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Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · 23d

🍂 Discover these fresh fall #kidlit books—perfect reads to spark imagination and cozy up with this season! 📚✨

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@reganmacaulay.bsky.social
@carolmatas.bsky.social
@jtorrescomics.bsky.social
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Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · Jul 22

Pretty sure Google thinks we're having another baby. Really I'm starting a new book ...
#worldbuilding #babynames

Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · Apr 7

"Oh, it is wonderful to have a giant’s strength. But it is tyrannous to use it like a giant." Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · Apr 4

What do you think, peeps? Picture book about a canoe over it's lifetime? Nonfiction reader about inanimate heroes? Maybe it can be themed to counter disposable culture? Just spit balling here. Proud of our big yellow banana canoe!

www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

Firefighters rescue kayaker using bystander’s canoe near Billings Bridge

Ottawa Fire Services says crews rescued a man after his kayak flipped over on the Rideau River using a bystander’s canoe in the area of Bank Street and Riverside Drive, north of Billings Bridge Thursd...

www.ctvnews.ca

Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · Mar 26

Interview alert! The wonderful @spencerbmiller.bsky.social took some time to ask me a few questions about my most recent project and the @kidsbookcentre.bsky.social Book Week Tour. Check it out: bookcentre.ca/blogs/articl... #kidlit #mg #verse #digitalmedialiteracy

Creator's Corner: Michael Stewart

Michael Stewart is the multi award-winning author of dozens of books from illustrated chapter books and graphic novels with Rubicon Publishing (Savvas); to young adult, including Heart Sister, out thr...

bookcentre.ca

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Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · Mar 26

Presented to a group of grade fivers at the Chelsea Library today and, I gotta say, we're gonna be fine. These kids are great.
#FundLibraries #FundEducation #KidsAreOurFuture

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The Tobias Literary Agency @thetobiasagency.bsky.social · Mar 19

We LOVE when our clients get collaborative.

Check out this interview between children's book authors Dionna L. Mann and Michael F. Stewart, with included illustrations from Caroline McPherson all of whom are part of the @kellydhouse.bsky.social crew!

www.dionnalmann.com/interviews-b...

Interviews, Blog Parties & More

(c) Caroline McPherson, carolinemcphersonillustration.com

www.dionnalmann.com

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Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · Mar 5

"Most dominant civilization"
Here is what was transcribed on one broken pillar:

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Shelley

Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · Mar 4

Thank you, Ginger, yes, reading a good book is precisely what I need today. :)

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Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · Mar 4

I’ve been sidetrumped today, my mind trumbled and perplumped as to why. Ideas to cope?

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Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · Mar 4

I am stunned that US National Park Service removed transgender and queer representation from its Stonewall monument site. A monument that stands for hard fought acceptance has now become one of intolerance, from pride to shame. Don't stand for it. Resist.

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Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · Feb 20

I've paddled the Myakka and never have I ever had so many monsters directly under my kayak ...

Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · Feb 3

Luckily I have 25% more love for y'all America. And I am here to consume all of our surplus maple syrup.

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Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · Jan 29

Editing verse feels a little like taking stones and dipping them in water so that I can discover how they truly look.

I'm also working on back cover copy for a YA urban fantasy and I think that less is more. As if, the longer the copy, the more reasons the reader has not to open the cover?

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Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · Jan 28

I subsist on the praise of editors.
Thank you editors. 💚

Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · Jan 28

Congratulations, Cynthia! Woot!

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Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · Jan 24

What do you do when you're waiting on not one but TWO sets of edits?
Well, I don't know what you do, but I
CLEAN!

Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · Jan 20

I'll be editing a book about conspiracies, twisted minds, and revolution today.
No reason.

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Kelly Dyksterhouse @kellydhouse.bsky.social · Jan 6

Hello 2025~I’m back in the office and open to queries this week! #amquerying #kidlit #writers #illustrators, I’d love to see your #YA, #MG, narrative NF proposals, and #PBs. I’ve updated my #MSWL, but some particular things I’d love to see in my inbox:

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Ann Rose @annmrose.bsky.social · Dec 29

Leaving this open a few more days
#querytip #writingcommunity

Ann Rose @annmrose.bsky.social · Dec 27

Join #RosebudAuthors & @thetobiasagency.bsky.social w/ our annual #SpreadTheJoy campaign. To win a submission package critique (query, 1-2 pg synopsis, & 1st chapter) by ME! Follow go.bsky.app/Kvshpxt, comment below, and repost. Winners chosen at random.
(Day 27 & our last giveaway)

Mostly text - SPREAD THE JOY.
Rosebud Authors & The Tobias Literary Agency.
"How do you spell love," Piglet asked.
"You don't spell it, you feel it," answered Pooh.

Day 12 - Critique from Ann Rose with a photo of her.

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Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · Dec 29

Hey, Katie, congrats! You've won a critique! Query letter or first 5 pages. :) Use it whenever optimal.

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Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · Dec 29

Hi, Shuba, thanks for your interest. You've won a critique! Query letter or first 5 pages, your call. :) Use it whenever you please.

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Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · Dec 29

Hey, Dani, thanks for the interest. You've won a critique! Query letter or first 5 pages, your call. :) Use it whenever you please.

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Ann Rose @annmrose.bsky.social · Dec 12

Join #RosebudAuthors & @thetobiasagency.bsky.social w/ our annual #SpreadTheJoy campaign. To win a query letter critique by @kellydhouse.bsky.social Follow go.bsky.app/Kvshpxt, comment below, and repost. Winners chosen at random.
(Day 12)

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Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social · Dec 12

Hey freedom fighters, here's a campaign that looks worthy of our support.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-ded...

Ann Rose @annmrose.bsky.social · Dec 12

There is NOTHING controversial about being queer. PERIOD.

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Dec 12

1. A teacher in Ohio who has worked at the same public school for 34 years was suspended without pay and threatened with termination for offering four books in her classroom library that contained LGBTQ characters.

She's fighting back.