Sam B. Farkas

Publishing hot take: traditional publishing is really hard, and self-publishing is really hard, and everyone deserves a sandwich and a nap.

YouTube video by Kiri Callaghan Adapting Robin Hood | Amy S Kaufman Interview

I have a new interview up with @kiricallaghan.com where we talk all things medieval Robin Hood!

I'm walking! (Very slowly. With one crutch. But progress!!)

Omg this sounds awesome!

They are the best!

Bask looks into the void and the void looks into Bask

🚨 ATTENTION: GRITTY WAS AT THE LIBRARIAN CONFERENCE!? GRITTY WAS AT ALA 🚨

The correct answer is Mets. Next question.

my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world

Ye Olde Recipe for Historical Fantasy Interview with Amy S. Kaufman, medieval scholar and author of "The Traitor of Sherwood Forest"

I have a new interview up in author @omersarae.bsky.social's Recipes for Writing! Find out which three modern things I'd want if I were trapped in a medieval ballad 🦊!

The algorithm is dunking on me, because now all, and I mean ALL, my ads are for orthopedic shoes.

“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” Jeeves would kill you where you stand

Brad has been released and the crowd breaks into a chant of “Free them all.”

While we’re rallying around Lander, who’s been a lock for my top 2 as long as he’s been in the race, I love this video he did about disability access on NYC transit

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

No Kings clearly does not include Aragorn, son of Arathorn, bearer of Andúril (forged from the remains of Narsil), as he is the direct lineal heir of Isildur and thus the rightful ruler of Gondor and Arnor, and called King Elessar, which means “Elf-Stone” in Quenya, the tongue of the Elves.

I wish I could be out there today, but I and my broken ankle are cheering you all on! #nokings

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Bill Pullman & Rick Moranis Returning For New ‘Spaceballs’; Keke Palmer Also Set – The Dish 'Spaceballs 2' is bringing back Rick Moranis and Bill Pullman, enlisting Keke Palmer to star alongside the original cast members, sources say.

I have been waiting my entire life for this.

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Happy 1st birthday Dream Submarine! Thank you @sambfarkas.bsky.social @cleonique.bsky.social @candlewickpress.bsky.social and all the kids who've climbed aboard this cozy sub for a journey through the world's oceans! #childrensbook #childrensbookillustration #ocean #oceananimals

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns

los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

Person dressed as a knight with a trans flag and a cape with a trans flag shield that says “Trans Knights are human Knights”

This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

It's World Ocean Day! Celebrate with a story and help protect the #ocean by reducing plastic pollution! #childrensbooks @candlewickpress.bsky.social @cleonique.bsky.social #worldoceanday #worldoceansday

Yes, fortunately my husband is a very good nurse and provides all the chocolate!

I got surgery, yay!

Lots of metal in my foot, so please bear with me as I enter my Inspector Gadget era.

Thanks, Amy. It is not fun!

Anyway, I don’t know if I lost or gained New Yorker points for getting carried out of the Canal St station by EMS.

I do know that being temporarily barefoot on a subway platform was the grossest thing to ever happen to me.

Guess who tripped down the subway stairs and broke her ankle in at least three places?

Hint: It’s me.

Random, but possibly the thing I miss most about old Book Twitter is the makeup recommendations.

I still rely on the lipstick and mascara that Book Twitter taught me about 5-7 years ago.

Book Twitter knew the good stuff! I miss it!

In honor of me being in NYC for TEN YEARS here's lil' baby Sam at 2015 BEA (with one of my fave authors Kenneth Oppel) and also at publishing school (I still wear that outfit to work looool).