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What an honor to see FOWL PLAY alongside so many books whose authors I truly admire! Thank you, Colorado! ✨🦜📚

Wow - that’s wonderful news! Thank you for including FOWL PLAY alongside these amazing titles!!

Thank you, PW @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social! ☺️✨

Coming soon: new projects from @kristintubb.bsky.social, Katherine Quinn, Ann Braden + more buff.ly/ppQwajR

This middle grade mystery is headed to the next #bookposse member! #mglit @kristintubb.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social

Hooray! I hope you love FOWL PLAY, Erin! Thanks for reading and sharing! ✨📚🦜

Cover of middle grade mystery book Fowl Play by Kristin O’Donnell Tubb

I do love a good mystery! Excited to read this one that’s making the #bookposse rounds. #mglit @kristintubb.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social #FowlPlay

GREAT IDEA!💙
MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD! VERY LOUD!💙💙

Here, have some Mary Oliver

From Rick Rubin’s “The Creative Act: A Way of Being”

1 day apart.

BOWLING GREEN! Come play Publishing Jenga with us!

The Puzzle of Publishing: Balancing the Ups and Downs of a Creative Career. Join us for this interactive journey through publishing a book! #kidlit #bowlinggreen

Shares 99% of her DNA with wolves

Nala insists on helping me edit.

Read books! Act Up!

Reading books is rapidly becoming an act of resistance.

With Project 2025 already in effect and with this warped and misguided interpretation of the *science of reading* taking hold and taking over, reading books is rapidly becoming an act of resistance.

Act Up! Read Books!

CARTOONS OF THE DAY 🫤

(Cartoonists are rallying around @anntelnaes.bsky.social as she leaves the @washingtonpost.com )

“Hope is optimism with a broken heart.” Nick Cave, The Red Hand Files Issue 308

The universe also gives us permission to wear socks with Birks in these, our bitter winter months.

“Say fromage!”

Aaaand she’s off! My eldest is headed to France to study this next quarter! I’m beside myself with joy and excitement for her! Je t’aime! Bon voyage, Chloe! ❤️⭐️

(Also hi I’m back after a month off of social media! 10/10 solidly recommend!)

War Eagle! 🦅

Iron Bowl watching kit:
✅War Eagle Supper Club FOREVER shirt (“FOREVER? Is that a threat or a promise?”)
✅Pot of @tubernator.bsky.social’s chili
✅Jack + Ginger (light on the Jack, heavy on the ginger. Tastes like football!)

WARRRRRR EAGLE! HEY! 🦅🧡💙

👋🏼😁

Grateful to my niece and nephews for all this book fodder 🤣❤️

🥰😘💕

ALA, Writers Guild Initiative Announce Creative Writing Workshops for Librarians

“All librarians are invited to apply, and 25 librarians will be randomly selected to participate in the workshop series. Applications are open now through December 16, 2024, and there will be four workshops scheduled from Saturday, February 1 through March 8, 2025.”

www.ala.org/news/2024/11...

Books.

When buying books for gifts this holiday season, please don't buy from Amazon. Please shop at your local independent bookstore/bookseller. Ask for recommendations. If they don't have a particular book in stock, ask them to order it.

Support creatives, local businesses, and your community.

www.parnassusbooks.net/kristintubb

Thank you, Parnassus Books, for including FOWL PLAY in your holiday catalog! To celebrate, I’ve included a favorite pic of 2024: Ann Patchett, Me, Rae Ann Parker , & my pug Myrtle celebrating the release of FOWL PLAY this summer! 😁 You can get my books signed and personalized through Parnassus!