VanessaMGatesWritesThingies

@lindsayskeeling One or three have that mysterious allure

Y'all, I need your help! Which photo do you think should go on my book?? #Help #AuthorHeadshots 📸Taken by Taylor

#humor #weirdbook #AIart #artificalintelligence This weird, picture book-style-but seriously adult-rated teeny-weeny book comes out April 1st. Hate AI? Want it dead forever? Here's your chance!

I am so excited to report that I have absolutely NO updates from the #publishing #onsubmission world 😖 However, I did get new glasses, a new coffee mug, and it’s a NEW WEEK with NEW opportunities! Happy Monday! ☕️🍀 #writingcommunity #kidlit #5amwritersclub #coffee #amwriting

@theislandwriter I love this! Made my day. Sooo funny and relatable. Thank you.

The real #bloodbath is how one side tries to kill the other 4 votes/re-elections. No more honest conversation or debate. Honesty, integrity, caring 4 the people haven't been the focus 4 a long time. I no longer believe in political truth or politicians trying 2 make a difference.

@ZoeYorkWrites Like it or not, the controversy's awesome for Carian Cole. I'd NEVER heard about Torn 'til the twitter hate. Good for you Carian Cole! Maybe I'll write about a senior citizen about to bite it who falls in love with a stripper. Oh wait, that was real life. And hugely popular.

It's fiction. The appeal of age gap romance is not literal grooming. For many *very adult* readers, it's a self-insert do-over fantasy that replaces the reality of a less than ideal teenage introduction to sexuality. And the older, safer love interest is who they want now.

a little late, but that's me. #KatieBritt #soturesponse

Post your favorite middle grade novel here. I want to read a bunch or listen on audo. Anything goes. Authors and your books totally welcome. Happy Wednesday. #mglit

@AliciaCambridge @jmcgowanbks frogs are my secret favorite thing. Why secret? Because I forget to talk about them all the time. Love love love them. The hopping, the silly mouths, the green little bodies. Just aaawe!

Hi #kidlitpostcardday it’s been a while! I’m Alicia, an illustrator who loves nature and finds frogs really cute. If you like to get in touch, I’m here: aliciacambridge.com or contact my agent @jmcgowanbks

Is this Black Girl Magic?

Here’s a chicken on her way to work (probably before her maternity leave kicks off!) #kidlitart #kidlitart #kidlitillustration #kidlitartist #kidlitillustrator #picturebookillustration #picturebookart #picturebookartist #illustrator #illustration #childrensbookillustration

BookEnds is excited to join @jmcgowanbks in welcoming his new client @LauraHawbaker to the team with this interview! Congrats to both! 🎉 bookendsliterary.com/new-client-ale…

@david_hohn @jmcgowanbks Wow, how delightful, gorgeous, and super calming.

@marclanders I want to make one million dollars by age 50, and there's no fucking way I am telling you how long that will be. Let's just say time is running out.

What goals excite you so much that you can't help but take action? Ending 🪴#cannabis prohibition! 😎

We're tired of waiting - it's time to end trophy imports #GetTheBanDone Time is running out. Please join us in writing to Rishi Sunak and urging him to ensure the Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill is given sufficient time to pass. Here's how 👇 bornfree.org.uk/news/hunting-t…

For those with a wicked sense of humor: 30+ comics that will make you laugh and cringe.

@stephanietara this pic is divine (did I just spell that wrong?) Ever since turning 40, I can't fucking spell! Anyway, gorgeous!

📚HAPPY SUNDAY #booklovers — its a #writerslift #WritingCommunity! 📚Post #books|#RT! #SundayMorning #sundayvibes Good Sunday #fiction #writers #nonfiction #SundayMotivation #writerslife #authors #novels #ShamelessSelfPromoSunday #ShamelessSelfPromoSaturday #WeekendVibes Elon

this is absolutely breath-taking. In love with the vibrance!

One of things we're doing on #WorldBookDay is discussing Daniel Pennac's The Rights of the Reader and then creating our own version together as a class. The last time we did it, the children had some amazing suggestions. 'The right to feel emotional when reading' is fantastic.

@klhicks912 yes, but it was an old Farmer's magazine and I didn't know that. This was before you could just look 'em up on the internet. So I got my beautiful poem published on the back of a hearing aide commercial. But damn it, I got published. haha

Have you been published in a magazine?