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R.M. Romero
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🌊 THE TEAR COLLECTOR (LYBR)
🧜🏻‍♀️ THE MERMAID OF WARSAW (Summer 2027, Peachtree Teen)
📕 Rep: Patricia Nelson
🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇺 🧿 ✡️ 🍉 🇺🇦

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I’m honored to announce that THE TEAR COLLECTOR is one of @slj.com’s Best Middle Grade Books of 2025! ☔️

@littlebrownyr.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social
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I'm reading TALE OF THE FLYING FOREST by R.M. Romero ( @rmromeroauthor.bsky.social ) and I feel like I'm getting some of my childhood whimsy back...nature is healing etc etc

This book is so beautiful everybody go read it right now

#booksky
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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#Book #GiveawayAlert! Enter to win R. M. Romero's #middlegrade The Tear Collector & read her guest post about how climate impacted her story at Literary Rambles. #amreading #amwriting #kidlit #teachers #librarians tinyurl.com/4jvxbphj
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.

Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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✨ ATHLETE IS AGENDER - @bibliogato and @nicolemelleby
✨ THE TEAR COLLECTOR - @rmromeroauthor
November 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I’m honored to announce that THE TEAR COLLECTOR is one of @slj.com’s Best Middle Grade Books of 2025! ☔️

@littlebrownyr.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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She is snow-hearted.
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Final batch!
October 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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In THE TEAR COLLECTOR, @rmromeroauthor.bsky.social explores memory, fear, and hope at the end of the world. Pick up this middle grade novel now, and read the author's interview about climate change anxiety and more with A Novel Mind:
www.anovelmind.com/post/r-m-rom...
October 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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In THE TEAR COLLECTOR (out today!), @rmromeroauthor.bsky.social explores anxiety and hope in the face of a climate apocalypse. Read the interview about this lyrical and heartfelt middle grade novel with A Novel Mind:
www.anovelmind.com/post/r-m-rom...
R.M. Romero: The Tear Collector (Climate, Mental Health)
Set after the end of the world, this darkly fantastical climate change tale explores hope, memory, and what really makes a monster.ANM: Welcome to A Novel Mind, Ms. Romero! Please introduce yourself! ...
www.anovelmind.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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THE TEAR COLLECTOR releases in less than a month! My cli-fi dystopia about hope at the end of the world received a star from PW, glowing reviews from Kirkus and Booklist, and amazing blurbs from authors like NYT bestseller Natalie Lloyd! ☔️

@lbschool.bsky.social @littlebrownyr.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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🌟 Pop! Goes The Reader's 20 Most-Anticipated Middle Grade Books: October-December 2025 🌟
popgoesthereader.com/20-most-anti... #BookSky #MGLit #KidLit
September 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
THE TEAR COLLECTOR releases in less than a month! My cli-fi dystopia about hope at the end of the world received a star from PW, glowing reviews from Kirkus and Booklist, and amazing blurbs from authors like NYT bestseller Natalie Lloyd! ☔️

@lbschool.bsky.social @littlebrownyr.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
August 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
“This dystopian adventure delivers a balm for climate anxiety in the form of persistence and cooperation. A vivid, emotionally resonant narrative.”

Kirkus had nothing but lovely things to say about THE TEAR COLLECTOR! ☔️ @littlebrownyr.bsky.social

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
August 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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✨Please share and bookmark!✨

In one week the We The People Summer fundraiser will begin to benefit #KidLit4Ceasefire families in Gaza and immigrant and trans rights!

www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS...

+ A small thread of other ways to help that are now live and will be live long-term:
August 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
@wings.nu Have you watched “K-Pop Demon Hunters”? I think you’d like it, it’s very 90s-style magical girl.
August 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Coming soon: new projects from @rmromeroauthor.bsky.social @kelseybtoney.bsky.social @andrewchacket.bsky + more buff.ly/JPLQ8ig
August 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
THE MERMAID OF WARSAW, my YA historical fantasy novel (in prose!) about the Warsaw Uprising, will be published in the summer of 2027! 🧜🏻‍♀️ I’m so excited to work with Ashley Hearn and the team at Peachtree Teen again.
August 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I have news that I’ve been sitting on for a year dropping tomorrow… 👀
a mermaid is swimming in the ocean with the sun shining through the water
ALT: a mermaid is swimming in the ocean with the sun shining through the water
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August 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Goodreads is hosting a giveaway for THE TEAR COLLECTOR, my cli-fi middle grade about found family, monsters, and the end of the world! 🌧️

@littlebrownyr.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social
Book giveaway for The Tear Collector by R.M. Romero Jul 18-Aug 17, 2025
Enter to win one of 20 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jul 18-Aug 17, 2025. Enter to win an ARC of this darkly fantastical climate change tale...
www.goodreads.com
July 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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July 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
“The desire to forget prolongs exile and the secret of redemption is memory.”
— Issac Luria

(Footsteps. Ghosts.)
July 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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What I've been saying.
July 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
My loathing for my dead arch nemesis is so intense that I made a fictionalized version of him the villain of THE GHOSTS OF ROSE HILL. 🙃
If you do any amount of historic research you will get a dead arch nemesis.

I have several but the horrifying state of media right now has me wanting to invent a time machine just to get into a barfight with Edward Bernays.
July 21, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Goodreads is hosting a giveaway for THE TEAR COLLECTOR, my cli-fi middle grade about found family, monsters, and the end of the world! 🌧️

@littlebrownyr.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social
Book giveaway for The Tear Collector by R.M. Romero Jul 18-Aug 17, 2025
Enter to win one of 20 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jul 18-Aug 17, 2025. Enter to win an ARC of this darkly fantastical climate change tale...
www.goodreads.com
July 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM