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susie ghahremani

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Artist, children’s book author / kidlit illustrator, Boygirlparty Etsy. She/her 💌 i love snail mail, indie rock, fountain pens, wilderness. vegetarian, scbwi, RISD alum. BLM, love is love, read to kids, ceasefire. 🧿 ↙️
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Thank you!

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Thank you!! The ink rabbit hole is real!! (And so delightful)

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Thank you! Me too!! ❤️❤️❤️

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Not quite - account scraping may have already happened. but publicly, several news outlets have reported that they’re not training the AI with private posts or messages. I still don’t trust them and still plan to post using Glazed images.

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I don’t trust them either, that’s why I’m using Glaze (this particular image glazed well! Scans do not glaze as well)

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The NYT reported that it does (for future posts) but i also don’t trust Meta and that’s why i used Glaze as well.

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My Instagram account is now private because i do not consent to Meta’s use of my art & words to train their generative AI products. HEY. I have an art show next weekend: Saturday, July 13th at Giant Robot, Los Angeles. 2062 Sawtelle Blvd. 6-9pm. Hope to see you there. This image was Glazed.

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Lolllllll!!! I had to look up the context on Twitter but, like, that was basically the context hahahah

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Omg lollllll THAT was our first interaction?????!!!!!! Lollllllllll

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I got to attend the American Library Association’s conference #ALAAC24 — *so* inspiring! Librarians and teachers are stars. The love of reading all around; quality time with my agency, #kidlit author/illustrator friends & editors. All the books!

Can ALA just *always* be in San Diego?

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I absolutely adore you!! 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵 wish you lived closer but you’re going to have to just make San Diego visits regularly again! ❣️

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Well deserved! It is such an incredible book!

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You are the absolute best!!

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Can’t wait to read it! Love that you are doing your preorder campaign with Bel Canto — such a great bookstore!

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Completely agree. I haven’t posted (outside of stories) in over a month, just feeling deeply discouraged by it all.

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I see so many friends & illustrators leaving Instagram. It feels like the right move for all the horrible AI reasons (and it’s been ages since i felt like my posts had any visibility anyway) but it also feels like a loss of a creative community and like starting over in a defeated way.

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Thank you so much for sharing it! I hope stores & libraries start carrying it!

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Home from a trip visiting friends. It’s been years since i did this kind of tour: stayed at friends houses, did what they do. If i’d stayed at hotels, I’d never hear the voices my friends use with their pets or see the plants in their gardens or the colors of their socks. Their lovely lives.

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Meaning if you keep sharing cats! (Not my artwork!) just realized it sounded confusing!!

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Thank you!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ you brings me so much joy. I’ll keep drawing them if you keep sharing them! 🐈

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This is the best use of the internet, always and forever. ❤️ we can lift each other up.

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What a kind thing to say, thank you!! I wish animals were here for so, so much longer than they are. Sending love, still. It’s such a hard loss to bear!

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Please know you are loved and appreciated every day! and please reach out anytime. I consider you a friend of mine now!! ❤️❤️

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That’s a great idea! It’s also searchable page & my shop on my site is too!

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I have been feeling this way too! (As you may see from my recent posts)! Thank you so, so much for lifting me up especially when you’ve been feeling down. ❤️❤️❤️ You are wonderful!

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Omg thank you so much for sharing a link to my shop and also for being an incredible account that i love that i follow on multiple sites! 🩷🩷🩷 your post made a difference in my life! Thank you!!!

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Depression and anxiety are a beast. i am really grateful for the friends who have been consistent in my life, especially this past year.

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I would add you but i literally can’t remember my login on my phone. Send me an invite and I’ll accept though!

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If you see Memory Garden on the shelf of your local bookstore or library, would you please send me a photo or tag me? If you don’t see it, would you please request it? Middle Eastern invisibility is a real thing and something i have struggled with my entire life. Representation matters.

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In all my decades as an illustrator, I’m working on my first book ever where the AD requested RGB. I am so confused by it

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Having a new book in the world is a vulnerable thing!

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Thank you again so much, Debbie! I love the way you flipped through this! It means a lot to us that you enjoyed it ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Memory Garden is here!!

It’s a picture book about immigration & the gardens we grow up in.
About sharing stories as a way to grow your imagination.
About getting to know your culture through your senses.

Written by my mom, illustrated by me — a dream that it exists.

bookshop.org/p/books/memo...

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This is a challenge on every other platform! Yes, we love to share our art, and that can be nice in itself, but it’s connecting directly, feeling a sense of community, or at least folks taking an interest in any offline-ification that makes it sustainable.

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Thank you, Adrian!! The book focuses about storytelling while gardening together & i thought a puzzle is also a place where that kind of togetherness happens.

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Susie made her own puzzle to help make this book release special and I love it so much!!! Such a cool and thoughtful thing to incorporate given the message of her book, Memory Garden 🌿💖

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Thank you so much, Shirley!!!! Love you!!

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