Merrill Rainey
picture book creator • paper toy maker
Color, Cut, Create • Peek & Play series • My First Town @odddotbooks (Spring 2025)
Rep’d by @bookmarkliterary
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@mariannebtabner.bsky.social
Children’s Author*she/her*TAKING TURNS-English & Spanish* *kidlit*science*nature*humor*history*diversity*NF*Fiction* SCBWI*Inked Voices*12 x 12*former educator* MarianneBlackstoneTabner.com @https://www.facebook.com/marianne.blackstonetabner
@logosandtypes.bsky.social
Letter Logo Love! Welcome to a space where the artistry of letters meets impactful logos. Explore how Real Companies perfect this creative fusion.
@artewrites.bsky.social
UPenn. Management Professional. Bibliophile 📚 Writing ✍️ Art 🎨 Photography 📸 Good food & Gardening. Married. No DMs✖️ From California ☀️ A Real Person ❤️
@kristaheijbarber.bsky.social
🇨🇦🇺🇸Illustrator-Designer-former Disney Animator living in the Midwest. Always looking to create fun, goofy, kid centered art! Connect with me…. ☕️Portfolio: www.kristaheijbarber.com
@trlhallwrites.bsky.social
@shirleyfadden.bsky.social
ShirleyFadden.com Writer & Illustrator of picture books. SCBWI Rutgers Mentee Writer's Loft Anthology PBParty 2025 Finalist I make picture books for a tutu-wearing, lizard-loving, imaginary boss.
@jalwrites.bsky.social
Author 🏳️🌈 2024 LGBTQ+ Free Reads winner OUT IN GREENWOOD - out now through SRL Publishing. Represented by Intersaga Literary Agency.
@louisemaamodt.bsky.social
Picture book author, SCBWI, educator, ant-watcher, defender of the underdogs. Rep’d by Emily S. Keyes @esc_key. www.LouiseAamodt.com
@kellyamangan.bsky.social
MAEVE MULVANEY HAS HAD ENOUGH (Holiday House). LIKE THAT ELEANOR (Cardinal Rule Press). #KIDLIT author/illustrator. Comics geek. Trekkie. Squirrel Girl enthusiast. “Endearingly sarcastic.” Rep: @tajmccoy.bsky.social Www.Authorkellymangan.com #NoAIArt
@wigglebox.bsky.social
Jen. 34. She/They 🏳️🌈 Illustrator | Working on my professional art journey! New Englander | Fungi fan | Vintage Christmas enthusiast [Biggest AI hater] Mundus sine Caesaribus
@dinahodara.bsky.social
Kidlit Writer and Teacher. SCBWI member and 12x12 member. 2024 PJ Library Scholarship Award Winner to the Highlights Foundation. 2024 PJ Library Summer Camp Attendee.
@stychentyme.bsky.social
Father • Artist • Proud Canadian🇨🇦 • Comic Book Collector • Sci-Fi Aficionado • Cartoon Enthusiast • Die-Hard Canucks fan!!
@dpilutti.bsky.social
Children's Book writer and illusrator. Lover of vintage signs and awkward toys. Bad at clapping. THE DINOSAUR IN THE GARDEN is out now! FISH DON'T GO TO SCHOOL coming soon
@gehrisch-arts.com
- #kidlit picture book #Author-Illustrator 👩🏻🎨 -Former IC of Cen/South Ohio #SCBWI. 🖌️ www.gehrisch-arts.com -Creative Director at Bookling Media 🎨 www.booklingmedia.com
@soulellis.com
Artist-publisher-writer. Founding member/organizer Queer.Archive.Work. Faculty RISD Graphic Design. he/him. @soulellis everywhere. Providence, RI
@typegirl.bsky.social
Type. Typography. Design. History. Music. Movies. Food. Friends. Family. Love. Not always in this order. Thoughts are my own. She / her.
@writerdaniela.bsky.social
Kidlit Author | Wife & Mami | Chicana | WELCOME HOME, ESMERELDA (Charlesbridge, May 2025)| @SCBWI | Rep: Charlotte Wenger at Prospect Agency writerdaniela.com
@authorjessicashaw.bsky.social
Pre-K Teacher ~ Author: THE GREAT COOKIE KERFUFFLE (AmicusInk 2022) ALICE ALONE (AmicusInk March 2025) 🩵Picture Books🩵Plants🩵Animals🩵 https://www.authorjessicashaw.com/
@jorenfro.bsky.social
Author and Illustrator of PEG GETS CRACKIN’ 2024 and PEG GETS PLUCKY 2025, available now! PEG’S EGG in spring 2026! Mom, grandma, animal and outdoor lover. Rep’d by @swekstein.bsky.social Website www.jorenfro.com
@suzylevinson.bsky.social
Children's Author + Poet 🦁 ANIMALS IN PANTS (Abrams) 🦖 DINOS THAT DRIVE (Tundra Books '25) Rep: Rachel Orr, Prospect Agency 😎👍 www.suzylevinson.com
@christinealemshah.bsky.social
#PB Author of BEA’S BALIKBAYAN BOX OF TREASURES '25 with @freespiritbooks.bsky.social | #12x12PB | #SCBWI | #Growyourwriting Challenge Host | 🇵🇭🇺🇸 #filtheshelves Rep'd by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social of CMA
@carriekruck.bsky.social
Children’s Author 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸 via 🇦🇺 🔥IGGY WHO BREATHES FIRE (Disney Hyperion) 🌸ALFRED BLOOMS (Random House Studio) Rep: Ammi-Joan Paquette My website: carriekruck.com
@lindsayleslie.bsky.social
Tickle-fight champion. People-watching connoisseur. Lover of all things snark. Oh, and I dream up picture books! GUS HEARTS THE BUS (July 1, 2025) | SO YOU WANT TO BUILD A LIBRARY | DUSK EXPLORERS | Etc. rep’d by Charlotte Wenger www.lindsayleslie.com
@jmorerabooks.bsky.social
Sleepy person, pastelito enthusiast, and author of TOGETHER WE REMEMBER, ABUELO’S FLOWER SHOP, and more! Banner art by Violeta Encarnación
@chloeitoward.bsky.social
📚 Author. Educator. Mom. ☀️ MADE FOR MORE - HC 2/25/25 🥢 CHOPSTICKS ARE - Chronicle 26 ✨️ chloeitoward.com 💜 Rep'd by @HeatherCashman Preorder MADE FOR MORE below! https://bookshop.org/p/books/made-for-more-chloe-ito-ward/21713485?ean=9780063334144
@lisavperron.bsky.social
Author: Patterns Everywhere (Lerner '23) My Love for You (S&S '23) Tell Me About Space/Oceans (S&S '23/'24) All the Rocks We Love (RiseXPenguin '24) Wonder Why (Harper Kids '25) + more Rep: Tricia Lawrence, EMLA https://lisaperronbooks.com
@dianaacastle.bsky.social
I'm a Cuban Mermaid & Author/Illustrator, repped by Saritza at Andrea Brown Literary Agency! ✨🎉 Debut Early Reader GN coming April 15, 2025 🎉✨ Pre-order here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/082345696X #Kidlitart Portfolio: dianacastleart.com
@katievenit.bsky.social
she/her. Kidlit author in WI 🎪FORTS, Viking 🛰️CASSINI'S MISSION, MIT Kids Press Rep'd by Joyce Sweeney, Seymour Agency https://linktr.ee/KatieVenit
@kellyconroy.bsky.social
Children's Writer, Rhymer, Reader https://linktr.ee/KellyConroy Rep'd by Sarah Stephens | SCBWI | 12x12 You Are My Everything - Tiger Tales '24 I See You In The Stars - Familius '25
@natashayim.bsky.social
Children’s author Luna’s Yum Yum Dim Sum, 2020, Charlesbridge Publishing Lunar New Year, 2023, Quarto Books Upcoming: Luna and the Case of the Missing Mooncakes, 2025, Charlesbridge Publishing Repped by Ana Crespo, East West Literary
@hellonathanc.bsky.social
Abnormally tall children's author. World chess ranking: 8,220,401,754. WHEN SANTA WROTE BACK! (Sourcebooks Wonderland, 2025) Visit me here: https://hellonathan.ca Join the "PB Workshop" Discord here: http://discord.gg/KSYfkNg Rep'd by: Lilly Ghahremani
@jstremer.bsky.social
Kidlit Author GREAT CARRIER REEF 🌟🌟 LIGHTS OUT; FIRE ESCAPE 🌟🌟; PLIGHT OF THE PELICAN (Spring '25); WONDERFULLY WILD (Summer '25) TRAPPED IN THE TAR PIT (Fall '25); WHEN OLD BECOMES NEW ('26)
@msmarianayagam.bsky.social
🇱🇰🇨🇦 God First | Tamil | STEMinist No Purchase Necessary & Baby Virtues series Wait Til You’re Older out next! rep: @curtisbrown.ltd 💌 subscribe
@monizahossain.bsky.social
Writes books for kids, repped by Triada US RITU IN THE SUN (Random House Children’s, 2026) STREET PUPPY, MASJID CAT (Little Bee Books, 2025) THE FEAR FACTORY (Holiday House, 2026) monizahossain.com
@jennawaldmanauthor.bsky.social
Children's Author & Poet. 12x12 Rhyme Co-Elf. Bluesky Newbie. A Purr-fect Passover '25, Purr-im Time! '23, Sharkbot Shalom '21, Larry's Latkes '21 Repped by Lisa Rambert-Valaskova/Transatlantic Agency www.jennawaldman.com IG: @jennawaldmanauthor
@dellarossferreri.bsky.social
Children's writer of board books, picture books & early chapter books Rep: Rachel Orr, Prospect Agency Upcoming: THE MOUSE BUFFET (Sleeping Bear Press, Aug2025) Illos by Tim Bowers Now booking K-3 school visits. https://www.dellarossferreri.com
@artbyann.bsky.social
Author and/ or Illustrator of 40+ books including PING PONG SHABBAT (2024, Little Bee). 12x12. CBIGNYC. SCBWI.
@elizabetheverett.bsky.social
✏️ #Kidlit #Writer and #SCBWI member 📚 Traditionally published #PB #Author 💙 Former #Teacher turned #Homeschool mama ➡️ Here to connect with #Teachers, #Educators, #Librarians, #Authors, #Writers, #Readers, and #Parents 🖱️ elizabetheverettbooks.com
@audreysbooks.bsky.social
Award-winning author and copywriter. Write. Bake. Repeat. MOO HOO and BAA HAA (Scholastic, 2024 & 2025), A HAT FOR HOUSE (Putnam, 2024), ONCE UPON A TAIL (Abrams, 2026) & more! Rep: @jmcgowanbks.
@sabrinashahauthor.bsky.social
#Kidlit author #PB MUSIC OF THE MOUNTAINS '25 with Barefoot Books #writementor #12X12 #TheGEAcademy #SCBWI 🇬🇧🇵🇰🇸🇬 🤲🏼
@drzathome.bsky.social
REWRITING THE RULES (Sept '25 Millbrook Press) #MakingSTEMaccessible Bio PhD | PB MG YA author | 1st pl '22: #rateyourstory & #springflingkidlit 3x winner #50PreciousWord '22/3/4; Highlights sch '23 Rep: @gabycabezut @SeymourAgency www.dannazeiger.com
@noshesthebear.bsky.social
Children’s Book Author IF MY HAIR HAD A VOICE (Beaming Books) • INVENTIONS TO COUNT ON (Abrams Appleseed) • Rep: Ammi-Joan Paquette danamiroballi.com Instagram: noshesthebear #KIDLIT #CHICAGO
@darahenrywrites.bsky.social
Children’s Book Author, PB Writer: HANUKKAH PAJAMAKKAHS (@Sourcebookskids) Fall 2024. Rep’d by @renarossner. Debut 2024. SCBWI, 12x12, www.darahenry.com for more.
@kidlitjennaj.bsky.social
#kidlit author | elementary teacher | bookseller | ♿️ 🐕🦺| EVERY BODY MOVE (2025) | I DANCE WITH LIGHTNING (2026) | repped by Christie Megill | https://www.jennaelysejohnson.com
@alisonmcgauley.bsky.social
#Author of big-hearted stories for little readers. #teacher #parent #chronicillness #IBD #arthritis https://linktr.ee/alisonmcgauley
@amandadavisart.bsky.social
Author-Illustrator | Educator | Mom 🐶🐶👶🏽 🇺🇸 30,000 STITCHES (‘21) 🌙 MOONLIGHT MEMORIES (‘23) 💙 SOMETIMES STORMY (‘25)
@theislandwriter.bsky.social
Award-winning #kidlit author / ISLAND GIRLS / BIRTHDAY BASH / THE OCEAN PROTECTORS / SCBWI / 12x12 PB / Plastic Ocean Project / Ocean Activist / coffee lover / Rep'd Karen Kilpatrick and East West Literary