Kate Fussner
@katefussner.bsky.social
📕 13 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE (HarperCollins, March 18, 2025)
📕 THE SONG OF US (KTegenbooks/HarperCollins)
✍ DVMentor '22
✍ MFA Lesley ‘21
🏳🌈Queer she/her
rep: Eric Smith @P.S. Literary
📕 THE SONG OF US (KTegenbooks/HarperCollins)
✍ DVMentor '22
✍ MFA Lesley ‘21
🏳🌈Queer she/her
rep: Eric Smith @P.S. Literary
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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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It's Pride Month!
📚❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤📚
Indulge us while we tell you about the nonfiction and fiction titles we've represented that will inspire and enchant middle grade readers!
📚❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤📚
Indulge us while we tell you about the nonfiction and fiction titles we've represented that will inspire and enchant middle grade readers!
June 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It's Pride Month!
📚❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤📚
Indulge us while we tell you about the nonfiction and fiction titles we've represented that will inspire and enchant middle grade readers!
📚❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤📚
Indulge us while we tell you about the nonfiction and fiction titles we've represented that will inspire and enchant middle grade readers!
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We are a group of LGBTQIA+ middle grade book creators who are hosting this giveaway to support the LGBTQIA+ community this Pride month. By entering this giveaway, you could win a copy of all the LGBTQIA+ middle grade books below!
Details: tinyurl.com/mg-giveaway
Details: tinyurl.com/mg-giveaway
May 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
We are a group of LGBTQIA+ middle grade book creators who are hosting this giveaway to support the LGBTQIA+ community this Pride month. By entering this giveaway, you could win a copy of all the LGBTQIA+ middle grade books below!
Details: tinyurl.com/mg-giveaway
Details: tinyurl.com/mg-giveaway
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😍 Fundraising Auction spotlight:
@katefussner.bsky.social offers a signed copy of 13 Ways to Say Goodbye!
Auction is live 4/15-4/30. All proceeds fund our #neurodiverse #kidlit @highlightsfound.bsky.social scholarship
👀: champ.ly/xSRrqf-V
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@katefussner.bsky.social offers a signed copy of 13 Ways to Say Goodbye!
Auction is live 4/15-4/30. All proceeds fund our #neurodiverse #kidlit @highlightsfound.bsky.social scholarship
👀: champ.ly/xSRrqf-V
<a href="/hashtag/autismsupport" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#autismsupport #adhdsupport #writingcommunity
April 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
😍 Fundraising Auction spotlight:
@katefussner.bsky.social offers a signed copy of 13 Ways to Say Goodbye!
Auction is live 4/15-4/30. All proceeds fund our #neurodiverse #kidlit @highlightsfound.bsky.social scholarship
👀: champ.ly/xSRrqf-V
<a href="/hashtag/autismsupport" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#autismsupport #adhdsupport #writingcommunity
@katefussner.bsky.social offers a signed copy of 13 Ways to Say Goodbye!
Auction is live 4/15-4/30. All proceeds fund our #neurodiverse #kidlit @highlightsfound.bsky.social scholarship
👀: champ.ly/xSRrqf-V
<a href="/hashtag/autismsupport" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#autismsupport #adhdsupport #writingcommunity
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Morning reading: 13 Ways to Say Goodbye by @katefussner.bsky.social!!! Finally getting to read this magical book and the only thing that would make it better is if I actually were in Paris reading this book….
March 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Morning reading: 13 Ways to Say Goodbye by @katefussner.bsky.social!!! Finally getting to read this magical book and the only thing that would make it better is if I actually were in Paris reading this book….
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January 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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So honored to see 13 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE on this list of most anticipated queer MG books!
It's my favourite time of the year! It's time for my 2025 Anticipated Queer Middle post!
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2025 Queer MG I’m Excited About
It’s time for one of my favourite posts of the year – my list of queer middle grade books I’m personally aware of that are being published in the next year. It’s such an imp…
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January 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
So honored to see 13 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE on this list of most anticipated queer MG books!
Nikki Giovanni wrote some of my favorite poems to teach, read, and learn from. What a life she lived. What lucky readers we were to be around to witness her brilliance. ❤️
December 10, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Nikki Giovanni wrote some of my favorite poems to teach, read, and learn from. What a life she lived. What lucky readers we were to be around to witness her brilliance. ❤️
Incredibly grateful for this first grade review for my next book, 13 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE.
November 29, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Incredibly grateful for this first grade review for my next book, 13 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE.
In 2023, I pre-ordered 12 sapphic books for my wife’s Xmas present, one per month. It brought her JOY…I’d love to do it again! So, help me, what sapphic books are you most excited about for 2025? Her faves include Karelia Stetz-Waters, Olivia Waite, Ashley Herring Blake, Amy Spalding… #sapphicreads
November 25, 2024 at 6:25 PM
In 2023, I pre-ordered 12 sapphic books for my wife’s Xmas present, one per month. It brought her JOY…I’d love to do it again! So, help me, what sapphic books are you most excited about for 2025? Her faves include Karelia Stetz-Waters, Olivia Waite, Ashley Herring Blake, Amy Spalding… #sapphicreads
Lots of new followers today which is exciting! So quick intro: I’m Kate, I write queer MG Novels-in-Verse and my next one, 13 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE (HarperCollins 3/18/35) is a story of grief, sibling loss, first love, ghosts, magic, and Paris. www.harpercollins.com/products/13-...
13 Ways to Say Goodbye
A novel-in-verse about life after loss, 13 Ways to Say Goodbye beautifully renders the power of sibling bonds, the depth of grief, and the strength of learning to love again, perfect for fans of Every...
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November 20, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Lots of new followers today which is exciting! So quick intro: I’m Kate, I write queer MG Novels-in-Verse and my next one, 13 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE (HarperCollins 3/18/35) is a story of grief, sibling loss, first love, ghosts, magic, and Paris. www.harpercollins.com/products/13-...
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Here are some #MGLit novels-in-verse I've read and can highly recommend! 📚👍
LOUDER THAN HUNGER by @mrschureads.bsky.social
THE SONG OF US by @katefussner.bsky.social
WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT I KNOW by Sonja K Solter
OTHER WORDS FOR HOME by Jasmine Warga
LOUDER THAN HUNGER by @mrschureads.bsky.social
THE SONG OF US by @katefussner.bsky.social
WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT I KNOW by Sonja K Solter
OTHER WORDS FOR HOME by Jasmine Warga
November 17, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Here are some #MGLit novels-in-verse I've read and can highly recommend! 📚👍
LOUDER THAN HUNGER by @mrschureads.bsky.social
THE SONG OF US by @katefussner.bsky.social
WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT I KNOW by Sonja K Solter
OTHER WORDS FOR HOME by Jasmine Warga
LOUDER THAN HUNGER by @mrschureads.bsky.social
THE SONG OF US by @katefussner.bsky.social
WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT I KNOW by Sonja K Solter
OTHER WORDS FOR HOME by Jasmine Warga
I wrote an entire novel in the month of November. So excited and so ready to take a nap.
November 29, 2023 at 10:04 PM
I wrote an entire novel in the month of November. So excited and so ready to take a nap.
I'm at 45,222 words. I'm going to make it to 50k by Thursday. I have never had a novel pour out of me so fast, so clearly. Like my heart has a direct line to the source of this story. I am so grateful.
November 28, 2023 at 12:57 AM
I'm at 45,222 words. I'm going to make it to 50k by Thursday. I have never had a novel pour out of me so fast, so clearly. Like my heart has a direct line to the source of this story. I am so grateful.
I've crossed over 40k words in my NaNoWriMo project!!!!! This book is so much fun!
November 22, 2023 at 8:27 PM
I've crossed over 40k words in my NaNoWriMo project!!!!! This book is so much fun!
I updated my website today and I like to think that somewhere @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com cheered for me. 🌈
November 21, 2023 at 4:18 PM
I updated my website today and I like to think that somewhere @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com cheered for me. 🌈
Incredibly grateful for THE SONG OF US making the Boston Globe’s holiday gift giving guide, thanks to PaperCuts JP!! www.bostonglobe.com/2023/11/16/m...
November 16, 2023 at 1:46 PM
Incredibly grateful for THE SONG OF US making the Boston Globe’s holiday gift giving guide, thanks to PaperCuts JP!! www.bostonglobe.com/2023/11/16/m...
I don't want to jinx it, but I'm on a NaNoWriMo roll like I've never experienced before. Words pouring out of me. Close to 28,000 words already and I've written every single day this month. The key this time around? JOY. The whole book brings my heart such joy.
November 13, 2023 at 9:33 PM
I don't want to jinx it, but I'm on a NaNoWriMo roll like I've never experienced before. Words pouring out of me. Close to 28,000 words already and I've written every single day this month. The key this time around? JOY. The whole book brings my heart such joy.
10,000 words into this new book and it's pouring out of me with big heart, joy, laughter, and all the feels. It's so so so good to feel some joy right now.
November 2, 2023 at 8:04 PM
10,000 words into this new book and it's pouring out of me with big heart, joy, laughter, and all the feels. It's so so so good to feel some joy right now.
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Last reminder, this is tonight! Come learn and help raise some money to help some friends and family out. ❤️ www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2023/1/...
Crafting the Query Letter: A Two Hour Fundraiser Webinar on November 2nd — ERIC SMITH
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November 2, 2023 at 4:37 PM
Last reminder, this is tonight! Come learn and help raise some money to help some friends and family out. ❤️ www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2023/1/...
Shout out to the many people using "twatwaffle" on the regular. I love this matrix of compound pejoratives.
Some high quality research into the frequency of compound pejoratives used on Reddit
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October 18, 2023 at 1:05 PM
Shout out to the many people using "twatwaffle" on the regular. I love this matrix of compound pejoratives.