Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz
@schwartzwords.bsky.social
YA fantasy: A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE and TO A DARKER SHORE / adult romcom: MY KIND OF TROUBLE / sadder but wiser / autistic / fat / 🌈 / 🇮🇹 / theater / (she/they) Repped by: Alex Land/Mad Woman Literary https://linktr.ee/leanneschwartz
Inspired by Charlotte Stein’s latest release this week (YAY), and the increasingly scary erasure of fat bodies from media (BOO), a concept: characters who look like many, many readers do, getting into all kinds of scary (swoony?) trouble and adventures❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Inspired by Charlotte Stein’s latest release this week (YAY), and the increasingly scary erasure of fat bodies from media (BOO), a concept: characters who look like many, many readers do, getting into all kinds of scary (swoony?) trouble and adventures❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Congress BARELY DOES ANY WORK. Keep the House in session EVERY SINGLE DAY and churn out the bills and hold impeachment proceedings. YOU CAN DO BOTH.
This is vital. Writing helps us think. So many students are saying they turn to LLMs because they don’t know what to say, and need to hear that not knowing is normal as one starts to write.
American Historical Association@historians.org · 2d agoDo you need to know what you think before you start writing? Not necessarily, argues historian Lynn Hunt. In a 2010 #AHAPerspectives essay, Hunt explores how the act of writing itself generates new ideas and why getting words on the page is essential to the thinking process.
This was probably the most Halloween themed I’m getting this year🕸️🧿✨ for a super fun Halloween multi-author event at Mysterious Galaxy today🖤 I’m a big baby when it comes to horror but I loved all the amazing craft talk!
I mean hang on don’t be so hard on working mothers, what if the child has bad vibes? Or is just unpleasant to be around?
David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social · 3d agocool, cool
This book was such a cute fall read and so timely in this era of book bans (Preston is a sweetiepie, I love him 🥹; finally, rep for us autistic dorks who don't drive lol) 💖
Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz@schwartzwords.bsky.social · 4mo agoMy latest is a modern gender-swapped retelling of The Music Man with an autistic librarian fighting book bans, who falls for a conwoman selling a fake music festival to get revenge on a tech bro millionaire who bought his way into power☺️ bookshop.org/p/books/my-k...
wait what you can see everything takes place right by me what
been meaning to post about To a Darker Shore as a good spooky season read but this week has been chaos like the campus fire alarm went off four times yesterday anyway he bites her to protect her from other monsters actually eating her have fun
seems like "on the orders of a nazi every major news outlet on the planet hounded an innocent man to death because he's black" should be one of the biggest stories of the year
been meaning to post about To a Darker Shore as a good spooky season read but this week has been chaos like the campus fire alarm went off four times yesterday anyway he bites her to protect her from other monsters actually eating her have fun
BACK UNDER THE COVERS NOW
Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · last wk.“Catapult management could not be reached for comment, it remains unclear what will happen to the 16 frontlist titles across Catapult’s four imprints that are slated for spring 2027.” Shocked to learn that bored billionaires don’t answer the phone. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
The wealth of the ultra-rich is surging while regular people struggle. Every billionaire deploying their resources and connections to stop or evade Prop 40 is a demonstration of why it's needed. voteyeson40and3.org
Home Page - Tax The Ultra Rich Now
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Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · last wk.Everything these guys do to avoid the billionaire’s’ tax is going to radicalize people to vote for it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/t...
I genuinely don't think that human civilization is compatible with "100 dudes should own everything, make nothing, but get infinitely increasing money forever"
Hello #BookSky I know we've been on you about shopping early this holiday season (really every holiday season) but it might get lost in all the logistics and such the fact that the next 3ish weeks are the best time of the year for book shopping. Here's why...
A reminder for CA voters: Sonja Shaw, who endorsed by Moms for Liberty, is running to hold office in our education dept. She's anti-LGBTQ and would absolutely ban books if she wins. Vote for Richard Barrera for CA State Superintendent of Public Instruction. www.kqed.org/news/1210382...
This is a good overview of how completely broken book discovery has become. I wish it talked more about author identity plays into this — marginalized authors get hit hardest by these issues.
Why Does It Feel Like Everyone Is Reading the Same Books?
BookTok promised us endless discovery. So why does everyone seem to be reading the same thing?
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Today‘s reminder that there is only ONE WEEK left to preorder and support an author (me) and get swag!
Chaz Stein@charlottestein.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm thrilled to announce the preorder offer for the final book in my paranormal series, Falling For A Villainous Vampire! It’s about a sassy, cynical witch who keeps fighting her Viking vampire nemesis to the death..until amnesia strikes of course. Links to places: read.macmillan.com/lp/falling-f...
I have tried not to say anything about this because it would make me too sad. And I still can’t really think hard about this or else it would break my heart. People with disabilities and their parents fight so damn hard to get their kids a public education. And then this happens.
CNN@cnn.com · 2w agoAll victims in the Oregon school shooting Thursday were shot inside one special needs classroom. A teacher tried to fight away the shooter's gun, helping to prevent more bloodshed before a father took down the shooter, police say. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/3WvqJdz
No ISBNs in Canada for AI writing. This is a fantastic policy, and every country should do the same. www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
"What [birthday girl] Elinor Glyn reads is *her* mother's problem!"
