Rebecca Weston

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So grateful that I got my annual reunion with my publishing besties this summer! Just yesterday, erm 17 years ago, Krista, Jessica, & I were baby assistants together @randomhousekids.bsky.social. @chelseaeberly.bsky.social, we missed our fourth musketeer. Next time! #bookpublishing #bffs #booksky

#RWLWritingTip Find a way to make your writing space somewhere you want to go. #writingtip #bookeditor #booksky #writesky

Flowers from Raindance Farm Flowers

Missing this summer’s view but so happy to be starting autumn with a middle-grade manuscript in hand. #summersend #sunset #bookeditor #booksky

Hello, old friends. Nothing beats boats and books. #summer #boats #nancydrew

@summitbooks.bsky.social

My friend Amanda Uhle wrote a beautiful, funny, compassionate memoir, out now @simonandschuster.bsky.social. Highly recommend for fans of The Glass Castle!
1. Celebrating
2. Interview @aadl.bsky.social w/Davy Rothbart
3. Pre-ordered @literatibookstore.bsky.social
4. ❤️
#memoir #newrelease #booksky

#RWLWritingTip If you’re having trouble staying motivated, find a writing partner to hold you to account. Check in once a day or week or month. If you know you have to tell someone what you’ve done, you’ll do more. #bookeditor #freelanceeditor #writingtips

Belatedly sharing my delight that the second Mo Seto novel is out in the world. Congrats, @aychanwrites.bsky.social & @simonkids.bsky.social! There is even more action-packed fun, with all our favorite characters—treat yourself! #thelegendarymoseto #martialartsstar #kidlit #taekwando #booksky

#RWLWritingTip Stop asking yourself what other people want to read and start asking what you want to. What will make you excited to sit in front of the computer every day? Write the story you want to read. The story you need to exist. #bookeditor #freelanceeditor #writingtips #writesky #booksky

When you shop at a bookstore vs Amazon, instead of buying four things you don’t actually need, you’ll end up with four books that can change your life.

Thanks to those who crafted and signed. I’m with you. #booksky #writingcommunity

Outdoor editing is the best editing! Sometimes, after nearly two decades as a #bookeditor, I still can’t believe that I get to make a living by reading stories all day long. #freelanceeditor #dreamjob #summer #booksky

#RWLWritingTip Say yes to bad ideas. Stop thinking of your ideas as bad. Stop thinking about your ideas. Stop thinking about thinking. Just write it all down. #writingtips #bookeditor #freelanceeditor

#RWLWritingTip Don’t let yourself be held back by the seeds of the story you thought you were writing. If something else more exciting starts to bloom in its place, give it room to grow. #writingtips #bookeditor #freelanceeditor

A deliciously quite lunch with my friend Vladimir at Miriam UWS. #bookeditor #nyc #nabokov @vintagebooks.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

Highlights from the #USBookShow in #NYC:
1. Dear friends @juliescheina.com & @editorsangeeta.bsky.social
2. Picnicking
3. CEO panel: Karp (@simonschuster.bsky.social), Shelley (@hachetteuk.bsky.social @hachetteus.bsky.social), Segura (@publisherswkly.bsky.social)
4. Brunch, @johnmcusick.bsky.social

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You said it, @juliescheina.com. I will never be interested in reading fiction that did not come from a human mind, heart, soul.

It never gets old, seeing a book that I had a small part in bringing into the world, on a shelf or in a kid’s hands. Here is the fabulous #TheLegendaryMoSeto by @aychanwrites.bsky.social, in the wild and in good company, at @schulerbooks.bsky.social. #kidlit #booksky
@simonkids.bsky.social

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NYC, I am coming back to you! Publishing friends, I’ll be in town 6/2-6/4 for the Book Fair. Let me know if you’ll be around—I’d love to see you! ❤️🗽Photo credit: me, circa 2011, the one time in nearly ten years I bothered to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. #nyc #bookeditor #brooklynbridge #booksky

#RWLWritingTip Having trouble getting into a writing groove? Set aside the same time every day. Some days you’ll write, some days you’ll stare lifelessly out the window. But the more consistently you show up, the more consistently the writing will flow. #writingtip #bookeditor #writing

As a developmental #bookeditor, my main job is to recognize a writer’s vision, find what is at the heart of the story, and draw it out. I am fueled by the desire to help others’ labors of love become fully realized. #freelanceeditor #booksky

What greater pleasure is there than walking amongst shelves filled with stories, selecting one or twenty, and returning home to curl up and read? Thank you, @literatibookstore.bsky.social, West Side Book Shop, @shopbooksweet.bsky.social, & @schulerbooks.bsky.social. #IndependentBookstoreDay #booksky

It was so much fun working together!

So excited for this beautiful story to have its beautiful cover! One step closer to this being out in the world, @rebeccamorrison.bsky.social! 💙🥂
#booksky #kidlit

THE MONA LISA VANISHES is an engrossing work of #middlegrade nonfiction that reads like fiction, as we discover the details of the real-life theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. @randomhousekids.bsky.social @rhcbschoollibrary.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
#bookrec #kidlit #booksky

#RWLWritingTip Sit in the beauty around you and really see it. Describe it in a way that feels more true than accurate. #bookeditor #writingtips #booksky