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Jess Lahey @jesslahey.bsky.social · 5d

So many scams targeted at writers! I almost got got so here's a run-down of what to watch out for.

The Scammer's Guide to Writers
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The Scammer's Guide to Writers

Sorry, Colleen Hoover did not read your book. Here's how not to be a mark.

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Jess Lahey @jesslahey.bsky.social · 16d

FREE virtual presentation on substance use prevention in kids! We will laugh, there will be no fear mongering, and I will share lots of ways in to conversations that don't make you feel oogy, hopelessly uncool, or preachy.

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Jess Lahey @jesslahey.bsky.social · 22d

I'm all Porter Robinson Cheerleader vibes today while making welcome videos for a couple of schools I'll be visiting this fall to talk Gift of Failure and Addiction Inoculation (but mostly a combo of the two).

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Elizabeth C. Hamblet, LD Advisory @echamblet.bsky.social · 28d

There's great wisdom I want you to hear from some people with experience. Read this post featuring @jesslahey.bsky.social & others learn how adults do this and what they can do instead. https://bit.ly/LDblog154x

#CollegePrep #ADHDParent #2e #Parents #twiceexceptional #ParentingTips #Dyslexia

The Importance of Transparency in College Preparation for Students with Disabilities - LD Advisory

Well-meaning adults may prevent students with disabilities from developing the self- knowledge they'll need to self-advocate and self-manage at college. Learn how they do this and what they can do instead.

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Jess Lahey @jesslahey.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

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Jess Lahey @jesslahey.bsky.social · Aug 22

This week on the #AmWriting podcast, Sarina & I interview a new favorite author of ours, Tess Gerritsen! We talk about her process, switching genres, and finding a new series right there in her backyard in mid-coast Maine.

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Writing Thrilling People & Places: Jess and Sarina talk with Tess Gerritsen

Jess and Sarina talk with thriller author Tess Gerritsen about constructing fictional worlds and the people who live there

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Jess Lahey @jesslahey.bsky.social · Aug 21

Someone asked about my most-recommended (work-related) books. Here they are, feel free to recommend others in the comments!

Jess Lahey @jesslahey.bsky.social · Aug 21

Want to know more about bringing me in to your community to speak on Gift of Failure or Addiction Inoculation topics? This post is for you!

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Why, yes! I'd LOVE to speak at your school!

It's about time for me to head back out on the road and your town could be next.

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Jess Lahey @jesslahey.bsky.social · Jul 7

I have the best job ever. I teach kids, parents, communities abt substance use, help parents & schools let kids fail & struggle & learn from it.

Most of all, help kids feel seen, heard, known & supported for who they ARE, not what we want them to be.

For more:

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Speaking — Jessica Lahey

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Jess Lahey @jesslahey.bsky.social · Jul 3

I’m watching the work of my mentors - Dr. Bob Delong, Dr. Cathy Wilfert, Dr. Sam Katz, and N.C. State Rep Marcia Morey - undone by this administration and I hardly know what to do with this grief but write and fight.

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Bob, Marcia, Cathy and Sam

They paved the way here and will continue to point the way forward

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Elizabeth C. Hamblet, LD Advisory @echamblet.bsky.social · Jul 1

Looking for a beach read?

Now is a great time to learn from @lllewis.bsky.social, @ellenbraaten.bsky.social, @jesslahey.bsky.social, & others.

See my rec' book lists on Amazon (https://bit.ly/ECHAmazon) & @bookshop.org (https://bit.ly/ECHBookshop)

#ParentingBook #ParentingTeens #CollegePrep

Summer reading on parenting teenagers includes The Sleep-Deprived Teen, Bright Kids Who Couldn't Care Less, The Self-Driven Child, Neurodiversity and College, The Gift of Failure, Seven Steps to College Success: A Pathway for Students with Disabilities, Never Enough, and The Naked Roommate: For Parents Only.

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Jess Lahey @jesslahey.bsky.social · Jun 19

After years doing the #AmWriting podcast, & many more being interviewed on other people's podcasts, I've compiled the top five rules for being a good podcast guest plus a few crazy tech snafus that can happen (ask me how I know).

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Five things podcast guests need to know

Media training 101 for podcast guesting

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Jess Lahey @jesslahey.bsky.social · Jun 14

My niece checking in from the protests in ARKANSAS!

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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · Jun 14

Let's all be the rain on this motherfucker's parade.

#NoKings #NoKingsDay

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Jess Lahey @jesslahey.bsky.social · Jun 12

I'm in an Authors Against Book Bans town hall right now and overwhelmed with gratitude for all the hard work to protect the right to read. So much progress has been made and yet so much work is yet to be done!

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Authors Against Book Bans

Our Mission Statement We are Authors Against Book Bans. We, a coalition of writers, illustrators, anthology editors and contributors, and other book creators, stand united against the deeply unconstit...

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · Jun 12

NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill"

On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill

Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs

This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

figure 2. shows poor get poorer and rich get richer, percent change. -4% for bottom 10%. +2.5% roughly for top 10%.

dollar change. shows poor get poorer and rich get richer.

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Jess Lahey @jesslahey.bsky.social · Jun 12

I love talking about substance use prevention in kids through the lens of competence, self-efficacy, self-advocacy, and helping kids feel as if they deserve to take up space in the world just as they are. Thanks to Anna Donaghey and the Big Drink Rethink podcast.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Jun 12

It's a three-box day at SCOTUS, mean we're expecting up to 6 decisions today. Opinions coming at 10.

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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · Jun 12

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Mother Hubbard @oldmotherhubbard.bsky.social · Jun 11

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Jun 11

We feed you.
They hunt us.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Jun 9

“Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying the action is needed to restore faith in vaccines.”

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Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the CDC.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · May 25

Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw

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Elizabeth C. Hamblet, LD Advisory @echamblet.bsky.social · May 18

11/ As always, I recommend folks read ’s @jesslahey.bsky.social's The Gift of Failure for more on the importance of letting students try to solve their own problems and (sometimes) fail:

The Gift of Failure — Jessica Lahey

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Jess Lahey @jesslahey.bsky.social · May 18

We had violent, flooding rain and hail yesterday in Vermont and I was reminded of the way my (then) young children were drawn out of the electricity-less house into the post-storm glow and wild, wet possibilities.

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Static Cling

The charge that lingers long after a storm passes

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