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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz

@schwartzwords.bsky.social

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YA fantasy: A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE and TO A DARKER SHORE / adult romcom: MY KIND OF TROUBLE / sadder but wiser / autistic / fat / 🌈 / 🇮🇹 / theater / (she/they) / Rep: Lee O’Brien, LGLM https://linktr.ee/leanneschwartz

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · Nov 11

wow hello so maybe a reintro?

I’m Leanne (she/they), author of YA fantasy and adult romance books here in California

hoping to connect over
-fantasy and romance books/media
-autism
-theater
-fat liberation
-libraries and fighting book bans
-demi/acespec
-education/English teachers
-the horrors

portrait sketch of me, a fat white person with long brown hair, by Raquel Trevé

LEANNE / LA SCHWARTZ

girls getting even
fat, autistic, demi, sapphic rep religious trauma monsters and Italian worldbuilding
books, theater, nerds

A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE
An autistic poet's prayer awakens a vengeful statue who will stop at nothing to kill the immortal tyrant whose "miracle" trapped her
(YA Romantic Fantasy, 2023)

TO A DARKER SHORE
An autistic inventor goes to hell to avenge her best friend sacrificed in her place-only to find him alive but monstrously transformed
(YA Romantic Fantasy, 2024)

* "A phenomenal work."
—School Library Journal, starred review

MY KIND OF
Trouble
a novel
L.A.SCHWARTZ
A slick conwoman meets her match in a hot and nerdy autistic librarian fighting book bans in this gender-swapped Music Man homage (Adult Romance, 2024)

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 8h

David keeps this house like a fridge but yeah it’s baking season! Hopefully someone can fix it.

Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 8h

Oh I’m so sorry, and very rude of the universe.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 18h

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 10h

oven’s broken this feels personal

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 10h

song of the night

When that man is dead and gone by Mildred Bailey song screenshot

Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 12h

<3Thanks, but they at least agreed to hold it for me until the nonsense clears up (hopefully)

Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 12h

current fascism's tariff nonsense means I can't get the original copy of an anti-fascist italian text I found for sale shipped to me🫠

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Cameron “Halloween Enjoyer” Suey @cameronsuey.com · 12h

got home today and I was excited about reading a book so I started loudly muttering “books books books books books” like a little librarian goblin, and I think I upset one of my neighbors

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 12h

although getting struck by lightning probably gets you off the hook for responsibilities for a few days at least right

Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 12h

nvm it’s a thunderstorm apparently, if I have to leave the house I do not want the spicy rain

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 12h

It’s been a rough week but it’s supposed to RAIN so things are looking up

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 12h

"If you removed our autism you would remove us. Everything you love &hate about us would be gone. We'd fundamentally be completely different ppl. So if you love an autistic person, their autism is part of what you love about them." By @autiebiographical.bsky.social:

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Autie-biographical Comics

You can't love someone but hate their autism. It's a part of who we are. Yes, you can dislike parts of our autism, like I'm sure there are parts of other people you don't like. However, the parts of.....

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 1d

anti-fascist frogs of the week

Inflatable frog costume facing down ice agents

Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 1d

Happy book birthday!!!!

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 1d

My new book, Dealing With A Desperate Demon, is out today! Cheery curvy bookseller, grumpy curvy demon, dating lessons, a beauty and the beast style curse, lots of horniness. Perfect to curl up to for spooky season! You can grab it these places!

read.macmillan.com/lp/dealing-w...

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 2d

\o/

Electrek @electrek.co · 2d

In a first, renewables generate more power than coal globally

Solar and wind power aren’t just keeping up with global electricity demand anymore – they’re pulling ahead. According to a new analysis from energy think tank Ember, solar and wind combined outpaced global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025. That shift led to a drop in both coal and gas generation compared to the same period last year. For the first time ever, renewables generated more power than coal globally. more…

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 2d

It's banned books week and so I'm legally obligated to bully you, a person who has ever had their name on a book, into joining @authorsabb.bsky.social.

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We fight the source of book bans with calls to action, partnership w everyone in the game, and offer training.

AABB Author Sign-Up Form

Hello! We're Authors Against Book Bans, a group of authors who’ve come together to protect and promote the freedom to read on both the national and local levels. We’re creating a network of authors to...

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 2d

I’m still on semi-hiatus, and I’ll only be able to post a few things and reshare the big research-heavy posts I did last year, but everyone can do their small part to make a big impact. Fight for your freedom to read!

Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 2d

So this week and always, please support libraries, those librarians risking everything to stand up against book bans, and living marginalized authors.

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 2d

The passive book banning we’re already seeing as promises for better support of diversity evaporate under the current administration (people! are not! trends!!) is scary as heck.

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 2d

by a vanishingly small number of people who nevertheless have an outside impact on what books get carried in school and public libraries, and even bookstores and publishers.

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 2d

The book ban crisis is a movement spearheaded by bigots targeting these already most vulnerable authors and their readers who most need books with this representation, and astroturfed across the country

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 2d

(And you don’t even want to know which book I hid with My Kind of Trouble; my book-ban fighting librarian Preston would never feature a TERF’s book in any display😤)

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 2d

What’s wrong with this picture? While I’m a longtime supporter of Banned Books Week, I’d love to see more displays in libraries and bookstores showcasing the actually most commonly banned books—BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and other marginalized books. Decades-old bestsellers aren’t truly in danger.

My kind of trouble held up before a banned books display reading “have you read these banned books?” With to kill a mockingbird and Matilda.

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