Calling all #teachers & #librarians! Win a copy of THE GHOST RULES, GHOST SCOUT'S HONOR, HART & SOULS, OLLIE OXLEY AND THE GHOST, 150 Bookmarks, 3 Scout Pins, & a school visit with me, @rosenbaumwrites.bsky.social, & @careybk.bsky.social! Enter: 👻Like 👻Share 👻Tag 2 Teachers or Librarians 📅Ends 9/15

I am BEYOND thrilled to announce my latest author! Corrinne is a kind and creative soul who wrote the most GORGEOUS queer genreblend novel. I fell in love with her apocalyptic Kowloon City novel crawling with bugs and humans trying their best. 🐜 Editors, you're gonna want this!!

Just caught up on all my critiques, so friendly reminder that this published author and literary agent is offering her expertise for your query + opening pages. I would be so honored to help you with your words! 💜 #amquerying www.careyblankenshipkramer.com/paid-critiqu...

Do you want a published author and literary agent with multiple sales to look over your query / opening pages? Then you're in luck! I'm open to critiques and I would be SO honored to read your pages. 💜 www.careyblankenshipkramer.com/paid-critiqu...

Due to the untimely passing of my car, this published author & literary agent is reopening to paid critiques!!! Jokes said, working with authors is one of my favorite things in the world, so I'm pretty pumped. Check out my options & prices 💜🥰: www.careyblankenshipkramer.com/paid-critiqu...

Absolutely delighted to announce my 2nd deal as a literary agent (and my very first at team Azantian)!! Huge congratulations to my remarkable client @libbyedwardson.com for finally getting to yell off the top of the mountains about her debut! Zell Dorsey is coming for all of us spring 2026. ⛰️

If you queried me and haven't received a response, double check your spam! Going to rest in inbox zero for a while and then reopen with updated genres / wishlist!

I had a BLAST in this interview talking about publishing, tariffs, candy, writing, and querying tips. Take a listen! 💜

Thrilled to be spotlighted on Literary Rambles this week! 💜 Read my interview, learn more about my MSWL, and enter a giveaway for a query critique from me! www.literaryrambles.com/2025/04/lite...

In our latest author spotlight, read about @careybk.bsky.social's experience launching GHOST SCOUT'S HONOR! Carey talks planning, practice, and staying present in the moment #MGEscapades #MGEAuthorSpotlight middlegradeescapades.com/2025/04/21/a...

#amquerying writers: My plan is to respond to ALL queries & fulls this month. I'm going on a trip the first half of May, so I want everyone to have an answer from me by then! Depending on what awaits in my inbox (I only want to sign a handful of new clients this year), I'll reopen when I'm back! 💜

Happy Book Birthday to agent/author @careybk.bsky.social! GHOST SCOUT'S HONOR sounds like a spooky middle-grade good time! Great news . . . Carey will be stopping by Writers With Wrinkles on 4/28 to chat writing and agenting! #mg #mglit #writingpodcast #mswl #amquerying #querytip #bookbirthday

Happy book birthday to @careybk.bsky.social and GHOST SCOUT’S HONOR! So happy for you, Carey—and for me, because I want oodles more MG exactly like this, pls k thx. bookshop.org/p/books/ghos...

Happy GHOST SCOUT'S HONOR day to @careybk.bsky.social ! #MGEscapades #MiddleGradeBooks #BookReleaseDay "Tenebrous Brothers Carnival - Act One" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...

This week my MG horror debut was published! This book is for the kiddos who are like I once was, anxious & unsure how they fit into such a bright & beautiful world when they’re frozen by constant worry and fear. 💜 Support a debut author & order your copy today! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ghost-scou...

LOOOOVE being on this team so much 😍

The YA publishing crisis isn’t that we need more mature YA books or a Mature YA label, it’s that we need more YA books published for teens of all ages and less YA books published as YA but also wanting to reach Adult audiences. Adults have plenty of books published for them.

Episode 3 of @ymwjpodcast.bsky.social is LIVE! In this episode, @careybk.bsky.social shares her experiences during a decade of querying. Whether you are #amquerying or not, this episode is full of insights on caring for yourself/how to persevere! 💜 #writingcommunity open.spotify.com/episode/1b54...

In just 48 hours Episode 3 (Mental Health During a Decade of Querying) of the @ymwjpodcast.bsky.social w/ @careybk.bsky.social will be published!! We laughed, we sighed, we empathized, we talked about candy (a lot!) and we found hope. We hope that you do too! #writingcommunity #YMWJPodcast

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! Support a Black + Asian author (me) and her Black + Asian heroine (Sabrena) and preorder SABRENA SWEPT AWAY for a kid you love today (preferably from your local Black indie bookstore). www.harpercollins.com/products/sab...

happy lunar new year!!

This was such a blast to record! Danielle must be a therapist or something the way she made me feel comfortable and seen 🥰✨ can’t for y’all to hear how much we talked about candy!

Gentle reminder querying authors, that I'm closing to queries today! ✨ Get your stories in now!

Donold is blaming a plane crash that killed 67 people on “DEI” with zero evidence. He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials. It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.

The head of the FAA, Mike Whitaker, resigned on January 20 — one year into his 5 year term — after facing relentless criticism from Musk for not approving SpaceX missions quickly enough. The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023. No acting FAA head has been appointed.

As a new executive order concerning education comes into effect today, I want to see every single publishing imprint hauling ass getting diverse books printed. I’m so serious, they better double their marginalized authors. Look at this mess and tell me we don’t need diverse books to educate.

I need to pay rent, so: I have openings for freelance edits and sensitivity reads! I'll have worked in book publishing ten years this summer. I've worked with authors like Kelly Loy Gilbert, Gabe Cole Novoa, and Ryan La Sala. Please reach out! bookmarkobrien at gmail. bookmarkobrien.com/editing/

I've gotten 800 QUERIES in the time I've opened in January?!! To everyone who trusted me with their stories, THANK YOU! To make sure that I have the ability to respond to everyone quickly enough, I'm closing on January 31st with tentative plans to reopen March! Thank you again ✨

🚨 Picture book creators! 🚨 I'm thrilled to be taking pitches THIS Friday at the #PictureBookCreatorConference! Do you want to a chance to pitch to me AND learn about the craft of PB writing? Sign up today with my code CAREY30 to get 30% off! www.allthingspicturebooks.com/pbcc

Moving from writing a MG horror to a YA horror so far is just me grinning, knowing I can get away with using the f word multiple times, as opposed to one time I wrote a character cursing "hell" in GSH and my lovely editor and agent were both like...no you can't do that sweetie.

So so honored GHOST SCOUT’S was included in this link! 🥰

The news is OUT! I've joined the fierce Azantian Literary Agency as an associate agent. I've been pinching myself since @jenazantian.bsky.social welcomed me; it's a dream come true to be picking up my work with all my lovely authors & representing kidlit & adult fiction at ALA. 🐉

Ghost Scout's Honor is available on Edelweiss! Dive deep into the world of Savannah, GA where ghosts roam and leave a review👻🥰 Thank YOU to everyone who's said kind things about my book so far. Reviews go a long, long way in the debut process. www.edelweiss.plus#keywordSearc...

Exciting news dropping this week on my next steps as an agent 👀 Let's just say I've started 2025 with a roar! In the meantime, sign up for my newsletter for the latest issue with details about what I learned in 2024 & what I'm looking for in 2025! 🤗 careyblankenshipkramer.myflodesk.com/go06kk5kvk

Why yes, I’m sitting on such big news I can’t say yet that I do personally feel like I’m going to explode. Thank you for asking 🥹🫣

Something I've learned the past few weeks: some of the kindest, most compassionate humans work as literary agents. As I move forward in my own career, I wanted to learn from other people's stories, and WOW am I feeling inspired, seen, and loved. If you took the time to chat with me: THANK YOU! 🥰🎇

Y’all I’ve been very very brave. I left my baby boy with a petsitter for the first time in his four years of life, and I only cried a few times. But Miami was a great time this weekend; very excited to head home to our furry children!

the dream agent, publisher, whatever is the person or company that is a champion for you and your career, period, and often you won't know that till you're working with them so don't put them on a pedestal before they've even shown you their worth

Will publishing have to now actually put money into publicity instead of free TikTok labor hmmm

Please share widely 🙏🏼 I am taking item donations (literally anything from the publishing community or readers) for the next #KidLit4Ceasefire fundraiser to run Jan 15th through 31st. I am at about 100 items, trying to get to at least 500. airtable.com/appgMC1CTRup...

I'm no longer working with Belcastro Agency. Though this wasn't what I planned for the end of 2024, I'm hopeful to share news on where I'll be landing shortly. I've been in touch with all of my authors, who mean the world to me, and I'm doing everything I can in my power to reunite with them.

I personally would like to apologize to the librarian that has to deal with my twenty-one requests for picture books this morning. But SO excited to dig into these this December!! 📖

HELL YEAH THATS RIGHT!!! I believe in all of you writers and authors and love yelling about good books!

My love for @sknigge.bsky.social is never ending. She’s my agent, my question answer, my mentor, my friend, the person who encourages and fights for my biggest dreams. Everyone deserves and needs a Sheyla. I we always be holding space for the lyrics that is our friendship.

Next week, I’m heading to my library to check out a bunch of picture books for market research! What is everyone’s favorite PB they’ve read recently? Doesn’t have to be published this year but recently is preferred 🥰✨

Finally, finally got the itch for this new story. It doesn’t feel as painful, and I’m actually excited to restart this draft?? Anyway, won’t spoil too much, but I will say these photos of my time in Pettyjohn’s cave is inspo for my WIP YA horror 😈

An Open Letter to our Publishers has been sent to over 90 Publishing CEOs this morning in response to the concerns of our members. 1/4