Cory Godbey @corygodbey.bsky.social Illustrator of the fantastic. △
NO AI ❌ HUMAN HANDS FOREVER
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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
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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
Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social Fantasy writer, history geek, dark chocolate addict! Writes sparkling fantasy rom-coms for adults and fun MG fantasy adventures. She/her.
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wolf @arboret.bsky.social illustrator & pixel artist ✷ they/them
✷ https://arboret.carrd.co/
✷ https://patreon.com/arboret
✨Toph’s Wanted Poster✨ @itsniamya.bsky.social Here to ramble into the abyss about my current obsessions and be cute 🥰
Book Girlie 📚•🧚🏽• Ms. Keep Her Nails Done 💅🏽• Grown
Simon & Schuster Ed/Library @ssedlib.bsky.social The official Blue Sky profile of Simon & Schuster Education and Library Team, offering great book suggestions/resources for educators & librarians, pre-K through College.
www.simonandschuster.net
Toshi(ki) Nakamura | 中村俊貴 @artoftoshi.bsky.social *Available for work*
Character Designer/Kidlit llustrator🏃
Clients: WAG, Netflix, DWTV, HarperCollins, 小学館 etc | TIS会員
Rep’d by Hannah Mann at Writers House
📎 artoftoshi.com/illustration
🎥 https://youtube.com/@toshiatelier
bio.site/artoftoshi
Anum Shafqat @anum-s.bsky.social Assistant Editor at S&S Children's, wildly unoriginal (desi, runs on chai, talks too much), avatar by the lovely Samairu ☀️
Alex Kelleher-Nagorski @alexkelnag.bsky.social 📍The Berkshires, MA
📚Publicity Director @simonteen / @simonkids
🎭 Theater Editor @popbytes
leon @leyawn.bsky.social i'm leon
Alexandra Weiss @akaweiss.bsky.social Literary Agent @ Azantian Lit
Probably baking or reading next to my cat
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Hannah Chung @hannahchung.com Writing and illustrating children's books!
✎ THE MOST PERFECT PERSIMMON
✎ BREAD DAYS
Rep: Rebecca Sherman at Writers House
hannahchung.com/books
GreenburgerKids @greenburgerkids.bsky.social Children’s department at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates with over 90 years of experience bringing lasting stories to all young readers 🌟
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Abigail Frank @abigailcrfrank.bsky.social literary agent @ www.greenburger.com
she/her
Sheyla Knigge @sknigge.bsky.social Literary Agent
Writer
Chaos Coordinator
Heather Kassner @heatherkassner.bsky.social 🖤 Author / SPELLWRIGHT (Atheneum/S&S 2026) / Rep: Victoria Marini & Sheyla Knigge
KidLit Collective @kidlitcollective.bsky.social We are KidLit Collective, a collection of creative kidlit authors and illustrators supporting each other since our 2020 debuts and beyond. Art by @nielanderamy
Rebecca @rebeccaw04.bsky.social Assistant Agent at Sheldon Fogelman Agency 📚| writer 🖊| CPC & Geneseo alumna 💞 | all thoughts and opinions my own 💅
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Angel Luis Colón @angelluiscolon.com he/him | Award Winning 🇵🇷 Writer of🪳INFESTED🪳, MINECRAFT: HOUSE OF HORRORS, and the upcoming POP! | Rep'd by JM Darga at Aevitas Creative | https://angelluiscolon.com/
Yusra @yusrarts.bsky.social Hello! Im a background and vis dev artist in animation, and I illustrate too! Prev: A24, Disney TVA, Nick, Titmouse & more.
Indian based in LA. Available for work.
Portfolio: yusrashahid.com // Email: yusra.arts@gmail.com // Print shop: yusraland.etsy.com
Britt Siess @agentbrittsiess.bsky.social Founder of Britt Siess Creative Management/ Literary Agent/ Graphic Novels/ Cosplay/ Cake/ 🇲🇽🇩🇪/ Banner Art by @lazyfishy
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.
Peter V Brett @pvbrett.bsky.social Internationally bestselling author of the Demon Cycle series. Over 4 million books sold in 28 languages worldwide. I live in Brooklyn.
✶ karyn lee ✶ @karynslee.bsky.social ☼ senior designer at Simon & Schuster
☾ illustrator
rep: Chad Beckerman @ The CAT Agency
⌂ nyc
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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
Renee Kurilla @reneekurilla.bsky.social Boston area mom, illustrator & author | Books for preK-elementary | #1 NYT Bestselling Illustrator of JUST BECAUSE ☀️
Abigail Rajunov ✨ @abigailrajunov.bsky.social Book author/illustrator from Dallas, TX
Silly bird doodler and weenie dog enthusiast
Rep’d by Aliza Hoover (aliza@catagencyinc.com)
https://www.abigailrajunov.net/links
rachael lippincott @rachaellippincott.bsky.social #1 nyt bestselling author ✍🏻 next up: joy to the girls 📖 lnk.bio/YpIf
Celia Krampien @celiakrampien.bsky.social Canadian kidlit author and illustrator | Rep: Andrea Morrison @ Writers House | THE BELLWOODS GAME (2023) | REMEMBER ME, DAPHNE (Coming Summer 2026!)
www.celiakrampien.com | https://celiakrampien.substack.com/
Nullsie @nullsie.bsky.social Overenthusiastic artist- (fabric design , puzzle design, greeting cards etc. ) I love art supplies , books, dorky memes, art-journaling, music , truth telling and flowers !
Mark Frost @markfrost.bsky.social Twin Peaks architect. Incurable storyteller. Stoic optimist.
Elio @eliopictures.bsky.social ✏️ Illustrator represented by Andrea Brown Literary Agency. 📚 Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Abrams. 🍏 Associate Professor of Instruction at Columbia College Chicago. 🏡👧 Dad. 💼 www.eliopictures.com
@dentronic.bsky.social @dentronic.bsky.social 
Rebecca Caprara @rebeccacaprara.bsky.social Writer & Designer. Author of SPIN, THE RIPPLE EFFECT, WORST-CASE COLLIN, & more. www.rebeccacaprara.com
A.S. King @as-king.bsky.social Author of books. Maker of art. Speaker of speeches. Part squid/part earthquake. Literacy fanatic. Lover of corn. Ardent supporter of teenagers. Founder of 🏳️🌈 Gracie's House: www.gracieshouse.com.
She/her https://linktr.ee/AS_King
Justin (JP) Chanda @jpchanda.bsky.social Children's Trade & Salaam Reads Publisher at Simon & Schuster. Brooklyn based Sky Farmer, Bread Baker and Hater of some renown. (*posts not sanctioned by S&S)
Leila Sales @leilasalesbooks.bsky.social Leila Sales suffers for her art. Well, it's not really art. But it's something. And she suffers.
Author, editor, eater of chocolate. My newest book, THE MUSEUM OF LOST AND FOUND, is out now!
https://linktr.ee/leilasalesbooks
Cole Lanahan @colelanahan.bsky.social Literary agent @TheSeymourAgency repping bold voices & unforgettable stories. Publishing pro, nonprofit exec, advocate, speaker. Coffee & dogs fuel my day.
📬 Queries open via QueryManager 1st–7th each month only.
Christine Almeda ✏️ @eychristine.bsky.social illustrator 🇵🇭 I DANCE (Holiday House ‘25), I TUCK IN MY TRUCK (Holiday House ‘26)
📚 rep’d by Full Circle Literary
available for freelance!
https://www.christinealmeda.com/links
Alison Weiss @alioop7.bsky.social Editorial consultant at Alison Weiss Editorial. Causing all sorts of mayhem in the publishing world.
www.alisonweisseditorial.com
Ki @ no online shop this fall~ @gawki.bsky.social Pain-ter, designer, art tabler✨🌈🌱🇵🇭
Living in Minnesota. they/them •NO AI•
🎨 Portfolio: gawki.net
🎁 Shop is closed til Fall! shop.gawki.net
👋 Next: Dragon Con
🔴 Stream: www.twitch.tv/gawkiart
‘-> Tuesdays and Fridays @ 6-9 PM CST
ᕕ( ◔3◔)ᕗ @iamnotamandaplz.bsky.social 33 • collector, yapper, hype man, retired theatre kid, nuyorican, cringe af • "self-destructive behavior" is my middle name (she / her)
Svani Parekh @svaniparekh.bsky.social Writer: TV, books, gaming & audio
Words in/on: Netflix, BBC, Sesame Street, Cartoon Network, Disney, Ghee Happy (Emmy Nominee) | Oxford Children’s Books | Ubisoft
Rep: Lydia Silver at The Soho Agency, UK
svaniparekh.com
Melissa Gardner @artgardner.bsky.social illustrator/storyteller, psychotherapist, mom and maker of magic! 🏳️🌈& ND
www.melissagardnerart.com
Rep’d by @sandraproudman.bsky.social
@galltzacker.bsky.social
#kidlit #kidlitart #illustrator
zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social ceramicist in new york https://linktr.ee/yondermen
SCBWI @scbwi.bsky.social Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators
Supporting quality children’s books & the artists who make them since 1971.
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
School Librarian @tiffreads.bsky.social School librarian and mom running on iced coffee and audiobooks. 17-at-heart. She/her.
Hannah Andrade @hhandrade.bsky.social 🇲🇽🇺🇸• Literary Agent with @bradfordagents.bsky.social • book reader • tea drinker
www.bradfordlit.com
www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/hannah-andrade
Progressively Horrified @proghorrorpod.bsky.social A podcast that holds horror to progressive standards it never agreed to. New episodes every Friday! Hosted by Jeremy Whitley, Ben Kahn, and Emily Martin. > linktr.ee/progressivelyhorrified
Listener Survey: http://bit.ly/progressivelyhorrified-survey
Jane Chun @janechunlit.bsky.social Literary agent at Transatlantic Agency. Trying to think of what meme most defines me currently.
https://jane-chun.com
Alicia Whitley @aliciawhitley.bsky.social Mom, educator, Bull City baby, and PhD Candidate - with a particular interest in critical media and critical social media literacy. @jeremywhitley.bsky.social is my other half.
Jeremy Whitley @ SPX K10-A @jeremywhitley.bsky.social Eisner, Harvey, and Ringo nominated Writer. Stonewall Honoree. 3xGlyph winner.
Navigating with You, Princeless, Dog Knight, School for Extraterrestrial Girls, Wasp, MLP.
Host @proghorrorpod.bsky.social podcast!
Represented by @ericabauman.bsky.social
Sam B. Farkas @sambfarkas.bsky.social Literary agent + foreign rights at Jill Grinberg Literary Management. Serial hobbyist. Probably drinking tea or wine.
Colleen Lindsay @colleenlindsay.bsky.social Professional nerd. Queer woman. Cat herder. Sartorial tragedy. Trump hater. I wrangle books & comics for Humble Bundle.
Rebecca Sherman @rebeccagent.bsky.social Senior Literary Agent at Writers House. Good for children’s book and theater recommendations. Let’s share some joy and whimsy here, okay?
Erin McGuire @erinmcguire.bsky.social Illustrator • Author • Teacher • Art Director
The Spy in the Museum -> Available for preorder!
http://erinmcguire.com
Clients- Disney, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Scholastic, Chronicle Books, Penguin Random House
Agent- Lindsay Auld, Writers House- G @gingerclark.bsky.social @gingerclark.bsky.social
Belcastro Agency @belcastroagency.bsky.social Belcastro Agency is a full-service literary agency. We are passionate about helping authors realize their dream of being published.
Luciana Illustration @lucianaillustra.bsky.social Illustrator from Brazil, creating #kidlit in the PNW. rep by EastWest Lit Agency. "A Speedy Little Cheetah on the Big Blue Earth" Amicus Ink /"Squirrel's Big Picture" Beaming Books Spring 2026
Saundra Mitchell @saundramitchell.com Author and Editor. Repped by Jim McCarthy @Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. Queer AF🌈 she/they. www.saundramitchell.com 
Danielle Paige @daniellepaige.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Writer of Books, Comics and Television. Known for #dorothymustdie. #dccomics #archiecomics #guidinglight #stealingsnow #theravens. my latest is #wishofthewicked. And just lucky to be on staff @ CBS' brand new soap #beyondthegates
Marc Tyler Nobleman @marctnobleman.bsky.social author • speaker • "Batman & Bill" character • pop culture archaeologist
marctylernobleman.com
Julie Rosenberg @juliearosenberg.bsky.social word person . former book editor . probably watching gymnastics . opinions are my own
Kimberlee Gard @kimberleegard.bsky.social Collector and connector of words.
Award-winning children’s author.
Hobby farmer, tea lover, bibliophile 🩵
Dyslexia and ADHD are my super powers.
Rep’d by Sheila Fernley at Storm Literary Agency
https://kimberleegard.com/
The Mixed-Up Files @themixed-upfiles.bsky.social A group blog of middle-grade authors celebrating books for middle-grade readers. For anyone with a passion for children’s literature. Join us! https://fromthemixedupfiles.com/
Jeremy West @jeremyswest.bsky.social licensed publishing manager at Marvel.
my big three are theater, books, and travel.
Shannon Kelly @shannon-kelly.bsky.social Executive editor at Running Press/Hachette. Outfit repeater. Bigger than a breadbox.
hachettebookgroup.com/landing-page/rp-editorial-team/
Caroline Palmer @1010lilfoot.bsky.social My debut GN: “Camp Prodigy”
Fall 2027: “There’s a Monster in Nocturne Grove”
(they/them) ∞ || I draw comics and occasionally storyboard/animate! || Webcomics: “Talent de Lune” and “just TERRIBLE” || Repped by Bailey Tamayo
https://1010lilfoot.carrd.co/
Claire Draper 🏳️⚧️♿ @draper-claire.bsky.social Founder & Agent @auliterarymgmt.bsky.social
Check out my #MSWL and buy my books through our website
they/them | 30+ | ♿️
🇵🇸 from the river to the sea
https://auliterarymanagement.com
T.L. Simpson @tlsimpson.bsky.social Printz Honor Book author of COPE FIELD. Also STRONG LIKE YOU and ACCELERANT (forthcoming). Rep'd by Shari Maurer.
www.tlsimpson.net
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
ezra kupor @ezrakupor.bsky.social associate editor @harperbooks + @harperperennial • not here but views still very much my own • he/him 🫠
ezrakupor.com 🙂↕️
https://galleybrag.substack.com 🙂↔️
Nosy Crow Inc. @nosycrowus.bsky.social ⭐️ Official US and Canada Account for Nosy Crow ⭐️
Award-winning children's books publisher
www.nosycrow.us
Evan Williams Sonoma @hellmouf.bsky.social I'm the type of person who can handle the boiler room. | she/her
Victoria Marini @litagentmarini.bsky.social Literary Agent at high line literary
Www.highlineliterary.com
Running the fiction dept
Not tall, just loud.
#MSWL big plots, bold characters
Laura Crockett @lecrockett.bsky.social VP & Executive Literary Agent, Foreign Rights Manager at Triada US Literary Agency | Musician | Traveler | Cook-In-Progress | Cat Mom | she/her
scribblesandwanderlust.com
Tanya J Scott @tanyajscott.bsky.social Director, Creator, Illustrator and Writer. Drawn to the weird and whimsical. Author/illustrator of GNs Wizkit , co-creator of The Underglow, BAA winner. Cats, Medieval Manuscripts and bread.
www.tanyajscott.com
Jess Burkhart @jessicaburkhart.bsky.social Author of 30 books. Game writer at Crazy Maple Studio. Prev: Choices at Pixelberry. Working on screenplays. 📚 SADDLEHILL ACADEMY, CANTERWOOD CREST & more. Rep: Josh Getzler. She/her. 🏳️🌈
http://www.Linktree.com/jessicaburkhart
rebecca kuss @rebeccakuss.bsky.social senior romance editor at bloom books/sourcebooks
Nicole Fiorica @nicolefios.bsky.social Editor at S&S/McElderry Books
nicolefiorica.wordpress.com
🖤🩶🤍💜
Penny Moore @pennymoore.bsky.social Senior Agent at Aevitas Creative Management. Korean American 🇰🇷🇺🇸 Cat Mom 😻 Opinions are my own.
bald ann dowd @baldanndowd.bsky.social what's up sickos and freaks
Lisa Amstutz @ljamstutz.bsky.social Author, ecologist, agent @StormLiterary
. http://linktr.ee/LJAmstutz
Raina Telgemeier @goraina.bsky.social Cartoonist & tea enthusiast 
Angie Wang @okchickadee.bsky.social I draw, teach at USC, and run Comic Arts LA. I won a James Beard Award and a National Magazine Award, and was a Pulitzer finalist. “Is My Toddler A Stochastic Parrot?” in the New Yorker.
FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee
GRAMMYS Lifetime Achievement Award
Questions or complaints,,, harass my management:
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Julia Shea @jsheaart.bsky.social 🌞 designer @ little simon & simon spotlight
🌙 illustrator, list-maker, friend to all dogs
https://linktr.ee/jshea_art
Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social they/them 🍒illustrator ✨book designer andywangart.com IG: @andywang.art
Mallory Grigg @mallorygrigg.bsky.social Senior Art Director at Macmillan Children's Publishing Group working with Balzer + Bray, Feiwel & Friends, Henry Holt BYR, FSG BYR, Roaring Brook Press, Swoon & Squarefish. She/Her
Becca Syracuse @bookdesignbee.bsky.social Associate Art Director • Children's Illustrator
Rebeccasyracuse.com
She/her
Rep'd by Natascha Morris/ The Tobias Agency
Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com Executive Art Director at Scholastic (Picture Books). Educator at Pratt (Typography) & CCNY (Critical Writing). Speaker (SCBWI et al.). Writer of Fiction (Agent: @liznealon.bsky.social). 523rd Bluesky account. NYC. He/Him. www.brianlarossa.com.
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Red Room Pictures @redroompictures.com Red Room Pictures was founded by Mike Flanagan in 2024, and produces feature films and television.
@flanaganfilm.bsky.social
www.redroompictures.com
Patri̶c̶k̶ Hipp @thehipp.bsky.social Midlife crisis actor, reverend doctor, charming barman, writer, musician. Not about to quit my night job. (he/him/mom)
Misty Wilson @mistywilsonwrites.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author of the YA romance FALLING LIKE LEAVES & the award-winning MG graphic memoir PLAY LIKE A GIRL; teacher & RN; @mistywilsonwrites on IG; Rep: Daniel Lazar; she/her