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Ibarra V. Gomez

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Author of kids’ horror fiction and a voracious reader, watcher, and player of stories! Contact: ivg@eml.cc

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BOOK JOY!

My author copies of ACCORDING TO PLAN came in and let me tell you, you are not prepared for how PINK!!!! this book is! It’s for sure Emerson Pike-approved!

10.01.2026 17:07 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
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The Ooze is the nastiest villain around. He's gloppy, oily, and loves to pour hot ooze on his enemies. No wonder he's Marco's favorite supervillain! That is, until he isn't just a character in a comic...

Stine's love for comics shines again with a hunt for a comic book that has mysterious powers.

10.01.2026 20:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🥰😘Thank you, Katrina Moore, for this lovely review of GILBERT & THE GHOST! 👻Gilbert is not just for Halloween, but for anyone who feels unseen! 📚 Philly locals: Come by Ink & Inspiration Local Author Showcase Sat, 1-3 PM. More info: umtlibrary.libcal.com/event/15772434 @beamingbooksmn.bsky.social

08.01.2026 22:07 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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It's Halloween! Time for scares and creepy dares! Meg is certainly ready, at least until she meets Bim from the planet Weirdo. The little guy is cute unless you make him unhappy... and you don't want him unhappy.

This double-length tale provides a series harrowing and horrifying adventures!

08.01.2026 22:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book cover images for You Are a Robin! and You Are a Garter Snake! with the text "Board books availalbe 1/27!" Also an image of all four books in the Meet Your World series with text, "Complete the series:".

Book cover images for You Are a Robin! and You Are a Garter Snake! with the text "Board books availalbe 1/27!" Also an image of all four books in the Meet Your World series with text, "Complete the series:".

Books 3 and 4 in the Meet Your World series will soon be available in board book format, so your littlest readers can own the whole set. Pre-order now, wherever books are sold!

lauriethompson.com/books/meet-y...

07.01.2026 21:47 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Join @dansantat.bsky.social+me & THE #MISFITS - A SEA MONSTER CONUNDRUM
@childrensbookworld.bsky.social Sun, 1/11 - 12:30
@vromansbookstore.bsky.social Sat, 1/24 - 2 pm
(And we're doing school visits w/@shoponceuponatime.bsky.social)
@vromansupstairs.bsky.social @randomhousekids.bsky.social #KidLit

07.01.2026 21:59 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Jessica and Ryan love tricks, but their new two-headed coin pulls a nasty trick on them when it sends them to a kingdom with a headless prince!

A fun time travel romp that hearkens back to the classic tale A Night in Terror Tower.

07.01.2026 22:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Book Birthday!!! Today's A SEA MONSTER CONUNDRUM's birthday* - the third in the NY Times Bestselling MISFITS series!

Ghosts, sea monsters, bake sales, devious criminals, and lots of fun await!!

@randomhousekids.bsky.social @dansantat.bsky.social #SeaMonster #KidLit #Books t #BookLaunch #Misfits

06.01.2026 18:30 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Sam and his friend Lexi have taken jobs at the new hamster pet shop in town. What’s cuter than that? But these hamsters are acting strangely... dangerously.

The HorrorLand series ramps up in its second arc! I’m genuinely curious to see how it all ties together.

06.01.2026 18:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YA Graphic novel by Eugene Yelchin (we know he's a great writer + artist, but did you know he's the guy behind the polar bear Coca Cola ad??) Image is gray scene of building in Leningrad.  A m/f couple stands with their backs to us, holding hands.  Drab color scheme interrupted by woman's pink coat and boots, then striped scarf around young man's neck.

YA Graphic novel by Eugene Yelchin (we know he's a great writer + artist, but did you know he's the guy behind the polar bear Coca Cola ad??) Image is gray scene of building in Leningrad. A m/f couple stands with their backs to us, holding hands. Drab color scheme interrupted by woman's pink coat and boots, then striped scarf around young man's neck.

THE GENIUS UNDER THE TABLE by Eugene Yelchin is one of my favorite books, and so I wasn't surprised to be engrossed + moved by his new YA graphic novel, especially as a cold war kid myself. (Oh, yeah, and everything hits differently rn.) 📚👍 #booksky

05.01.2026 16:00 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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The mall in Susan's new town is full of cool shops, but the creepy old store gets her attention. There's something about that dollhouse in the corner...

A taut spooky story that doesn't waste a second and remains focused on the action!

05.01.2026 16:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The cover of the Black romantasy novella To Catch A Hunter. A real fantasy sword, a broad type blade, sits on a wine and gold background with lighter lines like a topographical map. The title is in gold and the author is S. A. Macklin.

The cover of the Black romantasy novella To Catch A Hunter. A real fantasy sword, a broad type blade, sits on a wine and gold background with lighter lines like a topographical map. The title is in gold and the author is S. A. Macklin.

I would love to make some sales on my debut self published novella. It's a romantasy that takes place in a world like the Monster Hunter games.

www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

04.01.2026 17:41 👍 10 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
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The perfect sleepover turns into a cheesy nightmare when Sidney's order from the mysterious new pizza place develops a mind of its own. And it won't sit by and let itself be eaten when there are so many delicious humans around.

A fun series of events on one wild night with twists and turns galore.

04.01.2026 18:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Promo graphic with a photo of a pot of purple crocuses wrapped in burlap and twine in front of a frosted window with a white cup and saucer in front of it, a purple macaroon perched on the edge, with an open book to the side on a wood table. The text, in purple on the left side reads: "'Kitty is a breath of fresh air, and her story is a good book to curl up with on a rainy afternoon while waiting for spring to arrive.' ~Long and Short Book Reviews on *Most Truly*" (the book is first in the Love at Pemberley series by Reina M. Williams).

Promo graphic with a photo of a pot of purple crocuses wrapped in burlap and twine in front of a frosted window with a white cup and saucer in front of it, a purple macaroon perched on the edge, with an open book to the side on a wood table. The text, in purple on the left side reads: "'Kitty is a breath of fresh air, and her story is a good book to curl up with on a rainy afternoon while waiting for spring to arrive.' ~Long and Short Book Reviews on *Most Truly*" (the book is first in the Love at Pemberley series by Reina M. Williams).

Most Truly (Love at Pemberley novella 1)
Kitty Bennet meets Colonel Fitzwilliam, who is most truly a gentleman, and truly knows he wants Kitty for his wife, despite his family's objections.

Amazon: amzn.to/3s3kUDg
Apple: apple.co/3DVvhuW
Barnes & Noble: bit.ly/3ES0h0n
Kobo: bit.ly/3ylmCke

30.12.2025 22:04 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 4
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Charlie's the biggest horror fan around. He's read more horror books than any other kid at school! But when the new librarian brings in her own horror books for kids to read, he gets way more horror than he bargained for.

A fun monster mash-up!

31.12.2025 05:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Great Mouse Escape by James Patterson & Chris Gravenstein; Illustrated by Jennifer L. Meyer

The Great Mouse Escape by James Patterson & Chris Gravenstein; Illustrated by Jennifer L. Meyer

The Great Mouse Escape by James Patterson & Chris Gravenstein; Illustrated by Jennifer L. Meyer

Beautiful In text pencil and ink illustrations

The Great Mouse Escape by James Patterson & Chris Gravenstein; Illustrated by Jennifer L. Meyer Beautiful In text pencil and ink illustrations

The Great Mouse Escape by James Patterson & Chris Gravenstein; Illustrated by Jennifer L. Meyer

Beautiful In text pencil and ink illustrations 
One of my favourites.

The Great Mouse Escape by James Patterson & Chris Gravenstein; Illustrated by Jennifer L. Meyer Beautiful In text pencil and ink illustrations One of my favourites.

Haunted Canada Graphic Novel by Joel A Sutherland; illustrated by Hannah Barrett, David Bishop, Matt Salisbury and Jenn Woodall

Haunted Canada Graphic Novel by Joel A Sutherland; illustrated by Hannah Barrett, David Bishop, Matt Salisbury and Jenn Woodall

Stopped at the bookstore today and saw The Great Mouse Escape
with my daughter today. The illustrations are incredible @jenniferlmeyer.bsky.social what she got instead Haunted Canada by @joelasutherland.bsky.social volume one and two. A little bit different taste 😅 but glad she’s reading ☺️

29.12.2025 05:05 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Lauren has had a rough time since her dad was killed in the woods and her best friend started caring more about boys than her. Then the horrible visions begin when two more girls are brutally killed.

This supernatural thriller reckons with a small town's unusual run of prosperity.

29.12.2025 08:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wrote seven novellas of a planned twelve-book series! Along with the three novellas from 2023-2024, a choose-your-own adventure, and the upcoming two final novellas and short story anthology, oh and a very busy day job, it's been quite the year.

27.12.2025 23:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Spooky samples that I hope will turn into something! #kidlit #kidlitillustration #childrensbooks #childrensbookillustration #kidlitart

27.12.2025 19:06 👍 26 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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You can't keep a good dancin' bones down. So when Boogie Bones gets a chance to enter the local dance content, he rattles his ribs and shimmies his shin bones to dancing glory!

A real hoot! Loredo's writing and Hawkes's illustrations make this friendly bones tale one to remember.

27.12.2025 19:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of the middle grade mystery THE THIRTEEN DOORS OF BLACK HOUSE by Laura Lavoie. Ghostly animals emerge from mysterious doors, set against crashing ocean waves.

Cover of the middle grade mystery THE THIRTEEN DOORS OF BLACK HOUSE by Laura Lavoie. Ghostly animals emerge from mysterious doors, set against crashing ocean waves.

In THE THIRTEEN DOORS OF BLACK HOUSE by @llavoieauthor.bsky.social, during Maya's family vacation at the creepy mansion where her favorite author once lived, a supernatural mystery is unleashed straight from the pages of the author's books. Fast-paced & fantastic spooky read. #MGLit #TLSky

27.12.2025 01:20 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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The creepy owner of the new Scareville store likes to call himself The Curator, and he seems especially interested in scaring kids with a mysterious series of scary books.

The proceedings build slowly but the villain's revelations make for a brain twisty good time.

27.12.2025 01:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In her new young adult book, What Friends Are For, award-winning author Harriet Zaidman tackles the subject of teen pregnancy during Canada’s 1983 abortion debate.
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#CanadianBooks #WomenWriters #RoeVWade #YABooks
buff.ly/l2g8jqI

23.12.2025 00:45 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Tina, Eve, and Lacey used to be BFFs, but they've started to drift apart. Tina hopes her sixteenth birthday sleepover and some dark magic can bring them together again.

This is a wild YA ride. What feels like a classic demon possession turns into something else entirely.

23.12.2025 18:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Paperbacks of The Kindread Coast, Year's Best Fantasy & Science Fiction Vol. 3, Brave New Weird: Best New Weird Horror on a wood background with overlaid text in green script reading: "2025's Crop of (Print) Releases!" followed by Canada flag, stack of books, and party popper emojis

Paperbacks of The Kindread Coast, Year's Best Fantasy & Science Fiction Vol. 3, Brave New Weird: Best New Weird Horror on a wood background with overlaid text in green script reading: "2025's Crop of (Print) Releases!" followed by Canada flag, stack of books, and party popper emojis

A year of remarkable highs—& lows😅🫠

Shoutout to @blackcatbooks.bsky.social Ansible Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social for some of the brightest points!📚💞

Last minute shoppers, there’s some great SFF/H in this trio!🎁 kaie.space/standalones

(& #canlit friends, don’t miss 2026 best-of submissions!🇨🇦)

22.12.2025 18:12 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Few humans remain to fight off the vampire horde that has descended upon the world. And no one is more eager to take out the blood suckers than Yūichirō.

I found the first volume a little lacking due to slowly introducing the characters, but perhaps later entries pick up the pace!

22.12.2025 23:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#PictureBook #HBReviewoftheWeek FIELD TRIP TO DINOSAUR VALLEY by John Hare (Ferguson/Holiday): "A notable addition to Hare’s kindhearted and captivating science-fiction picture-book series." www.hbook.com/story/review...

22.12.2025 18:27 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Horrid Henry has no chance in a household he must share with the snooty Perfect Peter. So if he must be horrid, why not go all out?

While probably meant to be cautionary tales for children, Horrid Henry is such a fun little dirtbag that I found all the stories be just plain amusing!

22.12.2025 19:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Book review of The Jaguar’s Roar by Micheliny Verunschk Micheliny Verunschk’s first book translated into English, The Jaguar’s Roar, offers a profound reckoning with a tragic and troublesome past.

Micheliny Verunschk’s first book translated into English, The Jaguar’s Roar, offers a profound reckoning with a tragic and troublesome past. @liveright.bsky.social

21.12.2025 01:00 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Queen wasn't always so wicked and cruel, but a life of tragedy leads her to become the very thing she always hated.

This first entry in the Disney series of villain explorations is truly a tragic backstory. It gives great context for the movie we've all come to know so well.

21.12.2025 00:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0