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Amalie Jahn (she/her)

@amaliejahn.bsky.social

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Kidlit Author Rep'd by Ann Rose MG 2024: TEAM CANTEEN ROCKY ROAD (Holiday House) YA 2023: A WALK BETWEEN RAINDROPS (Kirkus ⭐️) YA 2021: PHOEBE UNFIRED TED speaker | potter | anxious | neuro diverse | accomplice https://linktr.ee/AmalieJahn

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · Sep 10

I saw someone say today “I don’t want to live in a country where our disputes are decided by bullets and blood”, and I fought every urge to ask what country they thought they’d been living in.

Violence is how the US settles everything. We need to see that if we’re gonna do something different.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · Sep 10

“So what if he disagreed with you, he didn’t deserve to die”

But he thought I did.

This isn’t disagreement. It’s someone who was not only opposed to my existence but was called a good and faithful servant by the church for doing it.

I don’t have to mourn that. And asking me to is violence too.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · Sep 10

The conversation we’re not ready to have yet is that having empathy for a white supremacist is part of what upholds white supremacy.

And by that measure alone, it fails to be empathy at all.

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Amalie Jahn (she/her) @amaliejahn.bsky.social · Sep 9

Happy pub day to my amazing agent @annmrose.bsky.social! You’re one of the few people I’ll break my social media hiatus for 😉
Readers, don’t make me regret my decision… go buy it today!!

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Amalie Jahn (she/her) @amaliejahn.bsky.social · Sep 9

Happy pub day to my amazing agent Ann Rose! You’re one of the few people I’ll break my social media hiatus for 😉
Readers, don’t make me regret my decision… go buy it today!!

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Amalie Jahn (she/her) @amaliejahn.bsky.social · Aug 12

Patriarchy helps keep men in power by making sure women are too busy focusing on their “shortcomings” (too old/fat/skinny/smelly/hairy/loud) to fight back. It’s all fake distraction.

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Stan Yan - Kidlit Graphic Novelist @zombicatures.bsky.social · Jul 16

Highlights from the 2025 #rosebudauthor writers retreat last weekend.
#writerslife with @annmrose.bsky.social! Thank you and @amaliejahn.bsky.social!

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The Tobias Literary Agency @thetobiasagency.bsky.social · May 6

“Sweetly underscores friendship as a lifeline to self-acceptance.” —Kirkus Reviews

Listen up 🔊 TEAM CANTEEN ROCKY ROAD is now available via audiobook!

@amaliejahn.bsky.social

#audiobook #newaudiobooks

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Amalie Jahn (she/her) @amaliejahn.bsky.social · Mar 19

Can’t wait to hear what you think of Team Canteen!!

Greer Kelley @grrkbibliotheque.bsky.social · Mar 19

@kathleenglasgow.bsky.social and @amaliejahn.bsky.social are wonderful speakers. Can’t wait to read their books

Amalie Jahn (she/her) @amaliejahn.bsky.social · Jan 29

Brothers by chance
Lovers by choice

Amalie Jahn (she/her) @amaliejahn.bsky.social · Jan 21

Teens can absolutely read any book they choose. No one is saying they can’t. But the industry needs to make sure toxic relationships are presented in a way that is age appropriate for teens in a book that is labeled YA. We’re not in the business of glorifying rape.

Amalie Jahn (she/her) @amaliejahn.bsky.social · Jan 21

Where did the OP say that?
Also, teen girls? 🤨
The point is that the indented audience for YA fiction is under 18. Children. CHILD. REN.
So there actually is an obligation not to cause harm or trauma.

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Amalie Jahn (she/her) @amaliejahn.bsky.social · Jan 15

I think we’re not in a position necessarily to “put aside political reasons” at this point which is the whole reason I think Ann is asking this question. Is it ethical or moral to continue using platforms that support fascism? And should publishers pivot to something else?

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Amalie Jahn (she/her) @amaliejahn.bsky.social · Jan 15

Her question wasn’t about authors, tho. Ann is asking where trad publishers are planning to spend their dollars given the state of social media.

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Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · Jan 10

Amid the fire and war I remember St. Kurt Vonnegut, who wrote: “I urge you to notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or or think at some point: ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.”

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Amalie Jahn (she/her) @amaliejahn.bsky.social · Jan 9

Did I write new words today?
No

Did I rearrange plot points on my outline?
Yes

Did I reread what I’ve already written and confirm I’m not the worst author on the planet?

Hell yes