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Kiara Valdez@dezinpub.bsky.social |
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First Second Editor Extraordinaire | PW Star Watch Finalist | Writer | ✏️STEPPING UP | She/Her | Opinions are mine | Demi-Bi Afro🇩🇴 | #LatinxInPub | Rep’d: Britt Siess | kiaravaldez.com
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Jim Ottaviani
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This sounds great! (Full disclosure: I’ve moved back and forth between graphic novels for adults and younger readers at First Second, so I have skin…and bones and heart and soul…in this game!)
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Kiara Valdez
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Thank you, Chris ☺️
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Kiara Valdez
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For now it’s different lines under the same administrative group! The majority of the list will be coming from Mark and the new editor’s acquisitions, but First Second editors can still acquire adult that would then go to 23rd st. And the design team works with both.
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Paperback Paradise
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Book
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Kiara Valdez
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Omg!! Haha thank you for doing that! Yeah, people tend to forget
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Kiara Valdez
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I LOVE The Divine!!!!! It was before my time but one of the regrets we often talk about is not publishing it in a bigger size. Have you read PTSD by Singelin that we published? It has a similar beautiful-and depressing war things vibe that the divine has. Its cover is also sick AF
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Kiara Valdez
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I need to reiterate for some people who are new here (I know that those who know, know) that First Second has been doing adult graphic novels—yes including fiction—since 2006. So our love and service to adult GN isn’t new, we now just have bigger guns to really show off.
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Kiara Valdez
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1000% lol one of my future GNs I want to write is adult but unfortunately don’t think I can submit it to my own company 😭😭 there are so few places to submit adult!!
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Kiara Valdez
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I mean first second has been doing adult fiction since 2006 but this is a big gun show of our continued investment in it!
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Kiara Valdez
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I mean first second has been doing adult fiction since 2006 but this is a big gun show of our continued investment in it!
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Outsider Comics
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We literally just click order whenever new First Second books show up because they're all good. I am excited about this new imprint.
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Kody Okamoto
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I am SO, so excited for this. (Love when we get some good industry news to balance out the bad!!)
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Preeti Chhibber
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i feel like ppl need to remember that a person's public facing social media is, like, just a small piece of their life?? there is so much happening on the other side of the screen that you will never, ever see.
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Kiara Valdez
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Haha it really worked out. So glad the Flatiron was on 23rd to make way for this
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Kiara Valdez
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“23rd Street Books, the grown-up sister imprint of Macmillan’s eclectic graphic novel powerhouse, First Second Books, will launch next year with graphic novels from Gene Luen Yang, Damon Wayans Jr., Saul Williams, Ben Hatke, and more.”— Publisher’s Weekly
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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magnolia siddell
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Hey! :] Pre-order the book that Kirkus calls “Fantasy-adventure with a great sense of humor” and “An emotionally affecting work that explores the power of stories” in their starred review! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Get 25% off when you order from Barnes & Noble until July 17! YAY
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Kiara Valdez
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In my “I’m not one of your little friends” work era, for real.
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Trung Lê Capecchi-Nguyễn
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My spouse got very early Covid before vaccines were developed, and has since had long Covid, which is more or less a dynamic disability. They just can't function most days. Brain fog, chronic fatigue, heart issues, the whole thing, for the past four years.
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Comfortably Numb
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France: Defeats fascists. NYT:
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Elisabeth Van Every
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This is going to continue happening as everything gets hotter. Seattle had problems similar to this during the 2021 heat dome. Climate change is an *infrastructure problem* along with all the other types of problems.
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Phil Lewis
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Scalpers have reverse-engineered how Ticketmaster creates tickets, and are now generating and selling them on their own parallel infrastructure
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Victoria Ying
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My upcoming book CHASING SUNSPOTS features a lot of elements of being a young artist targeted by older, more established figures in the comics and entertainment world. I'm disappointed in how common this story seems to be, and sadly, how I think it will continue to be relevant.
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JCJB
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I don’t even think “liberal” encapsulates the selfish racist whataboutme-isms these people espouse. I don’t think these folks ever cared about genocide or ever will care. They maintain a pathological obsession with going to brunch while the world burns around them.
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Kiara Valdez
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Yes!! Do it 💪🏾👏🏾💜
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Kiara Valdez
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Rigged my desk set up so I can use my walking pad for a few hours in the morning while working. ☺️ Trying to walk 10K every workday! I started today. 💃🏿
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Kiara Valdez
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☺️ thank you! 💜
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Kiara Valdez
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Rigged my desk set up so I can use my walking pad for a few hours in the morning while working. ☺️ Trying to walk 10K every workday! I started today. 💃🏿
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Kelly Turnbull
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I love Junji Ito and all but I am begging anglophone comic retailers to pick up horror manga titles by someone other than him for once. Like, we don’t need less Junji Ito, but we can get more of some other guys in there too
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Jaunty Art
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Saw this on mastodon and it is fantastic. AI in medicine
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Kiara Valdez
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I’ve been hyper fixating so much on catching up on work and cleaning my apartment for the last two weeks that I have zero desire to do anything else. And if it’s a day I’m not motivated to doing the two things stated above I just sleep…
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Trung Lê Capecchi-Nguyễn
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Fountain pen and blue ink.
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Kiara Valdez
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I’ll be caught up on work soon so I hope that chills me out.
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Kiara Valdez
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I’ve been hyper fixating so much on catching up on work and cleaning my apartment for the last two weeks that I have zero desire to do anything else. And if it’s a day I’m not motivated to doing the two things stated above I just sleep…
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Trung Lê Capecchi-Nguyễn
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Pens are great.
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Sarah J. Jackson
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8 years ago today Philando Castile was murdered. The criminal legal system failed to convict the cop who shot him despite the recorded evidence. We had to watch that video live just 24 hours after we watched cops shoot Alton Sterling in the back. (The video does not play at link)
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hammancheez
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Also hurricanes
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Kiara Valdez
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I cackle every time.
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Iron Spike
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Astrology for misogynists
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Trung Lê Capecchi-Nguyễn
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Also as we get older we’re not supposed to fit in with the kids! Leave them alone! It’s normal and fine for them to find things outside their own age cohort extremely cringe.
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cait
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there is no celebrity you will EVER catch me defending against rape allegations bc i'm not a parasocial little freak. if you're "not sure" about their victims' claims (🙄) then just stay out of it. this is not hard
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Kiara Valdez
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lol yup
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Kiara Valdez
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😂 I’m now one loss one win since I started this. I wonder how it even calculated wins/losses
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Kiara Valdez
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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social duel
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I challenge thee
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Kiara Valdez
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Hahaha boooooo.
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Kiara Valdez
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Accept
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Kiara Valdez
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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social stats
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Kiara Valdez
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Like why ruin something so perfect 😭😩 who even buys this stuff?!!
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Kiara Valdez
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My dislike goes further than chunks, it extends to chocolate chip. In cookies? Wonderful! In fucking frozen ice cream? 🔪🔪
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Iron Spike
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Hey, so. I understand that this is anecdotal and not research, but. It is WILD how useless social media has become for promo. It's a fucking disgrace, really.
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