Corey Ann Haydu

@coreyannhaydu.bsky.social

YA and children’s author of EVENTOWN, ONE JAR OF MAGIC, LAWLESS SPACES, EVER CURSED &more—picture books, chapter books, MG and YA. Faculty @ VCFA. Lover of rompers, lattes, chatty podcasts, terrible reality TV, parenting discourse, friendship. she/her

5 years ago today, Mika Song’s and my epistolary mother-daughter picture book about anger, imagination, unconditional love, and moonicorns blasted off into a world in lockdown, with bookstores, libraries, and schools freshly closed and alternative ways of getting books to readers not yet worked out

Love, Sophia on the Moon by Anica Mrose Rissi, illustrated by Mika Song, surrounded by string lights

Miranda July (the novel ALL FOURS) and Reshma Saujani (the podcast MY SO CALLED MIDLIFE) are out here making midlife cool. What other creators are making peri/menopause and midlife content central instead of hidden? This is a 2024 trend I can actually get behind.

Just a friendly reminder to put making a doctors appointment and keeping a doctors appointment as two different items on your to do list so that you can experience the dopamine hit of crossing something off once you’ve recovered from the horrible reality of talking on a phone to a about schedules.

I had a book come out yesterday. I have a party for it next week at the Atlantic Ave Brooklyn barges and noble (9/28 at 630 in conversation with Peter Lerangis!). Today I’m working on my next book which is a fairytale freaky Friday and I am happily in a sweater in a coffee shop bc it’s fall.

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