This pub (The Nook) right by Giant's Causeway was really good! Will you be in Belfast, too?
I just spent 3 months in Ireland, mostly Dublin, but also Belfast, Connemara, and some day trips.
I love the legos!
Looking up at the vaulted ceiling in the readers' room of the National Library of Ireland, in colors of white and aqua with touches of gold. The panels are painted in an ombre effect, the aqua color getting lighter as they near to the windows at the top.
The half dome ceiling of the readers' room in the National Library of Ireland, white trimwork with panels painted aqua and accents of gold.
Rows of wooden desks and chairs in the National Library of Ireland Readers' Room. Each station has a green shaded desk lamp.
A person with a backpack standing in the National Library of Ireland readers' room looking at wooden card catalogs on a parquet floor.
Yesterday I took a tour of the National Library of Ireland in Dublin.
These photos are from the Readers' Room.
Isn't it beautiful?
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I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5.
My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.
Nobody is going to steal your idea for a novel.
The socks really make the picture. 😂
Don't believe everything you read on the internet.
The first Dairy Queen after it reopened was a treat when we were kids.
Rita's water ice is also closed during winter.
And the boardwalk in a Jersey Shore town in January is a ghost town. I love going offseason.
I had told him that tech companies had stolen my work to train their AI models and I think that guilted him into confessing.
Last week, a guy emailed me to edit a picture book, saying he used AI for formatting and to write the art notes. I asked him to send me the un-AI version to edit.
Over the span of a few hours, he sent a series of emails gradually admitting that AI wrote the whole thing--but the idea was his.
Sigh.
Any Chronicle authors out there?
I just logged into the Statement Portal for the first time and I can't seem to find sales figures anywhere, just the dollar amount that I've been paid in royalties.
What am I doing wrong?
a basket of books wrapped in colorful recycled paper each with a note describing what type of book it is affixed to the front
Forgot to add the picture of the blind date books!
Plus they have the prettiest "blind date" books
The bright blue exterior of Books Upstairs in Dublin, Ireland, with gold lettering that says "Bookshop Literary Venue Cafe." The front window is filled with books.
A red-carpeted staircase in Books Upstairs leading up. The paneling and banisters are painted white and at the top of the stairs is a glass-fronted bookcase with books inside.
The upstairs cafe at Books Upstairs, with round wooden tables, pink walls, and a bow front window that has stained glass for the upper window panes. On the table in the foreground sits a piece of carrot cake on a white porcelain plate. A small handwritten note card on the table says "no laptops please!
Dublin has so many fantastic bookstores, but this might be my favorite!
Books Upstairs has a great selection of books and a wonderful cafe. (Ironically the books are downstairs and the cafe upstairs.) I recommend the carrot cake--and love the no laptops policy. They ask you to read a book instead.📚
Congratulations!
Where are you headed?
I wish there were more! Humor is underappreciated when it comes to awards. I was rooting for Don't Trust Fish this year and Mr. S before that.
This is an encouraging post, and true in my case, too. I've had manuscripts that I've put in a drawer until something changed--editors, the market, or me.
This is a great way to celebrate the return of flamingos to Florida! 🦩🌴
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Thank you!
I know @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social keeps a list of freelance editors for hire. Does anyone know of a similar list of freelance designers?
A friend of my sister is looking to self-publish a picture book.
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This is a really great post. I'm bookmarking it to share with people who ask me about self-publishing vs. traditional publishing.
Yay! 🎉
Yay, Lynn! Tampa deserves someone as good as you fighting to make a great city even better!
(I kept watching out for the Reed Park gator. 🐊)
Perfect timing--I'm going to Belfast this weekend!
We watched the Opening Ceremonies on Irish TV and there were no commercials. It was amazing!
I love those pigeons--so expressive!
I saw so many books I wanted to take home!
The exterior of a shop in Wexford, Ireland with "RED BOOKS BOOKSHOP" written above the entrance.
Inside the bookstore, books piled from the floor to the ceiling.
Looking down a narrow passageway with books on every side.
Two small rooms in the bookstore with shelves and shelves of books and more books stacked on the floor.
I've been in many amazing overstuffed bookstores all over the world, but I've never seen anything like Red Books in Wexford, Ireland. ☘️📚
Ellen was a force. She was one of the first people I knew in kids books, when I was working at a fellow indie kids bookstore and only dreaming of someday working in NYC for a publisher.