Michaelina Deneka

Lover of Learning. Queen of Quirky. Wordsmith of Wonderlands. I write middle grade fantasy and teach… because children and books are the changers of worlds! 💕

[Michaelina Deneka @M_Deneka]

@ConfusedNarwhal Stayed up until 3am last night unable to put this down, so done now that I’ve slept! 😅

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100 Black Middle-Grade Books By Black Authors About Black Kids https://t.co/0i02kynY11

[Michaelina Deneka @M_Deneka]

First person to give me an #embroidery #rpg wins. Second, third, and fourth people do, too. I will play infinite variations on this idea 🥸

[Michaelina Deneka @M_Deneka]

@yuigaron As a fiber artist, I am 1000% into this idea. Please let me pretend I’m a medieval princess hiding secret messages in my embroidery! 😄

[Michaelina Deneka @M_Deneka]

@SeptimusBrown Her gaze penetrated a point in the distance, watching the wall between realities crumble. The fragile white birds of her hands fell still by her sides, their usual flapping and fluttering stopped. She had never looked so small. So weak. So tragically and terribly in love.

[Michaelina Deneka @M_Deneka]

@leochampion_ There’s a lot to be said for listening more than you speak.

When you only care about building a platform to preach from, what you’re really building is a barrier; you’re shutting yourself off from the immeasurable wealth of knowledge you could get by just shutting up.

[Michaelina Deneka @M_Deneka]

If you’re on Paul’s Wall of Shame, you just got followed! Entitled, dangerous men don’t get a say in who is part of my #WritingCommunity! 💕

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@cortneydirks @literaticat I’ve learned waaaaaay more geography out of a desperate desire to not embarrass myself in front of a room full of small children than I ever did in my own time in school 😅

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@glisiswriting @danyakukafka Yeaaaaah my choice of pronouns there was very intentional. We can’t solve the problem unless we’re willing to name it.

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@leochampion_ Please tell me this is satire so I can go to sleep right now resting easy in the knowledge that this didn’t actually happen?

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@MaliaMaunakea Congrats! What a dynamic group of books, so much to get excited about here!

[Michaelina Deneka @M_Deneka]

@glisiswriting @danyakukafka “Kissing your butt,” as in flattering her or behaving sycophantically. Which makes the parenthetical a comment on what he thinks about that particular body part.

[Michaelina Deneka @M_Deneka]

Two teenagers buying #crochet hooks and yarn at Michaels today loudly announced that #knitting is “so cringe,” and I have never been happier to be old and uncool in my life because HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? 😵‍💫🤯😭

[Michaelina Deneka @M_Deneka]

Proposing a return to the patronage system. Being put up in a fancy room by the ocean to focus on #writing is the least we deserve for what we contribute to society. Change my mind. 😅

[Michaelina Deneka @M_Deneka]

Hairdresser: you have such an interesting personality! You’re like a chameleon, you can morph to whatever you need to be for any situation!

Me: that’d be the #autism, yeah 😅

[Michaelina Deneka @M_Deneka]

My office got a seeeeerious upgrade for the weekend 😅 let’s get #writing! #writerlife

[Michaelina Deneka @M_Deneka]

Arm wrestling is just competitive hand holding.

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@JEngelMattern Even better friends introduce their friends to cultured butter! 🧈🤤

[Michaelina Deneka @M_Deneka]

@2GetMoore All genres? Definitely no.

[Michaelina Deneka @M_Deneka]

@SeventhFacade @2GetMoore Where I grew up it’s holding your breath when you go through a tunnel or when driving past a graveyard 😅

[Michaelina Deneka @M_Deneka]

@leochampion_ It’s too early in the morning for this 😖