Lipton tea, pickle cheese-smothered chatter, clatter New Jersey diner #haikuSaturday

beneath last year's leaves caterpillars, bugs and bees carry on with sleep so I'll hesitate before i grab the garden rake- spring cleaning can wait #haikuSaturday #haiku #ecology #invertebrates #insects #spring #gardening #leavetheleaves #homegrownnationalpark #xerces

Happy earth day! Here I am with a tree 🌳(many many years ago!) #planttrees

Happy Earth Day! I've not had the chance to work on anything new this year, so have tweaked an old design I created for M&S 🌏🦜🦑🐠💚 #EarthDay2026 #illustration #childrensillustrator #freelanceillustrator #kidlitartist #kidlitillustrator #nonficitionillustrator #ourbeautifulplanet #motherearth

Jen Gennari, author of Stifled, the newest novel in The Band Kids series published by Simon & Schuster, is a guest blogger on writerreaderteacher this week! Check out her post! writerreaderteacher.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/s... #jennifergennari #simon&schuster #middlegradebooks #kidlit #libraries

Awesome middle grade book focused on friendships and finding your voice. Loved #Muffled and the return of Madge in #Stifled! #bookposse Heading to you, @maj_twins_mom ! @jengennari.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social

💕📚📫Book Mail📚📫 Yay! To the best mail! I loved #Muffled! Thank you for sharing your newest book with #bookposse! @simonandschuster.bsky.social @jengennari.bsky.social

Proud of our short film, Under the Pear, screening April 11 in San Antonio at Reel Senior Moments Film Festival! John Schlag will be there! Calling Collin's happy hour TX friends: @jonathanconcepcion.bsky.social @aggiebrett.bsky.social and @lisepyles.bsky.social @collinlieberg.bsky.social #VHH

You know what sounds nice? Having a #kidlitchat at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific here on Bluesky. We #kidlit lovers can chat for an hour… enjoy community… maybe share desserts. Yes, let’s do this. See you then!

Atlantic lapping pelicans coasting, we rising resistance dawning #haikuSaturday #nokings

Last day! If you do preorder STIFLED, comment TROMBONE, and I'll send you a bookmark! 😍#kidlit #BNPreorder

If you want to buy a copy of STIFLED, @barnesandnoble.com is having a sale!! 25% off with the code PREORDER25. 🎉 hint: preordering is a great way to help authors!

Ever struggle with elevating your writing, line by line? I had a great chat with the people of Way-Word Writers #podcast #kidlit #writingcraft

Just learned it's #WorldPoetryDay! Thank you to @rattlepoetry.bsky.social and poem-a-day from Poets.org for my daily email.

Official notice of metaphors, lines, heart-song— posted poetry #haikuSaturday

I 💙the name of this award! And I'm a big fan of the winning books by @katemessner.com, Sarah Lynne Reul, and @lynnekelly.bsky.social ! Congrats to the winners! #kidlit

Some good news for a change.

Call now! This is censorship

Signing off #kidlitchat! And I’ll leave you with my writing journey … it’s all about perseverance ✍🏼✍🏼

Back to the second half of tonight's topic -- external motivation -- I'd say any kind of accountability from other writers can keep me going forward #kidlitchat

Hi @vbartles.com 👋🏻 I was hoping you’d come to #kidlitchat! I made gluten-free blueberry muffins!

I *highly* recommend conferences to writers for three reasons: community, craft and publishing insights, and for that intangible sense of where am I in my writing journey? (revise more, really close, submit already!) #kidlitchat

TOPIC: Do you use contests, conferences or challenges to help you move forward with your work? What makes that kind of external motivation helpful--and are there any you would particularly recommend? #kidlitchat

Figuring out Bluesky? Join this great chat tonight! #kidlitchat

4 million books! About 650,000 traditionally published. No wonder authors feel like they are screaming into a void.

#BookPosse if you remember Muffled well @jengennari.bsky.social is out with her latest book Stifled and it is a story about music, family and evolving friendships. Talks about banned book’s, a fabulous librarian, accepting help and being a good friend. @simonkids.bsky.social

Come, follow me blue-purple iris joy show-offs #haikuSaturday

This one hits too close… 🌎

Today, THE TENTH MISTAKE OF HANK HOOPERMAN is out in paperback! I'm so excited for Hank's story to find new readers. Thank you to everyone who has shared this book with a kid who needs it. buff.ly/NEdyV9h @randomhousekids.bsky.social #BookSky

Teachers and librarians, do any of you want to read the companion to MUFFLED? Madge, Amelia’s loud friend gets her own story in STIFLED! #bookposse ARCs arrive next week!

Teachers and librarians, do any of you want to read the companion to MUFFLED? Madge, Amelia’s loud friend gets her own story in STIFLED! #bookposse ARCs arrive next week!

We are super excited about new things we're adding! This year, you can sign up for your FREE #MSWL trend report. See, visually, what agents are asking for--and if your genre is growing. Yes, it includes pie charts. First report next week! Sign up here: manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-trend-r...

"We must all ask ourselves: is this really the world we want for our children — one where they are afraid to go to school, home, hospitals, neighborhoods, playgrounds, museums, and libraries for fear of immigration detention?" Children don't belong in immigration detention.

Sorry to parachute in and out, #kidlitchat It's dinner time in CA. Happy reading and baking, all!

#kidlitchat For those who haven't heard, there will be an official #MSWL day on Thursday this week. If you're currently in the query trenches or will be soon, it's a great resource and may put some wonderful agents on your radar based on what they're looking for.

Just a reminder as we look forward to this weekend... We're going to win. There's a ton of hard work ahead of us & a lot more really bad days, but we've won before, with less resources & more capable foes. So we will win again. Every reader of every age will have access to the books they need.

I’m so excited to share the cover of my next #kidlit book! Thank you to Javier Perez and Catherine Laudone @simonkids.bsky.social 😍

Now a fan! Thanks for this great conversation 💗@kazwindness.bsky.social @boydsmills.bsky.social

Grace Lin (@authorgracelin.bsky.social) and I are offering a guest spot on our #BookFriendsForever podcast, and I'm offering an AMA! Lots of other great items to bid on here: bookloversforliberation.com

Whenever I need a reset— #optoutside

Every news item steely blade thrust into flesh cut out core-rot [imagine an 🍎 with a bruise] #HaikuSaturday

We can use our words to build up or to tear down... How will you use yours? #HaikuSaturday #Haiku #Poetry #WritingCommunity

Must read! Our own Alison Green Myers and Alexandra Villasante sat down with Mitu Malhotra of Cynsations (and also one of our Retreat Assistants!) to talk about our new name, scholarships, and some great upcoming workshops!  cynthialeitichsmith.com/2026/02/a-sa...

The power of fiction! Specifically #clifi Check these titles out. And hooray for Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan

I don't see why an injunction could not be written to forbid ICE from ever using tear gas. (I mean, I know one could be written, but one not vulnerable to being stayed.) As we see in MN, courts are reluctant to micromanage ICE. But given ICE's actual remit and authority, it doesn't need it.

The Newbery Honor books are: ‘The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli’ by Karina Yan Glaser; ‘A Sea of Lemon Trees’ by María Dolores Águila; ‘The Teacher of Nomad Land’ by Daniel Nayeri; and ‘The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest’ by Aubrey Hartman #ALAyma

It should enrage and galvanize the entire nation, not just Minneapolis.

Hey #kidlitchat, check out what's going on @boydsmills.bsky.social ! For those who don't know, this is the former Highlights Foundation. Follow them!

There's one thing I have *consciously* decided: Every novel I write has a librarian in it!! #kidlitchat #librariansrock

TOPIC: What's the most "YOU" aspect of your work? A character, a situation from your own life, a recurring theme, or the way conflict is resolved? What's uniquely you? #kidlitchat