The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social Independent, opinionated, and stylish: essential multimedia publications for everyone who cares about children's and young adult literature. Visit us at hbook.com.
Sarah S. Brannen @sarahsbrannen.bsky.social Author/illustrator of two dozen children's books including Lolly on the Ice, Monarch, Mourning Cloak: A Butterfly Journal, and Uncle Bobby's Wedding. Former figure skating journalist/photographer. www.sarahbrannen.com
Colleen Heidrich @mrscheidrich.bsky.social Teacher librarian, educator and student still yearning to learn! Wife and mum to two boys too! Coffee Lover. Reading Enthusiast. she/her
Betsy Uhrig @betsyuhrig.bsky.social Author of mild-mannered middle-grade books, including MIND OVER MONSTERS (McElderry/S&S). Agent: Joan Paquette. BetsyUhrig.com
Rebecca Petruck (she/her) @rpetruck.bsky.social Master of Science in Social Work, University of Louisville, KY. Master of Fine Arts, UNC Wilmington. Author of MG novels Boy Bites Bug and Steering Toward Normal. #ProtectTransKids
Emily Barth Isler @emilybarthisler.bsky.social Author of books out now (The Color of Sound, AfterMath,Three Pieces of Broken Glass), and coming soon (Always Enough Love, The Hand-Me-Down Queen). Emilybarthisler.com
American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Empowering and advocating for libraries and library workers to ensure equitable access to information for all. 🌎’s largest library association.
Find us at https://ala.org.
We follow the ALA Code of Conduct: https://www.ala.org/user-guidelines
Nicole Panteleakos @nicwritesbooks.bsky.social Middle Grade author (Planet Earth is Blue), playwright & thespian, neurodivergent & disabled, queer, wife, stepmother, godmom, co-keeper of pets, background: Hollins U Children’s Lit MFA, #Novel19s, #Pitchwars, fanfiction fan.
Amélie Wen Zhao @ameliewenzhao.bsky.social New York Times & internationally bestselling author ✨🌺 not active here, just claiming the page!
LaDarrion Williams @itsladarrion.bsky.social USA Today & New York Times Bestselling Author of Blood at the Root. Also a Playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker.
James Trevino @jamestrevino.bsky.social Writer ✍️ | Cat dad 🐈⬛ | Book addict 📚
IG: @james_trevino
Booktok: @james.trevino
Katherine Webber @kwebberwrites.bsky.social I like books📚
Bestselling author of YA and children’s books including 👑👑 TWIN CROWNS, 🐉DRAGON MOUNTAIN, and 👻SAM WU. Next: CAPTAIN OF FATES 🧜♀️⚓️✨
Alexandra McCollum @anmccollum.bsky.social INTO THE MIDNIGHT WOOD (2026, Dutton/PRH)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/780713/into-the-midnight-wood-by-alexandra-mccollum/
Rep: Pete Knapp at Park, Fine & Brower
they/them | 💛🤍💜🖤 | 💗💜💙 | ND
Sara Holland @sara-holland.bsky.social NYT-bestselling author of EVERLESS, HAVENFALL, and BREAK WIDE THE SEA 🐋
linktr.ee/sarahollandwrites
Brenda Drake @brendadrake.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author of the Library Jumpers series and other books. Founder of now retired PitchWars and PitMad. Lost in the Land of Enchantment. Fueled by coffee. brendadrake.com
Daniel Aleman @danaleman.bsky.social Author of I MIGHT BE IN TROUBLE (Dec 3, 2024). Also: INDIVISIBLE & BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN (out now!)
Never not craving tacos 🌮
Adi Alsaid @adialsaid.bsky.social Writer, fan of sauces.
michael gray bulla @graybulla.bsky.social he/him, 25. YA author and poet. IF I CAN GIVE YOU THAT and THE GHOST OF YOU out now!
Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social yassified RL Stine & bestselling horror author of The Dead of Summer, The Honeys. Also: Beholder, Reverie, Be Dazzled.
My cat's name is Haunted Little Girl.
https://www.ryanlasala.com/the-dead-of-summer/
Ayana Gray @ayanagray.bsky.social New York Times-bestselling author of monstrous stories. I, MEDUSA: Fall 2025
Melody Robinette @melodyrobinette.bsky.social Author - romancing the macabre and monstrous
Speak metaphor to me 🫦| type 1 diabetic | Gemini | bi 🏳️🌈| roll for initiative
Rep: Pete Knapp & Stuti Telidevara @ Park, Fine & Brower
Pete Knapp @petejknapp.bsky.social Literary agent at Park, Fine & Brewer. Represent middle grade, young adult, and adult fiction.
Patrick O’Shaughnessy @patrickoshag.bsky.social Investing at psum.vc
Podcasts at joincolossus.com
jposhaughnessy @jposhaughnessy.bsky.social Founder and CEO, @osventuresllc.bsky.social;
Host http://infiniteloopspodcast.com 🎙
Angela Burke Kunkel @angkunkel.bsky.social Teacher-Librarian. Picture Book Author.
https://www.angelakunkel.com
Mindy @mindythompson.bsky.social Author of THE BOOKSHOP OF DUST AND DREAMS (VikingChildren'sBooks/PRH).
Corey Ann Haydu @coreyannhaydu.bsky.social YA and children’s author of EVENTOWN, ONE JAR OF MAGIC, LAWLESS SPACES, EVER CURSED &more—picture books, chapter books, MG and YA. Faculty @ VCFA. Lover of rompers, lattes, chatty podcasts, terrible reality TV, parenting discourse, friendship. she/her
Julia DeVillers @juliadevillers.bsky.social Mostly middle grade author. 📚 Next: MEET ME IN WONDERLAND (S&S, May), 🎡
Melissa Taylor @imaginationsoup.bsky.social Writer, communications/marketing consultant, fmr teacher & teacher trainer, author. M.Ed. TOVA’S SWEET SOLUTION (4/2026), https://melissataylor.net https://imaginationsoup.net
Cathy Carr @cathycarrwrites.bsky.social Author 365 DAYS TO ALASKA (2021) and LOST KITES AND OTHER TREASURES (2024), published by Abrams/Amulet. Rep. Rachel Orr, Prospect Agency. To quote Toni Morrison, "You are your best thing." You can find me at www.cathycarrwrites.com. 
Lori Tecler @loritecler.bsky.social Elementary school library media specialist; 💙 literacy & freedom to read advocate 💙; 📚reader;📚; goldendoodle mom🐾; DC sports fan 🏒🏈🏀; University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate & Badger sports fan 🦡
https://www.donorschoose.org/ms-tecler
Alex Gino @alexgino.bsky.social They/them. Middle grade kidlit author of MELISSA, GREEN, and other books with LGBQTIAP+ characters and friendship themes. Living that pun lifestyle. ACAB. Free Palestine. Reparations. Housing, food, and medical care for all. Interdependence is life.
Aisha Saeed @aishasaeed.bsky.social Author
Dhonielle Clayton @dhonielle.bsky.social NY Times bestselling author and cookie enthusiast. Coach at The Novelry.
Susan Van Metre @skeetervm.bsky.social Hopelessly devoted to books. Editorial Director Walker Books US/Candlewick Press
Lynda Mullaly Hunt @lyndamh.bsky.social New York Times best-selling author of ONE FOR THE MURPHYS, FISH IN A TREE, WISH IN A TREE, SHOUTING AT THE RAIN (Nancy Paulsen books/Penguin) Founder of #AuthorsLoveTeachers she/her
Amanda Hunt @thenextgenlib.bsky.social TheNextGenLibrarian is a TX HS librarian who reads 1 📖 a day, loves #edtech, presenting & being a LIBRARIAN!
#TLsky #edusky #skybrarians #Skybrarian
www.thenextgenlibrarian.com
bit.ly/TheNextGenLibrarianBioLink
bit.ly/TheNextGenLitSociety
Alysa Wishingrad @alysawishingrad.bsky.social Author of fantastical novels for adventurous readers: The Verdigris Pawn (JLG), Between Monsters and Marvels (SLJ ⭐️)
Rep: @litagentmarini @highlineliterary
#mgauthorcade
https://linktr.ee/Agw408
Claribel A. Ortega @claribelortega.com NYT Best-selling raccoon enthusiast 🦝
Witchlings 4: Scepter of Memories out 9.16.25
I wrote Ghost Squad, the Witchlings series & the Eisner & Pura Belpré winning graphic novel Frizzy 🐓
https://linktr.ee/claribelortega
Kyle Lukoff @kylelukoff.bsky.social "Kyle Lukoff? Isn't he, like, the trans Maurice Sendak?"
"No, Maurice Sendak is the cis Kyle Lukoff."
Kelly Yang @kellyyang.bsky.social #1 NYT bestselling author of many books, including the FRONT DESK series
A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com Award-winning author, figure skater, & typewriter tinkerer
⛸️ Ana on the Edge
✈️ Ellen Outside the Lines
⛺️ Camp QUILTBAG
📚 Just Shy of Ordinary
✡️ Shabbat Is ...
rep: @thejordache.bsky.social | https://linktr.ee/matokah | 📍SF + VT
Nicole Lesperance @niclesperance.bsky.social Author, editor, book monster 🌈
A Spell to Wake the Dead, The Depths, The Wide Starlight, The Nightmare Thief
She/her
nicolelesperance.com
Sarah Kapit @sarahkapit.bsky.social Author of GET A GRIP, VIVY COHEN! and other books for young readers. RACHEL FRIEDMAN chapter books currently available wherever you get books. Rep: Jennifer Laughran
www.sarahkapit.com
Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social OH FFS, do I have to
Okay fine, FINE, I'm a children's writer and artistttnnnggghhhh that still feels so weird to say, I'm also Korean American and autistic and a messy emotional glob who constantly gets sentimental on main, you've been warned
Aiden Thomas 🇵🇸 @aidenschmaiden.bsky.social author of NYT bestsellers “Cemetery Boys”, “Lost in the Never Woods”, “The Sunbearer Trials” and “Celestial Monsters”.
currently writing: “Cemetery Boys 2: Espíritu”
just Some Guy.
https://linktr.ee/aidenschmaiden
Hanna Alkaf @hannaalkaf.bsky.social That mom friend. Malaysian author of YA and MG. All my book titles are too long for social media bios. 
Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social Locus, BSFA, Ignyte Finalist. Award winner. Chef. Librarian. Author of 7+ books. Next: Until the Clock Strikes Midnight, 2/3/2026. Bostonian in Germany.
Mike Lasagna @thelasagna.bsky.social Excitable bookseller. YA/ Romance writer. Milo’s dad. tastemaker. family air hockey champion. noodles never die. all opinions are my own.
Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social I wrote some books, once upon a time.
Posting about stories, brain injuries, adorable animals, rhubarb recipes, nature facts, human rights, and how we can make this world safe and kind and good. You are precious to me, and I love you.
kellybarnhill.com
Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social NYT & international best-selling chaos machine
📚 Gumiho duology | K-Verse Books | GODS & COMICS
🔜 HOUSE OF FORGOTTEN SOULS (Bloomsbury, 1/19/2027)
🇰🇷🌈
📱 tiktok/IG katchowrites
https://www.katchowrites.com/links
she/her
Heather Kassner @heatherkassner.bsky.social 🖤 Author / SPELLWRIGHT (Atheneum/S&S 2026) / Rep: Victoria Marini & Sheyla Knigge
Joy McCullough @joymccullough.bsky.social Author @ PRH & S&S, resident playwright at Seattle Public Theater, mom. She/her
Up next: TEAM AWKWARD (S&S, 2/11)
Cindy Baldwin @cindybaldwinbooks.bsky.social Kidlit author (latest: NO MATTER THE DISTANCE). Disabled activist with #cysticfibrosis and #ehlersdanlos. Homeschool mom, cosmetic formulator, human with too many passions. She/her
Shari Sawyers @sharisawyers.bsky.social K-6 Librarian in Texas, member of #BookAllies, Texas Library Association, and Little Mavericks Graphic Novel Reading List Committee
Laurie Hnatiuk @lhnatiuk.bsky.social Retired 🇨🇦TL & MG Book Village Admin (#MGBookChat) Occasional Bit About Books Blogger. Here for the #kidlit📚 Wife, mom of two adult kids and her dog Kaizer. Love to read and attempt to capture the beauty of nature. She/her
https://linktr.ee/hnatiukl
Sylvia Liu @sylvialiu.bsky.social 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
Tracy Badua @tracybadua.bsky.social Author, lawyer, devourer of caffeine and chocolate
Out now: GHOUL SUMMER 👻📚
www.tracybadua.com
Lorien Lawrence @lorienlawrence.bsky.social Middle grade author of the Fright Watch series and the forthcoming Many Hauntings of the Manning Family. 👻 Repped by Kathleen Rushall at ABLA.
ELA teacher. 🍎
Forever reading. 📚
Lisa Schmid @lisalschmid.bsky.social MG Author | HART & SOULS | OLLIE OXLEY AND THE GHOST
Co-Host-Writers With Wrinkles Podcast | Rep'd by @literarylesliez.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/lisaschmid.author
Debbi Michiko Florence⁷ @debbimichiko.bsky.social #kidlit author middle grade, chapter books, picture books | Sansei 🇺🇸🇯🇵 | Highlights Foundation | ☕️🧋| 🐶💜 | Inuyasha, Studio Ghibli | positivity
Available now - A Study in Secrets (Last Chance Academy book 1)
https://debbimichikoflorence.com
Erin Entrada Kelly @erinentrada.bsky.social Author + Illustrator | 2x Newbery Medalist | National Book Award Finalist | NYT Bestseller | Agent: Sara Crowe | Faculty: USF MFAY | https://linktr.ee/erinentrada
Sarah Allen @sarahallen.bsky.social Award-winning author: WHAT STARS ARE MADE OF, BREATHING UNDERWATER, THE NIGHTMARE HOUSE, MONSTER TREE. Making silly sketches & songs & snuzzling cats. Better at Substack (sarahallen.substack.com)
Jessica Vitalis @jessicavitalis.bsky.social Award-winning author, Greenwillow/HarperCollins. American by birth, Canadian by choice. 
Beth McMullen...co-hosts Writers With Wrinkles @bethmcmullen.bsky.social ✏️ Author
📚 Book Coach
🎧 Podcaster
🐱 Cat Person
😎 Badass
https://linktr.ee/bethmcmullenbooks
Jenn Bishop @buffalojenn.bsky.social Children's book author. Bearcats 🏀 & Reds ⚾ fan
Coming in 2028: LARK GROWS A CAT 🐈 (Chronicle Books)
& OUT OF BOUNDS 🏐 (Chronicle Books)
She/her. Rep: Katie Grimm @ Curtis Brown.
www.jennbishop.com
Kekla Magoon @keklamagoon.bsky.social Writes books, bakes cupcakes, makes pottery, entertains two orange cats. Award-winning author, keynote speaker, unconventional educator. Passionate about literacy, community, diversity, conversation, and social justice. She/Her.
Chrystal D. Giles @chrystaldgiles.bsky.social Author of books for young readers.
📚 Take Back the Block
📚 Not an Easy Win
📚 Listen to the Girls (May 2026)
📚 We Are Joy (June 2026)
chrystaldgiles.com/links
Alyssa Colman @alyssacolman.bsky.social Author WHERE ONLY STORMS GROW (8/2025), THE GILDED GIRL, and THE TARNISHED GARDEN from FSG Books for Young Readers. 📚 #mgauthorcade
Sam Subity @subity.bsky.social Dad, MG author, dragon rider | THE LAST SHADOW WARRIOR ~ Percy Jackson meets Beowulf | VALOR WINGS ~ Dunkirk with dragons (2024) - both from @Scholastic | Find me at subity.com
Megan E. Freeman @meganefreeman.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Poet. Wildflower enthusiast. Novels ALONE and AWAY available from Simon & Schuster. Rep’d by East West Literary. I love connecting with readers and educators for school author visits. linktr.ee/meganefreeman
Laurie Morrison @lauriemorrison.bsky.social Reader, middle school ELA teacher, & upper middle grade author of WHERE ELLA WENT ⚽️, KEEPING PACE 🏃♀️, UP FOR AIR🏊♀️, COMING UP SHORT 🥎, and more. She/her
LaurieMorrisonWrites.com
Anne Ursu @anneursu.bsky.social I write books, herd cats, and mostly stay under the bed. Latest release: Not Quite a Ghost. Minneapolis, always.
anneursu@mac.com
kidlitchat @kidlitchat.bsky.social #kidlitchat happens every Tuesday night at 9E/6P, co-hosted by @bonnieadamson.com and @gregpincus.bsky.social. The topic is posted here as each chat begins, as well as any important chat news.
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Grace Lin @authorgracelin.bsky.social Newbery & Caldecott Honor & Legacy Award & NBA Finalist • contact Hachette Speakers Bureau for appearance requests • https://linktr.ee/authorgracelin
Lisa Yee . . . is confused about social media @lisayee.bsky.social New York Times Bestseller, Newbery Honoree, National Book Award Finalist, Procrastinator Extraordinaire, #KidLit Author
Cybils Awards @cybilsawards.bsky.social Celebrating books for children and teens since 2006.
https://linktr.ee/CybilsAwards
Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social literary agent with a lot of opinions 👀 also a podcast 👀 also my puppy looks like baby chewbacca! www.jenniferlaughran.com / www.andreabrownlit.com
Writers With Wrinkles Podcast @bethandlisapod.bsky.social Authors Beth McMullen and Lisa Schmid iron out the wrinkles in writing, publishing, and everything in between . . . One podcast at a time. https://linktr.ee/writerswithwrinkles
Jen @popgoesthereader.bsky.social Young adult and middle grade book blogger at Pop! Goes The Reader (popgoesthereader.com) since 2013. Get access to exclusive posts and rewards on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/c/popgoesthereader). She/Her. 🇨🇦
Chris Baron @baronchrisbaron.bsky.social MG author of ALL OF ME & THE MAGICAL IMPERFECT-THE GRAY 23 & more in 24 @FeiwelFriends, English Prof, Poet, ig: christhebearbaron
Twitter @baronchrisbaron
Travis Jonker @100scopenotes.bsky.social School Librarian. Author of BLUE FLOATS AWAY, THE VERY LAST CASTLE, THE SHIP IN THE WINDOW, CABOOSE | Author/illustrator of JUST ONE FLAKE and JUST ONE WAVE (2025)
Karen Jensen, MLS @tltkaren.bsky.social Blog TeenLibrarianToolbox.com
Librarian: Teen/YA/Youth
Swiftie (of the senior variety)
Against Book Banning
Wife, Mom, No Domestic Skills or Ambitions
Did I mention Librarian?
Rajani LaRocca @rajanilarocca.bsky.social 2022 Newbery Honoree, Walter Award, Golden Kite winner. Doctor, author of MG & PB, fiction & nonfiction, prose & poetry. Pro-democracy, pro-reproductive freedom, anti-book bans.
Rep: Brent Taylor
www.RajaniLaRocca.com
MissNikkiIn5th @missnikkiin5th.bsky.social M.S.Ed. - Rdg Specialist; Gr 5 ELA; New Jersey Literacy Association Past President; ILA; Literacy Advocate; Writer. Views are my own.
John Schu @mrschureads.bsky.social Librarian. NYT Bestselling Author. | LOUDER THAN HUNGER, RUTHIE ROSE’S BIG IDEA, THE GIFT OF STORY, THIS IS A SCHOOL, THIS IS A STORY | Agent: Molly O'Neill
Colby Sharp @colbysharp.bsky.social ⭐️driven by gratitude⭐️Husband 👫 Dad 👦👧👧👦👦 Teacher 👔 Reader 📚 Runner 🏃 Writer ✏️ Nerd 🤓 VOTE! #NerdyBookClub | views expressed are mine
Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social Kidlit author! STIFLED (9/1/2026!), MUFFLED, MY MIXED-UP BERRY BLUE SUMMER. Teacher, editor, word lover. Earth fan. Tree hugger. Water baby. www.jengennari.com
Katherine Applegate @kaaauthor.bsky.social I write books, like the "ONE & ONLY" series, WISHTREE, ODDER, DOGTOWN, and POCKET BEAR.
My new novel, WOMBAT WAITING, is out now!
I post with some help from Two Cats Comm.
Barbara O'Connor @barbaraoconnor.bsky.social Children's writer, books including How to Steal a Dog and the NYT bestseller WISH
www.barbaraoconnor.com
Janae Marks @janaemarksbooks.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of middle grade books. Latest release: A SPLIT SECOND.✨💜 janaemarks.com
Aimee lucido @aimeelucido.bsky.social I’m an author and crossword puzzle maker! 
nicole d. collier (harp) @essentialcoco.bsky.social ✨ developmental editor & book coach | novelist for young readers | professional daydreamer ✨
www.nicoledcollier.com
www.cocostudio.com
Ryan James Black @ryanjamesblack.bsky.social Writer from Manitoba, Canada. 🇨🇦THE DARK TIMES OF NIMBLE NOTTINGHAM, coming August 26,2025 from Penguin/Nancy Paulsen Books.
Rep: Pete Knapp, ParkFine&Brower
https://linktr.ee/ryanjamesblack
https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/?text=The+dark+times+of+nimble
Laura Ruby @thatlauraruby.bsky.social Novelist, poet, teacher, unrepentant cat-lover, cancer patient, two-time National Book Award Finalist. Bone Gap, Thirteen Doorways, etc. Made of bees. @thatlauraruby on most socials. www.lauraruby.com
Mary Averling @maryaverling.bsky.social Author of Bram Stoker Award finalist THE CURSE OF EELGRASS BOG and THE GHOSTS OF BITTERFLY BAY with Penguin Young Readers. Next: THE BURN BEAST (Putnam, Fall 2026)
Rep'd by Kelly Sonnack at ABLA
Melanie Conklin @melanieconklin.bsky.social Creative Living ✨
Writing coach @thenovelry
Author • Designer • HOH
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Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social Writer of Southern Gothic for kids & adults. ROOT MAGIC | CONJURE ISLAND | THE CREEPENING OF DOGWOOD HOUSE | HOLLOW TONGUE | PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE
she/her
edenroyce.com