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MerryDeath McScream Ghoul

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🌟Kidlit writer & artist (they/them/elle) 🧳Rep: Allie Levick at Writers House 📕 DOOR BY DOOR, Crown BFYRs (🌟 Booklist & Lammy Award Finalist) 🧦 Here to steal your left sock 🕸️ https://linktr.ee/Meridth #ProtectTransKids

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MerryDeath McScream Ghoul @hellomeridth.bsky.social · 19h

Join me in writing Congress that they cannot violate our First Amendment rights by banning books that represent diverse communities. Click the link in my bio to write a letter, or go to:

action.aclu.org/send-message...

#BookBans #bannedbooksweek #bannedbooks end/

Tell Congress: No book bans in military schools

Schools run by the Department of Defense on military bases have banned hundreds of books and altered curricula that the Trump administration doesn't agree with. Take action.

action.aclu.org

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MerryDeath McScream Ghoul @hellomeridth.bsky.social · 19h

The so-called Department of War has banned nearly 600 books this year from military bases or schools. They’ve targeted books that “promote gender idealogy” or “DEI.” Not surprisingly my book, DOOR BY DOOR (written by Meeg Pincus, illustrated by me) is one of those banned books. 1/
#BannedBookWeek

Sarah McBride speech at the Democratic National Convention

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MerryDeath McScream Ghoul @hellomeridth.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks so much Jilanne! I have a kid that’s always doing that. 😅

MerryDeath McScream Ghoul @hellomeridth.bsky.social · 5d

Nopety no

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MerryDeath McScream Ghoul @hellomeridth.bsky.social · 5d

🍁 Hello friends! I’m joining #kidlitpostcard a wee bit late (I’m on deadline) but had to post something cuz this is my fav time of year. (Hooray for crunchy leaves & pumpkin spice!) I’m rep’d by @allielevick.bsky.social at Writers House. For more work visit my website at www.MeridthSaysHello.com 🍂

Kid walking in the trees holding a leaf in the fall.

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MerryDeath McScream Ghoul @hellomeridth.bsky.social · 5d

I get it! No need to explain. Just hoping that good things are in the works for you. 💛

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Diana Delosh - illustrator @dtdelosh.bsky.social · 6d

Art Directors, Editors, Designers:
Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day!
Portfolio: dianadelosh.com
Represented by @lynnettenovak.bsky.social of The Seymour Agency.
#kidlitartpostcard #kidlitart #illustrator #illustration #kidlit

My ink, watercolor, color pencil illustration of family of rabbits visiting on an autumn day. Mama Bunny leads the way carrying a pumpkin tureen. Followed by sister bunny holding a bag of apples. The bag has a hole at the bottom and it's leaking apples. Which causes the bunny behind her to trip, throwing his plate of cupcakes in the air. The bunny bringing up the rear is carrying a pie and is distracted by the cupcakes. Hopefully he won't trip on an apple. This is a self- promotional postcard - my contact on the bottom reads: Diana Ting Delosh • illustrator/storyteller • diana delosh.com represented by Lynnette Novak of The Seymour Agency
© Diana Ting Delosh

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MerryDeath McScream Ghoul @hellomeridth.bsky.social · 6d

Hooray for “reasons!”

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Kaly Quarles @kalyquarles.bsky.social · 6d

Happy #kidlitartpostcard tricksters! 👻

Book projects? Email my lovely agent, @marchsoloway.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social.

www.kalyquarles.com

Scene from The Zombees, written by @justincolonbooks.bsky.social and illustrated by yours truly. Out now!

#halloween #picturebook #spooky

Picture book art featuring a spooky cute cemetery at night with tombstones and bees buzzing around. A cat in a witch hat follows the bees. Scene from The Zombees, a rhyming Halloween picture book written by Justin Colon & illustrated by Kaly Quarles.

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MerryDeath McScream Ghoul @hellomeridth.bsky.social · 15d

It’s so true!

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmed.bsky.social · 16d

Some takeaways from ABC/Disney backtracking on Kimmel:
1) Corps only care about $$
SCOTUS says money is speech. So use your voice! Boycotts work. Collective action works!
2) A huge amount of energy went into helping Kimmel. We need that same energy for book bans & attacks on marginalized creators.

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MerryDeath McScream Ghoul @hellomeridth.bsky.social · 16d

Ugh, of course they weren’t. Boo to that! And I agree, hyper focusing isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

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MerryDeath McScream Ghoul @hellomeridth.bsky.social · 16d

I can’t read the article, but has the parent of autistic kids, I generally find these articles infantilizing. Also I’d be curious to see how many autistic voices are included in this article.

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MerryDeath McScream Ghoul @hellomeridth.bsky.social · 16d

So lovely!!

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Vanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social · 16d

Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall

#watercolor
#gouache
#kidlitart
#autumnequinox

watercolor and gouache painting of a fairy-sized girl sitting beneath a mushroom surrounded by an overgrowth of leaves and berries

watercolor and gouache painting of a little bird sitting atop a mushroom surrounded by leaves and grass

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MerryDeath McScream Ghoul @hellomeridth.bsky.social · 16d

Oooooh exciting times!!!

MerryDeath McScream Ghoul @hellomeridth.bsky.social · 25d

Geez. I’m glad you know now. It will be exciting when you get a copy. It’s a beautiful book, friend. And I’m always seeing it on lists. 💛💛

MerryDeath McScream Ghoul @hellomeridth.bsky.social · 25d

Ooooh Meghan that’s so awesome!!!

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MerryDeath McScream Ghoul @hellomeridth.bsky.social · 26d

Aww thank you! I really appreciate that!

MerryDeath McScream Ghoul @hellomeridth.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks so much! I know about them but haven’t looked into it yet. I need to do that!

MerryDeath McScream Ghoul @hellomeridth.bsky.social · 26d

Aww thank you Jilanne!!

MerryDeath McScream Ghoul @hellomeridth.bsky.social · 27d

I love that so much!!! Here’s hoping you win! And soon!! Also best of luck on your wip! 💛

MerryDeath McScream Ghoul @hellomeridth.bsky.social · 27d

I’m heartbroken but not surprised that people are calling for my &Meeg’s bio of Sarah McBride 2be destroyed. Book bans are a prime tool of fascism

It’s why we need 2 support LGBTQ+ books-which are overwhelmingly targeted in book bans. Buy them, positively review them, check them out in the library!

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28d

6. Another, Door by Door: How Sarah McBride Became America’s First Transgender Senator, is a simple political biography, which one challenger states “should be removed and destroyed.”

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28d

9. Submit written letters to the Alabama Public Library Service directly, request to speak at the September 18th or October 21 hearing in Montgomery, or use Read Free Alabama’s tool to automatically send a pre-written letter to the board.

aplsws2.apls.state.al.us/publications...

August 29, 2025

The Alabama Public Library Service (APLS) is proposing rule changes to the state's Administrative Code. The proposed changes will update State Aid policy requirements for Alabama public libraries. You may view the agency's proposed Administrative Code changes here.

Interested persons are invited to present written comments on the proposed changes to the Alabama Administrative Code. Written comments should be mailed or hand-delivered to:

Vanessa Carr
Executive Secretary
Alabama Public Library Service
6030 Monticello Drive
Montgomery, AL 36117

Written comments must be signed and include a full name and address. Written comments must be received at the Alabama Public Library Service no later than 4:30 p.m. CST on October 14, 2025. A public hearing will be held at APLS on October 21, 2025 at 10 a.m. CST at the above address. Requests to make oral comments should be sent to vcarr@apls.state.al.us no later than 4:30 p.m. CST on October 14, 2025. The order of oral comments will be established based on the dates that the requests are received. Oral comments at the hearing will be limited to two minutes.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28d

8. The fight over Alabama’s library codes is not going unchallenged. Groups like the Alabama Transgender Rights Action Coalition and Read Free Alabama are mobilizing against the proposed restrictions. They’ve laid out clear steps for residents who want to resist.

Tell the Alabama Public Library Services Board: Reject the Proposed Administrative Code Amendment

Supporting the Right to Read in All Alabama Libraries

www.readfreelyalabama.org

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