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Shayna Lambert
@shaynalambert.bsky.social
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Aspiring YA author, doodler, and overall total nerd. AMM R9. 🖤🩶🤍💜/ 🩷💜💙
she/her.
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shaynalambert.bsky.social
My Brand:
A blue hanging sign at Walmart that reads “Young Adult Plus”
August 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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I’ve been cross stitching constantly for the past two months, but I can’t post any of my finished pieces because they’re all presents and I don’t want them to get spoiled 🥲
July 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
shaynalambert.bsky.social
Looking for romance recs with a fat love interest. I’ve read Shipwrecked, How to Get A Life in Ten Dates, No Filter and Other Lies… Anyone got more for me? 😃
July 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Me June 1st:
Yeah!!! Jump into June!!!! It’s summer break!! I’m going to finish this draft!! 80,000 words!!! Let’s gooooooo!!

Me June 30th with only 1200 words added:
any progress is good progress…😭😭😭
#WritingCommunity
Two side by side images of a little girls coloring with crayons. The one on the left is smiling and looking up, daydreaming happily. The one on the left is crying, holding her head while she colors.
June 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Like my new swimsuit? 🩷💜💙
Selfie of Shayna standing in front of a pool wearing a pink, purple, and blue-striped bikini. Shayna posing in front of a pool wearing a pink, purple, and blue-striped bikini, giving the peace sign.
June 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Happy #Pride, everyone! Feels like we need it a little extra these days. 🩷🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
A row of queer books, the spines arranged in rainbow colors. You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson. Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. Always the Almost by Edward Underhill. A Little Bit Country by Brian Kennedy. The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar. This is Why They Hate Us by Aaron Aceves. The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas. Cafe Con Lychee by Emery Lee. Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar. Icarus by K Ancrum. The Borrow A Boyfriend Club by Page Powars. The Keeper of Lonely Spirits by E M Anderson. Dear Wendy by Anna Zhao. The No-Girlfriend Rule by Christen Randall. We Got the Beat by Jenna Miller. The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste.
June 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
shaynalambert.bsky.social
Speaking of, here’s today’s #BookHaul
A stack of books with their spines facing toward the viewer. The books are Oathbound by Tracy Deonn, This Ends In Embers by Kamilah Cole, What Wakes the Bells by Elle Tesch, Say A Little Prayer by Jenna Voris, and A Study In Drowning by Ava Reid.
March 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Something I love: getting new books 📚

Something I don’t love: having to scoot all my books over to make room for the new ones 🫠
March 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
shaynalambert.bsky.social
One of the benefits of working at an elementary school is that you get to tell old jokes to an audience that’s never heard them.

I told the “why is 6 afraid of 7” joke today and it killed. 😂
February 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Make an assumption about my WIP based on my moodboard 🍳
A collage of 11 images with a warm and bright mood. Spaghetti about to go into a boiling pot of water. A fat, white man and woman holding each other and smiling at each other as the woman playfully grabs the man’s face. A closeup of chocolate cupcakes with pink heart sprinkles. Chunks of butter on a pile of flour ready to be mixed. A chocolate cookie with a heart on it made in powered sugar. A floured table with text reading “How can he be so attractive and so annoying at the same time?” A fat, white man and woman sitting at a cafe table drinking coffee together, smiling. An overhead view of a whisk, a bowl of flour, two brown eggs, and a pile of heart-shaped waffles. A closeup of a woman sipping on a ladle while a hand from offscreen holds it to her lips and keeps a hand underneath her mouth for drips. A cutting board with mushrooms, green onions, and cucumbers in the process of being chopped. A pair of hands cracking eggs into a bowl that already has a dozen cracked in it.
February 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
shaynalambert.bsky.social
And that’s 35! 🥳

It’s been a wonderful year full of a lot of exciting changes! Today I got lunch at my favorite hibachi, added a few more to my book hoard, and saw a movie, all the while blissfully unaware of the football game going on without me. 😌 It’s been a good day.
Shayna smiles up at the viewer while holding a red velvet cupcake with lit 3 and 5 candles.
February 10, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Been working on a new draft of a book I haven't touched in about a year, and it's been kind of great to get into this character's head again. Reminds me why I loved this story to begin with. 🥰
January 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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My 2025 writing goals are:
- keep querying
- revise/edit Cooking Class YA enough to send to readers
- write a first draft of Church Camp book
- Read at least one book per month

We’ll see how ambitious this is in a couple of months. 😅
January 1, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Drawing character art and making moodboards count as writing, right? 😅
a pencil drawing illustration of two white teen girls standing side by side. the girl on the left is tall and fat, with curly blonde hair in braids, standing shyly. she wears a church camp t-shirt and skinny jeans. the girl on the right is short and thin, with dark loose hair and a bright smile. she stands with her weight shifted to one hip, giving the rock on salute. she's wearing a black crop top and reads "Got Jesus? It's Hell without Him", short shorts, and ripped tights. collage of moody photos. a forest canopy. hands raised in praise to god. two teen girls with their foreheads pressed together with sexual tension. two arms with WEJD bracelets on them. a summer camp cabin in the woods with the sun peeking through the trees. a worn wooden cross in the woods. two silhouetted girls from behind sitting closely next to each other. a campfire. a closeup of a bible open to psalm 84. a teen girl with her head bowed in prayer, a bible open in her lap, and her hands folded on top of the Bible. in handwriting-style white script in the middle are the words “Whatever Is Pure.”
November 27, 2024 at 4:32 AM
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joorjoedepending.bsky.social
Hello Bluesky! 🦋 I'm Jo/e (Joe or Jo) and I am a writer, comic artist, and graphic novelist. My work revolves around characters as the plot drivers. I generally write mundane fantasy, and incorporate family as theme a lot. Excited to post more of my work and art!
Erin, a tan man with red hair in pigtails, floats underwater in a page's outfit of white shirt and suspenders, with a brown hat. He holds a magnifying glass up to the green tail of a merman, while bubbles float about both of them. Jgorjers (George) splashes down into the sea in merman form. His green tail and green hair catch the light of the sun above. Jgorjers' (George's) eyes are closed. His fingernails are painted red and green. Two devil dads console three crying demon children in a park. One child, Lenert, stares off screen at what is going on. Lenert proceeds to wander off in the second panel, prompting two of the other kids to follow him in the third panel. The children hop down from their dads to pursue their curiosity. Lacey, a small demon child, and her friend Presel sit down in the grass to learn spells 101. Presel asks Lacey what she has to study to be "cool". As that is Lacey's purpose for learning--not to be a good student. Lacey describes how she needs to cast fire spells, but only wants to cast pretty ones. She points to her book in the final panels. Presel takes a look and lets Lacey know that the prettiest spells are the hardest ones.
November 25, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
Are you wandering and looking for your people too? Here are a few YA author buddies I see regularly posting here:

@runwithskizzers.bsky.social @laurenmorrill.bsky.social @lilliamr.bsky.social @heywhitney.bsky.social @rosieethor.bsky.social @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com @tarasimauthor.bsky.social
November 10, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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If you see this post do it!

pronouns: she/her
height: 5'3”
shoe size: 9ish?
zodiac: Aquarius
smoke: only fragrant smoke from a campfire on a crisp fall evening
tattoos: none— I’m too chicken
piercings: I got my ears pierced as a kid, but the holes closed up, so… no
fave drink: water (yes, really)
Selfie of Shayna wearing dark eye makeup and red and black lipstick. Her long, light brown hair is in two low braids. She’s wearing a black shirt with a keyhole cutout at the sternum.
November 10, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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#amquerying
November 7, 2024 at 11:09 PM
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It’s going to be an interesting November 🥴
Car suddenly careening off onto an exit meme where the highway is labeled “project I’ve been outlining for a year” and the exit is labeled “brand new WIP where the MC doesn’t even have a name”
October 30, 2024 at 2:12 AM
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HERE SHE IS, the gorgeous cover for my upcoming queer cozy fantasy, THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS (March 25, Mira Books). the cover art is by Xuan Loc Xuan ❤️

book details threaded! or you can pop over to Netgalley to read a description and request an ARC 👀

#author
www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Keeper of Lonely Spirits over a gently blurred background of a flowery meadow in the sunset. in a style that gives the impression of paper art, a small brown cottage sits at the top of a tall, green hill rife with small yellow flowers and sprinkled with trees. the cottage windows and doorway are orange with light, and blue smoke drifts gently from the chimney. at the top of the hill, clustered around the cottage, are tombstones and crosses. large yellow sans-serif text with torn edges is centered over the image, reading "The Keeper of Lonely Spirits." smaller, white sans-serif text below reads, "A novel. E.M. Anderson."
September 27, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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gateskp.bsky.social
We wrapped up our no plot, all chaos and vibes writing collab today, time to go be sad in a corner

But actually: it's so much fun writing with friends, it refills my creative well and feeds my soul. I will never stop loving & appreciating it @katiebenderbooks.bsky.social @shaynalambert.bsky.social
September 17, 2024 at 12:48 PM
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I’m a big believer in finished draft treats. 😋
a chocolate chip cookie cake with orange, blue, and white icing. it reads "bake your cake and eat it too 1st draft done!"
September 3, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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And just over a year later, I have written “THE END” on the #FirstDraft of #Cooking Class YA. I have had so much fun writing this one, and I can’t wait for y’all to meet Nick and Reagan. 🥲
A screenshot of a Microsoft Word doc where the words “THE END” are visible. You can also see that the doc is 308 pages and 100053 words long.
September 2, 2024 at 4:43 AM
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#sushi date to celebrate my new job! 😋 🍣 🥢
A plate of two maki sushi rolls. One has white tuna on top, and the other has cucumber instead of nori as the wrapping and has a couple different kinds of fish inside. A plate of sushi and a cup of coy sauce. A maki roll with tuna on top and two pieces of salmon nigiri.
July 22, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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Peter and Neveah’s friendship in this book just had me going 😭🥹😭🥹 the whole time
elizmanderson.com E.M. Anderson | the author too hot for BlueSky @elizmanderson.com · Jul 9
omg @shaynalambert.bsky.social made this comic of a soft friendship moment between Peter and Nevaeh in THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS (2025) and I—

them 🥹🥹🥹

#author
black and white digital art of Peter, an old white man in flannel, jeans, and a flat cap, hurrying through an apartment crowded with moving boxes and an armchair after Nevaeh, a young Black woman wearing a tank top and shorts, with her hair in a bun. Nevaeh says, "I'm okay. It doesn't hurt much now." (She twisted her ankle.) Peter says, "You'll put peas on it again tomorrow?" "Yeah." "You'll stay home a few days?" (Nevaeh doesn't respond to that one.) Peter says, "Heal faster if you stay off it." Nevaeh says, "I know. I just have so much to do." black and white close up of Peter rubbing the back of his neck, saying, "If you're set on coming in, let me drive you in the truck the next couple days. Biking'll only make it worse." In the foreground, Nevaeh rolls her eyes with a smile and says, "Okay, GRANDPA." black and white close up of Peter reacting to being teasingly but affectionately called "grandpa." His eyes go wide like "what just happened" line art of Peter reacting to being called "grandpa." He clenches his fist over his heart, surrounded by colorful hearts and flowers, his expression wild because oh dear god he's HAVING FEELINGS the horrors
July 9, 2024 at 1:03 AM