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Elise Howard
@elisehoward.bsky.social
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Literary agent and author. Was editor and publisher. https://www.defliterary.com/agents/elise-howard
Coming 3/26, Plant This, Not That https://tinyurl.com/Plant-This-Not-That
W/ Amy Gash: BELIEVE IN THE WORLD: WISDOM FOR GROWNUPS FROM CHILDREN'S BOOKS
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RIP to my first true style icon.
Diane Keaton in her iconic menswear wide pants, wide tie, vest, and yes, wide-brim hat.
October 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Now feels like a good time to tell you about my favorite recent book purchase: Posters for Change, from Princeton Architectural Press. It’s got a huge collection of posters perfect for protest, and proceeds go to non-profits.
Cover of Posters for Change with tagline: Tear, Paste, Protest: 50 Removable Posters Poster of shouting man with hand bandage and caption above and below that reads: Don’t use our healthcare as your political battlefield. Poster of a young person from behind and caption: Protect trans youth. Poster in gradient red, yellow, and blue bands of color with bold word RESIST bordered by stars
October 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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What the hell am I looking at? No, Copilot, I don't want to blog about Yellowstone or write a funny poem to wish my sister Happy Birthday. I turned you off. Stay off. (Side note to Adobe: I do not, in fact, need a summary of the manuscript that I just wrote. Stay outta my words.)
A new Word document offers clip art-decorated prompts to the writer: Write a funny poem to wish Happy Birthday to my five-year-old sister. Create a vacation blog about hiking in Yellowstone National Park. Draft an email to the neighbourhood (sic) organization requesting permission to build a... (prompt trails off here). Under the prompts is a box to tell Word's Copilot AI tool what you'd like to write about.
June 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Voted early. Got sweaty. Ranked 5. NOT Cuomo.
Selfie with an “I Voted Early” sticker.
June 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I’m all outta puns for this one
Poster reads OF THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Poster reads WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!
June 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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OK, things worked out and you’re off the hook today, New Standards. But please don’t leave me hanging too much longer. #bakesky 🍰
A single-layer version of Melissa Clark’s cardamom cream cake from NY Times Cooking covered in off-white (because cardamom) frosting and topped by chopped, roasted pistachios sits on a bright orange ceramic cake stand with a ruffled edge.
April 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Meanwhile, in the land of the trivial, why does this Bee so reliably reject the natural world?
New York Times Spelling Bee screen shot, with the caption “Not in word list” above the word “bract,” spelled from game letters A I B R D C and center letter T.
March 30, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Knitting, yet another thing the 🐝 does not do (or know much about)
Image of the New York Times Spelling Bee game showing letters N F A I G R N and O (in center) with “not in word list” banner displayed over proposed word “frogging”
February 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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I mean…
An enormous fluffy pink cloud hangs floats over gradient orange sunset behind the George Washington Bridge and two tall apartment buildings
February 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Small act of resistance: taking the time every day to remind oneself that the world we see can still be beautiful.
A huge red and white amaryllis blooming on an apartment windowsill, in front of bare treetops. Next to the amaryllis sits a houseplant, and on the window frame above it perches an oversized copper cookie cutter in the shape of a Labrador retriever.
February 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Happy to be among the thousands marching from Union Square to Washington Square to say NO MORE to 47 and his minions.
February 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Oh, Eric, we are sooo ready to move forward. *polishes voting stylus*
An email clip from Eric Adams. The subject line reads, “Time to move forward.”
February 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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See you at NYC City Hall at 2 p.m. today, Wednesday, 2/5? (Or wave from your home Capitol!)
Bright pink poster: Reject Project 2025 50 Protests 50 States February 5th, 2025, your state Capitol building Text: Your state Capitol Building + NYC + OTHERS NYC City Hall 2 - 4 PM Albany Capitol Bldg 12 PM Trenton Capitol Bldg 12 PM We need everyone! Bring at least one friend! More info @50501movent
February 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Came to the ancient Indigenous guidelines Robin Wall Kimmerer calls the Honorable Harvest in her book “The Serviceberry,” and they were helpful to read this week.
A list, reading: Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you can take care of them. Introduce yourself. Be accountable as the one who comes asking for a life. Ask permission before taking. Abide by the answer. Never take the first one. Never take the last one. Take only what you need. Take only that which is given. Never take more than half. Leave some for others. Harvest in a way that minimizes harm. Use it respectfully. Never waste what you have taken. Share. Give thanks for what you have been given. Give a gift in reciprocity for what you have taken. Sustain the ones who sustain you and the Earth will last forever.
January 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Just two more days to bid on more than 400 amazing items donated by authors, illustrators, and industry pros to raise money for folks affected by L.A. fires. www.32auctions.com/organization...
Kidlit for L.A. auction poster: Win signed books, original art, school visits, critiques, and AMA’s from award-winning authors, illustrators, agents, and editors. Donors include Jeff Kinney, Kate DiCamillo, Suzanne Collins, Tui T. Sutherland, Vashti Harrison, Karen M. McManus, Donna Barba Higuera, Alan Gratz, Katherine Applegate, and more. www.32auctions.com/kidlitforlosangeles
January 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Don’t forget to look up and out the window…and breathe.
An orange sunset behind the George Washington Bridge as viewed from uptown Manhattan toward New Jersey.
January 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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@tomtoro.bsky.social's viral New Yorker cartoon is getting attention in the #kidlitforla auction, where you can bid to win a print signed by Tom: www.32auctions.com/organization...
A cartoon of a white adult man in a tattered suit, sitting in front of three children, all gathered around a small campfire in front of a blurry cityscape. The caption reads, "Yes, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."
January 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Of all the things the #spellingbee doesn’t like, it seems to really not like gardens and nature. Why, Bee?
Picture of Jan 3 Spelling Bee Grid letters NAYOCRM and word CORM with message “not in word list.”
January 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Me: The news is too awful. Lemme look at some knitting and crocheting.
Knitting and crocheting:
My pinned feed for crochet and knitting, showing a blank screen topped by an error message: "Hmm, some kind of issue occurred when contacting the feed server. Please let the feed owner know about this issue. Message from server: Upstream service unreachable"
November 25, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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Reskeet with a wholesome timeline cleanse
List of things to do every day 1 Read a poem 2 Listen to a piece of music or look at a piece of art 3 Eat good food 4 Create something 5 Express gratitude for something 6 Have direct experience of life 7 Drink tea 8 Touch the earth 9 Stop getting to work on time 10 Love with an open heart 11 Go for a walk at the Luxembourg (Gardens) (or the closest beautiful green space near you)
October 16, 2024 at 12:37 PM
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Itching to know more about Benjamin Button Swift and his siblings Meredith Grey and Olivia Benson? Have I got good news for you. KARMA IS A CAT by Farrin Jacobs and Katty Huertas is available for pre-order now! 💙📚
Book cover for Karma Is a Cat: The True Stories of Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson, and Benjamin Button Swift, featuring a painting of three cats on the lap of Taylor Swift.
September 11, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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Happy Book Birthday to @sarahollyackerman.bsky.social and Alona Millgram! Challah for Shabbat Tonight is on sale today from Algonquin Young Readers.
Picture book cover of Challah for Shabbat Tonight shows a grandmother and granddaughter encircled by the steam rising from a hot loaf of challah bread the side-by-side grandmother, with large red polka-dotted baking mitts, and granddaughter, with small green checked baking mitts, hold before them.
September 3, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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Feeling more and more like November could be a very good month
Apple TV announcement: “Still killing it. Bad sisters season 2 premieres November 13.” Caption appears over photo of the show’s five sisters seated at a banquet table with glasses of red wine in front of a dry late-summer hillside (presumably in Ireland).
August 23, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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I’m thinking we leave the bubble in 2033?
A headline from New York magazine: How Long Can ‘Brat Summer’ Last? followed by a subhead: The vibes are good, but at some point Kamal Harris has to leave her bubble. Under the headline is a picture of Wisconsin convention-goers wearing cheesehead hats.
August 21, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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Happy Book Birthday Amy Gash (and me!). Gretchen Rubin, author of THE HAPPINESS PROJECT, calls BELIEVE IN THE WORLD, WISDOM FOR GROWN-UPS from CHILDREN’S BOOKS “a treasure trove of beautiful, thought-provoking quotations” that will inspire you to revisit old favorites and discover new ones.
Book jacket: BELIEVE IN THE WORLD: WISDOM FOR GROWN-UPS FROM CHILDREN’S BOOKS collected by Amy Gash and Elise Howard, illustrated by Eleanor Davis, with a foreword by R.J. Palacio, author of Wonder. The jacket features a colorful illustration of a woman sitting in a field of flowers reading a book with a bunny on the cover. Book jacket of BELIEVE IN THE WORLD in front of the title page black-and-white line drawing featuring a woman welcoming a bird onto her outstretched hand as other birds flutter nearby. A letter board on a windowsill featuring a quote: “The stories we tell have power.” — Sabaa Tahir. It sits next to a copy of the book BELIEVE IN THE WORLD.
August 20, 2024 at 11:46 AM