That’s a wrap! Thanks to those who submitted pages for this month’s live first pages session with @thetobiasagency.bsky.social !Our next will be on 3/25. To submit your first page, send to queryconuncdrum@gmail.com.
#writers #firstpages #amquerying
Our first live Ask Agent is tomorrow! If you’re free during, hop on over to IG and join us! #amquerying #writers #kidlit #publishingindustry
#kidlitartpostcard ⭐️
Hey there 👋
I’m Caroline, PB author and illustrator with a softly textured style and a love of endearing tales ✏️✨
Rep'd by @kellydhouse.bsky.social 📚 and available for picture books, board books, chapter books, covers and licensing ✨ #kidlit
carolinemcphersonillustration.com
If this is a first draft, just get the story on the paper. You will have many, many drafts later to refine and work on the word count. Trust the process—and enjoy it!
Happy new year! May the words flow sweetly, may you trust the process, and may you wake up ready to fight Resistance so you may pursue your story with relentless curiosity. Bring on 2026!
I love when I can greet the day sipping coffee and scrolling through illustration art here and on the Gram, especially now as they’re filled with images of wintery wonderlands. Uplifting and inspiring. Keep creating, folks!
Not all books are for all people!
Totally valid.
I’m curious if other readers give books several tries and if so, why?
If you’re interested reading about why I recently kept trying a book and what I learned about it, you can read my Substack here: open.substack.com/pub/kellydyk...
But if I’m just browsing in a store, the book gets less than one try: it gets a first sentence, maybe a first paragraph. If I finish the first page, I’m likely to buy it. Proof of 2 things: that first page is truly weighty, and also that word of mouth recommendation sells and builds books.
Readers, how many chances do you give a book?
For me, if it’s recommended, I will give it several tries. Sometimes it’s clear I’m not in the right headspace for the kind of story it is and need to wait.
Our interview with awesome literary agent and author @kellydhouse.bsky.social is out! We had a lot of fun asking our burning questions about author/illustrators and how self-publishing is viewed in the industry. www.buzzsprout.com/2533442/epis...
Family getting a tree
Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m reusing my image for this weeks #winterywoodchallenge over on Instagram because I love it! I’m am repped by @kellydhouse.bsky.social @thetobiasagency.bsky.social Happy Holidays!
Picture book illustration of a collection of snow globes for sale in a festive shop window. Wintery colour palette of blues, teals and greens depicts a snowy backdrop with evergreens. A central snow globe contains a tiny mouse with a sleigh, on its way into a Christmas tree farm to choose his tree.
Saying a special December hello to any and all publishing folks who may see this post 👋 🙂
I’m Caroline, an author-illustrator, available for picture books, board books and covers ✏️✨
Literary Agent: @kellydhouse.bsky.social ✨📖✨
carolinemcphersonillustration.com
#kidlitart #kidlitartpostcard
A.A. Vacharat's THIS MOTH SAW BRIGHTNESS made the New York Public Library's Best Books for Teens in 2025.
www.nypl.org/books-more/r...
#yabooks #writingcommunity #bookcommunity
If you’re interested, join us for a few minutes or the whole hour. We’d love to take your questions.
If you’ve got some free time on Nov. 18 from 1-2, pop on over to IG and join us! We will answer questions, tell stories, and talk all things #kidlit in publishing!
A young character in a blue snowsuit and rainbow scarf, hat, mittens and boots, stands in the snow looking up at a huge tree with a trunk of rainbow colours. A sweet little squirrel watches on from a nearby rainbow tree. Its snowing.
Happy #kidlitartpostcard day ✨
l’m Caroline, 🇬🇧🇦🇺 picture book author-illustrator with a softly textured style and a love of endearing tales ✏️✨
Rep'd by @kellydhouse.bsky.social 📚 and available for picture books, board books, covers and licensing ✨ #kidlit
www.carolinemcphersonillustration.com
Yes, we’re looking for a date in Nov!
Thanks so much!
Lucky you, haha!
So from what I can tell this Group 7 thing is for adults what 6 7 is for 5th graders. Is that about right?
Come spend your lunch hour with us! Bring your questions—we may or may not be able to answer them but will definitely have fun trying!
Just looked that up. Stunning!
BOOK GIVEAWAY!
To celebrate the paperback release of THE SEARCH FOR THE SHADOWSOUL, I’m giving away a copy of the book that started it all — THE HUNT FOR THE HOLLOWER!
1. Like and follow me and @thesupercallie.bsky.social
2. What creature would you like to be your familiar?
Ends 10/21--US only.
A fun perk of being a literary agent is that we get copies of our clients' books! My shelves are currently bursting with those copies, and I need more room (for more copies of more clients' work, yay!) So be on the lookout in the coming weeks for some amazing #FREEBooks!
Yep!
Many #writers get stuck because they mentally treat their #roughdraft like a more finished draft. Let go of that. It’s called a ROUGH draft for a reason. Give yourself permission to write poorly, explore the story, go down rabbit holes. There will be time to perfect the story later.
#writinglife
It’s so lovely and captures the sweeping nature of the book so well!
