National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386 You are worth a million oceans. 💛

Heads up: never take a day off for a @raymourflanigan furniture delivery. They don’t show and don’t care that they don’t show.

Instead of obsessing over trends or agents' MSWLs, focus on telling stories that matter to you. From @AS_King: “Nothing makes sense. The sooner you understand this, the sooner you can concentrate on writing the books that will make you proud & help the people you aim to help.”

I’m here now. bsky.app/profile/as-king.bsk…

STILL LIFE WITH TORNADO was a really good read. I'm so glad to see it being mentioned. Some books are perennials, and this is one.

School Year Read # 38 #msfoleyiscurrentlyreading #audiobooklove #bookstagram #librarylife #read @AS_King

School Year Read # 40 #msfoleyiscurrentlyreading #audiobooklove #bookstagram #librarylife #read @AS_King

Please welcome @AlanGratz, @johngreenart, @byleahjohnson, @tonykeithjr, @AS_King, and @gordonkorman to #NTTBF25!

School Year Read # 37 #msfoleyiscurrentlyreading #audiobooklove #bookstagram #librarylife #read #savetheplanet @AS_King

Please explain how dissolving my marriage, or that of the hundreds of thousands of other same-sex couples living in America, provides a benefit to your constituents or anyone else. You’re not interested in helping Michiganders. You want only to hurt those you hate. Shame on you.

The queen of #YA #magicalrealism is back with another feminine anthem that I was so here for: amzn.to/3ZhvgxY @AS_King #librarytwitter #booktwitter #bookrecommendation #librarian #librarians

This is my review of @AS_King's Pick the Lock: The blurbs on the back cover are both spot-on and insufficient to fully capture what makes Pick the Lock such an incredible accomplishment. This is the work of a master of her subject employing her mastery of her craft as a writer. Then again, I don't know what it's like to read this book without being a parent who has experienced the range of subversive to overt abusive behaviors described in this novel and, at least for the most part, gotten away from them. I imagine, though, it would be just as riveting for them as it was for me. This is middle grade fiction for anyone of any age. I can't wait for my teenage daughter to read it.

A day I will not forget: presenting with Penny Kittle and notable YA authors A.S. King @AS_King and Kwame Alexander @kwamealexander. Brilliance.

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235. Pick the Lock by @AS_King This was perhaps the oddest book I've ever read. A surrealist, post-COVID but futuristic tale of domestic violence through the eyes of a child discovering the lies and abuse she has been indoctrinated with against her own mother. Loved it.

Got $22 to spare? Part Social experiment / Part Birthday celebration. Can we get 1,000 people to give just $22 in the next five weeks to a charity keeping LGBTQ kids in rural areas safe? gofund.me/06da7cc0

.@AS_King is back at it again! FOUR STARS for PICK THE LOCK, a weird and insightful new novel about a girl intent on picking the lock of her toxic family.

Your dad's Republican party is dead. Trump and his cronies are dragging its corpse along the campaign trail in hopes the American people won't know the difference, but we do. These aren't real Republicans, they are fascist thugs. Vote for sanity. Vote for Kamala Harris.