write the book you want to read because you will have to read it over and over and over when revising
Betsy Uhrig
@betsyuhrig.bsky.social
Author of mild-mannered middle-grade books, including MIND OVER MONSTERS (McElderry/S&S). Agent: Joan Paquette. BetsyUhrig.com
Los Angeles Public Library unveils the world’s largest pop-up book www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/07/dani...
Some illustrators I know post videos of themselves drawing their artwork. It’s fascinating to watch. So I thought you folks might be interested to see how MY creative process works…
✨Major Cover Reveal! ✨Feast your eyes on this dazzling cover for The Boy from Elsewhere (coming 4/13/27 from McElderry/S&S)! Art is by Yuta Onoda, designed by Rebecca Syracuse @bookdesignbee.bsky.social. 🐦⬛ More at www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Bets.... #kidlit #MGLit #romcom #romantasy #teenlit
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How does this baby bird know my high school balance beam routine?
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · 4w agoWAIT FOR IT WAIT. FOR. IT! 🪶 🐣
Honestly, all books should end this way.
Sandra Newman@sannewman.bsky.social · last mo.Writing tip: Give your protagonist a pet cat. In the final pages, shift to the cat's point of view. Follow the cat outside, through moonlit woods, to a pasture where cows kneel in worship around a glowing spacecraft. As the cat trots up its gangway, we glimpse in the windows an all-cat crew.
It turns out I've been unknowingly doing Wordle in Hard Mode all along, and I think that might be a metaphor for my life.
Wordle’s Hard Mode Is Actually Easier, 730 Million Games Show
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I hear it's Amazon prime day and B&N has their pre-order sale going too, so I'd love it if you would pre-order my anti-fascist middle-grade debut from your local indie or from Bookshop.org, offering free shipping for anti-prime day today! TYSM!!!! bookshop.org/p/books/back...
I drove by the actual inn from Widow’s Bay and felt like I was gawking at a celebrity!
I love libraries. If you’ve checked out my books from a library or - even better - asked a library to carry my books, thank you for supporting an institution so vital. Libraries are so important right now. The more activity and support they get, the better.
Readers of #BookSky Announcing The Porter Square Review of Books! Starting RIGHT NOW, the PSRB will publish one review, written by a PSB libromancer or a Writer in Residence every week or so...
Announcing The Porter Square Review of Books
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The editorial letter when your plot has gotten away from you…
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2mo agohad never seen this one and it's killing me
“Doldrums” appeared on an eighth-grade geography word list, and this is why I got it very, very wrong.
The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes@phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 2mo ago“The Doldrums, my young friend, are where nothing ever happens and nothing ever changes.” “Allow me to introduce all of us,” the creature went on. “We are the Lethargarians, at your service.”
Who knew sentence diagrams could be elegant little pieces of art? (From This Is a Book of Sentence Diagrams by Man Martin)
Make way for goslings and more goslings and even more goslings Photo by Mary Ellen. www.universalhub.com/2026/make-wa... #Boston #WestRoxbury #geese #honklings
I have to assume that in the fullness of time, at least once, a mouse has used a mushroom as an umbrella. That’s enough to keep me going.
If you get an email like this, don’t trust it unless you get confirmation from the other VPs, Lawrence Random and Stanley House
king's co-op bookstore@kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 3mo agoBenjamin Penguin 💀💀💀
I don’t exactly have scientific data to support this, but I firmly believe that the sound of rain on the roof enhances the reading experience by at least 57%.
I’ve said it many times, but it’s worth repeating: Ramona Quimby is one of the greatest female characters in literature, up there with Emma Bovary.
“You’re still metal” I tell myself as I gingerly hold the handrail