Lotte Elsa
@lotteelsa.bsky.social
Children’s writer & creator of "Plants & Machines", a publication exploring how AI is reshaping childhood, storytelling, and education. #AIforGood #Kidlit #12x12 #SCBWI #WriteMentor
https://plantsandmachines.substack.com/
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Lotte Elsa
@lotteelsa.bsky.social
· Jul 4
*Future of Childhood x AI*
The future belongs to children, but they're missing from AI conversations. Let's change that!
This feed explores how AI transforms childhood, how we can shape it to safeguard children and innovate for their wellbeing.
🔗 Follow → bsky.app/profile/lott...
Tag: #AIChildhood
The future belongs to children, but they're missing from AI conversations. Let's change that!
This feed explores how AI transforms childhood, how we can shape it to safeguard children and innovate for their wellbeing.
🔗 Follow → bsky.app/profile/lott...
Tag: #AIChildhood
*Future of Childhood x AI*
The future belongs to children, but they're missing from AI conversations. Let's change that!
This feed explores how AI transforms childhood, how we can shape it to safeguard children and innovate for their wellbeing.
🔗 Follow → bsky.app/profile/lott...
Tag: #AIChildhood
The future belongs to children, but they're missing from AI conversations. Let's change that!
This feed explores how AI transforms childhood, how we can shape it to safeguard children and innovate for their wellbeing.
🔗 Follow → bsky.app/profile/lott...
Tag: #AIChildhood
July 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
*Future of Childhood x AI*
The future belongs to children, but they're missing from AI conversations. Let's change that!
This feed explores how AI transforms childhood, how we can shape it to safeguard children and innovate for their wellbeing.
🔗 Follow → bsky.app/profile/lott...
Tag: #AIChildhood
The future belongs to children, but they're missing from AI conversations. Let's change that!
This feed explores how AI transforms childhood, how we can shape it to safeguard children and innovate for their wellbeing.
🔗 Follow → bsky.app/profile/lott...
Tag: #AIChildhood
It’s an absurdity to think it would protect children to limit their access to science and wonder and learning about our world’s beautiful diversity. We must #endbookbans and support diverse voices in #kidlit.
Republicans: banning children’s books because they feature scandalous, scientifically-accurate information about how many trees are both male *and* female.
wvpublic.org/wishtree-aut...
wvpublic.org/wishtree-aut...
July 31, 2024 at 11:07 PM
It’s an absurdity to think it would protect children to limit their access to science and wonder and learning about our world’s beautiful diversity. We must #endbookbans and support diverse voices in #kidlit.
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Here’s your daily reminder to ✨keep writing✨
July 27, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Here’s your daily reminder to ✨keep writing✨
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New to Bluesky?
A feed lets you scroll the topics you want to see. A list shows a group of people with something in common. Starter Packs help you follow people and feeds easily.
An explainer w/ links relevant to #kidlit & #publishing here: boringstorybook.com/a-list-oflis...
A feed lets you scroll the topics you want to see. A list shows a group of people with something in common. Starter Packs help you follow people and feeds easily.
An explainer w/ links relevant to #kidlit & #publishing here: boringstorybook.com/a-list-oflis...
July 25, 2024 at 2:58 AM
New to Bluesky?
A feed lets you scroll the topics you want to see. A list shows a group of people with something in common. Starter Packs help you follow people and feeds easily.
An explainer w/ links relevant to #kidlit & #publishing here: boringstorybook.com/a-list-oflis...
A feed lets you scroll the topics you want to see. A list shows a group of people with something in common. Starter Packs help you follow people and feeds easily.
An explainer w/ links relevant to #kidlit & #publishing here: boringstorybook.com/a-list-oflis...
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Spreading joy one manatee at a time 💙
July 23, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Spreading joy one manatee at a time 💙
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In the Belgian city I lived in at the time, people put stuffed toys (mainly teddy bears) in the windows for children to spot on their daily neighbourhood walks. One family made beautiful little scenes with their resident Tigger.
March 8, 2024 at 2:58 PM
In the Belgian city I lived in at the time, people put stuffed toys (mainly teddy bears) in the windows for children to spot on their daily neighbourhood walks. One family made beautiful little scenes with their resident Tigger.
I forgot that social media could be fun. While trying to endure an apocalyptic heatwave while pregnant, I’ve been finding hope on here, reading about Octavia Butler’s beautiful mind (yday was the day of the parable 🤯), and Tolkien’s deep understanding of human nature. #bluesky
July 21, 2024 at 12:37 PM
I forgot that social media could be fun. While trying to endure an apocalyptic heatwave while pregnant, I’ve been finding hope on here, reading about Octavia Butler’s beautiful mind (yday was the day of the parable 🤯), and Tolkien’s deep understanding of human nature. #bluesky
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Here’s what I tell my student when they express this anxiety:
Write in community along the way and your community will be there to support you further down the path too.
Share your work with friends. Go to readings and cheer on peers and mentors. Activate yourself as a literary citizen.
Write in community along the way and your community will be there to support you further down the path too.
Share your work with friends. Go to readings and cheer on peers and mentors. Activate yourself as a literary citizen.
January 19, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Here’s what I tell my student when they express this anxiety:
Write in community along the way and your community will be there to support you further down the path too.
Share your work with friends. Go to readings and cheer on peers and mentors. Activate yourself as a literary citizen.
Write in community along the way and your community will be there to support you further down the path too.
Share your work with friends. Go to readings and cheer on peers and mentors. Activate yourself as a literary citizen.
I immediately added this to my summer reading list. Grown-ups have much to learn from children, and also from children’s books. Writing for and with children has taught me much of what I know about this world ✨
Oh, look! PW wants you to know about BELIEVE IN THE WORLD: WISDOM FOR GROWNUPS FROM CHILDREN’S BOOKS, collected by Amy Gash and me.
July 21, 2024 at 11:29 AM
I immediately added this to my summer reading list. Grown-ups have much to learn from children, and also from children’s books. Writing for and with children has taught me much of what I know about this world ✨
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Nothing pleases me more than seeing the joy and comfort of Wallace the former stray. I think of him shivering and injured, angry and semi feral, last January… and now he cuddles and plays and just enjoys his life. I basically want this for everyone—May we all be warm and well fed.
July 20, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Nothing pleases me more than seeing the joy and comfort of Wallace the former stray. I think of him shivering and injured, angry and semi feral, last January… and now he cuddles and plays and just enjoys his life. I basically want this for everyone—May we all be warm and well fed.
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EXERCISE! It’s essential, especially for the likes of us who often live/work sedentary lives.
I walk 3-4 miles a day, and not only is it great cardio, but it jazzes my brain so that I have written the majority of my graphic novels on those walks!
#protip #comics #writing
I walk 3-4 miles a day, and not only is it great cardio, but it jazzes my brain so that I have written the majority of my graphic novels on those walks!
#protip #comics #writing
if u see this, quote-post with your tips for writers that no one gives anymore because they seem obvious (even though they're not)
June 27, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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Dear Writer,
Remember to find the joy in your story.
Deadlines, word counts, and other expectations (whether they’ve been set by others or ourselves) can get in the way of what made us fall in love with writing in the first place. Don’t let pressure ruin the process for you.
Enjoy your . . .
Remember to find the joy in your story.
Deadlines, word counts, and other expectations (whether they’ve been set by others or ourselves) can get in the way of what made us fall in love with writing in the first place. Don’t let pressure ruin the process for you.
Enjoy your . . .
June 20, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Dear Writer,
Remember to find the joy in your story.
Deadlines, word counts, and other expectations (whether they’ve been set by others or ourselves) can get in the way of what made us fall in love with writing in the first place. Don’t let pressure ruin the process for you.
Enjoy your . . .
Remember to find the joy in your story.
Deadlines, word counts, and other expectations (whether they’ve been set by others or ourselves) can get in the way of what made us fall in love with writing in the first place. Don’t let pressure ruin the process for you.
Enjoy your . . .
I wish we could throw away some submission rules. They make the least sense to my neurodivergent mind…
"Each author is different in what they need to succeed. Other than the grammar rules, throw away the writing rules that don't make sense to you. As authors, we all write differently. Don't try and force yourself into any certain type of author-shaped box." - Wrtr #amwriting #author #writing
June 19, 2024 at 7:35 AM
I wish we could throw away some submission rules. They make the least sense to my neurodivergent mind…
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Books are ad free. AD FREE. This glorious feature is largely undercelebrated imho.
June 18, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Books are ad free. AD FREE. This glorious feature is largely undercelebrated imho.
Do any other #kidlit authors have a problem with the phrasing “in the querying trenches”? It makes me think of homesick, cold, hungry teenage boys in mud holes, caught up in tragic, atrocious wars. Querying can be a lonely journey indeed, but is there a more pacifist term to describe the struggle?
June 18, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Do any other #kidlit authors have a problem with the phrasing “in the querying trenches”? It makes me think of homesick, cold, hungry teenage boys in mud holes, caught up in tragic, atrocious wars. Querying can be a lonely journey indeed, but is there a more pacifist term to describe the struggle?
Reposting this so I remember to purchase it, because it sounds delightful! ✨
For readers ages 3-7, this is a stunningly illustrated celebration of tolerance, togetherness, and the power of community, discover OUR TREE www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/770169...
Our Tree by Jessica Meserve: 9781664300620 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
For readers ages 3-7, this is a stunningly illustrated celebration of tolerance, togetherness, and the power of community. Little Red is delighted when he discovers a beautiful tree--and he...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
June 18, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Reposting this so I remember to purchase it, because it sounds delightful! ✨
Hi Crystal! Your work looks stunning (and your parent had a pretty cool job!) ✨
Hi MEGA feed! I’m Crystal - short, west coast illustrator who loves neon and nature. I have two books published so far. Also want to author one day.
When I was little my parents were lighthouse keepers. I love travel and just got back from the desert.
👋🏼 WAVE 😜
www.heycrystalsmith.com
#kidlit
When I was little my parents were lighthouse keepers. I love travel and just got back from the desert.
👋🏼 WAVE 😜
www.heycrystalsmith.com
#kidlit
June 15, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Hi Crystal! Your work looks stunning (and your parent had a pretty cool job!) ✨
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Please follow our agency, fellow authors, illustrators, industry peeps, and book lovers. We are in the process of migrating over and building up our community base. Thank youuuuu!
Hey if you are interested in books and whatnot could you do me a favor and follow @andreabrownlit.bsky.social ? We are trying to migrate AWAY from Evil Empire type sites but we still get about a million percent fewer eyeballs here so it’s hard to leave — trying to boost BLUESKY! 💙🦋💙
June 12, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Please follow our agency, fellow authors, illustrators, industry peeps, and book lovers. We are in the process of migrating over and building up our community base. Thank youuuuu!
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Books go bad if you leave them out on the counter unfinished for too long. You could end up with listeria, salmonella, some sort of giant worms on the brain. Better to stay up until 4 am and finish the things, really. You are an adult now, with responsibilities to uphold and an example to set.
June 12, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Books go bad if you leave them out on the counter unfinished for too long. You could end up with listeria, salmonella, some sort of giant worms on the brain. Better to stay up until 4 am and finish the things, really. You are an adult now, with responsibilities to uphold and an example to set.
💔 The least we can do for these survivors is to promise them that we’ll continue telling their stories. That we won’t forget.
BREAKING: The Oklahoma Supreme Court has dismissed the Tulsa Race Massacre case, in what was likely the final opportunity for survivors to receive justice
BREAKING: Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses Tulsa race massacre case
In an 8 to 1 decision, the Oklahoma Supreme Court has dismissed the Tulsa Race Massacre case.
www.whatimreading.net
June 12, 2024 at 6:06 PM
💔 The least we can do for these survivors is to promise them that we’ll continue telling their stories. That we won’t forget.