Get your passport to storytime and craft fun this Saturday, May 24, 9 AM, at The Ivy Bookshop. I'll be reading Goodbye, Hello: A Going Home Travel Adventure, about planes, trains, and an LBGTQ military family reuniting after deployment. RSVP here: bit.ly/4jaQxkX
5928 Falls Road Baltimore, MD 21209

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ICYMI: Growing families, LGBTQ history & biography, affirmation & support, sweet crushes, pure family fun, and more! Check out some of the best LGBTQ-inclusive picture books published in 2024! Reviews: mombian.com/2024/11/29/a... #LGBTQ #QueerKidLit #KidLit

So psyched to see Afikoman, Where'd You Go by @rebeccaglevington.bsky.social, illustrated by Noa Kelner, on this list of Transcendent Holiday Picture Books.
"Far more fun than any Passover picture book has any right to be."

I missed #kidlitchat but am taking stock:

Last three months: PB launch, writing retreat, new & revised humorous PB MSs to agent; continued percolation of my MG NIV; 12 day writing brain haitus w/o laptop, MSs, or guilt.

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If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting. - @lianabrooks.bsky.social

#BookSky

This book is so fabulous on so many levels. HUGE congrats @ahdale.bsky.social !!😘

So this happened: spent an amazing week+ in Seoul, South Korea visiting my son studying there. Flew back yesterday and touched down to news that the president had declared martial law, but the National Assembly had already unanimously blocked it. #thisiswhatdemocracylookslike
Gives me hope.

OK miss me with the bullshit that writers are ONLY on social media to sell books.

We're also humans who have pets and gardens and baked goods and pancakes that improbably come out of the pan looking like goats.

Where else are we supposed to talk about those things? Just stand outside and yell??

Read up on the importance of hooks and layers, plus a giveaway with #author @angelahdale.bsky.social!
Check out her guest blog post : tinyurl.com/23nwa5bt
#BlissfullyBookish #LLInspire #kidlit #amwriting #amreading #amediting #writingcommunity #books

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

- James Baldwin

SO excited to finally hold my critique partner’s beautiful picture book! GOODBYE, HELLO is a sweet travel story that celebrates military and LGBTQ+ families! This special PB released November 5. Please give it some extra love 💕 Congratulations, @angelahdale.bsky.social & Daniel Wiseman! #kidlit

This painting goes on auction TODAY at noon EST!

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It’s been a tumultuous month. But my fortune was, “It’s good to let a little sunshine out as well as in.” So I have been trying to attracted small bluebirds of happinesses. I hope my painting does the same for you!

So honored to have a Recommended Book in Mombia's database. Thank you!
#goodbyehellobook #picturebooks #kidlit

Deadline is TODAY for Undies and Endies 2024 Awards submissions. So happy to enter Goodbye, Hello: A Going Home Travel Adventure for the Endies.✈️👩‍✈️👮‍♂️⚓🚍

Nominate your favorites.

Librarians moving dystopian novels to the nonfiction shelves.