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Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · 17h

Hey! @slj.com's Day of Dialog is tomorrow, and it's free! I'll be live at 10 AM ET, talking middle grade with @veedabybee.bsky.social, McCall Hoyle, Primo Gallanosa, & Colleen Nelson, mod: Hilda Gonzalez. Excited to chat about my upcoming 6th book, CHRIS MAKES A FRIEND. www.slj.com/event/school...

School Library Journal Day of Dialog Fall 2025

Join us October 9th for SLJ Day of Dialog—fully virtual and free to attend! Our daylong program of author panels, in-depth conversations, and keynote talks will leave you informed, inspired, and enter...

www.slj.com

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 3d

Today’s the first day of Banned Books Week! Take a look at the thread and see if there’s something you can do to protect our freedom to read!

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 9d

Banned Books Week starts on Sunday, October 5—there are a ton of ways to support!

Find ways to get involved here: www.ala.org/bbooks/banne...

(If you're overwhelmed, even just checking out, buying, or elevating a banned book is helpful! Talking about them w/ the ppl in your life is an action!)

A graphic that reads BANNED BOOKS WEEK, Oct 5 - 11, 2025.

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. ala.org/bbooks

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Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · 11d

I've been looking to get away from google too, esp for my data storage. What's eerie to me is that the big bad MS from the 90s seems to still want my money, which no longer sounds as evil as google, which wants my data. If I'm not paying for it, am I the product?

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Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · 11d

So good. Plus you get to start your day like a Cockney schoolboy: "gday, scrivnuh"

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Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · 11d

Not to be Capn Buzzkill but I used LibreOffice for edits until my latest when the file went back and forth and in one of the conversions to word we lost a bunch of comments and the production team was mad at me.

Otoh, I love scrivener and the learning curve was worth it.

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Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · 28d

My level of tech-change-burnout: I freaked out bcs the company I pay for web hosting changed & when I logged in to update my site, everything looked different. I asked my programmer friend to sit with me to figure it out. The problem? I logged into the web host, not wordpress, where I edit the site.

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Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · Sep 4

And a scavenger hunt launch party at the astounding High Five Books in Florence, MA!
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Chris reads 72 books over the summer. Hive Five staff are going to make sure ALL 72 TITLES from her log are on the shelves with a letter in each to spell out a secret phrase.

Scavenger Hunt Book Launch with Alex Gino!

Sat 8 Nov, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM [EST]: Please join us in celebration of the new middle-grade novel by bestselling local author Alex Gino, CHRIS MAKES A FRIEND. You’re invited to scour High Five Books on ...

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Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · Sep 4

OK, here we go! My book CHRIS MAKES A FRIEND releases in 2 months! It's a personal story about loneliness and connection, and I'm really proud of it. 2025 is hell, which just makes art that much more important.

Preorder: highfivebooks.org/products/chr...

Chris Makes a Friend

From the award-winning author of MELISSA, a sweet and tart story about unexpected friendship and family reconciliation.THIS IS NOT THE SUMMER CHRIS HAD PLANNED...Chris does not want to be spending the...

highfivebooks.org

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Massachusetts Authors Against Book Bans @massaabb.bsky.social · Aug 11

Stonewall Book Award-winning author @alexgino.bsky.social speaks about why they support Massachusetts' Freedom to Read legislation: because books gave them "language to describe who I was, and knowledge that there were other people like me." #MassFreedomToRead

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Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · Aug 10

Just went kayaking. Look who was in steerage the whole time.

Frog sitting in water in a close up of a kayak.

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Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · Jul 21

Eeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · Jul 19

I signed up with the LUCE Immigrant Justice Network in Massachusetts, but there's probably something near you. They're also looking for hotline staffers, esp. multilingual folk. Now is the time to develop the networks. OK, it's past the time, but now is the best we've got.
www.lucemass.org

LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA

www.lucemass.org

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Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · Jul 19

I just signed up for an ICE verifier training. It's a great match for me as a white US citizen with a flexible schedule who hates ICE. Verifiers follow up on sightings. Either it's not ICE and people can go about their day or it is ICE and they know they're being watched. Is it a match for you too?

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Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · Jul 19

And just to bring home the point, after she did that, she got into conversation with it and started asking it silly questions until she realized she was being sucked in and it is unsafe. Cat, I farted. (In French: Chat, j'ai pété.)

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Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · Jul 19

The most OOOOOF story I have heard about it is my disabled friend who fed it her doctor's notes and had it reference only medical journals or some such, and ended up with a really useful and digestible summary of her symptoms and prognosis. It *could* be an access tool. But instead it is evil.

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Brian Allen @allenanalysis.bsky.social · Jul 11

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area.

Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

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Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · Jul 11

Water makes it better.

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Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · Jun 30

I've painted the first coat of chalkboard paint onto my wall and wildly vacillating between "I am a genius" and "oh boy this is going to be hell to paint over."

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Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · Jun 16

Hey folks! I have a new book Nov 4 and tbqh, I'm rather proud of it. CHRIS MAKES A FRIEND is a story of a bookish kid stuck with an annoying little sister for a summer in rural Mass.

Pre-order: highfivebooks.org/products/chr...

And listen to me talk about it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw7L...

Chris Makes a Friend

From the award-winning author of MELISSA, a sweet and tart story about unexpected friendship and family reconciliation.THIS IS NOT THE SUMMER CHRIS HAD PLANNED...Chris does not want to be spending the...

highfivebooks.org

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Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · Jun 14

Whatever doesn't kill you makes your life worse.

Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · Jun 5

Shut up and shut down are synonyms.

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Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · May 25

Writing is not a science. It's barely an art. It's mostly ineffable hocus pocus and grammar.

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Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · May 15

Hey! Are you a librarian? Thank you!!!!!!!!!
Otherwise, go thank a librarian!!!

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Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social · May 8

Micropoem:

It still hurts?
You're still doing it.

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