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Reader. Bilingual (Spanish/English) author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈 He/él I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · Dec 30

2024 Overview 🧵:

In 2024, I published 42 books:

28 books written by me: 27 children's books, 1 adult book

14 translations: 6 into English, 7 into Spanish & 1 into both English + Spanish (my first translation from French)

#kidlit #amwriting #amtranslating

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A selfie with most of the books I published in 2024, as an author (on left) or translator (the stack on the right).

I am still missing copies of a few titles, both written by me and translated by me.

A photo of most of the children's books written by me that were published this year around the world, including both new titles and translations of older titles. There are books in Changana, Sena, Macua, Urdu, Bulgarian, Italian, Finnish, Turkish, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and English, among others.

The one adult book by me published this year: A BEARD PARADOX, translated by Sandra Kingery (Rebel Satori Press), a collection of 100 erotic flashfiction stories originally written in Spanish.

A photo of many of the books I translated this year: on the left, books I translated into English, on the right, books I translated into Spanish, and in the middle, one book I translated into both English and Spanish (my first published translation from French).

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 1h

#kidlitart

Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 3h

Popping into #portfolioday on behalf of art directors to say thank you for sharing your work. It makes our job easier. We appreciate you.
💙❤️

Also, FWIW, I made a starter pack of hiring art-, creative-, design-directors who actively use Bluesky.
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Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 4h

"Reading Lessons" was a reprint from this amazing collection on the many forms of reading, which is open access -- download it for free at the link. How We Read, edited by Kaitlin Heller and Suzanne Conklin Akbari

punctumbooks.com/titles/how-w...

How We Read: Tales, Fury, Nothing, Sound – punctum books

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Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 4h

An essay about how my early reading shaped me, right down to the rhythm of my jokes, @longreads.com

longreads.com/2019/07/22/r...

Reading Lessons - Longreads

You never stop learning how to read -- probably because you also never stop forgetting how to read.

longreads.com

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Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · Feb 14

Oh, sorry, it's from a review of a book called "Free", a memoir by Lea Ypi of her childhood in Communist Albania. That particular excerpt refers to Romania, home country of the reviewer Irina Dumitrescu

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

The Great Leap Backward | Irina Dumitrescu

Lea Ypi's memoir of her childhood in Communist Albania asks whether individual freedom is always elusive, even in liberal democracies.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 1h

I'm going to be doing an intense two-hour intensive later this month, and: Check it out!

Being Your Own Best Editor - Five Things I've Learned

Join me in this live two-hour class and discover the Five Things I’ve Learned about how you can make your writing more effective, clearer, and sharper. For more than thirty years I’ve worked to help ...

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Ken Liu @kyliu99.bsky.social · 4h

It's launch day for the US edition of ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM!

What is the future for human art in the age of AI? What kind of AI is actually helpful? These are some of the questions driving this techno-thriller.

Get it from wherever you prefer to get your books.

@sagapressbooks.bsky.social

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 5h

Sure. That said, not everyone knows what they want to read when they first approach a genre, and if they ask someone with more experience in that area, it's useful to be able to point to something that will be a enjoyable gateway text for them. They can explore further and deeper from there.

Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 10h

And you know something? Everyone should try whatever they feel like reading. Your adolescent / YA could go on to write a doctoral thesis on Contemporary Biases in Vintage Science Fiction - which they could never do without reading it.

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 10h

Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom

The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty and boredom.

www.openculture.com

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 6h

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Tomorrow I will hand-deliver copies at the Frankfurt Bookfair #FBM25 to the Filipino publisher & to the National Book Development Board of the Philippines who supported the translation.

The Philippines are guest country at this year's #Buchmesse.

#booksky #buchsky

Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 6d

I just got a courier with copies of my translation into Spanish of Simeon Dumdum, Jr.'s poetry book WHY KEANU REEVES IS LONELY AND WHY THE WORLD GOES ON AS IT DOES originally published in the #Philippines by Milflores Publishing and now in Spain by Sonámbulos Ediciones. 😍😍

#poesia #poetry #xl8

A selfie holding a copy of POR QUÉ KEANU REEVES ESTÁ SOLO, which features a white cover with black text and a photo of a small birdcage (empty of birds but with a carved wooden face hanging inside it) against a white limed wall with shadows cast by the birdcage and other unidentified objects against the wall.

The front cover of POR QUÉ KEANU REEVES ESTÁ SOLO by Filipino author Simeon Dumdum, Jr. translated into Spanish by Lawrence Schimel

The back cover of POR QUÉ KEANU REEVES ESTÁ SOLO by Filipino author Simeon Dumdum, Jr. translated into Spanish by Lawrence Schimel with a brief description of the book and all the logos of the institutional support from the National Book Development Board Philippines and other partners for the translation and publication.

The front flap of POR QUÉ KEANU REEVES ESTÁ SOLO by Filipino author Simeon Dumdum, Jr. translated into Spanish by Lawrence Schimel with a photo of Simeon on top and then a brief bio describing his work as a judge until retirement and summarizing his many publications and awards.

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Kalaniot Books @kalaniotbooks.bsky.social · 6h

It's here! And right in time for #TranslationTuesday too! WITH A NEEDLE AND THREAD is by Jennifer Stempel, whom you can meet this Friday at Booth 206 #AASL25 and the #Spanish translation CON HILO Y AGUJA is translated by @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social !

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 1d

Next stop: Frankfurt Book Fair!

Próxima parada: ¡la Feria de libros de Frankfurt!

Nichste Halt: Frankfurter Buchmesse!

#fbm25

Plane selfie wearing an N95 mask and behind me is a narrow, still-empty plane, two seats to a side.

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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 1d

Polish astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski took witcher medallions into space.

I can only conclude that the ISS had to be defended from space monsters.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16h

The answer to "how does [author] hold up?" is always "for whom?" Bester holds up fine to me, but I'm a 56-year-old white dude who has a vested interest in the genre. My take on his hold-uppedness will be different than, say, a 15-year-old BIPOC girl approaching science fiction for the first time.

Publius Maximus @publiusmaximus.bsky.social · 16h

How does Alfred Bester hold up?

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 13h

OH MY GOSH THIS IS GOING TO BE SO MUCH FUN

December 15, 2025: An Evening of Shirley Jackson Readings – Writers Bloc Presents

writersblocpresents.com

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 13h

So basically I need this event to sell out in the next fifteen minutes—it's for, as they say, a thing—and it would do my heart good if you could all make that happen. OK?

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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 21h

Congrats to all the IGNYTE award nominees and winners—go out and buy their amazing stuff!

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 1d

That's it! Congratulations winners and thank you for your contributions to such a beautiful SFFH landscape and community.
#2025IgnyteAwards
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/

2025 Results - The Ignyte Awards

OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson (S&S/Saga Press) METAL FROM HEAVEN – August Clarke (Erewhon Books) THE E...

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 4d

There's also a book with contributions from @suchmayer.bsky.social and @unamccormack.bsky.social among others.

www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...

AA School

Architectural Association School of Architecture's website homepage is the online entrance into the AA; to its courses from Foundation to PhD for undergraduate and postgraduate students; its open publ...

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 4d

Thank you to curator Sarah Shin & the designers of "Word for World: The Maps of @ursulakleguin.com" for letting me stop by while they were installing the show. The original maps weren't up yet but the fabric ones are beautiful. It opens Oct 10 in London.

Architectural Association building, 36 Bedford Square, London, decorated with banners that say "The Word for World" and "Ursula K. Le Guin"

Map of the Valley of the Na, from Always Coming Home, printed on blue fabric

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 3d

Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.

A photo of the entrance to The Word for World exhibition, with two banners hanging vertically down outside the doorway to a brick building with white-paned windows. A row of bicycles are parked in front. The banners are purple and white and say the name of the exhibition and Ursula K. Le Guin's name.

A cord-wrapped rock rests on a vivid blue background next to a map of and program for The Word for World exhibition.

A stack of copies of The Word for World book, which shows the title in vivid blue against a black cloth cover.

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Library of America @libraryofamerica.bsky.social · 6d

A clowder of advance readers got their paws on @ursulakleguin.com’s Book of Cats (yes, sitting on top of a book counts as reading for these little guys). Explore this full-color album of cat-centric poems, cartoons, and prose pieces, in bookstores today. loa.org/books/ursula-k-le-guins-book-of-cats/

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 1d

Nah, my phone just filters out all the people not wearing masks... 😢

Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 1d

Next stop: Frankfurt Book Fair!

Próxima parada: ¡la Feria de libros de Frankfurt!

Nichste Halt: Frankfurter Buchmesse!

#fbm25

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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 1d

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 1d

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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