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Katie Booms Assarian @commonpoem.com · 20/05/2026

@doucette515.bsky.social You showed me yours so here are mine, in no particular order. Haven't read the Katherine Paterson ones I'm holding or the other I was just gifted. #kidlitchat

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Katie Booms Assarian @commonpoem.com · 16/04/2026

Starting off Calvin Festival of the Arts: Laurie Halse Anderson on writing historical #nonfic #pb #mg #ya adventures. Her rules for her work- don't shy from hard eras/topics but do it from place of love. Use primary sources, fact check, center ordinary folks. +Ok to be nosy and bad speller. 🙃 #cffw

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Katie Booms Assarian @commonpoem.com · 15/04/2026

Be there in however long it takes to drive from West MI. We're a little obsessed (see book we made and count the deer stuffies in their beds) -and just urban enough that we only got a yard deer once, the year we tried growing corn. You can guess how *that* story ends... #kidlitchat

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Katie Booms Assarian @commonpoem.com · 07/01/2026

Same. I see we won't be making friends via the @bsky.app Similar Accounts feature, when your lovely #kidlit profile leads to shirtless bros and "minors dni". @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team

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Katie Booms Assarian @commonpoem.com · 07/01/2026

Well, 2025 was a certain kind of year. Questionable outcomes on my goals BINGO, but I did check off the big one by #winning #12x12pb @12x12challenge.bsky.social! @vbartles.com and others, how bout you? This year my word is "slow," because burnout is real and not great. #kidlitchat

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Katie Booms Assarian @commonpoem.com · 23/07/2025

I am not surprised, but I am delighted. Also vibing. From one of my current #pb #wip ... #kidlitchat

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Katie Booms Assarian @commonpoem.com · 10/04/2025

Does anyone enjoy *eating* macarons? & Can you explain why, beyond "cute"? I admit I'm more nonprofit-office-leftovers-garbage-disposal than foodie but these are down there with supermarket brownie bites. At the local patisserie they're $5 honey lavender supermarket brownie bites. #hottake ?

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Katie Booms Assarian @commonpoem.com · 26/03/2025

Late for #kidlitchat & up much too late - but in service to a DIY victory! 1st time filling my own #watercolor pans! Then went a little nuts mixing, to use up 3 pans I'd duplicated. Bc of course 2 were pthalos (tinting strength of tanks)... #illustratorproblems #didittomyself #hyperfocus

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Katie Booms Assarian @commonpoem.com · 11/01/2025

Free bird! I also went full extra...in the exact opposite direction... and did mine in watercolor. Thank you for the 2025 Bingo idea, @vbartles.bsky.social (& @krsilverstein.bsky.social ). Rad of you both to make shareables and invite playing along. #12x12pb #kidlitchat #writingcommunity #goals

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Katie Booms Assarian @commonpoem.com · 11/10/2024

Bet you're impressed by my inner city Northern Lights. It really was dreamy - green strobes and pink puddles evanescent through the thinning crowns of trees. Even a fairly humble #auroraborealis turns me to #poetry at the beauty of our Earth.

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Katie Booms Assarian @commonpoem.com · 18/09/2024

A #kidlitchat miracle! Not for the 1st time I just wove pretty deep in the interwebs iso a beloved #mg #fantasy novel title. I mostly remembered building a fairy ferris wheel from old bike tires and straws as a book report.Then *poof* #reddit takes me to 1999 Sarah-Kate in her hiking boots and slip

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Katie Booms Assarian @commonpoem.com · 11/09/2024

I'm a creative tornado, who used to lose ideas on loose scraps til I found the perfect pocket-sized notebooks and retrained myself to keep ideas on separate pages and start new ones for each conference or season. Gamechanger. #kidlitchat

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Katie Booms Assarian @commonpoem.com · 25/06/2024

It sure stormed up a storm across West Michigan overnight, and I have heard four separate sirens as I've typed this, but welcome to the stillness of an 1848 sanctuary largely uninterrupted by light. Serenity- one of the perks of being a church lady as your day job.

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Katie Booms Assarian @commonpoem.com · 25/06/2024

I also believe in the snail mail card so they have some good mail among the junk, that they can peruse at their leisure. I'm a poet so I include a printed poem or two. Usually this one.

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Katie Booms Assarian @commonpoem.com · 15/06/2024

If you see this post a ghost. (Even if you do it 2 months from now. I love the spooks!) #kidlitart #wip

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Katie Booms Assarian @commonpoem.com · 11/06/2024

Good for you! I bet they loved it! I hope those copies go flying off the shelf like our favorite page of the book. The one where, at bedtime last night, my daughter asked me if the boxes really have wings. ❤️ 🪽(Hope it's ok to post the pic.) Beautiful work.

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Katie Booms Assarian @commonpoem.com · 05/06/2024

Excited to join this #kidlit community! Looking forward to meeting fabulous picture books & all the folks involved on the way. As I think about stories and art I love, I've made a sort of mantra: "Let's explore the heart of our common stories, in words and pictures." Monster art credit to my kiddos.

illustration of mother, two kids, and monster

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