Debbi Michiko Florence⁷
@debbimichiko.bsky.social
#kidlit author middle grade, chapter books, picture books | Sansei 🇺🇸🇯🇵 | Highlights Foundation | ☕️🧋| 🐶💜 | Inuyasha, Studio Ghibli | positivity
Available now - A Study in Secrets (Last Chance Academy book 1)
https://debbimichikoflorence.com
Available now - A Study in Secrets (Last Chance Academy book 1)
https://debbimichikoflorence.com
Last Chance Academy book 2 title is THE MASTERMIND’S TRAP! Cover reveal coming soon! This book will be released on 3/17/26 so you have time to read book 1 - A Study in Secrets!
May 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Last Chance Academy book 2 title is THE MASTERMIND’S TRAP! Cover reveal coming soon! This book will be released on 3/17/26 so you have time to read book 1 - A Study in Secrets!
May 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Not AI generated! Thrilled to see Last Chance Academy on NEIBA’s Escape into Summer Reading list! See the brochure at your New England indie bookstore or newsletter. 🫶
May 23, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Not AI generated! Thrilled to see Last Chance Academy on NEIBA’s Escape into Summer Reading list! See the brochure at your New England indie bookstore or newsletter. 🫶
Happy birthday to talented best-seller author, Very Asian Book Trip partner, and amazing friend @authorgracelin.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Happy birthday to talented best-seller author, Very Asian Book Trip partner, and amazing friend @authorgracelin.bsky.social
Please show your support for the Freedom to Read & join authors as we read from our challenged/banned books this Friday 5/9. Please register: bit.ly/Read-In-am
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May 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Please show your support for the Freedom to Read & join authors as we read from our challenged/banned books this Friday 5/9. Please register: bit.ly/Read-In-am
bit.ly/Read-In-pm
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Thrilled to reveal the cover for Monster Maker: The Strange Creatures of Mark Nagata w words by me & awesome art by Inko Ai Takita, a PB bio about a Japanese American @marknagata.bsky.social a kaiju artist turning his childhood passion into a dream come true. Coming 11/11! Preorder now!
April 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Thrilled to reveal the cover for Monster Maker: The Strange Creatures of Mark Nagata w words by me & awesome art by Inko Ai Takita, a PB bio about a Japanese American @marknagata.bsky.social a kaiju artist turning his childhood passion into a dream come true. Coming 11/11! Preorder now!
Woohoo! I may have to turn my Winsome Bingham shelf into a bookcase! 🥰
@armyvet5.bsky.social
@armyvet5.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Woohoo! I may have to turn my Winsome Bingham shelf into a bookcase! 🥰
@armyvet5.bsky.social
@armyvet5.bsky.social
I'm signing tomorrow in New Haven CT and Stratford CT tomorrow! Hope to see you there!
March 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I'm signing tomorrow in New Haven CT and Stratford CT tomorrow! Hope to see you there!
Loving the audiobook of Last Chance Academy: A Study in Secrets! Thank you, Mirai, for giving voices to my characters! 🫶
March 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Loving the audiobook of Last Chance Academy: A Study in Secrets! Thank you, Mirai, for giving voices to my characters! 🫶
Thrilled to give my daughter a copy of Last Chance Academy while we are in Tokyo! One more week till launch! 💌🗝️😍
March 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Thrilled to give my daughter a copy of Last Chance Academy while we are in Tokyo! One more week till launch! 💌🗝️😍
School visit in Tokyo!
February 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
School visit in Tokyo!
The news is out! Thrilled to now be an Aevitas Creative Management author w my brilliant agent of soon-to-be-a-decade Tricia Lawrence who makes my writing career dreams come true! Congratulations all around!
February 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The news is out! Thrilled to now be an Aevitas Creative Management author w my brilliant agent of soon-to-be-a-decade Tricia Lawrence who makes my writing career dreams come true! Congratulations all around!
A World Worth Saving @kylelukoff.bsky.social is a must read! Full of empathy, honesty, humor, & heart. I loved it! One of many fave quotes: “The very act of being yourself strikes a spiritual blow.”
February 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
A World Worth Saving @kylelukoff.bsky.social is a must read! Full of empathy, honesty, humor, & heart. I loved it! One of many fave quotes: “The very act of being yourself strikes a spiritual blow.”
Happy Valentine's Day to libraries and librarians everywhere!
@authorsabb.bsky.social
@authorsabb.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Happy Valentine's Day to libraries and librarians everywhere!
@authorsabb.bsky.social
@authorsabb.bsky.social
This is the kind of book you just want to keep reading & not put down! (Gah I’m on deadline so I am using it as daily rewards.) A WORLD WORTH SAVING @kylelukoff.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This is the kind of book you just want to keep reading & not put down! (Gah I’m on deadline so I am using it as daily rewards.) A WORLD WORTH SAVING @kylelukoff.bsky.social
Had a blast chatting w @jamesponti.bsky.social about his newest CITY SPIES book, LONDON CALLING (which may be my fave of the series so far)!
February 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Had a blast chatting w @jamesponti.bsky.social about his newest CITY SPIES book, LONDON CALLING (which may be my fave of the series so far)!
Reunited w friend and co-author @jamiemichalak.bsky.social 💖
February 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Reunited w friend and co-author @jamiemichalak.bsky.social 💖
This book! You need to read it - for the story, for the writing, for the characters. Truly amazing (& yes I cried). SCATTERGOOD by @hmbouwman.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This book! You need to read it - for the story, for the writing, for the characters. Truly amazing (& yes I cried). SCATTERGOOD by @hmbouwman.bsky.social
Fall in love on Valentine’s Day! My middle grade first crush books:
February 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Fall in love on Valentine’s Day! My middle grade first crush books:
What fun to find out a friend and I are reading each other’s books at the same time! @hmbouwman.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
What fun to find out a friend and I are reading each other’s books at the same time! @hmbouwman.bsky.social
A book I am greatly anticipating is FISH FRY FRIDAY by @armyvet5.bsky.social w art by CG Esperanza, the same duo that brought us the uplifting & joyful SOUL FOOD SUNDAY. Preorder now! 🎣🧡
February 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A book I am greatly anticipating is FISH FRY FRIDAY by @armyvet5.bsky.social w art by CG Esperanza, the same duo that brought us the uplifting & joyful SOUL FOOD SUNDAY. Preorder now! 🎣🧡
THE TABLE by @armyvet5.bsky.social & Wiley Blevins w art by Jason Griffin is about sharing and love. And check out this whole shelf of books by Winsome Bingham at Bank Square Books! #readfreely @authorsabb.bsky.social
January 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
THE TABLE by @armyvet5.bsky.social & Wiley Blevins w art by Jason Griffin is about sharing and love. And check out this whole shelf of books by Winsome Bingham at Bank Square Books! #readfreely @authorsabb.bsky.social
Excited to be in conversation w @jamesponti.bsky.social on 2/8 at Barrington Books in RI to chat about book 6 in his CITY SPIES series: London Calling! Hope to see you there!
January 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Excited to be in conversation w @jamesponti.bsky.social on 2/8 at Barrington Books in RI to chat about book 6 in his CITY SPIES series: London Calling! Hope to see you there!
Happiness is a good friend’s book release! So excited to read SCATTERGOOD @hmbouwman.bsky.social 💛!
January 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Happiness is a good friend’s book release! So excited to read SCATTERGOOD @hmbouwman.bsky.social 💛!
Last Chance Academy (1): A Study in Secrets preorder campaign: US & Canada preorders will receive swag & signed book plate. All preorders will be entered into a drawing to win a free 45-min virtual bookclub visit (& I'll read the first ch of book 2 to you)! Enter by 3/10 forms.gle/CV1BWzLfzyZV...
January 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Last Chance Academy (1): A Study in Secrets preorder campaign: US & Canada preorders will receive swag & signed book plate. All preorders will be entered into a drawing to win a free 45-min virtual bookclub visit (& I'll read the first ch of book 2 to you)! Enter by 3/10 forms.gle/CV1BWzLfzyZV...