@booksbytrenise
🇯🇲 🇺🇸 | #KidLit author | ⭐️ Co-Director of PB Rising Stars ⭐️ | BOOKed and Busy 📚| Repped by Jem at ABLA| Movie buff | Fueled by College Football ❤️💛✌️, Taylor Swift, Showtunes, 2010s hip hop and SPITE | Storyteller. Creator. Wonderer
SPECIAL DELIVERY! 🚢📮
Raise the flag and ready your letters: my debut picture book, POST OFFICE BAY, is setting sail on May 26, 2026! 🌊✨💌
It’s been a long time coming to share these news, and I’m SO EXCITED to finally be able to scream about my debut!!!
Helloooo, friends and family!
Got some BIG NEWS dropping in my newsletter tomorrow 👀
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If you're looking for a flexible/forgiving novel writing challenge that starts today, runs until end of October, I've created my first Pacemaker group challenge (limit 100 users). Open to both free & premium Pacemaker.press users. Details below:
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LETS GOOOOOO!!!!!
Cover of Zombie and Brain Are Friends
Screenshot listing the top 5 picture books in the NYT bestseller list
OMZ* what a day of mixed-AF emotions: Zombie and Brain is an INSTANT NYTimes bestseller at NUMBER 5!
Congrats to the whole Zombie team! @laancham.bsky.social @alexborbolla.bsky.social @thejordache.bsky.social @literaticat.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
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Oh heeeeeey, everyone! It’s been a while!
I’m mostly on IG these days, but I’m sharing the SNEAKIEST PEEK of something exciting in my newsletter today, and thought you all should know 👀👀👀
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Thank you so much Erin 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾
This lovely member of the #kidlit community, who gives so much to the #pbrisingstars and many other creators, has had everything taken from her. 💔 Please help lift @booksbytrenise.bsky.social up if you can. 🫶🏻
gofund.me/b651d822
Crystal, I love your art so much and one day we are gonna do a book together, just you wait!
I gave up on the walking dead 3 different times lol but I can see it
I’ve never played it, but this is how I felt playing Red Dead 2! That game had me in a chokehold
It’s so well written! I am in shambles!
Just watched E2 of the #LastofUs Season 2 — NO ONE TALK TO ME FOR AT LEAST THREE DAYS I AM SICK 😭😭😭😭
SLJ Talks to Kiese Laymon About His New Picture Book City Summer, Country Summer
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Every single last word of this
It’s gonna be a GREAT night, PB friends and family!
And there’s less than 80 spots left, so if you want to attend live, register today!
#kidlit #kidlitmegafeed
We want to hear from you #PBRisnigStars mentors, alumni & applicants!
You could write for any age group in the world, so why PBs? What is it about this magical medium that calls to you?
Tell us! 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
#pbrisingstars #kidlit #amwriting #picturebooks
It is my honor to run this program and be a a part of the PB Rising stars family! 🥹🫶🏾
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⭐️You can support @booksbytrenise.bsky.social by following her on IG and tapping in every THURSDAY for her “Books I Won’t Shutup About” series, where she highlights a recent read she loves and encourages you to read it too!
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So let’s give it up for @booksbytrenise.bsky.social and @laylafallah.bsky.social!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Want to show up for them as they’ve shown up for the #PBRisingStars fam?
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Both were inaugural Class of 2022 mentees, and have seen their writing careers grow since joining #PBRisingStars.
@booksbytrenise.bsky.social signed her debut PB deal in 2023 + signed with new rep (that she’s THRILLED about!) last summer.
Running a mentorship program like #PBRisingStars isn't easy, but @booksbytrenise.bsky.social and @laylafallah.bsky.social like absolute pros!
So today, we want to take a moment to appreciate our new leadership team in Trenise and Layla.
Senator Booker has been laying out the case against 47 for 22+ hours. Think about the next time you think something is “too hard”.
Round of applause for two of the best in @kaileipewbooks.bsky.social and @ebonylynnmudd.bsky.social!
While you wait for mentee announcements, now is a great time to 📚READ!📚
Check out these titles by some of our amazing #PBRisingStars mentors! @marziehabbas.bsky.social @sarahollyackerman.bsky.social @nellcrossbeckerman.bsky.social @natashakhankazi.bsky.social
It’s worth pointing out that Goldberg has used the Atlantic for years to stir up a massive reactionary backlash against “woke” college kids, protesters of all kinds, trans people, etc. He created the energy that Trump rode to power. So this strikes me as very much leopards eating faces.
Grateful for opportunities to improve my craft. @ebonylynnmudd.bsky.social @pbrisingstars.bsky.social @kaileipewbooks.bsky.social @laylafallah.bsky.social @booksbytrenise.bsky.social
astronaut reading a book with stars around them and the words "I applied to be a 2025 PB Rising Star mentee"
Hooray for #PBRisingStars! Thank you @ebonylynnmudd.bsky.social, @laylafallah.bsky.social, @booksbytrenise.bsky.social and @kaileipewbooks.bsky.social for the amazing opportunity. The application process itself was a great reward. And what a supportive group! #neurodivergent #kidlit #writer
