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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz

@schwartzwords.bsky.social

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YA fantasy: A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE and TO A DARKER SHORE / adult romcom: MY KIND OF TROUBLE / sadder but wiser / autistic / fat / 🌈 / 🇮🇹 / theater / (she/they) / Rep: Lee O’Brien, LGLM https://linktr.ee/leanneschwartz

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · Nov 11

wow hello so maybe a reintro?

I’m Leanne (she/they), author of YA fantasy and adult romance books here in California

hoping to connect over
-fantasy and romance books/media
-autism
-theater
-fat liberation
-libraries and fighting book bans
-demi/acespec
-education/English teachers
-the horrors

portrait sketch of me, a fat white person with long brown hair, by Raquel Trevé

LEANNE / LA SCHWARTZ

girls getting even
fat, autistic, demi, sapphic rep religious trauma monsters and Italian worldbuilding
books, theater, nerds

A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE
An autistic poet's prayer awakens a vengeful statue who will stop at nothing to kill the immortal tyrant whose "miracle" trapped her
(YA Romantic Fantasy, 2023)

TO A DARKER SHORE
An autistic inventor goes to hell to avenge her best friend sacrificed in her place-only to find him alive but monstrously transformed
(YA Romantic Fantasy, 2024)

* "A phenomenal work."
—School Library Journal, starred review

MY KIND OF
Trouble
a novel
L.A.SCHWARTZ
A slick conwoman meets her match in a hot and nerdy autistic librarian fighting book bans in this gender-swapped Music Man homage (Adult Romance, 2024)

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 10h

trying to write a new pitch for PunchWIP and you know what that was a mistake

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 1d

For real persevere we need a non icky take😅

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 1d

What if it’s uhh no

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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 1d

Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 1d

That’s a wrap on Banned Books Week but theres still so much more you can do to protect books and libraries in the next election: bookriot.com/library-elec...

Be an Informed Pro-Library, Pro-Literary Voter Now: Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025

Elections in several states will be coming up throughout the months of October and November. Here's how to be a pro-library voter.

bookriot.com

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, it needs to go further than this.

We need to confront the fact that democracy and wealth hoarding cannot coexist. Allowing people to amass the resources of a small state/country allows them to act as such, which is inimical to a shared society of “one person, one vote.”

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 1d

🥰💕It’s from my adult book, My Kind of Trouble (gender-swapped Music Man about an autistic librarian fighting book bans who falls for a kindhearted conwoman): bookshop.org/p/books/my-k...

(My YA books under Leanne Schwartz all have autistic MCs too.)

My Kind of Trouble: A Novel

A Novel

bookshop.org

Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 1d

when the docs/schools that ignored me for yrs saying something was up w my kid started suggesting therapy because they had to deal with her sensory and communication issues when she was too big to manhandle or talk over, they were mournful she’d aged out of being able to get ABA

by then I was like

Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 1d

put this in my book and it made some folks MAD mad but others lmk it was how they learned about this, so, worth it

"Preston, I was joking."
"Oh." He gave her a deeply uncomfortable look. "The thing is—I'm autistic. Winning people over-" He drummed one hand against his thigh. "It's a statistically proven fact that autistics are judged unlikable by neurotypicals." Her mouth fell open, and he rushed on as if she was going to interrupt again. "But it doesn't matter, because I'm good at my job, and it's important to me. Did you know the therapies used to force autistic kids to act in ways seen as normal have the same origins as the conversion therapy that tries to force kids not to be queer? Some people want to erase us all. The clubs and books for every kid, showing every kid-dis-abled too-they say we exist. That it's okay that we do. As we are." He directed his entire intense gaze at her, piercing and earnest even through his glasses. "That's life chan-ging. Life saving for some kids."

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

Conflating southern Italians with Jews is genuinely something Columbus would be proud of

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

if i had a dime for every rhonda lacenzo i knew in hebrew school

tweet from The Persian Jewess ~ @persianjewess
In a disgusting display, @nbcsn| creates an antisemitic caricature of a Jewish woman, and mocks concerns about Zohran Mamdani's pro-jihadist views.
Meanwhile, just today Zohran Mamdani's wife posted a tribute to a Hamas terrorist on her IG Stories.

it's screencap from an SNL sketch with a character named RHONDA LaCENZO

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We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Celebrate Indigenous storytelling this #IndigenousPeoplesDay — and every day! — with these new and upcoming releases from Heartdrum!

Here’s every Heartdrum title that’s been published in 2025 — as well as a look ahead at forthcoming 2026 Heartdrum titles that you can pre-order today!

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 2d

Oh hey! Thank you, so much to the folks at Ignyte! We love this because fighting books really & truly is a practice of inclusion & equity. Really meaningful to be recognized this way. Good work team!

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d

And the Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre goes to @authorsabb.bsky.social
#2025IgnyteAwards

2025 Winner of the Community Award: Authors Against Book Bans

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d

It's time again as a notable Italian-American to note Christopher Columbus was an absolute piece of shit human who didn't land anywhere near this actual country so why the fuck should he stop the mail for the whole day

Anyway, Happy Indigenous People's Day, y'all

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 2d

as we left, David gave me a loving, intent look and warmly said, “Happy Columbus Day hon” because he is a little shit

Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 2d

possibly the best risotto I’ve ever had, I’m already excited for lunch leftovers tomorrow

we swapped around desserts until everyone and their texture issues were happy

garlic focaccia not pictured because it was devoured too quickly

Prawns and zucchini risotto topped with sage

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 2d

pie chart of why we went out to eat:

Pizza with one slice out where it reads “oven’s broken” and the rest reads “because we felt like it”

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 2d

Torinese, he’s just confused but got the spirit, we love you)

Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 2d

Had to scroll to remind myself why he was being supportive and

Me: Piero get off your ass and throw some bombs in Turin I guess
David: Yeah. Fuck Turin.

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 2d

life with me✨

Me texting David:
Today 4:51 PM
Can you pls help me
In the garage
Where everything just fell over
And im trapped w this horrific smell
And the light just went off

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 2d

A 13-year old child stolen from his parents by the police without a word.

A mother finds out her son is gone, handed over to ICE, taken to a facility 500 miles away.

So many people on the wrong side of history.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 2d

🫡 fellow four hours of sleep club reporting in

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d

We especially need trans girls as protagonists in YA. It's rare enough to get MC trans rep, and what little we have is almost entirely from the masc side of the spectrum.

alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 4d

put trans women in your fiction. don’t be a fucking coward.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 2d

"Although the dismantling of the CDC has cost the country its oldest, most stalwart resource for vaccine information, there remain many other resources for reliable, trustworthy & evidence-based information on vaccines." TY @tarahaelle.bsky.social for the list :

healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/10...

Where to find accurate vaccine information amidst the CDC’s ongoing collapse

With the CDC no longer a trustworthy source, use these resources to find reliable, accurate, evidence-based information about vaccines.

healthjournalism.org

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

t.co

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