Oooh, I would love to have this opportunity to get feedback from editor Alyson Heller! Timing's bad for me this time around, though, but I hope the rest of you #MiddleGrade #writers will jump on this. :)

Morning sketches of an eagle made by my son and me. #sketch #sketchbook

👻 If you see this, post a haunted house from your portfolio 👻 #kidlitart #art

Storytime for Chicago library kids with LeVar Burton at the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Library 🤯✨📚 @obamafoundation.bsky.social

Thank you so much, zombie brain trust! #KidLitZombieWeek

This one killed me today.

Our next #kidlitartpostcard event is coming up NEXT Thursday, July 2nd. More info here: www.ginaperry.com/postcard

If you're working in comics, 2 crucial tips: 🔸Put dialogue balloons + captions in page roughs to make sure there's enough room for them in the composition and that they'll be read in the proper order. 🔸Clear storytelling is far more important than drawing unexpected angles or using tons of detail.

My dad passed away a couple of years ago, he was not a good dad… he was the best father I could’ve wished for, even though we bumped heads as our personalities were very similar. And I am so grateful he got to meet my kids.

No Father’s Day is complete without this video. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Redmond tore his hamstring in the 400 metres semi-final but continued the race limping and, with assistance from his father, managed to complete a full lap of the track as the crowd gave him a standing ovation.

Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. “It’s swampier than ever.” The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. 😂😂😂

Happy Father's Day 🖤

Glad to learn I was one of the lucky zombies... errr... writers that gave a second life to their manuscripts and won a prize from #kidlitzombieweek! Thank you so much to the brain trust! (art by @kristinwauson.bsky.social)

Did you know Little Free Library is a nonprofit organization? Our mission is to build community, inspire readers, and expand book access for all. Your support helps us get book-sharing boxes full of books into communities where book access is scarce. Consider a gift today: https://lflib.org/donate

This book turns one today! No, not one year. One month. Big thanks to everyone who has boosted it!

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Teachers & Librarians! It's time to sign up for our free online summer writing camp & this summer, Teachers & Librarians Write is about REVISION (Picture books! Novels! Everything!) with on-demand writing workshops throughout this summer. Details & sign-up link here: katemessner.com/get-ready-fo...

This is so powerful from Dave Eggers! The human chorus is incomplete without YOUR voice, or why letting AI speak for you is a straight-up crime against the joy of being human. I got added to another mod list for AI haters this morning and it’s certainly where I belong 😌 youtube.com/shorts/aNpAh...

Am I getting this right? The White House is hosting an event where people beat each other?… Is this what the United States are supposed to represent?

Businesses that use AI for their emails, read this. Your emails look like spam or scamming emails.

Thanks John Scalzi for featuring me on The Big Idea today where I write about my latest release, IT CAME FROM NEVERLAND. "Peter Pan without Wendy Darling is just a boy screaming into the dark. Wendy is the story, and Peter’s promise to her is the lie." whatever.scalzi.com/2026/06/11/t...

i hope media executives are taking note of the tens of thousands of people who for several hours on a friday night have stayed glued to livestreams of scaffolding being built just so they could witness his name getting knocked off a building

New: Judge Angel Kelley in Boston ordered the Trump administration to reinstall exhibits and signs on topics like slavery ‌and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide because they "do not align with its preferred narrative." www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

Honestly wish I could erase my memory so I could go in again cold.

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

AUTHORS! Do not, without the explicit permission of an illustrator, upload the art from your book into any AI system to create content like trailers for your book. I cannot believe this needs to be said AND HERE WE ARE.

SKATE ALI #1 hits shelves TODAY! 🤘🛹🤘 Art by me, written by Sam Humphries, lettered by Joshua Reed, from an original concept by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Sam Humphries. And if you want to crank it up, the soundtrack while I was drawing it was mostly Guano Apes, Ecca Vandal or Turnstile. 🔥

Listen to your children read. Read to your children. Read alongside your children. Take them to libraries. Talk about what reading means to you & what it can unlock in them. Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word.

Post a cartoon you remember that (you think) no one else remembers. Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors! There were cars! And plant aliens! And buzz saws!

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

We spot a #KidlitZombieWeek #prize donor! Check out this free webinar series for a chance to dig deeper into #picturebooks with the amazing @jessicawhippl17.bsky.social. #WriterSky #KidLit #WritingCommunity #KidLitArt

Pssst - The #KidlitZombieWeek pitch and pledge forms are up to fill out for a chance to win amazing prizes. You can find them here: sites.google.com/view/kidlit-...

And here's the Timelapse of the illustration being made. :)

Hello #kidlitartpostcard! Happy 5th anniversary! (and thank you @ginaperry.bsky.social for creating this amazing monthly resource). I'm Santi Casares, a writer/illustrator in search of representation.

FCC To Investigate TV Shows Where The Mom Has Job https://theonion.com/fcc-to-investigate-tv-shows-where-the-mom-has-job/

Hello #kidlitartpostcard! Happy 5th anniversary! (and thank you @ginaperry.bsky.social for creating this amazing monthly resource). I'm Santi Casares, a writer/illustrator in search of representation.

Hey! Workman Kids is hiring for a senior designer position. If you know anyone who might be interested, please pass the word along? We have a fun team and a bunch of awesome picture books coming up to work on . . . jobs.jobvite.com/hachette-int...

Why would Scott Pelley trust or respect her? She's done nothing to earn either, and neither has her new lackey.

I’ve drawn more than usual, which feels great! And still in the querying trenches… which is what it is. #kidlitchat

I would happily sacrifice ChatGPT if it meant more trains and buses in my city.

The world's largest dedicated space for illustration, the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, the brainchild of celebrated the British illustrator, is all set to open its doors in London on June 5.

#KidlitZombieWeek Day 1! Check it out here: writerreaderteacher.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/g... Then come back & comment on this post with the one question that the blank page asks that feels most helpful. #WriterSky #KidLit #WritingCommunity #KidLitArt

@wilwheaton.net LOVED “With her Serpent Locks” and the interview with Mary Robinette Kowal. Thanks for sharing her story with us!

They’re starting to announce what’s happening over at the Picture Book Summit! picturebooksummit.com

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

SUNDAY'S THE DEADLINE. www.instagram.com/p/DY5pBqvD3X...

Hey remember when Trump said he didn’t know what Project 2025 was and the super serious mainstream media swallowed it? 😕🤷🏼

whenever i see people gloat about how they "don't use references" for art i just think about this bit from sam and max