Kristina Pawlikowski
@authorkristinap.bsky.social
MG/YA author | Classical flutist | Jazz saxophonist-in-training
Current WIP: Present-day YA horror novel. An accidental demon-summoning, with an homage to classic 80s horror movies and a splash of Japanese folklore.
#Miyazawa 402 | #Yamaha YTS 62iii
Current WIP: Present-day YA horror novel. An accidental demon-summoning, with an homage to classic 80s horror movies and a splash of Japanese folklore.
#Miyazawa 402 | #Yamaha YTS 62iii
I'm not much of a church goer these days, but I had a gig at a UCC this morning. The sermon about loving your neighbor, esp. the bit about not picking who you consider your neighbor, really hit home. "Christians" who support locking people in cages sure as hell aren't following Christ's teachings.
July 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I'm not much of a church goer these days, but I had a gig at a UCC this morning. The sermon about loving your neighbor, esp. the bit about not picking who you consider your neighbor, really hit home. "Christians" who support locking people in cages sure as hell aren't following Christ's teachings.
My editor has pointed out (rightly so), that my MC could use more emotional depth. So I've spent the whole day trying on confusion, anger, and terror. (Don't worry, things get brighter.) I am quite literally emotionally drained. I could use some good resources if anyone has any reccs.
July 11, 2025 at 4:14 AM
My editor has pointed out (rightly so), that my MC could use more emotional depth. So I've spent the whole day trying on confusion, anger, and terror. (Don't worry, things get brighter.) I am quite literally emotionally drained. I could use some good resources if anyone has any reccs.
My writing helpers. KitKat (the tuxedo) and Jelly Bean (brown tabby). They’re siblings. When the sunlight hits KitKat you can see faint stripes under the black.
July 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My writing helpers. KitKat (the tuxedo) and Jelly Bean (brown tabby). They’re siblings. When the sunlight hits KitKat you can see faint stripes under the black.
I’ve added more colors and layers to my revision board. I think I’m avoiding the actual revising 😅
#writing #writingcommunity #editing
#writing #writingcommunity #editing
July 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve added more colors and layers to my revision board. I think I’m avoiding the actual revising 😅
#writing #writingcommunity #editing
#writing #writingcommunity #editing
Just one final proofread before Into the Sealight goes live!
In the meantime, please enjoy the first poem in this volume along with my ramblings about growing up in a (NOT HAUNTED) carriage house.
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#poets #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #BlueSkyPoets
In the meantime, please enjoy the first poem in this volume along with my ramblings about growing up in a (NOT HAUNTED) carriage house.
robertpawlikowski.com/2025/06/29/t...
#poets #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #BlueSkyPoets
June 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Just one final proofread before Into the Sealight goes live!
In the meantime, please enjoy the first poem in this volume along with my ramblings about growing up in a (NOT HAUNTED) carriage house.
robertpawlikowski.com/2025/06/29/t...
#poets #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #BlueSkyPoets
In the meantime, please enjoy the first poem in this volume along with my ramblings about growing up in a (NOT HAUNTED) carriage house.
robertpawlikowski.com/2025/06/29/t...
#poets #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #BlueSkyPoets
Today marks the 50th anniversary of my father's death. Please be careful out there.
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June 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Today marks the 50th anniversary of my father's death. Please be careful out there.
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June 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Reposted by Kristina Pawlikowski
Conserving our environment is an American value. From hikers to hunters we want to keep our public lands public! Thats why the unprecedented sell-off of millions of acres of public lands needs to be removed from the Senate Budget Bill.
Nature is non partisan! 🇺🇸
Pass it on!
Nature is non partisan! 🇺🇸
Pass it on!
June 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Conserving our environment is an American value. From hikers to hunters we want to keep our public lands public! Thats why the unprecedented sell-off of millions of acres of public lands needs to be removed from the Senate Budget Bill.
Nature is non partisan! 🇺🇸
Pass it on!
Nature is non partisan! 🇺🇸
Pass it on!
My first book is back from the editor!! I wasn’t sure quite what to expect but I’m so pleased with the feedback. There’s work to be done for sure, but I feel like I have a strong roadmap now. Just gotta wait for the cat to move so I can get up and get started.
#writing #middlegrade #books
#writing #middlegrade #books
June 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
My first book is back from the editor!! I wasn’t sure quite what to expect but I’m so pleased with the feedback. There’s work to be done for sure, but I feel like I have a strong roadmap now. Just gotta wait for the cat to move so I can get up and get started.
#writing #middlegrade #books
#writing #middlegrade #books
My father's alter ego, morris, arrived in late 1969 and stayed by his side until his (my father's) death six years later.
While working on the first post-humous publication of his (or maybe, their) poetry, I ponder: Who is morris?
#poet #poetry #poems
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While working on the first post-humous publication of his (or maybe, their) poetry, I ponder: Who is morris?
#poet #poetry #poems
robertpawlikowski.com/2025/06/11/w...
June 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
My father's alter ego, morris, arrived in late 1969 and stayed by his side until his (my father's) death six years later.
While working on the first post-humous publication of his (or maybe, their) poetry, I ponder: Who is morris?
#poet #poetry #poems
robertpawlikowski.com/2025/06/11/w...
While working on the first post-humous publication of his (or maybe, their) poetry, I ponder: Who is morris?
#poet #poetry #poems
robertpawlikowski.com/2025/06/11/w...
How amazing does this sound??? 😍
It's #releaseday for The Etiquette of Voles! A wonderful MG cozy mystery set in Victorian London with a Vole as the sleuth! Kids are going to love Chains and his adventure.
#booksky📚💙 #middlegradebooks
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#booksky📚💙 #middlegradebooks
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The Etiquette of Voles | Artemesia Publishing
Life is lonely in Queen Victoria’s London, especially for a talking vole. Chains may be the equal of any human detective, but there’s one case he can’t solve: where he came from and why he can speak. ...
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June 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
How amazing does this sound??? 😍
Prepping 50-year old poetry to for modern typesetting and eReaders has not been without its challenges. I'm happy to share what worked and what didn't.
#Poetry #poet #poems #poetcommunity #BlueskyPoetry
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#Poetry #poet #poems #poetcommunity #BlueskyPoetry
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Update – Into the Sealight – The Robert Pawlikowski Poetry Project
Volume I of Into the Sealight is underway!
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June 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Prepping 50-year old poetry to for modern typesetting and eReaders has not been without its challenges. I'm happy to share what worked and what didn't.
#Poetry #poet #poems #poetcommunity #BlueskyPoetry
robertpawlikowski.com/2025/06/07/u...
#Poetry #poet #poems #poetcommunity #BlueskyPoetry
robertpawlikowski.com/2025/06/07/u...
Can't wait to read this!
If you like spooky Middle Grade, or know kids that like spooky MG, @maryaverling.bsky.social is a heck of a storyteller. I loved The Curse of Eelgrass Bog, and I could hardly put The Ghosts of Bitterfly Bay down this weekend. I can't wait to read what she writes next.
June 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Can't wait to read this!
Reposted by Kristina Pawlikowski
If you like spooky Middle Grade, or know kids that like spooky MG, @maryaverling.bsky.social is a heck of a storyteller. I loved The Curse of Eelgrass Bog, and I could hardly put The Ghosts of Bitterfly Bay down this weekend. I can't wait to read what she writes next.
June 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
If you like spooky Middle Grade, or know kids that like spooky MG, @maryaverling.bsky.social is a heck of a storyteller. I loved The Curse of Eelgrass Bog, and I could hardly put The Ghosts of Bitterfly Bay down this weekend. I can't wait to read what she writes next.
I've been quiet here, I know. Work, illness, kidstuff. But behind the scenes, I've been busy.
Into the Sealight: Volume I — poems from the 1960s by Robert Pawlikowski — is coming soon.
Cover reveal shortly, but in the meantime, here's a short update:https://robertpawlikowski.com
Into the Sealight: Volume I — poems from the 1960s by Robert Pawlikowski — is coming soon.
Cover reveal shortly, but in the meantime, here's a short update:https://robertpawlikowski.com
June 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I've been quiet here, I know. Work, illness, kidstuff. But behind the scenes, I've been busy.
Into the Sealight: Volume I — poems from the 1960s by Robert Pawlikowski — is coming soon.
Cover reveal shortly, but in the meantime, here's a short update:https://robertpawlikowski.com
Into the Sealight: Volume I — poems from the 1960s by Robert Pawlikowski — is coming soon.
Cover reveal shortly, but in the meantime, here's a short update:https://robertpawlikowski.com
My first book is off to an editor!! So while she's doing her magic, I'm working to *finally* compile my father's poetry for publication.
He drowned in 1975 while rescuing me and my sisters who'd been swept out to sea by a riptide.
This is the beginning of a long-overdue celebration of his work.
He drowned in 1975 while rescuing me and my sisters who'd been swept out to sea by a riptide.
This is the beginning of a long-overdue celebration of his work.
May 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
My first book is off to an editor!! So while she's doing her magic, I'm working to *finally* compile my father's poetry for publication.
He drowned in 1975 while rescuing me and my sisters who'd been swept out to sea by a riptide.
This is the beginning of a long-overdue celebration of his work.
He drowned in 1975 while rescuing me and my sisters who'd been swept out to sea by a riptide.
This is the beginning of a long-overdue celebration of his work.
Fifty years after his death, the poetry returns
Into the Sealight is the posthumous collection of Robert Pawlikowski, originally written in the 1960s and '70s
Volume I launching Summer 2025
🕯️ Grief, grit, & light beneath the water
www.robertpawlikowski.com
#poetry #intothesealight #blueskybooks
Into the Sealight is the posthumous collection of Robert Pawlikowski, originally written in the 1960s and '70s
Volume I launching Summer 2025
🕯️ Grief, grit, & light beneath the water
www.robertpawlikowski.com
#poetry #intothesealight #blueskybooks
The Robert Pawlikowski Poetry Project
Into the Sealight is a three-volume collection of poems by Robert Pawlikowski — written between the late 1960s and early 1970s, and now brought to light fifty years after his passing.
www.robertpawlikowski.com
May 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Fifty years after his death, the poetry returns
Into the Sealight is the posthumous collection of Robert Pawlikowski, originally written in the 1960s and '70s
Volume I launching Summer 2025
🕯️ Grief, grit, & light beneath the water
www.robertpawlikowski.com
#poetry #intothesealight #blueskybooks
Into the Sealight is the posthumous collection of Robert Pawlikowski, originally written in the 1960s and '70s
Volume I launching Summer 2025
🕯️ Grief, grit, & light beneath the water
www.robertpawlikowski.com
#poetry #intothesealight #blueskybooks
To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks,
Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
As if this flesh which walls about our life,
Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus
Comes at the last and with a little pin
Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Shakespeare, Richard II
3/
Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
As if this flesh which walls about our life,
Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus
Comes at the last and with a little pin
Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Shakespeare, Richard II
3/
February 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks,
Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
As if this flesh which walls about our life,
Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus
Comes at the last and with a little pin
Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Shakespeare, Richard II
3/
Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
As if this flesh which walls about our life,
Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus
Comes at the last and with a little pin
Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Shakespeare, Richard II
3/
Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;
All murder'd: for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits,
scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
2/
All murder'd: for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits,
scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
2/
February 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;
All murder'd: for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits,
scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
2/
All murder'd: for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits,
scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
2/
I think Shakespeare said it best:
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;
1/
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;
1/
February 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I think Shakespeare said it best:
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;
1/
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;
1/
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
Day 11/20
💙📚👀
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 11/20
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#BookChallenge
November 28, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
Day 11/20
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Day 11/20
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Reposted by Kristina Pawlikowski
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
Day 10/20
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#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 10/20
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November 27, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
Day 10/20
💙📚👀
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 10/20
💙📚👀
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge