Hand-lettered title: Messy Maisy
A cartoon of a pink pig with freckles and a bow in a messy kitchen, cooking or baking with debris, eggshells, spilled powder, and broken eggs surrounding her, with cabinets and a checkered floor in the background.
Maisy the pig looks very embarrassed after a baking disaster, with flour spilled everywhere and broken eggshells on the counter and in the mixing bowl. Sketch by Amber Acosta.
Maisy the pig looks very embarrassed after a baking disaster, with flour spilled everywhere and broken eggshells on the counter and in the mixing bowl. Line drawing by Amber Acosta.

Pig. Baking. Embarrassed. That was the prompt at an SCBWI Portfolio Lab, and it pulled me right out of my comfort zone. Here she is, caught red-handed (or flour-handed) in the middle of her kitchen chaos.

Purple hand drawn curvy arrow pointing right.
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