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Win a copy of BAD SUMMER PEOPLE by Emma Rosenblum! Subscribe to our free online magazine to be in with a chance to win 🤙🏽go to boolabos.com and subscribe. Winner chosen Jan 11. Good luck!

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Thrilled to find Chrysalis on this list!! 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾 Thank you Canada Council for the Arts and HUGE CONGRATS to all the finalists. Check out the list and buy some books why dontcha! 📚📚📚 #GGBooks #CanLit #DiverseBooks

✨ New The Shit About Writing Podcast newsletter hits inboxes today! For insider info from Samantha Downing Carly Watters || Literary Agent (she/her) and more, you can read it for free at theshitaboutwriting.substack.com ✨

The truth about being a writer:

One of my guiding principles as a children's book editor (and as a parent) is that children face the same world adults do. They are capable of deeper, richer, weirder, and more complex stories and ideas than we often give them credit for.

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I FEEL SEEN! 'If ur managing to squeeze in some writing time, that’s fab, but we double-✅d with the Ministry of What Actually Counts as Writing & turns out that traveling, trying new things, & even lying by a pool re-reading the same line ... all actually count as writing!'

Los Angeles friends!

I'm very excited to share that I'm moderating a panel of book and writing podcasters at North Figueroa Bookshop July 19th at 7pm: 'PodLit: Amplifying Literary Conversations Beyond The Bookshelf'

Come join us!

I think I may have went viral on the new, nicer place today.

✨New The Shit About Writing Podcast newsletter hits inboxes today!✨ Featuring June's #ReadWithJenna author @mrstevenrowley, SUNSHINE NAILS author Mai Nguyen, bestselling author Bianca Marais 📚🎙 and more! Subscribe for free at theshitaboutwriting.substack.com ✨

Americans: I use miles and pounds

Europeans: I use kilometres and kilograms

Canadians: [snorting a line of assorted measuring systems] I'm 5'3, I weigh 150lbs, horses weigh 1000kgs, my house is an hour away and I drive 80 km/h to get there, I need a cup of flour and 1L of milk

Taylor Jenkins Reid read SUNSHINE NAILS and says you should all buy it!

That time everyone came together in the name of eyebrows.

5yo: What’s Romeo and Juliet?
Me: Well, it’s a story about two people who fell in love, and…

[2 parents, both English professors, one a Shakespearean, give a long and age-inappropriate synopsis]

5yo: Wow.
Me: Yeah. It’s sad.
5yo: Yeah. I can’t believe they FELL in LAVA!

if you do not stretch, (back, legs, hips, feet) and you know what the Animaniacs are, you need to start doing it for at least 30 minutes daily or your body will suffer

Behold, my masterpiece

When I was 27, I decided it was time to get serious and spent six months staying in to write as my friends went out — and, ultimately, produced about 45,000 words of a shockingly mediocre novel that I eventually abandoned. With some luck and willpower, you could do the same

Don’t miss the latest episode of #DIYMFA Radio! Gabriela Pereira, Bianca Marais, Cecilia (Cece) Lyra, Agent, and Carly Watters || Literary Agent (she/her) discuss writing groups, beta readers, and how to find them. Click here to listen: buff.ly/3OYEgom

On the latest episode of #DIYMFA Radio, Gabriela Pereira interviews Bianca Marais, Cecilia (Cece) Lyra, Agent, and Carly Watters || Literary Agent (she/her). They talk about mastering the craft and learning to read like a writer. Check it out here: buff.ly/3MKDs3K