1️⃣ One thing I completed this week: I finished my Thanksgiving colouring book, Pip & Mira’s Thanksgiving Tradition, including the cover and interior. 🦃🍂 2️⃣ One thing I’m committing to finish next week: Complete and prepare my Halloween colouring book, featuring Mallow & Puff. 🎃👻 3️⃣ One blocker slowing me down: Amazon experienced a technical issue with Lumi Travels Through Europe — Volume 1, so its publication has been delayed. I’m also balancing my full-time medical work and preparation for an upcoming neuroscience conference. 4️⃣ Status: 🟡 Progress but slow Still moving forward — just with a few unexpected detours along the way. 🤍

@Stephanie Barron Thank you, Stephanie! I completely agree that having a clear list of projects and their current status can help with taking action. I’ve actually discovered that handwritten lists don’t work very well for me — I make them, admire them for a while, and then somehow forget to follow them. 😂 I’m much more likely to stay on track when I receive a notification on my phone or add the task directly to my digital calendar. That way, the reminder comes back to me instead of waiting for me to remember where I wrote it down. 🤍

@Stephanie Barron thanks for your idea!

@Krista Brea thank you! It’s a pleasure to inform creators all around the world when it’s an important change!

@Christine Rieck

@Dr. John Elcik “Piglet to Bacon” is certainly a memorable title! 😂 Forty years is an impressive amount of time for an idea to stay on the back burner, but I love what you said about old ideas not necessarily being dead ideas. Sometimes they simply need the right perspective, experience and motivation before they can finally move forward. I also agree that “later” can quietly take up a surprising amount of space. At some point, the idea needs a first real step — even if it is only outlining the concept or writing the first page. And I definitely agree that a 40-year production schedule is probably not the ideal publishing strategy! 😂

@Krista Brea thank you

🌮📚 Taco ’bout my books Tuesday! Hi everyone! I’m Maddy, a physiokinetotherapist and Doctor of Medical Sciences from Romania. My work brings together medicine, education, creativity, AI and digital publishing — so my books can be very different from one another, but they all come from the same place: curiosity and the desire to create something useful. ✨ My current published project: 🌍 Lumi Travels Through Europe — Volumes 1 & 2 This is a children’s colouring and travel series featuring Lumi, a small moon-shaped character who travels through Europe and discovers countries, landmarks, architecture and cultural details. I created the series to be more than a colouring book. I wanted it to encourage children to become curious about the world, ask their parents questions and discover that every country has its own story. Each page combines: 🎨 Colouring 🌍 Geography 🏛️ European landmarks 👨‍👩‍👧 Family conversations ✨ Imagination and visual learning Lumi is not a human character — she is a little moon travelling through Europe, discovering the world with curiosity and wonder. 🌙 I’m also preparing the books as a digital offer, because I would love for families, educators and creative people to discover them outside Amazon as well. ✨ Other books and projects I have already developed or that are already available for sale: 🌙 A prompt book for AI-generated line-art colouring pages This project is designed for creators who want to use AI more intentionally when developing colouring pages and printable products. It includes structured prompts focused on composition, clean outlines, closed shapes and genuinely colourable artwork. The goal is not simply to tell AI, “create a colouring page.” It is about learning how to describe an idea clearly enough to obtain a usable result. 📚 Other educational and medical resources I’m also developing and preparing educational and medical resources based on my professional background, including materials for students, healthcare professionals and people interested in rehabilitation and functional recovery.

@Krista Brea thank you Krista! This is because of you!