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Melissa Manlove @mmanlove.bsky.social · 3d

Psst! I am opening up to unagented children's book submissions *just for the month of October*! This is an exciting experiment. The email to send submissions to is [email protected]. You can find out about what I'm looking for at www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/me...

Melissa Manlove – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website

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Loree Griffin Burns @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social · 4d

Shout out to @eliotschrefer.bsky.social for the recommendation.

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Loree Griffin Burns @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social · 4d

Of all the genres I write, memoir is the one that stymies the most. Elissa Altman's PERMISSION helped me to see more clearly that part (or all?) of that struggle is a hesitancy about permission. Great read for the reluctant memoirist.

The cover of the book PERMISSION: THE NEW MEMOIRIST AND THE COURAGE TO CREATE, by Elissa Altman, which is mostly white and features a birdcage with fruiting branches inside. (And also a blurb from Anne Lamott: "Marvelous, passionate, and charming."

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Chris Barton @bartography.bsky.social · 16d

If there’s an author you appreciate, one of the simplest, most helpful, least expensive things you can do for them is ask your public library to add that author’s newest book to their collection.

Many library websites have a form for that. So give it a try, and make an author’s day!

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Loree Griffin Burns @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social · 18d

Love this! Super excited that there is a Vox edition of One Long Line. (And I got to narrate!)

skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 18d

I put a book on hold for my kiddo since it's been checked out every time we've gone to get it. I didn't realize it was one of those Vox editions, and holy hell, does she LOVE the book being read to her while she can flip the pages. Yes, she's done audiobooks before but it's never been this exciting.

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Loree Griffin Burns @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social · 22d

I really admire the way he uses voice. Reminiscent of THE MONA LISA VANISHES, and wildly engaging!

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Loree Griffin Burns @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social · 22d

And new to my Currently Reading tab, this new MG page-turner from Nicholas Day:

The cover of the book A WORLD WITHOUT SUMMER: A VOLCANO ERUPTS, A CREATURE AWAKENS, AND THE SUN GOES OUT, written by Nicholas Day, featuring art by Yas Imamura. Said cover is deep blue with several illustration insets, including an erupting volcano, Mary Shelley, and Frankenstein.

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Loree Griffin Burns @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social · 22d

Currently agonizing over what titles to include on my Storygraph Favorites tab! There's only room for five selections, and I've used four of them ...

Lulu Miller's WHY FISH DON'T EXIST
Robin Wall Kimmerer's BRAIDING SWEETGRASS
Tricia Hersey's REST IS RESISTANCE
Brian Doyle's ONE LONG RIVER OF SONG

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Loree Griffin Burns @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social · 22d

Just finished my transition from Goodreads to @thestorygraph.com. Moving a long reading history was much easier than expected ... and it felt great to delete a little more bezos from my life.

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Loree Griffin Burns @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social · 24d

Happy reading, Stacy!

Stacy Alfano @teachlovesbooks.bsky.social · 24d

New reading has arrived from @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social @jamiegreenillus @MITKidsPress! Thank for sharing with #BookPosse !

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Loree Griffin Burns @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social · 27d

Thank YOU, Cindy, for reading and sharing! #bookposse #kidlit #nonfiction

Cindy Schwind @cindyschwind1.bsky.social · 28d

So excited to see these early chapter books in the mail! One Long Line is out now & Extreme Birdwatching is out in March!! Thanks so much @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social for sharing with #bookposse
@teachlovesbooks.bsky.social will be our 1st reader!!
@candlewickpress.bsky.social

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Loree Griffin Burns @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social · Aug 24

Grateful to @adkctr4writing.bsky.social for some time and space to focus my writing this fall ...

adirondackcenterforwriting.org/meet-our-202...

Meet our 2025 Anne LaBastille Residents -

Now in its twelfth year, our Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency will take place this September 21 to October 5 at the Lodge on Twitchell Lake near Big Moose, NY, in the heart of the Adirondack...

adirondackcenterforwriting.org

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Loree Griffin Burns @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social · Aug 10

Thank you, Marcia!

Marcia Kochel @overbooked.bsky.social · Jul 31

Nonfiction roundup: I loved One Long Line by @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social Who knew that marching caterpillars could be so compelling? It’s really about how science builds on past knowledge. K-6 libraries should absolutely buy it #tlsky #nonfiction #booksky #mglit @candlewickpress.bsky.social

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Loree Griffin Burns @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social · Jul 16

Want to get caught up on the entire series? Find the first book, One Long Line, in hardcover wherever you buy books ... and you'll be able to get the softcover version next month!

The cover of the book One Long Line: Marching Caterpillars and the Scientists Who Followed Them, written by Loree Griffin Burns, illustrated by Jamie Green, featuring a cone-laden pine tree branch in a pot with a single-file line of green and gold caterpillars marching down the branch, out of the pot, and into the world.

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Loree Griffin Burns @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social · Jul 16

COVER REVEAL! I can hardly wait to share Extreme Birdwatching--book 2 in the Discovery Chronicles series. Written by me, illustrated by Jamie Green, and published by the team at MITKids and @candlewickpress.bsky.social, it's available for pre-order today and will be published on March 3, 2026. 🔬

The cover of Extreme Birdwatching: Measuring Change on a Galapagos Island, by Loree Griffin Burns, illustrated by Jamie Green, features Drs. Rosemary and Peter Grant at work on Daphne Major, an uninhabited island in the Galapagos. Also seen are illustrations of the finches they studied and the couple's young daughters, who often accompanied them to the island.

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Loree Griffin Burns @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social · May 31

Thrilled to have an essay in the latest issue of The Maine Review. It's a love letter to a chicken that I'll remember forever.

Frittatas - The Maine Review

In the morning, I made two, seven eggs in each. My husband came into the kitchen just as I was whisking the second batch, and he told me that one of the buffy hens had gotten herself on top of the lit...

www.mainereview.com

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · May 20

"But the finish or start of a story is often frayed and full of holes, and nothing ever opens or closes where or when we think it does. And so the ashes stayed in the baggie and the dead spruce remained tilted." ~ Barbara Hurd
brevitymag.com/current-issu...

The Sea | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction

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Loree Griffin Burns @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social · Apr 16

True story. So productive. And she didn't goof off once. :-)

Kate Messner @katemessner.com · Apr 14

For the past couple days @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social & I have been writing together on Zoom for an hour. A five-minute hello, an hour of silent work, and a five-minute goodbye, and it's been the most productive hour of my day. Turns out I goof off less when someone's watching. Highly recommend.

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Loree Griffin Burns @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social · Apr 16

True confession: it only gets me out of my pajama top. Bc Kate can't see my bottom half!

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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · Mar 4

Chicago, St. Louis, Denver, Boise, and Harrisburg, PA friends, I'm headed your way next week for the History Smashers Book Tour! There will be stories, trivia contests, and lots of myth smashing. Hope you'll bring the family & join us!

Green background with a photo of Kate Messner and book cover for HISTORY SMASHERS EARTH DAY AND THE ENVIRONMENT with book tour schedule:

Meet Middle Grade Author
Kate Messner

"Fun, fast history for kids who want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth. Absolutely smashing!"
-CANDACE FLEMING, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR

HISTORY
SMASHERS
EARTH DAY
AND THE
ENVIRONMENT

THERE'S
A LOT MORE
TO THIS STORY.

Tuesday, March Il
6:30 pm CDT
Clenville Public Library
In association with The Book Stall
Glenville, IL

Wednesday, March 12
5:00 pm CDT
Anderson's Downers Crove
Downers Grove, IL

Friday, March 14
6:00 pm MDT
The Bookies Bookstore
Denver, CO

Saturday, March 15
1:30 pm MDT
Boise Public Library
In association with Rediscovered Books,
Boise, ID

Monday, March 17
6:00 pm EDT
Penn State Harrisburg
Harrisburg, PA

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · Mar 1

"Trump and Vance crossed a giant moral Rubicon today. They showed the entire world the full fetid awfulness of their vision" -- my colleague @sashaabramsky.bsky.social on Trump's disgraceful behavior at the White House yesterday
www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Most Disgraceful Foreign Policy Spectacle in US History

Donald Trump and JD Vance tried to humiliate Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday with the whole world watching.

www.thenation.com

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Loree Griffin Burns @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social · Feb 25

“[B]e a Dobson. Be a Bennett. Be a Lois Gibbs.”

A.S. King @as-king.bsky.social · Feb 24

🧵 I’ve been thinking all day about a beautiful story of bravery at a weekly newspaper in Michigan.

It was 1977 and the White Lake Observer was covering the poisoning of White Lake, as well as the poisoning of 2 billion gallons of groundwater with carcinogens by the Hooker Chemical Company. 1/9

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The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · Feb 19

February #NotesfromtheHornBook with #5Qs for Amy Cherrix about VIRUS HUNTERS (Harper/ @harperkids.bsky.social @harperstacks.bsky.social): "I wanted young readers to understand why all of us owe public health professionals an immense debt of gratitude." www.hbook.com/story/five-q...

Five questions for Amy Cherrix

From the February 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.

www.hbook.com

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Loree Griffin Burns @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social · Feb 20

I started it tonight!

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Loree Griffin Burns @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social · Feb 18

From a writer I admire, a writer who gets me; thank you for making my day, Joyce!
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Joyce Sidman @joycesidman.bsky.social · Feb 18

Just finished this delightful book by @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social which amazingly 1) tells a spellbinding story about marching caterpillars, 2) explains how scientists concoct experiments, and 3) invites young readers to ask wacky questions and try to answer them.

Cover of the book ONE LONG LINE by Loree Griffin Burns

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