🌩️ Middle Grade Horror Fantasy writer 🌩️
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Owner of Wild Sisters Book Co and host of HeartRacers podcast. Excited for #booksky! We love books!
#Writer #KidLit Retired K-8 Educator, #SCBWI member, SCWriP Writing Fellow, Peace Activist, 🏳️🌈Ally, Mom to an Incredible Woman, Married to a Wonderful Man, lover of animals (especially dogs, birds, rats and turtles) 🐶🐥🐀🐢
https://www.kristinjensendodge.com/
I have never heard of punk music.
Dark Way Down (Animal Heart Press, Feb, 2025)
Spells for Success (Simon and Schuster, Jan, 2025)
laureneparker.com
PB author of Teddy Lou, Bell Guru. Mom of two young readers. SCBWI member.
Is it writing time yet?
Kidlit, '23 PB Party Finalist, SCBWI, 12x12, Utah League of Writers. Rep'd by Joyce Sweeney of The Seymour Agency.
Forthcoming debut WHERE DADDY IS (Atheneum, 2029)
https://youtube.com/@lorastead
Serial Writer. Reader. Gamer. Pagan Christian. Queer Bi-Romantic. Black. Domestic Partner to my best friend Kaylee. DC Native. Chronically ill. Simmer. She/Her. TV sucks. Books rock. Cat lover. Soap fan. #Days #BTG #Y&R #B&B
#kidlitchat happens every Tuesday night at 9E/6P, co-hosted by @bonnieadamson.com and @gregpincus.bsky.social. The topic is posted here as each chat begins, as well as any important chat news.
Banner art by Brian Kirby: @boringstorybook.com
Tragically unhip Dutch-Canadian stranded in the Netherlands. A little bit writer, a little bit rock & roll. A lot ADHD. Boomer, but not the kind with money. 🚫 AI.
#SoA
One of Pamela Des Barres' Electric Ladies! https://tinyurl.com/mruve4cw
Author: THE PRINCESS & THE FROGS and TWELVE STEPS, recycle-knitter, graphic designer (web/book design, etc.) #KidLitConfections cookie queen, book-grandma, #ActuallyAutistic. (she/her) https://vbartles.com
Educator, Podcaster, Writer, Geek, Activist, and Dad.
Most know me as creator of the award winning "Aaron’s World" audio adventure for kids. 🌴🦕🌋
www.mydogrocket.com
THINKING is my resistance!
#MGLit #KidLit #ChildrensPodcast #Dinosaurs #SCBWI
Hollywood or History? Unpack fact vs. fiction in film. Great for teachers, trivia buffs, and history fans. New episodes every other week.
Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube
https://youtube.com/@hollywoodorhistorypodcast?si=gNOPQUnVXde2_NZz
Mom, 5th grade teacher, book lover
Director of Kidlit at The Seymour Agency
Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators
Supporting quality children’s books & the artists who make them since 1971.
#2 Most Followed Library in the USA!
Current Challenge, Peeps!!:
https://summitco.librarycalendar.com/event/peeps-diorama-contest-15460
NYT bestselling author: Book Scavenger series, SISTERHOOD OF SLEUTHS, and A GOOD DEED CAN GROW, illustrated by Holly Hatam. More info: www.jenniferchamblissbertman.com
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https://jenniferchamblissbertman.substack.com
🌺🇬🇷 Pre-pub #KidLit author, disability advocate, library board member, former teacher, optimistic realist #SCBWI #CBA #12X12 #50PreciousWords Winner ‘22 #PBParty Participant, she/her 🌺🇬🇷
Author of mild-mannered middle-grade books, including MIND OVER MONSTERS (McElderry/S&S). Agent: Joan Paquette. BetsyUhrig.com
Stay @ Home Mom of 2 | Homeschool Teacher | Extreme Multitasker | Aspiring PB Author | 12x12
Developmental Editor, Writing Coach, #RevPit Editor, MG/YA Author, Educator, and Overall Very Friendly Person.
brighameditorial.com
brighameditorial.substack.com
Author illustrator on Vancouver Island. More Than Words: So Many Ways to Say What We Mean (2023) and Together, a Forest (Henry Holt) coming this Spring!
#kidlit
https://rozmaclean.com/blog/
Retired Bilingual ESL teacher. Writer. Poems in @TheDirigible & Bards anthologies. #Kidlit #PictureBooks #SCBWI #12x12 #50PreciousWords 2024 Winner. 📚
MG author-EcoWarrior-USC Journ alum
#RoundTableMentor
On sub: THE KEY TO FALLS TOOTH WOODS, mg spec w/horror twist
THE LOST ENCHANTRESS OF STARFELL, mg fantasy
Rep: Rebecca Angus, Howland Lit ✨
https://linktr.ee/emulholland
West coast illustrator & writer🤖🦕🛼
Short, left-handed, adhd, lighthouse keeper’s daughter. Nature & neon
Rep'd by @jemiscoe.bsky.social -Starling Literary & Media
@starlingliterary.bsky.social
PBs: MAYBE A WHALE | MOTHER ASPEN
www.heycrystalsmith.com
MG and YA writer. Landscape, farm, and food photographer.
Auction by the #kidlit community to raise funds for Los Angeles wildfire relief efforts. Bidding: Jan 20th (9am PST) - Jan 28th (8pm PST).
Amazing items up for bid: www.32auctions.com/kidlitforlosangeles
Bear logo by Sydney Hanson IG: @sydwiki
We are Authors Against Book Bans. We stand united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We unequivocally support diverse voices on our library shelves, in our schools, and in our culture.
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com
➡️ Boosting books for #Teachers, #Educators, #Librarians, #Parents, #Authors, #Writers, and #Readers
💙 Former #Teacher turned #Homeschool mama
✏️ #Kidlit #Writer and #SCBWI member
📚 Traditionally published #PB #Author
🖱️ elizabetheverettbooks.com
I get far too excited when I walk into an office supplies store. | #SCBWI | #12x12PB | #amwriting | #wip | #PB #kidlit #F | #motherhood #NF | she/her
Picture book author. Reader. Bookstore and library lover. All about my kids and cats. Repped by Ammi-Joan Paquette. #Kidlit website: www.patzietlowmiller.com
Mexican-American kidlit author living in the UK. 🇲🇽🇺🇸🇬🇧
Books 📚:
Mariana and Her Familia
The Worry Balloon
How to Speak in Spanglish
Sing it Like Celia
Taco Tuesdays
Leyendas/Legends
My Barrio Sings in Spanglish ('27)
Rep: Melissa Edwards, Stonesong
Momma, award winning illustrator + author, and teacher 📍on traditional Territories of Wendat, Anishnaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples.
Writer. Father. Unwilling tech enthusiast. Veteran. Hiker of mountains. Black belt. ER medic in a prior life. I sometimes think I know what is going on, but probably don’t. In New England until the end.
Yes. It is a coup.
#WritingCommunity
Author 📚 (SCBWI - PAL). NCHMA Analyst + 📊 Economic Editor. ❤️Wife+Mom+Dog-Lover❤️ Boilermaker! 💛🖤 Querying MG 📖
They/them. Kidlit author, drawer of things, general menace. My second MG novel WHERE THERE BE SPIES is out May 5, 2026!
I make nonfiction comics
Books: Spices & Spuds, Pests & Pets, Brief Histories of Everyday Objects, This Land is My Land, Spring Rain
Co-editor: Cartoonists for Palestine
Contributing editor: The Nib (RIP)
Teach at CCa, Stanford, TAW
andywarnercomics.com
Writes and draws comics and other things.
✒️🎨LU & REN'S GUIDE TO GEOZOOLOGY (May 27, 2025)
🎨ANTARCTICA: THE MELTING CONTINENT (2022)
https://linktr.ee/angelahsieh
I make comic books and the occasional loud noise. She/they 🏳️🌈 Portland, Oregon
dylanmeconis.com
🏴☠️ 🇳🇱 🇮🇩 MG/YA Author | Rep’ed by Eva Scalzo | Hit me up for MG/YA ARC reviews!
they/them
illustrator, mustard yellow enthusiast, certified ankle biter
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️♿️
Creator of graphic novels and picture books for kids! ND mom to a PDA kid💪
Rep: @marchsoloway.bsky.social
🔗 https://linktr.ee/CassFederman
📚GRAY SQUIRREL LOSES IT! (Random House, 2025)
📚AQUAMANATEE (DC, 2025)
📚STORY SPINNERS (S&S/Aladdin, 2025)
MAGIE AND THE SOULES
Author/Illustrator of all things whimsical, magical, and charming
Rep'd by @jenazantian #MG #KidLitGN
🙋🏼♀️Writer. #STEMGirl. Math nerd. ✍️ KidLit author. Freelancer. Teacher. #SCBWI. 📍Oklahoma
www.sallyhoch.com
#Kidlit Writer: PB, MG, YA. #SCBWI. Poetry.
Youth Services at a Public Library. Licensed Behavior Specialist.
Wife & Mom. Gardener/Hiker/Birder. Environmentalist. She/her
abbiewernerjames.com
#kidlit writer, rara avis, survivor of dysfunction and malady • WITCHYCAKES chapter book series available NOW wherever books are sold! 🌙🧁🐚💙• repped by Ammi-Joan Paquette • she/her
https://linktr.ee/karalareau
she/her. National bestselling author in WI
🎪FORTS, Viking
🛰️CASSINI'S MISSION, MIT Kids Press
Rep'd by Joyce Sweeney, Seymour Agency
https://linktr.ee/KatieVenit
Author of LOLO WEAVER SWIMS UPSTREAM (2023), ITCH (2020), some short stories. No dairy, no tree nuts, no peanuts, no sesame, all the books. She/her. www.pollyfarquharauthor.com
https://bookshop.org/shop/PollyFarquhar
SFF/middle-grade fiction/satire writer. Strategy/marketing consultant. Bagel the Dog's emotional support human. Dadjoke teller. Sentence-fragment lover. Disabled with #MECFS She/her effieseiberg.com/stories (or @effies@wandering.shop on Mastodon)
Fantasy/science fiction author for MG/YA/adults. Loves cats, tea, & books of all sorts. Member of SFWA, SCBWI, Codex, Furry Writers' Guild. Blue dot in a red state. Still masking because the pandemic isn't over. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/reneecarterhall
Children Illustrator passionate of storytelling, colors. I love telling exciting stories through pictures #scbwi member Www.rekhasalin.com
Newsletter- https://rekhasalin.substack.com/
Illustrator / cartoonist / writer. Making books, comics, zines, & more. Wrote and/or drew stuff for MAD Magazine, WFMU, The New Yorker, Penguin Random House, Cartoon Network, punk bands, etc
Buffalo, NY
philintheblanks@gmail.com
linktr.ee/philmcandrew
🤎✊🏾Writer❤️🔥🇹🇬📚❤️🔥#KDrama #KPop #Anime watcher.❤️🔥Here for #BVM in #sff books and movies.❤️🔥 #WTMP Mentor❤️🔥 #MG #YA #Adult 🩵🩷🤍💜🤍💚 #PeaceZWrites
Rep: TBD
Host: https://open.spotify.com/show/0bEJ8tAWgwUNO38268tmSQ?si=L7c1S4_kSB278rJbMPCqkQ
KidLit Author
FIONA AND THE FORGOTTEN PIANO is OUT NOW!
https://linkin.bio/katedemaio
She/Her
Indie author and publisher of #KidLit 📚
I write GameLit and Horror for kids 👻🎮
WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A CHAIR memoir & PB (Barefoot Books, Spring '26) | Words in NYT, Huffpost, Newsweek, Insider | All things ♿️ rep | #SCBWI | Boy mom-Reluctant omnivore-Sitter of wheelchairs-Denverite-Underwater meditator
www.ryanraeharbuck.com
Author of picture books & middle grade novels. Newest PB: COUSINS! Spooky MG mystery: 13 DOORS OF BLACK HOUSE out now! Rep: James McGowan Website: linktr.ee/lauralavoie
Children's writer. Former Texan who now lives in Wisconsin. Former South East Area Rep for SCBWI-Wisconsin.
Writing my place in this world-MG YA author. Humor & Horror. Wife. Mom. SoCal. Shop: https://linktr.ee/joannarowe
Author of Bram Stoker Award finalist THE CURSE OF EELGRASS BOG and THE GHOSTS OF BITTERFLY BAY with Penguin Young Readers. Next: THE BURN BEAST (Putnam, Fall 2026)
Rep'd by Kelly Sonnack at ABLA
Storyteller | Weimaraner Mom | Gardener | MFA in Writing for Children & YA Hamline University | SCBWI RAE | HWA | seeking representation www.quinettecook.com
Art & Anthropology.
Artist. Illustrator. Writer. #KidLit.
Posts are my own.
jwogaman.weebly.com
Damara Allen (she/her) Wife, mother, and writer of #middlegrade #horror | #MGnarwhals | #PitchWars '21 alum | rep'd by @esc_key | The Skeleton Flute (Aladdin Books 2024) | The Undead War (Aladdin Books 2026) | www.dsallenauthor.com
MG author: FIELD OF SCREAMS and STAGE FRIGHT both Delacorte Press rep: Sara Megibow
linktr.ee/wendyparrisauthor www.wendyparris.com
NY Times Bestselling Author. The Underwild: River of Spirits, & Relic of Thieves (5/24/2026, Aladdin/S&S). Oregon Literary Fellow. Rep: Andrea Morrison, Writers House. Fountain pen & ink collector. Made of tea & Ghibli vibes ✨📚
https://linktr.ee/stargosz
sunburned ginger · middle-grade author · children’s playwright · school librarian · two-time Friedrich von Trapp · #amwriting #amquerying #amsleepy
🔗 https://linktr.ee/msteelewrites
Rep by @michelle4laughs.bsky.social
'23 Las Musas Books
Hermana
'20 LatinxinPub mentee
I write MG, PBs, poetry, & much more.
#MGPies
SCBWI
EFAFreelancers
WriteGirl volunteer
#Queer
she/her, cats + dogs
Querying MG writer. PhD in Musicology. Believes in equal rights for everyone. She/her.
Peruvian-American author of middle grade books (TETHERED and MALLORY📚), library event specialist, mom to the coolest kids, vacuumer supreme for my scruffy dog 🏳️🌈🇵🇪
#kidlit author/illustrator/architect Debut PB: Betty Builds It (West Margin Press). STEM/robots 🤖
Yes, thank you, I will have another cup of coffee. Thrift store junkie. Activist/Feminist. 💙💙💙 Just trying to hang on right now. #PostcardsToVoters #crochet
Writer, Edinburgh
Children's Writing Page.
https://lauracooneywriting.wixsite.com/website
Published in The Toy, Parakeet Mag, Brian Moses Blog Spot, Northern Gravy. Forthcoming in Little Thoughts Press and The Online Anthologies.
Author of THE LAST RHEE WITCH (2024) ; THE LAST RHEE WITCH AND THE NINE-TAILED FOX (Disney·Hyperion, May 6, 2025)
https://linktr.ee/jennaleeyun
Writing long stories for kids and short stories for former kids.
MG fantasy puzzle mysteries:
• RELATIVELY NORMAL SECRETS
• THE SECRET BENEFITS OF INVISIBILITY
• TALES OF THE FORGOTTEN FOUNDERS
President of the League of Utah Writers
cwallenbooks.com
Co-founder & Art Director @ Hologram Ghost @hologramghost.bsky.social
Award-Winning Illustrator // Indie Game Dev
Canadian 🇨🇦 ASD🌈♾️ she/her
http://claudiecb.com
Kidlit Author-Illustrator based in Vienna, VA. #SCBWI, #12x12PB, #PBParty
https://kimyoungju.com/
https://www.instagram.com/youngjukim_illuhaus/
#kidlitart #kidlt #kidlitillustrator #illustration #artist #midatlant
Author of THIS HOUSE WILL FEED (Kensington, 1.27.26), BENEATH, IT SLEEPS (Kensington, 2027) & THE LAST HOPE IN HOPETOWN (Little Brown). From 🇮🇪 #RevPit #writingcommunity #kidlit #horrorwriter #historicalfiction
https://linktr.ee/maria_tureaud
Spec fic author and award-nominated middle grade novelist. Cuban-American ceterosexual enby. They/them.
https://linktr.ee/labyrinthrat
Writer, dinosaur photographer. Author of FRANCES AND THE WEREWOLVES OF THE BLACK FOREST, a Page Turner Award winner and Bram Stoker Award nominee, and the bestselling WHAT THE DINOSAURS DID pb series. Rep: Marie Lamba, Kristyn Benton.
writer | middle-grade fiction | history lover | book hoarder #amquerying #amwriting #kidlit #middlegrade
Author, reader, sunshine seeker
BAHA user 🤟
Former RN 🩺
Fan of unsolved mysteries, science, space
Studying copyediting and planes ✈️
MURDER AT PENGUIN RANCH (‘26) 🇦🇶
Rep: Caryn Wiseman ABLA
Author of many genres and books!
Rep: Holly Root
Out now: 💖 Nav’s Foolproof Guide to Falling in Love
Coming soon: 🏕️ Hallie’s Rules (summer 2026)
illustrator/storyteller, psychotherapist, mom and maker of magic! 🏳️🌈& ND
www.melissagardnerart.com
Rep’d by @sandraproudman.bsky.social
@galltzacker.bsky.social
#kidlit #kidlitart #illustrator
Illustrator • Author • Teacher • Art Director
The Spy in the Museum -> Available for preorder!
http://erinmcguire.com
Clients- Disney, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Scholastic, Chronicle Books, Penguin Random House
Agent- Lindsay Auld, Writers House
MG and PB writer. VCFA WCYA. Dog and chicken lover.
I'm represented by @jenniekendrick.bsky.social at Red Fox Literary.
https://www.dawnsimon.com/
Author and journalist. My MG historical novel, Jurassic Girl, is about Mary Anning's first major fossil find. I also write about health, animals, aging, and autism. Animal lover and reader of banned books, actually all kinds of books. Happily married.
“Having fun isn’t hard, when you’ve got a library card!” - Arthur Read
•Library’s Number One Fan
•Mental Health Matters ALWAYS
Managing #kidlit Editor @fluxbooks.bsky.social + @jollyfishpress.bsky.social. YA/Adult sff writer. Shortlisted for the Page Turner Writing Award + Oxford/Pushkin Children's Books Fantasy Prize. CHASING STARS (hi-lo MG) out now! she/her.
Writer, poet, 2-time heart transplant recipient.
Follow me on Substack. https://dawnlevitt.substack.com/
Melody Carroll is a writer, poet, and Human Rights Activist from the USA. (Blue American)
#author, #authors, #booksky, #writers #writing , #writingcommunity, #read, #literature,, #fiction, #thriller, #horror, #adventure, #scifi, #vampire
We are a happy bunch of #KidLit authors with #PictureBooks set to bloom! #SCBWI #12x12PB
She/her. Picture book writer/illustrator.
Rep: @swekstein.bsky.social
2024 Round Table Mentee, #PBParty Honorable Mention, #50PreciousWords HM.
Keep posting about your books; I want to read them!
sparklemarkers.com
Fantasy Romance Author 💅
Murder mystery author 🩸
✨debut coming soon✨
Threads: T.B.Burnsauthor
Senior editor at the DarlingAxe.com. Blogging at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Author of WHEN THE SKY BREAKS and WE'VE COME FOR YOUR EGGS. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
Writer - ALWAYS ROOM FOR ONE MORE (Sourcebooks, 2026) | Rep'd by @litagentkatiem.bsky.social #SCBWI #12x12 @pb26debut.bsky.social
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Fourth grade teacher, middle grade author represented by Terrie Wolf at AKA Literary
NYT Bestselling Writer of Books, Comics and Television. Known for #dorothymustdie. #dccomics #archiecomics #guidinglight #stealingsnow #theravens. my latest is #wishofthewicked. And just lucky to be on staff @ CBS' brand new soap #beyondthegates
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