🍀It’s your lucky day!🍀
Now through next Tues (3/17), get $20 off a Peak Team Critique! PBParty entries are due March 17. With Nicole’s keen eye for detail, & me as a former PBParty finalist, we’d ❤️ to give your ms a look over before the deadline. Use code PTC-Luck! More info👇
I'll be teaching a webinar on Saturday, April 11 at 11 a.m. CT on The Mechanics of Writing. To register or for more info, visit www.thewritingbarn.com
I'll be teaching a webinar on Sat., April 11 at 11 a.m. CT on The Mechanics of Writing, where I'll go over the basics of punctuation, dialogue mechanics, and self-editing that every writer should know, as well as examples of common mistakes I see in submissions. Register at www.thewritingbarn.com.
for World Book Day
If you didn't already know how AMAZING my agent @kaitlynleann17.bsky.social is, this proves it!
Her birthday is in March. Her gift to the #kidlit community? A critique giveaway! To enter, leave a review for my books or any Team Sanchez books! More info here: kaitlynleannsanchez.com/2026/03/01/u...
THE #50PRECIOUSWORDS 2026 INTERNATIONAL WRITING CONTEST IS OPEN!!! viviankirkfield.com/2026/03/02/t... Please share to spread the word! #kidlit #iamwriting #contest #prizes
A graphic with orange and yellow swirls with a space suit clip art holding a star balloon. Text says: Aoply Now February 27 to March 13
How to Apply: - click on a mentor’s profile - scroll down- click apply button - fill out google form and submit - check your email and spa folder after submitting for an email confirmation - subscribe to our newsletter
⭐️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!
#kidlit friends! If you’re looking for a ✨free & fun✨ event in March, check out March On With Mentor Texts! It will have daily craft blogs & prizes for those who participate! & I’m honored to be one of the contributing blog authors for this event😄 Check it out!👇
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✨ THURSDAY✨ come join us to see how a book idea becomes a published work with insight from everyone who makes it possible! PLUS 2 book giveaways! Recording will be sent after. Register for FREE: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
With @writeloudly.bsky.social @charlesbridge.bsky.social
If you're unagented and plan to enter #PBParty on March 16, you can sign up to join the PB Ranking Party by Monday, February 23! #kidlit docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Writers! Hit me with your best editing hacks! I have A Big Edit on and every time I edit a book I forget how to edit a book. Remind me, would you?
Hot Tip for Writers who are querying:
Have someone who is unfamiliar with your story read over your query and synopsis. If they don’t understand what the book is about or how the story unfolds neither will an agent.
Drumroll please....This #PresidentsDay help celebrate my new #picturebook with a cover reveal! #HappyBirthdayAmerica! (written by me, illustrated by @jenniferdoehring.bsky.social, and published with @albertwhitman.bsky.social) releases May 7!! #kidlit #illustration #America250 #ComingSoon
Seriously danced around my kitchen for 10 minutes and woke my husband at 6 am when I got this news😆 So honored and excited! Thank you @freespiritbooks.bsky.social!
Lol thank you Roxanne!
The cover of the Picture Book BEATRIX AND THE UNICORN, which features a gold-framed painting of a young seated girl who appears to be a medieval peasant, reverentially gazing at and reaching out to a dappled white unicorn tapestry that seems to almost be coming alive. The title is in gold above the frame, and both frame and title are on a mulberry-and-mauve floral motif background.
Happy Book Birthday to the luminous new picture book BEATRIX AND THE UNICORN by Lita Judge!
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Happy book birthday The Princess and the Grain of Rice! A new twist on The Princess and the Pea. Story by Tina Cho and Honee Jang. 🍚
Hi agents, I’m on the hunt for high-concept layered YA & MG novels! #MSWL
For YA: romantic fantasy; dark academia; mystery/thrillers like We Were Liars or Firekeeper’s Daughter; thought-provoking horror or gothic; romantic coming of age like Aristotle & Dante & Last Night at the Telegraph Club 1/3
Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...
When should you stop querying a book?
www.agentsandbooks.com/when-should-...
#booksky
Today's guest blog post features 👉informative and actionable tips for authors and illustrators 👏 from social media strategist KristinTobias at Scenda Social.
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2026 Caldecott Medal - one of my favs from this year! #ALAYMA
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Renée Watson wins the Newbery! She is a treasure and so is this book. I just gifted it to a young reader friend. It's a book in verse, so accessible, about grief.
Normalize being proud of the book you wrote even if it didn’t sell the way you hoped.
t's time! I'm opening back up to queries.
Right now, it is just picture books, YA and New Adult. I'm really looking for stories with a strong sense of unforgettable authentic characters, hooky concepts with strong plotting and an emotional core, and unique voices or visions!
#amquerying #writers: Did you ever wonder what results in an ❌auto-reject❌ on your query? SPOILER ALERT: It's not typos. Here are the most common reasons: writingcommunity.ca/queryhacker-...
#PBParty 2026 information is up! This is such a fantastic opportunity for unagented #picturebook writers and illustrators. Get those submissions ready!
#writingcommunity #kidlit
2026 PBParty Contest ⋆ Mindy’s Writing Wonderland share.google/LBFIkPKY7GAf...
Post from Amanda Gorman’s Instagram that says amandascgorman Minneapolis, Minnesota For Renee Nicole Good Killed by ICE. on January 7, 2026 by Amanda Gorman They say she is no more, That there her absence roars, Blood-blown like a rose. Iced wheels flinched & froze. Now, bare riot of candles, Dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hymns. If for us she arose, Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power, The howl where we begin, Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we've been. Change is only possible, & all the greater, When the labour & bitter anger of our neighbors Is moved by the love * better angels of our nature.
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
New FREE contest for writers of Middle Grade Fiction — tinyurl.com/wdwcontest4 — Judged by Agent Morgan Hughes of Fineprint Literary, via @writingdaywksp.bsky.social Winners get an agent critique of their work.
