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Rusty Fischer | Children's Author

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Rusty Fischer's Halloween poems have appeared in Reader’s Digest, Good Housekeeping and Woman’s Day. His latest poem, “Socks,” is currently featured in The Dirigible Balloon. https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/36446

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Rusty Fischer | Children's Author @rustyhalloweeny.bsky.social · 4h

Gooey... A Halloween poem #halloween #kidlit #halloweenpoem #poemsforkids #kidspoems #halloweenpoems #childrenspoetry #childrenspoems #monsterpoem

A vibrant Halloween background featuring a cartoon vampire, a witch using her wand plus a gurgling cauldron, a grinning pumpkin and a trio of candy corn, all graphics in support of a poem by Rusty Fischer that reads:

Candy gooey,
Candy sweet;
Empty wrappers
At my feet.

A belly full of
Sweet and yummy,
Means Halloween
Is in my tummy!

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 2h

Indianapolis! We're looking for a public editor! Is it you? www.poynter.org/news-release...

Poynter launches public editor project to serve news audiences in Indianapolis - Poynter

Partner newsrooms will publish the editor’s independent analysis of local news coverage across the market.

www.poynter.org

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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MizfitMathew @mizfitmathew.bsky.social · 1h

Now seated at the movie theaters for...

It's the 30th anniversary of this! One of my favorite movies growing up, and I remember seeing it at the movies way back then.

Casper, 1995

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Marriott Library @lib.utah.edu · 1h

Need some fall book recommendations? don’t worry, we’ve got you bestie…😌🍂📙

#UofU #MarriottLibrary #UniversityofUtah #FallBookRecs #BookRecs #FallBooks #Books #BookRecs #Library

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 2h

Paying homage

D'Angelo, Voodoo cd, in room full of records.

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Paul Eggleston @pauleggleston.bsky.social · 2h

When I was forced to sell my drum kit and gig using kitchen pots and pans instead, that's when I knew I'd hit wok bottom.

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 3h

My best advice to aspiring authors of scholarly books is to read other scholarly books recently published by your target press. This may seem obvious and yet is not!

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 4h

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

—Leonard Cohen

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 9h

Hi, it’s me, an author and librarian-in-progress, here to tell you, yes, YOU, that every form of reading is valid. Ebooks, audiobooks, physical books, graphic novels, romance, old pulp books, the back of the cereal box, whatever. If it gets narrative to your brain, that’s good.

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Arkhangel is in the Borderlands @arkhangel79.bsky.social · 21h

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David Petersen @mouseguard.bsky.social · 4h

COMICS ALOUD! Noon This Sunday at @baltimorecomiccon.bsky.social I'll be with @derekkirkkim.bsky.social, Mark Buckingham, @jeffsmithsbone.bsky.social, & Jeremy Bastian as we read aloud excerpts and short stories of our own comics while the images are projected for the audience.

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Rusty Fischer | Children's Author @rustyhalloweeny.bsky.social · 4h

Gooey... A Halloween poem #halloween #kidlit #halloweenpoem #poemsforkids #kidspoems #halloweenpoems #childrenspoetry #childrenspoems #monsterpoem

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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 4h

The difference between YA and adult fiction is perspective and exhaustion, say authors Veronica Roth and Marie Lu | Popverse buff.ly/RmxAoPt

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · 11h

Get ready to look and look and look some more! Happy #BookBirthday to @florisbooks.bsky.social for 630 MAPLE STREET a "visit to a four-unit apartment building that unfolds over the course of a year" ysbookreviews.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/6...

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 12h

What a brilliant title! Courting Disaster by @thezhm.bsky.social 📚🌷

A fascinating, feminist dive into 18C literature – from Richardson to Austen – shedding light on ‘courtship’, consent, & the power of literature

📖 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188854/
(TY @manchesterup.bsky.social 🤓)

Book cover for Zoe Mcgee's Courting Disaster, set in front of a row of 18th-century books, with a yellow flower at its feet

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

Big roar for AG Letitia James at the ZOHRAN rally👇🏽

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Mostly Book Talk @mostlybooktalk.bsky.social · 9h

📙 Episode 36: We chat with Nathanael Lessore, author of Steady for This & King of Nothing, about writing for teens, the power of humour, and his hilarious Superpower series.

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

#NathanaelLessore #YAfiction #MiddleGrade #MostlyBookTalk

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Kalaniot Books @kalaniotbooks.bsky.social · 10h

It's here! And right in time for #TranslationTuesday too! WITH A NEEDLE AND THREAD is by Jennifer Stempel, whom you can meet this Friday at Booth 206 #AASL25 and the #Spanish translation CON HILO Y AGUJA is translated by @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social !

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Penstricken @penstricken.bsky.social · 9h

Did we mention it's free to submit your short #fiction, #poetry and #nonfic about writing to us? Because it is. And submissions for our winter issue are open now. 👉🏻 penstricken.com/submissions

We'd love to read your work 🤗.

Issue 5 – SUBMISSIONS

Submissions Open Submissions for our Winter 2025 issue, Glamour, are now open! See below for full submission guidelines for this issue. Please note we are presently unable to provide monetary compe…

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 10h

I bought some cheap dinosaur decor for my sons bday party and he is still cherishing them weeks later, I find them everywhere (yes that is his breakfast, this is a carbs home)

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21h

"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures.

...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 17h

Frog and Toad waited a long time.

Four days later the snail got to Toad's house and gave him the letter from Frog. Toad was very pleased to have it.

Snail delivers a letter to Toad, who is very happy to receive it.

From "The Letter"
In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · 11h

Double happy #BookBirthday this #TranslationTuesday! @cuentodeluz.bsky.social brings #picturebook readers THE QUILT OF OUR MEMORIES in English translation and the original Spanish edition LA COLCHA DE NUESTROS RECUERDOS

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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Another desk buddy. Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley, making sure this is a spider plant and not a face hugger in disguise.

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · 1d

“Halloween wouldn’t be the same without candy, costumes, and, in this case, comedy” says #Kirkus of MY DAD THINKS HE’S A SCREAM in its roundup of Sweetly Spooky Stories for Halloween #WalkerBooksAustralia www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/s...

Sweetly Spooky Stories for Halloween | Kirkus Reviews

Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

www.kirkusreviews.com

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