#RWLWritingTip Find stillness. Find a piece of nature. Walk away from your phone. Keep nothing but a notebook and a pen. Write whatever comes to you, and don’t look back to edit. Just keep going. #writingtips #writingexercise #bookeditor #writesky

Cozy editing day. #bookeditor #kidlit #bestjobever

If you can go to a Phil & Erin Stead event, do! You will learn abt. publishing, the art of making a beautiful book, &that, when a reader truly loves a story, “it becomes more theirs than it is ours.” Celebrating A SNOW DAY FOR AMOS MCGEE (@mackidsbooks.bsky.social) at @literatibookstore.bsky.social.

Love my @picadorbooks.bsky.social / @fsgbooks.bsky.social pocket edition of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping. Beautiful and devastating. Read it when you’re feeling emotionally stable or at your own risk. #bookeditor #bookrecs #firesidereading

Congratulations, @rebeccamorrison.bsky.social! So well-deserved! ❤️👏🏻❤️👏🏻

First snowfall of the year! #autumnsnow

So grateful that I got my annual reunion with my publishing besties this summer! Just yesterday, erm 17 years ago, Krista, Jessica, & I were baby assistants together @randomhousekids.bsky.social. @chelseaeberly.bsky.social, we missed our fourth musketeer. Next time! #bookpublishing #bffs #booksky

#RWLWritingTip Find a way to make your writing space somewhere you want to go. #writingtip #bookeditor #booksky #writesky Flowers from Raindance Farm Flowers

Missing this summer’s view but so happy to be starting autumn with a middle-grade manuscript in hand. #summersend #sunset #bookeditor #booksky

Hello, old friends. Nothing beats boats and books. #summer #boats #nancydrew

My friend Amanda Uhle wrote a beautiful, funny, compassionate memoir, out now @simonandschuster.bsky.social. Highly recommend for fans of The Glass Castle! 1. Celebrating 2. Interview @aadl.bsky.social w/Davy Rothbart 3. Pre-ordered @literatibookstore.bsky.social 4. ❤️ #memoir #newrelease #booksky

#RWLWritingTip If you’re having trouble staying motivated, find a writing partner to hold you to account. Check in once a day or week or month. If you know you have to tell someone what you’ve done, you’ll do more. #bookeditor #freelanceeditor #writingtips

Belatedly sharing my delight that the second Mo Seto novel is out in the world. Congrats, @aychanwrites.bsky.social & @simonkids.bsky.social! There is even more action-packed fun, with all our favorite characters—treat yourself! #thelegendarymoseto #martialartsstar #kidlit #taekwando #booksky

#RWLWritingTip Stop asking yourself what other people want to read and start asking what you want to. What will make you excited to sit in front of the computer every day? Write the story you want to read. The story you need to exist. #bookeditor #freelanceeditor #writingtips #writesky #booksky

When you shop at a bookstore vs Amazon, instead of buying four things you don’t actually need, you’ll end up with four books that can change your life.

Thanks to those who crafted and signed. I’m with you. #booksky #writingcommunity

Outdoor editing is the best editing! Sometimes, after nearly two decades as a #bookeditor, I still can’t believe that I get to make a living by reading stories all day long. #freelanceeditor #dreamjob #summer #booksky

#RWLWritingTip Say yes to bad ideas. Stop thinking of your ideas as bad. Stop thinking about your ideas. Stop thinking about thinking. Just write it all down. #writingtips #bookeditor #freelanceeditor

#RWLWritingTip Don’t let yourself be held back by the seeds of the story you thought you were writing. If something else more exciting starts to bloom in its place, give it room to grow. #writingtips #bookeditor #freelanceeditor

A deliciously quite lunch with my friend Vladimir at Miriam UWS. #bookeditor #nyc #nabokov @vintagebooks.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

Highlights from the #USBookShow in #NYC: 1. Dear friends @juliescheina.com & @editorsangeeta.bsky.social 2. Picnicking 3. CEO panel: Karp (@simonschuster.bsky.social), Shelley (@hachetteuk.bsky.social @hachetteus.bsky.social), Segura (@publisherswkly.bsky.social) 4. Brunch, @johnmcusick.bsky.social

You said it, @juliescheina.com. I will never be interested in reading fiction that did not come from a human mind, heart, soul.

It never gets old, seeing a book that I had a small part in bringing into the world, on a shelf or in a kid’s hands. Here is the fabulous #TheLegendaryMoSeto by @aychanwrites.bsky.social, in the wild and in good company, at @schulerbooks.bsky.social. #kidlit #booksky @simonkids.bsky.social

NYC, I am coming back to you! Publishing friends, I’ll be in town 6/2-6/4 for the Book Fair. Let me know if you’ll be around—I’d love to see you! ❤️🗽Photo credit: me, circa 2011, the one time in nearly ten years I bothered to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. #nyc #bookeditor #brooklynbridge #booksky

#RWLWritingTip Having trouble getting into a writing groove? Set aside the same time every day. Some days you’ll write, some days you’ll stare lifelessly out the window. But the more consistently you show up, the more consistently the writing will flow. #writingtip #bookeditor #writing

As a developmental #bookeditor, my main job is to recognize a writer’s vision, find what is at the heart of the story, and draw it out. I am fueled by the desire to help others’ labors of love become fully realized. #freelanceeditor #booksky

What greater pleasure is there than walking amongst shelves filled with stories, selecting one or twenty, and returning home to curl up and read? Thank you, @literatibookstore.bsky.social, West Side Book Shop, @shopbooksweet.bsky.social, & @schulerbooks.bsky.social. #IndependentBookstoreDay #booksky

So excited for this beautiful story to have its beautiful cover! One step closer to this being out in the world, @rebeccamorrison.bsky.social! 💙🥂 #booksky #kidlit

THE MONA LISA VANISHES is an engrossing work of #middlegrade nonfiction that reads like fiction, as we discover the details of the real-life theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. @randomhousekids.bsky.social @rhcbschoollibrary.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #bookrec #kidlit #booksky

#RWLWritingTip Sit in the beauty around you and really see it. Describe it in a way that feels more true than accurate. #bookeditor #writingtips #booksky

#RWLWritingTip Want to show why two characters are right for each other? Make them intriguing and irresistible. If readers can’t help falling for your characters, they won’t wonder why the characters are falling for each other. P.S. Witty banter never hurts. #writingtips #bookeditor #booksky

I had so much fun at Rose’s school, where I got to bring in a book to read aloud. I picked a special one—the first NATE THE GREAT—and the kids loved it. Fun fact: Mama wrote the back cover copy during her @randomhousekids.bsky.social days! @rhcbschoollibrary.bsky.social #bookeditor #kidlit #booksky

I enjoyed the gentle storytelling in THE WILD ROBOT, as well as the subtle themes of nature & machines, wilderness & civilization, community & solitude, & empathy. I am so glad that I finally read this much-loved story. #bookeditor #kidlit #booksky @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @littlebrown.bsky.social

Every day is Boycott Amazon Day.

#RWLWritingTip Use dialogue, not just to impart information, but to develop characters and relationships. How a person speaks says a lot about that character, and the way in which two people interact can reveal much about their relationship. #bookeditor #writingtips #showdonttell #booksky

Portrait of a #bookeditor who has just finished a big edit and is heading into a snowy weekend with her two little bookworms. #freelanceeditor #weekendvibes #booksky

Happy Snow Day! Hope you are spending it writing under a blanket whilst guzzling massive amounts of hot chocolate. #bookeditor #freelanceeditor

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In The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Fowles seamlessly interweaves a romantic story in Victorian England, including its several endings, with the narrator’s contemporary take. Beautiful and mesmerizing, brilliant and heartbreaking. @littlebrown.bsky.social @hachetteus.bsky.social #bookeditor #bookrec

#RWLWritingTip Early on in the writing process, it can be hard to pick a direction. Some are better than others. But there isn’t just one right way your story can go. At a certain point, it’s about picking a path and keeping on down it. #writingtips #bookeditor #freelanceeditor

Congratulations to all the honorees of this year’s Youth Media Awards! Thank you to ALA members & library professionals everywhere who pour their passion, time & dedication into finding the very best books & media for their communities. Your work matters.📚 #ALAYMA ilovelibraries.org/article/2025...

Respite from the storm(s), @literatibookstore.bsky.social. #indiebookstore #calm

Editing by the hearth whilst the snow gently falls. #bookeditor #freelanceeditor #happyplace

Important announcement! #bookeditor #freelanceeditor

Editing by the fire on this coldest of winter days. #bookeditor #freelanceeditor #fireside

Current stash. Current obsession. @theochocolate.bsky.social #darkchocolate #editingfuel #chocoholic

#RWLWritingTip Leave your desk, leave your phone, play in the #snow, race down a hill, rediscover your sense of childlike wonder. Your imagination will thank you. #writingtip #bookeditor #freelanceeditor

Hello, Universe by @erinentrada.bsky.social is a perfect snowy-day read. I loved this sweet, slice of life #middlegrade story about a unique cast of characters and the heartwarming friendships they form. #bookeditor #bookrec @harperkids.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social

Happy New Year! After a joy-filled break with our little family reading by the fire, throwing dance parties, and going on snowy walks in the woods, I am back at my desk, pen in hand. My spring schedule is open—send me your stories! #amediting #bookeditor #freelanceeditor

Dear Friends, Happy Holidays! I hope that you get the chance to rest and reset. I will be spending as much time as possible seated by the fire, reading just for fun. I look forward to picking up my editorial pen again in the new year, perhaps with your manuscript on my desk. Cheers! Rebecca