When your critique partner points out you're using the word THAT too much, and you head to the coffee shop to take 91 "that's" out of your manuscript. ❤️ Thanks, @tanackerwohlers.bsky.social ! #amwriting #amediting #kidlit #coffeefuel

When the lilacs are blooming, and you get to spend all afternoon on the front porch right next to them.

✅ Summer class short story drafts graded
✅ 12x12 Picture Book Challenge May draft finished, just in time

Happy spring! ❤️

#amwriting #kidlit #amteaching #12x12pbchallenge

Progress on MG novel revisions today, & a perfect day to write outside! College kids are home, so the house is full. ❤️ Time for a walk before it gets dark & a quick grocery store run. Hoping for a little more writing later! Could I order a few more hours in today, please? 😏 #SummerBreak #AmWriting

So fun to learn that my rhyming picture book manuscript, Midnight Storm, received an honorable mention in this year's #PBParty. 🎉 Huge thanks to @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social and the other judges for alllll the time and effort it takes to make this happen, and a shout out to everyone who entered! ❤️

Spent a #SnowySaturday browsing picture books at the bookstore and coming home to catch up with the #PBParty feed, study #12x12 author mentor texts, and send out my first 2025 submission. 📚 Thankful for my writing buddy, who loves to look out the window from my desk. And coffee. Always coffee. ☕❤️