@laurielyoung
She/Her, Art Director, Graphic Designer, Writer of enchanting middle grade stories and funny picture books. Tsundoku aficionado. I have almost as many shoes as I have books and I have a LOT of books. #SCBWI #kidlit #mg #pb #storyteller #writer #art #design
"It’s Banned Books Week. Book bans don’t protect kids — they censor them. Stand with libraries, stand with readers, stand for the #FreedomToRead #BannedBooksWeek #StopBookBans
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As long as they’re enabling Trump’s authoritarian power grab, I’m going to #BoycottDisneyABC and cancel Disney+Hulu.
NEW VIDEO: "I can't get over a little bit of shock that this is happening, because the more you see and read about this bill...the more amazing it is to think that we're actually about to do this to ourselves. The amount of self-inflicted damage we're about to cause is really remarkable."
Thousands--if not millions--of people will literally die so that Republicans can give rich people a tax cut they don't need.
a moment of joy
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
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NO ONE should take this deal. Don't play his game, you will lose.
Owl at the Library @sketchesbyBoze I'm not kidding: those who delegate all their writing, thinking and creative expression to machines are going to wake up one day and discover that they can no longer write or think. You need to make your own art. You need to keep your brain working. You need to stay human. Owl at the Library @SketchesbyBoze But I promise you, doing the reading, sitting alone with yourself, making the art—even if it's bad art, even if no one sees it—is the only way you're going. to live a fully rewarding and satisfying life. Don't deprive yourself of that experience. It's worth it It's so worth it.
To all my writer friends, all my creative peeps, anyone who has ever heard the call to create in any capacity, PLEASE I AM BEGGING YOU, keep doing that. Keep creating, don't let the ugliness of the theft, the AI slop, the reality distortion fields keep you from being vibrantly alive.
Listen to Owl.
On that note:
Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.
Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.
Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
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Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our First Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 12, 2025. 🎉🎉🎉
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...
Congrats!!
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ho ho ho!
Congratulations!!!
Quote from Ursula K Le Guin: I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
She just gets more relevant every day.
I have some pages on my site that provide basic information about what children's book agents do and how to find them. I recently updated them. You can check them out here: www.underdown.org/agents.htm
Hi! I'm going to try to be more active here than I am on FB or IG (very low bar to reach) but so far . . . 😁
Hi Jane!
Yes, she did several songs from each album.
Yes, she did several songs from each album. The movie is about 30 minutes shorter than the actual tour, so you get almost everything.
Saw the Taylor Swift movie last night. It is spectacular. What struck me most is what a great storyteller she is, both in her words and her visuals. Every song was like a little story about a particular moment in her life, both raw and intimate, and broad and universal.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Hi Pauline!
Hello! I'm here, just in time for the weekend. Happy Friday!
