Allison L. Bitz, author/psychologist
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Allison L. Bitz, author/psychologist
@allisonlbitz.bsky.social
Nebraska Book Award winner, The Unstoppable Bridget Bloom (HarperCollins)
Out now: Three Things About Emmy Crawford
Licensed psychologist
Dogs | Empathy | Anecdotes
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Three Things About Emmy Crawford is six months old! If you need a break from the news cycle and are after hope, humor, and romance + a hate letter to health insurance -- this one's for you. :) #booksky
Three Things About Emmy Crawford is six months old! If you need a break from the news cycle and are after hope, humor, and romance + a hate letter to health insurance -- this one's for you. :) #booksky
April 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award

This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
April 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
April 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Sometimes I think about the person I was up through March of 2020.
Sometimes I miss her.
March 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.
March 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Tbh I watched Clooney-era ER reruns all night.
March 5, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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First it was postponed. Now it is canceled.

86 children/19,000 adults HAVE DIED FROM FLU THIS YEAR.
430,000 people have been hospitalized.

THIS IS ANTI-VAX LUNACY.

Meanwhile, HOW ARE YOUR GROCERY PRICES?

#BelieveInScience #VaccinesWork

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump administration cancels meeting on flu shots, fueling anti-vax concerns
FDA, which vaccine skeptic RFK Jr oversees, made the announcement with no explanation or new date
www.theguardian.com
March 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Just a lil starter pack of a bunch of authors I follow. :)
go.bsky.app/SVSc16C
February 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
In our continued effort to get to know our Bluesky community better, we’re curious…who are your five favourite FEMALE SINGERS / VOCALISTS of all time?

Brandi Carlile
Sara Baralleis
Pippa Soo
Madonna
Kelly Clarkson
(Tbh Chappell might make this list someday)
In our continued effort to get to know our Bluesky community better, we’re curious…who are your five favourite FEMALE SINGERS / VOCALISTS of all time?

Beyoncé
Ríoghnach Connolly
Sandy Denny
Abigail Lapell
Dolly Parton

So hard to pick! I could probably compile this list ten times over....
In our continued effort to get to know members of our Bluesky community better, we’re curious…who are your five favourite FEMALE SINGERS / VOCALISTS of all time?

Nina Simone
Joni Mitchell
Tori Amos
Sade
Dolly Parton
February 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it.

Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on.

Making this my pinned post.
February 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I'm reading this gem as we speak -- it's so fun!
It is revealed!! I'm so happy to share this beautiful cover for my upcoming debut YA romcom, MY FAIR MONSTER. Big thanks to the illustrator, @kevinwada.bsky.social Romcom about horror? Nailed it. I cried when I first saw it. I love it that much.
February 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I'm a big fan of Scrivener for drafting!! Also, I need DMs to brainstorm and work out plot problems with my beloved critique partners. #kidlitchat
TOPIC: How does technology impact your creative process? Is there 'must have' tech for you? And how does technology--past, present and future--shape the stories we tell? #kidlitchat
February 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I've fully accepted that I'm a ma'am now.
Which also means I won't be taking any shit from anyone.
February 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Gosh I thought I selected Creative Mode but I guess I'm in Survival
February 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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It’s Cover Reveal Day for THE SILENCED!
And it’s my birthday!
And the Eagles won the Super Bowl!!

THE SILENCED imagines what would happen if the girls who died in their Troubled Teen program haunt their abandoned “school” to get revenge.

Please SHARE, add on Goodreads, & pre-order now!
February 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A romcom but the thing keeping them apart is her shy bladder and his extreme phobia of closed doors
#booksky
February 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Found out that TWENTY emails is considered a lot to politicians on an issue.

TWENTY.

As in, they call that getting slammed.

So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind.

TWENTY is a lot.
February 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
What in the Hunger Games...
The armed individual who blocked senators from entering federal property bears the insignia of "Triple Canopy", which merged with Blackwater in 2014.

This is a mercenary paramilitary guard for Musk and his minions. *Anyone wearing this insignia should be considered extremely dangerous.*

#resist
February 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I feel like there's some good in the world, so long as there are bagels
February 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The way my brain feels after seeing 16 clients in two days in this political hellscape is...well, I'm so numb that even I, a twice-published author, have no words for it.
February 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Hey LA and SoCal bookish peeps! My (delayed but finally happening!) launch event for THE IN-BETWEEN BOOKSTORE is coming up on Friday, 2/7 at 7pm at Skylight Books! If you need some 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 joy in the middle of this sh*tstorm… I’d love to laugh with you 💙
February 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM