Katryn Bury
@katrynwrites.bsky.social
Award winning author and also the one who brings up serial killers at your party. 💀🖤 (she/her) BLM 🏳️🌈
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Katryn Bury
@katrynwrites.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Hi, Bluesky! I'm a newbie here and still figuring things out, but he's an introduction.
I write mysteries and contemporary books ( #middlegrade so far, and also stay tuned!) I'm the author of the critically acclaimed Drew Leclair mystery series and We Are Not Alone (out now!)
#kidlit
I write mysteries and contemporary books ( #middlegrade so far, and also stay tuned!) I'm the author of the critically acclaimed Drew Leclair mystery series and We Are Not Alone (out now!)
#kidlit
Do I have a crush on Olivia Benson or do I have a crush on relentless competence?
Por qué no los dos?
Por qué no los dos?
November 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Do I have a crush on Olivia Benson or do I have a crush on relentless competence?
Por qué no los dos?
Por qué no los dos?
Please tell me someone gets this reference 🤣🤣
#halloween
#halloween
October 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Please tell me someone gets this reference 🤣🤣
#halloween
#halloween
A haunted house but it's all adults who are annoyed that your YA book feels like it's written for teenagers.
October 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A haunted house but it's all adults who are annoyed that your YA book feels like it's written for teenagers.
Colleen is such a champion in the book community- please help if you can!!
Book pals, help out a bookseller in need. My friend Colleen has been in painful chemo and the cancer has recently spread. Cancer (and capitalism) have taken her job as Books Inc ended her remote marketing job when BN took over. Please boost and/or donate if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/colleen-ca...
Donate to Colleen Cadiz’s Cancer Journey, organized by Melody Ross
This Go Fund Me has been created for the Cadiz Family, whose wife, Colleen, has been battl… Melody Ross needs your support for Colleen Cadiz’s Cancer Journey
www.gofundme.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Colleen is such a champion in the book community- please help if you can!!
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here's a piece on book bans i wrote this summer, feat. reflections and stories from authors @adibkhorram.bsky.social, @kylelukoff.bsky.social, and @katrynwrites.bsky.social as well as my own reflections. ty @electricliterature.com for publishing it!
electricliterature.com/book-bans-co...
electricliterature.com/book-bans-co...
Book Bans Continue to Threaten the Wellbeing of Authors - Electric Literature
There are societal, financial, legal, and emotional consequences to book challenges, and writers are facing the brunt of these attacks
electricliterature.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
here's a piece on book bans i wrote this summer, feat. reflections and stories from authors @adibkhorram.bsky.social, @kylelukoff.bsky.social, and @katrynwrites.bsky.social as well as my own reflections. ty @electricliterature.com for publishing it!
electricliterature.com/book-bans-co...
electricliterature.com/book-bans-co...
In good news (which I know I need these days), my book Drew Leclair Gets a Clue (which has been challenged in four states, and had been pulled from shelves in one county in Florida) seems to have been restored to shelves! Not sure if it's been relocated to YA but I'll take the win 🎉
October 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
In good news (which I know I need these days), my book Drew Leclair Gets a Clue (which has been challenged in four states, and had been pulled from shelves in one county in Florida) seems to have been restored to shelves! Not sure if it's been relocated to YA but I'll take the win 🎉
To be clear, my expectations are "people who have means should be willing to get fired over fascism." Jimmy Fallon already has millions. He has a late-night career far longer than the average lifetime career of most pro athletes. He could walk away now and be FINE.
Jimmy Fallon plans to “keep my head down” and avoid politics on “The Tonight Show”: “We hit both sides equally”
Jimmy Fallon Plans to ‘Keep My Head Down’ and Avoid Politics on ‘The Tonight Show’: ‘We Hit Both Sides Equally’
Jimmy Fallon says he plans to "keep my head down" and avoid politics on "The Tonight Show."
variety.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
To be clear, my expectations are "people who have means should be willing to get fired over fascism." Jimmy Fallon already has millions. He has a late-night career far longer than the average lifetime career of most pro athletes. He could walk away now and be FINE.
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Thanks to @katrynwrites.bsky.social and her podcast WRITE WHERE IT HURTS, I am now getting serotonin bursts from Amy Poehler's new podcast A GOOD HANG which is already a great thing alone but it took me to this opening of the first episode.
Tina Fey | Good Hang with Amy Poehler
YouTube video by Good Hang with Amy Poehler
www.youtube.com
July 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Thanks to @katrynwrites.bsky.social and her podcast WRITE WHERE IT HURTS, I am now getting serotonin bursts from Amy Poehler's new podcast A GOOD HANG which is already a great thing alone but it took me to this opening of the first episode.
Elio is brilliant and it's hard not to assume that Disney so spectacularly shit the bed on marketing because of its themes of inclusion and acceptance.
June 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Elio is brilliant and it's hard not to assume that Disney so spectacularly shit the bed on marketing because of its themes of inclusion and acceptance.
Take note, querying authors! I was 250 rejections and several books in the hole when I did DVPit and it changed my life 🥰
DVpit is officially coming back on October 8th, 2025 and we have over 50 agents and editors excited to participate. Follow this account for all announcements and check out dvpit.carrd.co for more details and information!
#dvpit #writersky #booksky #weneeddiversebooks
#dvpit #writersky #booksky #weneeddiversebooks
June 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Take note, querying authors! I was 250 rejections and several books in the hole when I did DVPit and it changed my life 🥰
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Looking for books to foster #mentalhealthawarenessmonth conversations? Check out WE ARE NOT ALONE by
@katrynwrites.bsky.social in this hopeful story about a recent cancer survivor finding new friends and moving on from grief.
#mentalhealth #middlegrade #mglit #kidlit #EduSky #TLSky
@katrynwrites.bsky.social in this hopeful story about a recent cancer survivor finding new friends and moving on from grief.
#mentalhealth #middlegrade #mglit #kidlit #EduSky #TLSky
May 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Looking for books to foster #mentalhealthawarenessmonth conversations? Check out WE ARE NOT ALONE by
@katrynwrites.bsky.social in this hopeful story about a recent cancer survivor finding new friends and moving on from grief.
#mentalhealth #middlegrade #mglit #kidlit #EduSky #TLSky
@katrynwrites.bsky.social in this hopeful story about a recent cancer survivor finding new friends and moving on from grief.
#mentalhealth #middlegrade #mglit #kidlit #EduSky #TLSky
Taking a short break in my 100 days to share because this is important. Not only is Colleen a great person, she's also been uplifting #kidlit throughout dealing with cancer and she's a gem in this community.
www.gofundme.com/f/colleen-ca...
www.gofundme.com/f/colleen-ca...
Donate to Colleen Cadiz’s Cancer Journey, organized by Melody Ross
This Go Fund Me has been created for the Cadiz Family, whose wife, Colleen, has been battl… Melody Ross needs your support for Colleen Cadiz’s Cancer Journey
www.gofundme.com
April 5, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Taking a short break in my 100 days to share because this is important. Not only is Colleen a great person, she's also been uplifting #kidlit throughout dealing with cancer and she's a gem in this community.
www.gofundme.com/f/colleen-ca...
www.gofundme.com/f/colleen-ca...
Hi, all! Realizing that I'm spending problem amounts of time online and overwhelmed when I could be writing/calling my reps and responding to local issues. For the next 100 days, I'm gonna be offline and focused on that work. Bye for a bit! 👋🏻
#writingcommunity #resist #author
#writingcommunity #resist #author
February 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Hi, all! Realizing that I'm spending problem amounts of time online and overwhelmed when I could be writing/calling my reps and responding to local issues. For the next 100 days, I'm gonna be offline and focused on that work. Bye for a bit! 👋🏻
#writingcommunity #resist #author
#writingcommunity #resist #author
Hi, #booksky ! I'm trying to make a big push to get my org to commit to buying more books by marginalized authors, even for the non-culture-specific book giveaways like Summer Reading. Drop your book (last 5 years) in picture book, CB, MG, YA (fiction, but especially nonfiction! Give me your joy!
February 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Hi, #booksky ! I'm trying to make a big push to get my org to commit to buying more books by marginalized authors, even for the non-culture-specific book giveaways like Summer Reading. Drop your book (last 5 years) in picture book, CB, MG, YA (fiction, but especially nonfiction! Give me your joy!
So thrilled to see that Drew Leclair Gets a Clue was chosen by a Michigan middle schooler as Canton Public Library's best books!
It makes me so happy to see that kids are still discovering this book after three years 🥹
#middlegrade #middlegradebooks #kidsbooks #mglit
It makes me so happy to see that kids are still discovering this book after three years 🥹
#middlegrade #middlegradebooks #kidsbooks #mglit
February 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
So thrilled to see that Drew Leclair Gets a Clue was chosen by a Michigan middle schooler as Canton Public Library's best books!
It makes me so happy to see that kids are still discovering this book after three years 🥹
#middlegrade #middlegradebooks #kidsbooks #mglit
It makes me so happy to see that kids are still discovering this book after three years 🥹
#middlegrade #middlegradebooks #kidsbooks #mglit
I'm so glad I've been saving for 15 years for a trip outside the country and that I'm leaving in a month, when airline safety is a total shitshow. This... tracks, honestly 🫠🥴
February 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I'm so glad I've been saving for 15 years for a trip outside the country and that I'm leaving in a month, when airline safety is a total shitshow. This... tracks, honestly 🫠🥴
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This. Ana on the Edge has been challenged or banned in more US states, counties, school districts, and libraries than I can even keep track of.
My sales don’t rise because of them, they stagnate. And fewer trans and nonbinary kids get to see themselves in stories as a direct result.
My sales don’t rise because of them, they stagnate. And fewer trans and nonbinary kids get to see themselves in stories as a direct result.
A Friday reminder that having your book banned doesn't sell books.
Only THE MOST banned books see support, and I assure you all those creators would prefer their books were NOT banned instead.
There's no silver lining. It's just the knowledge that ppl hate you!
Ok have a good weekend
Only THE MOST banned books see support, and I assure you all those creators would prefer their books were NOT banned instead.
There's no silver lining. It's just the knowledge that ppl hate you!
Ok have a good weekend
February 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This. Ana on the Edge has been challenged or banned in more US states, counties, school districts, and libraries than I can even keep track of.
My sales don’t rise because of them, they stagnate. And fewer trans and nonbinary kids get to see themselves in stories as a direct result.
My sales don’t rise because of them, they stagnate. And fewer trans and nonbinary kids get to see themselves in stories as a direct result.
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Hey disabled writers on Bluesky! Reply to this post with either:
1. The publication you're proudest of, something that's cool about it, and a link to read it.
~OR~
2. Something you love writing about. Can be the minutia of motorcycle repair, or as simple as "Dragons."
1. The publication you're proudest of, something that's cool about it, and a link to read it.
~OR~
2. Something you love writing about. Can be the minutia of motorcycle repair, or as simple as "Dragons."
February 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Hey disabled writers on Bluesky! Reply to this post with either:
1. The publication you're proudest of, something that's cool about it, and a link to read it.
~OR~
2. Something you love writing about. Can be the minutia of motorcycle repair, or as simple as "Dragons."
1. The publication you're proudest of, something that's cool about it, and a link to read it.
~OR~
2. Something you love writing about. Can be the minutia of motorcycle repair, or as simple as "Dragons."
I know I'm not doing the Lord's work but spite is fuel, right?
February 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I know I'm not doing the Lord's work but spite is fuel, right?
I admit, I was prepared for heartbreak and ups and downs but not the weight of disappointment on my chest as I wade through this industry.
#MGlit #authors #publishing
#MGlit #authors #publishing
February 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I admit, I was prepared for heartbreak and ups and downs but not the weight of disappointment on my chest as I wade through this industry.
#MGlit #authors #publishing
#MGlit #authors #publishing
America just basically told everyone with disabilities to eff off, but what else is new, I guess? 😖
February 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
America just basically told everyone with disabilities to eff off, but what else is new, I guess? 😖
My senator's form rejection of my thoughts on the issues is... Something
#california
#california
February 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My senator's form rejection of my thoughts on the issues is... Something
#california
#california
Hey California peeps! Schiff's voicemail is full but Padilla's is open! Keep calling to support Democrats holding the floor to oppose RFK. Just left my voicemail and moving on to email!
February 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Hey California peeps! Schiff's voicemail is full but Padilla's is open! Keep calling to support Democrats holding the floor to oppose RFK. Just left my voicemail and moving on to email!