Karen Richard, MSc-SLP @madelive.bsky.social Retired SLP. Kidlit fanatic. Unapologetic nerd. Publishing tech startup founder on a mission to empower aspiring kidlit authors. 🇨🇦
https://made.live/newsletter
Maryellen Annese @maryellenannese.bsky.social ✍🏻Kidlit writer rep’d by Katie Erickson @ Jennifer De Chiara literary.
🍎Teacher and mom👧🏻👦🏻
#PBParty 2024 finalist, #PBChat mentee 2022 #SCBWI #kidlit http://www.maryellenannese.com
Tracy Schuldt Helixon @tracy-s-helixon.bsky.social Picture book and historical fiction author, teacher, mom, wife. Chasing creativity, kindness, faith, coffee, and chocolate. 
P.J. Reed @pjreedauthor.bsky.social Writer of Warlocks. Destroyer of Worlds. 📚 No DMs please! 📚
Elizabeth Muster @lizlag79.bsky.social Mother, wife, sister, daughter, friend, educator, librarian, writer. Member of 12x12 and SCBWI. 
Ashley Sierra @ashleysierra06.bsky.social #PB Writer| 2024 Twice #Halloweensie Honorable Mention| 2024 #KidlitChuckleChallenge WINNER| 2024 #50PreciousWords WINNER | 2024 #Valentiny WINNER | 2024 #KidsChoiceKidLitWritingContest Honorable Mention
Pat Zietlow Miller (she/her) @patzmiller.bsky.social Picture book author. Reader. Bookstore and library lover. All about my kids and cats. Repped by Ammi-Joan Paquette. #Kidlit website: www.patzietlowmiller.com
Cheshire Novel Prize @saranaidinecox.bsky.social www.cheshirenovelprize.com
Katie Gilstrap @bykatiegilstrap.bsky.social Author of SPACEMANATEE! (Magination Press), PENNY LU PORCUPINE, and FINNEGAN FOX (Nancy Paulsen Books). 📚
Bestie to @attaboyartie.bsky.social 🐕
Friend to all creatures ❤️🐾
Lisa Frenkel Riddiough @lisariddiough.bsky.social Writer, baker, backyard squirrel watcher.
Next up: EMBARRASSED FERRET, July 8, 2025, Disney Hyperion
@maryrives.bsky.social @maryrives.bsky.social 
Melisa Wrex @mowrex.bsky.social Twitter defector | Writer of Random Thoughts | Documenter of Family Adirondack Adventures | she/her | #SCBWI | #kidlit | #pb | #Storystorm | #amquerying
Sheryl @pbibooks.bsky.social Author/Illustrator Looking for representation.
Artist
Author
12x12
SCBWI Southern Breeze Region Mentee 2022
www.picturebookisland.com
Aria Bennett @ariabennett1.bsky.social Weaving words and building connections at CaliInkMedia.com. Drawn to stories that linger, and books that breathe.
Abby White @abbywhitewrites.bsky.social author of D.J. ROSENBLUM BECOMES THE G.O.A.T. 🐐 // available wherever books are sold!!!
rep: @carynwiseman @AndreaBrownLit
https://linktr.ee/abbywhitewrites
Angela Wooldridge @angw.bsky.social Writer of short stories and MG
#GoldenEggAcademy
Judith L. Roth @judithlroth.bsky.social Children's author. CADENCE AND KITTENFISH/HIDING BABY MOSES/VENETIAN LULLABY/SERENDIPITY & ME/GOODNIGHT, DRAGONS, etc. Major cat fan. 
Lori Miller Kase @lorimillerkase.bsky.social YA Author (The Accident, forthcoming from Woodhall Press, October '25)
Journalist-turned-author: I write #kidlit (YA and PB) and adult fiction/creative nonfiction
Angela Antonelli @skybrary.bsky.social #Librarian, K-4 | #Kidlit Writer | #SCBWI | #12x12 | #CTCASL Board Member | #STEM
Kathryn Clark @kclarkwriter.bsky.social Author, Writing Mentor, Editor. Debut YA novel out July 2025 with Faber Children’s.
https://linktr.ee/kclarkwriter
Pallavi Jesrani @paljes.bsky.social Mommy, #kidlit writer, poet with poems in The Dirigible Balloon, The Little Thoughts Press, Tyger Tyger, The School Magazine, #12x12pb, engineer, STEM, SCBWI, amateur painter.
Ann Darlington @gradientcat.bsky.social I am a Canadian engineer who writes sci-fi & fantasy novels. I enjoy photography, hiking, gardening and cats. 🇨🇦
KG Mach @kgmachwrites.bsky.social Author/ Educator
she/her
MG historical fiction, fantasy, and reimagined folklore: 'The Shoemaker of Siberia' in Gramarye, summer '25
PRESENT, STILL MISSING: September 16, 2025, Golden Bridges Publishing
kmachwrites.com
SCBWI, Write Mentor
Lisa Cortez @marieandleelee.bsky.social Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist/Children’s Book Author
The Adventures of Marie and LeeLee, Las Aventuras de Marie y LeeLee
YouTube “Learning with Marie and LeeLee” videos and tips for language development
#kidlit #SCBWI
San Diego, CA
Lora Stead Author @lorastead.bsky.social Is it writing time yet?
Kidlit, '23 PBParty Finalist, SCBWI, 12x12, InkedVoices, UT League of Writers, former ESL/1-8 grade teacher. Rep'd by Joyce Sweeney at Seymour. ☀️
Forthcoming debut WHERE DADDY IS (Atheneum, 2029)
https://youtube.com/@lorastead
KatharineEmlen @katharineemlen.bsky.social Writer - Photographer - Radio Host - Follower of Random Thoughts and Whimsical Ideas
Member of SCBWI, 12x12
www.katharineemlen.com
https://fireflystationery.etsy.com
Debbie Moeller @debbiemoellerbooks.bsky.social 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
Linda Jean @lindajeantm.bsky.social Creativespace Explorer—
Writer/Poet/Editor/Mixed Media Maker
#12x12PB #SCBWI #ChildrensBookInsider #50PreciousWords Honorable Mention 2025 & 2026 #ValentinyWritingContest Honorable Mention 2026 #The100DayProject 2026
Pam Adams @pamadamswrites.bsky.social 
Mari Louise @marilouisewrites.bsky.social KidLit writer ✍🏼
Children’s literature & storytelling ✨
MLIS student & library nerd 📚
Amy Barry @amybarrybooks.bsky.social Teacher, kidlit, mother of twins.
Laura Cooper @cooperl788.bsky.social You can find me at my favorite sunny spot, the kitchen island, where I’m simultaneously cooking up dinner and book ideas. I’m an avid reader, raising 2 kids and 1 rescued house hippo.
Ellen L. Ramsey @ellenlramseybooks.bsky.social #kidlit, SCBWI, 12x12, book lover, nature lover. A BOOK FOR BEAR (Flamingo Books/Penguin Random House, 2023) www.ellenlramsey.com
Angela Hartman @angelarosehartman.bsky.social Retired Library Girl. Writing. Reading. #amquerying #kidlit #SCBWI #writingcommunity #pbparty
Michelle H. Losardo @michellelosardo.bsky.social Children's Book Writer, Poet, & Artist
SCBWI New England member
Early Childhood Educator
Lover of dogs, nature, sentimentality, and beautiful words
https://www.instagram.com/michellelosardo/
https://michellelosardowri.wixsite.com/michelle-losardo
Jill Lambert @ljlambert.bsky.social #writer #SCBWI #PB #kidlit
Writer for children, former librarian & elementary teacher, wife, mother, grandmother, dogmom.
Rochelle Strauss @rochellestrauss.bsky.social Award-winning nonfiction children's author, interested in nature, environment & STEM. Love promoting NF books as powerful tools to build ocean, climate and environmental literacy. Available for author visits & speaking engagements. www.rochellestrauss.com
Sandra Kaye @sandrakaye.bsky.social Marketing strategy * Writing Kid Rangers chapter book series * Neurodivergent * Chronic Illness Warrior * Medical Parent * #BoilerUp #GoJays #MakeItSo
Shari Green @sharigreen.bsky.social author, poet, beach-wanderer 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 | she/her | Vancouver Island, BC | www.sharigreen.com
Deborah Halverson @deborahhalverson.bsky.social Award-winning author, editor, founder of DearEditor.com. Author of WRITING YOUNG ADULT FICTION FOR DUMMIES and WRITING NEW ADULT FICTION
AnneWritesKidlit @anneruggirello.bsky.social Picture book writer 📚 Bluesky newbie
Watercolor dabbler 🎨 Lover of apple crisp
#KidLit #picturebooks #SCBWI #amwriting
Cindy Sommer @cindysommpb.bsky.social Award-winning children's book author of PB SAVING KATE'S FLOWERS (Arbordale) Crystal Kite winner, #KidLit, #SCBWI, #12X12PB Gold Member, ISO Agent, Querying PBs. www.cindysommer.com
Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social Artist, writer, editor, reviewer, pet appreciator from Manchester.
Commissions, editing services available at zuul.art@outlook.com.
https://patreon.com/RyeZuul
https://ko-fi.com/ryezuul
SFF, horror, occultism, religion, philosophy.
🏳️⚧️ Any pronouns. 🖤
Ellen Datlow @datlow.bsky.social Award-winning editor of short sf/f/h. I live & die by the Oxford comma & I skeet about my passions, take it or leave it. I block mooks-don't be one. she/her
@elliemarie24.bsky.social @elliemarie24.bsky.social 
Lydia Mulvey @lydiamulvey.bsky.social Screenwriter. Runner. Dog wrangler. Human potato.
Writer on THE CROW GIRL, IN FLIGHT
Also writer of other things which may be coming soon, or may not be, but some secret third thing (development)
Irish/She/Her
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
Despises AI
TJ Berry @tjberry.bsky.social writer, director, photographer 🏳️🌈
Shawnna Deresch @shawnnaderesch.bsky.social Horror & dark fiction author, HWA Chicagoland Chapter Co-Chair
💻 shawnnaderesch.com
Chris Mason @chrismason.bsky.social Scribbler, warbler, cat wrangler.
Jenny Barber @jenqoe.bsky.social Writer, anthology editor, bookaholic (she/her) Never have enough spoons. (If your knees creak, you may know me from Fox Spirit, Alchemy Press, BFS or Fantasycon.)
All things me can be found at www.jennybarber.co.uk
@suetingey.bsky.social @suetingey.bsky.social 
Amanda Lees @amandalees.bsky.social Author, screenwriter, formerly in Allo Allo. I know.
Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social Writer (Secrets of the Bees; Black Crescent, White Hare, Sea Gate, Tenth Gift etc), publisher (GRRM, Hobb, Feist, Lawrence, Heartfield, Kaner, ex Tolkien), allotmenteer. History. Morocco/Cornwall. Covid is airborne 💙📚 #Writing #Books
Pixie @pixiepe.bsky.social 
Liz Mistry @lizmistry.bsky.social Crime Fiction Author, Avid Reader and reviewer rep'd by Lorella Belli Literary Agency
Sophie Hannah @sophiehannah.bsky.social Bestselling crime writer
Coach for writers (dreamauthorcoaching.com)
Host of ‘How to Hold a Grudge’ podcast
Helen Fields @crimediva.bsky.social Writer of all things criminal. Recovering barrister. Carlsbad/Edinburgh/Arundel. Fan of long, late night chats and reading books that scare the bejesus out of me. Licorice is the way to my heart. Here for Luc & Ava info. 
L.H.Stacey @lyndastacey.bsky.social Author of romantic suspense and psychological thrillers
Justine @anchorstine.bsky.social 2 Cool Kids😎😎 & a Boxer 🐶Grandma 🤓
Boat Life 🛥🌧☀
Debbie Viggiano @debbieviggiano.bsky.social Writer. Wife. Mother. A little bit supernatural...
Priya Sharma @priya101.bsky.social 
Cindy O’Quinn @cindyoquinn.bsky.social All things horror💀HWA Bram Stoker Award winning author. Elgin, Rhysling, & Dwarf Star nominated poet. Living haunted.🔥
Julie Dillemuth @juliedillemuth.bsky.social Picture book author, screenwriter, poet, geography PhD (spatial cognition).
Sustainable/organic/local supporter, mom, preWGA, she/her
www.juliedillemuth.com
Catherine Cavendish @catcavendish.bsky.social Author of Supernatural, Ghostly, Haunted House and Gothic Horror Fiction. Member of Horror Writers' Association, and British Fantasy Society
Donna Cuttress @donnacuttress.bsky.social Writer-speculative & weird fiction. Bookish allotmenteer. TueBrooks finest. 
Megan Crouse @fullofwords.bsky.social Writer. Here mostly for Star Wars books analysis. Co-author: STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC CHARACTER ENCYCLOPEDIA, STAR WARS ENCYCLOPEDIA 2024 | she/her | 🖤🤍💜| Beware of spoilers
B. Zelkovich is peering out of their cave @bzelkovich.bsky.social A real piece of work (in progress). She/they. Water(bottle)gate '25, Viable Paradise '24, words in Wyldblood, Dread Mondays, Life Beyond Us, Folk Horror Short Stories (Beyond & Within), & more. Taco Bell Tattoo Haver. Fuck AI forever & ever.
bzelkovich.com
@heidegoody.bsky.social @heidegoody.bsky.social 
Rosemary Claire Smith @rcwordsmith.bsky.social Writing time travel tales for the past 156 million years; writing book reviews for Analog since 2023; winner of the Sidewise Award for alternate history; rcwordsmith.com
Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social Author: Pardon Me for Moonwalking (Unsolicited Press), Wild Plums (ELJ).
Contributor: Flash Fiction America (Norton)
Wigleaf 50 2024, 2025; Best Small Fictions '23, '24; Best Microfiction '23
Sam Carrington @samcarrington.bsky.social Author | aka The Positive Business Strategist
Taking you from stress to success with positive mindset
FREE mindset workbook:
https://site.samcarrington.withtbsc.com/break-the-spiral
Writer of psych thrillers
Lily Childs @lilychilds.bsky.social Writer of horror, dark fiction and psychological thrillers.
"A grim and lush parade."
Kilcrops - The Demonologia Biblica: Vol. 1. "An absolute triumph of twisted horror."
Whimsyism @whimsyism.bsky.social Books
Cats
Flowers
Vida Cruz-Borja @laviecestmoi.bsky.social Ignyte Award- and National Book Award-winning Filipina writer and editor of SFF.
Books: Song of the Mango and Other New Myths (2022), Mirror Marked (2025). Rep'd by Stevie Finegan.
Website: https://vidacruz.org
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/vidacruzborja
Robin @robinvaneck-writer.bsky.social 🇨🇦 (she/her) Writer, animal person, loves books and bad jokes, toques and warm things. First book, Rough, published in 2020 with Stonehouse Publishing. Almost finished edits for 2nd book. Rep’d by Stacey Kondla at The Rights Factory.
Monica S. Kuebler @monicaskuebler.bsky.social Maker. Dreamer. Horror mom. Lifelong lover of words, video games & spooky stuff. Writer of monster stories, contributing editor at Rue Morgue magazine and HWA Ontario co-chair.
Sara Emmerton @sarawrites.bsky.social Writer. Carer. Sea swimmer. Cats. Longlist @MoniackMhor Emerging Writer award '22. Shortlist #Curae Prize '23.
Kim Richards (Gilchrist) @kimrichards.bsky.social Gamer, weaver, gardener, published author, and freelance writer. Worked as a small press publisher, editor, copyeditor, and book formatting for ebook and print.
(portfolio) https://www.clippings.me/kim-richards
(Medium) https://medium.com/@kimrichards_5670
Melissa Elborn @melissaelborn.bsky.social Writer of gothic and horror fiction. Debut novel longlisted Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 24.
Carole Johnstone @carolejohnstone.bsky.social Award-winning writer; lover of islands and WINE. Author of Mirrorland and The Blackhouse.
“Dark and devious” Stephen King
Rep Hellie Ogden at WME /
carolejohnstone.com
IG: carole_l_johnstone
Vic Watson-Logan @vpeanuts.bsky.social Reader, mum. Writer? Spoonie w/ Sjogren’s. Organiser of Bay Tales.
Georgina Lester @georginalester.bsky.social Artist, writer, creative, business woman, intuitive coach and more with a hunger for life. Working on far too many projects at the moment but I can’t help myself. Love meeting people and hearing their stories.
Francesca Myman @mizfrancesca.bsky.social Senior Editor at Locus Magazine. Artist, editor, writer. Many squid! http://francesca.net/portfolio/ and http://patreon.com/mizfrancesca (She/her) #blm
Noelle Salazar @noellesalazar.bsky.social Author of THE LIES WE LEAVE BEHIND - AND USA Today bestselling author of THE FLIGHT GIRLS, and ANGELS OF THE RESISTANCE and THE ROARING DAYS OF ZORA LILY
L.C.Winter @lcwinter.bsky.social Writer of historical gothic. 'Spider, Spider' out now.
Links here. https://linktr.ee/LCWinter?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=b1799b03-281d-4d43-a3ee-0dbd8abf2d60
Agent - Emily Glenister
Brandy O’Briant @brandyo71.bsky.social 54. American in England. Beagle mom. Writer. Literary fiction. MFA. INFJ.
Shortlist, The Virginia Prize for Fiction
Finalist, Wildhouse Fiction Prize
Longlist, Mslexia Novel Award
Honourable Mention, Craft Literary 1st Chapters
brandyobriant.com
Dianne Hancock @diannehancock.bsky.social Writer, theatre director, Feldenkrais and yoga teacher, part-time dancer and gardener. Looking for interesting communication without toxicity.
Jo Lewis @jolewisdirector.bsky.social Film /Games
Rachel Gilbey @gilbster1000.bsky.social #Bookblogger at Rachel's Random Reads and #blogtour organiser over at @rararesources.bsky.social 
Pamela Belle @pamelabelle.bsky.social Author of #historicalfiction, set in #17thcentury England, and most recently in early #18thcentury London, #AParcelofRogues and #TheSupposedSister
Kitty Johnson Books @kittyjohnsonbooks.bsky.social Author, published by Lake Union Publishing. Part-time artist, dog-owned. Loves walking and my Norfolk home. https://www.kittyjohnsonbooks.com/
Sarah Brown @mrsyb.bsky.social From Whittlesey UK. Retired. Love my family, reading and the odd bit of crafting.
Dana Middleton @danamiddleton.bsky.social I write books for kids.
Fiona Cummins @fionacumminsauthor.bsky.social Writer of thrillers. Seeker of thrills.
Tammy S. Davies @tsdavies.bsky.social Wife, Mother, Fantasy author, Postgrad student MSc Computing and IT Management @ Cardiff University - pupper-mom to Falkor the Jerk Russell Terrorist - A Canadian 🇨🇦 in Wales 🏴
Ellie Ness @elliene.bsky.social Writer. Greyhound enthusiast. East - West, home was best.
Don't try to slip into my DMs unless I specifically ask you to first. 
Laura Smythe @laurasmythepr.bsky.social Freelance children's/YA book PR living by the sea.
Muriel Gray @murielgray.bsky.social Person
Katy Cruden-Archer @ldnkatyarcher.bsky.social Managing Editor @ Hodder Fiction. Joint winner of the greatest head-to-head in Pointless history. LL Curtis Brown First Novel Prize. Words in @frazzledlit.bsky.social. She/her.
Sarane McDougall @saranemcdougall.bsky.social Writer. Dreamer. Runner. Mother to one child and one dog. Reader. All things vintage. London and Hertfordshire.