Little fingers  wrap around mine as we're walking  in the parking lot across the street from the car, back home. Little fingers  hold mine because she doesn't want to lose me as much as I don't want to lose her. #poetry

Hot breezes aren't that bad, not if it means my little one gets to swing. #haikusaturday #haiku

Yay! 🎉🎉🔥🔥🤩

#SimoneBiles had a bad injury and still toughed out a beautiful floor routine for silver. With the bronze, #JordanChiles is looking like the next big leader in USA gymnastics. Ready for it! #olympics

I just learned that this summer THE NIGHTHOUSE KEEPER went into a second printing and THE CLACKITY went into a fourth for hardcover and a fifth for paperback! Thank you from my whole heart to everyone who reads, reviews, and recommends my books. It means more than I can say. 🖤

Nisha Dahiya of India made me an instant fan. Fantastic offense and completely unbreakable will. #wrestling #Olympics2024Paris #OlympicGames

🦋ARC Giveaway!!🦋 BITTERFLY BAY releases Feb '25, but if you fancy reading my weird little ghost book early, enter for a chance to win an arc before 08/28! Just: 🦋 Like, rt & follow 🦋 Add to Goodreads 🦋 Comment (Tag a friend or tell me your favourite MG horror! Or both!)

Thanks to guest editor Deborah Karl-Brandt for featuring one of my poems in Haiku Dialogue! 🥰

Hi. Anyone up for a title and cover reveal for The Last Rhee Witch book #2 tomorrow? 🙋🏻‍♀️ Here's a little hint! #thelastrheewitch #middlegrade #mgcontemporaryfantasy #koreanlore

Unboxing The Skeleton Flute! Seeing my book baby will never get old. 18 days until release! You can preorder at dsallenauthor.com/books

Palm trees sway against a pink-orange sky, another chance at rain? who knows? #haikusaturday #haiku

Authors! I’m helping to spearhead a group called #AuthorsForKamala. If you’re interested, send me a DM and I’ll tell you how to proceed. Ann Patchett, Elizabeth George, George Saunders. Jodi Picoult, Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Lemony Snicket are in. How about you? Pls RT.

The Skeleton Flute releases in ONE WEEK!! It’s not too late to preorder and if you already have, you have six days left to fill out the Google Form on my website for some preorder goodies dsallenauthor.com/books

Alice in Chains

I’m putting out the bat signal for a special meeting… We’re assembling to avenge our rights… ✨Geeks and Nerds for Harris Walz✨ Need our finest superheroes. Need YOU. Who’s with me? 🦸🏻‍♀️

Check out my interview!

Writing stats tonight. Not quite what I wanted, but that's okay! #amwriting

It is happening!! Free event for kamaʻāina on Oʻahu. Come listen to readings from both books in the Lei and the Legends series and take a tour of the palace. More info to come. Be sure to follow ʻIolani Palace for lots of fun events (on IG).

My life: for decades I wrote novels for teens, about teens, advocating teens. Then -- call it karma? -- a teenage girl read some of those novels and spearheaded making #EnolaHolmes into a movie that changed my life. No longer must I struggle to pay the mortgage. Thank you, MBB.

Hi! I'm dropping off Twitter, likely for a very long time. Find me on Bluesky or IG. (I will respond to DMs from friends.) Otherwise, so long and thanks for all the fish.