Kayla Stansbury

MG Writer, #AMM Round 8 Mentee, Raised in 🇧🇷 and 🇺🇸, TWS member, #amquerying (she/her/hers)

[Kayla Stansbury @KaylaIsWriting]

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To Lillian, the most confusing part of her life was her condition, Functional Neurological Disorder. Then she ripped through the barrier between her world and the others. Can she+her parallel selves repair the rift before it's all torn apart? #KidLitPit #MG #SF #DIS

[Kayla Stansbury @KaylaIsWriting]

@SkyNews @quiddie @dimension20show burrowsendcore

[Kayla Stansbury @KaylaIsWriting]

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[Kayla Stansbury @KaylaIsWriting]

@isabelacarv Say it louder 😎

[Kayla Stansbury @KaylaIsWriting]

Reminder! #kidlit #readers can also sign!

[Scott Reintgen @Scott_Thought]

GIVEAWAY: I wanted to celebrate B+N's big sale. For the next 3 days, you can use the code PREORDER25 and get 25% off of A WHISPER IN THE WALLS (members get 35% off!)

RT to enter my giveaway and spread the news. One winner will get personalized books!

https://t.co/Wmt33pXgTo

[Kayla Stansbury @KaylaIsWriting]

#FND baybeeeeeee

[Adam Sass @TheAdamSass]

Once I solve these 5-6 overlapping physical and mental health crises, it’s over for yall

[Kayla Stansbury @KaylaIsWriting]

I've been querying an upper MG SF about identity and illness set in Northwestern Brazil 🇧🇷

Heyyyyyyyyyy #agents #editors #amquerying #kidlit

[kate is on other platforms! @akatepockett]

sci fi is so in y’all. i have been predicting the sff wave for like a year and it’s happening!!! more agents are requesting sci fi. more book deals are sci fi. more bestsellers are sci fi. the wave is COMING 🌊

[Kayla Stansbury @KaylaIsWriting]

Hi #writersoftwitter!

I'm Kayla, and I write middle grade and young adult SFF about...

❤️‍🩹 recovering from friendship heartbreak
🧪 🔮cutting edge science that sometimes seems like magic
❓️🫠complicated feelings about identity and illness
#amdrafting #amquerying

[birdie schae ☀️ @birdienotabird]

can we bring back #WritersOfTwitter again? i would love to meet some new writer friends (& hype up the ones i’m lucky to know already) so go ahead and (re)introduce yourself! 👀💕

[Kayla Stansbury @KaylaIsWriting]

@ChelseaBigBang Yes.

[Percy Jackson News @updatespercy]

São Paulo will have a Camp Half-Blood experience!

#PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians fans will be able to play Capture the Flag, take Archery lessons and more activities at Camp!

[Kayla Stansbury @KaylaIsWriting]

Wait. A. Minute.

[JSTOR @JSTOR]

If you sign up with a personal email, you'll be able to access up to 100 free articles per month 👀

[Kayla Stansbury @KaylaIsWriting]

LOOK AT THIS COVERRRRRR

[Shamari K. Reid @shamarikreid]

Humans who teach: A guide for centering love, justice,and liberation in schools. Available spring 2024. Sign up to receive pre order details here: https://t.co/B8beDuNRzY

Read below for mini description of book 🧵1/4

[Kayla Stansbury @KaylaIsWriting]

@writeloudly Looking forward to it!!

[Mary Averling (Not Here) @maryaverling]

anyway apropos of nothing, here's a tiny sampling of incredible 2023 middle grade that *I* would vote for, if a certain website allowed it 😤🫶

[Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks]

I’m so mad about this.

Especially when you think about the dwindling coverage for books, the struggle for poetry and MG books to get ANY kind of press, and the boost indie comics get from things like this.

It was SOMETHING, you know? Ugh.

[Ally Ally Oxenfree @AllyMalinenko]

Recently had an incredible MG anthology with a phenomenal line up shelved. All the rejections were of the "MG is a hard sell right now"

This is part of the reason that is true