#running press kids

[brokehorrorfan]

Do you have a kid who’s interested making movies but doesn’t know where to start? They need Girls Make Movies: A Follow-Your-Own-Path Guide for Aspiring Young Filmmakers, which will be published on February 7.

Coming to hardcover and e-book via Running Press Kids, the 144-page nonfiction book is written by Mallory O'Meara (The Lady from the Black Lagoon) and illustrated by Jen Vaughn. Read the synopsis below.

Girls belong in the world of filmmaking. While we see them acting on-screen, there are also countless women working every single job possible behind the scenes as part of the film's crew. Are you a girl who is interested in film making? Do you wonder how you actually make a movie? Well, this is the book for you.

Girls Make Movies puts you in the driver’s seat as you create a fictitious zombie blockbuster and are guided through each stage of production and learn about the processes, techniques, and people involved in making a Hollywood hit. Luckily, every path through this nonfiction book results in the film being made, but you will be asked to make choices that will affect the outcome of the movie. Will you shoot on location or on a studio lot? Use practical or special effects? Hire a greensperson or a someone to do pyrotechnics? The choices are up to you!

Written by critically acclaimed author Mallory O'Meara and paired with eye-catching, graphic illustrations by popular comic book artist Jen Vaugh, this unique, practical book provides young girls with advice and inspiration while offering a sense of adventure as they learn how to create a movie!   

Pre-order Girls Make Movies.

[publishedtoday]

The Signs and Wonders of Tuna Rashad - Natasha Deen

Let’s be clear. No matter what her older brother, Robby, says, aspiring screenwriter Tuna Rashad is not “stupidstitious.” She is, however, cool with her Caribbean heritage, which means she is always on the lookout for messages from loved ones who have passed on. But ever since Robby became a widower, all he does is hang out at the house, mock Tuna for following in their ancestors’ traditions, and meddle in her life.  Tuna needs to break free from her brother’s loving but over-bearing ways and get him a life (or at least, get him out of hers!). Based on the signs, her ancestors are on board. They also seem to be on board with helping Tuna win over her crush, Tristan Dangerfield. The only hiccup? She has to do it before leaving for college in the fall. A ticking clock, a grief-stricken brother, and a crush who doesn’t believe in signs. What could possibly go wrong?

[skzoologist]

Chan: i don't like that look in your eyes. whatcha up to? Felix: imma jump onto Bae hyung Chan: ...he's finally drawing tho Felix: y e s Chan: Chan: Felix naur- Felix: Felix yes

[jackdaw-and-hattrick]

The press went NUTS when they found out the Dick was working as a pole dancer. It was big news, and everyone wanted to know how Bruce Wayne felt about his Baby Boy working as a stripper. B was… well, he was ticked. Not at Dick, no, he was just proud of him for getting a well paying job in an area he enjoyed. No, B’s fury sat squarely on the press. Papers that had gleefully printed sexual photos and articles about him were now aghast about Dick.

See, B’s whole “playboy” cover wasn’t originally exactly Bruce’s idea. He remembered vividly as a teenager the perceived humiliation of these adults sexualizing every little thing he did and of the constant anxiety of trying and failing to control his image; the way they seemed to pounce on any tiny flaw in his appearance or behavior and the paranoia that developed after the first of many photos of him was published of him just… going about his day, paired with a big red headline blasting him for daring to be a teenager. He remembered being terrified of being seen wearing a swimsuit and refusing to eat in public. So eventually, him leaning into this sexualization as a cover story wasn’t so much because he liked it, but because he knew how eagerly everyone would eat it up.

Now here was Dick, making an informed, consensual choice about how he wanted to be perceived, and they wanted to vilify him for it. So yes, B may have flew off the handles a bit, and yes, it probably wasn’t the best move to punch a reporter, but he had fought Hell to protect his kids from what he had gone through, and that sure as fuck wasn’t going to change any time soon.

[feralsteddie]

mid-apocalypse Steve with a shaved head is living rent free in my mind rn

[calamitys-child]

Unstoppable force (I wanna make a ttrpg campaign I wanna make it so bad it would be so cool) vs immovable object (any time I see a rulebook or a form of literally any kind it makes me hiss and spit and have a furious panic attack and never touch it ever again)

[sapphosclown]

for someone who has hated hsmtmts for a long time i sure did sob through the entire last episode

[queens-webhead]

i’m a few hours into Stray at this point and my mind has simply… made up its mind that every time the cat makes the one noise after they jump is because they’re pissed at me for doing a wider jump than usual (since it doesn’t happen every jump)

so basically it’s been hours of just:

cat: *brgh*

me, aloud: sorry

[munamania]

made an accidental glee reference today. um. call that an aural explosion. basically something not fun happened at work

[miraluking-respectfully]

logged in after like literally 3 months to run around in a sandstorm & wrow i forgot how much cunt Lyde was serving in her little outdoorsy outfit

[lgbtqreads]

Exclusive Cover Reveal: So You Wanna Be a Pop Star? by Zachary Sergi

Exclusive Cover Reveal: So You Wanna Be a Pop Star? by Zachary Sergi

I’m delighted to welcome Zachary Sergi back to the site today to reveal the cover of another exciting choose-your-own-adventure contemporary YA, So You Wanna Be  a Pop Star?, which releases March 7, 2023 from Running Press Kids! Here’s the story: Five solo pop artists. One chance to make it big. Everly Brooks knows she has what it takes to be the next big singer-songwriter. At least, that’s if…

[lathal]

Ya’ll ever meet someone who makes you want to smash your head through a wall?

[yourthirdparent]

call me pretty by elliotly is sooooo it's such a jasico song. it's so themcore. logically speaking it'd be from nico but i am dedicated to making everything about jason so it's from jason's pov.

[mctreeleth]

The next job in the queue at work is one that would like 99% of the time only use the one kind of material, so I cut that kind only to actually look at the request form and realise that not only is it also not the kind of material that is the other 1% of jobs, it is a material that I will have to cut down from a larger size because we don't have that size material for that press. So I am just going to fume about it for 10 minutes and then decide whether or not to just leave it for the day shift guy to deal with.

[killaura]

sometimes I think about the fact that I was voted ‘most likely to never leave the highschool and just become a teacher’ and I’m the only one who actually left and moved almost halfway across the country to the largest city in canada and have been here almost ten years. hm

[azure-clockwork]

Ok so I thought the most surreal experience of my life was a few days ago when I, short on people I could vent to and in desperate need of *someone*, showed up at my boss’s office and just cried at her for like 2 hours, only for her to respond “holy shit, my friend wasn’t kidding when she met you and said ‘so Jay is just you but 3 years younger. This is payback for every time you’ve been waaay too similar to me’”. Anyways turns out she gives off Relatable Vibes because I’m pretty sure we’re fucking clones, and I was right in basically all my suspicions about her lol.

However, nope. There’s a new winner. One of the kids started crying after her group failed the lab (in honestly a really heartbreaking way) and while we were trying to comfort her, my boss and I had a moment where we looked each other and realized “holy shit it’s a fourth clone”.

I had quipped at my boss the other day that I recognized the script she was using to cheer me up because I was much more comfortable on the other end of it, and she was using roughly my method (because again. Apparently I’m her fucking clone.) and then we got to tag team this poor kid thru the exact same thing. And every so often I would say something and think “ah shit, I’m pretty sure I’m just quoting Wednesday…”. Love literally having the exact same conversation twice in one week lmao