Rebecca Weston
@rwestonliterary.bsky.social
Independent Book Editor (MG, YA, adult) at Rebecca Weston Literary, LLC. Helping make good books great. Former Random House editor of award-winning novels.
www.rebeccawestonliterary.com
www.rebeccawestonliterary.com
If you can go to a Phil & Erin Stead event, do! You will learn abt. publishing, the art of making a beautiful book, &that, when a reader truly loves a story, “it becomes more theirs than it is ours.” Celebrating A SNOW DAY FOR AMOS MCGEE (@mackidsbooks.bsky.social) at @literatibookstore.bsky.social.
December 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If you can go to a Phil & Erin Stead event, do! You will learn abt. publishing, the art of making a beautiful book, &that, when a reader truly loves a story, “it becomes more theirs than it is ours.” Celebrating A SNOW DAY FOR AMOS MCGEE (@mackidsbooks.bsky.social) at @literatibookstore.bsky.social.
Love my @picadorbooks.bsky.social / @fsgbooks.bsky.social pocket edition of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping. Beautiful and devastating. Read it when you’re feeling emotionally stable or at your own risk. #bookeditor #bookrecs #firesidereading
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Love my @picadorbooks.bsky.social / @fsgbooks.bsky.social pocket edition of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping. Beautiful and devastating. Read it when you’re feeling emotionally stable or at your own risk. #bookeditor #bookrecs #firesidereading
First snowfall of the year! #autumnsnow
November 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
First snowfall of the year! #autumnsnow
So grateful that I got my annual reunion with my publishing besties this summer! Just yesterday, erm 17 years ago, Krista, Jessica, & I were baby assistants together @randomhousekids.bsky.social. @chelseaeberly.bsky.social, we missed our fourth musketeer. Next time! #bookpublishing #bffs #booksky
September 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
So grateful that I got my annual reunion with my publishing besties this summer! Just yesterday, erm 17 years ago, Krista, Jessica, & I were baby assistants together @randomhousekids.bsky.social. @chelseaeberly.bsky.social, we missed our fourth musketeer. Next time! #bookpublishing #bffs #booksky
#RWLWritingTip Find a way to make your writing space somewhere you want to go. #writingtip #bookeditor #booksky #writesky
Flowers from Raindance Farm Flowers
Flowers from Raindance Farm Flowers
September 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
#RWLWritingTip Find a way to make your writing space somewhere you want to go. #writingtip #bookeditor #booksky #writesky
Flowers from Raindance Farm Flowers
Flowers from Raindance Farm Flowers
Missing this summer’s view but so happy to be starting autumn with a middle-grade manuscript in hand. #summersend #sunset #bookeditor #booksky
September 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Missing this summer’s view but so happy to be starting autumn with a middle-grade manuscript in hand. #summersend #sunset #bookeditor #booksky
September 1, 2025 at 11:26 AM
My friend Amanda Uhle wrote a beautiful, funny, compassionate memoir, out now @simonandschuster.bsky.social. Highly recommend for fans of The Glass Castle!
1. Celebrating
2. Interview @aadl.bsky.social w/Davy Rothbart
3. Pre-ordered @literatibookstore.bsky.social
4. ❤️
#memoir #newrelease #booksky
1. Celebrating
2. Interview @aadl.bsky.social w/Davy Rothbart
3. Pre-ordered @literatibookstore.bsky.social
4. ❤️
#memoir #newrelease #booksky
August 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
My friend Amanda Uhle wrote a beautiful, funny, compassionate memoir, out now @simonandschuster.bsky.social. Highly recommend for fans of The Glass Castle!
1. Celebrating
2. Interview @aadl.bsky.social w/Davy Rothbart
3. Pre-ordered @literatibookstore.bsky.social
4. ❤️
#memoir #newrelease #booksky
1. Celebrating
2. Interview @aadl.bsky.social w/Davy Rothbart
3. Pre-ordered @literatibookstore.bsky.social
4. ❤️
#memoir #newrelease #booksky
#RWLWritingTip If you’re having trouble staying motivated, find a writing partner to hold you to account. Check in once a day or week or month. If you know you have to tell someone what you’ve done, you’ll do more. #bookeditor #freelanceeditor #writingtips
July 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM
#RWLWritingTip If you’re having trouble staying motivated, find a writing partner to hold you to account. Check in once a day or week or month. If you know you have to tell someone what you’ve done, you’ll do more. #bookeditor #freelanceeditor #writingtips
Belatedly sharing my delight that the second Mo Seto novel is out in the world. Congrats, @aychanwrites.bsky.social & @simonkids.bsky.social! There is even more action-packed fun, with all our favorite characters—treat yourself! #thelegendarymoseto #martialartsstar #kidlit #taekwando #booksky
July 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Belatedly sharing my delight that the second Mo Seto novel is out in the world. Congrats, @aychanwrites.bsky.social & @simonkids.bsky.social! There is even more action-packed fun, with all our favorite characters—treat yourself! #thelegendarymoseto #martialartsstar #kidlit #taekwando #booksky
#RWLWritingTip Stop asking yourself what other people want to read and start asking what you want to. What will make you excited to sit in front of the computer every day? Write the story you want to read. The story you need to exist. #bookeditor #freelanceeditor #writingtips #writesky #booksky
July 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
#RWLWritingTip Stop asking yourself what other people want to read and start asking what you want to. What will make you excited to sit in front of the computer every day? Write the story you want to read. The story you need to exist. #bookeditor #freelanceeditor #writingtips #writesky #booksky
Thanks to those who crafted and signed. I’m with you. #booksky #writingcommunity
June 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Thanks to those who crafted and signed. I’m with you. #booksky #writingcommunity
Outdoor editing is the best editing! Sometimes, after nearly two decades as a #bookeditor, I still can’t believe that I get to make a living by reading stories all day long. #freelanceeditor #dreamjob #summer #booksky
June 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Outdoor editing is the best editing! Sometimes, after nearly two decades as a #bookeditor, I still can’t believe that I get to make a living by reading stories all day long. #freelanceeditor #dreamjob #summer #booksky
#RWLWritingTip Say yes to bad ideas. Stop thinking of your ideas as bad. Stop thinking about your ideas. Stop thinking about thinking. Just write it all down. #writingtips #bookeditor #freelanceeditor
June 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
#RWLWritingTip Say yes to bad ideas. Stop thinking of your ideas as bad. Stop thinking about your ideas. Stop thinking about thinking. Just write it all down. #writingtips #bookeditor #freelanceeditor
#RWLWritingTip Don’t let yourself be held back by the seeds of the story you thought you were writing. If something else more exciting starts to bloom in its place, give it room to grow. #writingtips #bookeditor #freelanceeditor
June 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
#RWLWritingTip Don’t let yourself be held back by the seeds of the story you thought you were writing. If something else more exciting starts to bloom in its place, give it room to grow. #writingtips #bookeditor #freelanceeditor
A deliciously quite lunch with my friend Vladimir at Miriam UWS. #bookeditor #nyc #nabokov @vintagebooks.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
A deliciously quite lunch with my friend Vladimir at Miriam UWS. #bookeditor #nyc #nabokov @vintagebooks.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
Highlights from the #USBookShow in #NYC:
1. Dear friends @juliescheina.com & @editorsangeeta.bsky.social
2. Picnicking
3. CEO panel: Karp (@simonschuster.bsky.social), Shelley (@hachetteuk.bsky.social @hachetteus.bsky.social), Segura (@publisherswkly.bsky.social)
4. Brunch, @johnmcusick.bsky.social
1. Dear friends @juliescheina.com & @editorsangeeta.bsky.social
2. Picnicking
3. CEO panel: Karp (@simonschuster.bsky.social), Shelley (@hachetteuk.bsky.social @hachetteus.bsky.social), Segura (@publisherswkly.bsky.social)
4. Brunch, @johnmcusick.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Highlights from the #USBookShow in #NYC:
1. Dear friends @juliescheina.com & @editorsangeeta.bsky.social
2. Picnicking
3. CEO panel: Karp (@simonschuster.bsky.social), Shelley (@hachetteuk.bsky.social @hachetteus.bsky.social), Segura (@publisherswkly.bsky.social)
4. Brunch, @johnmcusick.bsky.social
1. Dear friends @juliescheina.com & @editorsangeeta.bsky.social
2. Picnicking
3. CEO panel: Karp (@simonschuster.bsky.social), Shelley (@hachetteuk.bsky.social @hachetteus.bsky.social), Segura (@publisherswkly.bsky.social)
4. Brunch, @johnmcusick.bsky.social
It never gets old, seeing a book that I had a small part in bringing into the world, on a shelf or in a kid’s hands. Here is the fabulous #TheLegendaryMoSeto by @aychanwrites.bsky.social, in the wild and in good company, at @schulerbooks.bsky.social. #kidlit #booksky
@simonkids.bsky.social
@simonkids.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It never gets old, seeing a book that I had a small part in bringing into the world, on a shelf or in a kid’s hands. Here is the fabulous #TheLegendaryMoSeto by @aychanwrites.bsky.social, in the wild and in good company, at @schulerbooks.bsky.social. #kidlit #booksky
@simonkids.bsky.social
@simonkids.bsky.social
NYC, I am coming back to you! Publishing friends, I’ll be in town 6/2-6/4 for the Book Fair. Let me know if you’ll be around—I’d love to see you! ❤️🗽Photo credit: me, circa 2011, the one time in nearly ten years I bothered to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. #nyc #bookeditor #brooklynbridge #booksky
May 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
NYC, I am coming back to you! Publishing friends, I’ll be in town 6/2-6/4 for the Book Fair. Let me know if you’ll be around—I’d love to see you! ❤️🗽Photo credit: me, circa 2011, the one time in nearly ten years I bothered to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. #nyc #bookeditor #brooklynbridge #booksky
#RWLWritingTip Having trouble getting into a writing groove? Set aside the same time every day. Some days you’ll write, some days you’ll stare lifelessly out the window. But the more consistently you show up, the more consistently the writing will flow. #writingtip #bookeditor #writing
May 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
#RWLWritingTip Having trouble getting into a writing groove? Set aside the same time every day. Some days you’ll write, some days you’ll stare lifelessly out the window. But the more consistently you show up, the more consistently the writing will flow. #writingtip #bookeditor #writing
As a developmental #bookeditor, my main job is to recognize a writer’s vision, find what is at the heart of the story, and draw it out. I am fueled by the desire to help others’ labors of love become fully realized. #freelanceeditor #booksky
April 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
As a developmental #bookeditor, my main job is to recognize a writer’s vision, find what is at the heart of the story, and draw it out. I am fueled by the desire to help others’ labors of love become fully realized. #freelanceeditor #booksky
What greater pleasure is there than walking amongst shelves filled with stories, selecting one or twenty, and returning home to curl up and read? Thank you, @literatibookstore.bsky.social, West Side Book Shop, @shopbooksweet.bsky.social, & @schulerbooks.bsky.social. #IndependentBookstoreDay #booksky
April 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
What greater pleasure is there than walking amongst shelves filled with stories, selecting one or twenty, and returning home to curl up and read? Thank you, @literatibookstore.bsky.social, West Side Book Shop, @shopbooksweet.bsky.social, & @schulerbooks.bsky.social. #IndependentBookstoreDay #booksky
THE MONA LISA VANISHES is an engrossing work of #middlegrade nonfiction that reads like fiction, as we discover the details of the real-life theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. @randomhousekids.bsky.social @rhcbschoollibrary.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
#bookrec #kidlit #booksky
#bookrec #kidlit #booksky
April 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
THE MONA LISA VANISHES is an engrossing work of #middlegrade nonfiction that reads like fiction, as we discover the details of the real-life theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. @randomhousekids.bsky.social @rhcbschoollibrary.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
#bookrec #kidlit #booksky
#bookrec #kidlit #booksky
#RWLWritingTip Sit in the beauty around you and really see it. Describe it in a way that feels more true than accurate. #bookeditor #writingtips #booksky
April 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
#RWLWritingTip Sit in the beauty around you and really see it. Describe it in a way that feels more true than accurate. #bookeditor #writingtips #booksky
#RWLWritingTip Want to show why two characters are right for each other? Make them intriguing and irresistible. If readers can’t help falling for your characters, they won’t wonder why the characters are falling for each other. P.S. Witty banter never hurts. #writingtips #bookeditor #booksky
March 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
#RWLWritingTip Want to show why two characters are right for each other? Make them intriguing and irresistible. If readers can’t help falling for your characters, they won’t wonder why the characters are falling for each other. P.S. Witty banter never hurts. #writingtips #bookeditor #booksky