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Award-winning author, artist, advocate, and educator

Joined April 2009
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COVER REVEAL… My debut Thriller novel “Don’t Fear The Viper” drops December 29, so get ready to meet your new favorite serial killer—Jane Patter!!! 🤗📖🤗📖🤗📖 @RAPublishing
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I ❤️ ROCKING THE VOTE! Please remember to thank the poll workers—they’re among the great American heroes! 🤗🇺🇸🤗🇺🇸🤗🇺🇸
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HUGE THANKS for the “Dead Clowns Pass” love, Becky & “The Daily Press,” AND ON HALLOWEEN!!! 🤡💀🤡💀🤡💀 Now available wherever books are sold: johnschlimm.com/book/dead-cl…
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Halloween Eve hike up some steps leading to mysterious and unknown places… “ki-ki-ki, ma-ma-ma”… 🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻
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Come meet The Graffiti Boys… at the unveiling of their “Thumbs Down to Bullying (Practice Board)” graffiti mural at Kane Area Children’s Museum on Saturday, November 7, at 1:00 p.m.! 🫟🤗🫟🤗🫟🤗🫟🤗🫟 @CEC_ElkCameron
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Dickinson Center’s Nikol Stauffer took us inside the physical/emotional brain when it comes to hunger/food insecurity, as well as discussing what brain parts the Tech/Manufacturing students in Mr. Oknefski’s classes & Ms. McCann’s Zine Club engage when using various equipment!🧠
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My cousin Annie and I went searching for the 1874 ghost lady in white on the railroad tracks along Erie Avenue that Jim Baumgratz wrote about in his book “Hauntings in the Pennsylvania Wilds”… AND WE MIGHT HAVE FOUND HER! 👻👻👻👻👻
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Inspiring more people to think about their brains is the mission of my 2026/2027 STEAM x Community Service Residency with Mrs. Melanie Raubenstrauch & her super-imaginative, talented, & fun 6th graders at Johnsonburg Area Elementary School—in partnership with @CEC_ElkCameron!🤗🧠
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As part of the research for our hunger/food insecurity/mental health STEAM x Community Service project at Ridgway Area High School, two guest speakers—Hope Weichman/Salvation Army and Kathy Ford/Neighbors Feeding Neighbors—helped us to better understand local needs and services…
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The Graffiti Boys are headed to Kane Area Children’s Museum… Their “Thumbs Down to Bullying (Practice Board)”—used to test paints/techniques & brainstorm design elements for the larger mural—has been accepted by the Museum to be exhibited as a permanent part of their collection!
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This Horror nerd came to play while moderating the “Let’s Talk About Horror!” roundtable discussion at Barbara Moscato Brown Memorial Library, and talking about by debut Horror novel DEAD CLOWNS PASS… 🎃🧟‍♂️💀🧙‍♀️👻🧛🤡
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HUGE CONGRATS to The Graffiti Boys—Jay, Brock, Jacob, & Parker—on the installation of their “Thumbs Down to Bullying” mural at St. Marys Area HS… as part of the STEAM x Community Service project by our Dutch Manufacturing x John Schlimm x @CEC_ElkCameron collective! 🤗👎🏻🤗👎🏽🤗👎🏾
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Halloween adventuring with The Fosters… 👻👻👻👻👻
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Because why should Science/Health classrooms be the only ones with a model of the brain? Check out the newest addition to Mr. O’s Technology/Manufacturing classroom at RAHS as part of our hunger/food insecurity/mental health STEAM x Community Service project… 🤗⚙️🧠🤗⚙️🧠🤗⚙️🧠
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LOVE sharing the stage (or tabletop!) w students… Clearfield Area HS Key Club students joined me at SPARC’s Youth Leadership Summit for a great panel discussion w their Jefferson/Clearfield-County peers re bullying, mental health, & what it’s really like to be a teen today…🤗🧠
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COVER REVEAL! Welcome to THE GRAVERY ~ Your 1-stop shopping destination for the ultimate haunted object of your dreams! My forthcoming debut, choose-your-own-adventure (& SCREAM!), Horror novella from Slashic Horror Press is available to preorder now wherever you buy your books!
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