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Catherine Hapka
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Still out here writing for kids and YA
rep: Katherine Latshaw at Folio Literary Management
Horse enthusiast, cat magnet, music fan, night owl, swing state voter, lazy gardener
She/her
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Catherine Hapka @catherinehapka.bsky.social · Oct 29
I might be the very last writer in the world to do this, but I’m excited to announce that I finally just launched my new author website: catherinehapka.com

Check it out and let me know what you think! 😁

#kidlit #YAlit #MGlit #books #AmWriting #AuthorsOfBluesky
catherine hapka
Author website for Catherine Hapka, aka Cathy Hapka, an author of books for children and young adults.
catherinehapka.com
catherinehapka.bsky.social
Thread of the day. Possibly the year. 👇🏻
pookleblinky.bsky.social Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 12h
In the muppets universe do you think there is one muppet who is regarded as a dangerous conspiracy theorist for yelling about how everyone is being secretly controlled by a hand inside them

The other muppets think this is a metaphor, and he's like "no it's a literal hand inside you! Inside you all"
December 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
catherinehapka.bsky.social
Just saw a LOT of vultures flying overhead. Have never seen so many at once before - literally dozens, all heading the same direction (north-west-ish).

Anyone know what this is about? I've only seen stuff like this in, like, Godzilla movies so I'm wondering...

(Sorry bad pic)🌱

#birdsky
#naturesky
Blue twilight sky with twenty or so large vultures flying in a flock formation; they are pretty high up so quite hard to see; a few are more visible near top of frame, while a larger chunk is moving up from the horizon at lower left above the trees/barn. This was just one of several similar sized flights that passed overhead, moving with purpose -- none of the usual circling or gliding. Once they all passed by, I didn't see any more in the sky for the rest of my time outdoors, which lasted maybe half an hour. #birdsky
December 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Anti-Woke.
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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What I like

Highbrow: Canonical Western literature
Middlebrow: Flavored coffee
Lowbrow: Beavis & Butt-head
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Three fuzzy burrowing owlets in front of their burrow.
December 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
catherinehapka.bsky.social
Why don’t they make custard style yogurt anymore? 🤔
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
catherinehapka.bsky.social
"There's never a scandal."
🤯
fiona-webster22.bsky.social Fiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 2d
47 has spent years bragging about his performance on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which begins—as he himself has noted—with tasks like identifying animal drawings and progresses to a climax of knowing where you are and what day it is.

Read how Dementia Don talked about it today...
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Is he in good health? Biden was great, but is Trump in good health? I sit here and I sit here, I do news, four news conferences a day. I ask questions from very intelligent lunatics, you people. I always give– I give the right answers. There’s never a scandal, there’s never a problem. I give you answers that solve your little problems. You go back and you can’t find anything, but you do you do stories about Biden was in wonderful health. The guy could didn’t do a news conference for eight months. If I go one day, I had one day where I didn’t do a news conference, there’s something wrong with the president. You people are crazy. I’ll let you know when there’s something wrong. There will be someday. That’s gonna happen to all of us. But right now, I think I’m sharper than I was 25 years ago, but who the hell does? I took, by the way, I took my physical, I got all A’s, everything. But they said to me, “Would you like to take a cognitive test?”. I said, Is it hard? They said yes. I said, Well, I’m a very smart person. Who was the last president to take one? No president has ever agreed to take one. Because when you get into the mid-questions, meaning, you know, 10, question number 10, 11, 12, 28, 30, they get harder and harder. And they said, Would you like to do it? I said, Well, no reason to do it. Nobody’s ever done it. I’ll do it maybe, but there’s really no reason. They said, sir, the problem is this is Walter Reed Hospital. And that’s a military hospital. And that means that things are, you know, sort of open. It’s not like private where you have–. If you do poorly, we’ll have to– probably you’ll you’ll find out. I said, I won’t do poorly. I’m a smart person, not a stupid person. And as the doctor will tell you, I aced it, right, Suzy? I aced. I got every question right. And these are tough questions. These are questions that I would say ninety-nine percent of the people that I’m talking to right now, meaning the people that f…
December 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Hey, @catherinehapka.bsky.social, look what I picked up today!!! One day late, but we will catch up fast, I'm sure!😄🎄🐕
Cover of Jingle All The Way Home, an Advent Countdown story by Catherine Hapka and Kathryn Selbert.
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Will YOU be in NYC next Monday? WE NEED YOU! Come to Union Square at 3:30 for your rally to get the governor to sign the NY Freedom to Read Act. This is a joint effort with several organizations (including @authorsabb.bsky.social) and we need it to be BIG and LOUD! Please share!
Teen Activist Project Freedom to Read Act Read-In at 3:30, December 8th, Union Square, NYC. Please come!
December 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
catherinehapka.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with 5 books you've said you really should read one day, but still haven't (they keep writing new ones!)

1. Anna Karenina
2. Beloved
3. Things Fall Apart
4. Under the Dome
5. Ready Player One

#booksky
jayemakesart.bsky.social Jaye Kearney (she/they) @jayemakesart.bsky.social · 3d
Introduce yourself with 5 books you've said more than once you're really should read one day" but still haven't... (they keep writing new ones!!!)

1. The Lord of the Rings (OK, technically 3 books)
2. Frankenstein
3. Wuthering Heights
4. American Psycho
5. The Road

📚 #booksky
willowlthewisp.bsky.social Willow (they) @willowlthewisp.bsky.social · 3d
Five books you've said more than once you "really should read one day" but still haven't:

–"Wuthering Heights" (Brontë)
–"The Count of Monte Cristo" (Dumas)
–"The Mist" (King)
–"X-Men: Age of Apocalypse" (Lobdell, Nicieza, Harras, et al.)
–"Moby-Dick" (Melville)

💙📚 #BookSky
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Reposted by Catherine Hapka
jessnevins.bsky.social
I was initially hesitant to post about this, but...

My son has never been a big reader. Which, librarian as a dad, heavy reader as a mom, go figure, but we didn't try to force it on him and create trauma. I just figured it was ADHD-related.

A couple of weeks ago, the switch flipped.
November 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
catherinehapka.bsky.social
I've read this. It's good. You should read it too, even (or maybe especially) if it's not snowy where you are.
metuiteme.bsky.social Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 3d
Now that it's getting snowy out there, allow me to invite you to check out my wintery vampire book!

Dropping the historical (i.e. gross and scary) version of the monster in the modern world and remixing w grief and assorted toxic relationships 🔥

Links to follow!
A copy of The Ones Who Come Back Hungry by Amelinda Berube on a background of evergreen branches and snow
December 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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I *think* that's the final-final-final round of edits for this go-round of our book, before we get to proofs...but hey, DYK you can pre-order? I, uh, did not...until a few days ago.

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/practical...
Practical Digital Asset Management
A definitive introduction to digital asset management and its role in the content ecosystem: what, why, how-to, and best practices.This text is an important res…
www.bloomsbury.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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ianlevely.bsky.social
This is a great example of how the pathological need that legacy media has to remain "neutral" has allowed trump to get away with so much. They have this quasi religious conviction to never "take sides", even when it requires constructing a postmodern version of reality that accepts lies as truth.
economist.com The Economist @economist.com · 3d
Donald Trump had reasonable concerns about how Joe Biden’s relatives enriched themselves through his service. Yet his own family is making the “Biden crime family” look small-time
How Donald Trump is turning into Joe Biden
It’s about more than denying inflation
econ.st
December 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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youtu.be/3SL0oRcD7t0
December 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
Watching reporters suck up to Trump as he insults and denigrates them is one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen.
December 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Post someone who looks good in red
November 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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You're alone in this room with a state-of-the-art system and one album to play! What album are you dropping the needle on?

I'm going with "Dark Side of the Moon" by #PinkFloyd!
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
catherinehapka.bsky.social
Hey, it's snowing. That wasn't supposed to happen today.
November 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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metuiteme.bsky.social
WHY HELLO, I have a few of those 💀 Ghosts and monsters for your delectation and delight, get em wherever you buy your books, especially your local indie ❤️
The Dark Beneath The Ice, Here There Are Monsters, and The Ones Who Come Back Hungry by Amelinda Berube
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
catherinehapka.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild.

Grizzly bear
Kangaroo
Hedgehog
Moose
Red fox
pamelakramer.com pamelakramer.com @pamelakramer.com · 6d
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild.

African elephant
Black jackal
Baboon
Dik dik
Yellow-winged bat
kiyash.bsky.social Kiyash Monsef @kiyash.bsky.social · 6d
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild

Gray fox
Gray whale
Sea otter
Harbor porpoise
Bald eagle
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
catherinehapka.bsky.social
(Also, I think I know this horse...) 😅
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6d
Cars are super dangerous but they also don’t tend to spook and fling you into a canyon when they see a plastic bag
November 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
catherinehapka.bsky.social
Interesting question and thread. As someone who owns and rides horses, my initial thoughts are:

Yes, horses can be unpredictable... but so can other drivers.

Compared to times past, riders today have better safety gear (helmets especially).

All the comments in the thread about frequency of...
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6d
Considering that horses are dangerous and riders are very regularly seriously injured, I wonder what the direct overall injury/death rate looked like when everyone in our society had to constantly ride/drive horses, versus the injury/death rate from cars today?
November 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
catherinehapka.bsky.social
Post something random or you’ll have an awful December
Photo of a weird tall old school phone at an auction.
November 28, 2025 at 3:27 AM
catherinehapka.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

1. David Bowie
2. Pitbull
3. Rob Zombie
4. Missing Persons
5. Live Aid
thomasgcampbell.bsky.social Tom @thomasgcampbell.bsky.social · 7d
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:

1. Willie Nelson
2. George Michael
3. MC Hammer
4. Beach Boys
5. Arcade Fire

Going for maximum chaos with these selections
aggiebrett.bsky.social Brett Nicholson @aggiebrett.bsky.social · 7d
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:

1. Dolly
2. Willie
3. The Replacements
4. Simple Minds
5. Elvis
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 AM