An ode of sorts to imagination and to my dad smack-dab-in-the-middle.blogspot.com/2026/02/magi...
11.02.2026 16:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An ode of sorts to imagination and to my dad smack-dab-in-the-middle.blogspot.com/2026/02/magi...
11.02.2026 16:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
3 Favorite Qs from World Read Aloud Day
Funniest: Do you ever, like, walk out your front door & people notice you & start taking pictures?
Most inciteful: Did the illustrations in The Gollywhopper Games turn out like you pictured in your mind?
Most concise: What's your writing Kryptonite?
Hey, #Teachers! #Librarians! If you're in or around #Springfield, MO, I now have open slots for school visits - 10/7 & 8 - leading up to #clfo, which means no travel fees for you. Contact: jody@jodyfeldman.com or @hownowbooking.bsky.social. My website for more info: jodyfeldman.com
05.09.2025 19:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When, in your WIP, your character's last name might be polarizing, no matter how perfect it is, no matter how much you've grown attached to it, it may be time to change it.
#kidlit #mglit #writingtips #writing
No reflections? This is no reflection on you, and it's no reflection on me (unless you have some feelings on one of my approaches to writing). smack-dab-in-the-middle.blogspot.com/2025/08/no-r...
11.08.2025 19:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
At long last, I have a new website!
A shout-out to the wonderful team at Skytemple, who exceeded all my expectations. If you stop by, you can also subscribe to a very infrequent newsletter for updates and giveaways you won’t find here. jodyfeldman.com
Apparently, YouTube now has previews of all 3 Gollywhopper Games audio books should you care to listen. Here's the first. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o52...
20.05.2025 18:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A few thoughts... yaoutsidethelines.blogspot.com/2025/04/esca...
20.04.2025 17:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When, after you're off a train in Milan, and you realize you've lost one of your favorite earrings, you track down the jeweler and she not only sends you a new pair for the price of one, but she provides the SASE for the other's return. A shout-out to Laurette! She's amazing! Her work is amazing!
18.04.2025 15:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In honor of World Art Day, 10 works inspiring my work-in-progress. Artists (top to bottom, L to R): Edward Hopper, Georges Seurat, Maximillien Luce, Amedeo Modigliani, Pierre-Auguste Renior, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Romare Bearden, George Catlin
15.04.2025 15:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Pantheon's oculus, thought to be an opening to the heavens, where Tess in her sudden sense of foreboding sends up a prayer. (p. 44)
01.04.2025 17:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ciao da Roma...
and No Way Home's 1st visit to the city that inspired so many scenes.
If you have a copy of the book, pull it out so you can visualize what Tess is seeing.
First stop, the Pantheon. View from my hotel window. See the oculus in the post below (pp. 43-44) More soon. Saluti!
Can someone tell me who's minding the #usps
I know but...
Package sent from CT traveled through PA & Chicago area before coming to 3 facilities here in St. Louis including my local P.O. Delivered? No. It's back in Chicago.
(BTW, where's my pkg from LA sent 8/1/24?)
In a world where 15 plot beats can be arranged in, literally, 1.3+ trillion way, sometimes you need to write them down, give them a shuffle, rearrange, rearrange, and rearrange and…
Voila!
Look what I found in a box inside another box in the shadows of the basement. #cringe #cringeworthy
Even so, I’m thinking there will be frequent snippets. Stay tuned 😬
When you're lost in Brainstorming Land, you sometimes forget there's a whole other world out here.
Which can be temporarily necessary.
A box of books off to LA. Huge appreciation to Veronica Bane for taking on such a mammoth effort. So much more at
@veronicabane.bsky.social
What a great launch! Science experiments and all. Cannot wait to dig into this story. Yay, @stephaniebearce.bsky.social
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#mglit #kidlit #stchlibrary #stephaniebearce #moonlightmanor #launchparty #STEM #mystery
Did you know you can now read ebooks and still support local booksellers? @bookshop-org.bsky.social has an app, hooray!
So see you later... I have a new book on my phone. To keep me from doomscrolling ;) #booksky
bookshop.org/ebooks
Research question:
The teens in your life; what are they into?
(My brain is stuck on the wrong thing for the plot.)
My newest fan. Start ‘em young, I say!
(This little one reportedly chose these from the shelf of kids’ books all by themself.)
A little something about friendship on the YA Outside the Lines blog. yaoutsidethelines.blogspot.com/2025/01/true...
23.01.2025 18:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I thought (sadly) I'd need to skip World Read Aloud Day this year. Now I don't! If your class (grades 4-12) still needs a reader, give me a shout!
#teachers #librarians #kidlit #wrad #wrad2025
ME! (But you already found me.)
22.01.2025 14:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
RIP Jules Pfeiffer
Years ago, I saw a political cartoon* of his which showed 1) angelic child, 2)adult filling their head with hate speech 3)same child, turned devil. Recently, unable to track it down, I emailed Jules, not expecting anything, but...
*Also illustrator of The Phantom Tollbooth
Maybe my favorite and, perhaps, that's because MLK was speaking to some of the people I'm writing for. This, at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia on 10/26/1967. The speech: "What Is Your Life's Blueprint?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmtO...
Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Pronto? Hmm. And the census records are great. I like your method of the 200s.
17.01.2025 23:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We all know what this means, right? No. Not that. I’m starting something new. Right now, it’s just a kernel of an idea but my main character needs a name. Pronto. So do the others. What do you like?
17.01.2025 18:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
New year, new workout. (Except I really do jump.)
15.01.2025 18:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0