions @meggaertner.com · 30/03/2025

First, watch Adolescence on Netflix—a terrifying but incredibly well-written four-episode series. It is well worth any parent’s time—or anyone who regularly comes into contact with young people in this intensely online era. Second, read this short article by one of the writers. 1/?

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‘The younger me would have sat up and nodded’: Adolescence writer Jack Thorne on the insidious appeal of incel culture

Researching mine and Stephen Graham’s Netflix drama, I realised the brains of under 16s are unable to cope with ideas as dangerous as those in the ‘manosphere’. The government needs to ban smartphones...

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Meg Gaertner is OPEN to submissions @meggaertner.com · 21/03/2025

Ahh!!! So excited for this book to be introduced to the world!!!

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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member: Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800 Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 mb@buttericklaw.com

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Telephone: (415) 500-6800
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Matthew Butterick (State Bar No. 250953)
1920 Hillhurst Avenue, #406
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Telephone: (323) 968-2632
Facsimile: (415) 395-9940
Email: mb@buttericklaw.com
Counsel for Individual and Representative
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Flux Books @fluxbooks.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

We are proud to share that THE FIGHT FOR MIDNIGHT is a 2025 Spirit of Texas Reading List selection! 🧡 Congratulations, @dansolomon.com! northstareditions.com/flux/the-fig...

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Meg Gaertner is OPEN to submissions @meggaertner.com · 14/03/2025

Better late than never to share, but . . . these two weirdos are having a baby! If all things go to plan, this kid will be making his debut in August! As if that wasn't enough, we also just bought a house! So agents + authors, if I seem out of it these next months, I blame this (delightful) chaos.

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Sydney Dunlap @sydneydunlap.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I’m very excited to see Racing the Clouds featured here in such wonderful company! Thank you, @imaginationsoup.bsky.social!! imaginationsoup.net/middle-grade... #middlegradebooks #middlegradefiction #newreleases #kidlit @thetobiasagency.bsky.social @annmrose.bsky.social @jollyfishpress.bsky.social

This is a picture of book covers from a post titled "9 Outstanding New Middle Grade Books, February 2025 - Imagination Soup"

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Flux Books @fluxbooks.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

✨ We're giving away a book bundle including LONELY PLACES by Kate Anderson, THE LAMPLIGHTER by @cjbell.bsky.social, and THE WEIGHT OF A SOUL by Elizabeth Tammi! 📚 Head over to Instagram for details: www.instagram.com/p/DHGoHG3z2JY/

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Meg Gaertner is OPEN to submissions @meggaertner.com · 12/03/2025

Woot woot! This story is 🔥🔥🔥. We’re thrilled over at @fluxbooks.bsky.social to be able to help bring @tlsimpson.bsky.social’s next hard-hitting, timely YA novel into the world.

A Publishers Marketplace announcement for the forthcoming ACCELERANT, a YA contemporary by T.L. Simpson.

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Jolly Fish Press @jollyfishpress.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

We are delighted to announce that IT HAPPENED ON SATURDAY by @sydneydunlap.bsky.social is a 2025–2026 Virginia Readers' Choice Selection! 📚💚 northstareditions.com/jolly-fish-p...

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Meg Gaertner is OPEN to submissions @meggaertner.com · 03/03/2025

I had a great time chatting with Beth and Lisa for this episode and hope it’s useful for querying authors! #kidlit

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T.L. Simpson @tlsimpson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I just found out STRONG LIKE YOU made the Young Adult Library Services Association's 2025 List of Best Fiction for Young Adults.

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Jolly Fish Press @jollyfishpress.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

"This is a great book that many middle school students will relate to." —Story Monsters Ink CHASING STARS by @meggaertner.com is available now! 💫 northstareditions.com/jolly-fish-p...

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Meg Gaertner is OPEN to submissions @meggaertner.com · 18/02/2025

HAPPY PUB DAY to @sydneydunlap.bsky.social for her incredible sophomore novel, RACING THE CLOUDS!!!

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Meg Gaertner is OPEN to submissions @meggaertner.com · 12/02/2025

Happy #MSWL day! I’m not currently open to submissions, but you can always find my wish lists for MG and YA here: www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/me...

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Meg Gaertner – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website

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Manuscript Wish List® @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our First Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 12, 2025. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...

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The Next Official #MSWL Day: February 12, 2025 – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website

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Meg Gaertner is OPEN to submissions @meggaertner.com · 29/01/2025

Heads up that we vastly overestimated our ability to catch up on submissions, so @fluxbooks.bsky.social and @jollyfishpress.bsky.social will remain closed to new submissions for now. Please watch this space for updates about when we’ll reopen!

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Flux Books @fluxbooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Thanks to Kirkus and Laura Simeon for featuring COPE FIELD by @tlsimpson.bsky.social! This must-read YA novel comes out April 22nd. ⚾️❤️ kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I cannot overstate how frustrating it is to have our tools turned to shit, and that's exactly what's happening for every writer and editor. I do not want to write anything more quickly than I already can. I do not want to spend less time in manuscripts. I do not want my sentences finished.

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Meg Gaertner is OPEN to submissions @meggaertner.com · 15/01/2025

The worst thing my husband has ever done was give my lovingly annotated and note-scribbled copy of House of Leaves, which I let him borrow for a trip to Mexico, to a stranger who was interested in the book. He got me a new copy to replace that one. But it is not the same. Forgive, never forget.

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Meg Gaertner is OPEN to submissions @meggaertner.com · 08/01/2025

This WIP is the hardest thing I’ve ever written. Layered, interlocking narratives. Cathartic and raw. I’m gutted just writing out my revision plans for the next draft. The idea, the dream, is so clear in my head. I can only hope I’m a good enough writer to do it justice. #amwriting #amediting

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 08/01/2025

Creators, don’t stop pitching queer content to editors, producers, etc. because you’re afraid it’s going to be stifled going forward. That just helps the bad guys. Don’t pre-censor yourself or the industry you’re in!

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Flux Books @fluxbooks.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

“Full of heart and with a pace faster than a derby bout....An absolute treat!” —Jamie Pacton, award-winning, best-selling author of THE ABSINTHE UNDERGROUND and THE VERMILLION EMPORIUM MIGHTY MILLIE NOVAK by @elizabethwriter.bsky.social is available now! 🛼 northstareditions.com/flux/mighty-...

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Flux Books @fluxbooks.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

★ “A wise, emotionally rich tale of a young man finding his way through family trauma.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) COPE FIELD by @tlsimpson.bsky.social releases April 22. ❤️⚾️ northstareditions.com/flux/cope-fi...

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Michelle Witte @michellewitte.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

#kidlitchat In addition to all of the great resolutions people are making for the new year, might I suggest also resolving to be gentle with yourself (or flexible, or resilient, or some variation of that) if things don't work out as you hope?

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Meg Gaertner is OPEN to submissions @meggaertner.com · 08/01/2025

I JUST finished Draft 2 of my WIP🥳, and it took a little over a year😬. My goal is to knock out D3 in six months, which feels achievable but also a good challenge, given a ton of personal changes occurring in my life (that I hope I can share soon!). Theme word: MOMENTUM! #kidlitchat

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Ms. Yingling @msyingling.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Loved RACING THE SKY and really looking forward to anythiny by Erin Fry!

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Flux Books @fluxbooks.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

“A gripping thrill ride with monsters and deception lurking behind every page.” —Lina Kao, author of A CROOKED MARK THE MERCILESS KING OF MOORE HIGH by Lily Sparks is available now! northstareditions.com/flux/the-mer...

“A gripping thrill ride with monsters and deception lurking behind every page. Fast-paced and full of surprises, Sparks skillfully balances a world of fragile power and fraying loyalties with heartfelt emotion and the fierce will to survive.” —Linda Kao, author of A Crooked Mark

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Flux Books @fluxbooks.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Looking for the perfect book to read over the holidays? COPE FIELD and THE COMPLEX ART OF BEING MAISIE CLARK are available for early review on NetGalley and Edelweiss+! 📚💕 COPE FIELD: netgalley.com/catalog/book... THE COMPLEX ART OF BEING MAISIE CLARK: netgalley.com/catalog/book...

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Spring 2025 Titles
Cope Field by T. L. Simpson
The Complex Art of Being Maisie Clark
Now on NetGalley and Edelweiss+

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