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Christiana Doucette @doucette515.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

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Visiting the local Indie bookstore. Look! Friends! @ryanjamesblack.bsky.social @subity.bsky.social I loved that they had Valor Wings front facing. And I might have left Nimble Nottingham front facing, too. 😄

The Dark Times of Nimble Nottingham

The London Blitz meets Shadow Monsters

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Sam Subity @subity.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Sunrise on a foggy morning

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Sam Subity @subity.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Had a blast meeting young readers and new and old author friends at Books by the Banks in Cincinnati!

Authorcade @authorcade.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

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Excellent virtual school visit with a creative writing class in Ohio where @sylvialiu.bsky.social, Kate Albus, and @subity.bsky.social shared writing wisdom and their choices for writing craft books. Which of these have you read??

Sam Subity @subity.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Yes! Great to meet you too! And it looks like we’ll be at the same show again this weekend at Books by the Banks, so I’ll be sure to stop by.

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Sam Subity @subity.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

WOW! 🤯Sold out of books! Was not expecting such a great turnout and enthusiasm at the Buckeye Book Festival for Valor Wings and The Last Shadow Warrior, but I'm grateful! 🙏

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Sam Subity @subity.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Soooo excited to announce my next book for kids due out next Fall! Any junior True Crime enthusiasts out there?? Or if you like I Survived, be sure to check this out!

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Authorcade @authorcade.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Who's ready for an opportunity so good it's 👻scary? 👻 #teachersky and #librarians! What: FREE virtual class visit with 3 middle grade authors!! How: Follow & repost to enter When: Ends Wed 10/8 Where: US/CAN 🎃Good luck!🎃

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Authorcade @authorcade.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

15 BOOK GIVEAWAY for teacher & librarian friends! Celebrate back-to-school with Middle Grade Authorcade! You could win 15 books for your library, including 2 out this month! Enter here: app.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display... by subscribing to our newsletter. Boost for extra entries! US only. Ends 8/24

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Sam Subity @subity.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Awesome, thank you, Tracey! 🙏🤩

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Sam Subity @subity.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

LOVE seeing VALOR WINGS on the list of Surrey Schools Top 10 Books of the Year!! 🤩🙏

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Authorcade @authorcade.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

We're sooo excited to see Authorcade's own @victorpineiro.bsky.social with his new book: THE ISLAND OF FORGOTTEN GODS on Amazon's Best Books of August in time for its launch TODAY!!

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Authorcade @authorcade.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Something BIG is coming from Middle Grade Authorcade! Be on the lookout for a GIGANTIC giveaway coming Sunday 8/17! Want to get ahead of the game? Head on over to our website and subscribe to our newsletter here: www.authorcade.com/signup

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Authorcade @authorcade.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Grab your pre-order discount on upcoming titles from Authorcade! With everything from fantasy and adventure to sports and contemporary, there's something for everyone on the bus! @victorpineiro.bsky.social @alyssacolman.bsky.social @chadgalucas.bsky.social @sylvialiu.bsky.social

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Authorcade @authorcade.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

It's a ⭐️review for @victorpineiro.bsky.social's upcoming MG novel! "A vibrant blend of contemporary coming of age with mythological adventure. Nico’s unforgettable summer is deeply rooted in love for family, storytelling, and the history of a place that is both magical and real."

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Authorcade @authorcade.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

We had a blast chatting with students from Hunter's Creek Middle School in Orlando! Lots of great questions, conversation, and of course--book recs! ⏰ TIME VILLIANS by Victor Piñeiro 🏠 NOTHING ELSE BUT MIRACLES by Kate Albus 💖 GLITTER GETS EVERYWHERE by Yvette Clark

Sam Subity @subity.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Dubious author achievement unlocked: Signing a body part for the first time! A fifth grade boy at a local book fair already had an author's name scrawled across his forehead and asked me to sign his neck. Turns out, not that easy to sign on skin with a Sharpie!

Authorcade @authorcade.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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🐰Spring into action for our last GIVEAWAY of the school year! 🐰 #teachersky and #librarians! What: FREE virtual class visit with 3 middle grade authors!! How: Follow & repost to enter When: Ends Mon 4/7 Where: US/CAN Good luck!

Image shows two stacks of books by Middle Grade Authorcade authors, with the text, Author Visit! With 3 of these authors! Reading Rocks!

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Jessica Vitalis @jessicavitalis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

April is National Poetry Month! If you're looking for a book that's "intensely readable" (School Library Journal) be sure to check out Unsinkable Cayenne!

Sam Subity @subity.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Here's the visual I use to describe the creative process to students. Your initial spark of excitement is going to wane and maybe even flame out entirely. But the magic happens when your "won't quit" kicks in and you finish that amazing thing you started.

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Authorcade @authorcade.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Dear Teachers, Librarians, & Parents! Check out our new series, First Chapter Fridays! Up this week: THE VANISHED ONES, a new fantasy for 10-14 yo's by award-winning author Chad Lucas / @chadgalucas.bsky.social Hear the story in the author’s own voice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFY6...

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Sam Subity @subity.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Awesome! Thank you, Adrian! 🤩

Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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I can’t wait to read @subity.bsky.social’s book, VALOR WINGS, with my fifth-graders. It’s going to be a fantastic read aloud! #TeacherSky #KidLit

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Sam Subity @subity.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Kids are always asking me what my writing process looks like. So I decided to apply my data skills to explain it in a visual:

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Sylvia Liu @sylvialiu.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

✨That wonderful feeling seeing all my @mgauthorcade.bsky.social friends in a huge pile! ✨ Our group of 15 MG authors debuted together in 2021, and look how far we've come. Thanks Kate Albus for the photo. (Follow MG Authorcade for virtual school visit giveaways)

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Sam Subity @subity.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Going through some of my old college stuff, I pulled this out of the box. Son: Oh is that a dictionary? I think I’ve heard of those. What do you do with them?

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Authorcade @authorcade.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

📢📢GIVEAWAY!!📢📢 Who: For #teachers & #librarians! What: FREE virtual class visit w/ 3 middle grade authors!! How: Follow & repost to enter When: Ends Mon 3/10 ⏰ Where: US/CAN Why: Because you're amazing! 🍀Good luck!

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Sam Subity @subity.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Wow, that looks so cool! And your name is in a bigger font than Stephen King's! 😅

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Yes, same with my most recent book (historical fantasy) which my publisher wanted to get in at around 60k words which was 10k shorter than the one before it.

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Yeah, hoping we see word counts trending lower in 2025 but will know later this year. Horror did more than double over the prior year, so we're definitely seeing big growth there and probably even more this year.

Thanks! The data comes from all over, so just wanted to collect it all in one place. 🙂

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Thank you! I did remove Graphic Novels from the word count totals because they generally tend to have far fewer words anyway. But hopefully we see some movement toward shorter books for the rest of the pack in 2025!

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My take is that publishers are actively looking for shorter books but it just hasn't reflected in the market yet. We'll see if 2025 brings a different look!

Yep! They’re included in everything except the word count since they tend to have significantly fewer words.

Cool! Ok let me think about how to do this and then if you don’t mind me sending you a DM, maybe we can figure out the data points that would be interesting to see.

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Thanks! I’ve actually wanted to do a report on self-pubbed books but I can’t find a good data source. Do you think self-published authors would be willing to provide me the info on their books if I set up a form they could fill out?

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Middle Grade Book Landscape 2024 | Sam Subity

Hey Middle Grade book fans! Check out my year-end wrap-up of the MG market, hot off the presses! All the data you didn't know you wanted to know. 🤓 www.samsubity.com/mg-landscape...

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A first look at the middle grade books published so far in 2024 with stats on publisher share, genre popularity, point of view, and gender.

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Sam Subity @subity.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Totally! We were so rad. 😎

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Sam Subity @subity.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

No way! Your class was great! And thank you for inviting me. 😊😊