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Ines Ayala Lozano (she/her)
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🌟#kidlit writer (PB/YA) | agent: @the1whowill | by lines @parents | Communications @latinxkidlitbf @lkbfstorytellers | join my adventure 📚
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Click for a 3-min read or listen to the audio: open.substack.com/pub/inesloza...
April 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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lkbfstorytellers.bsky.social
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#Writersky
March 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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debbieohi.com
Woohoo, 3-minute videos! Previous limit was 1-minute.
Plus more improvements. I'll be updating my Unofficial Guide To Bluesky (see my pinned post) soon. #BlueSkyTips
bsky.app Bluesky @bsky.app · Mar 10
📢 App Version 1.99 is rolling out now (1/5)

With every update, we’re aiming to make the Internet less toxic, more fun, and more in your control.

• 3 minute videos!
• A separate request inbox for DMs from unknown users
• Mute accounts more quickly
Bluesky 1.99. Improvements: Videos are now up to 3 minutes long! A DMs "inbox" to approve or reject new direct messages. You can now mute accounts from a post's "..." menu. An improved moderation reporting flow. Better tablet-size layouts on Web. Better error reporting during signup.
March 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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share this post with your friends who want to join the #booksky community! 💙📚
December 31, 2024 at 6:03 PM
byinesayala.bsky.social
Latinx Storytellers, 👀, 👇🏽
lkbfstorytellers.bsky.social LKBF’s Latinx Storytellers Conference @lkbfstorytellers.bsky.social · Mar 10
Tickets go on sale next month! Subscribe to our newsletter to get the jump on securing your tix to the largest in-person gathering of Latinx writers, illustrators, and publishing pros.

Sign up 👉🏽: buff.ly/7Eot8DP

September 12-13, New York
March 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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lkbfstorytellers.bsky.social
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Want info about critique opportunities?
Want to have all the tea about the storytellers conference?

Check out the new website: buff.ly/MUIMUvE and subscribe to the newsletter

September 12-13, New York
March 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
byinesayala.bsky.social
Imposter syndrome paying you a visit this week? Read this: ineslozano.substack.com/p/imposter-s...
March 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
byinesayala.bsky.social
👀
lkbfstorytellers.bsky.social LKBF’s Latinx Storytellers Conference @lkbfstorytellers.bsky.social · Mar 3
Guess who's back? Back again?
Tell a friend!
Stay tuned to learn how your favorite Latinx Storytellers Conference is bringing you MORE!

💫More Community
💫More Craft
💫More Industry Access[

Subscribe: buff.ly/4h5zGyS

And 👀 this space.

Sept. 12-13, NYC
March 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
byinesayala.bsky.social
Started a SubStack, right when you needed it open.substack.com/pub/ineslozano

#writesky
February 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
byinesayala.bsky.social
For anyone in need of a little laugh:

This morning I sat on the couch having coffee, my dog next to me. But I had to run upstairs to get something so I got up quickly and tossed the blanket off my lap. This is how I found my dog when I came back down.
February 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
If I didn't have to pay for all the books I buy for my school library, what a dream that would be. Instead, I push right up to the edge of my budget every year and still can't buy everything I need.
sillysyntax.bsky.social Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · Feb 22
I've seen a few people mention (one to me) others before and now today that libraries are advocating free stuff/not sales for the author.
Libraries don't acquire books by magic. They buy copies with money. It can be hundreds/thousands of sales. People pay taxes to use the library. Nothing is free.
February 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
byinesayala.bsky.social
First 4 beats have been laid down. Only 11 to go.

I love this workbook (knew I would) and I use it in conjunction with Save the Cat and Story Genius.

What’s in your writing tool kit?
February 22, 2025 at 4:32 AM
byinesayala.bsky.social
Just me?

Writes best work yet.
Sends it to agent.
It’s going on sub!
Gets new idea! It’s a banger!
Wonders how one writes a book😩
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
February 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
byinesayala.bsky.social
I don’t remember who I was talking to about this but I shared that my teen doesn’t like to read. Not a bookworm at all….but wait, she just shared that she LOVES (her word) to analyze texts. She loves looking for symbolism, etc.

That’s a win in my column!
February 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
byinesayala.bsky.social
Um, 👋🏽 . Did you see this?
latinxkidlitbf.bsky.social The Latinx KidLit Book Festival (LKBF) @latinxkidlitbf.bsky.social · Feb 14
Closing today!!! And items are now going fast! Hurry to place your bid and swoop in for the win!

bit.ly/lkbfauction25

Some of these donors ❤️ have more than one item, go see what’s still available now!! #writersofbsky #illustratorsofbsky
February 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
byinesayala.bsky.social
If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery
February 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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authorsabb.bsky.social
AABB stands with our trans members, friends, colleagues, heroes, and the countless trans Americans who will be affected by this needlessly cruel Executive Order from the Trump Administration.

We are proud to do so alongside so many of our comrades in the fight against book bans.
Statement on the Trump administration's january 20,2025 EO Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary and Gender Non Conforming Americans On January 20, the White House issued an executive order stating that the United States government will only recognize two sexes, male and female, as defined “at conception.” The ripple effect of this order will undoubtedly affect public schools, public libraries, and the literature that is shelved in both. Among the many harms it causes, the order targeting transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming Americans threatens unconstitutional censorship that could have a grave impact on literature for years to come. In dismissing trans, intersex, and nonbinary identities, the order blacklists LGBTQIA+ literature and invites the government to dictate the perspectives, beliefs, and identities that can exist in public forums receiving federal funding, amounting to financial coercion through the arbitrary withholding of funds. This censorship may begin with LGBTQIA+ perspectives, but it will not end there: allowing the government to censor one group erodes the First Amendment rights of all Americans, creating a precedent for silencing dissenting voices. If allowed to stand, the order will create new funding requirements imposed not only on federal entities, but private citizens and institutions who contract with them. Those requirements can and will be manipulated to dictate speech. The broader chilling effect on literature could be even harder to undo. Writers rely on funding from sources like the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the state-level institutions they fund. Trans, nonbinary, and intersex experience is vastly underrepresented in literature but disproportionately targeted by bans. During the 2022-2023 school year, 30% of books banned included LGBTQIA+ characters or themes. Such censorship robs us of perspectives that enrich the American story. Though the executive order in question tries to paint LGBTQIA+ people and allies as bullies enforcing their perspective on others through “legal and other socially coercive means,” that’s exactly what the order itself does, just as book-banning pressure groups have done since 2020 in school boards and libraries around the country. The fate of trans, intersex, and nonbinary people is not a political ideology, it’s a matter of human rights, civil rights, and freedom of expression. Government erosion of those rights should concern all Americans, regardless of their investment in LGBTQIA+ literature specifically. This executive order is censorship, pure and simple, and it has no place in a free society. It must be rescinded or stayed as soon as possible, and at the latest, before the earliest implementation deadline, February 19, 2025. Financially blacklisting trans, intersex, and non-binary perspectives will rob us of a vital literature yet to be written while insulting the dignity of LGBTQIA+ people everywhere. This return to McCarthyism by other means is a leap backwards to a grim chapter of American history. Sincerely, the undersigned, • American Booksellers Association • American Booksellers for Free Expression • Andrews McMeel • Annie's Foundation • Audio Publishers Association • Authors Against Book Bans • Berry Powell Press • Cardinal Rule Press • Charlesbridge Publishing • Chestnut Publishing House • Comic Book Legal Defense Fund • Deborah Sloan and Company and Kidsbuzz • Developmental Texts • Empowering Latino Futures • EveryLibrary • Firewater Media Group • Florida Freedom to Read Project • Foreword Reviews • Freedom to Read Project • Gryphon Publishing Consulting, LLC • Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) • IngramSpark • Judging by the Cover: A Bookstore • Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship • Lambda Literary • Latino 247 Media Group • Lee Wind, author • Levine Querido • Library Futures • Livingston Parish Library Alliance • Louisiana Citizens Against Censorship • Macmillan Children's Publishing Group • The National Book Critics Circle • National Coalition Against Censorship • NorthSouth Books • Nosy Crow • Patagonia • Publishers and Writers of San Diego and Orange County • PEN America • PFLAG Fresno • PubWest • Rattling Good Yarns Press • Read Freely Alabama • Red Comet Press LLC • Rutherford County Library Alliance • Sara Paretsky, Writer • SCBWI • SEAT • SparkPoint Studio • St Tammany Library Alliance • Stone Bridge Press • Texas Freedom to Read Project • Walker Books Group for Candlewick Press, Holiday House Books, and Peachtree Publishing • We Need Diverse Books
February 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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lishmcbride.bsky.social
For those that maybe need a little joy…for reasons… @libro.fm is having a romance audiobook sale. Lots of good titles. I…probably bought too many. 😬

libro.fm/sale/all
All sale audiobooks
Check out the selection of Libro.fm’s on-sale audiobooks!
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February 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
byinesayala.bsky.social
#ootd for the @pocpub happy hour event this evening. It’ll be great to be in community, lean on each other’s strengths, and explore more ways to amplify diverse representation in all areas of trad publishing. 🌟📚 #POCinPublishing #DiverseBooks #CommunityStrength @lkbfstorytellers @latinxkidlitbf
February 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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debbieohi.com
To illustrators posting videos of their art process: Pls use #ArtProcessVideo tag when you post? Looking for some to feature in my Uplift feed. Add #KidLitArt if they are appropriate for children's books.

Note: You can turn OFF autoplay of videos & GIFS at bsky.app/settings/con...
February 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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beingreese.bsky.social
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
#BookSky #BlackBookSky
February 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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latinxkidlitbf.bsky.social
Knock knock—

Not an intro to a joke, just looking for our friends. #kidlitbooks #schoollibraries #kidlitbookshelf
February 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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latinxkidlitbf.bsky.social
New Item Just In!

#illustratorsofbluesky #picturebookartist have your portfolio critiqued by 2025 PURA BELPRÈ Illustration Honor Book illustrator @gardeltatiana!!!

👟 Don't walk, run (click) https://buff.ly/411XbEk Link also in bio.

#picturebookillustrator #picturebookart #coverdesign
February 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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andreabrownlit.bsky.social
"Each year a committee of ALSC identifies the best of the best in children's books. According to the Notables Criteria, "notable" is defined as: Worthy of note or notice, important, distinguished, outstanding."

Thank you ALSC!😘
February 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
byinesayala.bsky.social
That hustle life vibe is out. But if you’re being super productive with soul and purpose replenishing activities, that’s in.

This weekend I:
- Worked in the @lkbfstorytellers.bsky.social marketing strategy
- worked on the LKBF auction content
- wrote a picture book
- read a new book

#writerlife
February 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM