Julia McCarthy @thejumbles.bsky.social Senior Editor at S&S Atheneum by day, purveyor of dad jokes by night, eternal sea hag. My tweets are my own. she/her 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Avatar by the wonderful Tanya J. Scott
http://bit.ly/juliambooks
Caitlin Tutterow @caitlintutterow.bsky.social Editor at Nancy Paulsen Books 🐧 Southern transplant 🍵 Matcha enthusiast
Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social Children's book editor, knitter, baker, erstwhile ballerina. Wrangler of two no longer small children. (she/her)
Alex Borbolla @alexborbolla.bsky.social Senior Editor at Bloomsbury | My dog’s biggest fan | 🇨🇺🇺🇸 | she/her
www.editoralexborbolla.com
Gretchen Durning @gretchendurning.bsky.social Editor at Putnam / Penguin Young Readers
Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of Labyrinth Road imprint at Random House Children’s Books. Publishing books that help kids escape where they are while feeling seen for who they are. Obsessed with Batman and gluten-free muffins.
Rachel Stark @syntactics.bsky.social Editor at Disney-Hyperion▫️ House Stark; more of an Arya than a Tony ▫️ Opinions my own; pic @JarrettWilliams's ▫️ they/them
https://rachelstark7.wixsite.com/home/books-i-ve-edited
Feather Flores ❄️☕️ @featherfully.bsky.social editor & maker of good trouble • california coastal creature • still workin’ on it 🌱🌈✨
https://featherflores.com/
she/her • kitty art by Carrie Liao 🐾
🩷💜💙
Wendy Wong @wendyplacething.bsky.social She/her. Editor at Ballantine (@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social). Food + books + insomnia = my life in a nutshell.
vanessa aguirre @vnssaguirre.bsky.social Editor @ St. Martin's Press. I like things that are scary and I like things that are cozy. 🇲🇽🇨🇴
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-young-writers-the-zoe-sarah-kaplan-memorial-award
Nicole Fiorica @nicolefios.bsky.social Editor at S&S/McElderry Books
nicolefiorica.wordpress.com
🖤🩶🤍💜
Erika DiPasquale | KidLit Editor @erika-dipasquale.bsky.social Editor at HarperCollins Children’s Books
Opinions my own
She/Her
https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/erika-dipasquale/
Kate DePalma @katedepalma.bsky.social 🌈 Creative Development Director at Barefoot Books 👣
📍Arby's on McKnight Road
BookEnds Literary Agency @bookendsliterary.bsky.social We believe that books can change the world, and it all starts with our authors and illustrators.
www.bookendsliterary.com
Cassidy M. Graham @cassidygraham.bsky.social Books stan account 💜
Editor @penguinbooksusa 🐧
Kate Prosswimmer @kateprosswimmer.bsky.social ✏️ Executive Editor at Simon & Schuster for:
Margaret K. McElderry Books (kids)
Scarlett Press (new adult)
Dominique Raccah @draccah.bsky.social Founder + CEO of Bestselling Indie Book Publisher #Sourcebooks ⭐️ Entrepreneur 🔥 Data ✅ Leading Innovation 💥 Championing Banned Books + New Voices 🧨 Read a Lot 📚 Opinions Mine 💯 Books Change Lives
(she/her)
Samantha M Clark @samanthamclark.com Author of books for kids and young at heart. Repped by Rachel Orr, Prospect Literary. Samanthamclark.com | Samanthamclark.substack.com | Bsky.app/profile/samanthamclark.com
Cianna Sanford @cdjoyedits.bsky.social Editorial Assistant at Scholastic || Proud cat mom || Lifelong dedicated nerd 🖖🏻 || “Critique that which you love”
she/her
Joanna Ho @joannahowrites.bsky.social NYT Bestselling author • Intl speaker • Educator. Eyes that Kiss in the Corners. We Who Produce Pearls. The Silence that Binds Us.
Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social Storyboard Artist (MLP:FIM, Ada Twist, Camp Snoopy) & Children’s Book Illustrator. SPACE CASE: The Graphic Novel by Stuart Gibbs out now!
[he/him] Absolutely NO AI.
wardjenkins.com
I share things, too: #wardsmorguefile
Kristie Choi @kristiechoi.bsky.social Editor @ Atheneum (S&S) | 🌈 bi/pan genderfluid (she/they); pro-transgender; neurospicy; 최민지, Korean-Am; plant witch meets punky morbid grandma/cat daddy; opinions my own.
KristieChoi.com
Sarah Creech @sarah-creech.bsky.social Art Director and designer of books for kids/teens. I love reading, drawing, lettering, music, and puppy-babies Roux and Jamba.
Carina Taylor 🌻 @shecallsmecdawg.bsky.social ✨ Designing comics professionally ✨
Art Director @ Inklore | Prev: Scholastic Graphix, Silver Sprocket, Skybound
not taking this too seriously ✨ she/her/they 🇵🇭
carinadraws.com
Luisa Uribe @lupencita.bsky.social Colombian illustrator, eater of sweets. She/her.
PATCHWORK MEMORIES -written by Monica Rojas- out Sept. 1!
www.luisauribe.com
Meridth McKean Gimbel @hellomeridth.bsky.social 🌟Award winning writer & artist
🗣️they/them/elle
🧳Rep: Allie Levick at Writers House
📕GETTING TO KNOW YOUR TRANSCESTORS 2028 🏳️⚧️
🕸️ https://www.meridthsayshello.com/links
🧦 Here to steal your left sock
Josh Lewis @joshjlewis.bsky.social Author • Illustrator • Art Director
#kidlit #kidlitart
Author of Ray’s Big Day (Scholastic, 2024)
Illustrator for LEGO Little Golden Books
Agent: Natascha Morris @socalledyalife.bsky.social, the Tobias Literary Agency.
joshjlewis.com
Bee Kind Little Free Library @beekindlfl.com Charter #173454 | Bee a reader and stop by the Bee Kind Little Free Library in Wickliffe, OH! 🐝
www.beekindlfl.com
Chelsey Bahe @chelseybahe.bsky.social Nanny. Auntie. Nature artist. PB writer. Outdoor play advocate. 12x12. SCBWI.
@lynnparrishsutton.bsky.social @lynnparrishsutton.bsky.social PB Writer, watercolors, nature poetry and photos
lynnparrishsutton.com
Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social she/her. National bestselling author in WI
🎪FORTS, Viking
🛰️CASSINI'S MISSION, MIT Kids Press
🛰️VOYAGER TWINS FOREVER! ('28)
https://linktr.ee/KatieVenit
Scott Rothman @scottrothmanwriter.bsky.social Writer of Underwear Dragon kid's books (Random House), the football movie DRAFT DAY and other stuff. My newest books are KITTYBUNKPORT (Viking) and WARM AND FUZZY (Tundra).
www.scottrothmanwriter.com
Brian Frederick @brianfredauthor.bsky.social Haigh a chairde! Siggy the Sausage Dog series coming soon @tinytreebooks.bsky.social
Dreamer and Seeker of Kindness.
#siggythesausagedog
PEACE✌️☮️ #mufc #Gaeilge #kidlit #ADHD #GráMór
Live Bristol, from Belfast. Sláinte💜 www.brianfrederickauthor.com
Terri Clemmons @terriclemmons.bsky.social #kidlit author of MARA HEARS IN STYLE (Beaming Books; Illust. Lucy Rogers), PB & MG Writer, Educator, HOH, Baker of Cookies & Cakes
Repped by Tracy Marchini at Tracy Marchini Literary
Valeria Diaz ☀️🌷 @valeriadiazart.bsky.social 🇻🇪 Author-illustrator & Surface Designer
🖍️ Seeking Representation
💌 hello@valeriadiaz.com
🍊Based in Florida
https://valeriadiaz.com
annie 🌈🍦💐🩵🧚🏽♀️✨️ @tlahuia.bsky.social I AM LIKE A CATHEDRAL W MANY BEAUTIFUL STAIN-GLASSED WINDOWS I CANNOT BE SUMMED UP IN A MERE BIO💃🏽
unhinged yet soft ! indigenous mexican-american. decolonizing writer. auDHD. kpop & k/cdrama enjoyer. fun tía. 🏳️🌈 she/her, 31 <3
(pfp via meyoco)
Jessica Myer Illustration & Fine Art @jessica-myer.bsky.social I’m an illustrator and fine artist living in Southern Maine. I love children’s book illustration, plein air landscape, artist activism, and community building.
#kidlitart #illustration #fineart #studioartist
Ziggy Zou @ziggy-zou.bsky.social Writer of children's picture books. Creator of zombies and mermaids and dreamer-upper of adventures.
Real name, Rachael. Mum of 2 nearly grown-up boys.
https://mybook.to/magicmermaidtail
ziggyzoubooks.co.uk
Carol Reyna 👑🌵🧿 @carolcrayola.bsky.social ❊ Stargazing, Tree-huggin' Rock Hound ❊ Gen X, Indigenous, Chicana ❊ 80's Horror lover ❊ Banned Book reader ❊ Artistic Multi-Crafter ❊ Old Soul Empath with a Rainbow Aura ❊
Nicole Castrovinci @nicolecastrovinci.bsky.social #PB writer, book eater, coffee drinker. Out now-THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT (Clavis). Out Oct 2026-SNOWBALLED (Familius)-Now Available For Pre-Order! #scbwi #kidlitsky www.nicolecastrovinci.com
Page Getz @vertigoradio.bsky.social Author. A TOWN WITH HALF THE LIGHTS ON. April 2025 on Sourcebooks. Repped by Jenissa Graham at BookEnds Literary.🧚🏻Haunted by the friendliest ghosts. 🇵🇸✡️🏳️🌈☮️🩵
@natoodly.bsky.social @natoodly.bsky.social 
doodlebynoodle @doodlebynoodle.bsky.social natasha’s my name and doodlin’s my game ✏️✨
she/her | Former PA on Max & the Midknights⚔️ @ Nickelodeon | 🇭🇰🇺🇸 | 🚫DO NOT REPOST MY WORK
Sumi Chowdhury @artbybluebellsumi.bsky.social Illustrator from India
🚫AI/NFT
SCBWI New York: West/Central Upstate @scbwiwestcentny.bsky.social Dedicated to developing experiences where SCBWI members can grow in their craft, expand their network, and build their writing and illustration goals.
Amy Houts @amyhouts.bsky.social Award-winning author of 100+ books
Repped by Stephanie Cardel @LighthouseLiterary
1st place Missouri Writers’ Guild Picture Book Award
God’s Earth is Something to Fight For @BushelandPeckBooks
Linktr.ee/amyhouts
Tanya Konerman, Kidlit Author 📚 @tanyakonerman.bsky.social PB/MG; Nature/Verse/Prose
Agent: Mona Kanin
'28 OTIS: THE KING OF KATMAI 🐻🌊👑
‘25 MUD TO THE RESCUE! 🐘🦩🦫 🐢
‘24 HAUNTED STATES OF AMERICA 👻
SCBWI; WFH | hiker 🥾 | veggie 🌽|
bird&bear lover 🐤🐻 | nature 📷 | 💙
www.tanyakonerman.com
Janee Trasler @janeetrasler.bsky.social Children’s book author/illustrator HarperCollins, Scholastic, S&S, FSG, Holiday House
2020 National Cartoonist Society Award Best in Book Illustration
Represented by Jamie Weiss Chilton
Andrea Brown Literary Agency
Jody Jensen Shaffer @jodywrites4kids.bsky.social Children's Author. Knopf BFYR, Nancy Paulsen Books, Doubleday, Penguin Workshop, Simon Spotlight, Beach Lane, Laura Godwin Books, Two Lions, Beaming Books, Magination Press
Proudly represented by @casahasegawa of @the_t2_agency!
Sarah Doan ˙ ᵕ ˙ @lilacdoodz.bsky.social Children's book author illustrator ✐ Rep'd 𝑏ყ James McGowan ᴀᴛ BookEnds Literary #kidlit
˗ˏˋ sarahtdoan.com ˎˊ˗
indiebookspotlight.com - Discover Indie Books @indiebookspotlight.com Shining a light on indie authors.
List your book for just $8.99 – one-time fee, one year of exposure!
Readers discover. Authors grow.
🔗 indiebookspotlight.com 
Drago 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈✊🏽🇵🇸🍉 @dragomedia.bsky.social Unceded Ramaytush Ohlone
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Marlo Garnsworthy @icebird.bsky.social 🇦🇺🇺🇸Author/illustrator/editor/science communication #OceanDevotion
Antarctica-obsessed, kayak-paddling bird nerd
Ocean Devotion on YouTube:
youtube.com/@HashtagOceanDevotion
LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/icebirdstudio
Brooke Baum @brookebaum.bsky.social 🌟 2025 #PBRisingStars Mentee
🎨 #kidlit author-illustrator
📚 Former children's bookseller and school librarian
😴 Current tired mom
🤓 Self-taught and still self-teaching
Represented by Marissa Brown at Pippin Properties
brookebaum.com
David McMullin @davidmcmullin.bsky.social Kidlit Author, FREE TO BE FABULOUS, ROCK 'N' ROLL BABY
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
Oak Tree Comics @oaktreecomics.bsky.social An independent children’s book publisher 📚
Where imagination meets environmentalism🌍
Based out of Los Angeles ☀️
Founded by author Josh Oaktree 🌳
www.oaktreecomics.com/link-tree
Christian Angeles @xnangeles.bsky.social Writer guy. Traveling Bookstore/Substack: Monomythic. Editor-in-chief: The DeMonster. Assistant: Lifeline Comics | Past @ The Beat, IGN, TheGamer, CultureSlate, HeyPoorPlayer| Comic: “Dead on The Inside”, "Beautiful"
https://linktr.ee/xn_angeles
Fantasy Author | Taylor Lust @authortaylorlust.bsky.social The Cave of Swords || Summer 2025
⚔️🌲✨🌿⛰️🐉
Give me a romantasy & caramel in my coffee and I’ll be as happy as a witch on a wyvern!
https://linktr.ee/itbeganwiththestars
Brandi Ziegler @brandizwriter.bsky.social I write YA & MG fiction, mostly #blackgirlmagic
Child of God. Lover of all things bookish.
@brandizwriter on Insta!
Rep: Sandra Proudman @ GZLA
brandimziegler.wordpress.com
Judy Campbell-Smith @judycampbellsmith.bsky.social She/her. PB author & Admin at Made for PAX. Baseball for Breakfast, Ice Cream Everywhere & AJ's Neighborhood. #SCBWI #BackMatterBreakDown #amquerying Opinions my own.
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
Tasha Hilderman | Writer @tashahilderman.bsky.social Reader, Writer, #KidLit, 12x12,
📕METIS LIKE ME Tundra Books
📗LIGHTS AT NIGHT Tundra
📙MINI GOLF FUN Random House 2026
📘Candlewick 2027 TBA
📕Kids Can Press 2027 TBA
Rep’d by Rachel Orr at Prospect Agency
Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social Indie Developer/Director @ Polygon Treehouse (Mythwrecked & Röki) • BAFTA Breakthrough 2021 • BAFTA Games & The Game Awards nominee • 2 x BAFTA Juror • Industry speaker & mentor • He/him
Dundee (Scotland)
https://www.polygon-treehouse.com/
Senongo @senongo.bsky.social Designer and illustrator in NYC. Author of Cross-Cultural Design. VP of Design at Nava.
Doan Buu @dbuu.bsky.social Designer, Dude, Cleveland Sports Fan, NYC resident.
Michael Bierut @michaelbierut.bsky.social Graphic designer, teacher, writer, since forever
Evui @ GenCon AS 34 @labillustration.bsky.social Art Director on MTG, Illustrator, and Fairy trying her best. Co-host of the Painted in Color podcast. Etsy: http://labillustration.etsy.com . NO A/I. Views are my own.
Damien Correll @damiencorrell.bsky.social Creative Director at Figma. Former baby.
Wolfgang Bremer @wolfgang.bremer.co 🇩🇪🇨🇦 Product Experience Leader · Advisor & Speaker · Former VP VW Group · Ex Nokia, SAP · Fortune 500s & Startups
📧 Collaborate? 👉 collabs@bremer.co
👉 bremer.co · linkedin.com/in/wolfgangbremer
Jim Hoover @jimhoover017.bsky.social I am a children’s book art director, and that’s it. That is my entire vibe.
Oh, and pop culture stuff.
Right right right—I’m also drawn to politics like a mosquito to a bug zapper.
Mark Boulton @markboulton.co.uk Head of product design @checkout.com. Typographer. Cyclist. Likes tea.
Len Small @lenpsmall.bsky.social AD at Columbia Magazine. Opinions are my own. he/him
Matthew Carlson @dreamjar.bsky.social Director of Product Design at Adobe. Sketchbook junkie and stealer of pens. Late night game designer of the tabletop rpg, WanderSquares.com! He/Him - 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Ally - #BLM
Andrei Robu @andreirobu.com Type designer, fonts, etc — founder of typeverything.com & artist andreirobu.com
Marta Bernstein @martabernstein.bsky.social Milanese designer gone PNW. Creative director, type & typography educator. Researcher at Nebiolo History Project. Wayfinding, EGD, exhibit design. Politics. Cats. ENG/ITA
John Martz @johnmartz.bsky.social Illustration, comics, fonts, book design, crosswords. Art Director at Large, Tundra Books. https://johnmartz.com/
Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social Panda (they/them). Creator of Worldbreakers: Advent of the Khanate and Flocking Hell, a deeply strategic roguelite.
Flocking Hell demo + available now on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3236280/Flocking_Hell/
🐏😈
Becka Moor @beckamoor.bsky.social Book doodler | Snr Designer
Agent: Hannah Whitty | The Plum Agency
www.beckamoor.com
Yvonne Lam @yvonnelam.bsky.social About 📚, 📚+🎨, 🧣 & 🏀
book designer + art direction @ Scholastic Canada
Instagram @yvonnelamdesign
NoblemanNick @noblemannick.bsky.social • He/Him
• Cuban/Chinese Pride
• Creator of ELDRITCH AUTOMATA
• VFX Compositor | TTRPG Designer | Award Nominated Producer.
Lindsey Chastain @lindseychastain.bsky.social Creative Director at Powerhouse Animation
and otherwise semi-functional human being // Never skip the titles // Opinions are my own.
Jason Treat @jasontreat.bsky.social Senior graphics editor at NatGeo. Before that AD at The Atlantic. Work: https://www.jasontreat.com/ A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment. -Zappa
Lesley Worrell @lesleyaworrell.bsky.social artist, day dreamer, associate art director with Tor Publishing Group. mostly likes and reposts. opinions my own. lesleyworrell.com 🇻🇨🇹🇹💙🌊
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
Heather Dean Brewer @hdeanbrewer.bsky.social Author, Art Director at Eerdmans, Illustrator, & Michigander
LOVE IS POWERFUL
ONWARD: 16 Climate Fiction Stories
MEET ME IN YOUR HEART, 2026
heatherdeanbrewer.com
instagram.com/hdeanbrewer/
bracketpublishing.com
Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social - Design Systems / Type Design
- Cyclist / Mountain Biker
- Aspiring Generative Artist
www.winstonstruye.com
Sam Read-Graves 🌿🎮 @readgraves.com “Developer, lecturer, and potential entry-level sociopath.” - Forbes
18+ years Indie Dev. He/Him. Folklore Guy.
Writing Horror and making Games.
Task Time | Trolley Problem, Inc | Gang Beasts | Mainlining | Dream
ReadGraves.com
Mcdoogleh - ROGUE ECLIPSE OFFICIALLY OUT NOW!!! @mcdoogleh.bsky.social Game Developer/Electromagician/Cat Master 😹
Epic Megagrant 2022 Recipient
BAFTAConnect 22/23/24
IGDA Foundation Next-Gen Leader 2022
Currently working on Rogue Eclipse!
Wishlist Here!
https://bit.ly/4bRLumD
Views expressed here are my own 👍
PK @pklawton.bsky.social Rock and Roll Sociologist
Michelle Kondrich @michellekondrich.bsky.social Freelance Illustrator
Designer @ The Washington Post
michellekondrich.com
Will Steele @willsteeledesign.bsky.social N. Irish - Book designer (London) - Children's Fiction - Usborne. Insta - willsteeledesign
Keen runner and occasional photographer.
www.willsteele.co.uk
Suzanne Helmigh | Art Director @suzannehelmigh.bsky.social AD for Legends of Avantris + freelance illustrator in TTRPG
🚫No AI&NFT🚫
🎨Art director, illustrator, concept artist
📩Work inquiries: http://helmigh.art (@) http://gmail.com
🇳🇱 Dutch
⚔️Wields swords
Bi 🏳️🌈, ❤️Wife of @TitusLunter
https://helmighs.carrd.co/
Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com Animation, art & design
Québécois based in London, UK
Co-founder of Eastend Western
RCA MA 2014
eastendwestern.com
nicolasmenard.com
Priya @gingerpk.bsky.social Illustrator/Vis Dev Artist 🌸 she/her 💛 insta: @ gingerpk 💛 PORTFOLIO: www.priyakakati.com | CLASS: https://bit.ly/ColosoxPriyaKakati
Gail Albright @gailzarts.bsky.social 3D artist guy ✨🧍🏼