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PB learns to ride the unicycle!
UPDATE: my unicycle hangs from a hook in our garage. Sometimes I tell it: I'll be back.January 1, 2025-
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4:55a.m.
Oh hi! About to join my last BSU seminar before Winter Break, during which I’ll be completing a portfolio assignment and a critical essay. So: Shhhhhh (directed at the mini-zoo kneading my lap, nudging my ankles, or counter surfing in … Continue reading
On being a Grad Student
My grad student life is consuming, especially as I get up very early for some sessions–and sometimes I don’t go to bed at all but power through to the wee morning hours with a midnight coffee and I’m loving it. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2025, Califonria, children's literature, fiction, fiction writing, grad school, huskies, middle grade writing, personal goals, poetry, Puppies, puppy life, writing for children
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No Kings
I made a sign and hiked to Good Trouble Corner on NO KINGS day in the USA and posted about my protesting on: Threads: @pbrippey1 Instagram: @pbrippey1 Bluesky: @pbrippey1 I cannot believe what is happening in my country. But it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged #nokings, 2025, Democracy, No Kings Day, personal goals, real life 2025, writer, writing, Writing life
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O California! (mini-summer-break edition)
I live in a state people visit from around the world. California is vast and geologically diverse end to end: deserts, mountains, marshes, volcanoes, ocean–we have it all. Many of our family vacations are CA vacations–there’s just SO MUCH to … Continue reading
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Tagged 2025, airstreams, back to school, California vacations, children's literature, dog beaches, dog friendly califonria, fiction writing, middle grade writing, mini vacations, personal goals, poetry, Puppy training, Santa Cruz California, teens, traveling with dogs, writing
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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
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
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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Rain=Writing Weather
March is: first consistent rains since January’s wildfire evacuation. Terrible for burn zones, desperately needed for upcoming dry seasons. March is: positive writing news I’m not allowed to share, yet. March is: writing schedule–9am to 1pm (also 4am or 7am, … Continue reading
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Tagged #staysafe, 2025, bird houses, birding, children's literature, Covid, fiction writing, Fire evacuation, life, Long Covid, Los Angeles fires, middle grade writing, Mom of teens, not cancer, personal goals, poetry, SoCal backyard birds, SoCal fire season, teens, vacations, Wildfires, writing
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Bath Spa University
Sept. 2025 I’ll be starting the MAWYP at Bath Spa University: Masters in Writing for Young People (Online International Program). BTW: 1. As you know, Bath Spa University is in Bath, UK, a city renowned for hot springs fashioned into … Continue reading
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Tagged 2025, Amanda Root, art, Bath Spa University, Bath UK, Bill Nighty, books, Bradford-on-Avon, children's literature, Ciaron Hinds, Dakota Johnson, fiction writing, Jane Austen Society, Masters in Writing for Young People, MAWYP Bath, middle grade writing, North Oxford, personal goals, Persuasion, photography, poetry, Roman baths, Sally Hawkins, Teatime, travel, Wiltshire, writing
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December Decor
My stocking is hung with extra special care. Also, still reeling from the Mslexia longlist notification. Yours in hope and creativity and a reminder that if your unicycle, like mine, is still hanging from your garage rafters since 2019, maybe … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, children's literature, Christmas 2024, fiction writing, life, middle grade writing, personal goals, poetry, Rebellion, Resistance, unicycles, Whatever, writing
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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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3rd Place Honor
My middle grade novel TROUBLE BENEATH THE WAVES placed 3rd in this year’s SCBWI Sue Alexander Grant competition. Woo hoo! Per SCBWI’s Kite Tales: “A beachside setting and strong voice help set Trouble Beneath the Waves apart. The middle-grade excerpt by PB … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, children's literature, fiction, fiction writing, life, middle grade writing, personal goals, poetry, SCBWI, SCBWI Sue Alexander Grant 2024, SCBWI-LA
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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
Challenges
Tiny violin on repeat this week and it’s only Wednesday, novel revisions continue, my teen takes his final school final tomorrow, camping at Lake Tahoe is scant weeks away (teen has never been camping), the dog’s blood test results are … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, art, books, camping, children's literature, fiction writing, food, Gollum, June Gloom, Lake Tahoe, life, middle grade writing, personal goals, poetry, Summer 2024, Swimming laps, teens, travel, writing
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Madness!
A devoted genre-jumper, today I’m focusing on one of my novels-for-adults. The following quotes are keeping me on track as I revise, sipping a Nespresso-espresso that may keep my eyes open at bedtime. “What is madness but nobility of soul … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, children's literature, fiction writing, Isaac Newton, life, middle grade writing, personal goals, poetry, rescue dogs, Theodore Roethke
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‘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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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
SCBWI Retreat (San Simeon Edition)
I’ve been successful in tearing my eyes away from the ocean in order to revise my new novel, the same I’m taking to the Big Sur Children’s Writing Workshops and that placed (tooting my horn again) in the SCBWI Sue … Continue reading
Writing Retreat!
January is good.
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Tagged 2024, caliornia coast, children's literature, fiction writing, middle grade writing, ocean, personal goals, writing
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