Joy McCullough

I am so thrilled to share the cover of my upcoming memoir, SUFFER A WITCH! Designed by the brilliant Theresa Evangelista and (I love that I get to say this) art by Artemisia Gentileschi. Available for pre-order now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746826...

Thank you!

Thank you. If I want to make it not too hard on my 12-year-old character, would it be noticeably implausible for the library to have 3 month old articles on microfiche?

Librarians: If someone was researching something in 1978 and they wanted to see newspaper articles from three months earlier, would those already be on microfiche? Or would they have to get back issues of the actual paper?

My son informed me he saw a rainbow at lunch!

Ooh, is it sunny somewhere? It's absolutely pouring in Edmonds.

Three actors on a stage dressed in medieval style garments - one older white man wearing a crown, and two white women.

Three actors in a scene, wearing contemporary dress, laughing and drinking.

A white woman wearing a t-shirt with an Artemisia Gentileschi painting on it, with the title "Girls will be girls."

Seattle area friends, there are four more performances of Stage of Fools at Seattle Public Theater. The Stranger called it "hilariously cathartic" & The Sound On-Stage called it "brilliant" and "raucously hilarious"! Tickets start at $10 - don't miss it! www.seattlepublictheater.org/current-prod...

A middle grade book cover on a blue background. On the book cover, a blond child stands with her arms outstretched and back to the viewer, facing mountains in the distance. There is a black and white dog at her side, and the girl's shadow is in the shape of a bird.

Oh hey, it's another cover reveal! This middle grade novel in verse comes out on 5-26, with gorgeous cover design by Greg Stadnyk and art by Suzie Mason! (Don’t miss Kestrel’s shadow!) Available for pre-order now!

A graphic with a blue background, featuring three books in a series. The largest is a cover reveal of Team Awkward: Izzy vs. Cheerleading, with four 6th grade girls on a colorful background. The smaller two books have similar cover styles.

COVER REVEAL!!! Team Awkward: Izzy vs. Cheerleading is coming on June 23rd!

I'm so thrilled each girl is getting a book. I had a ball writing cheerleading & mascot shenanigans & Iove how designer Karin Paprocki & artist Laura Catrinella have maintained the format but made each cover so fresh & fun.

A collage of twenty-one 2025 middle grade and young adult book covers. Books featured include This Is The Year, Glitch Girl!, Top Heavy, Lilac and The Switchback, The Girl In The Walls, Safe Harbor, The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez, Under The Neon Lights, The Leaving Room, Octopus moon, 13 Ways To Say Goodbye, Zarina Divided, Truth Is, Where The Heart Should Be, (S)kin, Everything is Poison, Radiant, The Burning Season, Island Creatures, The Siren and The Star and Please Pay Attention.

🌼 42 2025 Middle Grade and Young Adult Novels-In-Verse 🌼
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Thank you so much, Jen!

This is my foster dog Mookie. He came to me extremely scared and shut down and it's been beautiful to watch him open up.

Thanks, Christiana!!!

Seattle area friends, my new play Stage of Fools opens at Seattle Public Theater on Friday and tickets are on a sliding scale, starting at $10. It's funny and also bad man faces consequences, what more could you want? www.seattlepublictheater.org/current-prod...

80% OFF Jojo vs. Middle School After having hilariously terrible first days of sixth grade, four girls vow to ride out the super highs and cringe-worthy lows of middle school together, no matter how awkward it gets, in this first b...

Pssst readers of audiobooks and middle grade! The audiobook of Jojo vs. Middle School is only $4.99 for a limited time.
This is the first in the series, with the second out and two more on the way next year. www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

When a woman risks
her place, her very life
to speak a truth the world despises?
Believe her. Always.

Blood Water Paint

Bidding is open! The #KidLitforCeasefire We the People auction benefits families in Gaza, as well as immigrant & trans rights orgs. I have two items, including a custom order of one of my crocheted baskets based on book covers. Also a 30 minute video call AMA. www.32auctions.com/organization...

Enter the Body by Joy McCullough: 9780593406779 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books “At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic heroines. More than a tribute to Shakespeare, this kaleidoscopic, ambitious novel-in-verse...

For everyone with a sudden interest in Ophelia, may I offer my book ENTER THE BODY, which tells--and retells--her story, along with Juliet, Cordelia, and Lavinia? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676666...

Hey #KidLit friends, the #KidLitforCeasefire auction items are live & will open for bidding on the 18th! I'm offering a 30 minute AMA, and a custom crocheted basket based on the book cover of your choice, a la the examples below. Peruse all the items at the link! www.32auctions.com/organization...

Thanks! (PS Titan of the Stars was very fun! I'm looking forward to Sky on Fire!)

ARTISTS: I need to get my daughter a college laptop. She is an artist designing her own major that will likely include sequential art. She currently does digital art w/Procreate on an iPad. Is there a reason a MacBook would be better FOR ART STUFF than a PC?

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Hey everyone,

#KidLit4Ceasefire has now fundraised the evacuation of 10 people.

I am focusing on the next two families.
One family of 6 and another of just 3, with a 4-month-old baby. I need 500 items for this fundraiser.

I only have 218 at the moment.

Donate here:
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I finished yesterday and loved it! (And the audio narrator is terrific.)

Donate to Help Bring Fernando Home — A Beloved Union Brother Detained, organized by Blake Whitmore Our friend, coworker, and union brother Fernando Rocha needs … Blake Whitmore needs your support for Help Bring Fernando Home — A Beloved Union Brother Detained

Nando is a member of Seattle's theater community, a union member, father, and a public school employee, and none of that should have to be true for him to avoid being disappeared without due process because he showed up for a compulsory immigration check-in. www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring...

What a cute notebook! (And yay for inspiration!)

Sending so much love out to anyone who was abused as a teenager, who knows that none of the endless outrage about The List is about justice or healing for those girls, that no matter what proof is found, it will never matter because our country has already made clear we're cool w/sexual predators.

I just signed some books at an indie and the bookseller said, "Oh! You also wrote..." and I waited for her to say Blood Water Paint and instead she said, "...the periods one!" I love BWP but it's always to nice to know people have read some of my others.

Leah vs. Art (Team Awkward #2) Middle school books, middle grade books, books for tweens, middle school library, middle grade literature, #MGLit, librarian, kids

@joymccullough.bsky.social & @veedabybee.bsky.social @simonkids.bsky.social LEAH VS. ART: TEAM AWKWARD #2 is a great choice for fans of THE CUPCAKE DIARIES or @bethcody.bsky.social FOREVER FOUR. msyinglingreads.blogspot.com/2025/07/leah...

Thanks so much!

Oh lovely, I hope you enjoy Everything is Poison whenever you read it!