Andren
@jackhitch.bsky.social
Kids' book author 📚 Illustrated adventures: Stone Age epics, bedtime tales & weird science. New books monthly 👇
She swam in his pool every single week — like it was hers. Nobody questioned the HOA president... until one board meeting exposed her secret $20 pool club. Watch the full story: youtube.be/A11cdNG92So
November 2, 2026 at 8:33 PM
She swam in his pool every single week — like it was hers. Nobody questioned the HOA president... until one board meeting exposed her secret $20 pool club. Watch the full story: youtube.be/A11cdNG92So
HOA drama, real stories, every week — my YouTube channel Apstell: www.youtube.com/@apstell
November 2, 2026 at 8:25 PM
HOA drama, real stories, every week — my YouTube channel Apstell: www.youtube.com/@apstell
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November 2, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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Death on the Nile from 1937 still feels so modern - Christie really set the template for the mysteries I keep coming back to.
November 2, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Death on the Nile from 1937 still feels so modern - Christie really set the template for the mysteries I keep coming back to.
163 weird body facts. 163 illustrations. Zero boring pages. If you've got a curious kid (or ARE a curious kid at heart), this one's for you 🔬 apatelp.gumroad.com/l/the-oddito...
November 2, 2026 at 2:27 PM
163 weird body facts. 163 illustrations. Zero boring pages. If you've got a curious kid (or ARE a curious kid at heart), this one's for you 🔬 apatelp.gumroad.com/l/the-oddito...
This costume lineup is pure picture book joy - the snail in butterfly wings still has my heart.
Happy Halloween!! ✨🤍
I hope your costumes bring yourself & others lots of joy, and your sweet tooth is satisfied!
#kidlit #kidlitart
I hope your costumes bring yourself & others lots of joy, and your sweet tooth is satisfied!
#kidlit #kidlitart
November 1, 2026 at 2:47 PM
This costume lineup is pure picture book joy - the snail in butterfly wings still has my heart.
The 30-day money reset starts stupidly small: day 1 is just writing down every dollar you spend. No judgment, no budget. Awareness first — the patterns show themselves. 💵
November 1, 2026 at 2:26 PM
The 30-day money reset starts stupidly small: day 1 is just writing down every dollar you spend. No judgment, no budget. Awareness first — the patterns show themselves. 💵
This one stuck with me - doing the right thing when nobody's watching is the real test. Same in writing, honestly.
Happy Saturday! Doing the right thing isn’t determined by popularity, approval, or how many people stand beside us. Integrity is choosing the right course of action because it is right, especially when it is difficult, inconvenient, or lonely. #Saturday #motivation #integrity #discipline #mindset
October 31, 2026 at 2:50 PM
This one stuck with me - doing the right thing when nobody's watching is the real test. Same in writing, honestly.
Fun fact: I redrew the cave-lion scene 4 times. The first version looked like an angry housecat 🦁😂 Reference hunting for Ice Age animals is a rabbit hole and a half.
October 31, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Fun fact: I redrew the cave-lion scene 4 times. The first version looked like an angry housecat 🦁😂 Reference hunting for Ice Age animals is a rabbit hole and a half.
This art is pure comfort. A hundred years on, Pooh still knows exactly how to make a day feel warmer 🍯
Happy Windsday!
& Happy 100 Years of good ol’ Pooh Bear!! 🐝💛
Wanted to create a special piece of some of my fav Hundred Acre Wood friends!
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& Happy 100 Years of good ol’ Pooh Bear!! 🐝💛
Wanted to create a special piece of some of my fav Hundred Acre Wood friends!
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October 30, 2026 at 2:22 PM
This art is pure comfort. A hundred years on, Pooh still knows exactly how to make a day feel warmer 🍯
This is such a sweet Halloween idea. A little ghost owl searching for his Boo is the kind of story kids will want to hear again and again 👻
October 30, 2026 at 2:18 PM
This is such a sweet Halloween idea. A little ghost owl searching for his Boo is the kind of story kids will want to hear again and again 👻
5 brave little heroes. 32 chapters. 18,000 words of read-aloud magic with 3D art on every single page. For the kids who ask "one more chapter?" every night 🌙
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October 30, 2026 at 1:36 PM
5 brave little heroes. 32 chapters. 18,000 words of read-aloud magic with 3D art on every single page. For the kids who ask "one more chapter?" every night 🌙
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apatelp.gumroad.com/l/bedtime-ma...
Confidence without arrogance — that's the kind of strength I want my stories to model for kids. Love this framing 📚
“Why is it that self-confidence is so often cocky and self-assured so often selfish? Neither has to be true. Having confidence doesn’t require being superior over another and being self-assured doesn’t require taking advantage of another.”
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#BookSky #Books #SelfConfidence #PersonalGrowth #Mindset
October 29, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Confidence without arrogance — that's the kind of strength I want my stories to model for kids. Love this framing 📚
Storytelling tip that changed everything for me: start 10 seconds BEFORE the interesting part. The hook isn't the explosion — it's the quiet moment right before it. 🎬
October 29, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Storytelling tip that changed everything for me: start 10 seconds BEFORE the interesting part. The hook isn't the explosion — it's the quiet moment right before it. 🎬
Good reminder - peace is a choice, even in a busy season. Keeping this one close.
October 28, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Good reminder - peace is a choice, even in a busy season. Keeping this one close.
this one stopped me mid-scroll - the rules help, but the voice is what kids actually carry with them. saving this for the next draft
Quote of the Day: “The rules are there, but they’re not everything. Trust your voice. Trust your reader. A child out there is waiting for the story only you can tell.” - Susan Verde, author of I AM HUMAN
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October 27, 2026 at 2:22 PM
this one stopped me mid-scroll - the rules help, but the voice is what kids actually carry with them. saving this for the next draft
Parents: what's the #1 thing you want a bedtime story to teach? Courage? Kindness? Asking because my next little story is taking shape and I want it to matter 💛
October 27, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Parents: what's the #1 thing you want a bedtime story to teach? Courage? Kindness? Asking because my next little story is taking shape and I want it to matter 💛
This is the kind of shelf I love seeing for kids - stories that carry family, food, and history all at once. FRY BREAD especially shows how a simple shared meal can hold a whole culture.
Indigenous stories that flow… FRY BREADby Kevin Noble Maillard & Juana Martinez-Neal (Roaring Brook); “Spirit Plate” from PBS Digital Studios; TANA COOKS by Stacy Wells & Maria Gabriela Gama (Picture Window Books); LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN, edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Heartdrum). #KidLit
October 26, 2026 at 2:18 PM
This is the kind of shelf I love seeing for kids - stories that carry family, food, and history all at once. FRY BREAD especially shows how a simple shared meal can hold a whole culture.
I keep coming back to this one — the way each of these books treats home as something you feel, not just somewhere you live. What a lovely thread to stumble into.
Shaun Tan’s phenomenal new book Hometown has got me mulling over the nature of home.
So for this week’s #KidsBooksFriday, let’s share kids books that celebrate, challenge our notions of, or generally make us think more deeply about the concept of home?
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So for this week’s #KidsBooksFriday, let’s share kids books that celebrate, challenge our notions of, or generally make us think more deeply about the concept of home?
#KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit #Home
October 25, 2026 at 2:00 PM
I keep coming back to this one — the way each of these books treats home as something you feel, not just somewhere you live. What a lovely thread to stumble into.
This one really landed for me. Protecting the creative hours before the news gets in feels less like a luxury and more like how the work actually gets made.
#OneThingIveLearned: To do my creative work BEFORE checking headlines (or Trending Topics).
I do my creative work before checking news headlines
It took me a while, but I've learned that it's much easier to be CREATE if I don't check headlines (including Trending Topics in Bluesky) first thing in the morning...especially these days! Because of an ongoing family issue behind-the-scenes these days, I'm already finding it much more challenging to carve out time to do creativestuff. Hoping that things settle enough by next week so I can start doing regular writing again. Art tools note: Pentel Pocket Brush, Caran D'Ache Luminance pencil.
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October 25, 2026 at 1:58 PM
This one really landed for me. Protecting the creative hours before the news gets in feels less like a luxury and more like how the work actually gets made.
Chapter 11 wrecked my beta readers (in a good way). A birth in a snowstorm, by firelight, with the Wolf clan closing in. This book has my whole heart in it.
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October 25, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Chapter 11 wrecked my beta readers (in a good way). A birth in a snowstorm, by firelight, with the Wolf clan closing in. This book has my whole heart in it.
apatelp.gumroad.com/l/the-first-...
apatelp.gumroad.com/l/the-first-...
This one stayed with me. Darkness not having the final say feels like permission to keep going.
Sometimes, the light doesn't come to change the #world around us; it comes to remind us that darkness never had the final say. Even when the way forward is hidden, there is still #hope reaching for us, love waiting within us, & a new beginning we have yet to discover🤔 #sundayvibes #booksky #bluesky
October 25, 2026 at 8:38 AM
This one stayed with me. Darkness not having the final say feels like permission to keep going.
Everyone told me to 'ask the universe' for what I wanted. Nobody told me who I was asking. The Unseen System — Behind Your Dreams: the Law of Attraction in an Islamic perspective, without shirk. apatelp.gumroad.com/l/tawakkul #Manifestation #LawOfAttraction #Tawakkul #IslamicBooks #BookSky
October 24, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Everyone told me to 'ask the universe' for what I wanted. Nobody told me who I was asking. The Unseen System — Behind Your Dreams: the Law of Attraction in an Islamic perspective, without shirk. apatelp.gumroad.com/l/tawakkul #Manifestation #LawOfAttraction #Tawakkul #IslamicBooks #BookSky
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Your body produces about 25 million new cells every second. You're literally not the same person you were 7 years ago — nearly every atom replaced. Wild, right? 🧬
October 24, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Your body produces about 25 million new cells every second. You're literally not the same person you were 7 years ago — nearly every atom replaced. Wild, right? 🧬