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Mindy Alyse Weiss @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social · Aug 21

The #PBParty New Draft Challenge & Critique Train starts NOW & lasts through August 23 EDT

🚂Write a new PB draft
🚂Shout 'DONE' on this post
🚂Add your name to the Critique Train Google doc: tinyurl.com/Critique...
🚂CELEBRATE! 🎉
🚂FAQ: tinyurl.com/Critique...

Good luck ✨

PBParty Critique Train open for passengers on… August 21 - 23 Check out the FAQ here Keep up to date with PBParty events (including the contest) on Facebook Congrats for writing a new PB! Please add your name and e-mail below. I’ll critique the 1st person who completes a draft. They’ll crit...

A one-stop place for all your kid lit information needs.

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Kidlit411 @kidlit411.bsky.social · Aug 15

Our weekly big list of kid lit links is up (Aug 15): kidlit411.com/2025/08/the-... Inside: Advice for Selling at Tables, SCBWI mentor programs,
KidLitGN pitch event, more. Thanks Mary Pat Kanaley for the illustration, @heatherstigall7.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social for the giveaways.

The Weekly 411 (8/15/25)

kidlit411.com

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Mindy Alyse Weiss @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social · Jul 17

Here's a chance to win one of three 5-page critiques from Resident Writing Coach and Guest Editor Marissa Graff.

She's amazing! Marissa has been a reader for an agent for 5+ years and is an editor at Angelella Editorial.

writershelpingwriters.net/2025/07/phen...

Phenomenal First Pages Contest – Guest Editor Edition

If you would like objective feedback on your first pages, please use our form to enter our contest. Good luck. :)

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Mindy Alyse Weiss @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social · Jul 17

The #PBParty New Draft Challenge & Critique Train starts NOW & lasts all of July17 - 19 EDT
🚂Write a new PB draft
🚂Shout 'DONE' on this post
🚂Add your name to the Critique Train Google doc: tinyurl.com/Critique...
🚂CELEBRATE! 🎉
🚂FAQ: tinyurl.com/Critique...
Good luck ✨✨

PBParty Critique Train open for passengers on… July 17 - 19 Check out the FAQ here Keep up to date with PBParty events (including the contest) on Facebook Congrats for writing a new PB! Please add your name and e-mail below. I’ll critique the 1st person who completes a pdraft. They’ll crit...

You’ve Received an Offer from an Agent. Now What? - From The Mixed Up Files

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Mindy Alyse Weiss @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social · Jul 1

If you're seeking an agent or received an offer and wonder what to do next, my post can help!

I include potential questions to ask an agent. Do you have more to add?

fromthemixedupfiles....

#MG #kidlit #agent

Receiving an offer of representation from an agent is so exciting…especially after all your hard work. Celebrate!

fromthemixedupfiles.com

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Mindy Alyse Weiss @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social · Jun 22

If you’re the last person on the train, you receive a critique from the person above you and you don’t owe one this time. :-)

Congrats on your new picture book!

Mindy Alyse Weiss @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social · Jun 19

The #PBParty New Draft Challenge & Critique Train starts NOW & lasts all of June 19 – 21 EDT
🚂Write a new PB draft
🚂Shout 'DONE' on this post
🚂Add your name to the Critique Train Google doc: tinyurl.com/Critique...
🚂CELEBRATE! 🎉
🚂FAQ: tinyurl.com/Critique...
Good luck ✨✨

PBParty Critique Train open for passengers on… June 19 - 21 Check out the FAQ here Keep up to date with PBParty events (including the contest) on Facebook Congrats for writing a new PB! Please add your name and e-mail below. I’ll critique the 1st person who completes a draft. They’ll criti...

The Importance of Beginning with the End in Mind

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Mindy Alyse Weiss @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social · Jun 6

Amazing advice from agent @jenniedunhamlit.bsky.social during a past @picturebooksummit.bsky.social.

Picture Book Summit @picturebooksummit.bsky.social · Jun 6

#Agent Quote of the Day from ‪@jenniedunhamlit.bsky.social‬: “Try to focus on how you enjoy writing & not so much on external goals. Because it won't correlate...But if you really enjoy the writing, you're in it for the long term, it's not just about getting published.”

#qotd #booksky #kidlit

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Mindy Alyse Weiss @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social · Jun 5

Over at the Writers Helping Writers blog, Liz Alterman shares how to begin your novel with the end goal in mind and avoid mistakes she’s made.

She’s giving away a query critique and an EBook to celebrate her newest release, Claire Casey’s Had Enough.

writershelpingwriters.net/2025/06/begi...

Liz Alterman is here to share how to begin your novel with the end goal in mind and avoid mistakes she’s made. Plus…she’s giving away a query critique and an EBook to celebrate her newest release, Cla...

Up your writing craft by doing an exercise that exposes the skeletons of published novels. Enter to win an EBook of Story Skeletons!

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Mindy Alyse Weiss @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social · May 20

Check out this amazing post from @michellebark.bsky.social, Senior Editor at @darlingaxe.com. The way she shows how to deconstruct novels is brilliant!

Enter for a chance to win one of 10 EBooks of Story Skeleton: The Classics. Good luck!

writershelpingwriters.net/2025/05/read...

Reading Like a Writer

Phenomenal First Pages Contest - Guest Editor Edition

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Nadia Ali @nadiaawriter.bsky.social · May 19

"There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published."
~ Joe Konrath

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Mindy Alyse Weiss @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social · May 15

Enter to win one of 6 prizes of a five page novel critique from @michellebark.bsky.social, Senior Editor at @darlingaxe.com over on the Writers Helping Writers blog.

Good luck! :)

writershelpingwriters.net/2025/05/phen...

If you would like objective feedback on your first pages, please use our form to enter our contest. Good luck. :)

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Mindy Alyse Weiss @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social · May 15

The #PBParty New Draft Challenge & Critique Train starts NOW & lasts all of May 15 – 17 EDT
🚂Write a new PB draft
🚂Shout 'DONE' on this post
🚂Add your name to the Critique Train Google doc: tinyurl.com/Critique...
🚂CELEBRATE! 🎉
🚂FAQ: tinyurl.com/Critique...
Good luck ✨✨

PBParty Critique Train open for passengers on… May 15 - 17 Check out the FAQ here Keep up to date with PBParty events (including the contest) on Facebook Congrats for writing a new PB! Please add your name and e-mail below. I’ll critique the 1st person who completes a draft. They’ll criti...

2025 PBParty Honorable Mentions ⋆ Mindy’s Writing Wonderland

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Mindy Alyse Weiss @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social · May 7

2025 #PBParty honorable mentions are up. Congrats everyone! 🎉

I'm happy dancing for those on the list & sending hugs & cyber chocolate to those who didn't make it in this year. 🍫 Keep working and putting yourself out there & I know your YES will come.

mindyalyseweiss.com/...

Huge congrats to the 2025 PBParty Honorable Mentions. I'm happy dancing for you. :) Let's get all of you prepared for the next contest!

mindyalyseweiss.com

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Mindy Alyse Weiss @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social · Apr 17

The #PBParty New Draft Challenge & Critique Train starts NOW & lasts all of April 17-19 EDT
🚂Write a new PB draft
🚂Shout 'DONE' on this post
🚂Add your name to the Critique Train Google doc: tinyurl.com/Critique...
🚂CELEBRATE! 🎉
🚂FAQ: tinyurl.com/Critique...
Good luck ✨✨

PBParty Critique Train open for passengers on… April 17 - 19 Check out the FAQ here Keep up to date with PBParty events (including the contest) on Facebook Congrats for writing a new PB! Please add your name and e-mail below. I’ll critique the 1st person who completes a draft. They’ll crit...