Kate Milford
@katemilford.bsky.social
Author of fantasy and mystery for young readers, writing from Brooklyn, NY, and Creve Coeur, Nagspeake. The most recent Greenglass House story, THE RACONTEUR'S COMMONPLACE BOOK, is out now in paperback.
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This is Link. His ball suddenly went missing and then reappeared trapped under his bed. He called his brother Otto in for backup, knowing they'd need all three of their collective brain cells to get it back. 12/10 for both (IG: thegoldenbruvs)
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
This is Link. His ball suddenly went missing and then reappeared trapped under his bed. He called his brother Otto in for backup, knowing they'd need all three of their collective brain cells to get it back. 12/10 for both (IG: thegoldenbruvs)
I get this question on every school visit, and my response tends to be some version of: It's like deciding I want to do a jigsaw puzzle, but first I have to find the pieces. There's no box full of all the correct pieces and a picture of the finished work you can just go get, then assemble.
I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
November 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I get this question on every school visit, and my response tends to be some version of: It's like deciding I want to do a jigsaw puzzle, but first I have to find the pieces. There's no box full of all the correct pieces and a picture of the finished work you can just go get, then assemble.
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I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
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“All right,” said Toad. “Let me think of a story to tell you.”
Toad thought and thought. But he could not think of a story to tell Frog.
Toad thought and thought. But he could not think of a story to tell Frog.
November 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
“All right,” said Toad. “Let me think of a story to tell you.”
Toad thought and thought. But he could not think of a story to tell Frog.
Toad thought and thought. But he could not think of a story to tell Frog.
I'm mad I didn't come up with the phrase 'sex crime against metaphors' myself, but maybe I'd have had to read the piece first and I'm happy in my ignorance so I guess it's a wash
Listen, I am absolutely prone to over-writing stuff. But this book is a sex crime against metaphors.
November 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I'm mad I didn't come up with the phrase 'sex crime against metaphors' myself, but maybe I'd have had to read the piece first and I'm happy in my ignorance so I guess it's a wash
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Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”
“But we can open the box,” said Toad.
“That is true,” said Frog.
“But we can open the box,” said Toad.
“That is true,” said Frog.
November 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”
“But we can open the box,” said Toad.
“That is true,” said Frog.
“But we can open the box,” said Toad.
“That is true,” said Frog.
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"Can I help you find something?" a series of booksellers ask with increasing desperation until you realize that not only are you in a labyrinth but you are, in fact, the minotaur
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"Can I help you find something?" a series of booksellers ask with increasing desperation until you realize that not only are you in a labyrinth but you are, in fact, the minotaur
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I love playing "Malice or Cowardice?" every day. it's my favorite game
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I love playing "Malice or Cowardice?" every day. it's my favorite game
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If you're in the northeast, sorry about your reps. Anyway can you call and yell at them please?
Call them:
Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542
Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224
King (ME)
202 224-5344
Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324
Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451
Masto (NV)
202 224-3542
Warner (VA)
202 224-2023
Fetterman (PA)
No Point
Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542
Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224
King (ME)
202 224-5344
Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324
Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451
Masto (NV)
202 224-3542
Warner (VA)
202 224-2023
Fetterman (PA)
No Point
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
If you're in the northeast, sorry about your reps. Anyway can you call and yell at them please?
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
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Ah the deep ocean, answering the question (this time) of:
What if shark but ALSO pig?
Let's meet the angular roughshark (Oxynotus centrina), found across the eastern Atlantic Ocean & Mediterranean.
They're 'hairy', they grunt & they look like this 👇
What if shark but ALSO pig?
Let's meet the angular roughshark (Oxynotus centrina), found across the eastern Atlantic Ocean & Mediterranean.
They're 'hairy', they grunt & they look like this 👇
November 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Ah the deep ocean, answering the question (this time) of:
What if shark but ALSO pig?
Let's meet the angular roughshark (Oxynotus centrina), found across the eastern Atlantic Ocean & Mediterranean.
They're 'hairy', they grunt & they look like this 👇
What if shark but ALSO pig?
Let's meet the angular roughshark (Oxynotus centrina), found across the eastern Atlantic Ocean & Mediterranean.
They're 'hairy', they grunt & they look like this 👇
Should've included the informational page! This is TOMORROW, SUNDAY NOV 9.
November 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Should've included the informational page! This is TOMORROW, SUNDAY NOV 9.
Hey, what are you doing tomorrow (Sunday, Nov 9)? If you're anywhere near NYC, come to the @brooklynmuseum.org's Children's Book Fair! This is one of my favorite events. It's free, and about 50 Brooklyn authors and illustrators (including me!) will be there from 11-330. Come out and say hi!
November 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Hey, what are you doing tomorrow (Sunday, Nov 9)? If you're anywhere near NYC, come to the @brooklynmuseum.org's Children's Book Fair! This is one of my favorite events. It's free, and about 50 Brooklyn authors and illustrators (including me!) will be there from 11-330. Come out and say hi!
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“We are not afraid!” screamed Frog and Toad at the same time.
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
“We are not afraid!” screamed Frog and Toad at the same time.
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Book mail! @katemilford.bsky.social's RIALTO is coming in April and is about "anxiety and sibling relationships...to a similar degree to which GREENGLASS HOUSE is about adoption." It's set in #Missouri and involves a theme park town swallowed by forest. I'm in! #kidlit #booksky
November 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Book mail! @katemilford.bsky.social's RIALTO is coming in April and is about "anxiety and sibling relationships...to a similar degree to which GREENGLASS HOUSE is about adoption." It's set in #Missouri and involves a theme park town swallowed by forest. I'm in! #kidlit #booksky
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Sharing for those that haven't seen it
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Sharing for those that haven't seen it
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Capy: Look, we both know this isn't going to happen.
Pelican: Yeah but
Capy: You have to try
Pelican: I have to try, yeah, it's contractual
Capy: Okay, fine. You don't mind if I keep-
Pelican: No no, by all means, do your thing
Pelican: Yeah but
Capy: You have to try
Pelican: I have to try, yeah, it's contractual
Capy: Okay, fine. You don't mind if I keep-
Pelican: No no, by all means, do your thing
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Capy: Look, we both know this isn't going to happen.
Pelican: Yeah but
Capy: You have to try
Pelican: I have to try, yeah, it's contractual
Capy: Okay, fine. You don't mind if I keep-
Pelican: No no, by all means, do your thing
Pelican: Yeah but
Capy: You have to try
Pelican: I have to try, yeah, it's contractual
Capy: Okay, fine. You don't mind if I keep-
Pelican: No no, by all means, do your thing
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You have to admire the bloody-minded ambition of a pelican trying to eat a whole capybara (who seems utterly unconcerned).
The thing with pelicans is that they have ONE super-power & their brains default to "get it in your mouth & deal with it later."
Let's talk about the gular sac of the pelican.
The thing with pelicans is that they have ONE super-power & their brains default to "get it in your mouth & deal with it later."
Let's talk about the gular sac of the pelican.
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
You have to admire the bloody-minded ambition of a pelican trying to eat a whole capybara (who seems utterly unconcerned).
The thing with pelicans is that they have ONE super-power & their brains default to "get it in your mouth & deal with it later."
Let's talk about the gular sac of the pelican.
The thing with pelicans is that they have ONE super-power & their brains default to "get it in your mouth & deal with it later."
Let's talk about the gular sac of the pelican.
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Top of the playlist this morning
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Top of the playlist this morning
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Curtis sliwa has been elected grand nagus
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Curtis sliwa has been elected grand nagus
Yes please
they really need to sell these
Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Yes please
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it's pretty enjoyable seeing people who are now following the NYC election and just discovering the existence of Curtis Sliwa and you can feel the ???????s floating around their faces
November 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
it's pretty enjoyable seeing people who are now following the NYC election and just discovering the existence of Curtis Sliwa and you can feel the ???????s floating around their faces