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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I’m happy you accepted the invitation. It’s been great working with you!

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Derek Wagner @dmwagner.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

My contributors copy of The Kindread Coast finally arrived! Very excited to be a part of this anthology of writers from Western Canada! Thanks to @shanonsinn.bsky.social and @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social for inviting me to take part in this!

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

The French adaptation of my novel is sitting in a dozen editors’ inboxes right now, plus one hard-copy in transit. I should hear back anytime between a few weeks and never! 🤞 #writingcommunity

Paperback copy of the YA paranormal novel Devil by the Tail sitting on top of a printed manuscript written in French.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

When it comes to writing, every win counts, no matter how small!

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

So much lovelier than anything that could be bought in a store!

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I always wanted to translate my work into French, but I was always too lazy to do it. 😅 But finally, the deed is done and I’ve revised two chapters so far (and having fun!). I hold the translation rights, so I will try my luck with francophone publishers this fall.

Picture of a laptop with a Word document in French opened on chapter three. A paperback version of the English version of the YA novel Devil by the Tail rests on the keyboard.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Oh, really? I can’t think of what could go wrong! 😂

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I’m on the strawberry diet. Happiness in every bite! 🌱

A brimming bowl of ruby red, garden fresh strawberries.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I loved this! I grew up on a dairy farm—best childhood ever. I still live on a farm. It’s hard work at times, but it still feels like playing, and I don’t feel the need to go anywhere else.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Thank you for the resources! I think there are occasional beekeeping courses in my area, but I’ll get started with some online knowledge :)

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Nice! I’ve thought about getting some beehive. I have the space and the wild flowers, but not the knowledge or courage!

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Today’s soundtrack: wind chimes with a side of hungry raven fledglings. 🐦‍⬛🖤

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Oh wow. I haven’t seen this one yet. I’m the one looking for cool coins for my daughter, though :)

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Did I mention how thrilled I am @gravesidepress.bsky.social acquired my short story Winter Wings for their upcoming #YA & #MG horror anthology? What's more, #kidlit writing friends, submissions for their Gradeside Stories young readers program are still open. 🖤 graveside-press.com/call-for-sub...

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Call for Submissions: Gradeside Stories | Graveside Press

We're asking for your tales again, this time not for Graveside Press, but for Gradeside Stories!

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Pas pour l’instant, mais j’en ai commencé la traduction. Ensuite, il restera à voir si les éditeurs francophones seront intéressés!

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Some days when you are writing you have the whole world to choose from in a story. Other days you only have the few words you can eke out for that day. #amwriting ..Keep #Writing, the story will grow and change as you do. - Wrtr #writer #author #authorsky

Creativity is a bit like a stubborn weed that won’t die: the roots run deep enough that it will keep growing back. - Doug Savage @savagechickens Keep Writing. Be Creative. ~ Background photo shows a tire track road through a field.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Lovely! A little bunch of them grows in my woods each year. I don’t know how they got there and often wonder if there’s a story to them being there. I’m in zone 3 and still under snow, so it will be a few more weeks before they come out.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

It regulates humidity so they don’t rot or dry out. These ones have been in there since last October.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Going to the store for carrots on this fine spring day, in a snow storm, uphill both ways. The woods are windy and deep, and something is watching. 🌱

Root cellar door cut into a hills in the woods.

Fuzzy brown and white border collie dog watching through the trees.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

🤍 estranged husbands 🥺 close brothers x2 🗡️ an mc who is 100% done 🐺 a love interest ready to grovel 🏫 a haunted, gothic school 🔍 buried secrets ❄️ snowy setting 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/aBMB 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... [ 💙📚🪐 ] [ 📚🌈 ]

Ebook cover for The Strange Grey Everything by Rebecca Crunden; cover shows a shadow of a grey wolf above a forest that's dark green and black and foggy. text is gold and greyish-white.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I only managed to read one book so far this year, but I can already tell it will be one of my favourites of 2025. It’s a YA supernatural horror rooted in Indigenous culture, and it’s also about coping with grief for lost loved ones. This aspect of it spoke to me one a deep level. 📚💙

Book cover if the novel Beast, by Richard Van Camp. It features silvery swallows and a fiery chickadee flying against a smoky purple background.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

😂 This makes my day. I can go to bed in peace now!

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Elanor Landrie @elanorlandrie.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

#Writers, #readers, and #authors of #writesky and #booksky, who wants to help me decide my #novel tagline? The title of the #book is "The Witch of Toledo." I want to hear which one would make you want to read the blurb or the book! Here are the finalists. Cast your vote in the comments.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Dystopian/sci-fi nightmares are the worst! Thank goodness this fearsome goof was in there with me!

Close up of a long-haired, brown-and-white dog rolled onto its back, with a toy-bone with candy-corn patterns in its mouth.

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DM De Alwis @dmdealwis.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

We're all hooked by rejection and negativity. Kids (just like adults) feel rejection. Clinging to rejection leads to missed opportunities staring you in the face. I wrote BEST FRIENDS as a response to an experience my daughter had. Please share. www.amazon.com/dp/B0DYPLTF3S

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Maybe because there's more to a book than just writing it? A book's content is also brainstormed, outlined, edited, etc.

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 16/03/2025

Looking for Canadian #KidLit #YALit authors, illustrators, organizations as well as book bloggers who focus on boosting #CanKidLit? I've created a Starter Pack to help get you started: go.bsky.app/CzuFhAd

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I'm make a detour to pick it up from a library shelf! Best of luck with querying!

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

A writer friend recently mentioned Parable of the Sower, and on the same day, I came upon a forgotten book of gospels my mom gave me before she passed years ago. It was bookmarked to the parable of the sower. Now I'm seeing it again. Clearly, the universe wants me to read Butler's novel!

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Your query might be in the "maybe" pile. It looks like this agent responds to all queries, so I would recommend to be patient and hope for the best!

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I was waiting in line at the store and feeling sad, then an old man walked by me and said, "Tomorrow will be a better day." I hope he's right, but he made today a better day too. 🥲

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Sometimes you’re having a hard day and then something like this comes along. ☺️ #ya #novel

Except from a review for my book, which reads as follows:

“Devil by the Tail is an enthralling and haunting read that will resonate with fans of supernatural fiction and those who appreciate a compelling exploration of the human heart.”

Review by Jeyran Main in Book Review Magazine 2, Winter 2025.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Grief was hitting hard this morning. Later, I went to get some firewood from the huge stack my husband made sure we had. Riding out of the woods, I saw a bald eagle sitting in the big cottonwood, and I like to think it was a sign that he’s watching over me. 🩶

A yellow and black snowmobile in woods blanketed in snow.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Ha, yes! I’m actually waiting for a contract following an acceptance at the moment and feeling a bit antsy!

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

#writingcommunity, what's your least favourite thing about writing? For me, it's all the sitting involved, but I finally did it! I invested in a standing desk and walking pad! So far, I've written 0.45 miles :)

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Katie L. Carroll @katielcarroll.com · 16/12/2024

Have a reader that is starting to move on from middle grade but isn't quite ready for older-skewing YA books? My novels Pirate Island and Witch Test are perfect for readers 12-15 years old! #kidlit #bookrecs #middlegrade

The illustrated cover of the upper middle grade book Pirate Island by Katie L. Carroll. A 13-year-old boy dresses as a pirate with a suspicious expression. A blazing orange sunset, a turquoise sea, and an island are behind him. A pirate ship sails in the water, treasure is to his side.

The illustrated cover of the upper middle grade book Witch Test by Katie L. Carroll. A 13-year-old girl dressed in a black witch outfit and hat. A full moon and crows are in the dark sky. The girl is surrounded by corn stalks with a jack o' lantern at her feet.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

“Don’t give up” might not always be the best advice, but after 2 years, 53 subs, 5 long lists, and one declined acceptance, my short story found the perfect home. 🎉 I am thrilled! #writingcommunity

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

It costs me to cut a living tree, but I don’t want a plastic one, so here’s my zero mile/tree spacing Christmas tree.

Four-foot tall subalpine fir and saw in a snowy landscape.

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Cat Melville @catmelville.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Does anyone have useful tips or resources for creating a Moodboard for #pitch events? A free app, article, template, etc… #writer #amquerying #writingcommunity

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I use Canva. The free version doesn’t offer nearly as much variety as the paid one, but at least you know you’re not going infringing copyright.

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