Joy McCullough
@joymccullough.bsky.social
Author @ PRH & S&S, resident playwright at Seattle Public Theater, mom. She/her
Up next: TEAM AWKWARD (S&S, 2/11)
Up next: TEAM AWKWARD (S&S, 2/11)
Librarians: If someone was researching something in 1978 and they wanted to see newspaper articles from three months earlier, would those already be on microfiche? Or would they have to get back issues of the actual paper?
November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Librarians: If someone was researching something in 1978 and they wanted to see newspaper articles from three months earlier, would those already be on microfiche? Or would they have to get back issues of the actual paper?
Seattle area friends, there are four more performances of Stage of Fools at Seattle Public Theater. The Stranger called it "hilariously cathartic" & The Sound On-Stage called it "brilliant" and "raucously hilarious"! Tickets start at $10 - don't miss it! www.seattlepublictheater.org/current-prod...
October 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Seattle area friends, there are four more performances of Stage of Fools at Seattle Public Theater. The Stranger called it "hilariously cathartic" & The Sound On-Stage called it "brilliant" and "raucously hilarious"! Tickets start at $10 - don't miss it! www.seattlepublictheater.org/current-prod...
Oh hey, it's another cover reveal! This middle grade novel in verse comes out on 5-26, with gorgeous cover design by Greg Stadnyk and art by Suzie Mason! (Don’t miss Kestrel’s shadow!) Available for pre-order now!
October 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Oh hey, it's another cover reveal! This middle grade novel in verse comes out on 5-26, with gorgeous cover design by Greg Stadnyk and art by Suzie Mason! (Don’t miss Kestrel’s shadow!) Available for pre-order now!
COVER REVEAL!!! Team Awkward: Izzy vs. Cheerleading is coming on June 23rd!
I'm so thrilled each girl is getting a book. I had a ball writing cheerleading & mascot shenanigans & Iove how designer Karin Paprocki & artist Laura Catrinella have maintained the format but made each cover so fresh & fun.
I'm so thrilled each girl is getting a book. I had a ball writing cheerleading & mascot shenanigans & Iove how designer Karin Paprocki & artist Laura Catrinella have maintained the format but made each cover so fresh & fun.
October 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
COVER REVEAL!!! Team Awkward: Izzy vs. Cheerleading is coming on June 23rd!
I'm so thrilled each girl is getting a book. I had a ball writing cheerleading & mascot shenanigans & Iove how designer Karin Paprocki & artist Laura Catrinella have maintained the format but made each cover so fresh & fun.
I'm so thrilled each girl is getting a book. I had a ball writing cheerleading & mascot shenanigans & Iove how designer Karin Paprocki & artist Laura Catrinella have maintained the format but made each cover so fresh & fun.
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🌼 42 2025 Middle Grade and Young Adult Novels-In-Verse 🌼
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October 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
🌼 42 2025 Middle Grade and Young Adult Novels-In-Verse 🌼
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Seattle area friends, my new play Stage of Fools opens at Seattle Public Theater on Friday and tickets are on a sliding scale, starting at $10. It's funny and also bad man faces consequences, what more could you want? www.seattlepublictheater.org/current-prod...
September 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Seattle area friends, my new play Stage of Fools opens at Seattle Public Theater on Friday and tickets are on a sliding scale, starting at $10. It's funny and also bad man faces consequences, what more could you want? www.seattlepublictheater.org/current-prod...
Pssst readers of audiobooks and middle grade! The audiobook of Jojo vs. Middle School is only $4.99 for a limited time.
This is the first in the series, with the second out and two more on the way next year. www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
This is the first in the series, with the second out and two more on the way next year. www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
80% OFF Jojo vs. Middle School
After having hilariously terrible first days of sixth grade, four girls vow to ride out the super highs and cringe-worthy lows of middle school together, no matter how awkward it gets, in this first b...
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September 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Pssst readers of audiobooks and middle grade! The audiobook of Jojo vs. Middle School is only $4.99 for a limited time.
This is the first in the series, with the second out and two more on the way next year. www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
This is the first in the series, with the second out and two more on the way next year. www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
When a woman risks
her place, her very life
to speak a truth the world despises?
Believe her. Always.
Blood Water Paint
her place, her very life
to speak a truth the world despises?
Believe her. Always.
Blood Water Paint
September 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
When a woman risks
her place, her very life
to speak a truth the world despises?
Believe her. Always.
Blood Water Paint
her place, her very life
to speak a truth the world despises?
Believe her. Always.
Blood Water Paint
Bidding is open! The #KidLitforCeasefire We the People auction benefits families in Gaza, as well as immigrant & trans rights orgs. I have two items, including a custom order of one of my crocheted baskets based on book covers. Also a 30 minute video call AMA. www.32auctions.com/organization...
August 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Bidding is open! The #KidLitforCeasefire We the People auction benefits families in Gaza, as well as immigrant & trans rights orgs. I have two items, including a custom order of one of my crocheted baskets based on book covers. Also a 30 minute video call AMA. www.32auctions.com/organization...
For everyone with a sudden interest in Ophelia, may I offer my book ENTER THE BODY, which tells--and retells--her story, along with Juliet, Cordelia, and Lavinia? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676666...
Enter the Body by Joy McCullough: 9780593406779 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic heroines. More than a tribute to Shakespeare, this kaleidoscopic, ambitious novel-in-verse...
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August 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
For everyone with a sudden interest in Ophelia, may I offer my book ENTER THE BODY, which tells--and retells--her story, along with Juliet, Cordelia, and Lavinia? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676666...
Hey #KidLit friends, the #KidLitforCeasefire auction items are live & will open for bidding on the 18th! I'm offering a 30 minute AMA, and a custom crocheted basket based on the book cover of your choice, a la the examples below. Peruse all the items at the link! www.32auctions.com/organization...
August 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Hey #KidLit friends, the #KidLitforCeasefire auction items are live & will open for bidding on the 18th! I'm offering a 30 minute AMA, and a custom crocheted basket based on the book cover of your choice, a la the examples below. Peruse all the items at the link! www.32auctions.com/organization...
ARTISTS: I need to get my daughter a college laptop. She is an artist designing her own major that will likely include sequential art. She currently does digital art w/Procreate on an iPad. Is there a reason a MacBook would be better FOR ART STUFF than a PC?
August 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
ARTISTS: I need to get my daughter a college laptop. She is an artist designing her own major that will likely include sequential art. She currently does digital art w/Procreate on an iPad. Is there a reason a MacBook would be better FOR ART STUFF than a PC?
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Hey everyone,
#KidLit4Ceasefire has now fundraised the evacuation of 10 people.
I am focusing on the next two families.
One family of 6 and another of just 3, with a 4-month-old baby. I need 500 items for this fundraiser.
I only have 218 at the moment.
Donate here:
airtable.com/appJkEF7W6Sl...
#KidLit4Ceasefire has now fundraised the evacuation of 10 people.
I am focusing on the next two families.
One family of 6 and another of just 3, with a 4-month-old baby. I need 500 items for this fundraiser.
I only have 218 at the moment.
Donate here:
airtable.com/appJkEF7W6Sl...
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July 26, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Hey everyone,
#KidLit4Ceasefire has now fundraised the evacuation of 10 people.
I am focusing on the next two families.
One family of 6 and another of just 3, with a 4-month-old baby. I need 500 items for this fundraiser.
I only have 218 at the moment.
Donate here:
airtable.com/appJkEF7W6Sl...
#KidLit4Ceasefire has now fundraised the evacuation of 10 people.
I am focusing on the next two families.
One family of 6 and another of just 3, with a 4-month-old baby. I need 500 items for this fundraiser.
I only have 218 at the moment.
Donate here:
airtable.com/appJkEF7W6Sl...
Nando is a member of Seattle's theater community, a union member, father, and a public school employee, and none of that should have to be true for him to avoid being disappeared without due process because he showed up for a compulsory immigration check-in. www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring...
Donate to Help Bring Fernando Home — A Beloved Union Brother Detained, organized by Blake Whitmore
Our friend, coworker, and union brother Fernando Rocha needs … Blake Whitmore needs your support for Help Bring Fernando Home — A Beloved Union Brother Detained
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July 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Nando is a member of Seattle's theater community, a union member, father, and a public school employee, and none of that should have to be true for him to avoid being disappeared without due process because he showed up for a compulsory immigration check-in. www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring...
Sending so much love out to anyone who was abused as a teenager, who knows that none of the endless outrage about The List is about justice or healing for those girls, that no matter what proof is found, it will never matter because our country has already made clear we're cool w/sexual predators.
July 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Sending so much love out to anyone who was abused as a teenager, who knows that none of the endless outrage about The List is about justice or healing for those girls, that no matter what proof is found, it will never matter because our country has already made clear we're cool w/sexual predators.
I just signed some books at an indie and the bookseller said, "Oh! You also wrote..." and I waited for her to say Blood Water Paint and instead she said, "...the periods one!" I love BWP but it's always to nice to know people have read some of my others.
July 16, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I just signed some books at an indie and the bookseller said, "Oh! You also wrote..." and I waited for her to say Blood Water Paint and instead she said, "...the periods one!" I love BWP but it's always to nice to know people have read some of my others.
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@joymccullough.bsky.social & @veedabybee.bsky.social @simonkids.bsky.social LEAH VS. ART: TEAM AWKWARD #2 is a great choice for fans of THE CUPCAKE DIARIES or @bethcody.bsky.social FOREVER FOUR. msyinglingreads.blogspot.com/2025/07/leah...
Leah vs. Art (Team Awkward #2)
Middle school books, middle grade books, books for tweens, middle school library, middle grade literature, #MGLit, librarian, kids
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July 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
@joymccullough.bsky.social & @veedabybee.bsky.social @simonkids.bsky.social LEAH VS. ART: TEAM AWKWARD #2 is a great choice for fans of THE CUPCAKE DIARIES or @bethcody.bsky.social FOREVER FOUR. msyinglingreads.blogspot.com/2025/07/leah...
New book announcement! I'm delighted to be working with Justin Krasner and @sourcebooks.bsky.social on this picture book. I was blown away when I saw @hellatoons.bsky.social's portfolio and his early sketches for HOW TO TRAIN YOUR EVIL ROBOT are utterly adorable!
June 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
New book announcement! I'm delighted to be working with Justin Krasner and @sourcebooks.bsky.social on this picture book. I was blown away when I saw @hellatoons.bsky.social's portfolio and his early sketches for HOW TO TRAIN YOUR EVIL ROBOT are utterly adorable!
I speak fluent Spanish and would like to use that for good in These Times - on an information hotline or something? I've reached out to the org that should be my local resource (a couple months ago) and not heard back. Is there something national? (I'm in the Seattle area.)
June 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I speak fluent Spanish and would like to use that for good in These Times - on an information hotline or something? I've reached out to the org that should be my local resource (a couple months ago) and not heard back. Is there something national? (I'm in the Seattle area.)
Happy book birthday to Team Awkward 2, the number 1 Amazon pick in the extremely niche category of Children's Babysitting Books, despite there being not a single instance of babysitting in the book. (Which is why one should rely on librarians & booksellers for recommendations, and not algorithms.)
June 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Happy book birthday to Team Awkward 2, the number 1 Amazon pick in the extremely niche category of Children's Babysitting Books, despite there being not a single instance of babysitting in the book. (Which is why one should rely on librarians & booksellers for recommendations, and not algorithms.)
Voice to text didn't know it should capitalize penguin, and I think I prefer this way. 🐧🧑⚖️
June 12, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Voice to text didn't know it should capitalize penguin, and I think I prefer this way. 🐧🧑⚖️
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WE ARE THE ASHES, WE ARE THE FIRE by @joymccullough.bsky.social is such a powerful book. It's a thought-provoking, relatable, and timely piece of art that will stay with me. Impeccable illustrations by Maia Kobabe. #amreading #YA #kidlit 📚👍
June 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
WE ARE THE ASHES, WE ARE THE FIRE by @joymccullough.bsky.social is such a powerful book. It's a thought-provoking, relatable, and timely piece of art that will stay with me. Impeccable illustrations by Maia Kobabe. #amreading #YA #kidlit 📚👍
My memoir has officially been launched (in the sense that my editor presented it to his colleagues, not that you can buy it yet) and I am feeling Feelings.
June 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
My memoir has officially been launched (in the sense that my editor presented it to his colleagues, not that you can buy it yet) and I am feeling Feelings.
I spent my weekend watching callbacks for my new play, and the director had each group put the token dude in a wheelbarrow and navigate him through a maze of stuff, and I highly recommend this as an exercise, even if your play doesn't involve moving a dead guy's body, for some reason.
June 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I spent my weekend watching callbacks for my new play, and the director had each group put the token dude in a wheelbarrow and navigate him through a maze of stuff, and I highly recommend this as an exercise, even if your play doesn't involve moving a dead guy's body, for some reason.
I fully support the need for publishing professionals to have a healthy work life balance but also when you live on the west coast, you really have to have any summer Friday business accomplished by 9 am and I am NOT that pulled together in the mornings.
May 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I fully support the need for publishing professionals to have a healthy work life balance but also when you live on the west coast, you really have to have any summer Friday business accomplished by 9 am and I am NOT that pulled together in the mornings.