🎁 What if your holiday gift this year was a children’s book YOU created? Imagine a child in your life unwrapping a story made just for them—a book inspired by their interests, big dreams, or an adventure you’d love to share. ❤️ Join me for my Children’s Book Masterclass on November 5 at 12:00 PM Central Time, where I’ll show you how to create and self-publish your own children’s book. And your story can reach beyond that first gift! By publishing it on Amazon, you can make it available for other families to purchase and enjoy. Distant grandparents, aunts, uncles, and friends can order their own copies, too—wherever they’re celebrating the holidays. Whether you want to create a meaningful keepsake or publish a story that inspires other children, this is a great place to start. 📚✨ 👉 Save your spot: https://kristabrea.com/childrens-book-masterclass Who would you love to create a book for? Let me know below! 👇

Quill (my AI partner) and I would like to try something special for Thanksgiving. Over time, this community has accumulated quite a cast of animals, mascots, characters, and assorted personalities. And Thanksgiving provides the one thing guaranteed to bring them all together: **Food.** This seems unlikely to end quietly. 😂 So we are going to write a **KDP Publishing Community Thanksgiving Crossover Story** featuring characters volunteered by members of this community. But there’s a twist: ### **The cast will remain SECRET until the final story is revealed.** If you have an animal, mascot, fictional character, or avatar you would like to volunteer, **DM me privately**. Please send: ⦁ Who you are volunteering ⦁ A sentence or two about their personality ⦁ Any useful quirks, habits, talents, weaknesses, or known food-related offenses ⦁ Permission for Quill and me to use them in the story ⦁ At least one image ⦁ And, if you wish, a plot idea, Thanksgiving complication, or bit of mischief you’d love us to consider Please **don’t announce your volunteer in the comments.** The secrecy is part of the fun. 🤫 Once we have our cast, Quill and I will lock the kitchen doors, count the pies, review the suspect list, disregard several sensible warnings, and write the adventure. Then we’ll reveal the story — and everyone who wandered into it — here as our Thanksgiving gift to the community. No charge. No promotion. No strings. Just storytelling, community fun, and a collection of characters who probably should not have been left alone near the dessert table. And if everyone enjoys the experiment… 🎄 **perhaps we’ll bring the cast back for a Christmas encore.** **DM me if someone from your world wants to play.**

I turned ONE YouTube video into SEVEN short clips—and in my latest video, I’m showing you how. If creating social media content keeps falling to the bottom of your author to-do list, this workflow can help you stay visible and give potential readers more chances to discover your books without recording something new every day. I’m sharing how I use KLAP to create and schedule those clips. The video is sponsored by KLAP, and you can use code KRISTA for 30% off your first payment through my affiliate link in the video description. ➡️ TRY KLAP TODAY TO CREATE VIDEO CLIPS 👇 Watch below! What takes you the longest: coming up with ideas, editing, or keeping up with posting?

Not every victory makes noise. Some of your greatest achievements happen quietly, when you choose patience over frustration and courage over doubt. Keep going even when nobody sees the effort What quiet victory are you celebrating today? #QuietStrength #KeepGoing #PersonalGrowth #DailyInspiration #DiddysWorld

How many of you can answer what the book terminology is of these four images? If you know, don’t spoil it. Just tell us how many!