Author. Eclectic kidlit writer. I write picture books (fiction & nonfiction), leveled readers and early readers. Retired teacher. Eccentric grandma. Beach junkie. SCBWI member. She/her
This ATL🍑 is here in Jan2026
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Writer, musician, school librarian. #booksky #scbwi #12x12PB
The Wheel of the Year: An Introduction to Pagan Holidays releases March 20, 2026!
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Member of the SCBWI 📚, mom, wife, nurse
Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist/Children’s Book Author
The Adventures of Marie and LeeLee, Las Aventuras de Marie y LeeLee
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San Diego, CA
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Kidlit Author-Illustrator based in Vienna, VA. #SCBWI, #12x12PB, #PBParty
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Inked Voices helps writers find community, motivation and feedback to fuel their writing process. Human-centered, all online. www.inkedvoices.com
Indie publisher launching in 2026!
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I like to try to write in ways that feed both the mind and soul. ♊ & #GenX #stationaryaddict
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Read, write, sketch. Writer, librarian.
Honored to have The Dirigible Balloon publish my poems.
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writer of #kidlit and #fiction. Member of #SCBWI and #12x12
Author of bestselling true crime books Deadly Heist, Murder on Birchleaf Drive, Evil at Lake Seminole, and Extreme Punishment StevenBEpstein.com #truecrime
Eileen Meyer, Michelle Schaub, Patricia Toht. Three authors of rhyming picture books and poetry collections. We use our 20+ years of experience to critique and coach kidlit writers who prefer to write in rhyme. SCBWI. www.rhymedoctors.com
#picturebook writer, #12x12PB Challenge member, often despairing Mets fan
Funny picture book author of FLAT CAT, 7 ATE 9, BLOOP & more, mom, foodie, 80s fan, MS disabled. STORYSTORM founder. SCBWI Golden & Crystal Kite recipient. http://linktr.ee/taralazar
Welcome to the Independent Author Network at Bluesky. Promoting and Supporting Indie Authors since 2010. Our Book of the Year Awards program features $6,000 in cash prizes. #IAN1
picture book author and pre-school teacher.
THE IMPOSTER (Gnome Road Publishing, Spring 2024)
EMILY SNOOK, THE WORLD'S SMALLEST COOK (Gnome Road Publishing Fall 2024)
HAIL THE TAIL (Beach Lane Books/S&S Spring 2027)
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✍️Writing for those who feel deeply, but quietly.
Moments that linger, questions that stay. Nurse grad, postgrad in HR & Soc. Serv. Manag, working in HR.
Collector of silences, seeker of meaning.
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Publishing award-winning books and magazines for children ages 2 to 14 since 1976 📚
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Award-Winning Author, Independent Editor, Producer, Educator, Audiobook Narrator.
Co-Founder of Picture Book Summit (@picturebooksummit.bsky.social) and The Complete Picture Book Submissions System (@pbsubmissions.bsky.social)
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Hosts of #KidlitZombieWeek 2025, @kaitlynleann17.bsky.social @rebecca-ensign.bsky.social @midfreeman.bsky.social @byaliciameyers.bsky.social @janmilusich.bsky.social @drenderturmaud.bsky.social @kcstrocchia.bsky.social @storiesbystephm.bsky.social
The original online writing conference JUST for Picture Book Creators, established in 2015. Grab our PB Pitch Formula at picturebooksummit.com/pitch-formula. See you on Oct. 4, 2025! picturebooksummit.com
Welcome! We are a bountiful bunch of KidLit creatives with picture books sailing your way. Hop aboard! #PBCreativeCrew #picturebookauthor #scbwi
#PB author of MY LIFE AS AN ASTHMANAUT (Free Spirit Publishing, April 14, 2026)
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More tales found in Cricket Media & online!
Website: https://jakelockettauthor.wixsite.com/jakelockettauthor
Since 1932, we have published children’s books of the highest quality. Across four generations of family participation, we remain committed to crafting internationally sought-after picture books & superb nonfiction for readers of all ages.
The Self-Pub Hub (Indie Book Site)
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Author, Game Designer, TTRPG player, Nerd, Father, Husband, Christian, lover of all things Shenanigan, Co-Creator of Carbyne Jungle & LokDown TTRPGs, Author of Sci-Fi Novel Construct, Believer in Nazi Punching, Guillotined my Twitter account for blue skies
Frog. Cat. Writer. Lives with a dragon, a bird and a pirate bathroom. 12x12 member.
Lyrical picture books about science and nature:
ONE DAY THIS TREE WILL FALL
A STONE IS A STORY
I AM WE: A STORY OF CROW SURVIVIAL ('25)
Author, artist, gamer & GIANT GEEK (she/her) 🇨🇦
Tortured soul behind the writer's resource
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Children's Author & Teacher/SENCo
Winner #ChuckleChallenge 2024
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Literary Agent, Freelance Editor, Author, Autism Advocate, LGBTQ+, BIPOC & 🇨🇦 Ally
Author/Illustrator Looking for representation.
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SCBWI Southern Breeze Region Mentee 2022
www.picturebookisland.com
Painter and picturebook maker, Portland, Oregon. #kidlit #kidlitillustrator http://www.abigailmarble.com (children's illustration)
http://www,abigailmarblestudio.com (fine art paintings)
http://www.lakeareaartists.com (annual fine art show, Lake Oswego, OR
Author ✍️ | Professional Book Editor 🦉
Helping writers turn drafts into publish-ready stories.
MFA | Dev • Line • Copy | Indie & Traditional Publishing
Website: NightOwlFreelance.com, Est. 2010
Proudly serving the people of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate.
✍️#Kidlit author (rep’d by Stephen Fraser)
📚Debut 2027, Charlesbridge
💻business owner
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👋🏼Love making friends!
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Children's book author/full-time word wrangler | early childhood educator | Repped by Kelly Sonnack | proud bi-peninsula Michigander | carriepearsonbooks.com | she/her
#KidLit PB writer. Dole Whip lover. Autism advocate. Creator of Around the Forest & The Forest Awards.
✨ Seeking new rep! ✨
Writer of #picturebooks and #MG for kids. Seeking representation. Member of #SCBWI and Storyteller Academy. 2023 Kids' Choice Kidlit Writing Contest Finalist. Proud father/supporter of a nonbinary child and a child with cerebral palsy.
OTIS HAS A BAD DAY (2023)
Mom, Picture Book Author, LCMHC, Coffee Enthusiast, #InkedVoices Member & #PBParty 2025 Finalist!
1/8 of #kidlitzombieweek hosts.
www.rebecca-ensign.com
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Bestselling picture book author. ❤️ Mom of boys. Lover of kids’ books, family, dogs, BIG trucks, gardens, cooking, and 🇫🇷 beautiful things. Kartmom🏁
www.sherririnker.com
Children's Book Author~MG~PB~SCBWI~Librarian~Art~Music~Ocean www.marciastrykowski.com
Hey Nashville newsletter editor, book reviewer, journalist, KidLit writer, disabled mom. She/They
Freelance author and editor of works for the educational markets, working on my own YA, poems, picture books. Fascinated by the mind. Saved by chocolate. (It's a mood booster, so some days I mean it.)
I am a published children's book illustrator based in Australia. 🇦🇺 I love drawing pictures that make kids giggle. 😃
Seeking Representation.
www.vaughanduck.com
#Kidlit #STEM Author of DAWN CHORUS (Holiday House, Spring 2027). Active in @SCBWIRockyMtn, Gardener, Therapy dog handler, Leader 2E support group, website https://susanwroble.com, KidLit Bird Book Reviews at https://www.10000birds.com/author/susan
Award-winning journalist/author, degree in psychology and advanced certificate in positive psychology. 15+ years teaching/writing curriculum in SPED. Published three books and penned over 2,000 published articles.
And I’m a plant hospice worker. 🫤
📍 Nashville
Rebuilding after leaving Twitter!
Querying PB!
Mom, Picture Book Writer, Application Development, Gardner, Hiker, Dog Lover, she/her #kidlit #PBPitch #SCBWIMidsouth #amquerying #writingcommunity 🌞
www.waldohousebooks.com
🌟 2025 #PBRisingStars Mentee
🎨 #kidlit author-illustrator
📚 Former children's bookseller and school librarian
😴 Current tired mom
🤓 Self-taught and still self-teaching
Represented by Marissa Brown at Pippin Properties
brookebaum.com
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
The big comfy chair in the living room is my office, where I’m either reading or writing.
Author of kidlit and women’s fiction/romance. #scbwi #rwa
Day job: technical writer/instructional design
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www.cidkfleming.com
MG author who loves oceans, kraken, cephalopods | new MG: ⚽️ STEALING THE SCORE (World Cup mystery)| next: 🐕 NOW THAT WE DON’T TALK| sci-fi: 🦀 HANA HSU AND THE GHOST CRAB NATION | co-run Kidlit411 | website: enjoyingplanetearth.com
Literary agent at #TeamDACBA everything from illustrators for the tiniest readers to crossover and new adult.
Scotland at home, London at work.
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Author, ecologist, agent @StormLiterary
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Literary Agent/Partner at JVNLA
@jvnla.bsky.social
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Literary agent at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. Lover of tea and irrepressible book enthusiast. (they/them, sal: Mx.) Most active on insta! @michaelawhatnall michaelawhatnall.com
Acquiring Editor (Cardinal Rule Press), Freelance Editor (developmental through proofreading at www.adamdblackman.com). Writer of PB and MG. Proud dad to 1 burgeoning tween (human) and 1 seriously adolescent bunny. #SCBWI #Kidlit
Mom, teacher (M. Ed), author of the ZOEY AND SASSAFRAS SERIES + more, editor @ Innovation Press
editorial assistant @PeachtreePub & @PeachtreeTeen • cat enthusiast • the L in LGBTQ • (all views are my own!)
Acquiring editor for Free Spirit Publishing, an imprint of Teacher Created Materials, the leading publisher of social & emotional learning books for kids, teens, & educators. Write for us! She/her
Executive Art Director at Scholastic (Picture Books). Lecturer at Pratt & CCNY (Typography & Criticism). Writer of Fiction (Agent:
@liznealon.bsky.social). Speaker (SCBWI et al.). 523rd Bluesky account. Born ATL. Live NYC. He/Him. www.brianlarossa.com. 💙❤️
Lynne Marie is the multi-published author of picture books, an Agent Mentee @ www.theseymouragency.com, director of Rate Your Story (www.rateyourstory.org), a columnist @Children's Book Insider (www.writeforkids.org) and Co-Host at #SeasonsOfKidLit.com
editor & maker of good trouble at Atheneum/Scarlett Press (Simon & Schuster) • california coastal creature • still workin’ on it 🌱🌈✨
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Agent at Red Fox Literary ✏️ Kidlit Author 🖍️Indie Bookseller 📚 Dog Worshipper 🐾 Tree Hugger 🌳
Dunham Literary. Agency representing authors of fiction and nonfiction for adults and authors and illustrators of children's books for all ages for 25 years. www.dunhamlit.com
Associate Agent at East West Lit Agency
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Literary agent and founder@greatdoglit. News geek. Science freak. Working to become a better photographer. Opinions are my own.
Author of 16 📚 including ANCESTOR, MENTOR and the GREAT GIMMELMANS.
MILES IN TIME/TIME FIXERS out now.
Screenwriter and publisher of Fringe Press.
Native New Yorker. LeeMatthewGoldberg.com
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Picture book and historical fiction author, teacher, mom, wife. Chasing creativity, kindness, faith, coffee, and chocolate.
#Kidlit writer. Wife and mom. Loves Jesus.
#50preciouswords HM 24/25, #springflingkidlit HM 25, #sunwritefun win 23/24/25.
Children's Author & Freelance Writer | nonfiction and fiction, picture books and middle grade | rep'd by Jacqui Lipton | #SCBWI, #12x12PB | She/Her | https://linktr.ee/stephaniegibeault
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Alice writes picture books, poems and short stories. When she is not working on her computer, you can find her practicing yoga, exercising at the gym, cooking, spending time with family and friends, enjoying nature or traveling.
Walking on my hands 🤸🏽♂️, diving into kidlit—whether reading or writing 📚, and solving puzzles 🧩.
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New book alert! Teaching Storytelling in Classrooms & Communities
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An independent children’s book publisher 📚
Where imagination meets environmentalism🌍
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Founded by author Josh Oaktree 🌳
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Historical novelist, essayist, lawyer, hiker, nature-lover, dog and cat mom
#PB Writer| 2024 Twice #Halloweensie Honorable Mention| 2024 #KidlitChuckleChallenge WINNER| 2024 #50PreciousWords WINNER | 2024 #Valentiny WINNER | 2024 #KidsChoiceKidLitWritingContest Honorable Mention
