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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · 1d

Vaishali!!! I hope you’re doing well! I’ve been really loving forest therapy walks. Lucky me, I get to guide weekly walks for others, and then I do my own solo walks at least a couple times each week. The forest is my medicine! 🌿

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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · 1d

Nyob zoo xyoo tshiab os! Happy Hmoob New Year! Grateful to celebrate our history, harvest, and beautiful culture. ❤️

#hmong #hmoob #hmongnewyear #captureec

A Hmoob/Hmong woman sits outside wearing a striped blue outfit and colorful hat

A Hmoob/Hmong woman wears a striped blue outfit and poses standing in a magazine Photo Booth that says HMONG TIMES and Celebrating 50 years in America

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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · 18d

In more news, I have arrived with a pumpkin. 🧡

#pumpkin #fall #harvest #autumn

A Hmoob woman smiles and holds a pumpkin with tall grass in the background

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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · Sep 2

In other news, pumpkins and gourds have arrived. 🧡

#fall #autumn #harvest #pumpkins #gourds #falldecor

An arrangement of pumpkins and gourds outside a front stoop

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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · Aug 23

I haven't written much lately (blame Mother Nature!), but here's an article I wrote last year that was printed this week. I read it multiple times, so I'll go ahead and log this as research for writing. Which counts toward writing. 😉 #writing #writingcommunity

volumeone.org/articles/202...

COLUMN: Snip, Snip

I combed my fingers through my new bangs before looking at the camera again. The whole haircut was edgy in some ways with the choppy bangs and lopsided hair. It was not the simple trim I had envisione...

volumeone.org

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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ever wonder what happens before and after a forest therapy walk? This is why it’s near impossible for me to write this time of year! Blame it on being a forest therapy guide. Apparently, I can’t be that and a writer in the same season! 😂 #Nature #treefrog #frog #foresttherapy #writersblock

Two photos with one “before” showing a grassy field and trees and one “after” showing a green tree frog on the yellow petals of a wildflower

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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · Aug 17

lol she sure is!!

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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · Aug 15

I have not been writing because I have been watching nymphs become cicadas. But I’ll go ahead and log this as writing research. 😉 #writingcommunity #cicada #nature

Blue green cicada outside exoskeleton on a tree

Cicada emerging from exoskeleton on tree

Nymph on tree getting ready to molt into cicada

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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · Aug 15

So much to love about this, especially trees with opinions! 💚

P.S.C. Willis 🌈🖋️ Crying Out for Magic - Out Now! @pscwillis.bsky.social · Aug 15

A gentle story about rediscovering yourself, with:

💜 Tired asexual and chaotic bi #own rep
😱 Big life choices
🌳 Trees with opinions
💔 Friendship break up
🫂 Friends > relationships (especially toxic ones)
🧶 Stop glamorising the grind and do crafts

#QueerPit #YA #F #COA

Mood board:
Left column: The trunk of a tree with a person’s figure in it, a heart made of daisies, a snapped tree, a bicycle.
Middle column: a white girl with freckles and bobbed brown hair standing in a field of flowers.
Right column: a dish of ice cream with two spoons in it, a dark toned shot looking over someone’s shoulder as they fill out a complicated looking form, phone with text messages reading ‘He’s my bf not yours’ ‘Stay away from him,’ a Black person with paint smeared over their face.

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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · Aug 15

Have you checked out FORTS yet?! Don’t miss out on this bestseller! #kidlit

Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · Aug 14

I'm agog! FORTS is one of @usatoday.com's bestselling #picturebooks this week!

Thank you to all the indie bookstores who believe in this book and have been sharing it with their customers. ❤️💙📚

#kidlit

www.usatoday.com/booklist/gen...

The cover of the picture book FORTS, showing a girl and her cat sitting in a cozy treehouse.

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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · Aug 1

So many wondering happenings to celebrate, including Katie’s book! Don’t miss this one! 🥳

Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · Jul 30

Happy book birthday to my debut, Forts! Brilliantly illustrated by @kenardpak.bsky.social
#kidlit #picturebooks

Cover of the picture book Forts, with a note that says “happy publication day”

Katie Venit, the author, signing copies of Forts in a bookstore.

Katie Venit, the author of Forts, holding up a copy of the title page with an inscription that says “forts forever”

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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · Jul 23

If you’re looking for something to do this summer, my sister always loved geocaching. 💚

#geocaching #wisconsinlife #hmong #writer #grief #sisters

wisconsinlife.org/story/why-an...

How a Wisconsin writer picked up geocaching to stay connected to her late sister - Wisconsin Life

Have you ever picked up a hobby because a friend or relative was really into it? Did you try to see if they’re truly onto something? Writer Yia Lor of Eau Claire did this with geocaching, an outdoor a...

wisconsinlife.org

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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · Jul 9

Katie’s books AND free shipping??! Don’t miss out! #kidlit #picturebooks

Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · Jul 8

My debut #picturebooks -- FORTS and CASSINI'S MISSION will be out soon!

Bookshop is offering free shipping July 8-11. Order from this list on Bookshop and I think I'll get a small kickback, to no cost to you.

bookshop.org/lists/books-...

#kidlit

Books written by Katie

Checkout out this list on Bookshop

bookshop.org

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · Jul 8

If you're having a bad day, here's some otters on a water slide to make your day better #bluesky ... 😊

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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · Jun 14

We don’t let the rain stop us! #nokings #nokingsday #protest #pride #pridemonth #lovewins

A woman holds a rainbow sign that says queens trump kings

Crowd of protestors with signs such as hate has no home here

Protestors marching with signs such as no kings in America

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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · Jun 7

Thank you! We’ll see if I can keep this up! 🙃

Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · Jun 7

1000 words before noon! #amwriting #writingcommunity #kidlit

a cartoon drawing of a person using a laptop with the words write written around them

Alt: a cartoon drawing of a person using a laptop with the words write written around them

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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · May 31

Don’t miss this giveaway!! 🤩 #kidlit #pride #lgbtqia

Joëlle Retener (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @joelleretener.bsky.social · May 30

This Pride month I am joining an incredible group of #queerkidlit creators to host a fundraiser for the LGBTQIA+ community.

Enter this giveaway, and you could win a copy of all the LGBTQIA+ picture books below!

More details at: tinyurl.com/pb-giveaway

#edusky #pride #skybrarians #books #lgbtqia

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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · May 29

Omg that fort!!! And pup!! 🥹❤️

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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · May 24

I thought about writing today, but then I came across this fallen log holding all the secrets of the universe, so I sat with her instead. 🙃

#writing #Nature #NatureArt

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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · May 20

My only draft of my MG is on Scrivener, and I'm terrified to touch it! But seeing you do it gives me hope! Maybe I'll give it a try...in August. 🙃

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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · May 19

Perfect timing! I'm about to clean up my folder of PBs, so these tips will come in handy.

Natasha Khan Kazi | Kidlit @natashakhankazi.bsky.social · May 19

1) Break revision down as foundational revision(shape), mid-level revision (emotion), fine-tuning (line)
2) Get critiques but don't make changes for 24 hours, sit with the feedback, and only change what makes sense for your story.
3) Read the story out loud. Do you want to do it 100 more times?

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Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · May 16

Emotionally undone by this very generous starred review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social for my and Julia Blattman's #picturebook, CASSINI'S MISSION, releasing in August from MIT Kids Press and Candlewick

#kidlit

www.publishersweekly.com/9781536232325

Cassini’s Mission: A Spacecraft, a Tiny Moon, and the Search for Life Beyond Earth by Katie Venit

“Life as we know/ it,” explains Venit (Forts) on the opening pages of this celestial nonfiction overview, requires “Water/ Chemi...

www.publishersweekly.com

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Yia Lor @yiawrites.bsky.social · May 19

YESSSSSS!!!!! Congrats, Katie! You are on fire! 🔥

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Chloe Ito Ward @chloeitoward.bsky.social · May 18

#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

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