Kathy Halsey

We WERE!

Thanks, I'm playing around with how I present my haiku visually!

I appreciate your comment! TY

Calm before storms today. #HaikuSaturday #Haiku #poetry #writingcommunity

Finding the Sublime Amid the Mundane You don't need to meditate on a mountain top to find transcendence

All we need to do is slow down and see! Finding the Sublime Amid the Mundane open.substack.com/pub/weirdopo...

Ty, Susan. I shared first on X. Did you see it there?

Ty, Jo. Did you see it on X? Seems my haikus there aren't being seen in that space!

We need a huge dose of magic today to combat hate and war.

(fascinated by Mike Gosselin's Lake Erie photos!)
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Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2026! 🎉

This is our second ever #MSWL Day on Bluesky. We’re happy you’re here!

You can, as of TODAY, search Bluesky and ManuscriptWishList.com posts at once: manuscriptwishlist.com/smart-search. All posts are verified by a human who works in publishing. ☕

Your cats are meowvelous! I'd like you to meet Scrappy Doo, rescue Corgi boy. Baroo.

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Borrow From Nonfiction to Enhance your Fiction by Sue Heavenrich If you’re a nonfiction writer, then you’ve read plenty of articles suggesting that you use fiction techniques to spiff up...

Ever hear anyone suggest fiction writers borrow from nonfiction to enrich their novels? You have now! Sue Heavenrich shares nonfiction techniques like author notes, maps, bibliographies, footnotes, appendices, & more! Plus examples here: groggorg.blogspot.com/2026/02/borr...

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Puppy Love to all!

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How to Write a Reimagined Fairy Tale by TIna Cho Like many of you, I grew up listening to fairy tales. And even more fun for me as a teacher is sharing my love of fairy tales with my kinder...

Tina M. Cho shares 10 tips on how to create created a reimagined ( not fractured) fairy tale using her newest PB, The Princess and the Grain of Rice. Bonus: learn about creating entry points or selling points for marketing, too.
groggorg.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-...

Opps!

I remember those so well when I was a school librarian!

Thanks so much Tina!

Playing with 4 panels from Bob's walk near Walnut Creek afew days ago.

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It's Time to FLOAT with Larry Daley & His Debut! Craft Chat and Book Review by Kathy Halsey Craft Chat with Larry Daley Yesterday FLOAT, a debut picture book by author-editor Larry Daley, dropped into our world. This fun, engaging r...

Join me & FLOAT w/Larry Daley's picture book debut! We chat about his background in children’s media & supervision of comic book brands, the publisher @booklingmedia.com, plus his tips for authors attending their first library conferences.
groggorg.blogspot.com/2026/02/its-...

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Aww, Thanks

And I'm ready for breakfast...how about you?
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This just IN. We finally found our doorstep hiding under waves of snow.
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Shannon Hitchcock Writes a Sequel (13 years later) Middle grade fans are in for a treat -- coming March 3, 2026. Shannon Hitchcock's forthcoming novel, Wild Mountain Ivy, is a sequel to her h...

How about a ghost story weaving together the stories of two young protagonists from two different pandemics, a century apart?
That's what Wild Mountain Ivy by Shannon Hitchcock is all about! Coming March 3, 2026! Interview by @christymihaly.bsky.social.

groggorg.blogspot.com/2026/01/shan...

I appreciate you! TY and ty for the shoutout!

This is my view yesterday AM. I chopped this photo in thirds to see how it would look.
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Nancy Castaldo stretches Beyond Books for Kids by Sue Heavenrich Nancy Castaldo is an award-winning author who writes about the connections between science, people, and our planet. Her la...

On National Squirrel Appreciation Day read this post w/
@nancycastaldobooks.bsky.social & Sue Heavenrich.
Nancy looks at these familiar creatures and invited readers to see them differently. See how she structured the book here.
groggorg.blogspot.com/2026/01/nanc...

(ASPERITAS clouds form when the atmosphere is very turbulent w/varying wind directions creating the wave like look.)

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