Susan Metallo

Graphic with text Young Adult Books with Autistic Characters by Autistic Authors. Published September 2025. Displays the book covers for: - Reasons to Hate Me by Susan Metallo - Walking the Knife’s Edge by Elise Carlson - Hollow by Taylor Grothe - Unending by Ivelisse Housman

Young Adult Books with Autistic Characters written by Autistic authors. Published September 2025.

Check Your Connection: Character in YA literature, a guest post by Susan Metallo When an author bears witness to the experience of adolescence through a real, living, breathing, complicated, messy protagonist caught in a web of complicated, messy relationships, readers notice.

Check Your Connection: Character in YA literature, a guest post by Susan Metallo

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Thing that will never get old: googling "Susan Metallo book" and getting a bunch of Superman comics in return. #supervillain #alterego

In Conversation: Jodi Meadows and Susan Metallo The protagonists of YA author Susan Metallo’s latest YA book 'Reasons to Hate Me' and Jodi Meadows’s middle grade novel 'Confessions from the Group Chat' have found themselves on the outs with their f...

@jodimeadows.bsky.social and I had a conversation for PW about tween and teen girls, social groups and gossip. Check it out!: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... #booksky #yabooks #kidlitmegafeed

This book is so good! And Stan is awesome. Check him out, librarian friends!

Thank you, Sara!

I have such wonderful news to share. Over the weekend, Reasons to Hate Me received its first trade review...and it's a STAR from Publishers Weekly! 🤯🥹😭I'm so honored by this reviewer's kind words. See the whole review here: www.publishersweekly.com/9781536240351

Today's Supreme Court decision, though couched in the language of freedom and inclusivity, is a tragic failure for both the right to read and the rights of LGBTQIA+ people. Authors Against Book Bans stands firmly and fiercely against the decision and its rationale. To allow parents to "object" to the presence of positive books about the lives and rights of LGBTQIA+ people is to allow them to "object" to the existence of LGBTQIA+ students, parents, educators, and others in the wider community. You cannot “opt out” of reality, no matter what today’s majority opinion states. These books belong on shelves and these stories belong in classrooms and curricula.

Our statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling in Mahmoud v Taylor. Image thread with alt text. 1/4

Children's Institute 2025: A Photo Essay Booksellers, authors, and exhibitors talked shop and partied at Children’s Institute 2025 in Portland, Ore., June 11–14. In this collection of photos, PW and participating publishers share some memora...

So exciting to be in PW again! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I'm so glad! I'm also still figuring myself out in .y late 30s, in so many ways. I think it's why I'm drawn to writing (and reading) YA: there's no pretense that the characters know themselves perfectly. In my experience, identity is a life-long discovery process.

Hi Jen, yes! I'd love you to include it. Thank you! She's exploring her sexuality in the book and doesn't quite know what label fits her by the end, but she's thinking along the ace spectrum. Based on my own experience :)

Stepping Up to Fight Book Bans Eric Rosswood is an award-winning author, activist, and commentator on LGBTQ+ issues including civil rights, parenting, marriage, and politics. He writes books that celebrate and honor queer joy, from...

"People assume gay men are weak and bad at sports, but here was Rob proving them wrong. I wondered what my life would have been like if I had seen someone like Rob when I was in school." Representation in Kidlit matters! www.scbwi.org/stepping-up-... #kidlitmegafeed @authorsabb.bsky.social

Oregon! You're getting closer to protecting the right to read! Contact your House Reps & urge them to vote for SB 1098! olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/C...

The Texas Legislature is working through the holiday weekend. Those driving book bans and censorship in our state are activating their supporters to pressure lawmakers to move Senate Bill 13 (school library bill) and House Bill 3225 (public library bill) forward.

YouTube video by The ME Action Network Danielle shares why she is joining #MillionsMissing on May 12th. #DisabilitySOS

Danielle shares why she is one of the #MillionsMissing who are showing up in DC, online, and around the world this Monday- May 12th to send out a #DisabilitySOS.

Join us: www.meactions.org/millionsmiss...

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#longCovid #pwME #MECFS #ProtectMedicaid

Beside the cover of REASONS TO HATE ME, text reads: A Summer/Fall 2025 Kids Indies Introduce Pick! "Unflinchingly honest, uproarious, and sometimes gut-wrenching." --Lauren Pronger, Chapterhouse Books, Amarillo, TX.

I'm so excited to share that REASONS TO HATE ME was selected by the American Booksellers Association for Indies Introduce! I'm so honored and I can't stop happy-dancing!

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Screaming Red Alarm in the Texas Capitol This one's about public libraries. Here's what to do.

Texas Friends, call your reps & tell them to vote NO on book banning bill HB3225. The gov't doesn't decide what my kids are allowed to read. Other parents don't either. I do. *THAT'S* what "parental rights" means. #kidlitmegafeed franklinstrong.substack.com/p/screaming-...

RFK Jr. asks CDC for new measles treatment guidance amid his unfounded claims Kennedy claimed that drugs like budesonide and clarithromycin "have been shown very effective" for measles, but doctors say they don't fight the infection itself.

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’

One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

From The Onion: Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

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Hi Everyone!

If you’re in need of a query critique, AMA call, bookmarks or social banners, 50-page critiques, Canva website, or a date-with-a-book, I’m continuing to fundraise here:
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#kidlitmegafeed if you're disabled join Disabled Kidlit Writers on fb for a supportive community in these shitty times

Disabled people are 28% of the US population. We will not go away just because you don't want us here or shut up because you don't want to hear us. And only the weakest bullies kick the disabled kids.

The items on your list make it clear that you view the lives of disabled people as not worthwhile. Can't play baseball? Tragedy. Need support with self care tasks? Tragedy. Can't pay taxes [*and aren't a millionaire who clearly deserves tax cuts]? Tragedy. Well, F U Robert F. [2/3]

Dear Robert F-ing Kennedy. My family is not a tragedy. Being who we are is not suffering. My kids play sports. I write poems for a living. I am married. We all use toilets. And yes, to the first and presumably most important item on your list, I pay taxes. But let's be real: 🧵 [1/3]

More student action against book bans! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Page 1 Books Albuquerque webpage displays Reasons to Hate Me by Susan Metallo

Imagine browsing your favorite indie bookstore's website and all of a sudden there's a book with your name on the cover 😍 @page1books.bsky.social

The cover of Reasons to Hate Me shows a yellow cake with pink icing smashed against a teal background. Text around the cover reads: neurodivergent nerd girls; drama kid drama; power of the post; disability justice; ace love; BFF implosion; slut-shamer takedown

It's COVER REVEAL TIME!!

I love this design and I'm SO excited to see this book out in the world. 🙂 Preorder links are here: susanmetallo.com/books

It's also up on Goodreads, so you can add to your "want to read" shelf! www.goodreads.com/.../22213316...

Ahhh I love it so much!!!!!!!

Report shows it’s largely officials and orgs demanding book bans - not parents Only 16 percent of book challenges came from parents themselves

Yes, yes, yes!! It is NOT librarians and teachers vs. parents rights!! It parents like me vs. the political extremists who don't want my kids to have access to books. Parents overwhelmingly support the freedom to read!
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“Books don’t make kids become anybody else. Books make kids think.”

Amen, Judy Blume! 👆👆👆

Ohio peeps, get on the horn to your state reps, they're trying to cut the budget for our public libraries. Tell them to restore the Public Library Fund (PLF) to 1.75% of the Ohio General Revenue Fund!