Introducing #FirstDraftFebruary !!!

I am dedicating this month of blahs 🌨️ to quantity. 💪

How many SFDs can you write this month? 📝

If you meet (or exceed) your personal goal, on March 1, post

"I drafted the pants off of #FirstDraftFebruary"

Go plot your pants off!!

#KidLitMegaFeed #KidLit

Thank you so much to Katie Lee Reinert!!!!
I won a #bluesky drawing for her ADORABLE crocheted chipmunk, AND she sent me stickers and bookmarks for when I share her book READY TO SMILE AGAIN at library storytime.

@katieleereinert.bsky.social #12x12challenge #kidlitauthors #picturebooklove #kidlit

PREORDER GIVEAWAY! Purchase or complete a library request for Ready to Smile Again and enter to win a handmade chipmunk stuffy! Makes a great gift bundle!

Comment and repost to enter. 2 winners will be drawn on 3/11/25!

Signed copies available from my local indie at annieblooms.com/book/9781957...

Woohoo! So excited to be a part of the 12x12 challenge and community this year!
Heck yes I can write 12 brand new full picture book drafts this year! 😀🎉

#12x12challenge #writingcommunity #writinggroups #alwaysbelearning #stayteachable #writewritewrite #kidlit #challengeyourself #bebrave

We can do it! 🤩

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#storystorm #kidlit

I had a revelation last night: art notes are not for the illustrator. Art notes are for the next person reading your MS.

I'll explain.

#picturebooks #kidlit #kidlitchat #amwriting

On the hottest day there ever was, the glue that held the letter parts together melted.
C, I, J, O, S, and U, use teamwork and lots of superglue to transform a pile of lines and curves back into their letter friends.
#skypitch #scienceofreading #letterformation

Imagination can turn even the creepiest of basement apartment hallways into an underwater ocean adventure. And this kid knows all the secret rules to make it through. Are those sprinkler heads, or poisonous, paralyzing, extendable tentacles? Whatever they are, don't swim under them!
#skypitch

Triangle is tired of sit, sit, sitting, so it changes its shape and sets off to see the world. But it turns out that being Star isn’t all glitter and gold. Each next shape is juuust right…until it isn’t. Overcoming obstacles with effervescent wonder, it finds the perfect shape…for now. #skypitch