Michael Northrop

NY Times–bestselling author of kids’ books @Scholastic & graphic novels @DCOfficial. Starting a new chapter w/ a mystery for adults in ‘26! Rep’d by Sara Crowe

[Michael Northrop @mdnorthrop]

Stop the presses! Young Alfred: Pain in the Butler is on the cover of @PublishersWkly! We kind of *are* the cover this week 😎 Congrats to @slotfi & @kendallgoode—you guys really served that one up on a silver platter 🍽️ Out 8/1 from @DCOfficial!

[Molly🎧🏳️‍🌈 @RasberryRazz]

Good excuse to post one of my favorite jokes in cartoon history

[Michael Northrop @mdnorthrop]

I am the only person at this Brooklyn coffee shop who was alive when this Steely Dan song came out. Like ten of them weren’t born yet and I am pretty sure the 11th was a vampire already by then

[Michael Northrop @mdnorthrop]

I used to be confuse discrete and discreet all the time, using the former when I meant the latter, etc. I kept seeing other people doing it too. It felt like no one knew.

Then I found the cure. Just write a cozy mystery. The whole damn village is discreet! #writingcommunity

[MLB @MLB]

"He's a menace ... I WANT SPIDER-MAN!"

J.K. Simmons is at the Mets game tonight and ran into a familiar face 😂

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

disregard | verb | to pay no attention to : treat as unworthy of regard or notice

[Michael Northrop @mdnorthrop]

Moving again, and I think it’s finally time to let go of my huge, Y2K era, “History Will Mock Them!!!!” stack of rejection letters. Everything from query letters to poetry journals, kept for 2+ decades out of pure spite! 😂 #writingcommunity #authorlife

[Koala Quill @KoalaQuillHQ]

Writers are told to "build a platform," as if the solution to being ignored as an author is to become ignored as a content creator instead.

[Michael Northrop @mdnorthrop]

Nobody’s on nobody’s side. But I’m on yours: If you can, you should #Broadway #Chessthemusical #LeaMichele

[Michael Northrop @mdnorthrop]

So, uh, the actual pub. date is Dec. 1. Now that the first galling mistake has been found, I declare this tweet official!

[Michael Northrop @mdnorthrop]

📢 My 17th book! My ADULT DEBUT!!
THE BIRDER MURDER, a Figman Files Mystery, coming Dec. 6 from @crookedlanebks!!! Guys, I can’t even tell you. Years of work, a lifetime of reading mysteries. So so soooo excited for this one! #writingcommunity #cozymystery 🐦🔪🎉

[Michael Northrop @mdnorthrop]

📢 My 17th book! My ADULT DEBUT!!
THE BIRDER MURDER, a Figman Files Mystery, coming Dec. 6 from @crookedlanebks!!! Guys, I can’t even tell you. Years of work, a lifetime of reading mysteries. So so soooo excited for this one! #writingcommunity #cozymystery 🐦🔪🎉

[Michael Northrop @mdnorthrop]

@BiancaTuretsky @crookedlanebks Thanks so much, Bianca!

[The Dark Side @FantasyGalaxies]

"Things may be tough now, but there's always light at the end of the tunnel."

The light at the end of the tunnel:

[Ethel Braithwaite @Ethelbrait1941]

Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.

[Alastair Thomson @FinanceDirCFO]

The easiest way is not to use AI at all...

[Michael Northrop @mdnorthrop]

Tonight’s sunset, Queens, NYC

[Rob L. White (‘Cuddle’ Short Film OUT NOW!!) @therlwrites]

IT WAS CALLED THE SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR AND THEY BROUGHT THE BOOKS TO THE SCHOOL AND SET IT UP LIKE A BOOKSTORE AND YOU COULD GET GOOSEBUMPS AND FEAR STREET BOOKS BUT ALSO MICHAEL JORDAN POSTERS AND NICKELODEON BOOKMARKS AND PENCILS THAT SMELLED LIKE CUPCAKES

[𝒵𝒾𝓀✯ @_Gottalovezik]

when you deliberately didn't buy snacks to avoid snacking at night, but now it's night & there's no snacks

[Michael Northrop @mdnorthrop]

Hard to pick one favorite line from Tuesday’s fantastic @EdgarAwards Symposium, but I’ll go with @GreggHurwitz: “To me, everything is character. Plot is nothing more than that character in motion through time.” #writingcommunity #characterdriven

[The Spectator @spectator]

AI writing is God-awful. It appears intelligent at first glance, empty at second. It possesses the insufferable buoyancy of a holiday rep. It offers little by way of humour, nothing by way of originality.

But its fatal flaw is the absence of vulnerability. A writer is a person and a person is a mess and, as readers, as people, as messes, we identify with the mess.

Despite its flaws, AI writing is spreading. Literary agents, drowning in submissions, have resorted to disclaimers discouraging AI writing. Literary magazines have done the same. Amazon, meanwhile, has struggled to stem the tide of AI-generated books.

✍️ Ioan Marc Jones

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