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Well, shit. 😅 Cleaning up and revising The Incorruptibles 2 manuscript by myself before I ship it off to my editor, and I did NOT mean to surpass 100k words. Somebody stop me 🛑!!!! (But also: don’t stop me now, don’t stop me cause I’m having a good time, HAVING A GOOD TIME.)

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for those who aren't aware, the Philly QB, Jalen Hurts, is a big advocate for women in sports, and his management team is all women. I just think he's neat.

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GO BIRDS!!!!!! So proud of my home team!!! 💚🦅🏈🏆

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This week = incredible!!! Kids are so awesome! And I love getting to spread a love of literacy and books!! 💖

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World Read Aloud Day! Pics of before + after. Been sharing The Mythics, Case Closed, The Incorruptibles (coming 6/10). What a JOY to spread a love of literacy and encourage kids to persevere with their writing!!! Thanks for inviting me into your classrooms this week! Your students are ⭐️ magical ⭐️!

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I’m having such a fun week in 30 different classrooms!!! 🥰

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Exactly this. How can we make nice with people who vote to take our rights away?

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GOP removed housing regulations—housing collapsed GOP removed banking regulations—banks went under GOP removed railroad regulations—trains derailed GOP removed FAA regulations—midair crash Stop deregulating billionaires and transportation industries. Start prosecuting those who commit fraud.

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I rebuke and condemn the monstrous and grotesque racism expressed by Trump & others in their ignorant and crass assignation of blame for this tragedy, which is an affront to Kiah Huggins’ life’s work. Signing off for the night.

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Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis. In 1933. (Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.) They always come for trans people first.

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I also say this almost every year, but there needs to be a humor award for kidlit (one that doesn’t require being a paying member to an org to be eligible). It’s a different type of writing, a unique skill—and it’s hard!

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I really really think there should be a text award for picture books in addition to Newbery and Caldecott. Picture book text and middle grade text are like comparing apples and oranges, and don’t picture book words deserve their own recognition?

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🏅 if you got an award, I’m so happy for you and so pleased that a committee recognized your hard work! congrats and confetti!! 🏆 if you didn’t get an award, I hope you know some kid out there thinks your book deserves every sticker in the world!! that’s why we write, isn’t it? keep on—for the kids!

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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.

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YESSSSSSSS!!!! I’m so proud of my friend @erinentrada.bsky.social!!!!! 🧡🧡🧡

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Please read all of this post. As an 8th grade teacher in "Blue" Massachusetts, we've had to defend curriculum books every year from parents, and local politicians looking to make a name. Never mind political groups demanding to investigate our library collection, or every reading used in class.

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Want to know how books get translated or sold into different territories from the author POV? I’ve got a newsletter for that: laurenmagaziner.substack.com/p/how-a-book... PLUS I announce something super exciting over there! 🤭 Many (but not all) of my translated books! Aren’t they so fun and cute?!

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This is possibly the coolest thing that has happened to me yet… a SPIN-OFF BOOK, from the Case Closed / Resuelve el misterio / Resol el misteri series!!! Yes, it’s interactive—with one massive book-splitting choice to make that changes the story’s direction! Eliza’s Diary releases in Spain TODAY 🎉

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I’ve officially deleted Twitter… I feel so free!!!!

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The same guy who wants to ban Tiktok is now being named as its savior to save it so he will look good for the gullible Americans. This script is so predictable.

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Fantastic list of queer middle grade books to look forward to in 2025 from @lainasparetime.bsky.social!!! So many wonderful books here! … and this post includes my upcoming series starter, The Incorruptibles (YAY 🥳🥰), which has eight queer characters!! June 10th is going to be 🌈🌈🌈🎉🎉🎉

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Referring to LGBT+ people as "mentally ill" or "abnormal" is not "a discussion." It's not "an opinion." It's not "free speech." It's not "debate." It's hatemongering, with the clear and obvious intent to mark a minority out for subjugation, torture and violence.

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The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

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Had a lovely birthday weekend! Halfway to 70, which was giving me a mini panic attack in the weeks leading up to my birthday—not because I’m afraid of getting older but because I’m afraid of death. So of course I went to Hadestown. 😂💀🪦 Feels like it’s going to be a good year for me. I hope it is. 💗

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‼️Texas introduces bill that would remove funding from any school where a teacher affirmed a trans child gender in any way. This includes using preferred names or pronouns. There is no exception made even if they have parental permission.

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If you (like me) are a few books short of your Goodreads goal for the year, may I recommend The Mythics? 💖 175 pages each, with big font and many illustrations 💖 Each one takes 1-2 hrs to read 💖 4 easy books to help you hit your goal, so Goodreads can stop shaming you The Mythics are here to help!

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Wrote a newsletter about books (mine and not mine!) that you could gift this holiday! 🎁♥️ Ended the post with a 2024 recap and hopes for 2025. Read my last newsletter of the year here: laurenmagaziner.substack.com/p/books-make... PS Hope you enjoy this cameo of my childhood kitty, 20 yrs old now! 😸

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Spotify says my most-played song this year was Murder on the Dancefloor. Happy to report that I have not, in fact, killed the groove.

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#educators, #teachers, #parents, and anyone really—don’t forget to email me if you know a kid who qualifies for a free book! details below in the thread 🪡:

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RELEASE WICKED PART II FOR XMAS YOU COWARDS 💚🩷

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Just a few days left to get your nominations in! PLEASE SHARE this image to spread the word. Thanks in advance for nominating a kid—and making their holiday brighter. ☺️🎁📖

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We need to keep talking about how weird it is for people to think they should have a say in reading choices for anyone's kids but their own. You're not in charge of what other people's children eat or wear or when they go to bed. Why on earth would you get to choose what they read?

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my FAVORITE THINGS about this new book: Chapter title—“Too Little, Too Late” Chapter as a whole—“Secrets Revealed” Setting—Golden Jumpsuit’s lair Illustration—Cover because BADASS girl power energy. Also @msmirelle.bsky.social’s spread on p. 124–125 is pure genius Line I wrote—The very last one

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Friends, please share this #kidlit giveaway with educators, librarians, parents, etc… to spread holiday joy to kids who might need a pick-me-up!!! ❤️🎁

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