Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day! 🏴‍☠️ Find out your pirate name! www.piratequiz.com And check out these amazing sea shanties: www.instagram.com/sailnorthmus... #talklikeapirate #talklikeapirateday

What a JOY to celebrate my "Pub[lication] Day" on Thurs at @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social in 3 Writers’ Hours w/ 400-500 writers!! Shared a bit about my #kidlit picture book, writing-for-hire, & Reading Partners. 🎉🥳 readingpartners.org readingpartners.org/blog/cover-t... @angelapadron.bsky.social

Stella wants to send everyone a SMILE😁 today! 💕

Sounds incredible! ✊

Sub opp for #amwriting #chapterbook and younger #MGnovels!

It was an honor to write this nonfiction #picturebook "Bringing About Change: Making a Difference Through Activism" for Reading Partners’ wonderful literacy program+Cover to Cover series, & to work with talented editor @angelapadron.bsky.social! #kidlit #writingcommunity #author #activism ✊

Looking for a children’s book illustrator who illustrates in a traditional style (watercolor, by hand or digital) & who can draw ducks in action, specifically ducks playing baseball. Please drop images of duck illustrations here and portfolio links. #kidlitart

☕️s headed your way! Thank you @debbieohi.com for all you do for the #kidlit #writingcommunity 💛🦋

I will not—ever—give up the em dash. #allemdashesaremyown #savetheemdash #ArtistIntelligence #emdashstrong

Whether your manuscript is just a little musty or completely mummified in cobwebs, unwrap the HEART of your old story with #kidlitzombieweek 2025 Want a HEAD start? See what past donors had to say about how to bring a dead story back to life: sites.google.com/view/kidlit-... #WriterSky #KidLit

Introducing our new fur baby:🌟Stella🌟 We adopted 7yo Stella 3 weeks ago. She's intelligent, eager to please, a bundle of energy, full of personality, snuggly, & very in-tune with my moods. She’s always trying to read me & gazes into my eyes for a long time, not breaking eye contact. 😍🥰❤️🌟

#Kidlit friends 💔 Please share this far and wide Our dear friend, Trenise Sabin, was the victim of a major burglary over the weekend. She and her husband Travis have lost everything— from clothing and appliances to irreplaceable items from their recent wedding and the urn gofund.me/ce50d993

I’m incredibly honored and grateful that @msmarianayagam.bsky.social selected me as her #PBRisingStars Runner-Up and gifted me with a #PB critique! Thank you, Maria! And thank you @pbrisingstars.bsky.social Team! ⭐️ #kidlit #writingcommunity

An Honorable Mention! 😊 A srsly late THANK YOU to @viviankirkfield.bsky.social & #50PreciousWords judges! These words poured out, an attempt to take my anger & frustration—at state of nation & world—& channel➡️positive feelings & actions. (All while figuring out how to make #kidlit-friendly!)

As far as we are aware, these are the pitch events happening in May on BlueSky! May 7th - #QuestPit (@questpit.bsky.social) May 23rd - #WIPPit (@wippit.bsky.social) May 31st - #SEAsianPit (@seasianpit.bsky.social) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmWriting #AmQuerying #AmAgenting #LitAgents

I’m on BlueSky 🦋for all things #kidlit. Last week I Liked a kidlit acquaintance’s post about something pol itical with only a few Likes. And since then, I’ve been inundated with Follows from dozens and dozens of po liti cal accts. This happening to anyone else?

I just saw the proof for my work-for-hire NF PB about activism for kids and I can't wait to share, when I am allowed! ✊

Completed 10 hrs of LWS #24hourwritingsprint! Wrote a chapter for MG Mystery novel Plotted Brainstormed Replotted (is that a word?) Trashed my 1st 3 chapters Wrote almost 1,000 new words. Sounds like I went backwards in those 24 hours...but I'm excited about the new direction. Feels like progress!

Enjoyed the 1st hour of London Writers' Salon #24hourwritingsprint. #Amwriting new #mgnovel in fave @scrivenerapp & it was an honor to have the amazing @stevenpressfield.bsky.social (The War of Art) write alongside us! 23 hours (& lots of prizes!) left if you want to join (free): lu.ma/yrj3omix

Happy 1 yr Book Birthday to Untangling Hope!! So proud of Johnna Richard Stein! Highly recommend this incredible MG novel about foster care. (Oh! And you just might see someone you know in the Acknowledgments at the end of the book.😉)

#50PreciousWords: This year, I donated Yellow Butterflies by Ukrainian author/illus, Oleksandr Shatokhin. Stunning & gorgeous PB about war & hope. Hopefully more entrants are able to donate. Let’s flood CLiF w/ books! 📚📚📚Would love to hear what YOU donated & why. @viviankirkfield.bsky.social

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

As I lean into a "sense of the delightfully irresistible," my joy this week has been Pip Watch for Big Bear Lake's eagle pair, Jackie & Shadow. Three eggs this year. And early this morning, two eaglets hatched! 😍 www.youtube.com/live/B4-L2nf...

writing is a form of resistance, persistence sowing seeds of hope #HaikuSaturday #Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #Poetry #Haiku #PoetryCommunity #KidLit

I always enjoy reading everyone's #50PreciousWords entries. The creativity in #kidlit stories that can be told in just 50 words is pretty incredible. Thank you, @viviankirkfield.bsky.social, for all your time and energy in hosting this wonderful contest. And thank you, judges!

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs. Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.” Madeleine L’Engle might have been the first person to teach me that my anger was a superpower.

Our hearts are crushed. This week we had to say goodbye to Kendall, our precious 13yo fur baby. 💔😭

Thank you, @taralazar.bsky.social and article contributors for another fantastic #StoryStorm! ☂️ Loved having a positive, productive focus for this tough January! Until next year! 🌂 #picturebooks #kidlit #kidlitcommunity #writingcommunity

Great opportunity for a great cause!

Thrilled for my first work-for-hire nonfiction picture book contract!! A big shoutout to my #SCBWI RA @melissajmiles.bsky.social for her informative @scbwi-sobreeze.bsky.social Shop Talk on creative ways to become a published author. #kidlit #writingcommunity #latepost...

#BluePit is coming! Jan 13! Open to #writingcommunity as well as peeps in the #gamedev, #ttrpg, and #comic worlds. It's a hype event, but #agents and their #MSWL ideas are welcome! Warm up those pitches! #booksky

☂️ #StoryStorm ☂️ is such a fun (& free!) way to start off the year. #Kidlit #writers you still have 2 days to register (1/7) to get in on the collective wisdom, brainstorming picture books, & prizes! I've got my umbrella open, 'cuz it's already raining ideas! taralazar.com/2024/12/27/s...

I forget about this tradition every year until it’s too late…(*adds to 2025 calendar). 📖🎄☕️🔥

Message of the winterberry: in the bleakest of times, be fabulous

Thrilled for my Inkcredible CP @kaninikidlit.bsky.social and A Kite For Easter!! 🪁

Pumped up on adrenaline, coffee, synergy, and community. And also 🫠 Hosted: 3 hours Attended: 11 hours Total: 14 hours of the #24hourwritingsprint with the amazing London Writers’ Salon!

Back at the London Writers’ Salon #24hourwritingsprint! It’s Hour 19 and I’ve logged 9 hours thus far! Incredibly motivating sitting online with hundreds of people all around the world making serious progress on our writing projects.

I’m 6 hours into the London Writers’ Salon #24hourwritingsprint!! And I think I need to break for the night. 😴 I’ll be back hosting Hour 18 (7am ET) and writing for the final hours. ✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️

How fun that over 3,000 #writers are registered! See you this weekend! #writingcommunity

Bluesky right now feels a little like all the Whos gathering to sing after the Grinch stole their floofloovers and jingtinglers.

#WRITERS! As a Host for the international London Writers' Salon, I'd like to invite you to "24-Hour Writing Sprint: A Day of Writing Around The World!" Free, via Zoom. Come for 1 hour or all 24 hours(!!) Register here: lu.ma/n278bt91 & hope to see you there! #writingcommunity

Interesting #publishing job opp! Job info and how to apply: littlepresspublishing.com #kidlit #writingcommunity

😊 It was a joy helping edit Johnna Stein’s MG novel: Untangling Hope. a.co/d/cIPvBAG #kidlit #middlegradebooks #writingcommunity

THE PANTS GO MARCHING one-by-one…wait, what? Pants, with a P?! Precisely! With a humorous twist to the popular song, this counting rhyme is dressed in fun—Hurrah! Hurrah!! #C #rhyming #humor #skypitch

Noble the pine tree’s dream of finding his firever home & shining as a Christmas Tree finally came true! But when the post-holiday blues set in, Noble discovers that his ultimate purpose may be in his repurposing. #environmental #STEM #holiday #humor #heart #skypitch

Get ready, #skypitch is happening on Wednesday. boringstorybook.com/skypitch/

I feel like the Bluesky principles include “The devil doesn’t need more advocates,” “Don’t yuck someone else’s yum,” and “If you don’t like it, just mute it and move on.”

Do you know a kidlit/YA person new to Bluesky? Here are starting resources that might help, pls see full thread 👇🏼 My take on social media Quick tips + templates My Bluesky how-to videos KidLit Authors & Illustrators On Bluesky Kate Messner's KidLit Community list cont'd

#writingcommunity --I finally took the Bluesky plunge! Where are all my #kidlit peeps? (Do we say peeps anymore? Probably not. For a long time, I'm betting.) Anyway, hi! Who's here?