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More Good (Shh) News
August 1st I’ll be able to post good news about my historical fiction novel. In the meantime, I continue to revise my work and: sequester pets in the guestroom as workers repair water damage from a leak spanning 2 floors. … Continue reading
Puppy Summer
My house still has a hole in the dining room ceiling, the upstairs bathroom has no walls, puppy only mostly uses his potty pads, cats are freaked by puppy and WILL PEE on his leash if it’s left lying around, … Continue reading
Baby in the Laundry Basket
Ever woken up with a pounding heart because your dream was, once again, that you put a baby to bed in a laundry basket instead of a crib and suddenly you couldn’t find the baby when you went to the … Continue reading
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Tagged #amwriting, 2025, Adult fiction, cats, fiction writing, Genre Jumpers, Middle Grade Fiction, Mountain life, Novel revision, Pets, Poet, poetry, Puppies, Rescues, Revising fiction, SoCal Living, Valencia
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Another Mslexia Longlist Placement
For my middle grade novel TROUBLE BENEATH THE WAVES, which I entered into the 2025 Mslexia Children’s & YA Novel Competition. I was informed yesterday that I did NOT make the shortlist: 😦 However, I’m thrilled TROUBLE made the longlist. … Continue reading
M’s DAY 2025
My husband told a joke at the dinner table and I spit out my salad from laughing and looked up trying to swallow and there was an amber stripe on the ceiling from a leak in the teen’s bathroom upstairs … Continue reading
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Tagged #amwriting, #aussies, #mothersday, 2025, Bathroom leaks, Bears, children's literature, dog, Dogs, faction, fictikon, life, middle grade writing, Mothers Day 2025, Pets, poetry, Puppies, puppy, Puppy chewing, puppy crate training, Puppy training, Queensland Heelers, Water damage, writer, writing
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April Cruelty (Remembrance of Things Past Edition)
Early twenties, fresh out of a British graduate school for acting, back home working as a hostess for a local resort restaurant (but of course), gathering my finances-what-finances as I prepared for a move down the coast to Hollywood—I met … Continue reading
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Tagged #amwriting, #nevergiveup, 2025, acting, books, children's literature, creative-writing, dreams, fiction, fiction writing, Hollywood, IRL, middle grade writing, Novelists, personal goals, poetry, writer, writing
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Christmas Books
‘Orbital’ was on the top of my Christmas list. I’m only a deer’s-trail in as I stop and re-read sentences and whole pages and savor and blink hard and hope the book won’t’ end. I’m grateful Samantha Harvey won the … Continue reading
Tumultuous Times Pre-Nov 5
So here are happy pictures. Happy scrolling. Happy voting.Cast: hummer, Bby Darwin, Arlo doggy, Shadow cat, Kaia (RIP), Valencia mtns., etc.
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Tagged #amwriting, 2024, children's literature, fiction writing, life, middle grade writing, personal goals, poetry, writer, writing
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Creating Update
Helloooo, August. I write 6-7 days/week, but it was extremely challenging to haul my butt into the office chair for most of July as I’ve been grieving for my girl Kaia. We adopted her at 10 weeks old, she developed … Continue reading
Follow Mary Averling
So much focus these days on first pages of mss and I maintain my opinion that it CAN take more than a first page to keep a reader reading and that there’s nothing wrong with that, however, the first page … Continue reading
Fire: Post/Gorman, CA
I was hoping we were safe from fire activity until at least September due to our last rainy winter/spring. Nope! I’ve grown up with forest fires, have family members who have lost houses–yes, plural– to CA forest fires, am aware … Continue reading
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Tagged #amwriting, 2024, cats, children's literature, Firefighters, life, poetry, Post Gorman Fire, SoCal fire season, teens, writer
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I Heart Research
Research project happening as I revise the 1st 1/2 of my new middle grade novel. Sometimes I procrastinate waaaaaay too much about what it is I think I should research, only to get my butt in my office chair, begin … Continue reading
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Tagged #amwriting, 2024, children's literature, fiction writing, middle grade writing, Pteranodons, writing, writing research
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MAE RESPICIO’S: ISABEL IN BLOOM
Mae’s new book was recently released. I’m halfway through and highly recommend it. Beautiful, sincere writing offering direct connection/insight into the novel’s young heroine as she navigates a brand new life in San Francisco, CA. Mae was my workshop leader … Continue reading
‘Rough’ Words = Cat Bedding
Here is Shadow snoozing on draft #10000000000000000000… Yours in almost TGIF, PBInstagram: @pbrippey1
Prep: SCBWI Writers Day 2024
Writers Day 2024 is my favorite SCBWI annual event as it’s held at the Skirball (therefore sentimental–when my teen was a toddler I took him to the museum’s Noah’s Ark exhibit, often). Lunch is included with the price and is … Continue reading
Conference Wrap-Up
My only criticism of this conference: No critique groups should have been held in the lobby/lounge area of the hotel. The noise level there was distressing. Critique groups held in faculty suites should have been the norm (deeper critique shared … Continue reading
Conference Time
2nd day, Big Sur Children’s Writers Workshops held not in Big Sur–Hwy 1 such a mess this time of year–but in Monterey, 4.5 hrs from home. I arrived in Monterey with my husband the day before the conference started. Mini-break … Continue reading
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Tagged #amwriting, 2024, art, books, children's literature, fiction, kidlit, Literature, middle grade writing, Monterey CA, personal goals, poetry, writer, writing
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Cannery Row & Pacific Grove
Pre-kidlit conference exploration of Cannery Row and dinner in Pacific Grove. Visiting Pacific Marine Laboratories never gets old as I can never not seem to romanticize Ed Ricketts. Never actually explored neighboring P. Grove before–its views are, to plop a … Continue reading
All The Lovely Prepping
This weekend is the Big Sur Children’s Writing Workshops/conference in Monterey. I’m going up a day early. But first is house-prep, setting up the guest room for my inlaws, baking stuff for the ravenous teen for the entire 3.5 days … Continue reading
Latest Kite Tales
Read the latest edition of Kite Tales (tri-region SCBWI blog) and the interview with April Halprin Wayland via Paige Vinten Taylor. Valuable (IMO) advice/insights packed into one interview–excellent. Yours in keeping creative minds humming, PB
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Tagged #amwriting, 2024, April Halprin Wayland, Children's Books, fiction writing, kidlit, Kidlit poetry, Kite Tales, Paige Vinten Taylor, poetry, SCBWI, SCBWI-LA
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Holiday Pteranodon
Welcome to December! aka Revisionmas! Which has everything to do with this photo. Yours in Christmas decorations up since Thanksgiving Day, a return to writing at night in addition to weekday dawns, and yours in the art and agony and … Continue reading
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Tagged #amwriting, 2023, children's literature, Christmas Spirit, fiction writing, middle grade writing, poetry, Pteranodons, The art of revision, writer, writing
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On Stepping Away
You know how so many books on creativity, or self-help books by therapists, psychologists, or self-help websites and apps advise stepping away from your work and going on an artist-date with your creative-self in order to receive fresh ideas, answers … Continue reading
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Tagged #amwriting, 2023, children's literature, fiction, fiction writing, Grand Canyon, middle grade writing, personal goals, poetry, Travel 2023, Vacation 2023, writer
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July 4th ’23
Recently we drove from Valencia (mountains) to Ventura (ocean!!!) on the 126 Hwy, which took us through good old Fillmore (fields, strip malls/classic train depot…). My husband and I were stunned by the number of popup fireworks booths Fillmore displayed … Continue reading
May, June Swoon, Hi July
As June comes to a close, my son paused by my computer, touched my shoulder, whispered with dread: Mom–what’s the date today? I told him: Dude, it’s only barely almost July. He was clearly relieved the summer was still before … Continue reading
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