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Kristina Pawlikowski
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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
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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
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I’ve added more colors and layers to my revision board. I think I’m avoiding the actual revising 😅

#writing #writingcommunity #editing
Wood door covered with yellow, orange, and blue sticky notes in an array. A glimpse of a messy kitchen behind the door.
July 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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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
Black and white photo of a carriage house in upstate New York. The house acts as a bridge over a creek with a cupola in the middle.
June 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of my father's death. Please be careful out there.

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Two signs illustrating the dangers of rip currents (left is in English, right is in Spanish). They show a diagram of the danger, instructions on what do do if caught in a rip current, and general beach safety.
June 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Going old school today

#writesky #writerlife #amediting
A wooden pantry door with an array of yellow post-it notes. A glimpse of a messy kitchen off to the left.
June 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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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
Image of a brown tabby cat curled up asleep with his face tucked under a leg.
June 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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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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An orange tabby cat with green eyes, staring upwards.
June 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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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.
Old black and white photograph of Robert Pawlikowski, a bearded and mustachioed man with glasses. Text across the photo reads, "Coming Summer 2025." On the right is a text block: "Into the Sealight, Collected Poetry of Robert Pawlikowski, Volume I: 1967-1969, Available soon on Amazon."
May 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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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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Book cover for Neil Gaiman’s Coraline. Features a little girl holding a lit candlestick.
November 28, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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Book cover for Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Black with the title in white. Has a gold seal that reads Winner of the Pulitzer Price. Has a quote from the San Francisco Chronicle at the bottom in very small text.
November 27, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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Original book cover for A Fine and Private Place by Peter S Beagle. Black cover with art showing a flower-lined dirt path. A red broken heart is on the path.
November 26, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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Book cover from 1910 edition of The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allen Poe. Text at the bottom reads Drawings by John Rea Neill. Image shows a raven on a Grecian-looking platform holding one foot in the air.
November 26, 2024 at 3:31 AM
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Red book cover with the the title The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Authors are shown as Feynman, Leighton, and Sands.
November 24, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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Image shows the cover of a piano music book titled Fireside Book of Folk Songs. Cover is green cloth with red writing. There are a woman and a man dressed 9n folk-style clothing and holding folk instruments. There is a large plant in a large decorative vase between them.
November 24, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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Original book cover of Stephen King’s 1975 book called ‘Salem’s Lot. Inside thr O in Lot is an image of a Cody village with white buildings, but with a creepy mansion behind it.
November 22, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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This guy ❤️ #ishouldbewriting #tuxedocats
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November 22, 2024 at 1:56 AM
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November 22, 2024 at 1:14 AM
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Book cover for The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. Subtitle is Book 1 in the Chronicles of Narnia. The image is of four children who have just stepped through the doors of a wardrobe onto a snowy tree-lined path.
November 20, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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Book cover of The Magic Tunnel by Caroline D. Emerson. Shows a cost of 60 cents. Depicts a red crayon drawing of Governor Peter Stuyvesant wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a cape. His right leg is a pegleg. Behind in drawn in black is the image of a NYC subway station.
November 19, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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Original cover of Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle in Time," published in 1962. The cover has a blue background and shows white silhouettes of three children, with each child inside an array of circles.
November 18, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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A novel (hehe) take on time travel. Thoroughly enjoying this book. #amreading #timetravel #scifi
Book cover of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
November 17, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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Technically not messing with the Christmas decor
Black and white tuxedo cat squeezed in between a Nintendo Wii and a German Christmas pyramid.
November 17, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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With the holidays approaching, I’m trying something new in my practice sessions: 30 Minutes of Moyse. I’m finding it very relaxing and mediative (not counting the whole note scales lol). #flute #flutist
Image shows two pages of flute exercises by Moyse.
November 15, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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Looking for more MG/YA time travel books to read. Just finished The First State of Being - fantastic <3 #timetravel #kidlit
Book cover for The First State of Being by Erin Estrada Kelly. Shows two boys and a girl with the subtext "Tomorrow begins today."
November 15, 2024 at 2:00 AM