Jenny B. Jones

Award-winning YA & romance author of A Sugar Creek Christmas & Can't Let You Go. Loves ice cream, artful sarcasm, & Jesus. YA librarian by day!

[Baseball @mlbelites_]

The Phillies made a hype video for their ballboy and it is the greatest thing ever 👏

[Jenny B. Jones @JenBJones]

@JenniferShirk Congratulations @JenniferShirk ! Thats awesome.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

There is something deeply wrong with a country that chooses to make running for their lives part of kids’ back to school ritual.

When we finally passed a gun safety bill in 2022, mass shooting began to drop.

But it was an unacceptably small start. We must do more.

[Mel Brooks @MelBrooks]

I told you we’d be back

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

It’s a mistake to outsource most writing to AI.

Even if the output is accurate and engaging, something valuable is lost in the process. Jotting down intuitions and spelling out hunches is how we develop and refine our ideas.

Writing is where we do our best thinking.

[Jenny B. Jones @JenBJones]

I loved this honest post @holly_schindler Thanks for sharing with us.

[Holly Schindler @holly_schindler]

Today, it's the full story on my living arrangements AND a bit about learning to respect all my characters, even the minor ones:
https://t.co/GZb41w9FIu

#writinglife #writingjourney #writingcommunity #characterdevelopment #CharacterArcs

[Daniella Greenbaum Davis @DGreenbaum]

80 years ago today, April 15th 1945, my grandmother Masha Greenbaum was liberated from the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen by the British Army.

She never got over the sight of the first British soldier whose tank rolled into the camp. He got out, stared at the pile of dead and dying bodies, and began to weep.

"He came from the fight, he came from the struggle, but he had never seen anything like Bergen Belsen."

The footage and reports from Belsen shocked the world and revealed the full extent of Nazi brutality.

Masha died earlier this year - its the first April 15th i'm commemorating without her. It's also the first Passover I had since her death. Our seders were always led by the men of the family - first my grandfather, then my dad. But when we got to the section "Avadim Hayinu" - we were slaves in Egypt, my grandmother would take over.

She would tell us how 2 weeks before liberation, she and her mother, and her sister, sat in the filth of Belsen, no books, no wine, no matzah, but they would sing whatever they remembered from memory. And when they got to "we were slaves" they kept singing, even though they were slaves, and God had not yet freed them.

Many survivors were quiet from the time of liberation until the Eichmann trial, which in many ways was the dam breaking - it normalized survivor testimony and thousands who had been silent began speaking. But Masha began documenting her story and educating people about the Shoah right away. Her earliest writings appeared in the Yiddish journal "Unzer Shteime" - which was put together by the survivors of Belsen in the British-run DP camp.

Masha went on to get a masters degree in Jewish history-- a subject she knew and lived. She authored three books- "A Window into Hell," "Hope at the Edge of the Abyss," and "The Jews of Lithuania."

Approximately 90–95% of Lithuanian Jewry was killed during the Holocaust.

Before World War II, there were around 220,000 to 250,000 Jews living in Lithuania. By the end of the Holocaust, only about 10,000–15,000 remained. This makes Lithuania one of the countries with the highest percentage loss of its Jewish population during the Holocaust.

Three of those survivors were my grandmother Masha, her sister Shoshana, and her mother Judith. One of the Lithuanian Jews killed during the holocaust was my great-grandfather, Masha's father, Sholem Ralsky. He was in his forties.

Passover is the holiday of liberation. Fitting that this year, the first Passover without her, the anniversary of her freedom comes during the holiday.

[PWKidsBookshelf is now on Bluesky @PWKidsBookshelf]

Majority of attempts to ban books in U.S. come from organized groups, not parents | The Guardian https://t.co/l1dZXcpmjj

[Tom Vaughan @storyandplot]

A strong midpoint makes your screenwriting significantly easier. I look for these four traits:

1. It’s emotional.
2. Involves the dramatic question.
3. Feels like a victory or a defeat.
4. The last gasp of the protagonist's old self.

If I hit all four, I'm in great shape.

[Will Watson @willwatson]

We have a President
We have Johnny Cash
We have Arkansas diamonds and Derbies
We have Maya and Rosetta and Mrs. Bates
We have Wright’s Barbecue
We have a Delta and the Ozarks and Ouachitas

We say it ARKANSAW

And we dance in Sweet Sixteens. 😤

[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

I ask you to be vigilant against the temptation to cultivate a warlike spirit. Be vigilant lest you be poisoned by propaganda that instils hatred, divides the world into friends to be defended and foes to be fought.

[Sara Rosett @SaraRosett]

My new podcast, How I Met My Kdrama, has over 100 downloads!
Thanks for listening and helping the podcast get off to a great start!
I appreciate every download, comment, and share!

https://t.co/gthDt7itWN

[mike luckovich @mluckovichajc]

I kept changing my mind which Jimmy Carter cartoon i should go with. Here's all three.

[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

12 years ago, 20 first-graders and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. They should still be with us—finishing their first semester of college, teaching, laughing, and making new memories.

We must honor their memory with action that addresses gun violence.

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

Canada, you may hear loud bangs coming from the basement for the next month or so. Don't worry about it. Just make sure the door is shut and locked.

[K-Pop Semen Hunter @EmilioEmm]

Not to start political drama on the timeline but why is the queen of another government voting in our election????

[Tamara @TamIWas]

I hope Teri Garr, Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, and Madeline Kahn are having the most epically funny reunion the afterlife has ever seen.

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

This AMAZING. North Carolina Central University hosted a “Soar to the Polls” with a marching band & just look at how many young people showed up to soar to the polls. This is why we’re going to win. These young people are going to save us.

[James Bryant @JamesBryantWX]

Incredible picture of twilight at Lake Nimrod with Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS front and center.

Great photo from Tom Hallum. Wow! #ARWX #comet

[History Photographed @HistoryInPics]

A man browses for books in the old Public library of Cincinnati. The building was demolished in 1955. Today an office building and a parking lot stand where it used to be.