Katherine Choppy Harrison

UGH why am I such a cringey Millennial and, more importantly, why is this latest Jeff Tweedy album so good 😭

Yes, and there’s something so maddening about the self satisfaction as he watches it land. He knows there is no grownup on the room, no one to step in and defend her, no moral authority who will make him face consequences. He exults in having power over the vulnerable and using it for cruelty.

Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.

theconversation.com/learning-wit...

I think the maddening thing here is many more critical folks who study info search, learning, etc could have (and have been) saying this. The process matters

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

Prose like this is a good reminder that we editors are doing Important Work.

Are you sure they didn’t pull that out of a bathtub drain?

Oh thank you! Somehow all the props helped with the cringe factor of going on camera 😅

From bread lines to bulbasaur lines 😔

I needed plenty of safety gear to film this unboxing video for my new picture book, THE POWER TOOL ALPHABET! Thanks to @sourcebooks.bsky.social for making this book a reality and my assistant Harper for advising on tool selection. Coming to stores December 2 🔨🪚📚

This is Brisket, and it’s true, he is impossible to resist!

A very cute kitty

Was getting a cat the best choice ever? Or has the toxoplasmosis fully taken over my brain? Some mysteries will never be solved.

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

A big beautiful Bill he ain’t

Perhaps he is always shown in shadow or from behind, typing abhorrent missives on a clacky keyboard

Both crying and buzzing with inspiration!

“Empathy is the oxygen of democracy.” -Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress

National treasure Carla Hayden speaking at the RHCB town hall on a random Thursday, someone pinch me 🤩

A Quick Trip to the Store

Happy book birthday to A Quick Trip to the Store by Sam Wedelich!

I might actually watch Marvel movies if they gave us a character with this as their villain/hero origin story.

Could not agree more 🦜

The middle grade novel MYSTERY ON MACAW MOUNTAIN by Maria José Fitzgerald with art by George Ermos.

The middle grade novel Life on the Moon by Matthew Swanson with art by Robbi Behr.

The middle grade novel Wilderness Hacks by Joslin Brorsen with art by David Dean.

Totally obsessed with all my Spring 2026 middle grade covers!!! Do you have a favorite?

MACAW: art by @georgeermos.bsky.social ; design by Jen Valero
MOON: art by Robbi Behr ; design by Jen Valero
WILDERNESS: art by David Dean ; design by Suzanne Lee

Dammit! Don’t make me regret leaving Twitter!

If I could share but one pearl of publishing wisdom: there is ALWAYS a better way to query your novel than a LinkedIn message. Exercise self-care by avoiding this method at all costs.

This weekend was the first time I’ve worked up the nerve to walk into a bookstore and tell them I wrote a book, and… it wasn’t a disaster! Thanks to Margaux Meganck and @earldizonwriter.bsky.social at Green Bean Books for making this as painless and fun as possible!

I edited something the other day… it took like 3 hours and I still hate it 😭

You come across as such a natural though!! Teach me your ways!

For some reason my mind went to Branson, MO

Trying to promote the book I wrote is exactly as Maggie describes 🙃

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Friends, as you come down from the high fructose fugue of Halloween, why not give a gift to your future self and support a local bookstore by preordering BUT I’M A PUMPKIN today?