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Victory ( 🔜 🍁 )
@victoryrush.bsky.social
Professional cat butler. Part time crybaby. Full time Public Library Youth Services Specialist. Currently: gaming (HSR, F76, P3R), reading, and wanting you to stay hydrated. Support your local library 📚 Free Palestine 🍉

they/her.
I know the tried and true ways of just being imposing in spaces in hopes you click with one or two people but I really have no idea how to make connections anymore.
April 20, 2024 at 3:08 AM
25 days until I go to see my partner again!!
gotta get through a 7 day work week but I got this! 💪

had an excellent therapy session and I’m okay with just yelling into the void here.
April 19, 2024 at 3:38 PM
um hi hello. is this thing on? a lot of people I know from Threads are making their way back here. so I suppose I’m back too.

how’s the culture? how we feeling?
April 19, 2024 at 1:18 AM
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hi hello children’s lit writers and illustrators!!

my library system is opening up a new Read-It category for readers and easy chapter books!

have you released something in the last year or something soon? do you reside in the US? would you like to travel and meet some great kids?

let me know!!
January 16, 2024 at 6:26 PM
hi hello children’s lit writers and illustrators!!

my library system is opening up a new Read-It category for readers and easy chapter books!

have you released something in the last year or something soon? do you reside in the US? would you like to travel and meet some great kids?

let me know!!
January 16, 2024 at 6:26 PM
I keep striking out with readers advisory. hopefully I can get back on track.
December 18, 2023 at 2:26 AM
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If you hate bullies, and like supporting poc authors and YA fantasy debuts.

Here are some authors who have been targeted for review bombs by another author purely because they seem to be coming out at a similar time.

(Xiran Jay Zhou is out here fighting the good fight.)
December 7, 2023 at 2:38 AM
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I love libraries so much, I wrote a picture book celebrating them! A LOVE LETTER TO MY LIBRARY, written by me & illustrated by Rob Sayegh Jr., was inspired by my trips to the Midlothian Public Library as a kid & La Grange Public Library as a mom.

mrschureads.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-lo...
A Love Letter to My Library by Lisa Katzenberger and Rob Sayegh, Jr.
Happy, happy Friday! I'm excited Lisa Katzenberger (we graduated from the same high school district) stopped by to finish my sentences. We d...
mrschureads.blogspot.com
December 10, 2023 at 1:33 PM
I lost Whamageddon :(
I'm glad my colleagues are in the holiday spirit but I wish I could have made it further. I didn't even get to St. Nick's Day!!
December 5, 2023 at 3:21 PM
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Omg... it's on the freaking US top 100 list now! I'm on an Amazon list with Ursula Le Guin and Soman Chainani. 😭
December 5, 2023 at 12:32 AM
hi! our projector went out in one of our rooms at the library. I’m attempting to convince the right people to make the investment for a portable projector because we do a lot of movie nights.

do your libraries use them? if so, which one do you use? I want one that is reasonable but decent.
November 29, 2023 at 2:09 PM
It’s wild to me how disrespectful people can be to public libraries.
November 29, 2023 at 1:02 PM
I don’t want to go into work. I want to cuddle my cat and order a pizza.
November 27, 2023 at 12:48 PM
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📜 So...is your library discussing digital security yet? toronto.ctvnews.ca/toronto-libr...
Toronto library systems won't be restored until 2024 after October cyberattack
The Toronto Public Library says its systems, which were the target of a cyberattack in late October, will remain down until 2024.
toronto.ctvnews.ca
November 25, 2023 at 7:40 PM
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I would be amiss did I not remind you, dear followers, that I am also an #ireadcanadian author. My book is a Middle-Grade mermaid story set in Cape Breton. There’s intrigue, a museum heist, and family ties. #kidlit #middlegrade 🇨🇦

Go ahead & buy a copy if you are so inclined.
November 8, 2023 at 12:23 PM
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I won’t talk about this much till after thanksgiving, but I know some people start with holiday music early…

Last year, quite unexpectedly, I wrote & recorded an ambient holiday album. It’s all instrumental, all public domain stuff, so a lot of what are called hymns, but instrumental. It’s up here:
an adventing, by The Least, Maybe
5 track album
theleastmaybe.bandcamp.com
November 1, 2023 at 4:27 PM
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Excited that we can upload our own GIFs via deck.blue! The animation is only viewable within deck.blue, so I'm only going to use gifs that make sense without animation, like this one.

Eventually, I hope to make these static-friendly gifs available to others using Bluesky cont'd
November 1, 2023 at 12:13 PM
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Looking for a fun community challenge whose goal is to inspire personal development, NOT guilt? Join my #GoldStarChallenge. Download my free calendar template PDF.

Your challenge can be ANYTHING & only share when/if you want to.

My Nov self-challenge: Write a poem every day. How about you?
October 30, 2023 at 12:01 PM
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This #middlegrade origin tale of the Inuit Messenger Feast is an excellent story of a boy who must learn songs, dances, and how to make drums from the terrifying Eagles. Kids will enjoy the tension and scary story as they learn of Indigenous ways. 📚👍🏼
November 1, 2023 at 11:21 AM
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Happy Book Birthday!
 
The Worst Saturday Ever by Kala Allen Omeiza
 
Two of Samuel’s classmates do something questionable, and the racist and ableist algorithm-driven po-bots pounce. Samuel must learn to overcome his fears to save the day in this middle-grade dystopian novel.
November 1, 2023 at 5:51 AM
your cottagecore queen of hearts has arrived- and is working in a library 😏
October 31, 2023 at 3:43 PM
found a dope quick queen of hearts costume- hope it turns out okay
been asked by several colleagues what I’m doing tomorrow for Halloween at work..

I guess I gotta dress up ._.
October 31, 2023 at 1:55 AM
been asked by several colleagues what I’m doing tomorrow for Halloween at work..

I guess I gotta dress up ._.
October 30, 2023 at 7:06 PM
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Any teachers need help motivating their students to write? I have a free virtual workshop next week on how to tackle picture prompts. #edusky #edtech #languagearts
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Community of Learning | Writing Prompts Made Easy. After...
by Author Marty Chan In this fun and interactive writing workshop, students learn how to use questions to break down a picture prompt into a story. Author Marty Chan will share his techniques to help...
cilc.zoom.us
October 30, 2023 at 5:21 PM