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Ines Ayala (she/her)

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🌟#kidlit writer (PB/YA) | agent: @the1whowill | by lines @parents | ‘21-‘25 Communications Manager @latinxkidlitbf @lkbfstorytellers

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Click for a 3-min read or listen to the audio: open.substack.com/pub/inesloza...

10.04.2025 16:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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12.03.2025 22:06 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Honestly, I’ve been thinking about gardening a lot lately and it feels like it will make everything better lol

13.03.2025 01:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Woohoo, 3-minute videos! Previous limit was 1-minute.
Plus more improvements. I'll be updating my Unofficial Guide To Bluesky (see my pinned post) soon. #BlueSkyTips

11.03.2025 12:15 👍 28 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

share this post with your friends who want to join the #booksky community! 💙📚

31.12.2024 18:03 👍 578 🔁 254 💬 7 📌 23

Latinx Storytellers, 👀, 👇🏽

10.03.2025 17:46 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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07.03.2025 14:06 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Imposter syndrome paying you a visit this week? Read this: ineslozano.substack.com/p/imposter-s...

05.03.2025 16:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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03.03.2025 14:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Started a SubStack, right when you needed it open.substack.com/pub/ineslozano

#writesky

28.02.2025 00:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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For anyone in need of a little laugh:

This morning I sat on the couch having coffee, my dog next to me. But I had to run upstairs to get something so I got up quickly and tossed the blanket off my lap. This is how I found my dog when I came back down.

27.02.2025 16:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If I didn't have to pay for all the books I buy for my school library, what a dream that would be. Instead, I push right up to the edge of my budget every year and still can't buy everything I need.

22.02.2025 01:57 👍 44 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0
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First 4 beats have been laid down. Only 11 to go.

I love this workbook (knew I would) and I use it in conjunction with Save the Cat and Story Genius.

What’s in your writing tool kit?

22.02.2025 04:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just me?

Writes best work yet.
Sends it to agent.
It’s going on sub!
Gets new idea! It’s a banger!
Wonders how one writes a book😩
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

16.02.2025 23:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

❤️❤️❤️

16.02.2025 20:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don’t remember who I was talking to about this but I shared that my teen doesn’t like to read. Not a bookworm at all….but wait, she just shared that she LOVES (her word) to analyze texts. She loves looking for symbolism, etc.

That’s a win in my column!

14.02.2025 21:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Um, 👋🏽 . Did you see this?

14.02.2025 14:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery

13.02.2025 02:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I remember watching this movie years ago and loving it but equally never wishing to see it again.

09.02.2025 03:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Statement on the Trump administration's january 20,2025 EO Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary and Gender Non Conforming Americans On January 20, the White House issued an executive order stating that the United States government will only recognize two sexes, male and female, as defined “at conception.” The ripple effect of this order will undoubtedly affect public schools, public libraries, and the literature that is shelved in both. Among the many harms it causes, the order targeting transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming Americans threatens unconstitutional censorship that could have a grave impact on literature for years to come. In dismissing trans, intersex, and nonbinary identities, the order blacklists LGBTQIA+ literature and invites the government to dictate the perspectives, beliefs, and identities that can exist in public forums receiving federal funding, amounting to financial coercion through the arbitrary withholding of funds. This censorship may begin with LGBTQIA+ perspectives, but it will not end there: allowing the government to censor one group erodes the First Amendment rights of all Americans, creating a precedent for silencing dissenting voices.

Statement on the Trump administration's january 20,2025 EO Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary and Gender Non Conforming Americans On January 20, the White House issued an executive order stating that the United States government will only recognize two sexes, male and female, as defined “at conception.” The ripple effect of this order will undoubtedly affect public schools, public libraries, and the literature that is shelved in both. Among the many harms it causes, the order targeting transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming Americans threatens unconstitutional censorship that could have a grave impact on literature for years to come. In dismissing trans, intersex, and nonbinary identities, the order blacklists LGBTQIA+ literature and invites the government to dictate the perspectives, beliefs, and identities that can exist in public forums receiving federal funding, amounting to financial coercion through the arbitrary withholding of funds. This censorship may begin with LGBTQIA+ perspectives, but it will not end there: allowing the government to censor one group erodes the First Amendment rights of all Americans, creating a precedent for silencing dissenting voices.

If allowed to stand, the order will create new funding requirements imposed not only on federal entities, but private citizens and institutions who contract with them. Those requirements can and will be manipulated to dictate speech. The broader chilling effect on literature could be even harder to undo. Writers rely on funding from sources like the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the state-level institutions they fund. Trans, nonbinary, and intersex experience is vastly underrepresented in literature but disproportionately targeted by bans. During the 2022-2023 school year, 30% of books banned included LGBTQIA+ characters or themes. Such censorship robs us of perspectives that enrich the American story. Though the executive order in question tries to paint LGBTQIA+ people and allies as bullies enforcing their perspective on others through “legal and other socially coercive means,” that’s exactly what the order itself does, just as book-banning pressure groups have done since 2020 in school boards and libraries around the country. The fate of trans, intersex, and nonbinary people is not a political ideology, it’s a matter of human rights, civil rights, and freedom of expression. Government erosion of those rights should concern all Americans, regardless of their investment in LGBTQIA+ literature specifically.

If allowed to stand, the order will create new funding requirements imposed not only on federal entities, but private citizens and institutions who contract with them. Those requirements can and will be manipulated to dictate speech. The broader chilling effect on literature could be even harder to undo. Writers rely on funding from sources like the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the state-level institutions they fund. Trans, nonbinary, and intersex experience is vastly underrepresented in literature but disproportionately targeted by bans. During the 2022-2023 school year, 30% of books banned included LGBTQIA+ characters or themes. Such censorship robs us of perspectives that enrich the American story. Though the executive order in question tries to paint LGBTQIA+ people and allies as bullies enforcing their perspective on others through “legal and other socially coercive means,” that’s exactly what the order itself does, just as book-banning pressure groups have done since 2020 in school boards and libraries around the country. The fate of trans, intersex, and nonbinary people is not a political ideology, it’s a matter of human rights, civil rights, and freedom of expression. Government erosion of those rights should concern all Americans, regardless of their investment in LGBTQIA+ literature specifically.

This executive order is censorship, pure and simple, and it has no place in a free society. It must be rescinded or stayed as soon as possible, and at the latest, before the earliest implementation deadline, February 19, 2025. Financially blacklisting trans, intersex, and non-binary perspectives will rob us of a vital literature yet to be written while insulting the dignity of LGBTQIA+ people everywhere. This return to McCarthyism by other means is a leap backwards to a grim chapter of American history. Sincerely, the undersigned, • American Booksellers Association • American Booksellers for Free Expression • Andrews McMeel • Annie's Foundation • Audio Publishers Association • Authors Against Book Bans • Berry Powell Press • Cardinal Rule Press • Charlesbridge Publishing • Chestnut Publishing House • Comic Book Legal Defense Fund • Deborah Sloan and Company and Kidsbuzz • Developmental Texts • Empowering Latino Futures • EveryLibrary • Firewater Media Group • Florida Freedom to Read Project • Foreword Reviews • Freedom to Read Project • Gryphon Publishing Consulting, LLC • Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) • IngramSpark • Judging by the Cover: A Bookstore • Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship • Lambda Literary • Latino 247 Media Group • Lee Wind, author • Levine Querido • Library Futures • Livingston Parish Library Alliance • Louisiana Citizens Against Censorship • Macmillan Children's Publishing Group • The National Book Critics Circle • National Coalition Against Censorship

This executive order is censorship, pure and simple, and it has no place in a free society. It must be rescinded or stayed as soon as possible, and at the latest, before the earliest implementation deadline, February 19, 2025. Financially blacklisting trans, intersex, and non-binary perspectives will rob us of a vital literature yet to be written while insulting the dignity of LGBTQIA+ people everywhere. This return to McCarthyism by other means is a leap backwards to a grim chapter of American history. Sincerely, the undersigned, • American Booksellers Association • American Booksellers for Free Expression • Andrews McMeel • Annie's Foundation • Audio Publishers Association • Authors Against Book Bans • Berry Powell Press • Cardinal Rule Press • Charlesbridge Publishing • Chestnut Publishing House • Comic Book Legal Defense Fund • Deborah Sloan and Company and Kidsbuzz • Developmental Texts • Empowering Latino Futures • EveryLibrary • Firewater Media Group • Florida Freedom to Read Project • Foreword Reviews • Freedom to Read Project • Gryphon Publishing Consulting, LLC • Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) • IngramSpark • Judging by the Cover: A Bookstore • Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship • Lambda Literary • Latino 247 Media Group • Lee Wind, author • Levine Querido • Library Futures • Livingston Parish Library Alliance • Louisiana Citizens Against Censorship • Macmillan Children's Publishing Group • The National Book Critics Circle • National Coalition Against Censorship

• NorthSouth Books • Nosy Crow • Patagonia • Publishers and Writers of San Diego and Orange County • PEN America • PFLAG Fresno • PubWest • Rattling Good Yarns Press • Read Freely Alabama • Red Comet Press LLC • Rutherford County Library Alliance • Sara Paretsky, Writer • SCBWI • SEAT • SparkPoint Studio • St Tammany Library Alliance • Stone Bridge Press • Texas Freedom to Read Project • Walker Books Group for Candlewick Press, Holiday House Books, and Peachtree Publishing • We Need Diverse Books

• NorthSouth Books • Nosy Crow • Patagonia • Publishers and Writers of San Diego and Orange County • PEN America • PFLAG Fresno • PubWest • Rattling Good Yarns Press • Read Freely Alabama • Red Comet Press LLC • Rutherford County Library Alliance • Sara Paretsky, Writer • SCBWI • SEAT • SparkPoint Studio • St Tammany Library Alliance • Stone Bridge Press • Texas Freedom to Read Project • Walker Books Group for Candlewick Press, Holiday House Books, and Peachtree Publishing • We Need Diverse Books

AABB stands with our trans members, friends, colleagues, heroes, and the countless trans Americans who will be affected by this needlessly cruel Executive Order from the Trump Administration.

We are proud to do so alongside so many of our comrades in the fight against book bans.

07.02.2025 00:30 👍 138 🔁 51 💬 1 📌 4

Love this

07.02.2025 00:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The sweater was an immediate yes for me too

05.02.2025 21:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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All sale audiobooks Check out the selection of Libro.fm’s on-sale audiobooks!

For those that maybe need a little joy…for reasons… @libro.fm is having a romance audiobook sale. Lots of good titles. I…probably bought too many. 😬

libro.fm/sale/all

05.02.2025 20:45 👍 19 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 2

I had the same desires, and Time Magazine.

05.02.2025 21:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#ootd for the @pocpub happy hour event this evening. It’ll be great to be in community, lean on each other’s strengths, and explore more ways to amplify diverse representation in all areas of trad publishing. 🌟📚 #POCinPublishing #DiverseBooks #CommunityStrength @lkbfstorytellers @latinxkidlitbf

05.02.2025 21:11 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

To illustrators posting videos of their art process: Pls use #ArtProcessVideo tag when you post? Looking for some to feature in my Uplift feed. Add #KidLitArt if they are appropriate for children's books.

Note: You can turn OFF autoplay of videos & GIFS at bsky.app/settings/con...

05.02.2025 15:49 👍 48 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0

Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
#BookSky #BlackBookSky

04.02.2025 19:09 👍 6690 🔁 1023 💬 86 📌 24

Knock knock—

Not an intro to a joke, just looking for our friends. #kidlitbooks #schoollibraries #kidlitbookshelf

04.02.2025 17:00 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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New Item Just In!

#illustratorsofbluesky #picturebookartist have your portfolio critiqued by 2025 PURA BELPRÈ Illustration Honor Book illustrator @gardeltatiana!!!

👟 Don't walk, run (click) https://buff.ly/411XbEk Link also in bio.

#picturebookillustrator #picturebookart #coverdesign

04.02.2025 19:33 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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"Each year a committee of ALSC identifies the best of the best in children's books. According to the Notables Criteria, "notable" is defined as: Worthy of note or notice, important, distinguished, outstanding."

Thank you ALSC!😘

04.02.2025 19:26 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0