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Folklorist/ Hoodoo/ CSK/John Steptoe Award Winner🦋. We Are All So Good At Smiling (Jan 2023), Gone Wolf (Oct 23). Onyx & Beyond (Oct 24) Rep Elena Giovinazzo

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

4 months

COVER ONYX & BEYOND out OCT 1! Written by Amber McBride: Inspired by Mario McBride 👩🏾‍🚀🚀 1970; Alexandria, VA & Onyx (nickname X after Malcolm X) wishes he could fly, wishes he could hold memories for his Mama who keeps forgetting, but Onyx has a plan.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

Normalize allowing your single friends to bring their platonic best friend as a plus one to your wedding. Like I am begging y’all to stop only validating romantic relationships. Not everyone wants them but they still have a person.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

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ain’t nobody ever gonna gaslight me into believing that asking for basic human rights is controversial. or that collective punishment is ok. or that bombing hospitals & refugee camps is ok. demanding a ceasefire is not controversial. it’s the bare minimum. 🇵🇸

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

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my parents frame all my book covers (bc they are precious & so supportive) & we had a lot to add this year. 🥹🙏🏾 (Onyx & Beyond cover coming soon 🚀)

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

@SierraBlackwe16 Ugh see I respect you so much dealing with parents. I teach college students so no parents. Thank you so much for being a brilliant teacher. 🖤

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

Pinches self 100's of agent rejections over 3 books of querying,over 50 editor rejections over 2 books, then @FeiwelFriends believed in ME (MOTH), a book about hurt & hoodoo & love & storytelling, which is now a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

Winning the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe award for ME (MOTH), a book I wrote after the loss of my grandfather, a book about ancestors & love & hope & magic has left me speechless. Humbled & honored. Thank you to the CSK Award jury for seeing Me & Moth. Thanks @ALALibrary !

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

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My therapist asked me how I wrote a book about a Black girl with depression & how it makes you feel haunted & guilty & alone during the worst depressive episode of my life. All I could say was, writing for young people makes me braver. Preorder:

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

Ummmm like I love all the bestie love happening here!!! & shameless plug (bc I am a writer) if you love friends who stick together even through a haunted garden, side by side no matter what my forthcoming book WE ARE ALL SO GOOD AT SMILING has that…

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We Are All So Good at Smiling a book by Amber McBride

They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse about clinical depression and healing from trauma, from National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride....

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

@KyleLukoff In my experience you are not even offered a plus one if you are viewed as “single”

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

8 months

my grandmother who has dementia remembered by book came out yesterday. she said, "it's not the Moth it's the Wolf one...Amber wrote it." (and that's why I am crying at 4pm on a Wednesday)

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

🥀Meet WHIMSY! 🥀 She is a Conjurer & she has clinical depression & she wants you to know that flaws & all YOU are already magic itself. 💫 WE ARE ALL SO GOOD AT SMILING🥀1/10/23! @FeiwelFriends Preorder: (Cover: the brilliant Rich Deas, again)

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

1 year

I am a professor, a Coretta Scott King Award Winner, a National Book Award & Morris Award Finalist & I read the Narnia books EXCLUSIVELY for five years. Imagine thinking that kids enjoying books is a problem. Imagine thinking certain books can’t “improve literacy” AND be fun!

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James A. Furey

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I would 100% prefer my kid to be able to read and understand Moby Dick, but hate it and read rarely, than to love reading Diary of a Wimpy kid and its like frequently. A love of reading is nice, but it's not the goal of literacy instruction.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

1 year

MG DEBUT COVER REVEAL GONE WOLF:10/3/23🐺💙 Meet IMOGEN & her watchful wolf, IRA! *i started drafting this after the Unite the Right Rally, here in Charlottesville. I was angry & scared & looking for hope* Cover: Rich Deas @FeiwelFriends Preorder:

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

Got the best mail today, National Book Award Finalist Medal for ME (MOTH)! Humbled, infinite gratitude & joy. Many thanks to the judges, @nationalbook & congrats again to all the finalist! I put my grief & fear & joy & love & hoodoo soul into ME (MOTH). Many thanks for reading.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

@KimberlyLoren @KyleLukoff I think you missed the point of this discussion but have a wonderful evening.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

1 year

Prince Harry’s book & my book are coming out on the same day & all I am saying is there are no leaks from mine if you want to be completely surprised! Also my cover is better. 😬🙃 (s/o to cover artist Rich Deas) We Are All So Good At Smiling🥀:

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

4 years

MOTH is here: she has locs & scars. She is wise & wild. I love her with all of my Hoodoo soul. Preorder: Amazon: GR: (Thanks! Cover: Rich Deas. Editor: Liz Szabla. Agent @renarossner Pub: @FeiwelFriends )

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

@Nia_Davenport So many weddings and I find that if you are not in a “relationship” you are not even given the option of a plus one BUT people who have dated for two weeks can bring their partner. Like let me and my bestie be the party on the dance floor!

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

1 year

The pretentiousness in academia towards young adult writers is insane. Like, my adult poetry collection comes out with Penguin in Feb & suddenly people are impressed. Suddenly, they ask have you thought of teaching in an MFA? Reminder: PB, MG & YA writers create adult readers.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

@KaitlynAbdou THIS! exactly. Like especially at weddings where you don’t know anyone. 🖤

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

Y’all if I ever do anything crazy like sign a 7 figure deal imma rent a castle in Europe somewhere and invite 15 writer friends to chill, write, bake and generally act up for two weeks.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

1 month

I am speechless 🐺

@latimesfob

LA Times Festival of Books

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Next up is Young Adult Literature! And the Book Prize goes to…. @Ambsmcbride for her thriller Gone Wolf. Congrats Amber!! #bookprizes #bookfest

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

1 year

it’s my 35th birthday, no fancy photos this year. during my 34th year depression hit me harder than ever & my dog, who was a 21st bday gift from my parents passed. my parents got me shiloh bc they were worried I would harm myself. shiloh saved my life. remembering her today. 🖤🐺

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

Shiloh passed away yesterday morning, 1 month before her 13th birthday. Shiloh was a gift from my parents for my 21st bday. They got her bc my depression had gotten so bad they were worried I’d harm myself. Loving Shiloh saved my life. Loving Shiloh taught me how to live.💔🖤

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

Y’all I teach from 10 am to 12 and the 50 missed messages let me know first that ME (MOTH) is long listed for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and I am a crying in the UVA bathroom. Thank you so much and congrats to everyone!

@nationalbook

National Book Foundation

3 years

It’s the first day of #NBAwards Longlist announcements! We are so excited to share the ten contenders for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Congratulations to everyone on the list!

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

One of my youngest family members just found ME (MOTH) at the Barnes & Noble in Fairfax, VA and THIS PHOTO, her excitement…sobbing. Inconsolable. 🥺🥺🦋🖤😭😭

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

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@ESmithStevens This statement is 100% ageist, a bit classist, flirting with being elitist and very targeted towards a “specific kind” of young person. Also never mind this might be the only opportunity some “young people” get to take creative writing classes in a serious way. This is not it.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

6 months

Black girl who had a speech impediment when she was younger that almost made it impossible for her to read in front of people does her own audiobook &&&&&& a little in shock still! Thanks to @MacmillanAudio & Audible & @elishia_e & @jenblom 🖤🥀.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

@mintycel Often (not always as seen in a lot of the responses) “single” people are not offered a plus one or I’d be bringing my bestie to all weddings.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

6 months

Removing ALL poetry when there is no other category for it & MG/ Children’s Literature? Like adding without taking away is an ok option. We can have all the cake in this situation.

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Goodreads

6 months

Voting for the only major book awards chosen by readers has finally begun. That’s right, the 15th annual Goodreads Choice Awards are here! Vote during the Opening Round for the books you want to see make it to the Final Round!

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

1 year

The video of the murder of Tyre Nichols will be released today, so a reminder…please think before you repost it everywhere. At the very least post with a trigger warning. For many of your Black followers watching is traumatic.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

Them: Where are you gonna wear it? Me: everywhere. 💁🏾‍♀️ (I didn’t wear my medal to teach yesterday bc self control lol)

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

We Are All So Good At Smiling, my YA novel in verse about clinical depression (out Jan 10), received a starred review from Kirkus Review! 🥀🥀🥀🥀 ********** Pre order: ⭐️ Starred Review:

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

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🐺🖤🙏🏾 GONE WOLF, the book that was almost not published, won the LA TIMES BOOK AWARD in the YA category. I would have never kept pushing for this book to get published without the support of my parents (Mario & Debra), my ancestors, friends and baby wolf Shiloh. So grateful!

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

1 year

Being a Black author is someone saying they did not like your book and in their review the reasons why are all aspects of their internalized racism. Like honey, I am Black. I don’t know what to tell you. If you haven’t addressed your racism of course you won’t like the book.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 months

I can’t believe my debut poetry collection that took me 10 years to finish comes out TOMORROW. In primarily white spaces I was so often told my poems were not enough. Grateful for Black poets who helped me find my voice again. THICK WITH TROUBLE:

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

Me (Moth) is on the TIME ( @TIME ) 10 Best YA and Children's Books of 2021 List with some of my favorite books of the year! Ahhh! All the gratitude! 🙏🏾🖤🦋

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

REMEMBER this accountability tweet from December 2020? Well, Black girl Hoodoo Fantasy with magic, folklore, sisters and haunts in cities where the fog carries with it the rusty scent of blood & cinnamon IS WITH BETA READERS as of one hour ago! HIDES FOREVER. 🖤👻✨🩸🌙

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

I am gonna stop messing around & finish the last 30,000 words of this fantasy book in 2021 BECAUSE more Black girl fantasy & magic, hoodoo, old gods, ghosts, sisters, vampires in cities where the fog carries with it the rusty scent of cinnamon & blood. (Accountability tweet lol)

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

8 months

my debut mg novel about generational trauma/ racism, the repercussions of not telling Black history accurately & the importance of storytelling in Black culture has FIVE starred reviews. Grateful 🙏🏾🐺. Order here: Or here:

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

1 year

Baby girls Moth & Whimsy 🥺🦋🥀

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

1 year

Incandescently happy that We Are All So Good At Smiling, my YA novel in verse about clinical depression, fairytales & hope is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection! Thank you @JrLibraryGuild !

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

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my parents are my biggest fans. they took down MLK to make room for whimsy. 🦋🥀 (don’t worry MLK is coming to my office on campus)

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 months

I finished writing a book last night.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

10 months

Forgetting history seems to be the favorite hobby of America right now which is why I am so grateful, GONE WOLF, a book that inspects how the ongoing legacy of slavery directly impacts the mental health & lives of Black children TODAY is getting so much love. 🙏🏾 @KirkusReviews .

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Baby girl MOTH is in People Magazine! Just picked up a copy! 🖤🙏🏾🦋

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

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Being a Black professor be like: this year i taught a 3:3 schedule, released 3 books which got 9 starred reviews, 4 conferences, 2 keynotes, 5 school visits, finished copyedits for ONYX & BEYOND (Oct 24), excellent peer reviews & wrote 2 new things. still not tenure track 👀🙃.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

Hi team if you have done nothing over the last year to actively support Black people & dismantle white supremacy in the US & abroad please bring that same energy to today & fight the urge to google an MLK quote & post it.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

Are we writing novels in November or nah? Or…maybe? Or…

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

1 year

Therapist: & what do we say when we are feeling sick coming off antidepressants? Me: (sniffles) at least my locs look good for my Valentine’s Day brunch date with myself. 💁🏾‍♀️🥹😭 Therapist: (face palm)

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

Speechless. Simply speechless. Congrats to all the finalist and endless thanks to @FeiwelFriends & @renarossner & Liz Szabla & all of the judges. (Gotta go have a long talk with the ancestors) 🖤

@nationalbook

National Book Foundation

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A huge congrats to the #NBAwards YPL Finalists Shing Yin Khor ( @sawdustbear ), @malindalo , @KyleLukoff , @KeklaMagoon , and Amber McBride ( @ambsmcbride ) Cheers to the publishers! @KokilaBooks , @PenguinKids , @PenguinTeen , @candelwick , @feiwelfriends

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

6 months

THICK WITH TROUBLE cover! Grateful for the art of Fabiola Jean-Louis whose piece “Marie Antoinette Is Dead” has given this collection a face. Out Feb. 13, 2024! “Call us something lovely mischief changing robes.” Preorder:

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

What’s your biggest flex? One time Toni Morrison smiled at me and said hi and proceeded to talk to me for 3 mins and 11 seconds.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

Coming out of the woods & my social media hiatus to say that Me (Moth) is a finalist for the Morris Award and I am fan-girling because she is on a list with the books I've LOVED this year. Congrats to all the finalist! So much gratitude!

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YALSA

2 years

Have you heard? Our 2022 Morris Award Finalists were announced today! View the list with annotations and be sure to share it with your teen patrons!

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

I am gonna stop messing around & finish the last 30,000 words of this fantasy book in 2021 BECAUSE more Black girl fantasy & magic, hoodoo, old gods, ghosts, sisters, vampires in cities where the fog carries with it the rusty scent of cinnamon & blood. (Accountability tweet lol)

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

Still speechless & honored & humbled & bundles of gratitude & buckets of joy & oceans of offerings & expansive sky of ancestors & soul-fulls of love. Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award. Endless thanks @CSKBART_ALA .

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

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WE ARE ALL SO GOOD AT SMILING won a Teen Readers’ Choice Award in the Unique format category! Many thanks! Also for poetry month the ebook is $2.99:

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

1 year

That’s our 5th star for We Are All So Good At Smiling! So much gratitude. 🥺🖤🥀

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

8 months

Reminder my MG debut GONE WOLF, about a Black girl named Imogen grappling with the racists history of America & the fear of it repeating, comes out Tuesday 🙃🐺. Preorder:

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ann zhao

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uh maybe someone has pointed this out already, but every single author on the young adult nytimes best seller list this week is white. like every single one

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

1 year

HAPPY PRIDE! Living my best pansexual life. 🏳️‍🌈 & drafting a very queer book. 🖤

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

heartbroken, disgusted, wildly angry, BUT not surprised at all. I think that's what hurts the most, that this bullshit doesn't ever surprise me. Tired.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

I’ll just be here hyping everyone up for #DVpit GOOD LUCK! But also remember even if you don’t get ALL the likes your book is valid and important and keep querying! I never got more than a few likes and now ME (MOTH) is a finalist for the national book award. You got this! 🖤

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 months

Talking about THICK WITH TROUBLE in @BostonGlobe . Thanks to @gtomaine for chatting with me! Link:

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

1 year

Ish my Black students have said to me so far during Black History Month: On being five mins late to class: Harriet ran so that I could walk to class. (These kids are built different & I love them lol)

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 months

debut poetry collection with Penguin Poets? not even in my wildest dreams! she’s out now! 🖤 Gratitude 🙏🏾

@PenguinBooks

Penguin Books

3 months

From National Book Award finalist @ambsmcbride , comes a mystical, transcendent poetry collection about Black womanhood in the American South THICK WITH TROUBLE, on sale today! Get your copy 👉

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

GUESS WHAT? The audiobook for ME (MOTH) will be out in December, narrated by ME (AMBER) & you can preorder now! (Girl who grew up having a speech impediment does her own audiobook even though she was scared) Macmillan: Amazon:

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

Today has been a dream. Thank you, a thousand times, thank you for supporting me & MOTH. 🦋 My bestie @cristiandennis_ surprised me. My parents got me a Moth cake. My friends sent loving messages and flowers. I got to vibe with @JasonReynolds83 for an hour. It’s a good day.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

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I put my letter of resignation in at UVA BEFORE the violence on Saturday. & the hardest thing now is leaving my students who trust me at a time when they are feeling betrayed. The emails I’ve gotten from them 🥹. But after 4 yrs at UVA & a decade professoring taking some time.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

1 year

equally excited & terrified to share my debut poetry collection with y’all in 2024 (a feel like i need to stress it’s adult)

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

New title who this? (it took a community of Black people supporting & mentoring & loving me to get here. endless gratitude & goodbye sleep cause we’ve got two books in 2023 & full time professoring 🖤😬🙃)

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 months

36! 🎂. ✨grateful ✨humble ✨healing ✨trouble ✨ "I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. -Audre Lorde (also debut poetry collection THICK WITH TROUBLE is out Tuesday: )

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

SURPRISE!!!! ME (MOTH) is an INDIES INTRODUCE title for summer/fall 2021! THRILLED to be included with so many GREAT titles! 10 kids and 10 adult titles are chosen by a panel of American Booksellers Association @ABAbook members across the country! 🦋

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

Cry/ screaming! Y’all baby girl MOTH got her first starred review from @ALA_Booklist ! Here’s an excerpt! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ If you wanna preorder ME (MOTH) (indie bookstore): (other preorder options):

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

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i wrote my first poem when I was 8 years old…so when the ARC’s of Thick with Trouble showed up on my doorstep today I cried. poetry saved my life. so grateful to have my debut adult poetry collection coming your way in February. Preorder: +

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

'To the Young Who Want to Die.' Gwendolyn Brooks

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

@garethandbreda7 That’s a good question & a point a lot of people have brought up…I have not run into this issue (yet) BUT encouraging students to be working on papers gradually? I do remind them, the final day to turn in your paper is three days from now…you should prob have a draft…

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

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WE ARE ALL SO GOOD AT SMILING is one of @BuzzFeedBooks 40 Most Anticipated YA Books of 2023! Thank you! 🥀

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

7 months

Sir, you clearly forgot this a few days ago when you used inflammatory language and spread false information.

@POTUS

President Biden

7 months

We must not lose sight of the fact that the overwhelming majority of Palestinians had nothing to do with Hamas’s appalling attacks, and are suffering as a result of them.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

ME (MOTH) got her second starred review! This time from SLJ! 😭😭🦋⭐️⭐️ “…poignant and richly layered narrative. The story builds softly and subtly to a perfect, bittersweet ending. Fans of Jacqueline Woodson won’t be able to put this one down.”

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

Look what got here today! Morris Award Finalist! 🖤🥺🙏🏾 Thank you @yalsa !

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

Woke up to this banner for e-books because y’all are brilliant. YA Black & African American Fiction Really hits different! 🖤🖤🖤🙏🏾🦋 MOTH would love to meet you:

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

I mean. I kinda love this. 🦋🦋🦋

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

…i got a new black jumpsuit & my locs re-twisted & BTS morning concert & hello… 🙃🖤 (instagram saw it first)

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

ME (MOTH) is on @NPR ,'s best books of year! Love this for Moth & Sani. 🙏🏾🖤

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

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UVA willfully ESCALATED the situation by sending 200 cops in riot gear to disband 20 ish unarmed students in tents peacefully protesting. They did not send admin/ deans or mediators. They sent GUNS. Tear-gassed & arrested them. For the crime of advocating for human rights.

@EbonyJHilton_MD

Ebony Jade Hilton, MD

@EbonyJHilton_MD

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When you ESCALATE a situation from Tents to Rifles you’ve lost every potential for good. The 20 students in tents could’ve been met w/ 20 Administrators who took a blanket & sat down on the grass days ago to simply listen instead of deciding to send 200 police officers w/ guns.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

I told my therapist I got long listed for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and she was really excited. But then she asked how I will celebrate. And I was like...writing all day, then grading, then planning for next week... And then she was annoyed again.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

7 months

Publishers Weekly best books of 2023 list came out a few weeks ago & so much gratitude to see my debut MG GONE WOLF on it. (been hard to post “good” news but many readers have asked if I saw the list. i have. thank you. 🖤) (ceasefire NOW🇵🇸) List:

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

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NORTHERN LIGHTS IN VIRGINIA (thank you Solar storm) 🖤

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

11 months

Incandescently happy to share the cover of POEMHOOD:OUR BLACK REVIVAL with you all! This is a YA poetry anthology with OVER 35 Black poets. Edited by @ambsmcbride @TaylorByas3 & @EricaEditor ! 🌼 Designer: David Curtis Illustrator: Lord Kpuri @EpicReads

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

How am I supposed to teach one more class?!?? So honored, happy, in shock! Thank you! 🦋🖤

@nationalbook

National Book Foundation

3 years

You can learn more about the ten titles on the 2021 #NBAwards Longlist for Young People’s Literature on the NBF website!

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 months

GONE WOLF is a LA Times Book Prize Finalist! Grateful to the judges & congrats to all the finalist! See y’all in LA in April!

@latimesfob

LA Times Festival of Books

3 months

Congratulations to this year’s Young Adult Literature finalists! 🩵 Jennifer Baker ( @jbakernyc ), Olivia A. Cole ( @RantingOwl ), Kim Johnson, Amber McBride ( @ambsmcbride ) & Sarah Myer ( @smyercomics )

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

3 years

Guess who is on the cover of BOOKLIST this month? Baby girl, Moth! Rich Deas did such a brilliant job! 🦋

@ALA_Booklist

ALA_Booklist

3 years

We aren't making our big debut, but these authors are! Our latest issue is HERE & it's BIG: 📖Spotlight on First Novels (.10s) 🎨Spotlight on Crafts & Hobbies 🎙️An interview w/ @exlarson & more! First up: Top 10 First Novels of 2021:

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

My heart sobbed happy tears through this entire thread!

@readiatrician

The Readiatrician

2 years

“Well,” I said, “it was so good to see you!” There was no one in line. She leaned in, her eyes shining, “I got into verse novels. Have you read Me(Moth) by @ambsmcbride ?” “Yes! Fantastic! Red, White and Whole by @rajanilarocca ?” She nods. “Starfish by @AuthorLisaFipps ?” 7/

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

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Totally NOT nervous. (Reader, she was VERY nervous)

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

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my dad & i are always down for the same shenanigans & my mom is just like…here they go again. dad: you should write a boy main character & I’ll help with the vibe. me: bet. imma just write you when you were 12. Onyx would have loved seeing the northern lights…Oct 1, 2024✨

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

7 months

Two things: One: I’ll be doing the audiobook for my debut (adult) poetry collection. Two: imma show you the cover tomorrow. 🖤

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

2 years

Me (Moth) is a finalist in the poetry category for the Goodreads Choice Book Awards 2021!!! Baby girl, MOTH has locs & scars. She is wise & wild. I love her with all of my Hoodoo soul. Make sure to vote for your favs!

Goodreads Choice Awards

Announcing the best books of the year! The Goodreads Choice Awards are the only major book awards decided by readers.

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

7 months

Surreal! Is this real life 😍🙏🏾🖤🐺!

@AllyMalinenko

Ally Ally Oxenfree

7 months

Look at my girl @ambsmcbride in the New York Times!!!

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Me (Amber McBride)⁷ on hiatus

1 year

Hi, hello…ummm We Are All So Good At Smiling has 4 starred reviews! I am fully shook. 🥺🙏🏾🥀 Preorder:

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