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A mom and a dancer and a baker and a crocheter and a hiker and a teacher and possibly also an award-winning writer in there. When I have the time. https://linktr.ee/quenbyolson
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It's only 9:30am and I have already fed all of the children, baked a cake, unloaded and loaded the dishwasher, and crocheted for 30 minutes. I don't trust this. Something's up.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

I DO NOT have any books up in the Barnes & Noble pre-order sale, BUT! I do have a handful of cozy fantasy books that are available now, featuring a mostly middle-aged (and older!) cast, along with baby dragons, found family, and cake!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Today's homeschooling was read-alouds (Fablehaven and Anne of Avonlea), planting seeds outside, and math. This is pretty much it until the end of the year, now that half the workbooks are finished and we're just winding down until evaluation.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Pssst... Everything in my Etsy shop is on sale this week! Shop local, shop indie, buy direct! www.etsy.com/shop/Quenbys...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Ah, I see it's time for the "no, I'm not sick, the trees and grass are just trying to kill me" realm of existence.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Okay, I took a couple of months off. Back to Tiktok and Reels to see if it moves the needle on book sales at all. I'll report back.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Anyway, I just helped a buyer cancel their Etsy order for my books because shipping to Australia was A LOT and neither of us wanted them to pay that, so anyway, this is about bookplates and I will be adding them to my shop next month. So there's that.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

That's it. Was bopping along happily enough in revisions, thinking this would be a cake walk, until I hit the point where I realized I need to write a whole new scene/chapter for pacing, and now I'm ready to roll up my sleeves and dig in, because I know this is only going to be the beginning.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

6yo: Look, I'm wearing my backpack on only one shoulder! 6yo: ... 6yo: Is this how cool people do it?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

My 15yo just told me that calculus is easy and brb I'm going to check and see if she's adopted.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

A Necromancer Called Gam Gam hit 250 ratings today! A quarter of the way to 1k!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

These last six weeks of the homeschool year are always the hardest. I just want to be outside and freeeee....

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

As we gear up towards Independent Bookstore Day (and fight against that 'zon sale coming up) a reminder that you can order almost all of my paperbacks through Bookshop.org! You can support your own local bookstore through them, even if they're not able to carry my books on their shelves!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

When you make a half-assed throw together dinner and it comes out tasting so good that you feel like you could have your own show on the Food Network. (Please, no one give me a cooking show. It would be chaos.)

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

While cleaning out my parents' house, I found a stash of my old jeans from my teens/early 20s... all low riders, flared legs from places like Gap, American Eagle, Old Navy, and my daughters are behaving as though they stumbled upon the fashion holy grail. Vintage jeans that are coming back in style!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Being about three inches from a car accident (someone tapping at their cell phone while running a red light right in front of me) has earned me a Milky Way Midnight to calm my nerves, yeesh. (THIS WEEK, PEOPLE.)

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Took the kids to a local park that has a zipline(!!!) and it was the most fun I've had in weeks and also I am sunburnt. 10/10, would zipline again.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has helped so far! We've paid off a small bill that has been hanging over our heads since last June!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I like Mary Musgrove more than Jane Austen wanted me to #dramaticqueen #janeausten #persuasion #booksky

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment