Rowen MacCarald (he/they)
@author-maccarald.bsky.social
Author of over 80 nonfiction books for the educational market and the picture book How Mom Met Mama. https://www.rowenmaccarald.com/
👻🌑COVENANT🔮🕯 ✨️gothic gaslamp romantasy✨️ 💜 second chance romance 🖤 opposites attract 🌑 gothic decadence 👻 big spooky house 🏳️🌈 bi awakening 💙 achillean main romance 🧡 sapphic side romance 🏳️⚧️ trans and plus-sized rep 🥀 horror as a metaphor for grief 🔮 Victorian setting 🕯 occult magic #QueerPit #FR #A
Genderfluid berserker Eydrun battles witch-hunting paladins, an eldritch zombie apocalypse, & her own repression to protect Darja, the nascent sorceress & “best friend” waiting for her back home. A hurt/comfort epic w/ swordfights by one of the top 7% longsword fighters in the world. #queerpit #F #A
WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵
Bold, outspoken trailblazer, Congresswoman Bella Abzug (1920–1998) was never a sugar-and-spice girl. ABZUGLUTELY! BATTLING, BELLOWING BELLA ABZUG, a picture book by @saraharonson.bsky.social, illustrated by Andrea D’Aquino, tells her story. lilith.org/articles/fem...
For Read Across America, I'm joining a bunch of wonderful children's poets to read from the anthology IF I COULD CHOOSE A BEST DAY (ed by Irene Latham & Charles Waters). WHEN: March 3, 2025 at 1 p.m. EST (Sign up here: courage.thewritingbarn.com/free-virtual...)
Sharing these numbers because I wasn't aware of them myself. In the US: * 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized * 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia * 1 to 3 in 1000 die If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time
Measles – NFID
Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease that can result in severe, sometimes permanent, complications including pneumonia, seizures, brain damage, and even death
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Yvonne Ventresca@yvonneventresca.com · 2y agoMy latest writing project benefited from the last @highlightsfound.bsky.social Just Do It program thanks to @christebbetts.bsky.social, @saraharonson.bsky.social, & Daria Peoples. Highly recommend! Great community, guidance, accountability. www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/jus... #amrevising
Check out my new post about surviving in scary times. dalemariebryan.substack.com/p/to-hell-in...
To Hell in a Handbasket
Day 49, Year 13 in Glasshalfull
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While organizing the @kidlitforla.bsky.social auction, we connected with Rohan, an amazing 13-year-old who lost his home in the fires but is working to get books to other kids who who lost everything. This thread has details on how to help. #kidlit #booksky #writers #authors #illustrators #books
Kidlit For Los Angeles@kidlitforla.bsky.social · 2y agoIf you’re looking for another way to help those impacted by the wildfires, you can donate books to bring a bit of comfort to kids who have lost everything. All the info is at the website: sites.google.com/view/reading... And you can follow the project on IG at @readingamongruins. #kidlit Details⬇️
Speaking of comics: Whether this new administration “observes” it or not, it’s still Black History Month. Here’s a list of great comics by Black creators, and/or centering Black characters & stories 🕊️ 📚 bookshop.org/lists/graphi...
Graphic Novels for Black History Month
Graphic novels created by Black authors/artists, and/or centering Black stories and culture.
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I've been able to brush off most of the erasure of trans people from government websites, but this one is REALLY getting under my skin. It's just complete revisionist history. How fucking dare they Old vs. new
Benjamin Dreyer@bcdreyer.social · 2y agoThis is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)
they start with the least protected groups then they work their way up this is fucking terrifying
NPR@npr.org · 2y agoThe lawsuit alleges the migrants have been "disappeared into a black box" and are unable to communicate with attorneys.
Magic in a Drop of Water by @jwbottom.bsky.social is stunning! Her call to action for us to ensure #cleanwater is clear. Check it out! Ask your library to add it to their collections. Write a positive vibes #bookreview.
Julie Winterbottom@jwbottom.bsky.social · 2y agoA fun interview by picture book author Joyce Uglow about my writing process for Magic in a Drop of Water! A fun interview about my writing process for Magic in a Drop of Water. @penguinkids #rockypondbooks #PBGreenSTEAM #stembooks @jpuglow.bsky.social substack.com/inbox/post/1...
President Trump banning the Associated Press from an event over their usage of "Gulf of Mexico" instead of "Gulf of America" may seem more absurd than alarming, but Trump's attacks on the free press are no joke.
AP statement on Oval Office access | The Associated Press
The Associated Press issued this statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace: As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs
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The Associated Press says the White House blocked it from covering an official event on Tuesday because it did not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. By @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social
White House blocks AP from event for using 'Gulf of Mexico'
The Associated Press says the White House blocked it from covering an official event on Tuesday because it did not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
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Today is Internal Day of Women and Girls in Science. I give you Dinosaur Lady by Linda Skeers. A nonfiction children’s book about Mary Anning, who, at 12 years old, discovered the first plesiosaur skeleton in 1811. #childrensbooks #womeninstem #booksky
DINOSAUR LADY | Kirkus Reviews
A new picture-book biography of the pioneering scientist and finder of bones.
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