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Jyn Hall
@jynhall.bsky.social
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Owned by a rescue dog. Adored by an amazing man who doesn't (much) mind being called by my last name.
Cali girl living in Georgia.
Neurospicy PB/MG kidlit writer #SCBWI, #12x12PB.
writershour.com Host 🧜🏻‍♀️
All em dashes are my own—
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An illustrated red heart that reads: Kindness is Punk
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Just submitted my #FallWritingFrenzy contest entry!
Check out my YA horror story here: jynhall.com/writing.html
Tough story to write.
Pls note trigger warnings. 🫣😱

Thank you:
@kaitlynleann17.bsky.social
@lydialukidis.bsky.social
@professoraixa.bsky.social
for hosting this creative contest!
October 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day! 🏴‍☠️

Find out your pirate name! www.piratequiz.com

And check out these amazing sea shanties: www.instagram.com/sailnorthmus...

#talklikeapirate #talklikeapirateday
Jyn and her pirate partner--both in striped shirts--say, "Aargh!" for the camera. A pirate ship sails behind them.
September 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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What a JOY to celebrate my "Pub[lication] Day" on Thurs at @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social in 3 Writers’ Hours w/ 400-500 writers!! Shared a bit about my #kidlit picture book, writing-for-hire, & Reading Partners. 🎉🥳

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Author, with curly, strawberry blonde hair and glasses, holds up her nonfiction picture book "Bringing About Change: Making a Difference Through Activism" in 2 photos. Top photo - Soft cover of book with title and a cover photo of 5 diverse kids, having fun, wearing green t-shirts, each with a Recycle symbol on it. Bottom photo - author holds book open to a page discussing environmental activism with 1 book picture depicting a polar bear on melting ice caps and the other showing a beach strewn with tons of gross, plastic trash.
August 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Stella wants to send everyone a SMILE😁 today! 💕
August 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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It was an honor to write this nonfiction #picturebook "Bringing About Change: Making a Difference Through Activism" for Reading Partners’ wonderful literacy program+Cover to Cover series, & to work with talented editor @angelapadron.bsky.social!

#kidlit #writingcommunity #author #activism ✊
Picture book cover with title, author's name, and a photo of 5 kids, wearing shirts with large recycling symbols on the front, arms around each other, smiling and laughing.
July 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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“The only prerequisite for Saturday is a heart that breaks on behalf of its neighbors and its nation, and a courage that moves your feet to stand alongside other similarly heartbroken but courageous human beings.” John pavlovitz from his substack: a letter to Americans still on the sidelines, on the eve of No Kings Day
June 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Introducing our new fur baby:🌟Stella🌟
We adopted 7yo Stella 3 weeks ago. She's intelligent, eager to please, a bundle of energy, full of personality, snuggly, & very in-tune with my moods. She’s always trying to read me & gazes into my eyes for a long time, not breaking eye contact. 😍🥰❤️🌟
Stella, the Boston Terrier, with her new parents. Boston Terrier, Stella
June 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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I’m incredibly honored and grateful that @msmarianayagam.bsky.social selected me as her #PBRisingStars Runner-Up and gifted me with a #PB critique! Thank you, Maria! And thank you @pbrisingstars.bsky.social Team! ⭐️
#kidlit #writingcommunity
PBRS official Runner-Up Badge with quote from mentor Maria Marianayagam: "Jyn's writing is brilliant and captivating, and her ideas are fresh! I *loved* the concept for her latest manuscript, and I can't wait to see where she takes it."
May 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Enjoyed the 1st hour of London Writers' Salon #24hourwritingsprint. #Amwriting new #mgnovel in fave @scrivenerapp & it was an honor to have the amazing @stevenpressfield.bsky.social (The War of Art) write alongside us! 23 hours (& lots of prizes!) left if you want to join (free): lu.ma/yrj3omix
April 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Happy 1 yr Book Birthday to Untangling Hope!! So proud of Johnna Richard Stein! Highly recommend this incredible MG novel about foster care. (Oh! And you just might see someone you know in the Acknowledgments at the end of the book.😉)
Photo collage: The author, Johnna Stein, holds her novel Untangling Hope flanked by editors, Erin Adams and Jyn Hall. Goodreads 4.85 Stars review included, as well as book release Amazon rankings of #1 in New Release and #3 in Orphans and Foster Care categories.
March 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Beautiful! I love finding hearts in nature. I recently found this walnut shell heart on a trail.
March 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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#50PreciousWords: This year, I donated Yellow Butterflies by Ukrainian author/illus, Oleksandr Shatokhin. Stunning & gorgeous PB about war & hope. Hopefully more entrants are able to donate. Let’s flood CLiF w/ books! 📚📚📚Would love to hear what YOU donated & why. @viviankirkfield.bsky.social
Cover of picture book Yellow Butterflies by Ukrainian author, Oleksandr Shatokhin. White illustration of a young child with a yellow butterfly on their finger set against a black background. Classroom with dozens of donated picture books set on colourful rug.
March 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Egg 3 is pipping!
Fun footage of parents’ “changing of the guard” and interactions with eaglets in a snowstorm.
@10:19-10:23AM PT
March 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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As I lean into a "sense of the delightfully irresistible," my joy this week has been Pip Watch for Big Bear Lake's eagle pair, Jackie & Shadow. Three eggs this year. And early this morning, two eaglets hatched! 😍
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March 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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I always enjoy reading everyone's #50PreciousWords entries. The creativity in #kidlit stories that can be told in just 50 words is pretty incredible. Thank you, @viviankirkfield.bsky.social, for all your time and energy in hosting this wonderful contest. And thank you, judges!
Black background with a single lit candle. Poem "I am a Flame" by Jyn Hall When I’m sad mad scared and darkness closes in I remind myself “I am a flame” flickering shining dancing chasing away the shadows. Darkness retreats revealing I am not alone our lights fuse fuel stoke blaze brighter Together.
March 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Our hearts are crushed. This week we had to say goodbye to Kendall, our precious 13yo fur baby. 💔😭
February 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Thank you, @taralazar.bsky.social and article contributors for another fantastic #StoryStorm! ☂️ Loved having a positive, productive focus for this tough January! Until next year! 🌂
#picturebooks #kidlit #kidlitcommunity #writingcommunity
February 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Thrilled for my first work-for-hire nonfiction picture book contract!!

A big shoutout to my #SCBWI RA @melissajmiles.bsky.social for her informative @scbwi-sobreeze.bsky.social Shop Talk on creative ways to become a published author. #kidlit #writingcommunity #latepost...
January 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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You’ll definitely be ok! 😆
I might be too. Or not.
January 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Pumped up on adrenaline, coffee, synergy, and community. And also 🫠
Hosted: 3 hours
Attended: 11 hours
Total: 14 hours of the #24hourwritingsprint with the amazing London Writers’ Salon!
November 23, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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Interesting #publishing job opp!
Job info and how to apply: littlepresspublishing.com

#kidlit #writingcommunity
October 28, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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😊 It was a joy helping edit Johnna Stein’s MG novel: Untangling Hope.
a.co/d/cIPvBAG

#kidlit #middlegradebooks
#writingcommunity
October 25, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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I totally get it! 🥹
Poppy is adorable and love the name!
October 23, 2024 at 3:02 PM