My mother is an artist. I love her work to pieces. Some shown here. Fully.

🎉 Signed copies of Bea’s Balikbayan Box of Treasures are now available for preorder from @belcantobooks! 📦 Shipped to U.S. addresses or pick up in-store. 🔗 Shop link: belcantobooks.myshopify.com/products/pre-b…

A post from a few years back, I still feel like I was onto something here… #kidlitart, #kidlitillustration,

“In-between Places” by #AlexKillian and #GradyMcFerrin is a wonderful book about transitions. It’s about those moments between. The simple text moves from statement to metaphor and is accompanied by rich illustrations. It’s a perfect book to explore those moments of uncertainty. #PicturebookPage

Learn five reasons that commonly appear in rejection letters for novels and picture books, translated and then followed by solutions for addressing the problem.  Join me!

Happy gift to me! I forgot I planted these last fall… seeing their blooms on a rainy gray morning earlier this week surprised and delighted me! #tulips #happyspring

Thank you, Hawai’i. Mahalo. You were beautiful. Until next time. 🌸🌺🌼 #springbreak #hawaii #ocean #family

Going to work Is not so bad With views like this

#Spring beauty Crocus beckoning Bird song

Just some turkeys enjoying the view at Bear Lake in Utah last weekend. #uplift #writing retreat #kidlit

Check this out #kidlit writers! I can’t wait for this class to begin! #nfkidlit there’s still time to join!

Thank you so much for the awesome “Bitsy Bat, Team Star” interview, Monica! This was so fun! #kidlit #bitsybat #bitsybatteamstar #autismacceptance

Check out the weekly 411 #kidlit www.kidlit411.com/2025/02/the-...

It’s like waiting for a pot of water to boil! #seeds #spring

Have you rolled in the snow today? #joys #positivity #uplift

I’ll follow this ‘nose to the ground’ anywhere. “Puppy love”

Looking forward to next weekend! Life, the Universe, & Everything conference for #writers! Where? #Utah! I'll be talking about comic style books, plot, and engaging readers in your story.

My goal was to sketch a jolly and portly baker juggling pancakes… 😆🖊️I suppose next time I should spend less time watching the game… #kidlit Good practice anyway

Great deal on this week! All preorders at B&N are 25% off! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fantastic-... @candlewickpress.bsky.social

Did you enter the #PBParty contest yet? Don't let fear get in the way. Put yourself out there and make 2025 your year to shine. You have a little over 3 1/2 hours left to enter. Huge thanks to PBParty judge @staceybyer.bsky.social for this adorable, inspiring graphic. 💗

It's submission day for the #PBParty contest. Did you enter yet? Please don't wait until the last minute! We can't wait to find out where you live, what genre/s you submitted & what other genres you write.

We are pleased to host a #giveaway of the picture book, KAHO'OLAWE by @kamalani3.bsky.social, illustrated by Harinani Orme (@lernerbooks.bsky.social) out on Feb. 4. To enter, L + RP and confirm your entry in our Friday weekly update: www.kidlit411.com/2025/01/the-... (+ more ways to win).

It's the first of the month, so we have a new website banner and Illustrator Spotlight on Sian Moore. Check out her awesome art, and enter to win a copy of her book COWBOY CAM, by William Russell. To enter, L + RP and confirm your entry here: www.kidlit411.com/2025/02/illu... #giveaway

Just a reminder to find your people and hold them close. There is power in community. #kidlit #kidlitart

We are nearly out of January. I'm sharing what I felt brave enough to explore, given the encouragement I received from many here. I have much to learn, but I am loving it! I hope the spirit of hermit crab's surprise party is contagious! 🎈 #kidlit #illustration #newgoals #watercolor #diorama

It's time again for #KidsComicsUnite 's Pitchfest! If you're a #GraphicNovel creator for the #KidLit market, this is a terrific opportunity for you. Pop over to the website for all the details: kidscomicsunite.com/kcu-pitchfes...

Are you ready for the #PBParty Prep Zoom on Sunday, January 26 at 7 pm Eastern? Huge thanks to @sylviaichen.bsky.social for the amazing graphics & everything she does for the PBParty contest. 💗 mindyalyseweiss.com/pbparty-prep...

I decided to jump in and share some of my new artistic endeavors with #JanuARTy Today’s prompt is #liquid As it turns out, we do have a mix of that form currently falling from the Northern #Utah Sky #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration

www.instagram.com/reel/DE6D-Bo... next weekend is Dino Fest in Salr Lake City at the Natural History Museum of Utah. looking forward to seeing modern Dinos (raptors), fossils, learning about ancient underwater worlds, & Chicken Frank, Dinosaur Storytimes Come for the fun! #dinosaurs #kidlit

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our First Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 12, 2025. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...

It's on the calendar: If you are releasing a book this year in any genre or format, you may like this webinar, happening March 3. Shares welcome--I'd love to see you.

For those who do care about what's happening in the world but sometimes need a feed free of politics, heartbreak, or mean-snark, feel free to follow my #Uplift feed: bsky.app/profile/debb... Hand-curated by yours truly, criteria unapologetically subjective.

Started with a pencil sketch. Added color for the heck of it. Grew up loving the loons of NH’s lakes region. Always another page. Another tomorrow. #kidlit #loons

Do me a kindness! Share this if you love and support your local library & librarians (and remember: that includes your school library & school librarian) 😊📚 Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚

If you're planning to make 2025 your publishing year, maybe I can help. I'm filling my schedule now. Services are available on my website: www.alisonweisseditorial.com

For dinosaur lovers near Utah, Jan 25-26, there is this! Looking forward to doing Story Time again this year. #dinosaurs #kidlit

Day two of picture books and young adult books that demonstrate how all of us can to look to the natural world to find ourselves. Jim LaMarche’s picture book is a powerful reminder of the unexpected joy and wonder that can be found simply by being outside.

For those that need a #fairy spell for a wish you’d like help with in nudging along, here is one I drew for you. She’s gonna be working extra hard with those small wings, but I think that’s the point? I pick her for my team :) 🎉💕🖊️ #sketch #charcoal #kidlitartpostcard #kidlit

To celebrate a productive 2024, I'm doing a giveaway over on Instagram of the four books I published last year! Stop on by and enter to win! bit.ly/4iWphYF #kidlit

with many writing successes from 2024 and new goals set for 2025, one thing I'm looking forward to doing more of this year is watercolor and sketching. Here is a piece I'm working on. #watercolor #newgoals #illustration #kidlitart Cheers to all of our endeavors!

Did you know that in winter, wood frogs nearly freeze solid? You can see this illustration & other amphibian mysteries in my new book, SAFE CROSSING, to be released January 7! #kidlit #kidlitart #amphibian #woodfrog #frozenwoodfrog #winter #hibernation #hibernationmode #childrensbookillustration

Took a holiday break from #writing, but not from walking. Found some new neighbors enjoying the sunshine

Hello, #kidlt Just a new neigh-bor Saying hello Sharing a pic of a friend I see on my walks

Last weekend myself and 3 other #picturebook creators presented “DinoMania” for kids at the West Valley Library for stem, art, and history content related to our books. Complete with a scavenger fossil hunt. So much fun to collaborate and make an exciting, educational event. #edusky #kidlit

I’m looking forward to this 6-week online class that starts tomorrow at the Writing Barn with the amazing author and instructor Rob Sanders, where I hope to approach the history of an event from a biography lens. Can’t wait!! Sign up to join, write, learn, polish!

Hey PB writers— if you want to learn from a multi-award winning and multi-published author- this is the class for you!! Plus, get feedback on a manuscript and peer workshop!! Jyoti is gifted in all: rhyme, lyrical, narrative prose. Check it out at the writing barn website. Www.thewritingbarn.com

You think I'd forget it was Tuesday and #kidlitchat day, too? Nah. You didn't forget, did you? Nah. And if this is news to you, well, I hope you'll join us at 9 PM Eastern/6 PM Pacific right here on BlueSky.

I want to read ALL the books. Do you? Share this post & you may win this piece of original art. 📚 #IWantToReadALLTheBooks #FreedomToRead #EduSky