Kimberly Orchard

Picture book writer. Canadian. MA in Early Childhood Studies. Member of SCBWI & CANSCAIP. Sourdough baker.

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Cracking open a new notebook and it feels so good 🥰. Cover by the talented and super funny @macksillo #AmWriting

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It was so lovely to meet you, Hala! Congratulations on your award. You earned it!

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Thank you so much @SCBWICanadaEast for a fantastic Art of Story, Montreal 2019 conference. Feeling so grateful to have won The Storyteller Award for Illustration… I’ve learned so much and had a lot of fun. Thanks to all organizers, speakers and fellow illustrators and writers.

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@dustdancestoo @adoodlefox Ahh!! Congratulations to you both! Can you please write a Valentine’s Day children’s book together? I promise I’d buy it ❤️

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@dustdancestoo Can’t wait!!! PS - watching this video all day with no regrets

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I just realized that Goodreads booklists are ordered by ratings. How cool!! Someone pull me away from these lists so I can get back to work!! https://t.co/HG2qAjSgjI
#amwriting #picturebookbiography

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@isadorafelixm Incredible, congrats!!!

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@dustdancestoo @PublishersWkly @adoodlefox @MacKidsBooks That’s incredible!! Congratulations!!! 🥳

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Easter egg hunt on the ocean. Kids in Victoria are so lucky!! #EasterMonday

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A magical little home in Victoria, BC

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@lhlavoie @jamerrson @bookendslit

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@cumming_sacha I wait until the next day before I edit, unless a few edits have gone by without much progress. Then I leave it for a week and work on something else in the meantime.

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@KileyOrchard I have a bunch of street names related to apples. Not sure if you have the same problem. :)

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@dustdancestoo They would fit our childhood-selves perfectly and we wouldn’t even notice the stain!! K I’m keeping my shirts pending the invention of time travel.

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@dustdancestoo It could make a great undershirt one day.

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@Rowdy2019 Hey Chris! Nice to meet you :)

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"To learn and not to do, is really not to learn. To know and not to do, is really not to know." - Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People #amwriting

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@LaurakConnell The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a good one!

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Time for a walk with my good friend, @audible_com

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@znayberg I grew up only seeing typewriters in movies. What a great idea to put one in a picture book! Can’t wait to read it.