A Music-Fueled Make-Out Turns Rivals Into Lovers: Canto Contigo by jonny garza villa will be available April 9th wherever books are sold. bookriot.com/canto-contigo-…

We need to be having more conversations like this. Thank you Mychal Threets and E Train Talks Books for what you're doing.

Another great day LA Times Festival of Books, this time hearing my friend and fellow #MGPie Nedda Lewers is mostly on IG discuss #DaughtersOfTheLamp on the YA stage with Callie C. Miller. I felt so lucky to be there! #MG #kidlit #MG

Fun times YALLWEST today. And much pondering on where characters come from.

A few years ago, before kid 3, I got really into canning. So much so I entered my canned goods in the #LACountyFair. My dilly beans beat out those of the queen of preserved foods, Francine Rippy. It's been a while, but I am getting back in the game. Here I come, Francine!

SMALL SPACES x GOONIES Insecure Ermina breaks out in hives in cold, so she’s thrilled to discover a magically protective gauntlet. But there’s no time for self-doubt when the gauntlet’s REAL master finds out and threatens to kill her friends on a remote island. #Pitdark #MG #H

In search of her mom, 12-yr-old Dutch-Indonesian Nina enrolls at a sailing school set aboard old pirate ships. To save her father's job, she and her new friends must find an infamous pirate's treasure before the sword-fighting teacher beats them to it. #MG #AC #AG #SEAsianPit

Hands down the best rendition of the RR theme EVER! #bydhttmwfi

Celebrating #Pride in Hollywood. And spotted an old school Hollywood star: Lawrence Welk! Metro Los Angeles #Loveislove

This is the real deal. Check out @AbbyVail's brilliant pitch, #kidlit agents. You won't be sorry!

#UnhingedPit #AG #OS #MG #NIV If Belle’s dad from BEAUTY AND THE BEAST was a 12yo girl building wings like da Vinci in the isolated estate of THE SECRET GARDEN but verse. 12yo at odds with her mom over poetry’s worth desperate to know more about the dad she never met.

It’s hard being a 💎 in a rhinestone 🌎 but trust me when I say it’s a million times harder having a mama who's a shining jewel in the country music world while you're nothing but a plain ol' grey pebble stuck to the bottom of her baby-blue cowboy boots. #mg #unhingedpit

We need YOU for Lit Kids Magazine! Creative kids age 5 to 13, please submit your writing, art, and photography for Issue 3: THINGS IN THE NIGHT! Submissions close at the end of July. Keep shining!✨ litkidsmagazine.wixsite.com/lit-kids-magaz… #emag #submissions #kidlit #parents #teachers #librarians

What an opening ceremony! In the pouring rain, down the river. Lots of fashion, art, athleticism. I am all in. #Olympics2024 #OpeningCeremony

latinxinpublishing.com/blog/2024/9/20… It's me! See me featured on the Latinx in Publishing blog about my mentorship with Christina Diaz Gonzalez working on the #PB book that turned into a #MG book that got me my wonderful agent.

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