Joy Preble

Been holding on to this very good news for a while now. But today I can finally announce that my first picture book, Lost & Found Hanukkah, will arrive in 2025 from @ChronicleBooks illustrated by the fabulous @LisaAnchin !

@JaneEspenson My favorite . Rewatch already done. It’s such a perfect episode! Thank you.

@johnnie_cakes Siblings. But all my tired brain cares about is that it’s a Lacey Christmas movie set in Scotland and in a perfect world, she’d pass thru the stones and find Jamie Fraser.

@Jan_Coco_Day Jan Coco Day!! Onward to new adventures!

Today is my last day as an Indie sales rep at Hachette Book Group. Find me wandering the highways, making shady deals for books.

@karianneholt I mean okay, but there is still no true point to that kind of review. Like am I going to review Shakespeare and say “this was written in 1595 and it shows!” ? Better to say it was an early book. Or just read and enjoy.

@MagEGordon Crust Pizza is family friendly. Various locations including one in The Heights. And they cut the pizza in smaller squares like Chicago thin crust, so pieces are kid friendly too.

Anyone have recs for your favorite toddler friendly pizza places in Houston? (We usually go to Star, but I want to try something new!)

Texas was the first state to ban my books, and the last time I was here people prayed at me. Anyways I’m back! Speaking at Brazos Bookstore tonight. I don’t think the praying worked 😇 come see me! We can pray my way 🌈🤠 brazosbookstore.com/event/person-r…

@ElanaKArnold And like aren’t most weddings ‘custom made’ in at least some ways? So people! Enough with this ‘bespoke’ stuff!!

Did the word ‘bespoke’ suddenly become trendy while I wasn’t looking? Because suddenly I see it used everywhere.

@ElanaKArnold It’s so grossly pretentious

@ElanaKArnold It seems to get used when you could just say ‘custom-made’ like for a man’s dress shirt or whatever. But I don’t get where the ‘bespoke’ trend came from.

So happy it’s finally raining and raining, but dog has dug in her puppy heels about going out, and is doing her Bartley Scrivner. “I prefer not”

@ElanaKArnold ❤️❤️❤️

So thrilled to see all these well deserved grand reviews for BLOOD YEARS and my incredibly talented friend @ElanaKArnold ! You all need this book snd all her others as well.

Teachers, if you use my I Survived books in your classroom, I have tons a lovingly created, free resources for every single book, on my website. Let me know what else you need!

@JoshMalina I feel seen. 😎

Life for me has become the challenge to gut through the hours until the new Connections puzzle comes out.

@AdamGidwitz So excited for this book. Also, your essay here about Michael is so lovely and moving. I can see him sitting and reading, What a tribute this book will be!

I am thrilled and slightly terrified to announce the cover reveal of my next book, MAX IN THE HOUSE OF SPIES, my first historical fiction since The Inquisitor’s Tale. nerdybookclub.wordpress.com/2023/09/28/cov…

Happy Book Birthday to my dear, incredibly talented friend, @jenmathieu , whose new YA novel Down Came The Rain is out today! Jen writes books you can’t put down. Her voice is fierce & wonderful! Cheers!

@buffalosean I think that’s it exactly- that some readers interpret interiority as ‘quiet’ ( however one defines that) but often this ignores the engines of the story and how they function.

@joypreble I think you're right that it is the interiority that makes people call a book quiet; but for sure I have read some deeply interior books that are anything but quiet, McGlue and The Plotinus come to mind :)

In which I discuss how I wish people would stop describing books as ‘quiet.’ open.substack.com/pub/joypreble/…