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Children's author. World chess ranking: 8,125,112,754. WHEN SANTA WROTE BACK! (Sourcebooks Wonderland, 2025) Visit me here: https://hellonathan.ca Join the "PB Workshop" Discord server here: http://discord.gg/KSYfkNg Rep'd by: Lilly Ghahremani
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Did you know I made a Google Docs add-on just for picture book writers? It’s called PB Author Tools, and it calculates an accurate word count (subtracting art notes!), plus some other goodies. You can find the instructions on my website—just go to the “Nerdy Stuff for Authors” section.

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From now on Idiocracy will be known simply as "The Prophecy".

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Most of my net worth is tied up in unused gift cards.

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His and hers

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All my life's ambitions depend on my kids staying asleep longer.

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WHEN SANTA WROTE BACK! hits shelves 7 months from today! 😮🥳🎅🏻

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We told 2.5yo she was going to the brain doctor yesterday and she insisted on bringing her copy of BRAINS! NOT JUST A ZOMBIE SNACK by @stacymcanulty.bsky.social. The neurologist was quite amused.

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Amazing mission, amazing book!

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7yo: "Dad, do you love me more than you love yourself?" Me: "Uh... Yup." 7yo: "Why did you have to think about it?"

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Me to my kids: "Make good choices!" My own choices: eating Christmas cookies for breakfast before anybody else is awake and feeling sick to start the day

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Introducing PB Spree 2025! We are a diverse group of picture book creators who can’t wait to share our books with you in 2025!!!

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Everybody has a 95-row spreadsheet of people to buy Christmas gifts for, right?

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My kids are in a different room and I can hear my 7yo teaching my 2.5yo to cast the Cruciatus Curse 🤔

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Excited to share this news, finally! My debut picture book ❄️✨THE ABOMINABLE SNOW DANCER✨❄️ is coming out Fall 2025 from Penguin Workshop! 1/ This book is secretly about me. While I'm not a hairy yeti who dreams of dancing (... Or am I?🤔), I DID dream of writing #kidlit one day, and here I am!

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🎅✨ Cover Reveal! ✨🎅 When Santa Wrote Back! (with words by me and illustrations by Pablo Pino) is coming down the chimney September 2, 2025. Available for pre-order now! hellonathan.ca 🎄📚 #KidLit #CoverReveal #PictureBooks #WritingCommunity

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I swear sometimes you can tell your toddler woke up smarter than the day before. Amazing.

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Wife: "My tummy hurts." 2.5yo: "If you read me a book your tummy will feel better."

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When I was a buyer at a large indie, my rule of thumb was: 1 preorder: huh, let me take a closer look at this one 2 preorders: we need to stock this book 3 preorders: we should order enough to face this out 4+ preorders: this should be on front-of-store display

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I'm sick as hell. In the cool idiomatic sense, as usual, but also now in the less cool medical sense.

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Now if BlueSky could just change its logo to a cute little birdie...

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Look at this cover 😍

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You'd think staying up past 1:30AM writing rhyme does not lead to good results. And you'd be right.

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More words should rhyme with witch.

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Hear ye! Hear ye! It’s a royal occasion, the COVER REVEAL for… IT STARTED WITH A P written by me and illustrated by Andrew Joyner. Available everywhere books are sold on April 8th, 2025, but you can preorder now! Preorders links: linktr.ee/itstartedwit...

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Worst day of your kids' lives: they will cry. Best day of your kids' lives: they will cry.

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2yo: "Daddy! You're my favorite uncle!"

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I like how you can move your kids while they're sleeping and they don't wake up. Lots of good prank options.

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Having a dog and a toddler means if you turn your back you can never be sure who ate what.

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Being a father is great because I'm still the least mature person in the house but now I have people to play with.

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🌟 #BookGiveaway 🌟 I wrote about my writing journey for #SoNotGhoul for Kathy Temean's spectacular #kidlit blog. To enter the drawing for a chance to win a copy of the book, follow the instructions on the post. Ghoul-ed luck! Illustrated by Bonnie Lui, published by Page Street Kids. 📚

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in my author era

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