Leaning on Writing Community, Pursuing What You Love, and Ladybugs in Space with Author Melissa Trempe

Please give a warm welcome to kidlit author Melissa Trempe in today’s episode! Her picture book, Ladybug Launch: Inspired by A True Story of Chinitas in Space co written with Dr. Natalia Ojeda and illustrated by Manuela Montoya came out earlier this year. Enjoy!

Author Melissa Trempe

Some Highlights:

The joy of morning writing when the world is still asleep.😴

Beautiful biographies to add to your TBR list.📚📚📚

The benefits of Twitter pitch events, writing pitches to improve your writing as a whole. 🖋️

Sharing struggles and successes with a writing debut group.

Walking in silence. 

Reminding yourself that you’ve done this before and can do it again when writing gets hard.

Never give up the one thing that makes you happy.

Links Mentioned🔗:

Melissa’s website

Melissa on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook

Ladybug Launch on Indiebound, Simon and Schuster, Children’s Book World (in Philadelphia), Amazon, Bookshop, and Barnes and Noble 

Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)

PBSOAR24

Tara Lazar’s Storystorm

The Highlights Foundation

Book Recommendations📚:

Ladybug Launch: Inspired by A True Story of Chinitas in Space by Melissa Trempe and Dr. Natalia Ojeda, illustrated by Manuela Montoya

Splash!: Ethelda Bleibtrey Makes Waves of Change by Elisa Boxer, illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley

Author Melissa Trempe

Thank you so much to Melissa for being on the show and thank you for listening. Stay tuned for the next episode with kidlit author Dara Henry!💃💃💃🎧🎧🎧 And catch up on past episodes of Getting to the Heart of Why We Write like this one with author Natasha Wing.

Gina is a professional ghostwriter with over three years of experience and special expertise in content marketing. Her narrative nonfiction short story, “Bullet Hole,” was published November 2019 in Potato Soup Journal and again in their spring 2020 anthology of favorites. She has written for Imperfectly Perfect Mama, Thrive Global, Property Onion, and more. She is an active member of SCBWI and 12x12 Picture Book Challenge.
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