Catherine Hapka
@catherinehapka.bsky.social
Still out here writing for kids and YA
rep: Katherine Latshaw at Folio Literary Management
Horse enthusiast, cat magnet, music fan, night owl, swing state voter, lazy gardener
She/her
catherinehapka.com
rep: Katherine Latshaw at Folio Literary Management
Horse enthusiast, cat magnet, music fan, night owl, swing state voter, lazy gardener
She/her
catherinehapka.com
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catherine hapka
Author website for Catherine Hapka, aka Cathy Hapka, an author of books for children and young adults.
catherinehapka.com
I might be the very last writer in the world to do this, but I’m excited to announce that I finally just launched my new author website: catherinehapka.com
Check it out and let me know what you think! 😁
#kidlit #YAlit #MGlit #books #AmWriting #AuthorsOfBluesky
Check it out and let me know what you think! 😁
#kidlit #YAlit #MGlit #books #AmWriting #AuthorsOfBluesky
Can't pick just one. It's a rotating choice that might include any of these:
She's a Rainbow
Stray Cat Blues
Sister Morphine
Memo From Turner
Continental Drift
Dead Flowers
Rocks Off
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Jigsaw Puzzle
Let It Bleed
Shattered
Not Fade Away
Sweet Virginia
...and many others. 😁😛
She's a Rainbow
Stray Cat Blues
Sister Morphine
Memo From Turner
Continental Drift
Dead Flowers
Rocks Off
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Jigsaw Puzzle
Let It Bleed
Shattered
Not Fade Away
Sweet Virginia
...and many others. 😁😛
Name your fav song by The Rolling Stones.
November 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Can't pick just one. It's a rotating choice that might include any of these:
She's a Rainbow
Stray Cat Blues
Sister Morphine
Memo From Turner
Continental Drift
Dead Flowers
Rocks Off
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Jigsaw Puzzle
Let It Bleed
Shattered
Not Fade Away
Sweet Virginia
...and many others. 😁😛
She's a Rainbow
Stray Cat Blues
Sister Morphine
Memo From Turner
Continental Drift
Dead Flowers
Rocks Off
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Jigsaw Puzzle
Let It Bleed
Shattered
Not Fade Away
Sweet Virginia
...and many others. 😁😛
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The Beatles (aka The White Album) was released on this day in 1968. Praised for its diverse range of genres, it would go on and spend 215 weeks on the Billboard 200.
What are your thoughts on this album?
Favourite tracks?
#Beatles
What are your thoughts on this album?
Favourite tracks?
#Beatles
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The Beatles (aka The White Album) was released on this day in 1968. Praised for its diverse range of genres, it would go on and spend 215 weeks on the Billboard 200.
What are your thoughts on this album?
Favourite tracks?
#Beatles
What are your thoughts on this album?
Favourite tracks?
#Beatles
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This looks adorable!
Happy holidays to me - my editor at Clarion just told me my #kidlit Advent holiday title, JINGLE ALL THE WAY HOME, has earned a spot on the Indie Bestsellers List!
Illustrated by Kathryn Selbert. Available at your local independent bookstore (or wherever books are sold).
🎁❄️🐶🎄📖
Illustrated by Kathryn Selbert. Available at your local independent bookstore (or wherever books are sold).
🎁❄️🐶🎄📖
November 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This looks adorable!
Happy holidays to me - my editor at Clarion just told me my #kidlit Advent holiday title, JINGLE ALL THE WAY HOME, has earned a spot on the Indie Bestsellers List!
Illustrated by Kathryn Selbert. Available at your local independent bookstore (or wherever books are sold).
🎁❄️🐶🎄📖
Illustrated by Kathryn Selbert. Available at your local independent bookstore (or wherever books are sold).
🎁❄️🐶🎄📖
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Happy holidays to me - my editor at Clarion just told me my #kidlit Advent holiday title, JINGLE ALL THE WAY HOME, has earned a spot on the Indie Bestsellers List!
Illustrated by Kathryn Selbert. Available at your local independent bookstore (or wherever books are sold).
🎁❄️🐶🎄📖
Illustrated by Kathryn Selbert. Available at your local independent bookstore (or wherever books are sold).
🎁❄️🐶🎄📖
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Being a writer is like surfing. Always hoping to catch the perfect wave, but most of your time will be spent paddling against the tide or just floating, waiting, eyes on the horizon while you watch other people riding their highs into the sunset. But you have to love the work more than the ride.
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Being a writer is like surfing. Always hoping to catch the perfect wave, but most of your time will be spent paddling against the tide or just floating, waiting, eyes on the horizon while you watch other people riding their highs into the sunset. But you have to love the work more than the ride.
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So very excited to be sharing this news! !My story about a lovestruck wizard trying to “cure” death and the beautiful grim reaper who slowly falls in love with being alive is slated to be published with Ace Books (Penguin Random House) in 2027!
November 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
So very excited to be sharing this news! !My story about a lovestruck wizard trying to “cure” death and the beautiful grim reaper who slowly falls in love with being alive is slated to be published with Ace Books (Penguin Random House) in 2027!
Since people are suddenly posting about this again rn for some reason, this:
Authors, for reliable information on the Anthropic settlement and how you might be affected, see the Authors’ Guild, a reliable source: authorsguild.org/advocacy/art...
What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement
Updated October 2, 2025 IMPORTANT: The Works List Is Now Live on the Settlement Website The searchable Works List and Claim Forms are now available at www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com. Find more i...
authorsguild.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Since people are suddenly posting about this again rn for some reason, this:
But what if Sinners is the only film from this year that I’ve seen this year?
( I don’t see many current films…)
( I don’t see many current films…)
Without saying Sinners, name your film of the year.
November 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
But what if Sinners is the only film from this year that I’ve seen this year?
( I don’t see many current films…)
( I don’t see many current films…)
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
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Maybe stop "playing" with ChatGPT? Like, you're just enabling it for content. Meanwhile, it's learning.
November 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Maybe stop "playing" with ChatGPT? Like, you're just enabling it for content. Meanwhile, it's learning.
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Outrageously expensive windows have been installed throughout the house for only about thirty hours, but Clementine is already working her magic on the custom-sized screens.
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Outrageously expensive windows have been installed throughout the house for only about thirty hours, but Clementine is already working her magic on the custom-sized screens.
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Apologies for the annoying LinkedIn style post (complete with LI link), but I am rather unexpectedly back on the job market; hoping to find something when I head to OnDAM in Paris this week, but if you need a DAM, data governance or content expert in Ireland, HMU!
www.linkedin.com/in/lgrimm/
www.linkedin.com/in/lgrimm/
Lisa Grimm - Astellas Pharma | LinkedIn
Accomplished senior leader in digital asset management (DAM), data governance, content… · Experience: Astellas Pharma · Location: Dublin · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Lisa Grimm’s profile on Li...
www.linkedin.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Apologies for the annoying LinkedIn style post (complete with LI link), but I am rather unexpectedly back on the job market; hoping to find something when I head to OnDAM in Paris this week, but if you need a DAM, data governance or content expert in Ireland, HMU!
www.linkedin.com/in/lgrimm/
www.linkedin.com/in/lgrimm/
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Sorry but this is the perfect engagement ring and if your partner doesn’t bring this, you should walk away and maybe join a convent.
Part 138 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
A cherub carved in malachite, with inset diamond eyes, mounted over a gold ring. United States, late 19th century (damn this looks so evil and cursed lol)
A cherub carved in malachite, with inset diamond eyes, mounted over a gold ring. United States, late 19th century (damn this looks so evil and cursed lol)
November 17, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Sorry but this is the perfect engagement ring and if your partner doesn’t bring this, you should walk away and maybe join a convent.
Art is good.
November 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Art is good.
Oof, this one hurts...
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Madonna’s “Borderline” was released closer to D-Day than to today. You’re welcome!
a man standing in front of a wall with the words over the borderline on the bottom
ALT: a man standing in front of a wall with the words over the borderline on the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Oof, this one hurts...
👵⏳😅
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14yo, describing a song: It's by one of those old bands, you know, like the Beatles
14yo: And there's a part where it says "hey ladies, hey fellas, and the people that don't give a fuck"--
Me: CHILD, ARE YOU TALKING ABT LIMP BIZKIT
14yo: Yeah, them!
14yo: And there's a part where it says "hey ladies, hey fellas, and the people that don't give a fuck"--
Me: CHILD, ARE YOU TALKING ABT LIMP BIZKIT
14yo: Yeah, them!
November 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
🧵😂
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Happy Friday Music Lovers!
November 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Happy Friday Music Lovers!
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1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports
The change comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration and lifted a temporary injunction.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
Share something that reminds you of your childhood...
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Share something that reminds you of your childhood...
This.
“Healthcare” and “health insurance” are not synonymous.
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“Healthcare” and “health insurance” are not synonymous.
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The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This.
“Healthcare” and “health insurance” are not synonymous.
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“Healthcare” and “health insurance” are not synonymous.
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The muse arrives only at the working desk.
November 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The muse arrives only at the working desk.