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elanaroth.bsky.social
Lit agent. Often quilting. Always rewatching a Star Trek series (not Enterprise). Very Jewish. Still not Elena. She/her. elana.me / lowercasequilts.com
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Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

The DS9 episode where Frankie Eyes takes over Vic Fontaine’s casino is basically how I picture Trump taking over the Kennedy Center.

I haven't done an #MSWL day in a hot minute. I'm not open to queries just yet. Probably March? But my general categories don't tend to change that much... I updated my page here anyway: www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/el...

Join @joshuaslevy.bsky.social, author of FINN AND EZRA'S BAR MITZVAH TIME LOOP, Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category, on the next blog tour stop. Hosted at bookoflifepodcast.substack.com/p/podcast-fi... View the full blog tour schedule at jewishlibraries.org/2025-blog-to... #STBA

Look, I’m still salty the Lions aren’t in this game, but Philly is making this worthwhile.

Philly is a brick wall tonight.

It's Holocaust Remembrance Day. Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. Both my bubbie and zayde survived Auschwitz, but neither was liberated there. My grandmother had been transferred to a labor camp, making Nazi uniforms, and freed by the Russian army there. 🧵

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

For one whole hour, my feed here was filled with children's books winning awards and not panic and it was glorious. Alas, back to the pit of despair we go....

Congrats again @joshuaslevy.bsky.social! A Sydney Taylor Honor for FINN & EZRA! So so so happy for you!

6yo: Mom, what’s 9 times 5? Me: 45 6yo: So if 9 bears each ate 5 pizzas, that’s how many pizzas you’d need to order? You’re welcome. Happy Friday.

Also congrats to client Alexa Donne! This is her second nomination. It’s a good day over here.

Popping back into this site to say BIG congrats to @joshuaslevy.bsky.social on winning the National Jewish Book Award for Middle Grade Literature today for FINN & EZRA'S BAR MITZVAH TIME LOOP. Kvelling, schepping naches, and all those things. Thanks @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social!

Guess who picked up a new hobby over the break. Guess who also still has her floss carrying case, complete with lots of floss and old friendship bracelets vintage 1994. This should be an easy guess.

Sitting down to watch the series finale of LOWER DECKS and realizing how angry I am this is the series finale of LOWER DECKS.

🚨Important🚨: Scammers continue to impersonate literary agents and agencies, and are now doing so using fake @aalitagents.com emails. AALA members DO NOT have personal email addresses associated with the AALA . Stay informed: aalitagents.org/literary-age... Authors, please share this information!

An important reminder: we don't have time to lie about wanting to see your next work. If an agent asks to see future projects, they mean it!

I was right to be on Yellow Alert. The warbird did de-cloak in the form of my 6yo having an ear ache in the middle of the night and a new fever on the heels of pneumonia two weeks ago, followed by a wheezing cough and a fever last week. This kid can’t catch a break and neither can I.

Not that anyone's asking, but if I had to describe my current mental state it's Yellow Alert on the edge of the Neutral Zone waiting for a Romulan warbird to decloak at any second.

Has LOWER DECKS done an “Eyes in the dark, one moon circling” joke yet? I feel like it must have.

I have to amend this to include: - Sins of the Father - Night Terrors - Schisms - Unification 1 & 2

Good morning.

I finally solved it, but I'm still mad about it.

Oh screw you, Connections.