Melissa Wiley

Thanks so much, Michael!

Thanks, Wendi! I'm having such a good time with the research for this one. It was the summer of Xanadu!

Exciting news I can finally spill! My next middle-grade novel, The Swimming Pigs of Licorice Springs, will be published by Knopf in Spring 2027. (Which in book-writing years is like ten minutes from now. I'd better get busy!)

Gosh! So exciting to see it in print! Thanks, Tanita!!

It is an absolute honor to be one of the women whose stories Shannon included in her book. Her (free!!!) Firestarter University program is going to be incredible. Time to get your blazing spark on!

i wonder if people under a certain age know how much limitless free information used to be readily available online about anything you could think of, anything at all, you could start reading about a niche subject and then it would be 4 am and you had been reading about weird candy for six hours

In love with this feline

Sky-blue background with illustrated fluffy white clouds. Header text reads "KidLit/YA Publishers On Bluesky. Please note: I lack the time to vet every publisher, so before submitting/querying to any publisher, do your research to make sure they are legit & the right fit for you."

Delighted to see more kidlit/YA publishers & organizations joining Bluesky! Recent additions to my KidLit/YA Publishers custom feed: @penguinschoollib.bsky.social (Penguin Random House) & @pressboxbooks.bsky.social (North Star imprint).

Fingers crossed that more publishers follows suit.

Randomly remembering the Television Without Pity E.R. recapper who had a phobia about eyeballs & subbed "toes" anytime eye injuries were a plot point

HEY!

(Not shouting, just warming up for tonight's Low Bar Chorale Schoolhouse Rock rehearsal. Hooray!) #pdx

Aw, same.

You know you can review a book literally any time, right? It doesn't have to be a new book. Someone sees a book for the first time from your review: BOOM! It's a new book. That's a special kind of temporal magic.

Okay. Whew. What with our move and my writing deadlines, I've been buried, slammed, flattened for months (and almost totally dormant on social media). Finally, finally coming up for air. What did I miss? (dies laughing)

If the creative person you're thinking about doesn't have their name in extremely large type on a poster or billboard, take what you assume they make, halve it, halve it again, and then halve it a couple more times just to be sure. That amount? Probably still more than they are actually making.

Coming up on 96 hours and my arm still looks like a strip of button candy

I mean I'll remember the error for the rest of my life but

Friends, be happy for me, big day: I did not follow a reply in which I made a small and easily decipherable typo with an asterisked correction

The art is really wonderful. I'm on deadline today but look forward to talking a deeper look

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My thanks to @blueappaloosa.bsky.social for help setting-up! 🧪

Oh wow, I love this

bluesky but it rhymes with brewski

I liked it even more the second time

It's my favorite thing! Doors open at 6:30, singing starts at 7:30. Live band & we all learn parts (but in a low key, no pressure way). I'll be there!

If you're still here on Tuesday go to Show Bar at Revolution Hall & sing with the best pub choir in all the land (Low Bar Chorale)

Oh DO!!! Really all I want in life is for Vera to call me "pet" just once. Preferably not in connection with the murder of a loved one.

Salt? Sugar? Either way, I'm good.

Just outright giggling over here. That was delightful.

That one looks up my alley

Vera is set in Northumberland which is close enough to Scotland to assuage my own Shetland withdrawal. And it's so, so good. Nuanced and satisfying. As is Shetland.

My entry point was Wee Free Men, which I read to my kids. An absolute gem of a book.