K.C. Hayes

Enter by tomorrow!

Ridiculously happy to be a finalist in the always-exciting #PBParty event, organized by the impressive-energetic
@mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social.

#picturebooks
#kidlit
#childrensbooks

Just in time for spring! March 11, 2025 is the release date for the paperback version of Moving Words About A Flower, from @charlesbridge.bsky.social and illustrated by Barbara Chotiner.

#picturebooks
#kidlit
#childrensbooks

A banner illustrating my entry into the #50PreciousWords event.

I had much fun writing a mini-story and entering it in #50PreciousWords, organized by the indefatigable @viviankirkfield.bsky.social. Now it's fingers crossed while the judges do their thing.

no better evidence that we’ve got a couple trillion-dollar squatters holding the internet back than the fact that a company with 20 employees can make a better platform than Meta

Still amazed by Mac Barnett's first line of text for "Extra Yarn."
Pure poetry:

On a cold afternoon, in a cold little town,
where everywhere your looked was either the white of snow
or the black of soot from chimneys,
Annabelle found a box filled with yarn of every color.

#picturebooks
#kidlit

How (IMO) to use AI's deficiencies to improve your PB writing.

Part 2 of 2
ECONOMIZE
AI doesn't compress thoughts with metaphors etc., so after comparing drafts (see Part 1):
a. Notice any overlap of long-windedness.
b. Find a more elegant way of expressing that thought.
#AI
#kidlit
#picturebooks

How (IMO) to use AI's deficiencies to improve your picture book writing.

Part 1 of 2
PURGE CLICHÉS
AI tends to use generalized text, so you can:
a. Enter a synopsis of your story as a ChatGPT prompt.
b. Compare the result with YOUR story.
c. Eliminate overlap of clichés

#AI
#kidlit
#picturebooks

I’m gonna be doing this with #SCBWI OK/AK (but it’s open to anyone interested)!

I hope it’ll help #KidLit folks who are new to BlueSky (or haven’t joined yet) more acquainted with the platform, how it works & how features like Feeds can be helpful for our community.

This is why I'm migrating to Bluesky.

Analysis | Musk is nearly done destroying what made Twitter Twitter Musk didn’t buy Twitter. He bought millions of accounts he could repurpose for another app entirely.

Analysis by Philip Bump | X gives Elon Musk everything he ever wanted: attention, praise, sycophancy, nonsense presented as news reporting, hostility to non-right-wing ideas or arguments, money. Who, he figures, could want anything more?