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21 September, 201423 October, 2014

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A Kickstarter "Project We Love"! GROUP CHAT is a comics anthology about friendship: 200 pages of comics--and I wrote some of those pages 😍! Link in bio. Swipe to hear their blurb about my 6-page comic, and check my featured story for a sneak peek! When I needed inspiration while writing the comic, I looked to the Leslie Knope / Ann Perkins friendship and @Julia_the_hut's previous artwork to solidify the characters. I wrote the skeleton, but Julia's art brought my script to life with muscles and skin and spirit (not to mention fabulous hair). Go follow Julia! Here's a quick summary of our comic: A tall Latina executive answers the call (or text, rather) of her BFF, a black plus-size beauty and cancer survivor who has a panic attack in a department store dressing room after her double mastectomy. Kickstarter will have the best deals for ordering! If you know somebody who might enjoy the comic and review it or sell it, let me know. #groupchat #kickstarter #projectwelove #visiblewomen #shewritescomics #shemakescomics #comicsbywomen #womenincomics #breastcancerawareness #brestcancersurvivor

Most anticipated spring 2018 releases and a couple other books I'm hoping to finally read this spring (After I finish Children of Blood and Bone) Spring 2018 releases: #TheSerpentsSecret, which has a fierce Indian protagonist and has been compared to A Wrinkle in Time and The Lightning Thief #TheCaseforJamie, the third Charlotte Holmes novel with my favorite teen boy narrator of all time, Jamie Watson. #BloodWaterPaint, a novel in verse which is riveting and devastating (see my posts for a review!) #LoveSongsAndOtherLies, a swoony summer romance about first loves reunited years later. And two books I am very excited to finally read now that I've finished my WIP: #MyLadyJane, which I'm sure to love and has been a good motivation for finishing my draft #TheSunIsAlsoAStar, which will be my second Nicola Yoon novel so I can't go wrong with it. . . . #SockSunday #springreads

What are you reading this weekend? 📖 . . . I'm reading CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE. Best worldbuilding I've read in a long time. Just about 20% done.

Roundup of March 2018 reads. 💔👩🏻‍🎨⛲🎨🖼 BLOOD WATER PAINT is powerful young adult biographical novel in verse. See my other post for a more detailed review! 🕵️‍♀️🏰 AGENT GATES is a hilariously irreverent parody of Downton Abbey. If you like silliness and have some knowledge of the show, I highly recommend it. 🚫👱‍♀️👧🏽🚫📱📞 NO GIRLS NO TELEPHONES is experimental poetry. Cavallaro takes John Berryman's The Dream Songs and writes the inverse of those poems. Then Hazelton writes the inverse of Cavallaro's poems. It's a poetic exercise in opposites, a literary game of telephone. ❄🌬🗺🌈 EVERY COLOR is a sweet picture book that sees a polar bear traveling the world to see colors he was missing out on living in the white arctic. I really love the use of tissue paper and lace overlays to create wind and snow. It's a lovely book. ---- #favoritereadsof2018 #marchfavoritesof2018 #booksiread

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Easter basket books (and costumes) for the boys. Have a super Sunday, all. And if you observe Easter, happy celebrations! Luke 24:1-9

#TheSerpentsSecret is one of my March buys. Look at how gorgeous this cover is! The gold parts of the snakes are gold foil, and I can't tell you how many photos and boomerangs I attempted to show it off. So you'll just have to grab a copy to see for yourself! 🐍 I feel like Middle Grade gets the shaft on Instagram, which is a shame because these are the books that turn kids into readers. I look forward to reading this soon!

New profile picture because it's been probably a decade since I did a self portrait, and I'm turning 30 next month so there's no time like the present? Drawing is probably my least favorite visual artform, I'll be honest. But it felt good to put [blue] pencil to paper and even better to get to an OK sketch after failing spectacularly for a few weeks. I still can't shade to save my life, so vectorizing it was a relief, and I do love collage, so I let myself get lazy on the details with a stripe pattern and a floral that I tweaked the colors on but didn't bother to clean up paths-wise. Much thanks to Pome Press for forcing a deadline on me and to Frida Kahlo, Snapchat filters, and springtime to inspire the flower crown. 20-something me might have hesitated to do something so girly, but 30 me is going to freaking rock it. ✊

#BloodWaterPaint is my top read of March 2018. (Notice the texture of the dust jacket! Swipe to see my favorite excerpt.) 🎨 While I tend to find verse distracting in novels, BWP's free verse is rhythmic and contemplative and doesn't get in the way of the story--just the opposite. I can see the DNA of the play this was born of: the visuals and voice are as vivid and distinct as one of Shakespeare's or Miranda's historicals. 🖼 Intermittent chapters of prose from the mother's storytelling provide a depth to Artemesia's character and her paintings. 🖌 You could spend days, weeks, or months absorbing the words. I devoured this book in one sitting, pausing and rewinding to reread some sections I read too quickly. As soon as I finished, I let it sink in for a day, imagining the paintings before looking up Artemesia's body of work and how it contrasted to the other works of her time. What a phenomenon, this renaissance painter and her characterization in this book. What a travesty, her treatment by contemporaries and neglect by historians. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Definitely buy. Superior re-readability. . . . . . #JoyMcCullough #novelsinverse #freeversenovel #historicalfiction #biographicalfiction #whydontireadmorebiofic #visiblewomen #womenartists #renaissancewoman #booksiread #readin2018 #tbr #bookrecommendations #readthis

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