Claudia Gabel

Angie Manfredi @misskubelik

what if I fucked around and pitched a MG fat acceptance anthology.

H.E. Edgmon @heedgmon

I want to co-write a book with a dual POV where one of us writes the hero and one writes the villain. Only we don’t know which one is which. And they kiss. And it’s gay.

Lane @lanewriteswords

So what if we took that Sarah Dessen/Jenny Han fluffy cheerful aesthetic and made the characters Black and just had a whole genre that was joyful Black kids? Black teen beach reads. Something for the summer, something to dance to.

Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan

SENIOR YEAR (2022): three intrepid teenagers disguise themselves as baby boomers to get an education without going $40,000 in debt twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews…

Jim McCarthy @JimMcCarthy528

Unrelated #pubtip: literally everyone wants graphic novels. Especially in the MG space. Pass it on.

Octopus/Caveman @OctopusCaveman

My 5 year old son just asked “what if we put a slice of turkey in the DVD player and it played a movie about the turkey’s whole life” and none of the parenting books I’ve read have prepared me for this question.

Julia Guthrie @cupcake_savant

@kellyyanghk I’m still waiting for a picture book about the Chinese Exclusion Act, too. Picture books make history accessible to kids and I’d buy one in a second- and it would be so relevant to today! I never learned about it in school- only know bc it impacted the Chinese side of my family

the library haunter 🦉 @SketchesbyBoze

girls don’t want boys, girls want a pet Nazgul and skirts with pockets and a sword from a lake and to solve a murder on a train while falling in love.