⭐️IT’S TIME⭐️ #pbrisingstars applications are now open! Are you ready to improve your craft as a picture book creator, working with an experienced mentor for FREE?? Then our program is for you!

How come a prescription for your eyeglasses is free but a prescription for contact lenses costs money? 🤔

⭐️Announcing 40 INCREDIBLE MENTORS! ⭐️ Just look at some of the books from our 2026 mentors!! Miss the big announcement? Follow the link to kidlit 411 to see the news! . www.kidlit411.com/2026/01/the-... How are you feeling? . #picturebook #pbrisingstars #kidlitillustration #kidlit #amwriting

You can find my picture books SALON SATURDAY and MY BLOCK LOOKS LIKE on this year’s #SCBWIBOOKSTOP - browse and bring a copy home today! Let’s share the love of children’s book! www.scbwi.org/bookstop/boo... www.scbwi.org/bookstop/boo... #kidlit #picturebooks #childrensbooks #readmorebooks

⭐️ GIVEAWAY TIME! ⭐️ We’re just ONE WEEK from our big, history-making #PBRisingStars announcement, so let’s celebrate with 4 incredible picture books from past mentors! 📚✨ To enter: 1️⃣ Follow us on Bluesky 2️⃣ Like this post 3️⃣ Tag a friend (1 tag = 1 entry!) Winner announced on 10/30 with our big news!

We’re all here and safe from the rapture 😅 so don’t forget to get your copy of my new picture book SALON SATURDAY out today everywhere books are sold 🥳 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705386...

Y’all really allowed pumpkin to be the official flavor for fall when apple was right there for the choosing. Apple cider, apple cider doughnuts, apple pie, hell we even go apple picking in the fall and yet y’all still let these pumpkin spice lovers prevail. I’ll never forgive y’all 😩

I really need Netflix to come to the front of the class and explain to everyone why an 8 episode season needs to be split in half. Just drop all 8 episodes at once. What is the meaning of this foolishness?! We need answers!

NYC drivers: Who are y’all using for car insurance? The way GEICO just keep raising rates with no rhyme or reason when I have a perfect driving record. It’s time to go ✌🏾

Hold up…y’all been out here scoring UNO like we’re playing Spades or is UNO back to making rules up bc I ain’t never heard of playing like this 😩😂

My brain is still processing Sinners then The Last of Us casually strolls up, says “hold my beer” and rips my heart out of my chest 😫😭😩

RYAN COOGLER!!! That’s it! That’s all that needs to be said! Go see Sinners immediately 🏃🏾‍♀️

When you’re in the middle of revising your story and it feels like you’re making the story worse than better 😩

Announcing the 2025 Buckeye Children's Book Award nominees! For grades 3-5: My Block Looks Like by @bxstoryteller.bsky.social and #FrankMorrison @penguinkids.bsky.social

Resist the regime. Reading books is resistance. Buying books is resistance. Sharing books is resistance. Celebrating books is resistance. Resist this regime.

Y’all love getting on the internet and criticizing Tyler Perry’s writing but where’s that smoke for M. Night Shyamalan because I just watched Trap and WTH was that smh?!

STANDING OVATION FOR EPISODE 7 OF PARADISE 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾. Line up all the awards for this show and the actors!

It’s only 50 sumthin’ degrees outside. New Yorkers PLEASE, for the love of God, let’s act like we have some decorum before Mother Nature takes her behind back inside and we have an extended winter. Please y’all 😩

T-4 days until our big 2025 MENTOR ANNOUNCEMENT!!! Who will YOU have the chance to work with this year?! Subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to find out! Pbrisingstars.com #mentorship #kidlit #kidlitmegafeed #picturebooks

The #PBParty 2025 contest now has 59 agents & editors for the showcase. Wahooooo! We're hosting a PBParty Prep Zoom to go through the Google entry forms in detail, share tips & make sure all questions are answered. I added the Zoom link here: mindyalyseweiss.com/2025-pbparty...

I will never forget your amazing whirlwind during #PBParty 2021, @bxstoryteller.bsky.social. You had so many agents and editors excited about your entry--and I'm thrilled it's out in the world. 💗 For anyone who wants to read Janelle's Success Story--here it is! mindyalyseweiss.com/pbparty-succ...

Here's the list of 55 participating agents, editors & ADs for the 2025 #PBParty contest. Wahoooooo! I'll shout out as more yeses come in. This post has a link to the 2025 Ranking Party (thanks for running it, @beccamcmurdiebooks.bsky.social) & a badge/banner. mindyalyseweiss.com/2025-pbparty...

This is how I found my agent in 2021 😃

This is not a drill! Our newsletter subscribers got the first look, but now, it's OFFICIAL — the 2025 Mentee Information page is LIVE on our website! Check out the FAQs & 2025 Mentee Info pages to learn more about eligibility, requirements, & dates! www.pbrisingstars.com/mentees

Be sure to follow us here + Instagram (@PBRisingStars), and sign up for our newsletter on www.pbrisingstars.com to stay in the loop! Sincerely, @booksbytrenise.bsky.social & @laylafallah.bsky.social! ⭐ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ #pbrisingstars

Hello, friends (and future Rising Stars) Guess what?! Info for the 2025 #PBRisingStars Mentorship is going live on January 2, 2025. Three weeks to go! We can't wait to share more soon! #pbrisingstarsmentorship #kidlit #diversevoices #authors #illustrators #authorillustrators #picturebooks

As I’m awake at 5am on a Saturday to do laundry, all I can think about is this can’t be the same adulthood we were all in a rush to get out of our parent’s houses to get to. Bills in our names, keeping a home clean, washing AND folding laundry, etc. Adulthood is the worst hood I’ve ever been to smdh

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 14/20

Is it very Black of us to think about the light bill first 🤣😩🤣

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 13/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 12/20

I’ve come to the realization that it’s not Xmas movies I dislike. It’s Rom-Com Xmas movies specifically. Within 10 mins, I know how the entire movie will play out. You’ve seen 1, you’ve seen them all. Cheese and way too predictable. Give me a straight Xmas comedy like Elf, Home Alone or Bad Santa.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 11/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 10/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 9/20

“Passing it Down”

Hey y’all! Here’s a big mega list of 160+ Black Owned Bookstores all over the U.S. + a few other countries as well! U can filter it by state. I posted about this on the clock app today, but figured I’d share here too! aalbc.com/bookstores/l... Happy Reading! 📚💙 #Booksky #BlackBookSky #BlackSky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 8/20

Thanksgiving dinner hot take no. 1: It’s time to remove turkey as the official meat dish. It’s SO overrated. Sorry, not sorry! I vote for cornish hen to replace it🙋🏾‍♀️

If your book isn’t included in all the book lists/awards, please don’t forget that your book may have given someone a much needed laugh or newfound hope; may have inspired a reluctant reader to pick up a book; may have allowed someone to finally feel seen. Don’t forget your why! Keep storytelling!

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 7/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 6/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 5/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 4/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 3/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 2/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 1/20

Alright! Started working on a literary agent starter pack on here, for all my writer friends out there! Follow along and see what folks are looking for. go.bsky.app/EFopcRo

Finally switched over 👋🏾. I hope this platform is simple, user friendly and full of positive vibes bc baby I really don’t have it in me to learn another one 😩 Book community where y’all at?! Holla at me!