Vera Brosgol
@verabrosgol.bsky.social
books, bread, 'blivion. https://linktr.ee/Verabee
I am at the Gaithersburg MD Book Festival tomorrow (free! Come!) and was just stopped in the elevator by a total stranger. “I know you. You have a reputation. You were the only person at the Decatur Book Festival who could get an Oreo from their forehead to their mouth with no hands.”
California friends! I’ll be chatting it up with my buddy @thiendog.bsky.social at Bookshop Santa Cruz tomorrow at 4pm! Come say hi!
Return to Sender is out today! I wrote a little bit about it and where it came from (and where I came from!) over here: verabee.substack.com/p/return-to-... Take a look, pick up a copy, share it with a kiddo. <3
Return to Return to Sender
words about words.
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It’s book! Hooray book. 🥰Consider pre-ordering book at your local independent bookstore!
Talking to my pal Betsy about my new book!
Betsy Bird@fuse8.bsky.social · last yr."It was a revelation to realize I could just write whatever I wanted down, and the images would magically appear inside the readers’ heads! Does everybody know about this!?" @verabrosgol.bsky.social discusses her first middle grade novel! #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/04/09/t...
A last Rat Cruise post, as we finally reach Adak Island: open.substack.com/pub/verabee/...
Adak Island
the last island, the last post.
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Today at Powell’s Books, with the amazing Maria van Lieshout! Come say hi!
I'm talking to my friend Vera about her book at the B&N in Hillsboro on 5/9 -- come on out!
Vera Brosgol@verabrosgol.bsky.social · 2y agoI’m going on tour for my very first novel! Come see me! 🌟
I’m going on tour for my very first novel! Come see me! 🌟
Please come to the legendary @powells.bsky.social in Portland where I will be in conversation with the talented picture book creator, Caldecott Honoree and graphic novelist @verabrosgol.bsky.social about Song of a Blackbird. Hope to see you there! #powellsbooks #graphicnovel #ww2 #authorevent
I love a good walking blog. "I pass a house where maybe ten years ago I saw a woman in her early sixties playing with a large, fluffy dog in the side yard. I remember specifically thinking about how happy she looked, how at ease." @cariluna.bsky.social
Portland Walks: South from Colonel Summers Park
This is the second post in a series of walks around Portland, Oregon. I walk through the city every day anyway, so I figured…why not bring you with me? Once a month, or maybe a bit more often, you’…
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For my free patrons: How my teen friends and I started making photo copied black and white minicomics, going to conventions, meeting our heroes, and eventually got For Reals published: www.patreon.com/posts/122891...
I’m such a massive fan of Gabriel’s paintings, and travelogues, and the American landscape. His train journals are delicious.
Gabriel Liston@lastwater.net · 2y agoFor some reason, everyone is talking about cross-country rail travel? Here is what it looked like to go back and forth by Amtrak a couple times in 2022, if you brought a sketchbook. (watercolor pic of a snowy ridge with mist over a low reservoir)
Today is a good day! @katebeaton.bsky.social has a new book out and I think you will love it. It has biting, and mermaids, and boats, all of which are very much my jam. She’s one of my very favorite authors and humans and perhaps it will be your jam too. 🦈
For those who love good science communication: @verabrosgol.bsky.social wonderful series on being the artist-in-residence on an invasive species research boat in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. (thumbnail is a cartoon of the bundled artist on small boat with two vacationing rats)
Ahoy.
welcome to the rat cruise.
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#akleg Well, this is insane. Mendenhall Glacier will get 700k visitors this year and have two staffers to manage the facilities. Good luck keeping the bathrooms clean and keeping people safe from bear encounters.
Only two employees left at Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center after 80% of staff fired, official says | Juneau Empire
Tourism industry, city officials say they are uncertain about next steps as cruise season approaches.
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A new post over on Rat Cruise: open.substack.com/pub/verabee/... Content warning: rats. At least three rats.
Great Sitkin
Rats, we meet at last.
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A real nice time in Juneau. Turns out I love it in February too.
A new Rat Cruise post over at my Slugstack: open.substack.com/pub/verabee/...
Go electrofish
with bonus slugs and orcas!
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Did you know: I have a middle-grade book coming out in May! It's my first illustrated prose novel, and the title may be familiar to some of you, but I promise it's very different. (But no less weird.) I hope you like it. 😌 You can see a a lil preview here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Here are all my Hourly Comics in one place: verabee.substack.com/p/hourly-com...
Hourly Comics Day 2025
February 1st, 2025
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