Nathan Christopher
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Children’s author | Partially solved a Rubik's Cube in 1992 | Rep: @WonderLilly | He/him | Join the "PB Workshop" Discord server here:
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Ho-ho-holy moly! 🎅🏻
Absolutely thrilled to announce my debut picture book series, illustrated by the incredible Pablo Pino and coming in 2025 & 2026 from
@SourcebooksKids
. Huge thanks to
@IvanTaurisano
and
@WonderLilly
for their enthusiasm and support! Let's do this! 📬
#kidlit
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My kid transcribed something her teacher said in class today and is it giving it to her as a gift tomorrow.
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Update: kid says teacher laughed at it and said, "But we need to add something: 'even though I still love you'"
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You've got your jammies on and a cup of milk. You have a pile of picture books from the library to read. No school tomorrow. Your parents don't care if you stay up all night long. A perfect Summer night. You are 40 years old. The year is 2022.
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I finished a PB first draft this morning, and it's 175 words. With revisions I may be able to get it down to zero.
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My new critique partner is a little needy and prone to emotional outbursts, but I see great things in her future.
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Humor 👏 is 👏 a 👏 valid 👏 reason 👏 for 👏 a 👏 book 👏 to 👏 exist
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📚 New tool for PB authors 📚
If you write picture book manuscripts in Google Docs, you may be interested in a free “Add-on” I created.
It auto-calculates word count (minus art notes) and includes a few formatting tools.
I’ll explain how to get it and use it. [thread]
#kidlit
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✨Plot twist✨
The ink has dried and it's official:
I've signed with
@WonderLilly
at Full Circle Literary.
I couldn't be more thrilled to join the
@FullCircleLit
Fam 🤩. It's been a journey, and I'm beyond excited for what comes next! 📚
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"Sorry I'm in a bad mood, I'm having trouble solving an imaginary problem I created."
- Writers
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4yo saying goodnight to my wife: "See you in the middle of the night."
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Nothing worse than coming up with a great book idea, then learning that a well known author stole your idea, wrote the book, and published it years ago.
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Critique partner: “Cut that part.”
Me: “No.”
Me two months later: “Ok, yeah.”
#amrevising
#writingcommunity
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me: ... so that's why Knuffle Bunny could be considered the best picture book trilogy of the early 2000's.
uber driver: why did you sit in the front
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Good news: I wrote a new picture book!
Bad news: it’s not good.
Good news: it might become good in the future!
Bad news: I’m not sure how to make it good.
Good news: I have critique partners!
#amwriting
#amrevising
#WritingCommunity
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There once was a bear in the tree location. He had long hair, we don't know why. Everybody loved bear, did he not loved himself? Bear spirit. But when inciting incident, one day the bear. HAIR BEAR HAS HAIR?! is the world's first AI-generated picture book.
#CookiePitch
#KidLit
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My three-year-old just called her bookmark the “page memory”. So... that’s what those are called now.
#amreading
#BookTwitter
#WritingCommunity
#kids
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Hell hath no fury like a toddler slightly inconvenienced.
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📚A Brief and Nerdy Analysis of 100 Picture Books📚
Recently I've been tracking data for PBs I read, including:
-Tense
-Point of view
-Rhyming / prose
This thread presents the data. I hope you find it interesting!
#amwriting
#PictureBooks
#kidlit
#WritingCommunity
#WritersCafe
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Can you hear the sky?
Have you embraced the wind?
Go outside and...
STARE AT THE SUN.
This lyrical
#picturebook
encourages children to take a closer look at nature, and they'll never see things the same way again.
#CookiePitch
#kidlit
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I started writing one year ago this month. Since then I’ve published 5 picture books (on my printer) and won multiple accolades (from my daughter).
Thank you to all my critique partners and the wonderful
#WritingCommunity
.
#amwriting
#amrevising
#kidlit
#WritersCafe
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@naanking
@JenniferSHirsch
Yeah, would've been more awkward if it was, "... and we all thought he was 🤮."
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Me: "Keep marshmallow out of your hair, and it would hurt less when I brush it."
4yo: "I can't do that."
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First day of school jitters?
Sibling jealousy?
Reassure your children that there's no need to worry, because there's no objective meaning to life and the eventual heat-death of the universe is inevitable, with "NONE OF THIS MATTERS — NIHILISM FOR KIDS"
#tacopitch
#stem
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"How do you get an agent?"
"Well you work hard on your writing for several years."
"I'm willing to do that."
"Then you query over and over and deal with nonstop rejection."
"Worth it."
"Then you have a phone call."
"Phone call? Never mind."
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4yo: "Daddy, you could be dead any minute. Can I have some milk, please?"
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I'll just check the monitor to see what my little angel is OH GOD
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I'm catching on that I should think about how pregnant my wife is before I complain to her about absolutely anything.
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We don't sleep anymore, but it's worth it because the infant smiles at us for 7 seconds each day.
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All it takes is one "Holy shit, fine, if I take you on as a client will you stop querying me?"
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Our bookshelves are bursting and ready to blow.
And boxes of books fill our basement below.
Our bedrooms? They're book-rooms. The kitchen, the floor:
all books. And surprise, there's more
#books
at the door.
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My baby rolled over today. She's the first baby to ever do that. She's interesting and amazing, and you're welcome for the update.
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Me: "Are you ready for Christmas?"
Toddler: "Yeah."
Me: "Do you know who comes at Christmas?"
Toddler: "A hippo."
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1. Write picture book manuscript
2. Don’t query because you have too few manuscripts
3. Write new manuscript
4. Re-read old manuscripts and realize they’re not good
5. Repeat forever
#amwriting
#amrevising
#kidlit
#WritingCommunity
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Look upon my 4yo's play-doh baby, and never sleep again.
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Writing a picture book is like making a clay sculpture. The first draft is piling the clay into a horrible blob roughly approximating the desired shape. After that, there’s lots of removing and reshaping before you have something good.
#amwriting
#amrevising
#WritingCommunity
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Please stop saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took my shots and now I'm alive and have to finish revising this manuscript
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Me: "I can't play right now, I'm tired and haven't had my coffee."
4.5yo: "Plus you're old and sweaty, right?"
Just got murdered by a 4.5yo.
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Hi
#WritingCommunity
, I wrote a story for
#FallWritingFrenzy
, and I'd love for you to read it. 🧟♀️🐺
Thank you
@KaitlynLeann17
@LydiaLukidis
and
@AReynosoMorris
for organizing FWF—I'm looking forward to reading the other entries.
#KidLit
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I'm in a good place right now (Not emotionally. I'm just at the book store.)
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Cheers to that critique partner who always gets your crap first drafts, probably thinks you’re a slightly crap writer, but doesn’t realize your stories get way better after their critiques!
#amwriting
#amrevising
#WritingCommunity
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Thrilled to announce that my newest story received a glowing review from a 3.5 year old, who said, "I really loved every part of it."
#amwriting
#kidlit
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4yo (up an hour past her bedtime, freestyling on her Casio keyboard): "Is this the best night of your life?"
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5yo: I have an idea, let's sell the baby's teeth.
Me: Who would buy them?
5yo: People who have babies that don't have teeth.
#Entrepreneurship
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Your coworkers do not want to hear everything about the book you just read.
This tweet is directed at me.
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Weird my family doesn't want to talk about publishing as much as I do
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3 yo said she doesn’t like the 1st draft of my new PB.
Me: “Which part?”
Her: “The whole thing.”
Ok... at least she’s honest.
Me: “Maybe I’ll give up on this and start a new one.”
Her: “No! You can’t give up!”
Ok, she’s wise too.
#WritingCommunity
#AmWriting
#kidlit
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The baby's napping and I'm paralyzed with indecision—do I write? Catch up on work? Watch Netflix? Clean the hou—nevermind she's awake
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Product idea: Pyrex measuring cups, but the measurements don't wash off in the dishwasher.
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Sounds my toddler can sleep through:
- Thunderstorms
- Barking dog
- Washer and drier
Sounds my toddler cannot sleep through:
- Me silently sitting down at my computer to write
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You take all the precautions, wear masks, stay home for a couple years. Then you let your kid ride a carousel and she licks the pole.
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Killing your darlings is tough any time,
but it hurts even worse if they happen to rhyme.
Okay, it does nothing to further the plot —
but that couplet required four hours of thought.
#amwriting
#amrevising
#rhyme
#poetry
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Just finished writing my first ever rhyming story.
Pros:
* It rhymes.
* It was fun to write.
* I can now say phrases like "anapestic tetrameter."
Cons:
* It took over a month.
* It's 780 words.
* Wife said she's leaving if I say "anapestic tetrameter" again.
#amwriting
#kidlit
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Yes I'm biased as hell but I think this is really good for a 4 year old :).
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Here's the story I wrote for the
#FallWritingFrenzy
contest. Good luck to everybody taking part in the contest.
#KidLit
#EternalDamnation
#BillyJoel
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Wonderful and unexpected consequence of writing a rhyming manuscript (and maybe reading it aloud a little too often):
Yesterday my 3.5 yo launched into a spontaneous recitation of several stanzas of my story, from memory, while laughing and loving it 😀.
#amwriting
#kidlit
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Must... fight... urge... to query an agent before fully ready.
#amwriting
#amrevising
#kidlit
#WritingCommunity
#WritersCafe
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Do you have a favorite spatula, or are you young?
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My toddler accidentally made up a pretty good rhyming stanza during our car ride yesterday (while pointing out a cyclist with no helmet, as always)...
He's going to get sunburned, he's going to get hurt,
'Cause he's got no helmet and he's got no shirt.
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I didn't know I could be as clueless about anything as I was about publishing when I started writing.
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If I never get published at least I made some critique partners laugh.
#amwriting
#amrevising
#kidlit
#writingcommunity
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Reiterating my SEO hack for supporting writing friends: rather than searching for Kate's (in this example) title, search "solar eclipse books for kids", scroll until you find her book, then click+buy. This teaches the site to rank her book higher in the results for that search.
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4yo: "Can I give my stuffed koala a name?"
Me: "Of course, but this time take your time and come up with a good na-"
4yo: "KOALA KOALA SOFT SOFT."
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4.5yo: "I think a dog and a baby is a handful."
Me: "What about a 4.5 year old?"
4.5yo: "Uh, I'm pretty much taking care of myself."
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I'm just saying if you don't want your husband to eat all the lactation cookies, you should label them as lactation cookies
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Authors - have you ever started with a title you liked, and then figured out the story to go with it?
#kidlit
#amwriting
#WritingCommunity
#writerscafe
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4 years old: fell off top bunk, landed on a record player, perfectly fine
40 years old: injured shoulder by sneezing
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Actual feedback I got on one of my picture books:
“Parts of this story felt too dark ... I suggest removing the following: dungeon, rats on a skeleton, open sewer, torture, bone dust, ornamental skull carvings, and chained people.”
Well yeah, when you put it THAT way...
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Good luck to everybody taking part in the
#SpringFlingKidlit
contest. Here’s the link to my story.
#iMadeABlogForThis
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How many American picture book readers are familiar with the work of Robert Munsch?
He has been a big influence on my writing. Hilarious / irreverent / surreal humor.
I assume he’s bigger in Canada than USA, but not sure.
#PictureBooks
#kidlit
#WritingCommunity
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When you critique someone’s picture book manuscript do you read it aloud?
#amwriting
#amrevising
#kidlit
#WritingCommunity
#WritersCafe
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Me: "...and those trees are called 'evergreens' because they stay green forever."
5yo: "Even after nobody is alive anymore, after all life is ended?"
"Uh... no... just all year round."
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Critique partner 1: “This story is amazing, you’re amazing, I look forward to seeing this on bookshelves.”
Critique partner 2: “Have you considered brushing up on the basics of writing?”
#amwriting
#amediting
#kidlit
#WritingCommunity
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You know something extremely dangerous is happening when your 5yo yells, "Dad, can you come make sure what I'm doing is safe?"
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Flew to Florida, went to Disney, hopped on our first ride, and a family we know from back home was seated directly behind us. The ride? You guessed it... "It's a Small World."
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You might be a picture book author if... you're mad at a word because not enough words rhyme with it.
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Do you have trouble reading through your own picture book manuscripts without stopping to tweak something every... single... time? I can’t do it.
#amwriting
#kidlit
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Goodnight
#WritingCommunity
. May you remember all the story ideas you neglect to write down.
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I misunderstood the instructions and have been taking part in the Fall Eating Frenzy.
#FallWritingFrenzy
#kidlit
#WritingCommunity
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Last night I had that quintessential writerly experience where I woke up with an idea for a story, and had to write down. And let me tell you, this story is straight up kooky-dooks.
#amwriting
#amdreaming
#kidlit
?
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A four year old can't find her shoes
or her toothbrush
or her pants.
But her dad hiding in the basement eating leftover cake in the dark
is easily found.
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I'm sincerely proud to be a 4-time
#CookiePitch
prize winner.
May the cookie crumble always in your favor 🍪.
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"What have you been up to?"
"I've been really focused on my writing career."
"Oh! How's that going?"
"I don't have a writing career."
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🛠What it does🛠
It automatically detects art notes, and shows you:
* Word count — text only
* Word count — art notes
* Word count — total
(Hopefully) this eliminates the need to manually track the word count of your art notes, subtract from your total, etc.
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Bear needs a new place to stay, and he's thrilled to find a cozy abandoned uranium mine... Until he starts to experience strange medical symptoms.
DON'T SIT ON THE GLOWING ROCKS is a picture book about mass spectrometry and radiation safety for kids 4-10.
#tacopitch
#STEM
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