C. Bernadette

kidlit author--2 debut PBs coming soon!/ artist / bookworm / SCBWI / (She/Her) / #kidlit #amwriting #WritingCommunity #PB #MG #YA

[C. Bernadette @CBJarapa]

It was just an ordinary afternoon. We were having a snack of Swiss cake and chocolate walnut when i received a notification with a subject that says "congratulations!" in all caps. I dismissed it as another ad, but no..

This is a vague publishing tweet!! 😭 🥰 🤩 #amwriting

[C. Bernadette @CBJarapa]

It's that time of the year again 😍 #nanowrimo2024

[C. Bernadette @CBJarapa]

Happy new year to all! Here's to a more prosperous and productive 2024! Cheers!

[C. Bernadette @CBJarapa]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Amanda Lees @amandalees]

I really, really need one of these…

[Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss]

1. #WriterBeware! Because they're all doing a lot of soliciting, here are 7 fake literary agencies run by the same scammer, as shown by identical content on their websites. The scammer behind the curtain is Page Turner Press and Media (known in the Philippines as Innocentrix) 🧵

[PUNS @ThePunnyWorld]

What did Harry Potter say when he was filling up his car?

Expensive Petroleum.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

So very true

Have you ever thought about this?

In 100 years like in 2123 we will all be buried with our relatives and friends.

Strangers will live in our homes we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything we have today. All our possessions will be unknown and unborn, including the car we spent a fortune on, and will probably be scrap, preferably in the hands of an unknown collector.

Our descendants will hardly or hardly know who we were, nor will they remember us. How many of us know our grandfather's father?

After we die, we will be remembered for a few more years, then we are just a portrait on someone's bookshelf, and a few years later our history, photos and deeds disappear in history's oblivion. We won't even be memories.

If we paused one day to analyse these questions, perhaps we would understand how ignorant and weak the dream to achieve it all was.

If we could only think about this, surely our approaches, our thoughts would change, we would be different people.

Always having more, no time for what's really valuable in this life. I'd change all this to live and enjoy the walks I've never taken, these hugs I didn't give, these kisses for our children and our loved ones, these jokes we didn't have time for. Those would certainly be the most beautiful moments to remember, after all they would fill our lives with joy.

And some of us waste it day after day with greed, selfishness and intolerance.

Every minute of life is priceless and will never be repeated, so take time to enjoy, be grateful for, and celebrate your existence.

[S.E. Reed @writingwithreed]

Without agent:
✨Sold 6 books to 3 publishers
✨Approached for an IP pitch
✨Asked for exclusive sub on spec
✨Published 14 short stories
✨Won 2 writing awards

With wrong agent:
✨nothing

An agent DOESN'T guarantee success. Only sign if it's the right champion of your work.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Alfonso Yuste Navarro is a street artist active in Spain. He makes little, very detailed homes for stray cats in the streets of Valencia

[📹 Jeanne Paquette / jea.nnee]

[C. Bernadette @CBJarapa]

@escherrington Thank you 🥰

[C. Bernadette @CBJarapa]

I've completed my July #CampNaNoWriMo goal ahead of time! Here's to more word count goals! 🥳

[C. Bernadette @CBJarapa]

....and an earthquake happened 😭 Thank God it was only a little shake, not too strong and our building held up 😢

[C. Bernadette @CBJarapa]

My family picked a really bad time to move to a high condo. With threats of earthquakes due to the unrest of active volcanoes in the country, I don't know whether to follow my loved ones or stay put in our flood-prone house. Praying for wisdom and everyone's safety #EarthquakePH

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

“I suspect that reading fiction is one of the few remaining paths to transcendence, that elusive state in which the distance between the self and the universe shrinks,” Ceridwen Dovey writes. https://t.co/a15IIjgqAs

[P.S. Literary Agency @PSLiterary]

If you could own your own bookstore, what would it be like?

[C. Bernadette @CBJarapa]

@jacobwlockett24 @josiedefalco @SarahSteinbac11 @Social_plxel18 @TaniaGuarino @escherrington @RSinclair_art @LouiseMAamodt @cs_auth_illus @jencowanwriter @inkedauthor31 @lindseykleblanc @BrankoH79 @canoesandcosmos @Jess_a_Roux Congratulations!!!

[Novelicious @noveliciouss]

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft. If you want to write, practice #writing. ANN PATCHETT #amwriting

[C. Bernadette @CBJarapa]

My family picked a really bad time to move to a high condo. With threats of earthquakes due to the unrest of active volcanoes in the country, I don't know whether to follow my loved ones or stay put in our flood-prone house. Praying for wisdom and everyone's safety #EarthquakePH

[C. Bernadette @CBJarapa]

@lostsheep02 Nah, I haven't written a PB since last year so I'm sitting this one out. But thank you 🙂