Jennifer Laughran
@literaticat
literary agent with a lot of opinions 👀 also a podcast 👀 also my puppy looks like baby chewbacca! www.jenniferlaughran.com / www.andreabrownlit.com
I fear The Odyssey might be my new personality 😭😭😭 I LOVED IT So did #FlatOdysseus
Happy Book Birthday to THE STORY RUG by Sophie Blackall and @phoebewahl.bsky.social ! This book is SO lovely, an absolutely perfect blend of words and pictures. (And it will probably inspire you to want to BRAID something — it did for me, anyway!) 💖
Move over, Flat Stanley — meet FLAT ODYSSEUS! He’s ready to be downloaded, cut out and brought with you on all your summer adventures. Careful, though, he has kind of a reputation for being a trouble magnet… @garethhinds.bsky.social bit.ly/4f4WY96
I am both overwhelmed with my to-do list and also for some reason decided to start BRAIDING A RUG (????) Well, there is a reason, it is because this book comes out tomorrow and I’m obsessed with it and I think YOU might be, as well. Read it and see if you don’t want to braid something immediately!
This auction is cool but also there are some weird ones. Like why is Dr Ruth INSIDE Curious George, and also gripping The Poky Little Puppy? [insert highly inappropriate joke here]
I saw this girl on tiktok make butter by shaking heavy cream in a mason jar. I had heavy cream. I had a mason jar. Most importantly, I had ten minutes and a desire for butter. Babes I MADE ACTUAL BUTTER WITH JUST CREAM AND A MASON JAR AND BRUTE STRENGTH I’M BASICALLY A PILGRIM 😭😭😭😭😭😭
You guys wtf is up with my watch face is this screwy or am I having a stroke IS THIS WHAT NUMBERS LOOK LIKE
HELP this is in the bathroom and now i have to burn the house down 😭😭😭
I’m going to visit madre; they don’t have Trader Joe’s there so she gave me a wishlist of snacks and spices to bring. Which is why I had to be quadruple screened and almost missed boarding; seems “everything but the bagel” seasoning looks a lot like the makings of an incendiary device 👀 THANKS MOM
PS: this banana muffin tastes exactly — and I mean EXACTLY — like a banana flavored Runt. (How does a muffin have the same flavor AND TEXTURE as a Runt? Look, idk. I’m not a scientist.) I’m glad I didn’t give up muffins for lent tho because I would have hated to have missed this surprise 😮 🍌
Watching the Ice Dancers Smart and Dieck 🇪🇸 who are doing a routine with a Dune theme. I assume he is supposed to be Paul. Not to make it *weird* or anything but… is she supposed to be… his MOM??? 👀
Happy Book Birthday to the luminous new picture book BEATRIX AND THE UNICORN by Lita Judge! bookshop.org/p/books/beat...
🧌OUT NOW!🧌 CAMP MONSTER, a MG graphic novel by @katemessner.com and Falynn Koch, is about a summer camp for Monsters. Can Goblins, Werewolf, Ogre and Yeti really put their differences aside & come together when *mysterious things* start happening at camp?! Perfect for fans of THE INVESTI-GATORS!
✂️OUT NOW!✂️ THE SNIPS: ENTER THE WIGMASTER by @raulthethird.bsky.social and Elaine Bay, is the second book in the zany MG graphic novel series about crime-fighting hairdresser superheroes whose scissors are as sharp as their wits. Great for pun-loving readers of DOG MAN and THE BAD GUYS.
A rare moment when both pets are in the same room and being calm. (A chase ensued within two minutes of this pic)
I honestly couldn’t have even imagined that was possible! This is what I pictured was happening on the other end:
I saw a post from @fuse8.bsky.social aboy this documentary “Story and Pictures By” and had to watch it immediately. It’s about picture books and their creators, and follows Mac Barnett, Christian Robinson & Yuyi Morales! It’s really good! Rentable on AppleTV, prime and YouTube.
I’m wrapping pressies for various children. My sister (who, for the record, NEEDS TO WEAR GLASSES) squints at the wrapping paper and goes, “okay I get that it’s mostly Paddington’s regular outfit — but why is he also dressed as a rabbi?” Paddington: marmalade enthusiast AND dapper ursine rabbi?
Related, I got this sticker @oblongbooks.bsky.social yesterday bc it made me crack up
I got home from an eventful night and day in the city to find THE CAT MISSING. She is an indoor baby but had snuck out — the dog found her hiding under the deck and told us where she was, but it took a solid hour of lying on the ground in the rain and waving churus to lure her 😭 stressing me OUT
Somebody asked for a source for my allegation that ClaimsHero is deceptively luring authors on social media. Source 1: MY EYEBALLS, I’ve seen the ads. Source 2, an article from Law360, needs a login. I took a picture of a PDF and I’m sorry in advance but I simply cannot type all this into alt-text.
This is the face of an animal who just ate a Blackwing pencil. And she’d do it again!
HOW TO SAVE AN OTTER and HOW TO SAVE AN OWL are the first two installments of a delightfully sweet new chapter book series by @katemessner.com — WILDLIFE RESCUE is about two siblings, Ivy and Ezra, who are “critter couriers” and help animals in need! Perfect for young animal-lovers! ❤️❤️❤️
We went to a different part of the park than usual and noticed an octagon-shaped structure that is evidently called a “Gaga Pit” for playing “Gaga Ball” — I am pretty confident that is not and has never been a game in my world, which means we must have found a pocket dimension / alternate timeline??
It’s hard to convey just how big and ambitious and gorgeous (and literally HEAVY) this graphic novel about Salem is 😭 I’m obsessed with Giles Corey so I’m IN. MORE WEIGHT: A Salem Story by Ben Wickey, published by @topshelfcomix.bsky.social
I’m doing a module about workplace violence for the bookstore and there is a lot of talk about HORSEPLAY. I haven’t seen this term since I was a kid, one of the posted rules at the swimming pool was NO HORSEPLAY. HORSEPLAY doesn’t even feel like a real word anymore. HORSEPLAY🐴