You know, maybe I'm weird, but I got kind of excited thinking about this. I think I would it oddly satisfying to make snacks, listen, and watch the writer come out on the other side...! 😆

Today my kiddo and I had a fabulously fun Christmas Carol rehearsal followed by a fun and fabulous Macbeth rehearsal. The only thing more fun than writing is watching your kiddo shine inside a story surrounded by others invested in the same story. It's a beautiful thing. 💝

What this guy said.

Just having a chill night reading notes from my CP and listening to K-Pop Demon Hunters with my distracting cats. 🐱

The Moth King intimidating Sunday with his repulsive horribleness #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FairyTale #Romantasy #AmQuerying

This was the sort of day that made me long to try a sensory deprivation tank. Anyone try one of those before? Are they a little freaky?

Enjoy the wins 🎉

Happy #Caturday and day after Halloween! 🎃 Editing on a holiday is tricky. Especially with pets. And kids. Hope to get more witchy work done on ye olde #WIP tonight. #writingcommunity #amwriting #YA #dystopian #boo

Thanks to all the friendly #GhostPit folks who liked my pitches. It was nice to feel a swelling of community spirit for a day. Keep going, everyone, your stories look terrific! 🧡🦋🧡 #WIP #writingcommunity #kidlit #amwriting

WARCROSS x CINDER x Greek mythology In a future America, where a myth-obsessed tech CEO turns humans into cyborgs, 18yo Sai must use her psychic powers to find her twin sister and free cyborg rebel Eros from a VR Underworld before the CEO programs him to destroy her. #GhostPit #YA #DS #SF #R #E 💘

i will be ~haunting~ the #ghostpit tag tomorrow, if i like your pitch, please send a query my way :)

Psyche & Eros x WARCROSS x CINDER In a future America, where a myth-obsessed tech CEO turns humans into cyborgs, 18yo Sai must use her psychic powers to find her twin sister and free cyborg rebel Eros from a VR Underworld or become a pawn in the CEO’s game forever. #GhostPit #YA #DS #SF #SPEC #E 💘

#amediting #YA Three chapters were bugging me, so I printed them out. Thought I might eviscerate them. But, in the end, they were better than I thought. I read one romantic part to my kiddo. I knew I'd get an eye roll and "That's so cheesy!" if I did it well. Happy to report: kiddo delivered! 🤖💘🏹

1) FRANKENSTEIN was amazing. Guillermo del Toro is a genius with his ❤️ on his sleeve. Mary Shelley is a rockstar. Why the heck didn't they show it in more theaters? 2) I've decided I will start querying my Eros & Psyche x AI romantic dystopian #YA #WIP on Feb 14, 2026. 💘🏹🤖 Goals. Gotta have 'em.

Please help or boost if you're able! One Spirit Lakota is raising funds for the food pantry in anticipation of EBT cards possibly not getting filled for November due to the shutdown. Funds go to feeding residents of Pine Ridge, which already has one of the worst food deserts in the country.

I think this IS an apt metaphor. AND literally what's happening.

Writing a novel is saying "Oh!" in your head about seventy billion times. Some curse words, too, but usually a lot less. 😊 #writingcommunity #WIP #amwriting #kidlit

I know a lot of people who use SNAP. This is a catastrophe.

One of the perks of working on a production of Macbeth with your kiddo is that sometimes said kiddo coaxes you to indulge in a little post-rehearsal hot chocolate. ☕🎉🥰

#MatthewShepard #NeverForget 💜🌈

Happy #Caturday! Why my cats = my #WIP characters: Peri is impulsive. Sticks her tongue out wile sleeping. So, she's like my MC (minus the tongue) 🤺 Selkie understands complex systems, like how to open the treats can. So, she's like my MC's BFF. 🍃 Pepper's on a mission of love. Like my LI. 💘🏹

#WIPSnips The word of the day is #prize. #WIP #YA #dystopian 🏹🤖💘

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment. Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

Back when Twitter was Twitter, I met tons of writers and editors and made connections within the #writingcommunity through pitch contests. Today, half the amazing authors in my international online writers group are folks I met through Twitter. I never would have imagined that was possible. 🥹😔

I watched the entire thing. High stakes kitty story! I'm hooked! 😹

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

Welcome to the world Broken Dolls! Thank you to every reader, teacher, librarian who took the time to check out my book and share with the kids in their life, or the kid in their heart. If you're in NYC, I'm doing an event with @claymcleod.bsky.social and you can meet the haunted dolls!

Best thing that happened this week is that SCARLET MORNING, the next kidlit bestseller #MG #fantasy, came out AND @gingerhaze.bsky.social came to our weird lil beach town and made my kiddo's day by signing her Horde pin. AND she got to introduce him. 💜😭 Can't express how 🤩 we are. BUY THIS BOOK! 🏴‍☠️

Hey #kidlit folks! My 6th grader is studying ancient civilizations such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Rome & Greece. We've got Greece covered (plenty of Percy Jackson), but can you suggest some great #MG fiction that would provide a launching pad for these topics? Thx #writingcommunity!! 😊

When I'm anxious, I often stray to social media for a mental palate cleanser, to think about something else. However, social media rarely offers a respite. I think I'm going to take a short break, because I'd rather direct my energy toward writing, my kiddo, my community, and healthy practices. 🧡

🎉We're baaacckk!!!🎉 RevPit's #10Queries October event opens for submissions October 10! #amwriting #writersky #writersofbluesky

Wow. Has anyone else read this? Such a trip. Many of my MCs are unhoused or close to it, so this book drew me right in. If anyone is looking for a conclusive ending, you won't find it here. But it will suck you into its delirious spell. #amwriting #amreading #SFF #speculative

I was 24 years old on the morning that I heard my 21-year-old niece had died on a plane crashing into a field for political reasons I barely understood at the time. Thus began a period of grief and turmoil and transformation in my family that never really ended. 9/11 and the subsequent 🧵

I can go either way with MG, but I especially like first person with YA. First person present tends to be my preference because I enjoy the level of intimacy and urgency. #kidlitchat

Having fun digging into this one. He was in love with "monsters and skeletons and circuses and carnivals and dinosaurs and, at last, the red planet, Mars." What would my list be? "fairies and merboys and artists and cyborgs and tyrannical queens..." What would your list be? 😊 #writingcommunity

Final word count of THE MYTHOS GAME after the "big" revisions: 94K. Now I get to fine-tune it. 🎉 In recent conversations with an author and an agent, I heard 80K-95K was a good amount right now for querying YA speculative. So, I think I'm in a pretty good spot. #WIP #writingcommunity #amediting

You know how they say write what you know? I think this dystopian #YA #WIP has more "me" in it than any of my previous #MG and #YA manuscripts. Now that I'm revising the final chapter, it's pretty bloody obvious. 😭 It's all good. I'm fine. How are you? #writingcommunity

As we recognize Labor Day this weekend remember that it’s the labor movement and the support for unions that made America a better place. Child labor laws, worker safety, healthcare benefits, and pensions: we owe votes for unions and improved workplaces. This weekend, celebrate the labor movement!

This #MG pirate #WIP needs to see daylight...!! 🏴‍☠️🦜☠️ Pirates plus doughnuts... 🍩😋 #writingcommunity

They're so helpful, aren't they? HAPPY BIRTHDAY, @amynelder.bsky.social!! 🎉☺️

This right here.

You ever write something and think "Who the hell is this person writing this?" That's me with this #YA #WIP. 🙃 In shades of...

It's way past my bedtime, but I'm nearing the end of major revisions, and the chapter I'm re-writing now is flowing. If I wasn't falling asleep, I'd keep going and going and going... #YA #WIP

theonion.com/book-charact... I think I found my new dream job: writing for The Onion! (please, please) 😆

Just wrapped another great Writers Ensemble zoom mtg! We've been meeting, sharing writing, and helping each other improve on Sundays since (drumroll) 2022! 🤯 #amwriting #kidlit #WIP #YA #MG @billeisele.bsky.social @lizzyinlille.bsky.social @uriiswriting.bsky.social and more! 🧡

What music do you use to help you focus, #kidlit folks? For this #YA dystopian #WIP, my spouse got me into Spaceman 3 - Dreamweapon. It's basic, it sets a tone. It is not distracting.

Yeah, you know, just an ordinary Monday hanging with legend Bobby McFerrin plus the spontaneous participation of audience member Jack Black... 🤯 How was your Monday? #monday #amwriting #aminspired #improv

Oof. I just rewrote one of the most challenging chapters I've ever written. It still needs work. But it makes sense now. 😅 Past midnight. Eyelids drooping. Kitties bathing each other with wild abandon. Time to call it a night. "IT'S A NIGHT!" 🌜🌟 #WIP #amwriting #amrevising #YA

Periwinkle (aka Peri) is master of the chill 😹 Happily, she loves belly rubs 😊 Happy last hours of #caturday!