Lucas Klauss

Children’s Book by Concord Author Explores How Even Dinosaurs Can Learn to Be Kind “I just find it more fun to write kid’s stuff," Lucas Klauss said about his new children's book, "Surprise Dinosaur!"

I made the local paper (newsletter). Please enjoy this large photo of me in my natural environs (dimly lit dining room with my laundry hamper sitting at the bottom of the stairs for multiple days).

28.05.2025 13:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hey you too!

01.04.2025 20:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I like this book so much, I bought three copies. It's chock full of dinosaurs AND surprises--perfect for almost every reader I know. Happy release day, @lucasklauss.bsky.social!

01.04.2025 17:40 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

And of course massive, T. Rex-sized gratitude to illustrator @mikemoranillo.bsky.social, who did most of the hard work!

01.04.2025 16:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Huge thanks to @katemckean.bsky.social and @wendymc.bsky.social and the whole Sourcebooks team! 🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖

01.04.2025 16:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A large green dinosaur holding a picture book about a large green dinosaur named Surprise Dinosaur.

My debut picture book is out today. Happy Surprise Dinosaur Day to all who celebrate!

01.04.2025 16:00 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1

Thanks to me, April Fool's Day will never happen again. Happy to help!

31.03.2025 15:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh God People Are Going To Read My Book And other new-found horrors

New anxiety about writing a book just dropped.

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25.03.2025 13:55 — 👍 86    🔁 5    💬 5    📌 2

Cardboard box full of hardback copies of Surprise Dinosaur!, a picture book by Lucas Klauss and Mike Moran.

Watch your back, Kool-Aid Man! There’s a new anthropomorphized, wall-smashing creature on the block. And he’s more substantial because he’s made of meat and bones, not liquid and glass, you juice-adjacent aberration! You saccharine homunculus!

(Surprise Dinosaur is bustin’ into bookstores April 1)

26.02.2025 16:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Surprise Dinosaur!|Hardcover Everyone loves surprises, right? But what if the surprise is a dinosaur? In this hilarious story, a T. Rex learns how to make surprises fun for everyone.This is just a regular story about a nice town,...

Link to my and @mikemoranillo.bsky.social's book!

06.02.2025 15:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Barnes & Noble offer for 25% off all preorders with code PREORDER25, including Surprise Dinosaur!, my debut picture book, the cover of which is shown, depicting a large green T. Rex busting through a red wall in a fashion similar to the Kool-Aid Man.

Today and tomorrow, my good friends Jornathan Barnes and Melnissa Noble (aka @barnesandnoble.com) are offering 25% off all preorders, including my debut picture book. Please take advantage of this great deal and tell these two real people, my close and dear pals Jornathan and Melnissa, thank you.

06.02.2025 15:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Screenshot of an email from Donors Choose, including promo code BHM for doubling donations to projects by Black teachers, and projects at schools where a majority of students are Black

Screenshot showing that the gift was successfully doubled

I got an email this morning from Donors Choose with the promo code BMH to double donations to projects like this. Looks like it worked!

05.02.2025 14:49 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wanna take a peek at a new cover reveal? Surprise Dinosaur a new hilarious book written by @lucasklauss.bsky.social for @sbkslibrary.bsky.social! I’m not kidding when I say it will be released on 4/1/25! #dinosaur #dinosaurs #trex #surprise

05.02.2025 14:08 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

For real

30.01.2025 17:06 — 👍 138    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 1

Round stickers featuring the visage of Surprise Dinosaur and the phrase, "I don't want to eat you, I only want to surprise you"

Wow! Your purchase has qualified you for Apex status in the Surprise Dinosaur Sticker Club. Includes free stickers and exclusive updates. As we say in the SDSC: "Boom Roar Crash!"

23.01.2025 17:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you thank you! I'm in great company in this post

23.01.2025 17:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

An Open Letter to Our Publishers

With the election of the trump administration and its policies as embodied by Project 2025, we authors have deep concerns about how our publishers will be operating and how publishers will advocate for and protect authors. Trump's agenda explicitly calls for the criminalization of authors, teachers, librarians, and publishing professionals with the consequences including, "imprison[ment]," and being "classed as registered sex offenders" (pg 4 Project 2025)

For authors who are not citizens, this could also result in deportation. This promises to be a pro-censorship, pro-book-banning administration, and the successful implementation of its policies will require willing compliance of America's institutions, including its corporations. The freedom to write is as important as the freedom to read. We have been heartened by many publishers' willingness to engage in legal and legislative pathways to fight book banning and want to be sure that you will double-down on your fight during this consequential time.

This past week AABB help open forums with authors from all genres and age levels to better understand author concerns and needs. While this may not be a complete list due to the rapid turnaround, we know we have a short time before January to prepare for what is to come and we want to this start this conversation sooner rather than later.

An Open Letter to our Publishers has been sent to over 90 Publishing CEOs this morning in response to the concerns of our members. 1/4

25.11.2024 17:57 — 👍 618    🔁 361    💬 6    📌 36

Dan, hi! Check out DON'T LET THE FOREST IN by CG Drews. One of my absolute faves of the year.

21.11.2024 19:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0