Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...
Gonna host another query letter webinar at the start of the New Year, to help fund various free in-person events.
Help me, help you! :-)
Three Zoom hangs, a critique on your query, notes on your first ten pages. It’ll be fun. www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2025/12...
Share your light.
And have some of mine…
If you like anything I've written or posted or reposted...
...I hope you'll consider preordering this picture book by me and Mike Deas. That's the only Christmas gift I need.
Might be the best one I've ever co-created.
Same! I also log themes, categories, ending, voice, first/last sentence, flap copy, and some I dissect structure… it’s so satisfying to spend time with picture books 📚 💕
Teachers & librarians! If you want to Zoom with an author for World Read Aloud Day, the list of volunteers is going out in my newsletter tomorrow morning - it's not too late to sign up!
Hurrah! I TRUCK by @krschmittwrites.bsky.social and Jam Dong won the The ‘Look Closely’ Award A.K.A. The Walter Wick Award. Love that this book was recognized by both the Undies and the Endies!!
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😂 This sounds so right — I must try sweet potato pie
More #caturday album art.
Excellent list! ✨ What an honor 👏
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Yes! Me too!! 💕🎉👋
Sooooo excited to win this fantastic prize for my #pb manuscript 🥰 Thank you Moni Ritchie Hadley and the Write Kidlit Now! Scholarship 💕 Feeling very grateful to Moni who said my story was important, clever, and made her laugh! Yay yay yay!!
Kidlitart postcard illustration by Nicola Schofield of a forest of trees that change in colour, left to right, from prinks and oranges, through shades of green, to black and bare. Small figures and scenes can be seen through the trees in various places.
It's an autumnal #kidlitartpostcard day!
The trees are busy changing colour & flinging leaves off in all directions. Huge piles sit around periodically crunchy and soggy. Winter is approaching fast!
🌐 Nicolaschofield.com
Rep by @sallymkim.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
#kidlitart
a digital illustration of the characters Frog and Toad reading together under mushrooms
a digital illustration of anthropomorphic animal characters walking through a futuristic city
a digital illustration of an anthropomorphic dog and cat on a picnic date by a pond
a digital illustration of anthropomorphic animals dancing in a forest of glowing trees
🎨 Spotlight on Boya Sun!
Boya's Illustrator Page
Boya is represented by Kelly Sonnack (@ksonnack.bsky.social). He is open to illustrating picture books.
Authors Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin-Pritchard left Country Club Elementary School minutes before their scheduled presentation after being asked not to discuss book banning by the San Ramon Valley Unified School District.
Do you know some great 2025 endpapers or case covers you want to nominate for the Endies and Undies Awards? The deadline to nominate is TOMORROW (Oct. 31st). Head here to get going: 100scopenotes.com/2025/10/30/l...
Large text reads “KidLit & YA Book Launches Oct. 27 – Nov. 2, 2025.” Smaller text says “Is your book launching this week? Reply to this thread with info and a link to your Bluesky post.” Bottom line reads “Bluesky launch thread 2025-Wk44 created by @debbieohi.com #KidLit #PublicationDay #BookBirthday.” Bright graphic background shows confetti, ribbons, and candies.
Do you have a #KidLit or #YALit book launching this wk? Or do you want to help boost someone else's #PublicationDay #BookBirthday?
Reply below with info + link to the post.
Only for books launching Oct.27-Nov.2, 2025 #2025-Wk44.
Happy Book Birthday to @nancycastaldobooks.bsky.social and her first book for grownups: SQUIRREL: HOW A BACKYARD FORAGER SHAPES OUR WORLD!
If you like entertaining and accessible nature books like those by Sy Montgomery, this is one for your TBR pile!
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Ohhhh this is a good one! 📷 jjaroyals15
I just heard this one on storytime sprint. It’s called Sawyer‘s big idea by Kimberly Hoch.
A red bowtie-sporting bumble bee hovers above a desk with an electronic console and paper plans for a W.E.B, while a spider watches from behind strands of spider web.
Green turtles playing in a tiered water fountain surrounded by a green field dotted with pink flowers.
Three kids sit together in a restaurant booth; two play cards, while a third holds up a board game box. The image is black and white and has a film noir feel to the styling.
Four grade school age children in brightly colored clothing play next to a trunk of costume accessories, including hats and bowties.
🎨 Spotlight on Jon Corby (@joncorbyart.bsky.social)!
Jon's Illustrator Page
Jon is represented by Jennifer March Soloway (@marchsoloway.bsky.social). He is open to picture books and board books.
Orange promotional graphic for Inked Voices Picture Books (Nonfiction) workshop with Kirsten Larson, running Jan 7–Mar 22, 2026. Includes her headshot and book Reimagining Your Nonfiction Picture Book.
Revise your nonfiction picture book with me in a small-group Inked Voices workshop! @inkedvoices.bsky.social
🗓️ Jan 7–Mar 22, 2026
Apply by Nov 2, 2025
Two rounds of critique plus craft discussion.
🔗 https://app.inkedvoices.com/event/workshop/458
#KidLit #NonfictionPB #WritingCommunity #PictureBook
Cherry Mo! I love hearing the praise for your debut book in this Fuse 8 N Kate Podcast! @fuse8nkate.bsky.social
I remember this touching story (and title tweak!) from our time together at the Children's Picture Book Academy! You are amazing! 🤩
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Hello, Blue Sky!
@meagandekker.bsky.social
Girl reading A Place For Pauline on her cozy bed with the cover facing out. The cover image is of Pauline on her cozy bed, scattered with books.
I relate to Pauline, the oldest child in this fav picturebook! My daughter relates to the unfair way Pauline gets scolded. Graphic-novel-stylish and lovely all over! 🌺
A Place For Pauline by Anouk Mahoiut, illustrated by Marjolaine Perreten 2020 Groundwood Books
Yes! Let me know, Beth! Love to talk and talk picture books... 😁
Yay! I love it too! 🍃 💕 (a comp title for me!)
Anna Walker has so many wonderful books. My other favs of hers are: Sadie and the Silver Shoes, Lottie and Walter, Peggy: A Brave Chicken on a Big Adventure
How about you? 😊
Savers full bag with hardcover picture books purchased: Florrett and Albert's Quiet Quest. Mini white pumpkins and kid Halloween framed photos on the table in the background.
Fantastic finds at Savers today! Halloween costumes (the hard way) AND a couple of favorite picturebooks!!
📗FLORETTE by Anna Walker💜
📙ALBERT'S QUIET QUEST by Isabelle Arsenault💙
Young girl smiling, holding picture book outside at a picnic table with cover showing title: THE LOVE LETTER
Favorite picture book from my library stack this week!
💌THE LOVE LETTER by Anika Aldamuy, illustrated by Lucy Ruth Cummins (2019)
I love the kid lit that reminds me to be thankful for all the people 💗 and things that are good in my life.
