This is me putting on a brave face at the second event in a row nobody's turned up to.
I find it really hard to psych myself up for these things - putting myself out there in public is tough. And when nobody comes, it breaks me inside😭💔
Pls send cute cats 🙏
#authorlife
I was v nervous posting this but I'm so glad I did. If you've shared, liked, commented, bought the book I'm so grateful. I'm trying to reply to all the messages but it will take time. I've never been this popular before! I'm overwhelmed by you support and encouragement 🙏🧡💛💜🩷
Ok so the last 24 hours has been a whirlwind and you've melted this little snowflake's heart with all your incredible kindness 🙏❄️💗
You can read more about it here:
This is me putting on a brave face at the second event in a row nobody's turned up to.
I find it really hard to psych myself up for these things - putting myself out there in public is tough. And when nobody comes, it breaks me inside😭💔
Pls send cute cats 🙏
#authorlife
✨I'm over-the-moon, dancing-in-the-street, singing-from-the-rooftops 🌟ECSTATIC🌟 to announce that I'm now REPRESENTED by the magnificent
@writeloudly
! Sera's vision & passion for my YA cli-fi/magic novel are beyond what I dreamed of & I CAN'T WAIT for the journey ahead! 🥳❤️🍾
☀️Cover reveal!☀️ We can’t stop staring at this gorgeous cover for SAVING THE SUN by
@emmspearl
and
@SaraUgolottiArt
! 🌞Starring the characters from MENDING THE MOON, Luna and Poppa set out on a new celestial rescue mission! On sale 9/19/2023. Designed by
@juliatylerart
.
So it’s been 2 months since I posted this… no idea if anyone’s interested but here are some numbers from this whole experience. A 🧵
This post got 2.2M views, 22K likes, 1.1K reposts, 3.6K comments - crazy!
I gained approx. 1500 new followers 👋🙏
This is me putting on a brave face at the second event in a row nobody's turned up to.
I find it really hard to psych myself up for these things - putting myself out there in public is tough. And when nobody comes, it breaks me inside😭💔
Pls send cute cats 🙏
#authorlife
Mending the Moon releases next week! It all started with
#PBPitch
in October 2020! So if you're on the fence about participating, go for it! And if you'd like support, follow & comment below and I'll do my best 💜
So I can finally share my NEWS!!! I'm so excited about this. I've had an absolute blast working with the lovely people at
@PageStreetKids
, especially the wonderful
@ktostevinbooks
. I'm also thrilled to be...
🌕Cover reveal!🌕 We are over the moon to share the gorgeous cover for MENDING THE MOON by
@emmspearl
, illustrated by
@SaraUgolottiArt
! On sale 11/1/22, in this enchanting tale, when the moon crashes to earth, a girl, her Poppa, and the animals of the forest must set things right
HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY to Luna and Poppa! Today's the day MENDING THE MOON goes out into the world!!
I'm very excited and also completely in love with these amazing puppets made by
@SaraUgolottiArt
's incredible mum. Aren't they 💜💜💜💜!?
@PageStreetKids
I'm utterly delighted to announce that my fabulous
@writementor
mentee
@AmitaSnyder
is now represented by
@kissedbyink
. Amita's stories are incredible! 💫 I'm so excited to see her success, I know she will soar from here! Huge congratulations to you both! 🥳🎉🥳🎉
HAPPY
#RoaldDahlDay
!! 💛💛🍥🍭🍬🍫
Listen to this - me interviewing my great uncle (the big man himself) when I was 10 years old! It was his idea - he thought I might like to record it and take it to school. Yes please, I said!
To celebrate the cover reveal for MENDING THE MOON, I'm doing a PB Critique Giveaway (fiction, non-rhyming, <800 words)
To enter:
⭐️follow and RT
⭐️extra entry: tag a friend!
⭐️extra entry: comment with a PB you loved & reviewed (goodreads, etc)
Enter by midnight (EST) 4 Mar 22
This is literally THE BEST THING EVER!! Look at this window! 😍😍😍
Finally I get to have an in-person book launch! I know the chances are slim that anyone in NZ will see this but if you happen to be in New Plymouth on Saturday, pop in to Poppies Bookshop 11am!
@PageStreetKids
Received the sample copy of Mending the Moon!!! It's so stunningly beautiful! You can't really tell in this crappy photo but I don't even care. I'm officially in love with a book!
💫💫💜💙💜💙💫💫
@SaraUgolottiArt
@PageStreetKids
So I can't bring myself to do a proper unboxing video... this will have to do. I can't convey how exciting it is to have multiple copies of this beautiful book in my hands. Thank you to all at
@PageStreetKids
and the incomparable
@SaraUgolottiArt
💜💫💜💫💜
#picturebooks
#kidlit
Voting is open for the 2023 Undies Case Cover Awards!
I’m thrilled that ✨MENDING THE MOON✨ & 🌞SAVING THE SUN🌞 are here.
But they're both in the same category (BEST SUN, MOON OR STARS), so they're fighting against each other! 😱
You can vote here:
I'm absolutely thrilled to announce that SAVING THE SUN, a sequel to my debut, will be published in 2023!
Delighted to be working again with the wonderful team at
@PageStreetKids
& the incredible Sara Ugolotti. Can't wait to see Luna & Poppa on their tropical island! 🏝️🧡☀️🧡🏝️
So I can finally share my NEWS!!! I'm so excited about this. I've had an absolute blast working with the lovely people at
@PageStreetKids
, especially the wonderful
@ktostevinbooks
. I'm also thrilled to be...
Hello to all
@writementor
hopefuls who applied to me. I was humbled by the number (96!) and quality of the applications and it was a privilege to read each and every one. I've made all my requests now and am finalising my decision 😱 Please don't...(cont)
Reasons to celebrate 🌟MENDING THE MOON🌟 today:
🌕It's a full moon day!
🎂It's my birthday (I'm half a century old! 😱)
📚It's a beautiful book !
☀️It's cover reveal day for sister book SAVING THE SUN tomorrow!
Just sayin' 🙏
Super excited and a little bit shocked to see 🌞SAVING THE SUN🌞 this high up in the sales ranks a week before publication!! Thank you to everyone who's buying it!! 🙏🙏🥹
@pagesreetkids
Aaaaahhh!!! My magic, cli-fi, diving, gold-infused, sapphic YA novel is officially OUT ON SUBMISSION! Yay, but also 😱 (now I just have to hold my breath for the next [x = ?] months...)
So I did my first ever in-person author event on Saturday at my local library. Not gonna lie, I was nervous - and it was hard 😟 BUT...
the kids who came were amazing and made my heart sing ❤️ Although I did need a bit of a lie down afterwards!
Thank you to everyone who came! 🙏
@MindyAlyseWeiss
Congrats to all the finalists - yay! 🎉 And love to all who entered & didn't make it. That was me this time last year & it hurt. I felt like it would never happen 💔 But <3 mths later I signed with an agent 🥳
#PBParty
is 🔥 but it's not the only way. Stay strong. Keep going! 💪
And if you need any more encouragement, both ✨MENDING THE MOON✨ and🌞SAVING THE SUN🌞 were born through
#PBPitch
Oct 2020.
Go for it!! (but practice self-care too 🥰)
@AutumnLeaflet
Thank you so much Kim-Hoa. I'll get over it, just everything's hard rn and that was a downer I didn't need. I appreciate your support as always! 🥰
Hi
#writersoftwitter
Not sure why this is a thing today, but why not!? I write for young people of all ages, my debut PB comes out in November and I'm currently querying YA. Yay for all writers! ❤️
...be disheartened if I haven't contacted you. This is so personal and subjective, and relies on many elements other than the quality/worth of your writing. Keep writing, keep applying, keep learning, keep going! The world needs all your wonderful stories ❤️
The
@writementor
2022 program is officially over & I'd like to say a huge thanks to both my mentees. It's been an absolute pleasure and a privilege to work on your beautiful stories with you
@writes_Sabrina
& Amita...
I'm super stoked that SAVING THE SUN has received a 🌟STARRED REVIEW🌟 from the
@iSchoolCCB
!!
🌞🔥🌞🔥🌞🔥🌞🔥🌞🔥🌞
The full review will be live online next month, but for now enjoy this taster...
@pagestreetkids
@KidsBookCrew1
WOO HOO! I've finished my 1st draft!!
60K words in 2 months!🥳
I'm really excited about this magical realism/spec/cli-fi YA novel about oppression, obsession, the power of nature & the power of kindness.
Feels like a great way to end the year! 🥳🥳
#amwriting
#goals
Wow! So overwhelmed and excited to have made the longlist!!! Thank you so much
@StuartWhiteWM
for organising this wonderful thing. Honestly lost for words
#WMCNA
❤️😻🙀❤️
Apparently I joined twitter 5 years ago today. And I can honestly say it has played a huge part in my journey to becoming a published author, couldn't have done it without... 😊 Thank you
#WritingCommmunity
- you're the best! 💗
#MyTwitterAnniversary
@anotherview16
@beverleyhb57
Also the massive turnout that we all saw in the queues at polling stations - apparently that only equated to 67%. There is no way the result is genuine.
#writementor
showcase entry in! Good luck to everyone taking part. Huge thanks to
@LuWrites
for being a fabulous mentor and so generously agreeing to work on the whole ms ♥️ and to
@StuartWhiteWM
for being superhuman!
Fly, fly little mirrorbirds! ♥️🐦
My mum recently sent me some beautiful poems written by my granny. It's emotional seeing them in her handwriting.
And this one... she wrote for her niece and godchild Olivia Dahl who died from measles encephalitis in 1962, age 7.
Oh my heart 💔😭
I'm delighted to share this lovely review from
@KirkusReviews
for ☀️SAVING THE SUN☀️
"The poetic text is more than matched by glowing illustrations... A whimsical tale of imagination, human inventiveness, and interspecies cooperation."
🧡🧡
@PageStreetKids
So thrilled to have this article published in
@nzlistener
- what an honor! 😊
However... they used a horrible photo of me so I slapped my profile one over the top here (hope they don't mind - you'll have to buy the print version to see the other one!) 🫣
The announcement for
#writementor
programme is coming up very soon! 👇 I want to thank everyone who applied to me - you made choosing so hard & you're ALL amazing. Sorry I couldn't take all of you! 😭
Hello lovely applicants for our summer programme!
Tomorrow we'll be emailing all of you at 9am BST (if not in the UK, pls use google to convert times).
We will send 2 emails:
- Congratulations
- Thank you for applying
If you receive the first it's good news.
So I've been AWOL lately, moving to t'other side of the world 'n all that... but I'm back.
I can't wait to get going on the
@WriteMentor
programme! So excited to see the applications.
Plus I have NEWS that I'm very excited to share soon...
Oh and this is my new view🥰
So much excitement for the
@writementor
mentee announcements later!! It will be 4am where I am, so forgive me if I'm not around when the announcements are made! I'll be up as soon as I can to share in the celebrations 🥳
I'm pretty sure that when my kids suggested I paint our letterbox like a bumblebee, they didn't think for a moment I would really do it! Now I need to think about how to add wings... 🤣🐝💛🖤
@writementor
I'm proud of being a
#writementor
mentee this year, with the wonderful
@LuWrites
as my mentor - such a growing experience for my writing 😍
And I'm very proud of
@divingintoabook
for getting on the BNA longlist - a huge achievement! 🥳
Also everyone who's got through this year 😌
Huge thanks to 📚
@chellysbooks
📚 for including me in the 2024 interview lineup. Check out all of next year's guests & sign up for the newsletter at the link below!
@KidsBookCrew1
Oh gosh, I loved your post in the
@writementor
newsletter today
@KWBwrites
! I could relate to so much of it, especially having started this journey in my mid-40s too and being SO impatient in a very slow industry!! Plus of course the power of great CPs and the WM community ❤️🌟
Hard launching my book to everyone on X. I wrote a dyslexia friendly children’s book that ISN’T going to make struggling readers feel like they’re reading a book for babies! It’s available online at Amazon, Walmart, and Barnes & Noble. Here’s a peek inside!
#TheMerryWriter
@AriMeghlen
@RPoli3
Share one piece of writing advice:
A quote from Richard Price: "The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying on the road...
Happy Perfect Picture Book Friday, dear friends! Please stop by to help celebrate the book launch of SAVING THE SUN by
@emmspearl
illus
@SaraUgolottiArt
@PageStreetKids
& snag a craft activity & chance to WIN a PB Critique or a copy of the book:
Woooohoooo!!! So happy for my mentee-turned-CP-turned-friend
@StephDRondeau
🥳🥳🥳
It started with
@writementor
and now I'm bursting with excitement to see her sign with a wonderful agent. No one deserves it more! 💫💫💫
I am *thrilled* to announce that I'm now represented by
@annmrose
at
@TheTobiasAgency
!!! I am blown away and humbled by Ann's passion for my work, and I cannot WAIT to see what this partnership brings. I am so honored that I can officially call myself a
#RosebudAuthor
🌹
Congratulations to everyone selected and to everyone who applied. I'm so excited to be working with two amazing writers:
@writes_Sabrina
and also Amita Patel Snyder (who I have to persuade onto this bird app!) Let the fun begin! 🥳🎉
Picture books are like little capsules of tonic for the soul. 💕 Reasons I love going to the library to find them:
❤️ they look so pretty in a stack
❤️ I always find one I've been wanting to read for ages
❤️...and more than one I've never heard of but fall in love with
@writementor
Openness (you need to be open to suggestions obviously), resilience (this is a hard business and those who succeed are the ones who keep going despite setbacks and rejections), perseverance (you need to be prepared to rework your stories again and again!)
I was so touched to receive a lovely message from my cousin, the *incredible* Ophelia Dahl, who said that 🌞SAVING THE SUN🌞 is:
"beautiful and uplifting and full of inspiration"
I'll take that any day of the week! 🥰🙏
I'm so excited to be a part of this wonderful programme again this year! It's such a great opportunity for all unpublished/unagented children's writers - apply, apply apply!
Here they are - your 2021 WriteMentor Summer Programme MENTORS!✍️
We are delighted with the wide range of experience in our group across all age categories, and we hope you will find good matches as you search.
Pls RT/share.
I'll be there on 14 Apr, 8-9pm to answer questions for PB mentoring. Also my DMs are open for questions at any time. Can't wait to see all your wonderful stories 😍
#WriteMentor
WriteMentor has got an exciting month ahead! Check out our upcoming events, including Hub book club, magazine competitions, courses and important dates for the summer mentoring programme 🗓️ More at
I'm very excited to announce Blog Tour dates for ☀️SAVING THE SUN☀️
Just over a month to go until publication!! I can't wait!
Huge thanks to the wonderful creators & reviewers taking part, I appreciate you all! 🩷🧡💛
@pagestreetkids
For the longest time I've been buying ebooks only, for reasons (moving house/country, no shelf space, books are expensive here in NZ, etc) but... birthday book tokens meant I could buy these BEAUTIES and I'm so ridiculously excited!! 📚💗
@MESalisbury
@Kiran_MH
@aidenschmaiden
@writementor
Stories grounded in nature and love for the planet, loveable characters with flaws, a bit of magic, something that surprises me and maybe some future classics - yes, I'm expecting a lot!
As always so much honesty in the
@writementor
newsletter this week. Being a writer is brutal. Failure happens so often and hits so hard - take care of yourselves and each other ❤️