Elise Howard
@elisehoward.bsky.social
Literary agent and author. Was editor and publisher. https://www.defliterary.com/agents/elise-howard
Coming 3/26, Plant This, Not That https://tinyurl.com/Plant-This-Not-That
W/ Amy Gash: BELIEVE IN THE WORLD: WISDOM FOR GROWNUPS FROM CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Coming 3/26, Plant This, Not That https://tinyurl.com/Plant-This-Not-That
W/ Amy Gash: BELIEVE IN THE WORLD: WISDOM FOR GROWNUPS FROM CHILDREN'S BOOKS
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shop at your indie bookstores, not barnes & noble. shop at your indie bookstores, not barnes & noble. shop at your indie bookstores, not barnes & noble. shop—
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/c...
A year after Barnes & Noble opens in Wicker Park, nearby indie bookstore forced to close
Volumes Bookcafe, which has been open for a decade, immediately saw a “significant” drop in sales after Barnes & Noble moved into the century-old Noel State Bank building in October 2024.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
shop at your indie bookstores, not barnes & noble. shop at your indie bookstores, not barnes & noble. shop at your indie bookstores, not barnes & noble. shop—
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/c...
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Kidlit community, nothing fills me with self-doubt and disappointment more than these annual best of the year lists.
If you’re feeling blue, remember it’s subjective, and this year I’m seeing very few of my faves (the ones I didn’t work on) recognized.
Let’s all raise a glass to the unlisted!
If you’re feeling blue, remember it’s subjective, and this year I’m seeing very few of my faves (the ones I didn’t work on) recognized.
Let’s all raise a glass to the unlisted!
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Kidlit community, nothing fills me with self-doubt and disappointment more than these annual best of the year lists.
If you’re feeling blue, remember it’s subjective, and this year I’m seeing very few of my faves (the ones I didn’t work on) recognized.
Let’s all raise a glass to the unlisted!
If you’re feeling blue, remember it’s subjective, and this year I’m seeing very few of my faves (the ones I didn’t work on) recognized.
Let’s all raise a glass to the unlisted!
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Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.
Predatory Opt-Out Scheme ClaimsHero Targets Anthropic Settlement Participants: What Authors Need to Know - The Authors Guild
In recent weeks, a third-party law firm, ClaimsHero, has launched an aggressive online campaign urging authors to opt out of the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright settlement. ClaimsHero—which has no litiga...
authorsguild.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.
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THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?
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For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
October 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
RIP to my first true style icon.
October 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
RIP to my first true style icon.
Now feels like a good time to tell you about my favorite recent book purchase: Posters for Change, from Princeton Architectural Press. It’s got a huge collection of posters perfect for protest, and proceeds go to non-profits.
October 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Now feels like a good time to tell you about my favorite recent book purchase: Posters for Change, from Princeton Architectural Press. It’s got a huge collection of posters perfect for protest, and proceeds go to non-profits.
These scam marketing emails can look credible (esp. the 1st time seen) but there’s often a tell, like a weird version of the email address in the signature block. Or lack of website, LinkedIn, or socials. But, sigh, not always even that… Be wary.
PSA: If you're an author & you get a chatty email from a marketer, or book club that praises your book & bashes Amazon's algo before offering to 'help', usually with 500 to 10,000 reviewers, it's just a ChatGPT automated marketing scam.
It's the new Nigerian prince email, brought to you by 'AI' 🙄.
It's the new Nigerian prince email, brought to you by 'AI' 🙄.
September 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
These scam marketing emails can look credible (esp. the 1st time seen) but there’s often a tell, like a weird version of the email address in the signature block. Or lack of website, LinkedIn, or socials. But, sigh, not always even that… Be wary.
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PSA: If you're an author & you get a chatty email from a marketer, or book club that praises your book & bashes Amazon's algo before offering to 'help', usually with 500 to 10,000 reviewers, it's just a ChatGPT automated marketing scam.
It's the new Nigerian prince email, brought to you by 'AI' 🙄.
It's the new Nigerian prince email, brought to you by 'AI' 🙄.
September 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
PSA: If you're an author & you get a chatty email from a marketer, or book club that praises your book & bashes Amazon's algo before offering to 'help', usually with 500 to 10,000 reviewers, it's just a ChatGPT automated marketing scam.
It's the new Nigerian prince email, brought to you by 'AI' 🙄.
It's the new Nigerian prince email, brought to you by 'AI' 🙄.
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No Democrat should vote to keep the government open unless ACA funding is restored for the millions of Americans at risk of losing health coverage next year.
Remember that this funding is on the chopping block because Trump and Republicans want to give the richest Americans a giant tax cut.
Remember that this funding is on the chopping block because Trump and Republicans want to give the richest Americans a giant tax cut.
September 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
No Democrat should vote to keep the government open unless ACA funding is restored for the millions of Americans at risk of losing health coverage next year.
Remember that this funding is on the chopping block because Trump and Republicans want to give the richest Americans a giant tax cut.
Remember that this funding is on the chopping block because Trump and Republicans want to give the richest Americans a giant tax cut.
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IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.
The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
September 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.
The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
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It's one thing for a random NY politician to make a quip like this but Jeffries is national leadership. He's the leader my own Rep in the House is supposed to follow. I don't think it's funny, I think Jeffries is undermining the whole party with this insult and by failing to endorse Mamdani.
Following Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s criticism of Democratic leadership for refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani, Hakeem Jeffries’ spokesman mocks: “Chris Van Who?”
September 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
It's one thing for a random NY politician to make a quip like this but Jeffries is national leadership. He's the leader my own Rep in the House is supposed to follow. I don't think it's funny, I think Jeffries is undermining the whole party with this insult and by failing to endorse Mamdani.
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Update: we just received a statement from Macmillan/Tor taking full responsibility for failing to register copyright, promising to make us whole and pay us any settlement money we lost out on due to that error, and promising to find & correct the lapses that caused this.
Every pub should do this.
Every pub should do this.
this part right here is gonna create massive resentment in the industry. the copyright registration system and the fact that you apparently have to pay a bonus fee for protection from big companies pirating your work (and that tons of publishers never paid the bonus fee...)
Instead of working to include as many writers as possible in the settlement, the plaintiffs instead agreed on arbitrary and minimal definitions of which books would be included. It’s almost like they wanted a quick win – any win – even if they screwed over most authors. 4/
September 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Update: we just received a statement from Macmillan/Tor taking full responsibility for failing to register copyright, promising to make us whole and pay us any settlement money we lost out on due to that error, and promising to find & correct the lapses that caused this.
Every pub should do this.
Every pub should do this.
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Wahooooooooo
August 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Wahooooooooo
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Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.
August 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.
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Did you feel the North Jersey/Manhattan earthquake? Fill out the USGS “Did you feel it?” form and participate directly in SCIENCE - help them learn more about earthquakes! 🧪
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
August 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Did you feel the North Jersey/Manhattan earthquake? Fill out the USGS “Did you feel it?” form and participate directly in SCIENCE - help them learn more about earthquakes! 🧪
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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Strunk & White stole all their ideas from that spider
July 16, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Strunk & White stole all their ideas from that spider
One element of producing videos like Mamdani is being Mamdani, and Andrew Cuomo is no Zohran Mamdani.
To be clear, Mamdani's videos are much better than what Cuomo is producing. I don't want to slight @boringstein.bsky.social or @andbeps.bsky.social.
But there's been a lot of discourse over whether candidates just need to produce videos like Mamdani to win, so this will be a useful counterpoint.
But there's been a lot of discourse over whether candidates just need to produce videos like Mamdani to win, so this will be a useful counterpoint.
July 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
One element of producing videos like Mamdani is being Mamdani, and Andrew Cuomo is no Zohran Mamdani.
He is the poster child for "high on their own supply." And we. are. ready. (Again.)
Cuomo wants to get shellacked again? Okay Andy. Okay.
July 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
He is the poster child for "high on their own supply." And we. are. ready. (Again.)
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Need some good news? The NYC subway baby--abandoned in a subway station as a newborn and adopted by the gay couple who found him there--is now a healthy 25 year old computer science nerd.
nypost.com/2025/07/04/u...
nypost.com/2025/07/04/u...
NYC’s famous Subway Baby is turning 25 — and thriving
This summer marks 25 years since New Yorker Danny Stewart found a baby in a subway station and went on to adopt the infant with his partner, Peter Mercurio.
nypost.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Need some good news? The NYC subway baby--abandoned in a subway station as a newborn and adopted by the gay couple who found him there--is now a healthy 25 year old computer science nerd.
nypost.com/2025/07/04/u...
nypost.com/2025/07/04/u...
I’m so excited to vote in November!
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I’m so excited to vote in November!
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The Manhattan Democratic Party has formally voted to endorse Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor: manhattandemocrats.org/2025/07/manh...
Manhattan Democrats Endorse Democratic Nominees – Manhattan Democratic Party
manhattandemocrats.org
July 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The Manhattan Democratic Party has formally voted to endorse Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor: manhattandemocrats.org/2025/07/manh...
What the hell am I looking at? No, Copilot, I don't want to blog about Yellowstone or write a funny poem to wish my sister Happy Birthday. I turned you off. Stay off. (Side note to Adobe: I do not, in fact, need a summary of the manuscript that I just wrote. Stay outta my words.)
June 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
What the hell am I looking at? No, Copilot, I don't want to blog about Yellowstone or write a funny poem to wish my sister Happy Birthday. I turned you off. Stay off. (Side note to Adobe: I do not, in fact, need a summary of the manuscript that I just wrote. Stay outta my words.)
Happy Pride Day here in New York - and a reminder that the freedom to read, which depends on free access to books, is fundamental to the understanding and protection of so many other freedoms.
June 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Happy Pride Day here in New York - and a reminder that the freedom to read, which depends on free access to books, is fundamental to the understanding and protection of so many other freedoms.