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Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Jenny Lynn Pease (that’s me!) is offering a critique on a fiction or non fiction picture book that’s under 1,000 words. No rhyming please. Like, comment, and repost to enter. Must do all 3. Good luck! @freespiritbooks.bsky.social @kidlitjenny.bsky.social

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It’s time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Amy Houts is offering a critique on a picture book that is under 800 words. It can be rhyming or prose, fiction or nonfiction. Like, comment, and repost to enter. Must do all three. Good luck! @amyhouts.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

Thank you for all the reads so far. Please help me reach 1k. Download the Cyanbird Media / Readict app. Search Billionaire's dilemma. Please read and rate. #romance

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Seriously, whenever I'm looking for a list of picture books on a particular topic, @imaginationsoup.bsky.social always has just what I need. Imaginationsoup.net TRUST ME, I'M A LIBRARIAN.

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Hi Everyone. I have a new book in the testing phase on the Readict/Cyanbird app. I will appreciate it if you could please read and rate the sample chapters. @cyanbird.bsky.social

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Calling all Los Angeles authors and illustrators! 📣❤️‍🩹

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This is a shot in the dark, but I want a (or multiple) first-person narrative non-fic of someone who was a Black child integrated into a white school after Brown v Board of Ed. We too often forget how recent this was in our history & we also need reminding that Ruby Bridges was one of many. #MSWL

submitted 42 days ago • 5 comments

Hello Writing community...I have a story... In the late 1990s I wrote a story about a group of superhero rescue dogs who work undercover. I submitted to publishers and television studios in the USA, UK and Canada using snail mail. My story was stolen and turned into Paw Patrol. Details such as 1/

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Someone must've boosted the literary agents starter pack again because my follows are blowing up, so here's my #MSWL: www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/ro... TL;DR: Send me literary & upmarket adult fiction and narrative nonfiction; closed to kidlit (inc YA) and unlikely to sign SFF right now

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

🗓️🖊️Mark your calendars! Our Search for a Storyteller competition is accepting submissions in February!📚 All the details of our competition with @arvonfoundation.bsky.social can be found at https://buff.ly/42dCx54 We can't wait to see what you submit!

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Thank you #writers for the support during #BluePit I am sorry I didn't get a chance to repost and like all your pitches. 💖

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Scott Pilgrim x Crazy Ex-Girlfriend x Spirit Phone! A demolitions expert with a history of explosive relationships teams up with her terrible exes to fight her high school sweetheart--a murderous arcade cabinet--in a life-or-death cross-country scavenger hunt. #bluepit #W #A #D #Hu #OV #LGBT 📖

submitted 78 days ago • 18 comments

Ten-year-old Rachel hasn’t realized that she is dead, more so because certain people can still see her. When Rachel learns that she is no longer a living girl but a ghost, she runs away. Will she solve the mystery of her death and ascend to Heaven in time for Christmas? #MG #BluePit

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

5TH WAVE meets NOPE meets ARRIVAL meets INTERSTELLAR After encountering an alien while dealing with grief, Astra, a runaway, must choose between saving humanity from an alien invasion and reconciling with her dad before it’s too late. ALT👀 #BluePit #YA #literary #scifi #book

submitted 78 days ago • 12 comments

A Fate Inked In Blood x Heartless Hunter When a man from the enemy clan murders Älva's father, she swears revenge. But then her family is cursed to die. The only way to break the curse? TRUE HATE'S KISS The man she hates the most must kiss her of his own free will. #BluePit #NA #Romantasy #Q

submitted 78 days ago • 7 comments

Book of Azrael X Court of the Vampire Queen = JOURNEY TO RALLEM. Join Josie and the team as they travel across an unmapped continent in the hopes of restoring love and happiness. Explore a femdom+MMF dynamic that features diverse characters in this action-packed fantasy world. 📖 #BluePit #R #F #Q

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

When a wealthy heir is murdered, 12yo Hunter & his friends must work fast to find the real killer - until Hunter discovers his father, an art thief, is a prime suspect. Nancy Drew X Riverdale #MG #BluePit

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

The Bluey Episode, Sleepy Time, WRECKS me. If there are any lyrical picture books from #amquerying authors that have the same feel as this particular episode (iykyk), I’d love to send you my direct query link #MSWL. Please feel free to DM me

submitted 88 days ago • 5 comments

#LitAgents Please consider repping authors who publish on apps such as Readict (now Cyan Bird).

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Blessed New Year 🎊 Every one.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s the breakdown of how my work (life?) balance looks to be shaking out in 2025… Bookselling - 2 days a week Agenting - 2 days a week Social media management and freelance editing - 1 day a week The other 2 days will likely involve reading submissions! Excited/tired already!!

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

67 Calls for Submissions in January 2025 - Paying markets publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2024/12/67-c...

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Join #RosebudAuthors & @thetobiasagency.bsky.social w/ our annual #SpreadTheJoy campaign. To win a submission package critique (query, 1-2 pg synopsis, & 1st chapter) by ME! Follow go.bsky.app/Kvshpxt, comment below, and repost. Winners chosen at random. (Day 27 & our last giveaway)

submitted 95 days ago • 23 comments

HURRAY! Bluesky just keeps getting better and better. I'm esp happy about the separate "Mentions" tab. Before, they were buried amidst Likes, etc. so I'd often miss people's @ mentions. Much easier to find now! #BlueSkyRocks

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

This is a perfect book to inspire young readers!! #holidaygifts #picturebooks

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators. More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live): 1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇 1/10

submitted 105 days ago • 181 comments

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Okay revised the starter pack description to make it clearer. If u r a designer or illustrator please boost this to help me find other hiring directors. If u r an art, design, or creative director who hires designers and/or illustrators, raise your hand—I’ll add u. go.bsky.app/Hxoz9KX

submitted 118 days ago • 36 comments

I am disgusted at people who mock me and think I don't know what they are doing.

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Reminder that we are having a picture book club this week! Wednesday at 9pm Eastern. #pbchat boringstorybook.com/picture-book...

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One more time for the newcomers: Hey illustrators! Did you know there's a contact form on my website just for you? When beginning new projects I routinely check the spreadsheet for new submissions and search/sort my notes on previous submissions. www.brianlarossa.com 💙❤️ #kidlitart

submitted 122 days ago • 2 comments

#MSWL I'm closed to queries at the moment, BUT...I will ALWAYS be open to INDIGENOUS VOICES. This is a special passion of mine, yet I don't have a single Native American author or story. If this describes you/your project, PLEASE REACH OUT! I will open a link for any Indigenous creator (fiction).

submitted 132 days ago • 2 comments

Hi #KidLit editors, Are there any editors looking for new writers/ghostwriters/writers to work on IP? I am available.

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

I say this as both an agent and author, save your money and don't hire somebody to query agents on your behalf. A lot of times, the submission guidelines are not followed, they send to agents who are closed OR don't rep in your genre. The emails (at least that I have received) are written by those

submitted 120 days ago • 1 comment

This is a pinnable post for the MSWL (Manuscript Wish List) & Call For Art & Writing feed. Searches list of approved users for terms like #MSWL #CallForArtists #CallForSubmissions etc. More info & to check if you're on the feed here. Those in my Editors, Agents & Art Directors lists already added.

submitted 221 days ago • 7 comments

Calling freelance illustrators who have been paid for work: pls take a few mins to answer an anon 7-question (multiple choice) survey re: how you found paying work? illustrator-promo.paperform.co Researching for my #SCBWI wkshop at #scbwiNY25 + will share aggregate results publicly. Thank you!

submitted 120 days ago • 13 comments

Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.

submitted 129 days ago • 934 comments

I hate that people only call me their friend or say they are close to me when they want to use me.

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Hey #kidlit illustrators, I'm a children’s publishing #art director. To celebrate Bluesky’s recent 20M user milestone I’d like to gift a FREE one hour Zoom portfolio-review/coaching-session. 1. Reply w/ your art. 2. Random winner. 3. No DMs please. I will look closely at every reply! 💙❤️

submitted 132 days ago • 171 comments

If you are new and overwhelmed by options and terminology as you navigate Bluesky, I have this guide to connecting to #kidlit interests: boringstorybook.com/a-list-oflis... I’ve tried to keep it simple, like the Jitterbug phone of Kidlit Bluesky navigation. 1/2

submitted 131 days ago • 5 comments

If you see this, please repost. I am a 1st grade teacher from Pittsburgh! There are some supplies we’d be so grateful to get. Please help #clearthelist ! 📕 Books 🖍️ Crayons ⛄️ Holiday supplies Thanks for your help! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... @jonrosenberg.bsky.social

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment

Another day, another million new people have joined Bluesky! 18M users? 🙂‍↔️ 18M friends 🙂‍↕️

submitted 136 days ago • 6661 comments

Number 3 😂😂😂

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