Sam Subity
Dad, MG author, dragon rider | THE LAST SHADOW WARRIOR ~ Percy Jackson meets Beowulf | VALOR WINGS ~ Dunkirk with dragons (2024) - both from @Scholastic | Find me at subity.com
- Reposted by Sam SubityVisiting the local Indie bookstore. Look! Friends! @ryanjamesblack.bsky.social @subity.bsky.social I loved that they had Valor Wings front facing. And I might have left Nimble Nottingham front facing, too. 😄
- Sunrise on a foggy morning
- Had a blast meeting young readers and new and old author friends at Books by the Banks in Cincinnati!
- Reposted by Sam SubityExcellent virtual school visit with a creative writing class in Ohio where @sylvialiu.bsky.social, Kate Albus, and @subity.bsky.social shared writing wisdom and their choices for writing craft books. Which of these have you read??
- WOW! 🤯Sold out of books! Was not expecting such a great turnout and enthusiasm at the Buckeye Book Festival for Valor Wings and The Last Shadow Warrior, but I'm grateful! 🙏
- Soooo excited to announce my next book for kids due out next Fall! Any junior True Crime enthusiasts out there?? Or if you like I Survived, be sure to check this out!
- Reposted by Sam SubityWho's ready for an opportunity so good it's 👻scary? 👻 #teachersky and #librarians! What: FREE virtual class visit with 3 middle grade authors!! How: Follow & repost to enter When: Ends Wed 10/8 Where: US/CAN 🎃Good luck!🎃
- Reposted by Sam Subity15 BOOK GIVEAWAY for teacher & librarian friends! Celebrate back-to-school with Middle Grade Authorcade! You could win 15 books for your library, including 2 out this month! Enter here: app.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display... by subscribing to our newsletter. Boost for extra entries! US only. Ends 8/24
- LOVE seeing VALOR WINGS on the list of Surrey Schools Top 10 Books of the Year!! 🤩🙏
- Can't wait to be able to share all of these amazing books with students in a few weeks! Students will get to read and then vote on their favourite at the end of the year! #studentvote #sd36learn #SSBOY
- Reposted by Sam SubityWe're sooo excited to see Authorcade's own @victorpineiro.bsky.social with his new book: THE ISLAND OF FORGOTTEN GODS on Amazon's Best Books of August in time for its launch TODAY!!
- Reposted by Sam SubitySomething BIG is coming from Middle Grade Authorcade! Be on the lookout for a GIGANTIC giveaway coming Sunday 8/17! Want to get ahead of the game? Head on over to our website and subscribe to our newsletter here: www.authorcade.com/signup
- Reposted by Sam SubityGrab your pre-order discount on upcoming titles from Authorcade! With everything from fantasy and adventure to sports and contemporary, there's something for everyone on the bus! @victorpineiro.bsky.social @alyssacolman.bsky.social @chadgalucas.bsky.social @sylvialiu.bsky.social
- Reposted by Sam SubityIt's a ⭐️review for @victorpineiro.bsky.social's upcoming MG novel! "A vibrant blend of contemporary coming of age with mythological adventure. Nico’s unforgettable summer is deeply rooted in love for family, storytelling, and the history of a place that is both magical and real."
- Reposted by Sam SubityWe had a blast chatting with students from Hunter's Creek Middle School in Orlando! Lots of great questions, conversation, and of course--book recs! ⏰ TIME VILLIANS by Victor Piñeiro 🏠 NOTHING ELSE BUT MIRACLES by Kate Albus 💖 GLITTER GETS EVERYWHERE by Yvette Clark
- Dubious author achievement unlocked: Signing a body part for the first time! A fifth grade boy at a local book fair already had an author's name scrawled across his forehead and asked me to sign his neck. Turns out, not that easy to sign on skin with a Sharpie!
- Reposted by Sam Subity@subity.bsky.social brought a bunch of middle grade data out in January. Here’s a little more focus on one particular form: middle grade novel-in-verse. #NationalPoetryMonth
- Reposted by Sam Subity🐰Spring into action for our last GIVEAWAY of the school year! 🐰 #teachersky and #librarians! What: FREE virtual class visit with 3 middle grade authors!! How: Follow & repost to enter When: Ends Mon 4/7 Where: US/CAN Good luck!
- Reposted by Sam SubityApril is National Poetry Month! If you're looking for a book that's "intensely readable" (School Library Journal) be sure to check out Unsinkable Cayenne!
- Here's the visual I use to describe the creative process to students. Your initial spark of excitement is going to wane and maybe even flame out entirely. But the magic happens when your "won't quit" kicks in and you finish that amazing thing you started.
- Reposted by Sam SubityDear Teachers, Librarians, & Parents! Check out our new series, First Chapter Fridays! Up this week: THE VANISHED ONES, a new fantasy for 10-14 yo's by award-winning author Chad Lucas / @chadgalucas.bsky.social Hear the story in the author’s own voice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFY6...
- Reposted by Sam SubityI can’t wait to read @subity.bsky.social’s book, VALOR WINGS, with my fifth-graders. It’s going to be a fantastic read aloud! #TeacherSky #KidLit
- Kids are always asking me what my writing process looks like. So I decided to apply my data skills to explain it in a visual:
- Reposted by Sam Subity✨That wonderful feeling seeing all my @mgauthorcade.bsky.social friends in a huge pile! ✨ Our group of 15 MG authors debuted together in 2021, and look how far we've come. Thanks Kate Albus for the photo. (Follow MG Authorcade for virtual school visit giveaways)
- Going through some of my old college stuff, I pulled this out of the box. Son: Oh is that a dictionary? I think I’ve heard of those. What do you do with them?
- Reposted by Sam Subity📢📢GIVEAWAY!!📢📢 Who: For #teachers & #librarians! What: FREE virtual class visit w/ 3 middle grade authors!! How: Follow & repost to enter When: Ends Mon 3/10 ⏰ Where: US/CAN Why: Because you're amazing! 🍀Good luck!
- Hey Middle Grade book fans! Check out my year-end wrap-up of the MG market, hot off the presses! All the data you didn't know you wanted to know. 🤓 www.samsubity.com/mg-landscape...
- Me to son after school visit: Why do kids always laugh when I say I'm from Ohio? Son: Because Ohio means something else now. Me: Um...what? Son: Just wait till they realize your last name sounds like "skibidi."
- Next Monday! Join us for the live release of my latest data on the middle grade book market along with a Q&A for all your burning questions about what's happening with middle grade books.
- The Middle Grade Book Publishing Landscape Jan 20, 2025, 7pm CT Free: bit.ly/41llRZh Sam Subity, MG author & Data Analyst, will share his latest report on the MG industry. Mallory Kass, executive editor at Scholastic, will discuss the middle grade slump & what's needed to turn it around. #kidlit
- Happy birthday, J.R.R. Tolkien (1.3.1892 - 9.2.1973) #tolkien
- Honored to see Valor Wings among Books for Kids' "Six Best Books I Read in 2024"! booksforkids.substack.com
- Reposted by Sam SubityI love reading middle grade, and 2024 had wonderful options! Here are a few to love. 📚❤️ #TLSky #bookposse @erinentrada.bsky.social @mrschureads.bsky.social @kimbbbradley.bsky.social @subity.bsky.social @lynnekelly.bsky.social @jamesponti.bsky.social @choldenko.bsky.social @meganefreeman.bsky.social
- Anyone remember when we didn't have the internet to resolve arguments for us? My brothers and I argued every year about what happened "Up on the housetop" -- reindeer paws or pause? Now we're too old to remember who said what, so we all claim we were in the "paws" camp. 😆🎅
- My kids' go-to first Christmas movie every year is Noelle. Seems like no one I talk to has heard of it, but if you liked Elf, then this is definitely one to give a try. 🎅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuir...
- As a data analyst, I appreciate fun ways to represent data. Like this graphic from CNN that illustrates the most common ways your holiday decor might send you to the hospital. Turns out: cuts from glass ornaments is highest on the list. You're much less likely to have your tree fall on you. 🎄
- Reposted by Sam SubityMy next novel, GRETA EVER AFTER, opens during Greta's family vacation in Esslingen, Germany, where she discovers a cuckoo clock that just might be magic. 😊 Someone near and dear to me visited Esslingen recently and got to take an ARC with him. (For those on Edelweiss, eARCs are available!)
- Reposted by Sam SubityI’m excited to share that ARCs for my new novel, WHERE ONLY STORMS GROW, are now available to request on NetGalley and Edelweiss! Yay! It’s I SURVIVED meets THE WAR THAT SAVED MY LIFE set during the 1930’s American Dust Bowl. I hope readers enjoy it!
- Reposted by Sam SubityThere’s nothing better than finding a cozy spot to sit & read a book! This #DonorsChoose project will give our media center comfy new ottomans for our readers to enjoy while they’re reading throughout the day. Donations doubled w/code HOME! Any support/RP appreciated. #clearthelist bit.ly/3XUFPYJ
- Reposted by Sam SubitySurprise book mail today. Literally a surprise because this is the first of *two* releases I have in January so I wasn’t sure what would be in the box. Paperback edition of Let The Monster Out is in stores January 7 and available for preorder now! #mglit
