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Rob Gotobed @robgotobed.bsky.social Stand-up philosopher, scribe, bongo drummer and professional time-traveller. (Once dated Anne Boleyn)
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: http://bit.ly/3K6WdB9
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2992620/
Caroline Kind @carolinekind.bsky.social MG author, educator, researcher, reader, learner | She/Her | Halifax, NS |
Sue Sutherland, Author - TWELVE DAYS AT GLACIER @suemt.bsky.social Debut picture book author - TWELVE DAYS AT GLACIER, granola girl, weaver, quilter, traveler, photographer, 12x12, Montana SCBWI
Coming Soon - HOW HANNAH GOT HER LUMP OF COAL (2026), TWELVE DAYS AT YELLOWSTONE (2027), & NOTHING BUT NET TROUBLE
Rosalinda Alcalá @rosalinda87.bsky.social Storyteller & dev editor. Coaches writers. Accountability partner. Loves YA, MG, PB and women's fiction. Nonfiction includes sports, education, and finance. WWS-Writing Group. I lived life on the run--as a competitive runner. https://www.wordbouquet.net/
normacardenas.bsky.social @normacardenas.bsky.social assoc prof of practice | research food, identity, culture, and pedagogy #LasMusas #PBChat #WNDB #RUCCL Mentee #SCBWI #12x12 Ella/She
Lauren Hoffmann @mrshoffy.bsky.social 📚Picture book connoisseur
😻Animal adorer
😆Comedy nerd
🎃Halloween zealot
🥄Spoonie
🧕Hoodieholic
💳Library Evangelist
♻️Recycling enthusiast
Erik Talkin @eriktalkin.bsky.social Author. YA novel Private School Punk (full-cast audiobook, 2026 IPPY Outstanding Book of the Year). Lulu & the Hunger Monster (ILA Social Justice Award). MFA from VCFA. Punk, audiobooks, illustrated fiction, book-connected soundtracks.
Bibiche Geuskens @bibichegeuskens.bsky.social Author & Illustrator
Dog Mom to Tipper
✨Second Wind Chronicles on Substack
Trading semiconductors for sketchbooks
Runner & Outdoor Enthusiast
bibichegeuskens.substack.com
Scott Soeder | Kidlit Illustrator @scottsoeder.bsky.social Illustrator-Author
Favs: Comics, funny characters and sharks!
SCBWI Illustrator Coordinator Midsouth Region
Rep’d by Allison Remcheck | Stimola Literary Studio
scottsoeder.com
Toddling The Stacks @toddlingthestacks.com You should be reading #kidlit, and we'll help you see why.
A children's literature podcast by award-winning educator and Princeton-educated literature PhD @seangill.net
New episodes drop on Mondays!
http://www.ToddlingTheStacks.com
@wha81.bsky.social @wha81.bsky.social 
Author Craig Read @craigread.bsky.social Dwayne And The Dinosaur Dilemma now available, either from myself paperback £10 each, or Hardback £15 each, or Amazon at £15 & £25
Moonheart Wolves @moonheartwolves.bsky.social Building the world of MOONHEART — a xenofiction wolf fantasy
Five packs. Broken moon. A magic that remembers. Follow along for worldbuilding, sneak peeks, and the occasional chaos.
Which pack are you? 🐺
Story/Art by BixByte
Emma Jayne @emmajaynedesigns.bsky.social Illustrator and pattern designer. Love to create designs for kid's books, stationery, gifts and apparel. For work enquiries please email me at emma@emmajayne-designs.co.uk
Instagram: @emmajayne_designs
Portfolio: portfolio.emmajayne-designs.co.uk
Tim Blundell | Aspiring MG Writer @ahedgehogscribbles.bsky.social
Middle grade writer.
Up to my armpits in drafts.
Sleepiest when fed.
Happiest when slept.
Kevalkumar @kevalkumar.bsky.social Motivational Quotes Writer
Nadiad, Gujarat, India 🇮🇳
Contact:+918866868474
Nicole Allin @nicoleallin.bsky.social A Canadian kidlit illustrator living in B.C., she enjoys knitting, video games and consuming copious amounts of Earl Grey tea. A SCBWI member and currently looking for representation!
More of my artwork is at www.allinart.net !
Chris Purdin @chrispurdin.bsky.social 2D Animator/Illustrator
https://chrispurdin.wixsite.com/site
Elowen Silverscale @elowensilverscale.bsky.social ✨ Weaver of magic! ✨
She/Her | Artist | Kidlit Writer
Elle @threadbrowsing.com Wife, Mother, Grandmother
Independent in Deep Red Mississippi
No DMs
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Judith Henderson @judithhenderson.bsky.social ✍️ author/illustrator, Composer🎹TV Producer. Wrote theme song for PBS show, Arthur.🏆
Allison Hackworth @allisonhackworth.bsky.social Neurodiverse mom, wife, and nurse who absolutely loves creating colorful, spooky picture books with her husband! 📚📖✏️🎨🖌️👻💀🧟🧛🏼🦇🎃♥️🧡💛💚💙💜
@dipriya.bsky.social @dipriya.bsky.social https://funniezvideo.blogspot.com/
At Home Author @athomeauthor.bsky.social We’re former teachers who now coach children’s book authors.
We focus on writing, publishing, and helping people find their footing.
M. Ireland @curiousmousestudio.bsky.social Narrative illustration | Mostly digital, sometimes traditional 🎨
Procreate 🖼️
She/Her 🐌
AI/NFT 🚫
Safe space ❤️
🇺🇸
@fraisyfleur.bsky.social @fraisyfleur.bsky.social 
Jamie @magicbeancreations.bsky.social Purveyor of Creatures & Whimsical Things!
MagicBeanCreations.com
🇨🇦🦇🐌🪲🐛🦔🍄🌿🎨🧶🧵🪡
I am an artist that loves commenting on wonderful artwork and interacting with fellow artists. GO ART GO!
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Mary Massey @mmasseycreations.bsky.social Author/Illustrator of silly children's picture books!
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘏𝘢𝘵 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘦 is out now, link below!
https://a.co/d/3foHoiZ
Lilistrations 🍉 @lilistrations.bsky.social Mexican-American Author and Illustrator
Scholastic, Penguin Random House, Sourcebooks
Rep'd by: Sophie Sheumaker @ BookEnds Literary
Lilistrations.com
Grimm‘s Illustrations @grimm-illustrates.bsky.social Children’s Book Illustrator 🖌️
SCBWI Member
I create digital and traditional illustrations
www.grimms-illustrations.com
Kate Grigoreva @kategrigoreva.bsky.social Illustrator & children’s book author 🧚🏼♀️
Storyteller, storybeliever, vintage lover, immigrant🧳
Proudly rep’d by Chelsea Hensley at Mad Woman Literary Agency
www.kategrigoreva.com
Steve James @stejdesigns.bsky.social Leeds based freelance illustrator
https://stejdesigns.wixsite.com/mysite
https://www.advocate-art.com/steve-james
WizardBeWitch @wizardbewitch.bsky.social Enlightenment comes from your awareness, perception, and integrity because you assemble it in your highest vision, always act as if no one is watching the reflection of who you are, Without Free Will, you cannot choose the light
Lindsay Hornsby @fizzlebit.bsky.social I draw comics, build things onto the internet, and crochet.
Comic: https://www.princesspupscomic.com/
Art Stuff: lindsayhornsby.com
Newsletter/Writings: https://lindsayhornsby.substack.com/
Commissions!: https://artistree.io/lhornsby
writerharrison @harrisonwriter.bsky.social 🍁 #Canadian - #Author - #Poet 🍁
amazon.com/author/phillipharrison
I try to write in ways that feed both the mind and soul. ♊ & #GenX #stationaryaddict
💫 Creator of imagined worlds 💫
Vip Articles @viparticles.bsky.social Ahmed Jalali, a Moroccan author and journalist with 25 years of experience behind me. I am still learning every day.Life is the real university.
Brock Stephen Henning @bshenning.bsky.social #kidlit @SCBWIRockyMtn member 📚 MG Author/Illustrator of HACKERS: WORM EATER and the HACKERS series 👾 gamer, sax player, fly fisher, tech geek, film buff 🌐 www.brockhenning.com
Christopher @parliapics.bsky.social Gen Z. Pescatarian. Screenwriter. Songwriter. Playwright.
Patreon.com/JustChristopher
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
@trkaj.bsky.social @trkaj.bsky.social 
@jef67.bsky.social @jef67.bsky.social 
Lea Opitz @leaopitz.bsky.social Hi!
I do daycare and I like to paint and garden
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
David Hillman Illustrator @illustrator333.bsky.social Freelance illustrator/Author
Specializing in picture book illustration.
https://davidhillmanill.com/picture-books/
Becky Gehrisch - kidlit picture books @gehrisch-arts.com - #kidlit picture book #Author-Illustrator 👩🏻🎨
-Former IC of Cen/South Ohio #SCBWI. 🖌️
www.gehrisch-arts.com
-Creative Director at Bookling Media 🎨
www.booklingmedia.com
Melissa Murray @melissamurray.bsky.social Author + Illustrator + Artist
SCBWI | CBIG | 12x12
PBParty 2024 Illustration Showcase HM
https://melissamurray.net
#kidlitart #kidlit
Brittany Pearson @britspixels.bsky.social Asian American author / illustrator, represented by Jordan Hamessley at JABberwocky Literary Agency. I draw cute, colorful, whimsy, and joy 🩷
#PBparty finalist ‘25
#SCBWI and #12x12 member.
www.britspixels.com
Jo Fox @joxfoxo.bsky.social I like writing poems and reading other people’s too. Picture Book writer - currently querying 🤞Published writer of short fiction in national women’s press. Novice knitter.
Maker of sensory tools and fidgets. Powered by ADHD⚡️
No DM’s
Jadyn N. Marshall @jadynnmarshall.bsky.social Reader, writer, and happily human ☺️
Erstwhile publishing intern @ PRH 🐧 & JGLM 📚
Fairly digital nomad & one-woman stock photo gallery (camera roll closing in on 250k 🙈)
English professor in Tokyo 🇯🇵
Fulbright alumna 🇬🇷
💖💜💙 she/her
Maritza Ruiz-Kim @marzkim.bsky.social #KidLit Artist Writer. ND Fam.
Turtle on a marathon
💚SCBWI Co-RA, SF North & East Bay
...drawing writing gardening sewing...
Always Making Something.
https://maritzaruizkim.com
My name sounds like🧜♀️mer-izza🍕
Jennifer Tarr @jennifertarr.bsky.social #picturebook writer, #12x12PB Gold Scholarship winner '26, often despairing Mets fan
Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social Author-Illustrator of YA & MG
Cuban American
Repped by @kristavandolzer.bsky.social at The Unter Agency
Miami ✈️ NYC ✈️ NOLA
https://linktr.ee/Artlizified
Andrew Fox Ⓥ @foxphorescence.bsky.social Reader, writer, book collector, and all-around biblophile.
Learning to channel the soft whisper of the muses.
Autodidact.
INFJ
#WritingCommunity
#Shelley #Keats #Tennsyon #HartCrane #Stevens #Whitman #Dickinson #Bloom.
Vegan FTA
Good vibes only. ~ ~ ~
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social FWC is a multi-state Indivisible Group and a grassroots operation providing messaging and social media content inspired by our progressive allies.
https://indivisible.org
Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social I'm the author of 80+ books and an established editor who has helped more than 400 authors achieve their publishing dreams. My books include writing guidebooks, a novel, children's books and more. Visit inventingrealityediting.com
Danielle Render Turmaud, PhD @drenderturmaud.bsky.social Kidlit Author (Rep: Amy Nielsen) + Trauma Therapist | THESE BOOTS WERE MADE FOR MARCHING (2029)| Psychology Today Expert Blog Author| SCBWI |Host of the You, Me, & the Writing Journey Podcast (@YMWJPodcast) and @YouDeservepIt Pitch Event
Marta Pilosio Illustration @martapilosio.bsky.social Italian author-illustrator with a passion for books, folktales, fairytales, legends and history. SCBWI member. Represented by Erzsi Deàk at Hen&ink Literary.
Gill Evans. Counselling Psychologist AFBPsS. @gillevansx.bsky.social Psychologist living in Philadelphia from the UK.
Gill Evans author of The Anxious Therapist, YouTuber and Wordler. Honourable Mention for my book by Hay House.
Go to my website Anxioustherapist.com for £1 or $1 kindle book. Download kindle app free.
P. J. Purtee, AKA Jill (Shields) @pjpurtee.bsky.social SCBWI
PBs
Poet: The Toy, Little Thoughts Press
Mira Reisberg's Children's Book Academy (featured poems)
Honors: Madness! Poetry (Elite 8), #50PreciousWords, Valentiny, Halloweensie, Holiday, Spring Fling
School volunteer
Hx: pediatrics
http://pjpurtee.com
Steena Hernandez @steenahernandez.bsky.social Kidlit Author | Lupita’s Brown Ballet Slippers OUT NOW Beaming Books | SCBWI | Las Musas | 12x12PB
https://linktr.ee/steenahernandez
Sabina is ready for spooky season @sabinaywong.bsky.social SCBWI. Writer and reader of all things speculative. Witchy vibes. Strange and eldritch. AAPI 🫱🏼🫲🏽 Latina. Words in lit mags and Best Microfiction 2023. she/her
https://linktr.ee/SabinaYWong?fbclid=PAAabKH4eYVZVNxyFf_8Kh-1VZV-vF5_qn5ZOusYU2NmDCT
Darian Bianco @darianbianco.bsky.social Managing Editor at Apex Book Company. Writer. Reader. Teacher. Coffee Addict. Dog Mom. Rep: @allielevick.bsky.social
Lisa Cowan Pineo @lisacowanpineo.bsky.social Writer currently working on a MG novel. Mom to a ND son and a trans daughter. Ally. Lover of horror, LGBTQIA2+, MG, YA and romance books. She/her 🇨🇦🏳️⚧️♾️
Find me at:
Instagram: @pineolisa
Goodreads: Lisa Pineo (user 62350303)
StoryGraph: @lpineo
Nena Hy-Boyer @hyart.bsky.social Hi! I am a children's picture book author and illustrator sharing art and ideas. #SCBWI. #kidlitart.
Please do not repost.
www.hyart.org
Rachel Bostick @rachelbostick.bsky.social Illustrator of books & whatnots 🩷💜💙
🖤 Gothic vibes, romance, fantasy & faerie tales
🚫 NO AI
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Justin Colón @justincolonbooks.bsky.social Children's Author. Professional Voice & On-Camera Actor. Backyard Beekeeper. Classical Pianist in training.
Author Website: justincolonbooks.com
Critiques & Consultations: kidlithive.com
AmandaGW @amandagw.bsky.social Mom, Wife, Writer (YA & MG Horror/Thriller/Paranormal), Advocate, 🌈🏳️⚧️Ally, Attorney, I love cheese/chocolate/art/lifting/stories in the spirit of The Goonies. No Kings. She/Her
Elara Rosequartz @elararosequartz.bsky.social 🧚♀️ I write chapter books for young dreamers like me who love fairies and friendship.
💖 No villains - just sparkle, heart, and adventure.
📚💙 Ages 6–9
www.fairyacademybooks.com
Digital creator, parent managed account.
Layne Johnson | Children’s Author - Is Querying @laynejohnsonkidlit.bsky.social Layne Johnson is a picture book writer/aspiring illustrator. #SCBWI. Humor and Heart|STEAM and SEL|ADHD #amquerying
Website: https://laynejohnsonkidsbooks.com/