Children’s author & speaker | FRIDGE-OPOLIS (‘22) | ONE SPARK (‘26) | @SCBWI | Rep’d by Sam Farkas JGLM | @writersleague 2022 Discovery Prize winner
Austin, TX
Joined June 2017
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Melissa Coffey: FRIDGE-OPOLIS retweeted
A little cover reveal for you today…
GUS HEARTS THE BUS
Illustrated by @geetaladi
July 1, 2025
@SleepingBearBks
Everyone of us knows a Gus, whether you are Gus, have a Gus, or are acquainted with a Gus. This story is all about passions & pursuing them with abandon!
Melissa Coffey: FRIDGE-OPOLIS retweeted
For #FoodWastePreventionWeek you’re invited to a towering city of food…Fridge-opolis! #Fridgeopolis by @CoffeyCreative and illus. by @JoshCleland is a fun lesson in conservation, and what happens when we let the contents of our fridge go wild. Available now.🍎
#BeeaReader🐝
#Austinites: Please join me for some #kidlit fun and a panel presentation at @AustinPublicLib’s Gab Fest downtown on April 26! #library #iheartlibraries #authorevent
Happy 💖 Day! Ecstatic to announce my next #picturebook: ONE SPARK! Thanks to the team at Bushel & Peck Books, @ryangvancleave, Marie Muravski, @WilbursBF_Char and my CPs!
Huge thanks to Erin Perrino, Kara Johnson and Riojas Elementary School in @pfisd for the warm welcome at my #authorvisit yesterday! Loved sharing FRIDGE-OPOLIS and talking about #foodwaste, #composting, & #recycling with 200+ Kinder/1st grade Patriots! @littlebeebooks
Honestly. Is there really anything better as a #kidlit #author than seeing a child dress up in #Halloween #costume as a main character from your #picturebook?!
Thank you to this little Dr. Baking Soda from #FRIDGEOPOLIS & to her family for sharing this adorable pic! 🎃👻🌎♻️💚📚
Melissa Coffey: FRIDGE-OPOLIS retweeted
Coming this weekend! The powerhouse team of @CoffeyCreative, @KariALavelle, and @LLeslie will be teaching a course for the @writersloftma about marketing and promotion. To register, go to thewritersloft.org/offers/LA…
#Kidlit friends, there's power and potential in teaming up! If you're looking to boost your #marketing and #promotional game, please join
@LLeslie, @KariALavelle and me @writersloftma
for this #workshop! To register: thewritersloft.org
#Kidlit friends, there's power and potential in teaming up! If you're looking to boost your #marketing and #promotional game, please join
@LLeslie, @KariALavelle and me @writersloftma
for this #workshop! To register: thewritersloft.org
Hey, #kidlit friends: still time to register for this @HighlightsFound #research #workshop with @GibeaultWrites, @writerjolene and Anita Yasuda! These #authors know their stuff! #WritingCommunity
Hey #kidlit #writingcommunity, join me, Anita Yasuda, and @writerjolene for our Research Techniques course with the @HighlightsFound. We'll cover databases, organization, obscure archives, academic articles, and how to know when a fact is a fact.
highlightsfoundation.org/wor…
Melissa Coffey: FRIDGE-OPOLIS retweeted
Calling all pet lovers! 🐾✨
Do you enjoy celebrating festivals with your furry friends?
Share a pic of your pet enjoying the festival(s) using #FestiveFurryFriends.
Can’t wait to see how your pets love celebrating with you! 🪔🎉 #Asweetdiwali
Here's my childhood pet.
Melissa Coffey: FRIDGE-OPOLIS retweeted
This👇🏻is going to be an amazing @writersloftma workshop about book marketing. @CoffeyCreative, @LLeslie, and Kari Lavelle make a powerhouse team. Don't miss it!
New workshop alert: Sun. Nov. 3 at 3PM Eastern via ZOOM
Please join @LLeslie, Kari Lavelle and me for this live @writersloftma webinar! We'll talk tools and tactics for how teaming up can help promote your #picturebooks!
Register: The Writers' Loft (mykajabi.com)
Melissa Coffey: FRIDGE-OPOLIS retweeted
Event Announcement!
I'll be at @ChaptersAjax in the Durham Ontario region this Sunday, October 20 from 11 am to 2 pm chatting with readers and signing books. I will have activity sheets and bookmarks to giveaway too. I hope you can join me!
Congratulations and happy book birthday, @debbieazapata, on this beautiful picture book!
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New workshop alert: Sun. Nov. 3 at 3PM Eastern via ZOOM
Please join @LLeslie, Kari Lavelle and me for this live @writersloftma webinar! We'll talk tools and tactics for how teaming up can help promote your #picturebooks!
Register: The Writers' Loft (mykajabi.com)
Melissa Coffey: FRIDGE-OPOLIS retweeted
Are you a reluctant researcher? Do you fret over finding facts? Does the world of online research worry you? And how do you know what's true, anyway?
Join @GibeaultWrites, Anita Yasuda, & me for a @HighlightsFound class October 22 & 24!
highlightsfoundation.org/wor…
Tell me you have a #tween or #teen at home without telling me. I’ll go first.
#teenagers #teens #tweens #lifewithteen #nomorebrownies
Congrats @GibeaultWrites!
I'm so excited and grateful that mine and @RazLatif's middle grade book MAKING SENSE OF DOG SENSES (from @owlkids) won a Eureka! Nonfiction Children's Book Honor Award from @CRAreading. Thank you so much for this recognition. Our book is in great company!