It was my pleasure to talk to @joshmonkwords.bsky.social and @brennajeanneret.bsky.social on the #VerseShow podcast. Check out my interview and their interviews with other #KidLit folks, such as Caldecott Honoree Jason Griffin, anywhere podcasts are streamed.
If you haven't already to to wherever you get your podcasts and listen to this weeks double feature of Jason Griffin and @armyvet5.bsky.social and check out their cover reveal for ON FRIDAYS here 👇
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I’m not sure how to do a cover reveal on BSky, but @brennajeanneret.bsky.social and I are doing one on our VerseShow Instagram today honoring @armyvet5.bsky.social and Jason Griffin’s upcoming book On Fridays 👀
AND we had the best conversation with Winsome. So good. #kidlit
We did a couple of very important interviews for YMCAV that @brennajeanneret.bsky.social and I would appreciate you listening to. The first is with visual artist Jason Griffin, who illustrated @armyvet5.bsky.social’s September 2026 picture book On Fridays 👀
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Our chat with Jason is live today, with Winsome’s verse to drop on Friday along with the big cover reveal for ON FRIDAYS!
Winsome and Jason are all time highlights. Go listen please!
We did a couple of very important interviews for YMCAV that @brennajeanneret.bsky.social and I would appreciate you listening to. The first is with visual artist Jason Griffin, who illustrated @armyvet5.bsky.social’s September 2026 picture book On Fridays 👀
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@smacquignon.bsky.social @brianlarossa.com this is the kind of interaction on BSky that I yearn to see.
Fourth Consort was so, so fun. Can’t wait for this one.
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one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites
“They’re ALL warlike? They’re all thieves? Where’s the nuance? Where’s the science, medicine, cooperation that mark the kind of complex society that is required to develop consciousness?
“Klingons are BULLSHIT bro.”
A science fiction short story where a nonhuman race discovers the depiction of aliens in the majority of science fiction and just goes “are you f-ing kidding me?”
Kirk. You need an animated series immediately.
For sale: snow shovel, very worn.
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Just a fundamentally evil, malevolent person. Rotten to the very core.
Omg 👀
An anti-capitalist, anti-landlord Steph Campisi romcom? Crime if not bestseller
A screenshot of You May Contribute a Verse podcast logo (a quokka with headphones, illustrated by Maddie Frost). It has the title of the podcast in bubbly letters as well as "with your hosts Josh Monken and Brenna Jeanneret". Title of episode is "Abominable Steph Lau!"
My first podcast!
I talk about impostor syndrome, embracing my art and writing halves, and how laying on the floor feeling sorry for myself resulted in a book offer.
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Thanks @joshmonkwords.bsky.social and @brennajeanneret.bsky.social for having me on. It was a blast!
First, really?? It was so good!
I donated a non-rhyming PB ms critique + publishing AMA. Can you boost @lzats.bsky.social?
the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens
They’re just…they’re gunna keep doing this. They’re gunna keep murdering people. They’re gunna keep kidnapping people.
If you’re not locked the fuck in you need to start. Today. We need your help.
They are going to open fire on a crowd of protesters. That is next.
ICE are indistinguishable from a terrorist organization
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
Such a great #kidlit podcast with special guest @byaliciameyers.bsky.social !!
As always @brennajeanneret.bsky.social and @joshmonkwords.bsky.social are top notch hosts!!
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I am very ready to read this one!
Reviewing this BEAUTY of a book, Island Storm, for the episode of the podcast that comes out tomorrow. So impressed with everything about it. Color and light, mottled painting style, but really the way it’s less about navigating a storm and more about sibling love and independence and exploration. ❤️
