Brandon Hoàng @brandonhoang.bsky.social 👫🏻 Wylde Pak
👻 Ghost & Molly McGee
🚲 GLORIA BUENROSTRO IS NOT MY GIRLFRIEND (FSG)
🏹 THE CROSSBOW OF DESTINY (Scholastic)
💫 THE INVENTOR'S EYE (Top Shelf)
🧨 MINECRAFT: ONE LAST QUEST (PRH)
🪭ATLA: KYOSHI WARRIORS
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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
Jessica Braidan @jessicabraidan.bsky.social 📚 Color & Discover series — fact-and-coloring books for curious kids 4 and up. Surprising facts + bold pictures to color + try-it activities. Read, create, discover, screen-free. 🦕🚀🐴 jessicabraidan.com
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BookishPerseus @bookish-perseus.bsky.social 22yrs
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Faith Gluskin @authorfaithgluskin.bsky.social #PICTURE BOOK Writer/#Teacher/#amquerying/Author of Gorillas’ Night Out (Indigo River Publishing/2019) and Matzah Means So Many Things (Yorkshire Publishing/2022). Member of #SCBWI
Beth Volkmann @bethvolkmann.bsky.social M.Ed. Children's Book Writer. Picture Taker. Nature Lover. Anglophile.
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Allison Hackworth @allisonhackworth.bsky.social Neurodiverse mom, wife, and nurse who absolutely loves creating colorful, spooky picture books with her husband! 📚📖✏️🎨🖌️👻💀🧟🧛🏼🦇🎃♥️🧡💛💚💙💜
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Karen Finch @karenfinch.bsky.social Debut PB author
SPRING SCENTHOUND
(Tilbury House, 2026)
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OODLES OF NOODLES (📖 out now)
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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)
Tanya Konerman, Kidlit Author 📚 @tanyakonerman.bsky.social PB/MG; Nature/Verse/Prose
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PBs
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Mira Reisberg's Children's Book Academy (featured poems)
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Angela Antonelli @skybrary.bsky.social #Librarian, K-4 | #Kidlit Writer | #SCBWI | #12x12 | #CTCASL Board Member | #STEM
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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
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Julie Honan Johnston @juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social Picture Book Author. Owner of Coyote Kids, a secondhand clothing and bookstore for kids in Albany, CA. It's all about the kids! 
Druscilla Santiago @adventurefunclub.bsky.social An Illustrator! In Honolulu! Probably drinking coffee.
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📗: Anything? Anything! (Summer 2027)
Jen Bagan @jbagan.bsky.social Picture book writer, mom, teacher, student, wannabe witch, theater lover, cookbook fanatic, planner (but love a dash of the unexpected!) Rep: Joyce Sweeney at The Seymour Agency. #kidlit #12x12PB #picturebooks#SCBWI
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Eliza Spies with Her Big Little Eye: In the Woods 2025
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CUDDY @ptcontagion.bsky.social The biggest divide in America today is not between “right” and “left,” or between Republicans and Democrats.
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Eija Sumner @eijasumner.bsky.social Children’s Author | Idahoan | AABB | Hamline MFAC
The Good Little Mermaid’s Guide to Bedtime🧜♀️😡
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Ann Diament Koffsky @artbyann.bsky.social Author and/ or Illustrator of 40+ books including PING PONG SHABBAT (2024, Little Bee). 12x12. CBIGNYC. SCBWI.
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Allison Wortche @allisonwortche.bsky.social Freelance Editor (picture books, MG, YA) • Children's Book Author
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📘 BEAR IN THE AIR — coming 9/16/25
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Ellen Oh @ellenoh.bsky.social I write MG & YA books that win awards from people not related to me. Founding member of WENEEDDIVERSEBOOKS. Fight Book Bans!!!
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