Betsy Uhrig
@betsyuhrig.bsky.social
Author of mild-mannered middle-grade books, including MIND OVER MONSTERS (McElderry/S&S). Agent: Joan Paquette. BetsyUhrig.com
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Betsy Uhrig
@betsyuhrig.bsky.social
· Sep 2
Kids are going back to school whether they want to or not. If they're worried, here's the perfect #MGLit book to fix that! (Disclaimer: It most definitely won't fix anything, but it might make them laugh. Plus there are giant-cranberry antics!) Order here: bookshop.org/p/books/mind...
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The perfect autumn Sunday 🍁
Artwork by: Malysheva_Nastenka
Have you read a #book today? <3
Have you read a #book today? <3
November 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The perfect autumn Sunday 🍁
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I beg you to read this thread but only if you promise to read all the alt texts
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I beg you to read this thread but only if you promise to read all the alt texts
Vital note to self for the MG work in progress. This is the kind of insight that makes or breaks a story…
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Vital note to self for the MG work in progress. This is the kind of insight that makes or breaks a story…
From the NYT Style section. This makes book piles legitimate decor choices, right?
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
From the NYT Style section. This makes book piles legitimate decor choices, right?
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“I like to be chic,” he said. “I go to school like this.” -this kid is a character from a YA novel!
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“I like to be chic,” he said. “I go to school like this.” -this kid is a character from a YA novel!
Or are the baguettes normal size and the people Borrowers?
if those are baguettes, these must be "bags"
(no it's not AI)
(no it's not AI)
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Or are the baguettes normal size and the people Borrowers?
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I'm really looking forward to my first bookstore event for LOLLY, at the Tidepool Bookshop in Worcester November 16 at 2 pm. It's a lovely store - if you're in the area please stop in! @randomhousekids.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I'm really looking forward to my first bookstore event for LOLLY, at the Tidepool Bookshop in Worcester November 16 at 2 pm. It's a lovely store - if you're in the area please stop in! @randomhousekids.bsky.social
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I didn't even *want* to lean on the barrier until I saw this cool guy doing it
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I didn't even *want* to lean on the barrier until I saw this cool guy doing it
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FinalDraft.pdf
FinalDraft_1.pdf
FinalDraft_1_Send_This_One.pdf
FinalDraft_1_No_Actually_Send_This_One.pdf
FinalFinalDraft_1_This_Draft_Is_Correct.pdf
FinalDraft_1.pdf
FinalDraft_1_Send_This_One.pdf
FinalDraft_1_No_Actually_Send_This_One.pdf
FinalFinalDraft_1_This_Draft_Is_Correct.pdf
I’m Not Sure Which, But One of These Fifteen PDF Files Is the Final Draft
FinalDraft.pdf FinalDraft_1.pdf FinalDraft_1_Send_This_One.pdf FinalDraft_1_No_Actually_Send_This_One.pdf FinalFinalDraft_1_This_Draft_Is_Correct.p...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
FinalDraft.pdf
FinalDraft_1.pdf
FinalDraft_1_Send_This_One.pdf
FinalDraft_1_No_Actually_Send_This_One.pdf
FinalFinalDraft_1_This_Draft_Is_Correct.pdf
FinalDraft_1.pdf
FinalDraft_1_Send_This_One.pdf
FinalDraft_1_No_Actually_Send_This_One.pdf
FinalFinalDraft_1_This_Draft_Is_Correct.pdf
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Massachusetts friends! Please join us at the Newton Children’s Book Festival - a FREE event on Sunday, 11/16, 11am-3pm at the New Art Center. Meet 60+ children’s book authors and illustrators. Signed books for holiday giving, bookmark craft, & lots of fun. Learn more: newtonchildrensbookfest.com/
November 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Massachusetts friends! Please join us at the Newton Children’s Book Festival - a FREE event on Sunday, 11/16, 11am-3pm at the New Art Center. Meet 60+ children’s book authors and illustrators. Signed books for holiday giving, bookmark craft, & lots of fun. Learn more: newtonchildrensbookfest.com/
"Tiny Library of Babel" by Adam Douglas Thompson, from this week's New Yorker.
November 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"Tiny Library of Babel" by Adam Douglas Thompson, from this week's New Yorker.
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LOLLY ON THE ICE comes out in 10 days! Trivia contest starts today: whoever gets the most questions right gets a copy of the book signed by me and all the skater guests at my bookstore events. If a tie, I will draw the winner. I'm going to try to make these hard to google... we'll see.
November 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
LOLLY ON THE ICE comes out in 10 days! Trivia contest starts today: whoever gets the most questions right gets a copy of the book signed by me and all the skater guests at my bookstore events. If a tie, I will draw the winner. I'm going to try to make these hard to google... we'll see.
Congratulations to 🐝a Reader, aka @reyeh.bsky.social! You have won this fabulous prize! 🏆DM me with your address, and these two classic works of mildly scary literature will be on their way to you. Thanks to all who reposted!
#Teachers #Librarians: As Halloween creeps up on us, I am giving away copies of my scary #MGLit books! Repost this and follow me to be entered to win. (US only.) I'll announce the winner 10/31! Share them with kids or read them yourself as you feast on leftover candy...📖🍬
October 31, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Congratulations to 🐝a Reader, aka @reyeh.bsky.social! You have won this fabulous prize! 🏆DM me with your address, and these two classic works of mildly scary literature will be on their way to you. Thanks to all who reposted!
My wonderful local bookstore put out its list of favorite November releases, and two of my wonderful friends are on it, and I am so grateful for my wonderful #kidlit community!
@silverunicornbooks.bsky.social @heatherlangbooks.bsky.social
@sarahsbrannen.bsky.social
@silverunicornbooks.bsky.social @heatherlangbooks.bsky.social
@sarahsbrannen.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
My wonderful local bookstore put out its list of favorite November releases, and two of my wonderful friends are on it, and I am so grateful for my wonderful #kidlit community!
@silverunicornbooks.bsky.social @heatherlangbooks.bsky.social
@sarahsbrannen.bsky.social
@silverunicornbooks.bsky.social @heatherlangbooks.bsky.social
@sarahsbrannen.bsky.social
Next-level publisher enthusiasm! ⛸️⭐️ Fabulous!
Happy Halloween! Here’s my art director at @randomhousekids.bsky.social, Veronique LeFevre Sweet, dressed as Lolly for the office Halloween party.
LOLLY ON THE ICE comes out in just 11 days!! I’ll be at Tidepool Bookshop in Worcester on November 16 at 2. Will I also be dressed as Lolly??
LOLLY ON THE ICE comes out in just 11 days!! I’ll be at Tidepool Bookshop in Worcester on November 16 at 2. Will I also be dressed as Lolly??
October 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Next-level publisher enthusiasm! ⛸️⭐️ Fabulous!
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Teachers and librarians! Repost this repost or repost the first post or post the repost 😵💫 (and also follow me) to win two spooky middle grades for your collection! #kidlit #MGLit
#Teachers #Librarians: As Halloween creeps up on us, I am giving away copies of my scary #MGLit books! Repost this and follow me to be entered to win. (US only.) I'll announce the winner 10/31! Share them with kids or read them yourself as you feast on leftover candy...📖🍬
October 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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On the topic of moving, would any teachers/librarians or book club organizers be interested in class sets of EELGRASS BOG or BITTERFLY BAY? I have many spare hardcovers of both, and I'd love them to go to a loving home. I'd just ask for some help with shipping costs :)
Boosts appreciated!
Boosts appreciated!
October 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
On the topic of moving, would any teachers/librarians or book club organizers be interested in class sets of EELGRASS BOG or BITTERFLY BAY? I have many spare hardcovers of both, and I'd love them to go to a loving home. I'd just ask for some help with shipping costs :)
Boosts appreciated!
Boosts appreciated!
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Ghost book, ghost book! I have a ghost book coming out in April!
I still have some ARCs floating about, so if you'd like one, ping me!
I still have some ARCs floating about, so if you'd like one, ping me!
October 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Ghost book, ghost book! I have a ghost book coming out in April!
I still have some ARCs floating about, so if you'd like one, ping me!
I still have some ARCs floating about, so if you'd like one, ping me!
The eye of Hurricane Max is now directly over the center of his box.
October 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The eye of Hurricane Max is now directly over the center of his box.
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"It has emerged that a very similar heist was outlined in one of the 52 volumes of a popular children’s book series beginning in the 1960s that stars Fantômette, a girl crime-fighter aged about 12 who is often described as France’s first female superhero."
Prosecutor has ‘small hope’ of recovering Louvre jewels thanks to gear left by thieves
French investigators are analysing DNA samples and fingerprints on tools and other items found at the scene
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"It has emerged that a very similar heist was outlined in one of the 52 volumes of a popular children’s book series beginning in the 1960s that stars Fantômette, a girl crime-fighter aged about 12 who is often described as France’s first female superhero."
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This is how you blurb
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This is how you blurb
Teachers and librarians! Repost this repost or repost the first post or post the repost 😵💫 (and also follow me) to win two spooky middle grades for your collection! #kidlit #MGLit
#Teachers #Librarians: As Halloween creeps up on us, I am giving away copies of my scary #MGLit books! Repost this and follow me to be entered to win. (US only.) I'll announce the winner 10/31! Share them with kids or read them yourself as you feast on leftover candy...📖🍬
October 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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#Teachers #Librarians: As Halloween creeps up on us, I am giving away copies of my scary #MGLit books! Repost this and follow me to be entered to win. (US only.) I'll announce the winner 10/31! Share them with kids or read them yourself as you feast on leftover candy...📖🍬
October 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
#Teachers #Librarians: As Halloween creeps up on us, I am giving away copies of my scary #MGLit books! Repost this and follow me to be entered to win. (US only.) I'll announce the winner 10/31! Share them with kids or read them yourself as you feast on leftover candy...📖🍬