Melanie Conklin

This one in Nyack, NY

Come see me at the Boston Book Festival tomorrow! We’re offering feedback on your book idea and giving away a bunch of free books!

Very same. Everything I have done is an outlier and everything I do next will also be an outlier.

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No. Your weekly fodder

✨ No is a complete sentence. ✨
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A Perfect Mistake Max wishes he could go back in time. Before he was diagnosed with ADHD, before he grew to be the tallest kid in his class, and before he and his best friends went into the woods in the middle of the ...

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I am so SMALL Your weekly fodder

✨ “I am so small. I am so insignificant, but the force that flows through me is so powerful that I must go forward.” —Hilma af Klint ✨
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Just saw Superman. Was gonna do a whole bit about it walking in. That’d be a disservice. It’s an important piece of work and I’m not joking. I don’t even like superhero movies. Sprint to see it. Bring your kids and explain it to them. James Gunn had a time machine when he made it.

Dream bigger with me F*ck AI, I’m writing a romcom

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Update! There are 196 copies left and WOW I can’t believe we sold so many and please grab one now if you need the hardcover!

Every Missing Piece This stunning novel follows a girl looking for answers about a mysterious boy as she learns about grief, family, and putting the pieces back together—perfe...

Yesterday I got the news that Every Missing Piece will be out of hardcover soon. If you need a copy for your school or library, grab them now! It will continue to be available in paperback and ebook. www.lbyr.com/titles/melan...

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Here I am talking about one of my favorite components of story: the PROBLEM you give your character! www.instagram.com/reel/DLDBret...

This is not normal. A sitting president refusing to call the governor of a state after two elected officials were shot, one fatally, is beyond words. A typical president, regardless of politics, would pick up the phone. Offer condolences.

It’s stochastic terrorism. “stochastic terrorism is accomplished with indirect, vague or coded language, which grants the instigator plausible deniability for any associated violence”

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“Stochastic terrorism is a form of political violence instigated by hostile public rhetoric directed at a group or an individual…Stochastic terrorism is accomplished with indirect, vague or coded language, which grants the instigator plausible deniability for any associated violence.”

Springfield, Mass 6/14/25

One thing I wish people understood is that obeying laws is a CHOICE.

Lawyers cannot wave a magic wand and make lawbreakers follow the law. The only way to stop a slumlord or a lying cop is litigation. We have to ask a judge.

That's not a defense of the system. It's a description of it.

I asked two MAGA white men who flipped us off from their car if they supported the assassinations and they said yes. So much for the 10 Commandments.

I just had two MAGA white men say this to me at a rally TikTok video by Melanie Conklin

I just had two MAGA white men tell me they support the assassinations www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjGo89Sd/

I just had two MAGA white men say this to me at a rally TikTok video by Melanie Conklin

I just had two MAGA white men tell me that they support the assassinations that happened last night. Do you understand now? www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjGEDvHk/

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Art as resistance Art as refuge

✨Art as resistance ✨

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Keep the faith! The creative process never fails if we let it do its thing ✨

The Best Children's Books of the Year [2025 edition] Includes more than 600 titles chosen by the Children’s Book Committee as the best of the best published in 2024. In choosing books for the annual list, committee members consider literary quality and ...

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