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E.B. Bartels
@eb-bartels.bsky.social
writer, teacher, former bookseller, @wellesley.edu staff, author of GOOD GRIEF: ON LOVING PETS, HERE AND HEREAFTER (@harpercollins.bsky.social) & 🐢 mom. (she/her)
I can't believe it's real. a complete 180! so, anyway, thanks for all of your support, thanks in advance for preordering a million copies of the paperback, and if you want a signed/inscribed hardcover of GOOD GRIEF that I panic purchased off eBay when I thought the book was going out of print, lmk 😅
March 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
then a week later I learned that my absolute champion of an editor at @marinerbooks.bsky.social had been fighting for my book -- to not only keep it in print, but to finally publish it in paperback and GUESS WHAT? Ivy convinced higher ups that a paperback edition was worthwhile. coming out 11/11/25!
March 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
PUBLISHING IS WILD. two weeks ago, I posted that @harpercollins.bsky.social was letting GOOD GRIEF go out of print and to stock up on the hardcover while you can. many of you expressed frustration about this and I am grateful for all of your love and enthusiasm and for tracking down copies.
March 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
today! 1pm! you can still register, and if you can't watch live, if you register you'll get a link to the recording of the talk afterwards: www.companionanimalpsychology.com/2024/08/bark...

can't wait @zazietodd.bsky.social, thanks for having me be part of Bark! Fest.
September 24, 2024 at 3:41 PM
I'm back, baby! last Tuesday 5/28 I started work at Wellesley College again after my maternity leave ended AND I had an essay published by Pangyrus, and not just any essay. this essay has a very special place in my heart.
June 4, 2024 at 4:29 PM
thank you to Zazie Todd's Companion Animal Psychology Book Club for choosing to read #goodgriefpetsbook this April!
April 12, 2024 at 3:29 PM
thank you to Dr. Abbie Viscardi for having me on her podcast Animal Soulmates! the episode went up March 5 and you can give it a listen here (or wherever you listen to podcasts): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
March 19, 2024 at 9:07 PM
thanks to Juliana Roth for having me on her podcast Conversations with Animals! the episode aired at the end of February. you can check it out here: animal.julianaroth.com/p/good-grief...
March 19, 2024 at 9:03 PM
thanks to the Pangyrus editors for shouting out my essay "I Want to Believe" in their most recent newsletter!
January 18, 2024 at 1:28 PM
head over to the Shepherd Books website to see why I chose
@taliakolluri.bsky.social, @edyong209.bsky.social & @clairedederer.bsky.social!
January 4, 2024 at 1:16 PM
did you know that Shepherd Books asked 1,383 authors for their 3 favorite reads in 2023 and that I was ONE of those 1,383 authors?!
January 4, 2024 at 1:15 PM
THE JUDGES:
November 14, 2023 at 11:40 PM
THE READERS:
November 14, 2023 at 11:40 PM
TOMORROW NIGHT!!!!! LITERARY DEATH MATCH!! AT THE BRATTLE! BE THERE! I AM SO EXCITED AND SO TERRIFIED!!!!!
November 14, 2023 at 11:39 PM
your favorite dead pets girl was on local television! check out the segment featuring #goodgriefpetsbook on Arlington Community Media, Inc.! this might just be the best review I've gotten yet: "a groundbreaking book by an Arlington author." thanks, ACMI!
November 8, 2023 at 9:14 PM
happy Friday! did you know your favorite book about pet death (#goodgriefpetsbook) was written up in the June 2023 issue of American Funeral Director magazine?! this is a dream come true for this Six Feet Under fan.
October 20, 2023 at 12:27 PM
thank you so much to Darlene Woodward who interviewed me about #goodgriefpetsbook for One Last Network's podcast. it's always such a joy to talk to people who get it.
October 17, 2023 at 11:05 AM
October 16, 2023 at 9:46 PM