I got my badge in the (e)mail for being awarded an honorable mention in the children’s fiction category of @writersdigest.bsky.social 94th Annual Writing Competition! I’m so humbled that out of 3,800 entries, my middle grade novel-in-verse stood out. #wdwinner

Just learned that my upper-MG novel-in-verse, grappling with divorce and addiction and a budding crush, was awarded Honorable Mention in the 94th Annual @writersdigest.bsky.social Writing Competition!

I’m trying to just do art regularly, for fun, and not care about how good it is. So I present my #starterpacknoai because I had to join this trend. Here I am in all my smudgy, scrambled glory.

Some neurodivergents hate folding and putting away laundry. I’m the type that hates putting away groceries. Like, I just spent all my energy FINDING the food and navigating the aisles in a strategic way. Can’t I be done now?

I got home yesterday from the @scbwi Utah/Southern Idaho spring retreat, and promptly took a 2-hour nap. Then I made sushi and pizookie for my kid’s 15th birthday. Today I’m baking gluten-free bread. After that I need a little break from food preparing. 😅

A little snippet about how my YA romcom ending rewrite is going. 🫣🤭

A day at the Great Salt Lake is hot, dry, and stinky. But from the hike, their geological history unfolds across the valley. From the salt-encrusted shores, the ecological imbalance is clear. Across the sands, a young girl marches for the lake—and those who depend on her. #PB #NF #P #QuestPit

15-year-old Addy wants to hone her craft at stop motion camp, but instead finds herself writing poetry with a neighbor boy who lives in her dad's apartment complex on opposite weekends. 📝 Upper MG 📝 Novel-in-verse 📝 Parental addiction 📝 Boundaries 📝 Self-advocacy #MG #P #Q #QuestPit

After a meltdown threatens the friend group dynamic, Berklee is shipped off to summer camp in SoCal. When she falls hard for fellow junior lifeguard, Noah, she learns what it means to be neurodiverse. 🛟 Feminist psych 🛟 HSP 🛟 Anxiety flashbacks 🛟 Summer camp vibes 🛟 Slow burn #YA #RF #Q #QuestPit

Clara’s always wanted the friends-to-romance happy ending, but an unrequited yearbook confession sends her in search of love elsewhere. Humorous attempts at dates leave her with one option: the enemy. 💟 ALL the tropes 💟 Sweet romance 💟 Pet adoption 💟 Life Skills class #YA #R #Q #QuestPit

I forced myself out of the house today to walk to the library. No music. No audiobook. No podcast. Just wind in my hair and thoughts swirling to calm.

We're going to make it through this 🩷💙 Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.

I’m refusing to do a lot of things right now. First and foremost, I’m refusing the give up. heidimrogers.substack.com Next newsletter comes out tomorrow.

Love to see my email signature isn't working/loading AFTER I send a professional email. 🫥

Mine would just be all my hold receipts. 🧾 📖

“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”

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In 2025 I want to get better at posting and commenting here. The problem is I’m not really in the swing of work yet after such a nice break. So for now, you get a pic of my dog, Graceling.

Reposting this guide from twitter because I COOKED here. (and still refer to this at work even now!)

I have one. Hit me up if you know a publisher looking for this age category. (Brief synopsis: heidimrogers.com/stuff-as-dre...)

In times like this, I turn to what I know I can do. I know my consumer habits have power, and I share some ideas about that in my newsletter today: heidimrogers.substack.com I write twice a month: once with nuggets about green living and once about writing. I’d love to you join the conversation.

Happy #VoteEarly Day!

A day at the Great Salt Lake is hot, dry, and stinky. But from the hike, their geological history unfolds across the valley. From the salt-encrusted shores, the ecological imbalance is clear. Across the sands, a young girl marches for the lake—and those who depend on her. #skypitch #NF #L

Basically reposting for myself. (And writer-artist friends I convince to join Bluesky.)

Get ready #kidlitart friends - August 1st is the next #KidLitArtPostcard day. Next Thursday! More info here: www.ginaperry.com/postcard

Resurrecting my June postcard from last year for #KidLitArtPostcard day…pride piggies! I’ve got a crew of neurodivergent guinea pigs starring in their own early reader graphic novel (with series potential). Hit me up if you’d like to see the pitch package!

Here’s a little bit about me, if you’ve found my profile and don’t already know me from other platforms:

I have been struggling to figure this app out and have been kind of tired of socials tbh. Debbie is so so helpful – in a lot of ways, but this post in particular for me today.

She gets her weirdness from me.