My pick of the new children's books for February include titles from @barringtonstoke.bsky.social @chickenhousebooks.bsky.social @farshorebooks.bsky.social @neonsquid.bsky.social @rossmontgomery.bsky.social @garypanton.co.uk @solarrsystem.bsky.social #LucyStrange

my second book is out in the world today!! still does not feel real but here we are :-)

How To Survive On The Moon is out in the US now! Astronaut approved! Written by the incredibly smart @solarrsystem.bsky.social and published by Neon Squid!

2025 career goal: land something on the Moon as gracefully as possible 🫡

the constant urge to want to write a sci-fi book but also having the continuous reminder that i only have 24 hours in a day

it’s december which means it’s almost 2025 which means this awesome thing is almost out in the world :-)))

helloooooooooo

I wanna write books for the rest of my life

gave myself food poisoning by eating expired salmon, AMA

keeping things vague as to not jinks anything, but i am celebrating super awesome grad school news 😎

rare image of my cat Case letting me take a selfie with him (he actually asked me, in human english, to take the photo believe it or not)

we need to intensely study the phenomena of how the PEMDAS argument manages to pop up so frequently and ruins our lives for like a day

i need ppl to know that i ran for 20 minutes for the first time ever in my life (like a month or so ago i could barely run for half a minute) 🥲 baby steps, baby steps

I’ve made it my main 2024 goals to finally get into rowing as a sport and get my pilots license 🙏🏾 (mind you these were my 2023 goals)

presented without comment

tired: wanting to become an astronaut to float in microgravity wired: wanting to become an astronaut to distance myself from as much people as possible on the Moom

just recently discovered my love for epistolary novels, easiest way to make reading even more fun

Maturing and growing up is realizing that filling every ounce of your free time with a personal project is the quickest way to burn out 🥲🥲

Too many goals, too many wants, too many possibilities, too little of time

someone remind me when I told myself that juggling a full time job, graduate school, and writing books would a good, fine idea 🥲

playing Starfield is just reminding me how terrible I am at video games, let’s be happy I am not operating an interstellar battleship in real life

I had a dream that after checking in for my flight at the airport, the attendant turned the computer screen around to show me this

on this note, i have multiple invite codes that are collecting dust! please message me on twitter as well if you’d like one to give someone else :-)

I’m only a week in but it is safe to say that I am HIGHLY enjoying grad school so far :-)

just finished Golden Son by Pierce Brown…no one talk to me rn

on monday I start my Master’s degree in space mining and I have to remind myself that this is real life and not just an episode of a 70s sci-fi show

sometimes I have to really remind myself that I’m an author with a published book out in the world, how crazy is that

who wouldve thought that landing on the moon is much easier said than done

books have been acquired this saturday afternoon @70sscifiart.bsky.social

Only when researching for a book or at 3 AM in the morning would I google “how long to walk from seattle to chicago”, there are no inbetweens

I’m going to now mainly just post space history and my writing endeavors, hope you all enjoy the ride

my toxic trait is dropping one good book idea to delve deep into another supposedly great book idea

I think I want to post more spaceflight history stuff on here, paired with my own reflections since there is so much to unpack in this industry (especially from the POC perspective)

Oh don’t mind me, just having my weekly existential thought about how small we are and how big the universe is 🥲

it truly is the same vibes as “my dad gave me a loan of a million dollars to get me started”

WE WILL RELEASE A NEW TWITTER CLONE EVERY HOUR UNTIL OUR DEMANDS ARE MET

“find me on this new platform” i type as I weep onto my phone’s keyboard

After going on a nearly 6 mile hike, I have to say that people who go on hikes are insane. You’re insane. Why do you all do this to yourselves

I absolutely love the science community purely because it’s a group of people so so excited about just building foundational knowledge. just trying to figure out how everything around us works. amazing

I can’t believe I’m saying this but I am incredibly excited to start graduate school in a couple of months :-)))

I’m now more easily convinced getting lost in the ocean is much worse than getting lost in space

I wish the curse of doing research for and writing hard sci-fi on no one 🥲

Just found out there’s a wikipedia app…no one talk to me for the next few days

We need so much more love for the ice giants in general, always either forgotten or the butt of the joke smh smh

Paper on the arxiv claiming that Betelgeuse could plausibly blow up any decade now https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00287

Met someone today and one of the first questions they asked me (unprompted) was whether I own a dog or a cat due to the large amount of white hair sticking to my black sweater

Long weekends are deadly because I always manage to forget nearly all aspects of how to do my job over the course of three days

Once I find the motivation to actually write this book, it is over for everyone

City living is waking up to random yelling down the street. who needs roosters when you have the hagglers of Seattle??

Something inside me is telling me to take two weeks of PTO and just finish writing this book