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School Librarian. Author of BLUE FLOATS AWAY, THE VERY LAST CASTLE, THE SHIP IN THE WINDOW, CABOOSE | Author/illustrator of JUST ONE FLAKE and JUST ONE WAVE (2025)
My new special Night Thoughts is out NOW on Hulu.
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IDK what to put as a display name and now every time I log onto this site it reminds me how badly I wanna eat grilled eel over rice. This is awful, what have I done? I should change it but to WHAT END???
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Illustrator/cartoonist; he/him. Lover of vintage toys, tiki mugs, 1960s Disneyland, nachos, cats. AGENTS OF S.U.I.T. 3 out now from Macmillan/First Second!
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@kylegriffin1 from that Twitter thing
Executive Producer @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social
They pay brisk money for this crap?
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Dog lover, book hoarder, outdoor enthusiast 🌈 Founder + Lit Agent @ Starling Literary + Media
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Founder + Agent @Starling Literary + Media, representing authors & Illustrators. Wife, mom of 3, MFA grad, & former Asst. Director for film & TV. https://www.starlingliterary.com | http://querymanager.com/query/Jemiscoe
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Author and photographer of books for curious minds. 🇺🇸🇮🇹
Rep'd by Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social
Andrea Brown Literary @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
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Wren • 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 • she/her • afro 🇵🇷 • comic book artist • sappy indie darling • Rep'd by Saritza Hernández
Starling Literary + Media represents bestselling and award-winning creators, as well as debuts. Our goal is to help create enduring legacies through our strategic guidance, editorial savvy, and innovative business tactics.
An independent bookstore for all ages in West Acton, MA. Open at 10 am every day. Shop any time at SilverUnicornBooks.com!
Writer by day, in bed by night. Author of five books. I open my own jars. KarenYin.com/links
VCCA/LLF/CAC Fellow | ACES Robinson Prize Winner | DJNF Alum | Represented by Laurie Abkemeier, DeFiore & Company
Author, YOU’RE ONLY TWO ONCE (Kirkus calls it a "comedic hit" :D ) | Writing & making little paintings and drawings for my kids’ lunchboxes | #SCBWI #12X12pb
📖📚 Picture books
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Represented by Sara Crowe Literary
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🇨🇦 she/her; #kidlit author, repped by Saba Sulaiman
MAGS MACDONALD HAD A JETPACK (Owlkids, 2026)
www.jenmacgregor.ca
TK-2nd grade librarian, Writer, Mom, Wife, & Grandma. Neurofibromatosis Advocate, Author of "The Library Kitty” & Owner of Academic Play Books.
lovingthelibrary.org
writer, filmmaker, director of The Spiel Foundation, host of The Spiel, also Major Fun!
https://thespielfoundation.com
Author, illustrator & nature photographer.
#SCBWI | #12x12PB | #PBChat '21 mentee
Rep'd by Elisa Houot at The Seymour Agency
Librarian. USN (Ret) spouse. Mom. Gardener. Gamer. Anime. PBS. PTX. Tattoos. Whiskey. Cis-het, she/her.
Passionate about literacy, gardening (native, esp!), and animal rescue.
Opinions my own.
Picture book author/illustrator of QUACKERS, THE GOOSE EGG, I AM NOT A PENGUIN. Illustrator of A MIND OF HER OWN: THE STORY OF MYSTERY WRITER AGATHA CHRISTIE, plus others! She/her
Rep: Alexandra Penfold at Upstart Crow
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Author, illustrator, former pastry chef.
❄️🩰THE ABOMINABLE SNOW DANCER (Penguin Workshop): out now!
🐍🪨 MEDUSA'S PET ROCK (HarperCollins): 9/22/26
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Children's Author. Professional Voice & On-Camera Actor. Backyard Beekeeper. Classical Pianist in training.
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Critiques & Consultations: kidlithive.com
she/her. National bestselling author in WI
🎪FORTS, Viking
🛰️CASSINI'S MISSION, MIT Kids Press
Rep'd by Joyce Sweeney, Seymour Agency
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Ringo Nominated Comic Book Letterer | Somna (Eisner winner) + DC Pride + Young Men in Love (GLAAD Award winners) + Killer Queens + Alan Scott: GL (Eisner nom) + Harley Quinn + Absolute Green Lantern 🏳️🌈 He/him.
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Cartoonist, storyboard artist and french fry enthusiast || Comic Artist of FAST BREAK @ FSG/Macmillan || Storyboard Artist @ Mukpuddy || Repped by Ammi-Joan Paquette
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Swamp muppet from Michigan
Just your friendly neighborhood comic designer
Creator of Batcat
Currently tracking all my reads of 2025
(320 books and counting)
www.meggietheramm.com
New York Times bestselling Illustrator and 4x Pura Belpre award winner. Creator of the World of Vamos books and the Snips. Published by Harper Alley and Little Brown Ink.
District Librarian in CA, Graphic Novel reviewer & owner of The Graphic Library. Co-author of Manga Goes to School. Reviewer @ Booklist & School Library Journal. Esports coach. #GraphicLibrary, #EduSky #LibrarySky, #TLSky She/her. www.graphiclibrary.org
The planet's largest independent source of informed graphic novel reviews.
We lift up and support neurodivergent storytellers, making more room for authentic stories in children’s literature, to help young readers be seen and create increased empathy and understanding by neurotypical readers.
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Understands comics… mostly… Now on sale: THE CARTOONISTS CLUB, co-created with the legendary Raina Telgemeier! https://bit.ly/CartoonistClub And I'm also working on a massive book about visual communication; learn more at scottmccloud.com.
Reader, author, and lover of all things MG and PBs! | PHANTOM ACADEMY releases August '25 (Aladdin) | My first PB comes out in '27 (Knopf) | Author of A BITE ABOVE THE REST (Aladdin) and WAIST-DEEP IN DUNG (Macmillan) | Rep'd by Jim McCarthy
Writer. Reader. Former deputy editor @Parents Magazine. Co-author of ROXIE IN COLOR, Candlewick Press, 2026.
Children's Book Author/Teacher
Most Recent Book: Georgia Watson and the 99 Percent Campaign
Writing for the world's best audience!
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Author/Illustrator of kid’s books: THE PLANT RESCUER @holidayhousebks, 🏳️🌈, museum exhibit designer, bunny dad, part coffee/part nachos, PDX
America's Oldest Children's Bookstore nurturing a love of reading.
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🪼GRETA WHITESHARK MEETS THE MERMAIDS out May 2025!
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👩🏼💻ASTRID THE ASTRONAUT & SPACE FOR SAFFRON (2026), Aladdin/S&S. Rep: Carrie Pestritto @ldlainc.bsky.social
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Reader, picture book author/illustrator, graphic novelist, lawyer, mama, dog person, mental health advocate, good listener. #kidlit #kidlitart
(she/her) Portfolio at www.erinsiska.com.
An aspiring author/illustrator, a member of the New England Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators (NESCBWI), The Writer’s Loft.org, Kids Comics Unite (KCU), and Sequential Artist’s Workshop (SAW).
Pretty good writer. Reasonably competent HusbandParentMusician. Passable teacher. Old, stubborn, and grumpy. Forever fighting book bans, ignorance, and cruelty. He/Him.
#KidLit Artist Writer. ND Fam.
Turtle on a marathon
💚SCBWI Co-RA, SF North & East Bay
...drawing writing gardening sewing...
Always Making Something.
https://maritzaruizkim.com
My name sounds like🧜♀️mer-izza🍕
Seeker, explorer, creature adorer. I make graphic novels & picture books, including WAGNIFICENT (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan). www.aquapup.com
#KCS Anthology contributor. Team member for #KidLitGN, a pitch event for kids-YA GN creators. johnelldewitt.com
Human, dad and dreamer
Comic book artist and watercolorist, represented by JVNLA
Kids Comics Unit Member and SCBWI NZ Illustrator Coordinator
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Art • author • illustrator • comics • crowdfunding
NYC born 🇵🇷 Bay Area resident — PLUGOarts.com MMC winning graphic novelist of aTigersTale.com
I create comics for people who started watching Adult Swim way too early and think every little thing will lead to the end of the world. 👁👁
Rep'd by T.S. Ferguson at Azantian
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I write books for kids and teach creative writing at UAB. My new novel is called WEREWOLF HAMLET with Charlesbridge Moves in 2025. Happily married to Kiffen with three beautiful grown kids and a grandchild, Bonnie Alfred. https://www.kerrymadden.com/
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#PBWriter. Wife & mom. Loves Jesus. #SCBWI Co-Asst. Reg. Advisor, #12x12, #PBParty Finalist '24, '23, & '22 , #50PreciousWords HM '25, '23.
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Middle-grade author of CASTING APRIL 🎭 (Knopf BFYR, June 2026)
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Rep: Abigail Frank at Greenburger Kids. She/her.
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Writer, mom, cat lover
Author of 5 series:
Math Pirates
Funny Math Stories
Preemie Sibling
Gobbled (YA)
The Bridge to Nowhere (Paranormal Romance)
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Querying a contemporary fantasy:
Sunrise Psychiatric (vampires)
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Award-winning #kidlit author of WHILE I WAS AWAY | DREAM, ANNIE, DREAM | THE VERY UNFORTUNATE WISH OF MELONY YOSHIMURA | PERFECT | RICK KOTANI'S 400 MILLION DOLLAR SUMMER
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Author of books out now (The Color of Sound, AfterMath) and books coming soon (Three Pieces of Broken Glass, Always Enough Love). Emilybarthisler.com
Author of West of the Sea. Rep'd by Allie Levick at Writers House. Audiobook Narrator and Voice Actor. Mom. SCBWI, SFWA, SAG/Aftra. Bisexual, she/her. Cat lover and accidental bird watcher because my husband announces every bird he sees out our window.
Writer. Bookstore owner. Midwest Princess.
BLACK GIRL POWER out now! 💕
BREE BOYD IS A LEGEND out 3.4.25 ✨
Author of THE LAST RHEE WITCH (2024) ; THE LAST RHEE WITCH AND THE NINE-TAILED FOX (Disney·Hyperion, May 6, 2025)
https://linktr.ee/jennaleeyun
Author (🏀 trilogy with
@scholastic) 🐊 professor, Husband. Dad. Emmy-winning 📺 producer - ex: ESPN, NFL, Fox Sports Rep'd Jas Perry
@LookingGlassLit
My debut novel CRUSHING IT (a Junior Library Guild Selection) is out now from Penguin. VCFA grad, marketer by day, kidlit author by night. 🌈 https://linktr.ee/beckererine
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of mysteries for young readers. Newest title: THE MYSTERY OF LOCKED ROOMS 🗝️
Author of Bram Stoker Award finalist THE CURSE OF EELGRASS BOG and THE GHOSTS OF BITTERFLY BAY with Penguin Young Readers. Next: THE BURN BEAST (Putnam, Fall 2026)
Rep'd by Kelly Sonnack at ABLA
Eisner-winning cartoonist. Public speaker and former classroom teacher. Creator of the Mr. Wolf’s Class series and SPEECHLESS (Graphix/Scholastic)
Links to all my stuff: https://linktr.ee/mrwolfcomics
2022 Newbery Honoree, Walter Award, Golden Kite winner. Doctor, author of MG & PB, fiction & nonfiction, prose & poetry. Pro-democracy, pro-reproductive freedom, anti-book bans.
Rep: Brent Taylor
www.RajaniLaRocca.com
Bestselling author (!!)
📚PASHMINA, SUPER BOBA CAFÉ, JUKEBOX, STRONG, SHARK PRINCESS, I WILL BE FIERCE and more
Rep Jodi Reamer at Writers House
Award-winning author, Greenwillow/HarperCollins. American by birth, Canadian by choice.
New York Times Bestseller, Newbery Honoree, National Book Award Finalist, Procrastinator Extraordinaire, #KidLit Author
Author + Illustrator | 2x Newbery Medalist | National Book Award Finalist | NYT Bestseller | Agent: Sara Crowe | Faculty: USF MFAY | https://linktr.ee/erinentrada
NY Times bestselling children's book author of Beekle ('15 Caldecott) A First Time for Everything ('23 National Book Award) Creator Disney's The Replacements
He/him
Books:
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THE GIRL FROM THE SEA 🦭🌊
THE DEEP DARK 🐉🏜️
The DUNGEON CLUB series 🎲⚔️
STRONG FEMALE PROTAGONIST 🦸💪
WATSON’S SKETCHBOOK 🕵🏼♂️📚
TV:
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Bestselling author of 50+ books. PRINCESS ACADEMY, AUSTENLAND, PRINCESS IN BLACK, REAL FRIENDS, DREAM ON, ITTY BITTY KITTY-CORN. Mom of 4, wife of 1. she/her. Curiosity and compassion. www.shannonhale.com
Author • Producer • Donut Hunter
Dracula's Brunch Club (Middle Grade Graphic Novel) comes out Sept 16 with Oni Press.
Repped by Stacey Graham at 3 Seas Literary.
Pre Order here: https://linktr.ee/bgonsar
