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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Thanks, Wendi! I'm having such a good time with the research for this one. It was the summer of Xanadu!

Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Exciting news I can finally spill! My next middle-grade novel, The Swimming Pigs of Licorice Springs, will be published by Knopf in Spring 2027. (Which in book-writing years is like ten minutes from now. I'd better get busy!)

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Gosh! So exciting to see it in print! Thanks, Tanita!!

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

It is an absolute honor to be one of the women whose stories Shannon included in her book. Her (free!!!) Firestarter University program is going to be incredible. Time to get your blazing spark on!

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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

i wonder if people under a certain age know how much limitless free information used to be readily available online about anything you could think of, anything at all, you could start reading about a niche subject and then it would be 4 am and you had been reading about weird candy for six hours

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 28/10/2023

Delighted to see more kidlit/YA publishers & organizations joining Bluesky! Recent additions to my KidLit/YA Publishers custom feed: @penguinschoollib.bsky.social (Penguin Random House) & @pressboxbooks.bsky.social (North Star imprint). Fingers crossed that more publishers follows suit.

Sky-blue background with illustrated fluffy white clouds. Header text reads "KidLit/YA Publishers On Bluesky. Please note: I lack the time to vet every publisher, so before submitting/querying to any publisher, do your research to make sure they are legit & the right fit for you."

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Randomly remembering the Television Without Pity E.R. recapper who had a phobia about eyeballs & subbed "toes" anytime eye injuries were a plot point

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

HEY! (Not shouting, just warming up for tonight's Low Bar Chorale Schoolhouse Rock rehearsal. Hooray!) #pdx

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

You know you can review a book literally any time, right? It doesn't have to be a new book. Someone sees a book for the first time from your review: BOOM! It's a new book. That's a special kind of temporal magic.

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

Okay. Whew. What with our move and my writing deadlines, I've been buried, slammed, flattened for months (and almost totally dormant on social media). Finally, finally coming up for air. What did I miss? (dies laughing)

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/07/2023

If the creative person you're thinking about doesn't have their name in extremely large type on a poster or billboard, take what you assume they make, halve it, halve it again, and then halve it a couple more times just to be sure. That amount? Probably still more than they are actually making.

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

Coming up on 96 hours and my arm still looks like a strip of button candy

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

I mean I'll remember the error for the rest of my life but

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

Friends, be happy for me, big day: I did not follow a reply in which I made a small and easily decipherable typo with an asterisked correction

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

The art is really wonderful. I'm on deadline today but look forward to talking a deeper look

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 08/07/2023

Explore the intersection of art + science: the Bluesky SciArt Feed is now live. 🔹Add to your feeds, and 🧡 + share so others may find it. 🔸Artists, request to join the list, & add #SciArt to posts to appear. My thanks to @blueappaloosa.bsky.social for help setting-up! 🧪

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

bluesky but it rhymes with brewski

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

I liked it even more the second time

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

It's my favorite thing! Doors open at 6:30, singing starts at 7:30. Live band & we all learn parts (but in a low key, no pressure way). I'll be there!

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

If you're still here on Tuesday go to Show Bar at Revolution Hall & sing with the best pub choir in all the land (Low Bar Chorale)

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

Oh DO!!! Really all I want in life is for Vera to call me "pet" just once. Preferably not in connection with the murder of a loved one.

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

Salt? Sugar? Either way, I'm good.

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

Just outright giggling over here. That was delightful.

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

Vera is set in Northumberland which is close enough to Scotland to assuage my own Shetland withdrawal. And it's so, so good. Nuanced and satisfying. As is Shetland.

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

My entry point was Wee Free Men, which I read to my kids. An absolute gem of a book.

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

He really is. That's breathtaking work.

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

I know we can replace it, it's just a shortish length of vinyl hose, but it's unnerving to think someone might have come into our yard to take it. There's a pretty active crow family that hangs out there a lot, but I don't see how they could disconnect the tubing w/o dislodging the pump.

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

Well this is a new one. Something (or someone? *shudder*) has taken the tubing from our backyard bird fountain. It was there yesterday. The pump is still running but the tube & the little clips that fastened it to the fountain have just...vanished.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 22/06/2023

a blue sky tip for new people from twitter on twitter if u reply to yourself to create a thread each post shows up as a new post on blue sky if u reply to yourself nobody sees it without reading the first one until enough people like it which is difficult if no one sees it in the first place

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

Realizing an absolute A+++ factor of this site: I don't have to see the name of a beloved public figure trending & wonder if it means they: a) died; b) did something egregious; or c) just wore clothes somewhere

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

"This move by the state ensures that those with the least privileges–those in unstable homes, those without regular internet access, and those without active parents or guardians in their lives–have even fewer opportunities to utilize public goods and services."

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

Felicia that is pretty amazing. Incredible work! Who's the artist?

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

bookmarking and never again revisiting is 85% of my personality

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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 07/07/2023

Young readers in Mississippi now losing access to ALL books via Overdrive & Libby due to book banners. This is absolutely devastating for kids who don't live near physical libraries. bookriot.com/hoopla-overdrive-libby…

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Hoopla, Overdrive/Libby Now Banned for Those Under 18 in Mississippi

Public libraries in Mississippi have cut off access to digital platforms like Overdrive and Hoopla to those under 18.

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

I mean tbh after having kids I can't hold mine more than a few hours either

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

these are gorgeous & have me questioning why on earth I'm indoors

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

Oh man I've been singing my brain this same song but my puddle is like four hours of writing away

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

I have never been more invested in a narrative in my LIFE

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

new thing I just learned-by-doing re: alt text! If you click the alt text and add text, but THEN click the pencil to edit the image size, the alt text won't save so you'll have to make sure it's posted in that option just an FYI!

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

that's brutal, like you can hear it's lowercase in their head. just another common noun

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

omg the snark art this is going to generate

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Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

How long after allergy scratch testing does it take for the welts to go down? Asking for an extremely itchy upper arm 48 hours out

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