Usman @litlaunch06.bsky.social Beta reader & book editor. I catch the little things before your readers do
Line editing • Developmental editing
Novels • Stories • Manuscripts
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Charlotte Wenger @charlottewenger.com she/her | 📚 literary agent with Prospect Agency repping kidlit authors and illustrators | toddler mom | Greater Boston Area | opinions mine
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www.charlottewenger.com
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Rusty Fischer | Children's Author @rustyfischer.bsky.social Rusty Fischer's poems for children have appeared in Reader’s Digest, Good Housekeeping and Woman’s Day. His latest poem, “Socks,” is currently featured in The Dirigible Balloon.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/36446
Emerald Alexandrea @emeraldalexandrea.bsky.social Author of THE MUSIC OF US (HarperCollins Blink, Summer 2026). ♡ Music lover, cat butler, and a believer in happy endings.
Rep: Amy Thrall Flynn of Aevitas Creative Management.
NovelistEmerald on X + emeraldalexandrea on Insta.
emeraldalexandrea.com
Kristen M. Kareem 🍉 ☮️ @kristenmkareem.bsky.social ✍🏻 Writer 📚@HighlightsFound Scholarship Recipient (‘24) & Highlights Muslim Storyteller ('23) & We Need Kidlit Now Winner (‘24) 🧕🏻🍉 Muslim 👩🏫 Educator 🛶 MN girl 🏃♀️Runner 💗 Wife and Mama to three ✨ Writings here: https://linktr.ee/Sagasofsabr
Mahtab Rohan 🌙 @writerrohan.bsky.social Desi-Cad SFF Writer + Devourer of Jalebis
A continuation of black sheep.
mahtabrohan.com
महताब مہتاب
"The children are always ours, every single one of them..."
Ruth Forman @ruthformanpoet.bsky.social Poet and children's book author. Friend of words. Repp'd by Kerry Sparks at LGR.
www.ruthforman.com
https://linktr.ee/ruthformanpoet
Adriana Gutierrez @felizreading.bsky.social Writer~Teacher~ Mama~❤️📚#50PreciousWords Win ‘23 #SpringFlingKidLit Win ‘23 #SunWriteFun Win ‘23 and ‘24 #FallWritingFrenzy Win ‘23 #12x12PB
KidsWord & AllKidsBooks – Explore, Read & Share! @allkidsbooks.com 🌟 Join our vibrant community of children's book lovers!
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👧 Parents & Teachers: Find the best books for young readers.
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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social Author illustrator on Vancouver Island. More Than Words: So Many Ways to Say What We Mean (2023) and Together, a Forest (Henry Holt) coming this Spring!
#kidlit
https://rozmaclean.com/blog/
Love Those Movies @lovethosemovies.bsky.social An aspiring writer, video editor, movie fan, dance enthusiast, and idealist. Also, I like trains.
Support PBS and NPR:
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Socials Post and Cover Designer): www.pscript.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Robin Brett Wechsler @robinbwechsler.bsky.social Children's author, freelance editor/writer. Avid reader, walker, voter, museum goer, bird feeder, ice cream eater, ‘80s music listener. Cat lady.
12x12 I Courage to Create I SCBWI member
Writers' Loft member and PBCG leader
2025 PB Rising Stars HM
Jeremy Fuscaldo @jeremyfuscaldo.bsky.social Comic Artist | Storyboard Artist | Character Design
Amelia Enmity creator | MFA Visual Arts
Seeking Representation
https://jeremyfuscaldo.weebly.com/
https://jeremyfuscaldo.carrd.co/
Dear White Staffers @dearwhitestaffers.bsky.social
https://www.dearwhitestaffers.org/
Karen Yin (Nice to Eat You / Scholastic) 🧙🏻♀️🎃 @karenyin.bsky.social Writer by day, in bed by night. Author of five books, including The Conscious Style Guide (Hachette). I open my own jars. #AABB
KarenYin.com/links
VCCA/LLF/CAC Fellow | ACES Robinson Prize Winner | DJNF Alum
Agent: Laurie Abkemeier, DeFiore & Company
Shirley Ng-Benitez @shirleyngbenitez.bsky.social Author and Illustrator of children’s books, and absolutely anti-AI.
📚🎨 https://www.shirleyngbenitez.com/
—Everyone’s a story.
Natasha Khan Kazi @natashakhankazi.bsky.social Author & Illustrator of Moon’s Ramadan, Lulu In The Spotlight, Bela and Lily, Sun's Eid ✨ Repd by Tanusri Prasanna
she/her/hers
www.natashakhankazi.com
Highlights Muslim Storyteller Fellow
Based in LA
Marguerite Dabaie/مارغريت دباعي/ダバ-イ マルガリ-ト @mrrg.bsky.social ⭐they/them
⭐ www.mdabaie.com
⭐🇵🇸🇺🇲 comix creator in 🇯🇵
⭐Drew LEGENDS IN THE HEIGHTS (https://publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/legends-in-the-heights/) & THE HOOKAH GIRL
⭐️Rep: Shena Wolf at KO Media
⭐English OK, 日本語 OK (Regional Janglish champion)
Carol Gordon Ekster @cekster.bsky.social #kidlit #author, retired #educator, yogi, #scbwi, #12x12, #edusky #couragetocreate Repped by Nicole Resciniti @seymouragency.bsky.social
Billy Ruffian @billyruffian-illo.bsky.social 🌼 pictures / stories
🌸 past & present history
🏵️ drawing in Devon, uk
Ruqayyah Daud @borahaze91.bsky.social Senior Editor at LBYR & Requited 📚 please don’t pitch me your book here! ❤️
Ali Marie Matthews @alimariematthews.bsky.social kidlit writer 📚 | let’s abolish the whole capitalist industrial form of food production together 👯♀️ | acab no exceptions | 🇵🇸
Teresa Robeson @teresarobeson.com Author/Artist * Asian Pacific American Librarians Association PB winner * #Kidlit * 🇭🇰🇨🇦🇺🇸 * she/her * SO: @indianaclimate * sign up for my newsletter at teresarobeson.com to get free art+story * 🚫 DMs or MAGA
Repped by: @casahasegawa.bsky.social
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
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
M.O. (Mindy) Yuksel @moyuksel.bsky.social Author of picture books:
📕In My Mosque
📙One Wish
📘Ramadan Kareem
📗Sami’s Special Gift
📒The Prince of Stars
www.moyuksel.com
Hatem Aly @metahatem.bsky.social 🇨🇦🇪🇬 NYT Bestselling Illustrator. Made in Egypt, based in NB, Canada, and found in books. 🤗 (SOMEONE LIKE ME, Two Lions, JUN 2026) | Rep by: James Burns
https://linktr.ee/metahatem- D Danielle Monique @daniellemoniquewrites.com https://daniellemoniquewrites.com // Black queer writer living in LA.
Omar Abed @omarabedwrites.bsky.social 📖 Author - THE BOOK THAT ALMOST RHYMED
🖋 Picture Books | YA Fiction | Poetry
👨👩👦 Husband, Dad
💻 Data Engineer / Web Developer
Moonymade @moonymade.bsky.social 2nd Gen Chinese designer and illustrator making cultural art for our collective liberation. (She/her) 📍Tongva Land
Shop | Every purchase supports mutual aid:
Moonymade.co
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Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow @authorjamilah.bsky.social 🔸Children’s book author of very Black, very Muslim stories
🔸2-Time Muslim Bookstagram Winner
🔸Honors: Golden Kite, Walter Award, Irma Black
🔸SLA Information Award
🔸A bit political. A lot human.
🔸Rep’d by @Pterlip
🔸 www.JamilahTheWriter.com
Sara Solara @sarasolara.bsky.social YA SFF author writing multiracial autistic girls who do gay crime. 🇵🇸 🇨🇴 🏳️🌈 #ActuallyAutistic ∞ she/her
Rep: Becca Podos, Neighborhood Literary
Short stories in HOMOSEXUAL INTIFADA (Interlink) & THYME TRAVELLERS (Fernwood)
https://www.sarasolara.com/