There's still time to enter the #PBSummit 2025 TICKET GIVEAWAY! Just share our reveal posts with your writer friends on social media and tell us about it at: www.picturebooksummi...#PBSummit Enter today! Ends 6/9/25. #amwriting #picturebook #kidlit #PBSummit #booksky

Rate Your Story is super excited to present a January 20th 7 PM Launch and Learn with Beth Anderson here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Beth Anderson @followers @highlight #nonfiction #NonFictionBooks #RateYourStory

Be sure to share this post and comment for a chance to win one of five opportunities to have an Ask Me Anything Session with Acquiring Editor at The Little Press / Director of Rate Your Story Lynne Marie alaynekaychristian.wordpress.com/2025/01/11/l... @alaynekaychristian.bsky.social

🌟But since we can’t wait…we’re hosting a social media GIVEAWAY! 🎁 You could win ONE MONTH FREE of Ebony Lynn Mudd’s PB courses at The PB Retreat! How to enter: 1. Follow us 2. Repost! 3. Tag a friend in the comments! A winner will be chosen on Friday, 1/10! Enter on IG too to DOUBLE your chances!

🍦✨ Calling all aspiring picture book authors and illustrators! Join us for our Third Annual Virtual Ice Cream Social on Tuesday, January 28th from 8-9:30 PM Eastern! Connect with the co-directors, meet past mentees, get insider tips on applying to the program + more! Register at pbrisingstars.com

So much to love about a Rate Your Story membership! Check it out! www.rateyourstory.org #RateYourStory @literallylynne.bsky.social #picturebooks

Join us today for a Free Digital Workshop for Premium Members! A replay will be made available if you cannot attend live! Register here: www.scbwi.org/events/state...

Lit Kids Magazine is a good one-line publishing option for 5-13 year old creatives. A quarterly with themed submissions, it requires parental permission. I like that it provides mentors helping kids to improve their writing & art. Check them out, and check out their latest issue. #kidswriting

Hi, #WritingCommunity.👋 My name is Heather Macht, I'm a #kidlit author who writes #PB & #MG, & I'm one of the faces behind #SeasonsOfKidLit.com. I write stories about mutants, monsters, & prehistoric creatures, & love mixing #STEM and #girlpower themes into my books. 💚 I'd love to connect!

Updated: Bluesky resources For The #KidLit Community. Added a Master Index to make it easier to find subtopics, plus you can always use the Search field to look for specific topics. publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/fo...

Thanks to all who have shared my Unofficial Guide To Bluesky! MUCH appreciated. Other ways to help: - Pass it forward. Help/welcome a Bluesky newcomer. - I make a living writing/illus #KidLit, so consider boosting, borrowing, or buying one of my books? More: publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bl....

Do not engage with trolls. BLOCK them. Feel free to share with anyone who needs it: How to Block a user on Bluesky (including screenshots of what they'll see, etc): debbieohi.link/how-to-block #BlueSkyTips

Today, I got to read #IWantToReadALLTheBooks to Archie, the real-life dog who inspired the canine throughout my book! I presented him with a personalized copy, of course. 😁

I provide templates for book creators for FREE & without needing to register: debbieohi.com/resources/pr... Thanks @annettewhipple.bsky.social for the heads-up.

Just out that www.formsbank.com has an old version of one of my PB templates on their website, without permission, and with THEIR TRADEMARK over it. 😡 Have asked them to take it down.

It's Nature Book Week in Australia. My fave kind of book, they are beautiful, informative, entertaining and inspiring. People can't care about something they haven't experienced first-hand - nature books are the gateway to making future conservationists. 💚Here are some I wrote. #NatureBookWeek2024

The good news: I've been visiting local bookshops to sign copies of my new picture book with Annie White called DOG BEACH. The bad news: about 1 in 3 times, they don't have DOG BEACH in stock. The good news: it's because DOG BEACH has sold out! The best news: they are ordering more. 😁 #picturebooks

*doing a signing for Quacks Like a Duck...* Parent: Oh yay! My kid LOVES ducks. Absolutely obsessed with ducks! Can't get enough of ducks. Ducks ducks ducks! Me: Unfortunately it's about a platypus 😅

Two more months until my magical guinea pigs waddle on to shelves! ✨

We often worry about the wrong things. People killed annually by Sharks 10 Elephants 100 Hippos 500 Snails 10,000 Dogs 25,000 Snakes 50,000 People 475,000 Mosquitoes 725,000 🧪

Latest #podcast episode of my chat with @sharongiltrow1.bsky.social is in! Give it a listen to hear more on celebrating community success, why Australian libraries are so awesome, and why it matters to find joy in the writing process. Link in bio. #author #kidlit ginasoldano.com/joy-writing-...

Well, I’ve had a go and created a Starter Pack for those interested in Australian Kidlit. Please let me know if you’d like to be added and/or removed. Looking forward to connecting with others who are also Aussie Kidlit tragics and advocates. go.bsky.app/BHYEVMN

For those who like gifting books, here are some of my favourite reads this year. These beautiful picture books by Australian First Nations storytellers range from the gently serene to the fantastically wondrous.   💙📚👍🏼 #Books #KidLit #ChildrensBooks #PictureBooks #Australia #DiverseBooks #Gifts

"Hurt creatures, hurt creatures." A emotionally resonant Australian classic that should be better known. On @fuse8nkate.bsky.social we dive deep into a book that will stay with you for years. Get ready for FOX by Margaret Wild: #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2024/09/23/f...

If you need a reason to go to a library, here are 101 instead. #TBR #kidlit I especially love the #NF #poetry and #PB lists. Check it out.

Podcast Episode 3: Writing Nonfiction Poetry with Buffy Silverman

Okay, here's the first 12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Starter Pack. Let me know if you are a member and would like to be added (check to make sure you're not on it already). We're going to need more packs given the number of members we have, but it's a start! go.bsky.app/SE9YQfH

Okay now that have hopefully ALL left that other place and there’s critical mass of kids book creators, readers, agents and editors here — WHAT WILL IT TAKE to make the big publishers follow suit? I’M JUST AN AGENT STANDING IN FRONT OF THE BOOK PUBLICITY DEPARTMENTS BEGGING

To new Bluesky users: This place has the BEST curation & moderation tools of any social media platform I've been on (& I've been around for a while 🦕). *Strongly* recommend TAKING A FEW MINUTES to learn. I've summarized the essentials in my Unofficial Guide: publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bl...

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🤩 I more than adore THE BOOK THAT ALMOST RHYMED—brilliant storytelling through an ever-clever rhyming scheme, entertaining pacing, funny read-aloud appeal, plus so much more! 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy #Kidlit #bookboost #TheBookThatAlmostRhymed @omarabedwrites.bsky.social @metahatem.bsky.social #PenguinKids

#12x12PB members, are you ready for our August webinar with Tameka Fryer Brown? Tune into "Picture Book Range: Writing Across Styles and Topics" on Thursday, August 29th, 2024 at 1pm ET/10am PT. Mark your calendars, and we'll see you there!

Created a new EduLib feed that picks up hashtags like #EduSky #Skybrarian #SchoolLibrarian #TeacherSky #TeacherLibrarian: bsky.app/profile/debb...

Love, love, love 💕 that Katie Blagden of The Bright Agency is judging our shiny new Chapter Book for 5-8-year-olds competition. Find out what our agent judge is looking for in a chapter book here: www.searchlightawards.co.uk/judge/katie-...

Time is running out… To enter, send us your opening chapter and a pitch. Your story can be work in progress. 1st prize: £350 + a call with our agent judge - Katie Blagden of The Bright Agency. Top 10 entries: featured in our agent/publisher pitch book. www.searchlightawards.co.uk/competitions/

Charles Schulz's name has been so frequently misspelled, including on books of his work, that I did a short article on it. www.hoganmag.com/blog/2020/5/...

Hooray! 'What Sort of Dog is That?' 🐾 🐾 found a home on the shortlist for Searchlight's Best Picture Book Text 2023. Thank you to the hard working @writingawards.bsky.social team!