I’m thrilled to share my new podcast & webcast is now live! Many thanks to my partners authors Alicia Salazar and Silvia Lopez and to all our guests - you’ve made this happen! Yay!

My new bilingual PB is now published! 🥳🥳🥳 Details at www.claudia-sloan.com.

I love the @12x12challenge and community and it’s now open for new members! #12x12PB See www.12x12challenge.com

This may be a good learning opportunity for novel writers here :-)

🥳 #Kidlit friends & gentle folk! I’m kicking off my new CLOVIS sequel across social media with a #giveaway of Clovis 1 + Clovis 2 for #WorldKindnessDay & #AntiBullyingWeek ! 🎁🎁 To enter: ❤️ Like 🦋 Follow 🔄 Reshare ☕️ Tell me your fave ‘cozy time’ drink

It's been fun seeing familiar faces pop up here this week! If you're just arriving & are an author, illustrator, educator, or librarian, here's a list of like-minded folks to follow: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... And here's how to add yourself to the list: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

POETRY CONTEST!! We're baaaaaaaack ... but this time it's for RHYMING VERSE for PB, MG, YA! Submissions open Monday, November 18. My fellow judges are back: Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, Suzy Levinson, and Lou Piccolo. We can't wait to read your kidlit poems! www.reneelatulippe.com/poetry-conte...

I’ve been doing #scbwiartober2024 and this is my quick little sketch for today’s word prompt “gourd”. More of them are in my art blog, I don’t want to be bugging everyone here but if you’re curious about these challenges, they do help get your creative juices going or simply have some fun!

Wishing you a joyful Holiday season.

Read Banned Books - This is a little ‘zine I made to give school librarians at the NJASL conference this weekend in Atlantic City. Not gonna be there? Join my Almost Monthly ‘Zine Club and I’ll mail you one www.patreon.com/mikedawwwson

I’m participating in this year’s Halloweensie contest. My entry is number 137. A First Halloween – Claudia Sloan (susannahill.com/2023/10/29/t...) 🎃

Custom feed update: 35 kidlit/YA editors (who work with traditional publishing houses) + 1 editorial assistant 70 kidlit/YA agents It's clear that the kidlit/YA community is embracing Bluesky, HURRAY! 💛📚 You can find my Custom Feeds (and add any to your My Feeds) by going to my FEEDS tab.