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Yia Lor
@yiawrites.bsky.social
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she/they/nws #Hmong #KidLit #Writer #SCBWI #DogMom 🐾 #TreeHugger 🌿 Rep: Mike Whatnall at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret 📚✨ Insta: instagram.com/yiawrites
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lol yes, and but it feels like six most days because of their barks and high energy. You are welcome to pom-sit any time! 😂
As a mom of three poms, I approve. 🐾
yes! Where I am from, we have two nature-based schools. I hear the waitlist is quite long to get in though. Wish we had more of those! any amount of time outside is great for one’s health.
Vaishali!!! I hope you’re doing well! I’ve been really loving forest therapy walks. Lucky me, I get to guide weekly walks for others, and then I do my own solo walks at least a couple times each week. The forest is my medicine! 🌿
Nyob zoo xyoo tshiab os! Happy Hmoob New Year! Grateful to celebrate our history, harvest, and beautiful culture. ❤️

#hmong #hmoob #hmongnewyear #captureec
In more news, I have arrived with a pumpkin. 🧡

#pumpkin #fall #harvest #autumn
In other news, pumpkins and gourds have arrived. 🧡

#fall #autumn #harvest #pumpkins #gourds #falldecor
I haven't written much lately (blame Mother Nature!), but here's an article I wrote last year that was printed this week. I read it multiple times, so I'll go ahead and log this as research for writing. Which counts toward writing. 😉 #writing #writingcommunity

volumeone.org/articles/202...
COLUMN: Snip, Snip
I combed my fingers through my new bangs before looking at the camera again. The whole haircut was edgy in some ways with the choppy bangs and lopsided hair. It was not the simple trim I had envisione...
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Ever wonder what happens before and after a forest therapy walk? This is why it’s near impossible for me to write this time of year! Blame it on being a forest therapy guide. Apparently, I can’t be that and a writer in the same season! 😂 #Nature #treefrog #frog #foresttherapy #writersblock
lol she sure is!!
I have not been writing because I have been watching nymphs become cicadas. But I’ll go ahead and log this as writing research. 😉 #writingcommunity #cicada #nature
So much to love about this, especially trees with opinions! 💚
A gentle story about rediscovering yourself, with:

💜 Tired asexual and chaotic bi #own rep
😱 Big life choices
🌳 Trees with opinions
💔 Friendship break up
🫂 Friends > relationships (especially toxic ones)
🧶 Stop glamorising the grind and do crafts

#QueerPit #YA #F #COA
Have you checked out FORTS yet?! Don’t miss out on this bestseller! #kidlit
I'm agog! FORTS is one of @usatoday.com's bestselling #picturebooks this week!

Thank you to all the indie bookstores who believe in this book and have been sharing it with their customers. ❤️💙📚

#kidlit

www.usatoday.com/booklist/gen...
So many wondering happenings to celebrate, including Katie’s book! Don’t miss this one! 🥳
Happy book birthday to my debut, Forts! Brilliantly illustrated by @kenardpak.bsky.social
#kidlit #picturebooks
Katie’s books AND free shipping??! Don’t miss out! #kidlit #picturebooks
My debut #picturebooks -- FORTS and CASSINI'S MISSION will be out soon!

Bookshop is offering free shipping July 8-11. Order from this list on Bookshop and I think I'll get a small kickback, to no cost to you.

bookshop.org/lists/books-...

#kidlit
Books written by Katie
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
bookshop.org
Thank you! We’ll see if I can keep this up! 🙃
Don’t miss this giveaway!! 🤩 #kidlit #pride #lgbtqia
This Pride month I am joining an incredible group of #queerkidlit creators to host a fundraiser for the LGBTQIA+ community.

Enter this giveaway, and you could win a copy of all the LGBTQIA+ picture books below!

More details at: tinyurl.com/pb-giveaway

#edusky #pride #skybrarians #books #lgbtqia
Omg that fort!!! And pup!! 🥹❤️
I thought about writing today, but then I came across this fallen log holding all the secrets of the universe, so I sat with her instead. 🙃

#writing #Nature #NatureArt
My only draft of my MG is on Scrivener, and I'm terrified to touch it! But seeing you do it gives me hope! Maybe I'll give it a try...in August. 🙃
Perfect timing! I'm about to clean up my folder of PBs, so these tips will come in handy.
1) Break revision down as foundational revision(shape), mid-level revision (emotion), fine-tuning (line)
2) Get critiques but don't make changes for 24 hours, sit with the feedback, and only change what makes sense for your story.
3) Read the story out loud. Do you want to do it 100 more times?