The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯

Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚

And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋

youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

Honestly, good riddance.
The issues with this organization have been well-documented, ending with their embrace of using AI to write.
They won’t be missed.

Someone was considering mischief

Oh joy 😑

As a fun side project, I’ve been building the whole of Arikala Academy in Minecraft! Here’s the phoenix statue which guards House Sword’s dormitory.

Going to start reposting some of my videos here.

It was never about data security. It was about control of information.

I’m getting really sick and tired of billionaires throwing their weight around to make our lives more miserable…

View of yesterday’s snow. Doesn’t happen often in Texas.

Going to be honest, I still don’t entirely know how to use this app (partly why I’m not using it a lot), but since my other ones are either becoming worse or outright banned, I guess it’s time to figure this one out 😅

Since I’m returning to the classroom this week, Legend of Samantha Torres is going to be 50% off! Pick up a (digital) copy!

Fellow indie authors who’ve gone wide (beyond Amazon KDP): what other platforms have you had success with?

I’ve heard that Draft2Digital is pretty good…as a MG author, I’ll take any help I can get!

I am both incredibly ready for the first day of school (Year 10!), and also incredibly NOT ready.

Anyone else?

AHHHHHHHH someone actually made FAN ART of my book! I can’t believe it!

Many thanks to JCK Resources for choosing LoST as part of their book club and for sharing this!

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Hello, Bluesky! 👋
My name’s Jacob Ryckman. I’m an educator and an author of middle-grade fantasy. 📚

I’m looking forward to finding people and being a part of the community!

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