Dor Atkinson is revising dystopian YA 🏹🤖💘

Got it. A very cool program / opportunity!

I glanced at this once before, but I'm pretty sure this is only for writers in the Rocky Mountain region, right, Laura? 😊 Just making sure!

Woman in black witch's costume and gloves with her computer.

Woman in black witch's costume and gloves with her computer and a gold-eyed tabby cat standing in the way.

Happy #Caturday and day after Halloween! 🎃

Editing on a holiday is tricky. Especially with pets. And kids. Hope to get more witchy work done on ye olde #WIP tonight.

#writingcommunity #amwriting #YA #dystopian #boo

Thanks to all the friendly #GhostPit folks who liked my pitches. It was nice to feel a swelling of community spirit for a day. Keep going, everyone, your stories look terrific! 🧡🦋🧡

#WIP #writingcommunity #kidlit #amwriting

Moodboard: Man with a scarred back, implanting a microchip in an arm, blue glowing humanoid robot, the statue of Eros and Psyche, the phrase "to love is human", cracked ground outside a city, white maze, a cyborg girl with the phrase "Psyche"

WARCROSS x CINDER x Greek mythology

In a future America, where a myth-obsessed tech CEO turns humans into cyborgs, 18yo Sai must use her psychic powers to find her twin sister and free cyborg rebel Eros from a VR Underworld before the CEO programs him to destroy her.

#GhostPit #YA #DS #SF #R #E 💘

i will be ~haunting~ the #ghostpit tag tomorrow, if i like your pitch, please send a query my way :)

A mood board with these images: a man with a scarred back, someone implanting a microchip in an arm, a blue glowing humanoid robot, the marble statue of Eros and Psyche, cracked, polluted earth around a city, a white maze, and a cyborg girl. The Phrase "to love is human" and the words "Eros" and "Psyche."

Psyche & Eros x WARCROSS x CINDER

In a future America, where a myth-obsessed tech CEO turns humans into cyborgs, 18yo Sai must use her psychic powers to find her twin sister and free cyborg rebel Eros from a VR Underworld or become a pawn in the CEO’s game forever.

#GhostPit #YA #DS #SF #SPEC #E 💘

a man in a star trek uniform is standing in front of a group of men and saying yes . Alt: Data, from Star Trek, standing in front of a group and saying "YES!"

#amediting #YA

Three chapters were bugging me, so I printed them out. Thought I might eviscerate them. But, in the end, they were better than I thought.

I read one romantic part to my kiddo. I knew I'd get an eye roll and "That's so cheesy!" if I did it well. Happy to report: kiddo delivered!

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1) FRANKENSTEIN was amazing. Guillermo del Toro is a genius with his ❤️ on his sleeve. Mary Shelley is a rockstar. Why the heck didn't they show it in more theaters?

2) I've decided I will start querying my Eros & Psyche x AI romantic dystopian #YA #WIP on Feb 14, 2026. 💘🏹🤖

Goals. Gotta have 'em.

Well, if he was in charge of Spring or any other important thing, we're in trouble now.

Feeding the Lakota The Pine Ridge Reservation is a food desert, and many of the Lakota people there struggle with food insecurity. Even when people on the rez can afford food, they often struggle to find healthy, fresh ...

Please help or boost if you're able! One Spirit Lakota is raising funds for the food pantry in anticipation of EBT cards possibly not getting filled for November due to the shutdown.

Funds go to feeding residents of Pine Ridge, which already has one of the worst food deserts in the country.

I think this IS an apt metaphor. AND literally what's happening.

a person is typing on a typewriter with a clear plastic covering their face Alt: a person is typing on a typewriter and flinging pages aside while floating in outer space

Writing a novel is saying "Oh!" in your head about seventy billion times.

Some curse words, too, but usually a lot less. 😊

#writingcommunity #WIP #amwriting #kidlit

We are listening to the audio book as I type this, and we are now very curious what these new outfits are going to be!

I know a lot of people who use SNAP. This is a catastrophe.

Woman in purple scarf sits at a small cafe table with a mug of hot chocolate.

One of the perks of working on a production of Macbeth with your kiddo is that sometimes said kiddo coaxes you to indulge in a little post-rehearsal hot chocolate. ☕🎉🥰

#MatthewShepard
#NeverForget 💜🌈

Tabby cat peeking out from under fuzzy blanket

Black cat with yellow eyes stares into camera

Tabby cat asleep with tongue sticking out a bit

Happy #Caturday!

Why my cats = my #WIP characters:

Peri is impulsive. Sticks her tongue out wile sleeping. So, she's like my MC (minus the tongue) 🤺

Selkie understands complex systems, like how to open the treats can. So, she's like my MC's BFF. 🍃

Pepper's on a mission of love. Like my LI. 💘🏹

Thank you, Laura! 😊

#WIPSnips

The word of the day is #prize.

#WIP #YA #dystopian 🏹🤖💘

He did want Turkish Delight and to be a prince (and later a king) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them - certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!' At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.

Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

Back when Twitter was Twitter, I met tons of writers and editors and made connections within the #writingcommunity through pitch contests. Today, half the amazing authors in my international online writers group are folks I met through Twitter. I never would have imagined that was possible. 🥹😔

I watched the entire thing. High stakes kitty story! I'm hooked! 😹

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

Welcome to the world Broken Dolls! Thank you to every reader, teacher, librarian who took the time to check out my book and share with the kids in their life, or the kid in their heart. If you're in NYC, I'm doing an event with @claymcleod.bsky.social and you can meet the haunted dolls!

It was so fabulous. This book is a trip in all the best ways.

Best thing that happened this week is that SCARLET MORNING, the next kidlit bestseller #MG #fantasy, came out AND @gingerhaze.bsky.social came to our weird lil beach town and made my kiddo's day by signing her Horde pin.

AND she got to introduce him. 💜😭

Can't express how 🤩 we are. BUY THIS BOOK! 🏴‍☠️

This sounds pretty fun.

Ooh, fabulous. We will definitely check that out!

Hey #kidlit folks!

My 6th grader is studying ancient civilizations such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Rome & Greece.

We've got Greece covered (plenty of Percy Jackson), but can you suggest some great #MG fiction that would provide a launching pad for these topics?

Thx #writingcommunity!! 😊