Nearly everything awesome takes longer than you think. Get started and don't worry about the clock. -James Clear

No matter what, we need to keep creating beautiful stories for children! How about giving #50PreciousWords a try? Contest deadline March 3 at 11:59pm: viviankirkfield.com/2025/03/02/50p…

The mullygrubs grab hold of Katy. She slips on her skateboard. She draws a frowning clown. Clouds are well – just clouds. Then her neighbor asks for her help. Her day couldn't get any worse. Katy learns that sometimes helping someone else helps you. #TLPPitch #PB #SEL

Flora can’t stomach the usual vulture food like squished snake and rotting opossum. Wiggly worms – ewww. Hunting – never. She needs to find something to eat that will make her taste buds zing and fill out her feathers so she can glide high with her vulture family. #TLPPitch #PB

Stumpee crawls out of his egg and has no one to teach him how to be a gopher tortoise. He must use his instincts to find a safe home before a storm blows him away. #TLPPitch #PB #SEL

Violet gobbles breakfast and then out the door. Drip…drop…flash. KABOOM. Her perfect day is ruined. She pouts. She cries. She whines. Rain, rain go away! Violet slips in her muddy mess of a garden and learns there’s more than one way to have a perfect day. #TLPPitch #PB

NOT an #AprilFoolsDay joke! 😂! 3 random winners really WILL #win a copy of: 🦇🐈🐀 BAT, CAT & RAT #3: ⛱️THE BEACH DAY⛱️ 📝 by me 🎨 by #MarkTeague Beach Lane 📚, Simon Kids WEEKS before our 4/29/25 🎂! ⭐️JUST RP to ENTER to WIN!⭐️ Ends 4/6/25, 9 PM EST! #kidlit #giveaway

You've waited a long time & now it's here: the NEWLY REVISED list of 100+ PUBLISHERS ACCEPTING CHILDREN'S BOOKS DIRECTLY--without an agent. Whoo hoo! And, it's free! I've verified each & every link (all 126) to verify accuracy. Pls enjoy & share. #kidlit BitsyKemper.com/publishers

I love agent Adria Goetz's newsletter! "BE OUTRAGEOUS! Now is not the time to play it safe. Now is not the time to be a shrinking violet. Now is the perfect time to be outrageous."😏 Using these words as I revise my newest, OUTRAGEOUS #PB!🌵💀 Be outrageous, #writingcommunity🙌

It's not too late to sign up for on one of the MANY #KidLit events happening this spring. April was crazy and so is May. The calendar on my website has been updated. Don't miss out on these #PB #MG #YA events. carolynbfraiser.com/kidlit/ #KidLitEvents

After a nasty, unsolicited email this morning, I’m expanding my #MSWL Wishlist: beyond genre, authors who are nice. Not for me: -Authors who don’t think I’m a person -Authors who treat others poorly -Authors who think they are better than everyone else. 😔

Here’s your reminder that writing advice is a buffet. Take what feeds you. Leave what doesn’t. You know your story best. #writingcommunity #amwriting #amquerying

⭐️July/August Pitch Events⭐️ #miserypit 7/5 (🦋) #SmallPitch 7/7 - 7/13 #PlaylistPitch 7/11 #BluePit 7/13 (🦋) Wicked Pit 7/31 questpit || next event: Nov 5th 8/6 PosterPit 8/16 What #pitchevents am I missing?

Ever re-read something you wrote and think: “I forgot I was capable of that”? Save those moments. They’ll carry you through the ones that make you doubt everything. #writingcommunity #amwriting #amquerying

We just sent the password to participating publishers! This means the request window is OPEN and pitching authors may start receiving requests... Good luck everyone! To a successful #SmallPitch 🌊

Here’s how I, as an author, read a picture book for maximum analysis and learning. picturebookbuilders.com/2025/08/how-to… #pbchat #kidlit #amwriting #amreading

Self-pub, small press, Big 5—none of it makes you more or less of an author.

Don’t be afraid of putting your first work in a drawer. You learn so much the first time around, and you get better each time. Keep learning! Learn genre conventions & craft. Read the craft books (esp for your genre). Go to writing conferences. Connect with other authors.

Ali Herring -open to queries in limited categories The more you read, the more you write, the better you get. That’s theory!