COVER REVEAL!! My new true crime series for kids steals onto shelves on Oct 6! Pre-orders available NOW everywhere books are sold.

Visiting the local Indie bookstore. Look! Friends! @ryanjamesblack.bsky.social @subity.bsky.social I loved that they had Valor Wings front facing. And I might have left Nimble Nottingham front facing, too. 😄

Sunrise on a foggy morning

Had a blast meeting young readers and new and old author friends at Books by the Banks in Cincinnati!

Excellent virtual school visit with a creative writing class in Ohio where @sylvialiu.bsky.social, Kate Albus, and @subity.bsky.social shared writing wisdom and their choices for writing craft books. Which of these have you read??

WOW! 🤯Sold out of books! Was not expecting such a great turnout and enthusiasm at the Buckeye Book Festival for Valor Wings and The Last Shadow Warrior, but I'm grateful! 🙏

Soooo excited to announce my next book for kids due out next Fall! Any junior True Crime enthusiasts out there?? Or if you like I Survived, be sure to check this out!

Who's ready for an opportunity so good it's 👻scary? 👻 #teachersky and #librarians! What: FREE virtual class visit with 3 middle grade authors!! How: Follow & repost to enter When: Ends Wed 10/8 Where: US/CAN 🎃Good luck!🎃

15 BOOK GIVEAWAY for teacher & librarian friends! Celebrate back-to-school with Middle Grade Authorcade! You could win 15 books for your library, including 2 out this month! Enter here: app.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display... by subscribing to our newsletter. Boost for extra entries! US only. Ends 8/24

LOVE seeing VALOR WINGS on the list of Surrey Schools Top 10 Books of the Year!! 🤩🙏

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Can't wait to be able to share all of these amazing books with students in a few weeks! Students will get to read and then vote on their favourite at the end of the year! #studentvote #sd36learn #SSBOY

We're sooo excited to see Authorcade's own @victorpineiro.bsky.social with his new book: THE ISLAND OF FORGOTTEN GODS on Amazon's Best Books of August in time for its launch TODAY!!

Something BIG is coming from Middle Grade Authorcade! Be on the lookout for a GIGANTIC giveaway coming Sunday 8/17! Want to get ahead of the game? Head on over to our website and subscribe to our newsletter here: www.authorcade.com/signup

Grab your pre-order discount on upcoming titles from Authorcade! With everything from fantasy and adventure to sports and contemporary, there's something for everyone on the bus! @victorpineiro.bsky.social @alyssacolman.bsky.social @chadgalucas.bsky.social @sylvialiu.bsky.social

It's a ⭐️review for @victorpineiro.bsky.social's upcoming MG novel! "A vibrant blend of contemporary coming of age with mythological adventure. Nico’s unforgettable summer is deeply rooted in love for family, storytelling, and the history of a place that is both magical and real."

We had a blast chatting with students from Hunter's Creek Middle School in Orlando! Lots of great questions, conversation, and of course--book recs! ⏰ TIME VILLIANS by Victor Piñeiro 🏠 NOTHING ELSE BUT MIRACLES by Kate Albus 💖 GLITTER GETS EVERYWHERE by Yvette Clark

Dubious author achievement unlocked: Signing a body part for the first time! A fifth grade boy at a local book fair already had an author's name scrawled across his forehead and asked me to sign his neck. Turns out, not that easy to sign on skin with a Sharpie!

@subity.bsky.social brought a bunch of middle grade data out in January. Here’s a little more focus on one particular form: middle grade novel-in-verse. #NationalPoetryMonth

Verse Novel Infographics: Agent/Editor Edition

In January I promised this further post, where I’ve put some of the Agent/Editor data, and author stats from the middle grade verse novelist master list. You can see the masterlist of MG NIV …

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🐰Spring into action for our last GIVEAWAY of the school year! 🐰 #teachersky and #librarians! What: FREE virtual class visit with 3 middle grade authors!! How: Follow & repost to enter When: Ends Mon 4/7 Where: US/CAN Good luck!

April is National Poetry Month! If you're looking for a book that's "intensely readable" (School Library Journal) be sure to check out Unsinkable Cayenne!

Here's the visual I use to describe the creative process to students. Your initial spark of excitement is going to wane and maybe even flame out entirely. But the magic happens when your "won't quit" kicks in and you finish that amazing thing you started.

Dear Teachers, Librarians, & Parents! Check out our new series, First Chapter Fridays! Up this week: THE VANISHED ONES, a new fantasy for 10-14 yo's by award-winning author Chad Lucas / @chadgalucas.bsky.social Hear the story in the author’s own voice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFY6...

I can’t wait to read @subity.bsky.social’s book, VALOR WINGS, with my fifth-graders. It’s going to be a fantastic read aloud! #TeacherSky #KidLit

Kids are always asking me what my writing process looks like. So I decided to apply my data skills to explain it in a visual:

✨That wonderful feeling seeing all my @mgauthorcade.bsky.social friends in a huge pile! ✨ Our group of 15 MG authors debuted together in 2021, and look how far we've come. Thanks Kate Albus for the photo. (Follow MG Authorcade for virtual school visit giveaways)

Going through some of my old college stuff, I pulled this out of the box. Son: Oh is that a dictionary? I think I’ve heard of those. What do you do with them?

📢📢GIVEAWAY!!📢📢 Who: For #teachers & #librarians! What: FREE virtual class visit w/ 3 middle grade authors!! How: Follow & repost to enter When: Ends Mon 3/10 ⏰ Where: US/CAN Why: Because you're amazing! 🍀Good luck!

Hey Middle Grade book fans! Check out my year-end wrap-up of the MG market, hot off the presses! All the data you didn't know you wanted to know. 🤓 www.samsubity.com/mg-landscape...

Middle Grade Book Landscape 2024 | Sam Subity

A first look at the middle grade books published so far in 2024 with stats on publisher share, genre popularity, point of view, and gender.

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Me to son after school visit: Why do kids always laugh when I say I'm from Ohio? Son: Because Ohio means something else now. Me: Um...what? Son: Just wait till they realize your last name sounds like "skibidi."

Next Monday! Join us for the live release of my latest data on the middle grade book market along with a Q&A for all your burning questions about what's happening with middle grade books.

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The Middle Grade Book Publishing Landscape Jan 20, 2025, 7pm CT Free: bit.ly/41llRZh Sam Subity, MG author & Data Analyst, will share his latest report on the MG industry. Mallory Kass, executive editor at Scholastic, will discuss the middle grade slump & what's needed to turn it around. #kidlit

Happy birthday, J.R.R. Tolkien (1.3.1892 - 9.2.1973) #tolkien