Martha Mihalick

Hey friends! Would you like to hash out world building details for your next manuscript with me and bestselling author Rae Carson? You can bid on just that in this auction to help raise funds for orgs in MN! www.32auctions.com/organization...

I just watched Seven Dials on Netflix, and I finally got a Dorothy L. Sayers book (Strong Poison) to read on vacation in a couple weeks and one of my fave shows last year was The Residence and where are the modern YA versions of this kind of cozy mystery and why are they not in my submissions pile?

The perfect album from the year I turned 16–and also the one that was most played in the car with my newly gained drivers license independence…

Ahem Green-wood* Cemetery.

We did a matinee and then also did the After Hours tour of Green-Cemetery, which was a bold yet A+ sort of double feature. (Though that face from the movie is still haunting me.)

I’m so glad I read @lindaholmes.bsky.social’s essay about WEAPONS in the PCHH newsletter & listened to the ep, too, bc they convinced me to see it even though I am not generally a horror person. My fella & I both thought it was one of the best in-theater movie experiences we’d had in a long time.

A black cat lying on a half-knit sweater and ball of yarn in a sunbeam. The vibes.

Yessssssssss!

simple cauliflower tacos A giant head of cauliflower reduced to a scorched, highly seasoned rubble, finished with lime, avocado, salty cheese, pickled onions, and your favorite hot sauce is one of my favorite dinners.

And also this is excellent. smittenkitchen.com/2020/10/simp...

crispy cabbage and cauliflower salad A fully inhalable crispy cabbage and cauliflower salad with a sharp tahini dressing. Each bite is both crackly and tender.

This is so yummy if you also have cabbage. smittenkitchen.com/2022/02/cris...

That would be such an interest challenge and accomplishment.

Craft question: are there any mg or ya books told in dual POV, where in each you consider the POV character the hero and the other the villain—sympathizing with or understanding the actions of each when you’re in their head, even though you know they’re “evil” to the other?

a man carrying a backpack is walking through a living room ALT: a man carrying a backpack is walking through a living room

Live footage of me returning from ALA yesterday afternoon.

I’ve been reading and watching a lot of sci-fi recently (📚Some Desperate Glory, Wool, 📺 Andor, Silo, Foundation). My biggest takeaway? I don’t think I have the upper body strength to survive in a dystopia.

THE LEAGUE OF LITTLES, written by me and illustrated by the amazing @sarafaber.bsky.social is out today! It's been such a fun project to work on! 🥰 Thank you to our editor, @marthamihalick.bsky.social and everyone at Greenwillow Books for everything you do!

www.harpercollins.ca/978006328526...

A photo of a serious editor of literary children’s books with a cat tail perfectly placed as a mustache

Why, yes, I am a serious editor of literary children’s books, why do you ask?

Y’all, this book! ♥️✨🌳

He just loves shoes so much

When you diligently take your shoes off at your entrance way to prevent NYC sidewalk dirt/germs/etc from getting all over your home and then your cat does this.

Sometimes I think about Dear Genius, the collection of funny, pithy, insightful letters that the legendary Ursula Nordstrom wrote to authors like Sendak, EB White, Margaret Wise Brown, etc, and how I email my authors things like Neverending Story gifs.

A piece embroidered on fabric patterned with illustrated scissors. The embroidered text reads: “stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs. Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”

“Don’t get emotional, it plays into their hands”

Counterpoint via the embroidery @marthamihalick.bsky.social made for me seven years ago:

Similarly, if I take my glasses off at a convention, I am incognito and no one recognizes me. I am sure this is true.

And repeated over and over again 😆

Any other NYers out there experiencing weird glitches with the WNYC stream this morning?

Me: Only an hour left in this audiobook, that doesn’t seem like enough time for a happy ending.
Me: Oh no this is an adult book.
Me: Oh no there have been so many Romeo & Juliet references.

I dunno, @democrats.org, maybe not EVERYONE should send the same exact email one right after another. Let Cory get some sleep.

The League of Littles by Casey Lyall Lyall (Waking the Dead and Other Fun Activities) teams up with illustrator Faber in this shenanigans-filled graphic novel, a dua...

Awesome review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social for The League of Littles! Thank you for the kind words! @sarafaber.bsky.social and I can't wait to share this one!

The League of Littles hits shelves on June 17th from Greenwillow Books and will be available anywhere books are sold.

“The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, the librarians —because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”

—Madeleine L’Engle