What to do when on submission?
Pick up your next project!
While I was #amquerying, I wrote my second #DiploBrats book. Now that STATELESS is #onsub, I am applying the lessons learned in revision.
First up? The Save the Cat method of @jessicabrody
#Booksky #kidlit
Pick up your next project!
While I was #amquerying, I wrote my second #DiploBrats book. Now that STATELESS is #onsub, I am applying the lessons learned in revision.
First up? The Save the Cat method of @jessicabrody
#Booksky #kidlit
August 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
What to do when on submission?
Pick up your next project!
While I was #amquerying, I wrote my second #DiploBrats book. Now that STATELESS is #onsub, I am applying the lessons learned in revision.
First up? The Save the Cat method of @jessicabrody
#Booksky #kidlit
Pick up your next project!
While I was #amquerying, I wrote my second #DiploBrats book. Now that STATELESS is #onsub, I am applying the lessons learned in revision.
First up? The Save the Cat method of @jessicabrody
#Booksky #kidlit
Lots of creativity flowing after hitting all of my high notes in Bali! Natural beauty, art, food, culture, #diplobrats playing, and, of course, excellent coffee!!
#travel #writingcommunity
#travel #writingcommunity
February 21, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Lots of creativity flowing after hitting all of my high notes in Bali! Natural beauty, art, food, culture, #diplobrats playing, and, of course, excellent coffee!!
#travel #writingcommunity
#travel #writingcommunity
Lol diplobrats turn out one of two ways: full blown sociopaths who sway with the wind of every powerful jharokha or so fucking clear-eyed sure of themselves that nothing will ever fuck up their moral compass again.
February 9, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Lol diplobrats turn out one of two ways: full blown sociopaths who sway with the wind of every powerful jharokha or so fucking clear-eyed sure of themselves that nothing will ever fuck up their moral compass again.
Also, lolling because truly, if you live in Delhi then you know exactly what diplobrats are. :) some are even friends! And yet. :p
February 9, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Also, lolling because truly, if you live in Delhi then you know exactly what diplobrats are. :) some are even friends! And yet. :p
In this season of Holiday cards and gifting and trying to track down family and their latest addresses, MV reflects on how her high school trip's stops in Dublin and Limerick inspired a lifelong habit of documenting life.
#travel #substack #album #DiploBrats
substack.com/home/post/p-...
#travel #substack #album #DiploBrats
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Ireland
a preview for a much longer stint MV didn't know was coming
substack.com
November 24, 2024 at 9:50 AM
In this season of Holiday cards and gifting and trying to track down family and their latest addresses, MV reflects on how her high school trip's stops in Dublin and Limerick inspired a lifelong habit of documenting life.
#travel #substack #album #DiploBrats
substack.com/home/post/p-...
#travel #substack #album #DiploBrats
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Joined what is quite possibly the largest modern annual human migration—Chinese New Year! We decamped to Hong Kong, and I can’t help but share some castle magic!
#DiploBrats #travel
#DiploBrats #travel
January 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Joined what is quite possibly the largest modern annual human migration—Chinese New Year! We decamped to Hong Kong, and I can’t help but share some castle magic!
#DiploBrats #travel
#DiploBrats #travel
Ever wondered what grade level of difficulty your writing is?
Wonder whether you have words you use too often?
I did and do, so I coded a writing analyzer.
Sign up for my newsletter, and you can use the tool for free!
mvdonovanbooks.substack.com
#WritingCommunity #DiploBrats #booksky
Wonder whether you have words you use too often?
I did and do, so I coded a writing analyzer.
Sign up for my newsletter, and you can use the tool for free!
mvdonovanbooks.substack.com
#WritingCommunity #DiploBrats #booksky
September 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Ever wondered what grade level of difficulty your writing is?
Wonder whether you have words you use too often?
I did and do, so I coded a writing analyzer.
Sign up for my newsletter, and you can use the tool for free!
mvdonovanbooks.substack.com
#WritingCommunity #DiploBrats #booksky
Wonder whether you have words you use too often?
I did and do, so I coded a writing analyzer.
Sign up for my newsletter, and you can use the tool for free!
mvdonovanbooks.substack.com
#WritingCommunity #DiploBrats #booksky
Final year overseas = seeing as much as we can before hunkering back down in America!
We hit the road for Inner Mongolia, Serengeti (spoiler for Book Three setting!), and Zanzibar this summer. Fall break will be Taiwan!
School starts Thursday!! (mwahahaha)
#travel #DiploBrats #WritingCommunity
We hit the road for Inner Mongolia, Serengeti (spoiler for Book Three setting!), and Zanzibar this summer. Fall break will be Taiwan!
School starts Thursday!! (mwahahaha)
#travel #DiploBrats #WritingCommunity
August 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Final year overseas = seeing as much as we can before hunkering back down in America!
We hit the road for Inner Mongolia, Serengeti (spoiler for Book Three setting!), and Zanzibar this summer. Fall break will be Taiwan!
School starts Thursday!! (mwahahaha)
#travel #DiploBrats #WritingCommunity
We hit the road for Inner Mongolia, Serengeti (spoiler for Book Three setting!), and Zanzibar this summer. Fall break will be Taiwan!
School starts Thursday!! (mwahahaha)
#travel #DiploBrats #WritingCommunity
Tokyo, Disney, Nagano skiing, Nara, Kyoto & Oooooosaka!
Thank you for a fabulous final R&R and an inspired start to the New Year!
US bound in t-minus 5 months and twenty-eight days!
#DiploBrats
Thank you for a fabulous final R&R and an inspired start to the New Year!
US bound in t-minus 5 months and twenty-eight days!
#DiploBrats
January 3, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Tokyo, Disney, Nagano skiing, Nara, Kyoto & Oooooosaka!
Thank you for a fabulous final R&R and an inspired start to the New Year!
US bound in t-minus 5 months and twenty-eight days!
#DiploBrats
Thank you for a fabulous final R&R and an inspired start to the New Year!
US bound in t-minus 5 months and twenty-eight days!
#DiploBrats
This episode teaches us important lessons, such as "nepotism and diplobrats are a galactic constant", "Chekov has poor taste in ex-girlfriends", and "Space-hippies have just as disastrous fashion sense as their earthbound predecessors"
September 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This episode teaches us important lessons, such as "nepotism and diplobrats are a galactic constant", "Chekov has poor taste in ex-girlfriends", and "Space-hippies have just as disastrous fashion sense as their earthbound predecessors"
Adding this to my reading list from my agent sib!
Married to a former Marine myself, and parenting our #DiploBrats - so much of this rings true for life in any service overseas…
Married to a former Marine myself, and parenting our #DiploBrats - so much of this rings true for life in any service overseas…
My upcoming memoir CAMOUFLAGE is now available on NetGalley! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
What you'll find in CAMOUFLAGE, coming 10.28.25. ⤵️
Preorder: posthill.to/B0F316HJTD
Add on Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
What you'll find in CAMOUFLAGE, coming 10.28.25. ⤵️
Preorder: posthill.to/B0F316HJTD
Add on Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
August 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Adding this to my reading list from my agent sib!
Married to a former Marine myself, and parenting our #DiploBrats - so much of this rings true for life in any service overseas…
Married to a former Marine myself, and parenting our #DiploBrats - so much of this rings true for life in any service overseas…
Back from R&R in Italy (and passing my Mandarin test!) so let the New Year writing commence!
#DiploBrats #travel #WritingCommunity
theciviccompass.substack.com/p/spain
#DiploBrats #travel #WritingCommunity
theciviccompass.substack.com/p/spain
Spain
a college Spring break teaches a lesson in situational awareness
theciviccompass.substack.com
January 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Back from R&R in Italy (and passing my Mandarin test!) so let the New Year writing commence!
#DiploBrats #travel #WritingCommunity
theciviccompass.substack.com/p/spain
#DiploBrats #travel #WritingCommunity
theciviccompass.substack.com/p/spain
May 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
If China and Thailand had a baby that went to school in Japan…we imagine it would look like T🇹🇼
We fled the crush of migrating humanity of China’s Golden Week and explored Taiwan 🇹🇼 .
It wasn’t their National Day 🤣
#irony #WritingCommunity #DiploBrats
We fled the crush of migrating humanity of China’s Golden Week and explored Taiwan 🇹🇼 .
It wasn’t their National Day 🤣
#irony #WritingCommunity #DiploBrats
October 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
If China and Thailand had a baby that went to school in Japan…we imagine it would look like T🇹🇼
We fled the crush of migrating humanity of China’s Golden Week and explored Taiwan 🇹🇼 .
It wasn’t their National Day 🤣
#irony #WritingCommunity #DiploBrats
We fled the crush of migrating humanity of China’s Golden Week and explored Taiwan 🇹🇼 .
It wasn’t their National Day 🤣
#irony #WritingCommunity #DiploBrats
Checked another site off the China bucket list! We loved Xi’an for its historical significance, awesome food, and color!
#DiploBrats
#DiploBrats
December 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Checked another site off the China bucket list! We loved Xi’an for its historical significance, awesome food, and color!
#DiploBrats
#DiploBrats
Buoyed to see that not even the shutdown can kill humor and spirit in an Embassy!
Happy Halloween! 🎃
#DiploBrats
Happy Halloween! 🎃
#DiploBrats
October 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Buoyed to see that not even the shutdown can kill humor and spirit in an Embassy!
Happy Halloween! 🎃
#DiploBrats
Happy Halloween! 🎃
#DiploBrats
Safety first, or there might not be a "second!"
Saint Thomas theciviccompass.substack.com/p/saint-thomas
#travel #DiploBrats
Saint Thomas theciviccompass.substack.com/p/saint-thomas
#travel #DiploBrats
Saint Thomas
Learning to be a responsible adult abroad
theciviccompass.substack.com
March 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Safety first, or there might not be a "second!"
Saint Thomas theciviccompass.substack.com/p/saint-thomas
#travel #DiploBrats
Saint Thomas theciviccompass.substack.com/p/saint-thomas
#travel #DiploBrats
One of the joys of serving overseas and traveling with young children is the opportunity to experience life anew through eyes that know only wonder.
#DiploBrats #travel
#DiploBrats #travel
August 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
One of the joys of serving overseas and traveling with young children is the opportunity to experience life anew through eyes that know only wonder.
#DiploBrats #travel
#DiploBrats #travel
Long before Emily in Paris, A Tale of one of the Two most shorted Posts!
#travel #DiploBrats #WritingCommunity #Booksky
theciviccompass.substack.com/p/france
#travel #DiploBrats #WritingCommunity #Booksky
theciviccompass.substack.com/p/france
France
A Tale of One of the Two Most Shorted Posts
theciviccompass.substack.com
August 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Long before Emily in Paris, A Tale of one of the Two most shorted Posts!
#travel #DiploBrats #WritingCommunity #Booksky
theciviccompass.substack.com/p/france
#travel #DiploBrats #WritingCommunity #Booksky
theciviccompass.substack.com/p/france
Countries have taken wildly different approaches to how they remember their recent past, teach it to their children, and portray it to the world.
#travel #DiploBrats
theciviccompass.substack.com/p/northern-ireland
#travel #DiploBrats
theciviccompass.substack.com/p/northern-ireland
Northern Ireland
The literal poster child
theciviccompass.substack.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Countries have taken wildly different approaches to how they remember their recent past, teach it to their children, and portray it to the world.
#travel #DiploBrats
theciviccompass.substack.com/p/northern-ireland
#travel #DiploBrats
theciviccompass.substack.com/p/northern-ireland
Although weekends are made for exploring, I’ll be locked up for the next few to polish my manuscript for submission 😱
That’s right! The #DiploBrats #YA mission is now represented by @BookishNajla ✨
So very excited for this next adventure!
#WritingCommunity
That’s right! The #DiploBrats #YA mission is now represented by @BookishNajla ✨
So very excited for this next adventure!
#WritingCommunity
June 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Although weekends are made for exploring, I’ll be locked up for the next few to polish my manuscript for submission 😱
That’s right! The #DiploBrats #YA mission is now represented by @BookishNajla ✨
So very excited for this next adventure!
#WritingCommunity
That’s right! The #DiploBrats #YA mission is now represented by @BookishNajla ✨
So very excited for this next adventure!
#WritingCommunity
There is a fine line between grandeur for the glory of God and the celebration of human art and ingenuity and projections of might…
#travel #DiploBrats #religion #WritingCommunity
open.substack.com/pub/thecivic...
#travel #DiploBrats #religion #WritingCommunity
open.substack.com/pub/thecivic...
The Holy See
A spiritual homecoming to the mothership
open.substack.com
January 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
There is a fine line between grandeur for the glory of God and the celebration of human art and ingenuity and projections of might…
#travel #DiploBrats #religion #WritingCommunity
open.substack.com/pub/thecivic...
#travel #DiploBrats #religion #WritingCommunity
open.substack.com/pub/thecivic...
“…by the end of those few days, I fully appreciated my abject, multi-level fail. Corfu taught me a priceless lesson in proactive humility and not squandering professional opportunities.”
#WritingCommunity #travel #amwriting #DiploBrats
theciviccompass.substack.com/p/corfu-greece
#WritingCommunity #travel #amwriting #DiploBrats
theciviccompass.substack.com/p/corfu-greece
Corfu (Greece)
Seek. Out. All. The. Mentors!
theciviccompass.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
“…by the end of those few days, I fully appreciated my abject, multi-level fail. Corfu taught me a priceless lesson in proactive humility and not squandering professional opportunities.”
#WritingCommunity #travel #amwriting #DiploBrats
theciviccompass.substack.com/p/corfu-greece
#WritingCommunity #travel #amwriting #DiploBrats
theciviccompass.substack.com/p/corfu-greece
My #DiploBrats have lived the majority of their lives overseas because of my and my husband’s work, and every single day brings juxtaposition of the struggle and privilege and joy compiled in “Letters Now Sent.”
amzn.to/44Y3cCE
(Please forgive the “faux” book… I read everything on my phone!)
amzn.to/44Y3cCE
(Please forgive the “faux” book… I read everything on my phone!)
August 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
My #DiploBrats have lived the majority of their lives overseas because of my and my husband’s work, and every single day brings juxtaposition of the struggle and privilege and joy compiled in “Letters Now Sent.”
amzn.to/44Y3cCE
(Please forgive the “faux” book… I read everything on my phone!)
amzn.to/44Y3cCE
(Please forgive the “faux” book… I read everything on my phone!)
Last #firstdayofschool overseas for these #DiploBrats! They have no idea how much they are going to miss scootering down hallways, parking at the INDOOR bus stop, and then arranging their pre-homework play dates with friends in our building via landline 🤣
Thank you WAB for the excitement!
Thank you WAB for the excitement!
August 21, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Last #firstdayofschool overseas for these #DiploBrats! They have no idea how much they are going to miss scootering down hallways, parking at the INDOOR bus stop, and then arranging their pre-homework play dates with friends in our building via landline 🤣
Thank you WAB for the excitement!
Thank you WAB for the excitement!