Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman

Thank you for sharing again and for the discussion! The last podcast post boosted sales of the book, and I’m grateful for that! 💜

ICYMI - I was on a podcast talking about my anti-fascist, dystopian YA novel, WE WERE THE CUCKOO BEES!

age: generally 15+

Thank you!

I’m on a podcast discussing WE WERE THE CUCKOO BEES! 🎧

Thank you for having me on and for sharing!

Don’t forget the attempt to leverage their unauthorized war to promote the need to fund DHS…to terrorize, accost, and kill US residents and citizens by shifting tens of billions more $$$ to fund the secret paramilitary police that is ICE

Promo flyer for my signing. I’m at B&N in Doylestown, PA on 3/14 from 12-2PM. There are bees on the flyer and my face. You’ll see me at the store but no actual bees only books.

It’s OFFICIAL! I’m signing at Barnes & Noble Doylestown on Saturday, March 14th from 12-2PM!

I know it’s true because here is their promo flyer, frighteningly beautiful!

✨WE WERE THE CUCKOO BEES! Dystopian YA✨

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#booksigning #newrelease #ya #dystopian #thriller

I’m in this newsletter, yay! 🎉👇

just rewatched granite state and felina…

100% of dogs in sweater vests love WE WERE THE CUCKOO BEES. It’s science.

#booksky #ya #dystopian #novel #dogsky

Chiqui is keeping her eye on that bee lol! I hope you like it! Let me know either way and thank you!! 🙌

Judge Smales gives Danny Noonan some loose change in Caddyshack…here’s a little something for you, mmm, mmm?

Me giving you 99¢ to buy WE WERE THE CUCKOO BEES for your Kindle

#booksky

We Were the Cuckoo Bees We Were the Cuckoo Bees - Kindle edition by Shifman, R.B.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading We Were the Cuckoo Bees.

🎉Hooray again! My anti-fascist, near-future dystopian YA novel, WE WERE THE CUCKOO BEES, is in the world! 🎉

It's FREE on KU. Try a few sample chapters: amzn.to/4r54pBN

Pick it up at @doylestownbookshop.bsky.social site and @barnesandnoble.com.

Anti-fascists Rock! #booksky
#books #ya #dystopian

Today, 02/25/2026, We Were the Cuckoo Bees reclaims the #1 spot among new releases in Teen and YA Government and Politics Fiction!

Today, 02/25/2026, We Were the Cuckoo Bees sits in the #12 spot among ALL BOOKS in Teen and YA Government and Politics Fiction. 8 of the top-11 spots are held by mega-bestselling series novels by Sabaa Tahir or Megan Whalen Turner.

✨WE WERE THE CUCKOO BEES is #1 among new releases in Teen Political Fiction on Amazon!✨

It’s #12 among ALL books in this category! (Almost all the books ahead of it are by mega-bestsellers Sabaa Tahir or Megan Whalen Turner)

#newrelease #ya #novel #dystopian

Thank you!

Thank you for everything, Bill! I hope you like it 💜

@btwnthelinespub.bsky.social sorry no room to tag you in this post, my wonderful publisher.

We Were the Cuckoo Bees We Were the Cuckoo Bees - Kindle edition by Shifman, R.B.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading We Were the Cuckoo Bees.

🎉Hooray! My anti-fascist, near-future dystopian YA novel, WE WERE THE CUCKOO BEES, is in the world! 🎉

It's FREE on KU. Try a few sample chapters: amzn.to/4r54pBN

Pick it up at @doylestownbookshop.bsky.social site and @barnesandnoble.com. Will be at both Doylestown stores soon.

Anti-fascists Rock!

Questions Persist While Quakertown Students Remain in Police Custody| “Upper Bucks United & our broader community are in a state of shock. The videos & firsthand accounts...depict deeply disturbing scenes that no child should ever have to witness,” said Laura Foster-co-founder of Upper Bucks United.

Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing.

These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted.

Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

Thank you, Steve! For everything!

I dk maybe that’s the issue lol

Do other people comment on their own posts in the hopes it boosts the algorithm?

We Were the Cuckoo Bees We Were the Cuckoo Bees - Kindle edition by Shifman, R.B.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading We Were the Cuckoo Bees.

99 CENTS on KINDLE — for the next 3 DAYS!

Please purchase

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A snapshot of Amazon Hot New Releases in the YA politics category. WE WERE THE CUCKOO BEES by RB Shifman is #1!

🔥 #1 in category on Amazon for new releases! 🔥 WE WERE THE CUCKOO BEES, available for pre-order now

This was something to wake up to!

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#YA #bookstagram #dystopian #bestseller

TILT by Emma Pattee. Highly recommend. This is a book so rich in description, metaphor, action, humanity, and heartbreak that 200 pages felt like 400 pages—in the best way. Through flashbacks, the story compares and contrasts the explosive force of a real-time apocalypse with the slow burn of the apocalypse that is the narrator’s unraveling life, up to and including that fateful day. Everything is cast as destined, the earthquake surfacing wounds and birthing deep, agonizing truths as it breaks the earth and permanently alters the world.

There are earthquakes and there are slow tectonic shifts that alter the landscape of our lives. This book, TILT, blends them with such force that your world as a reader is sure to be upended. Read this novel. It will be the most powerful story you’ve read in a while, I promise.

Highly recommend.

Finally saw Predator: Badlands. I like the tie-in to the Alien franchise/ Alien: Earth & cheering for Predator.

However, PREY remains my favorite Predator movie. Love the historic setting, Naru’s bold character arc, her brother’s heroism, & how it pits cunning and agility vs. technology and force.

lol 🐍

‘vomit’ is a perfect word choice here

UNBOXING THE BEES!!!

Watch me unbox author copies of my anti-fascist, near-future dystopian YA novel, WE WERE THE CUCKOO BEES, set in an alternate version of Doylestown, PA and inspired by the CBSD struggles of 2021-2023.
Pub date: 02/24/2026!!!
#novel #dystopian #ya

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