LK Literary Agency

Hand holding a library book. The bright orange cover is scribbled with algebra, geometry, and calculus math problems. Along with the title and author, it says “If you can survive a bolt of lightning, you can survive middle school…right?”

Worth reading for dialogue that snaps the characters into sharp focus.

TITLE: The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
AUTHOR: @stacymcanulty.bsky.social
AGENT: Lori Kilkelly @lkliterary.bsky.social
PUB: Caroline Abbey @randomhousekids.bsky.social 2018

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El I'm so sorry this is the position this is putting you all in. It's criminal. 💛💛💛

If you have the means, preorder your favorite author’s next book. Why?

1. It boosts publisher and retailer confidence, which leads to more support.

2. It can increase the initial print run, reducing launch-week shortages.

3. It helps secure stronger shelf placement instead of back-corner exile.

FYI Harold maybe there's something amiss? I put today's date; are we supposed to put something else?

Reminder to sign up for my *email list*, since you may miss my news when I post it here.

It's the best way to make sure you hear about upcoming workshops, job news, and updates to my website. Expect maybe 2 emails per month.

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I just found out that @eileenwrobinson.bsky.social is on Bluesky, hurray! Also that Eileen is now repped by @lkliterary.bsky.social - congrats to all. 🎉🥳
#KidLit

Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet.

But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...

Thank you, Harold!

2 exciting pieces of news to share with you all today! Short story:
#1 @lkliterary.bsky.social is proud to rep @eileenwrobinson.bsky.social!!
#2 Eileen's debut, illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner C.G. Esperanza was just announced in @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social and @publisherslunch.bsky.social!

I love these two humans. I have the honor of calling both CG & Eileen friends! This will be an amazing book and I can’t wait to let them double Dutch into your hearts!

a staple on bookshelves everywhere. Her debut picture book, DOUBLE DUTCH, illustrated by Caldecott Honor-winner C.G. Esperanza will publish with Tayor Norman at the illustrious @Neal Porter Books and we could not be more thrilled! CONGRATULATIONS, EILEEN! 6/6

AT LAST our wait is over, and we can officially share these 2 things we’ve been bursting to talk about since late summer ’24. I’m so proud to announce that LK Literary Agency now represents AUTHOR Eileen Whitehead Robinson whose beautifully unique voice and perspective will no doubt become 5/

until all hours, talking about books, & she let me read her first -- magnificent -- manuscript. It was book love at first sight and we talked engagement, I mean representation, almost immediately. We sold that first PB text a very short time later, & have been WAITING to tell everyone ever since. 4/

who could not stop talking about her brilliant editor/publisher friend who’d come along with her for the ride. How had we never met? She introduced me to @eileenwrobinson.bsky.social, tenured editor, Move Books founder, and… new writer. After dinner we sat on the huge porch of the Athenaeum Hotel 3/

Long story:
Summer '24 @iamkwame4life.bsky.social extended me a faculty invite to his newly formed Chautauqua Institute Writer's Conf -- naturally I said YES! and had a wonderful time at the debut of this amazing event. While there I began chatting with author/editor @armyvet5.bsky.social 2/

2 exciting pieces of news to share with you all today! Short story:
#1 @lkliterary.bsky.social is proud to rep @eileenwrobinson.bsky.social!!
#2 Eileen's debut, illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner C.G. Esperanza was just announced in @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social and @publisherslunch.bsky.social!

No Kings is hosting what is shaping up to be the largest ICE Watch training in history tonight.

Join here: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

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Friends, take my mind off the bad news of the world.

What is the PICTURE BOOK, published this year, that is turning into a GREAT mentor text????????

Let's make a list of books that will definitely inspire other books.

1-Hour Ask Me Anything Auction item '1-Hour Ask Me Anything' hosted online at 32auctions.

The #KidLit community is raising $$ for MN to fight the ICE invasion. Here are our auction items but there are a TON of amazing things here to bid on. www.32auctions.com/organization...
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#stopice #domesticterrorism

Disclaimer: The way #ALAyma awards are broadcast makes it VERY tricky to screengrab/crop/post and there's no pausing or rewatching the live feed. I wish there was time to include text to describe screenshots, but it's just too fast. I couldn't even snag all the honors at the beginning!

You can tell the 4yo that we ALL wanted their merged name to be Random Penguin House, but they didn't go for it. ;)

I haven't read it yet, but wow that cover is so gorgeous, right?

Oh Kate, right off the bat I couldn't do the honors b/c there were SO MANY. I was like, oh no. lol!

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