Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers)

👩🏾‍🏫3rd Grade | 🍎 Year 7| 👩🏾‍🎓’15, ‘16, ‘22 UConn | 💙ΖΦΒ | 📸 Student Photos posted with Parental Consent 📝

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

@DrAwesomeAustin They’re out there somewhere!

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

Me every time I read a MSWL that is looking for picture books and middle grade but not chapter books.

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

Every dollar helps make it possible for my students to grow as readers and leaders. If you’re interested in supporting my campaign, visit the link below: https://t.co/KMydI2efgy

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

Over the last 2 years I’ve raised $900+ for books for my students. With that I’ve purchased 300+ books for my students to take home & add to their home libraries.

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

@victoriajcoe Thanks Victoria! I’ll check that out 😊

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

For those of you with critique partners— where do you find them?

I tend to meet a lot of PB and YA people at conferences but I think working with other chapter book/early MG people would be my best bet.

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

@ElanaRoth Was just coming to say this! There’s this huge gap between chapter books and middle grade and it just doesn’t make sense. If the longer end of chapter books is 12k and a short middle grade is 25k what about the space in between? 😩

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

Any writing friends planning to use the new Threads app? Basically the same thing as Twitter but an Instagram app

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

@emtaywrites Nope! Middle grade and YA are my favorites and I’m 30

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

Attending an agent/editor day last month and getting feedback on my first chapter was soooo helpful. Wish I could have read my whole book to my group 😩

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

@KiarraThaWriter 👏🏾👏🏾 congratulations !!!

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

@KiarraThaWriter Idk if it’s because it looks visually similar but first name that came to mind is Cleo

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

Been living my very best teacher life at @getyourteachon 🥰

Can’t believe it’s almost over but looking forward to going back home and working on my book!

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

Cutting down this word count is so hard, its like I picked these words for a reason!

But last night I was at 13,555 and now I’m at 13, 475 even after adding some descriptive details that were missing before. So a win is a win at this point.

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

So can we talk about how 15yo Ariel meets Eric. They spend time less than a week together and during that time she spends most of it unable to speak (and they don’t write anything or use sign language so it’s all looks and vibes) and by the end of the week they’re married?!

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

@heymrsbond Yup! I don’t like how hotel soap makes my skin feel

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

Me: time to cut down this word count a little bit

*work, work, work*

*checks word count* up almost 50 words 😅😩🙃

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

@KiarraThaWriter I love that so much! Also a nice story switch up because often the guys are supposed to be the super romantic ones and plan all the cute things. So I love this.

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

@author_anima That’s helpful, thank you!

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

So if you attend an event and get submission info for editors and submit to an editor and they’re like yeah we like this, let’s do it! But you don’t have an agent, how does that work?

Asking for myself lol

#writingcommunity #kidslit

[Tracey-Ann Lafayette (She|Her|Hers) @LafayetteTA]

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