The cover of WHAT THE DINOSAURS DID ON HALLOWEEN featuring the title in orange lettering across the top, a misty purple background, and three colorful plastic dinosaurs leaning over a bowl of candy, grinning mischievously.
WHAT THE DINOSAURS DID ON HALLOWEEN is now available for preorder!
open.substack.com/pub/refe/p/t...
Take a millennial song but change one word to make it gen alpha:
Hey There Delulu
It is WILD hearing Evanescence blasting from my 17-year-old's room
A screenshot of the FlipCraft UI showing the reader preview pane which includes a flip book style reader and a comment form for reader feedback.
A screenshot of the FlipCraft UI showing the Share for Feedback modal, which displays a secure link that authors can forward to trusted readers to get feedback on their story draft.
Shipped a cool new feature on FlipCraft this week: authors can now share a draft of their story with trusted readers and view their comments.
Also made a bunch of smaller tweaks and enhancements. If you write picture books, check it out! flipcraft.app
#kidlit #picturebooks #amwriting
An image showing the FlipCraft story editor featuring all three theme options (green, brown, and blue).
Made some big updates to FlipCraft.app this week, including:
- Autosave w version history (don't lose your work)
- Scratch pad (jot down unstructured notes & ideas)
- Themes (Sage, Sepia, or Slate; light & dark modes)
- Better export (submission-ready formatting)
#picturebooks #kidlit
Hey picture book authors of #kidlitchat, I built a tool for drafting PB manuscripts and would ❤️ to get some eyeballs on it. If you're interested in testing it out I'll set you up with a free trial. (It's already free for one story, but this way you can get the full experience).
flipcraft.app
Hey #picturebook writers.
I got frustrated while writing WHAT THE DINOSAURS DID ON HALLOWEEN because I couldn't find a tool that let me draft in a way that focused on what's most important in PB—the page turns.
So...I built one. I call it FlipCraft, and you can check it out here: flipcraft.app
Don't like promoting am*zon but if you're on a budget looking for a Christmas themed picture book to give this year, What The Dinosaurs Dis The Night Before Christmas is currently on sale for only $7 (!!!!)
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Feeling more hope today than I have in months.
[Exit King.]
A box of Cheez-it brand pizza.
Democracy is dying but don't worry we have
My wife was complaining about our house not having any medicine cabinets so of course I had to show her the medicine cabinet tracking shot from the 1997 science fiction masterpiece Contact.
When in comes to the expense of making art, it could always be worse!
That is a very specific rabbit hole
We are 9 calls deep for anyone keeping track. At least one more to go!
It's time for yet another round of How Many Phone Calls Does it Take to Refill My Child's Prescription
Been a while since a new album has made it into heavy rotation but 'Headlights' by Alex G has been playing on repeat since I stumbled onto it a few weeks ago. 'Afterlife' is the obvious standout, but there are a bunch of great tracks. music.apple.com/us/album/aft...
An orange moon shimmers on the dark blue waters of a large lake at night.
Final night at the lake.
A white dog with black patches around its eyes sits regally on a sandy beach with the lake behind him and clear skies.
Boris the water dog*
*definitely NOT a water dog
Those geese flew right into my shot but I'm not mad about it.
A photo of geese landing on the water in the distance. The lake takes up the entire bottom third of the frame, with the sun just out of frame at the top sending rays straight down and resting a halo affect on the water at the horizon line.
Lake, day three.
A girl in a dress standing in Lake Michigan silhouetted by the gray sky behind her.
Oh, hey, another lake photo.
A wide shot of four kayakers on Lake Michigan. The air is hazy and foggy. The horizon is barely visible, with the sky and the water nearly the same color gray.
Another version.
A hazy-gray, foggy morning on Lake Michigan. Four kayakers float in the middle distance. The horizon line is barely visible, with the water and the sky nearly the same shade of soupy gray.
Endless gray.
Lake Michigan this morning.
An eloquent image:
Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults.
I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.
The "EXTREME HEAT" warning is just too perfect for this story
Absurd 'About this Book' sections have become a staple of the WHAT THE DINOSAURS DID series, and the one for WHAT THE DINOSAURS DID ON HALLOWEEN will not disappoint...
...Assuming my editor doesn't make me cut it down—it features about as many words as the rest of the text combined 🤣
An email from Apple Books with the headline, "Want a book you'll love? We've got you covered." Below that, the covers of WHAT THE DINOSAURS DID LAST NIGHT (white with colorful plastic dinosaurs drawing on a wall with crayons,) and WHAT THE DINOSAURS DID AT SCHOOL (green with the same dinosaurs rising paper airplanes and making a mess with glue in a classroom.)
Apple just recommended my own books to me, so I'd say they have my tastes down pretty well.
Good advice, but if you're already at LaGuardia it might be too late... 🦏
