All for Plot

"Books take you anywhere. Anywhere you want to go. Always remember that." —Carol Lynch Williams

Happy Poetry Month! I'm deep in a draft of a new book, so here's a comic from 2024. Okay, I'm off to find a flow state...

It's not hoarding if it's books 🎨 Franco Matticchio

@kellyncarni @CamCatBooks Congratulations!🎉🎉🎉

It is with giddy excitement and continued disbelief that I'm sharing with you all-- RICOCHET is getting published! So happy to join the @CamCatBooks team!

Fudgel: an old word for pretending to work

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."  — T.S. Eliot (Art by Rachel Grant)

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute. Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning… Raymond Carver Crackers in Bed, Norman Rockwell

CS Lewis with one of my favorite dedications ever written, “But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

Bookworm was a window on a new world. I used to go through the archives and listen to endless interviews. Michael Silverblatt was the perfect host - erudite but always curious and excited to know more. He awakened countless people to literature. A life well and fully lived. RIP

@LFrostWrites Awesome cupcakes! Congratulations 🎉

Seeking Sasha Launch Party West was amazing! Words cannot express my gratitude for the people who celebrated with me. And the cupcakes were 👌.

"There is so much to read and the days are so short." George Eliot

Night

@theislandwriter Love this so much! What a capture.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 The TEXT MESSAGE OF NEWS and my face !!! 🤩👀🤩 pic by my youngest when she came running bc of my shouts! DREAMS! #writingcommunity #author #kidlit #book #onsubmission #5amwritersclub #publishing

I GOT A BOOK DEAL FROM A BIG 5 PUBLISHER YESTERDAY!!!!!!!!!!!! Thrilled. Shocked. AHHHHHHHHH! Years of hard work…I can’t believe it! IT FEELS LIKE I MADE IT TO THE OLYMPICS OF WRITING!!!😭🤩🥳🎉 #publishing #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #kidlit #author #scbwi #writers

@theislandwriter @MddleFngerWordz Congratulations! Wishing you much success. 🎉❤️❤️🎉

A group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope.

Hahaha 😂

We're not comfortable throwing out a percentage, but it FEELS like a lot of idioms/words have nautical origins. - three sheets to the wind - by and large - slush fund - bitter end - pipe down - groggy - aloof

Do you know anyone like this?

"A truly sensible man finds within himself the company he needs." — Emily Brontë - In: "Wuthering Heights" Art by Kaoru Yamada