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Reporting in from the Big Sur Children's Writers Workshop! Tip #1: Is your MC's high-stakes want evident in the first 3-4 pages? If not, make it so! Tip #2: Make your first sentence SING. Tip #3: An amazing title helps. More to come...! 🎉 #writingcommunity #amquerying #amediting #WIP #kidlit

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So many devastating things happening, but this is a big one. All children need to see themselves in stories. All children need to feel love and kindness in their communities and schools. ❤️🧡💛

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Hi, Bluesky folks. I'm Dor, and I write #MG and #YA stuff. Much of it is dystopian, because, well, look at the world. But hope! There's a lot of hope in there, too, because, well, we need hope. 😁 My kiddo, an 11-year-old actor, took this photo. I think she did a good job 🦋 #writingcommunity

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I'm transmitting my outrage about what's happening in this country into my #MG and #YA fantasies, dystopias, and satirical #kidlit and carrying it to a conference this week. Words are silenced and books are banned because they are powerful. Keep writing. Keep speaking. Say NO to this nonsense.🧚🏽‍♂️🪲🎭

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I'm sorry, but it's really hard not to... say a whole bunch of four-letter words right about now. "Historic document"?! I can't even. I just can't...

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Two of my all-time favorite authors, Aiden Thomas and Mitali Perkins, are going to be at the Big Sur Children's Writers Workshop, and I couldn't be more thrilled. 🤩🎉😍 #amwriting #amquerying #writingcommunity #WIP #MGtyDucks

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Speaking of comics: Whether this new administration “observes” it or not, it’s still Black History Month. Here’s a list of great comics by Black creators, and/or centering Black characters & stories 🕊️ 📚 bookshop.org/lists/graphi...

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Polishing up ye olde website to prep for an upcoming conference this week! Do y'all list EVERY book you've written, or only the ones you want to focus on now? I decided to add some #WIP and remove others. Might kick out a few shelved ones... 😊 #writingcommunity www.doratkinson.com/books

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High school drama gave me my first experiences of censorship when a few parents tried to shut down our plays over and over again. This story of a high school group fighting back (and winning an award for their musical about censorship) makes me stand up and cheer! 🎉😍🎉 www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...

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My kiddo has just been cast in a play in the lead role: Gwendolen, "Legendary Queen of the Britons." There's about to be a whole lot of sword-smacking going on... 😅🤺

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"This is digital genocide... The US will be unable to understand mortality and morbidity rates to tackle health inequalities because the data are forbidden. How can our leaders see this as a win when our neighbors and families will die?"

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The art we make is important. Keep making that art and writing those books! In that vein, here's some of the art my 11-year-old has been creating recently. Sweepy Fwog, "abstract from ink spill," Roxy #WIP, and girl with a green heart. 💚 #writingcommunity #art #artist @amynelder.bsky.social 😊

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@anniefox.com and I are so pleased with this new Kirkus review for her new YA sci-fi novel “”Leeta Simtar: A Life on Two Planets” “A rousing tale about a young woman coming to terms with an unresolved past.”—Kirkus Read it all below: #kidlit #YA #YAfiction #booksky #KirkusReviews #indieauthor

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Totally random, but an MG with bird or animal characters having to perform a banishment or exorcism ritual would be a total #MSWL for me. Wind in the Willows but horror? How amazing would that be. That’s the kinda thing I wanna see for real.

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A CURSE CONJURED: An Agent's Guide The 12 Dancing Princesses fairytale gets a Tamora Pierce-style retelling in this adult fantasy, featuring a badass lady knight, a secret sorceress, a servant with a secret identity, and a gender-fluid Fae King. #questpit #A #F #W #RF

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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 10 days ago • 896 comments

I've been following this saga... the real life one, that is. Now I'd love to follow the fictional one! 🎉 #writingcommunity

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OFMD × SHERLOCK HOLMES × BRIDGERTON A steampunk inventor navigates his unorthodox marriage with his star baron husband as they solve mysteries and uncover political intrigue across the gaslamp fantasy-inspired empire of Sesina. #QuestPit #SFF #NA #Q #F #R #M #A #WIP #W #T

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Eros & Psyche x Hunger Games x Cinder 17yo Psyche, who fears she may be a clone, infiltrates an all-powerful CEO’s AI corp to find her sister-copies only to be thrown into a deadly game with Eros, a mysterious rebel who has been converted into a cyborg with seductive powers. #questpit #YA #SFF #W

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Mysterious Benedict x Inkheart When a 12yo fictional outcast is yanked from his book by a couple of bored enchanters, he must outwit a mysterious, gleeful villain in a disintegrating fantasy world with other kid protagonists to become "real" or become the villain himself. #questpit #MG #F #W #LGBT

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Skyborn x Dragon Prince When a 12yo street performer fairy finds the broken mask the queen used to seal his people’s souls in the city walls, he must track down the missing pieces and perform a play to free his long-lost family before he’s sealed in stone forever. #questpit #MG #F #Q #LGBT 🧚🏽‍♂️🎭

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Girl Who Drank the Moon x Dark Crystal When a 12yo indentured servant captures a priceless, 6-inch-tall magical boy, she knows he’s her ticket to freedom. But when a captive goddess seeks their blood, they must join forces to save each other and heal their unjust world. #questpit #MG #F #Q #LGBT

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For others planning to attend @kidlitchat.bsky.social tonight (or any other "slow chat" on this platform), here are some tips: publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/ho... #KidLitChat

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JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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I'm having a blast watching my students' intro videos in my Theatre Appreciation class this semester. They are all amazing, with a ton of different interests, and have a higher level of intelligence, curiosity, passion, and creativity than any of the folks purporting to run the country right now.

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Gearing up for the Big Sur Children's Writers Workshop, and I'm beside myself with excitement! I have one #amquerying MS, one nearly ready to go, and two other #WIP. Not to mention all the other "shelved" ones which I might whip out at a moment's notice. Let's do this! 🎉

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As a sociopolitical performance aficionado, I appreciated all the symbolism in these images yesterday. My MCs are often artists who defy tyrants, and my heart is drawn to those who take the risk and speak out, even if the audience (ahem, orange dude) may never comprehend. #writingcommunity

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Memo to the leaders-that-be: Stop messing with people and things you know nothing about and care nothing about, and stop outlawing the straws you never plan to use anyway. Your weird, little fantasy tyranny with absurd delusions of ridiculousness belongs in books only. Let's leave it there.

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The news is making me literally ill. But I keep thinking about Swimmy: www.exodusbooks.com/swimmy/lionn... How do we come together to form the big fish? #kidlit

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Today I feel... weird. I've got two cold medicines turning me into a tingly slug. I've got the news which turns me into a furious but meaningless pawn in a dystopian novel. I've got my daughter's birthday, pouring rain, and George Winston which colors me... wistful. Summing it up? Weird.

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"Nothing is inevitable. Do not be alone and do not be dismayed. Find someone who is doing something you admire and join them."

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Introduce yourself as a TV character.

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uh idk why i suddenly have 3K more followers than last week, but i assume it's because of Black History Month and if so i have a book coming out, THIS ENDS IN EMBERS, sequel to SO LET THEM BURN, and tbh i'd rather you buy it or repost this so other people might buy it 😘 bookshop.org/contributors...

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