Stephanie E. Mahar
• Information Professional, MLIS '20
• Literacy Education Ph.D. Candidate
• Filipina American & Multiply Neurodivergent
@damnparka.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 martial artist and writer: screen/comics/video games. Boxing/Muay Thai coach at UCLA, Muay Thai Kickboxing Gym Reps: Writ Large, RBEL Agency He/him
@librarylandia.bsky.social
Historian, Librarian, Former New Yorker 🗽Current Canadian 🇨🇦 #SoSayWeAll (she/her) I teach, write & research on #comics #censorship #moralpanics #publichistory #libraryhistory and #visualculture + I organize comic shows // opinions = all me Also ❤️ #dogsky
@tinylibrarian.bsky.social
Indigo-haired DJ, foodie, Teen Services Admin @LAPublicLibrary, APALA Lit Awards Publisher Liaison, past Eisner Award jury, past YALSA Pres & PLA Board. Librarian in the viral #LindaLindas video. Opinions my own. #FreePeopleReadFreely
@larissadelliott.bsky.social
Picture book author repped by @charlottewenger.bsky.social. Sometimes writer of YA & MG. Wife. Mommy. Band director. 🇵🇭🇺🇸. She/her. #12x12pb. #Kidlitart on IG @ larissa.d.elliott. ADHD is my superpower.
@hiringlibrarians.com
Mostly content from https://hiringlibrarians.com/ - survey-based interviews with people who hire library workers, and many more resources on LIS/GLAM hiring and careers. Run by: http://emilyweak.com
@averykaplan.bsky.social
Writer 📚 Bylines @ Star Trek, Geek Girl Authority, TCJ, Popverse, Prism Comics, & MORE ♏️ Features Editor @ Comics Beat (she/her) Part of the Eisner Award winning 2022 PanelxPanel team! IDIC 🖖🏻 Cali class ✨ Spousey: @rebeccaoliver.bsky.social
@kerriefayebooks.bsky.social
Author, Wife, Mom ✝️🐶🏈🏔️✈️🏝️🍷 🚨DEAD GIRL, YA Paranormal Thriller AVAILABLE NOW! 🚨 https://linktr.ee/kerriefayebooks QUERYING: YA Romantasy ❤️🔥(Rome inspired Gladiator meets Bridgerton but with Magic & gryphons!) ⚔️
@moodpitchers.bsky.social
MOVING TO WEBSITE AND DISCORD! A biannual online pitch event hosted by @LiteraryKat @hannahdsharpe2 incl. moodboards & ALT text, connecting writers with agents & acquiring editors. NEXT EVENT: THURS NOV 9/23 8a-8p ET!
@sylviaichen.bsky.social
TRICKY CHOPSTICKS {‘24 @SimonKIDS} 🌟 SPARKLES FOR SUNNY: A Lunar New Year Story {‘25 @PenguinKids} 🌟 #SCBWI #12x12PB #PBParty #PBRisingStars #PBStudyBuddy Rep: @AgentHenkin 💜 food +☕+ writing STEAM PBs
@paraplyshop.com
Lily (or Maren) ✷ 30+ ✷ she/her ✷ autistic illustrator from Germany ✷ contact(@)paraplue-illustration(.)com ✷ paraplyshop.com ✷ linktr.ee/paraply ✷ [ up next -> NipponCon: August 15th - 17th ] click/long press #art to see all of my artworks
@mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social
OH FFS, do I have to Okay fine, FINE, I'm a children's writer and artistttnnnggghhhh that still feels so weird to say, I'm also Korean American and autistic and a messy emotional glob who constantly gets sentimental on main, you've been warned
@fangmousbooks.bsky.social
Author, illustrator, designer. LAYLA & THE BOTS, INVENT-A-PET, FRIENDBOTS, BEST BUDDIES (Scholastic, '23), AVA LIN (Candlewick, '24), & more.
@janetsumnerjohnson.bsky.social
PB & MG Author. Latest Books: The Winterton Deception: Fault Lines (P+I, Nov. '24) Not My Circus (Capstone, Jan. '24) Agent: Lauren Galit at LKG Agency
@martychan.bsky.social
Author, playwright, and servant to my cats. Check out my website for my books: martychan.com.
@karenkrossing.com
#KidLit Author, Editor, Mentor. Latest books: MONSTER VS. BOY. ONE TINY BUBBLE. Repped by Ginger Knowlton at Curtis Brown. VCFA Alum. Faculty at Whale Rock Workshops. Settler heritage. She/her. Bi/pan. 🏳️🌈 https://karenkrossing.com
@fallingletters.ca
#BookBlogger | former children’s librarian | 💜 #MGlit, spec fic, Tolkien, the Karluk, Depeche Mode | ace | she/her | 🇨🇦 https://fallingletters.ca
@philbildner.bsky.social
I write books for young people, picture books and middle grade novels. I’m the founder and President of The Author Village. Mets and Nets fan. LGBTQ🌈
@charlenedraws.bsky.social
🇨🇦 🇸🇬 Illustrator, author (The Pink Pajamas, S&S 2025) | Rep: Tracy Marchini, BookEnds Literary | Co-host @kidlitart.bsky.social chat 🎨 CharleneChua.com ✏️ charlenedraws.bio.link 🚫AI/NFT
@juliefhedlund.bsky.social
Picture Book author & Founder, #12x12PB @12x12challenge.bsky.social & co-founder @pbsubmissions.bsky.social. SONG AFTER SONG: Julie Andrews Bio (2023, little bee), OVER, BEAR! UNDER, WHERE? (2021, Philomel) juliehedlund.com
@heatherstigall7.bsky.social
📚KidLit Author, 12x12, Rutgers 1:1 Plus mentee 2023 #SCBWI PA East Critique Group Coordinator 👻GILBERT & THE GHOST (Beaming Books 2025) 🐰PAISLEY'S BIG BIRTHDAY (Clavis Books, 2023) picture book obsessed, creator of stuff
@debreese.bsky.social
Tribally Enrolled: Nanbé Owingeh Founder: American Indians in Children's Literature
@cybilsawards.bsky.social
Children's and YA Book Lovers' Awards. Honoring diverse voices and inclusive stories for kids & teens since 2006. Celebrating 20 years in 2025. We speak book. https://linktr.ee/CybilsAwards
@dvpit.bsky.social
pitch event for creators from marginalized communities. Now hosted on Bluesky! https://dvpit.carrd.co/
@haloteachlearn.bsky.social
ESL Teacher. Mom. Travel. Dance. Strawberry ice cream. #Kidlit Author, repped by @KaitlynLeann17 SCBWI 12x12 http://HannahLorenzoBooks.com
@poslfit.bsky.social
I like words, math, languages, code, food, organisation, and problem-solving. I work on Scrabble, election data, dictionaries, and translation.
@kchew.bsky.social
Editor. Word person. Bookstore aficionado and occasional bookseller. You say I’m a nerd like it’s a bad thing.
@cartoonist.coop
Your all-inclusive home for comic creators, big and small! Together we can make comics better for everyone. Visit https://cartoonist.coop/ to join us today!
@mgillman.bsky.social
Trans cartoonist, colored pencil artist, nasty li’l woodland creature. Author of As the Crow Flies, Stage Dreams, and Other Ever Afters. Chair of Comics at California College of the Arts. They/them.
@breebird33.bsky.social
bestselling writer & artist making comics (she/her) ✦ monsters, historical fashion, FromSoft & all things autumnal ✦ Repped by Britt Siess https://linktr.ee/breebird33 THE FIRELIGHT APPRENTICE is out now! Current WIP: graphic novel adaptation of DRACULA
@danichuatico.bsky.social
🇵🇭 comic creator | professor of sequential art | Passé It On! (RHGraphic)
@brittsabo.bsky.social
🌩️ COMIC ARTIST AND ILLUSTRATOR 🌩️Professional ghost enthusiast /// creature feature /// non-binary cryptid (They/them) I’ve met the devil and he said it was cool if I tell you 👁️ www.bsabo.com 👁️
@bethphelan.bsky.social
she/her. senior literary agent @galltzacker. closed to unsolicited queries for the time being. bethphelan.com galltzacker.com
@featherfully.bsky.social
editor & maker of good trouble at Atheneum (Simon & Schuster) • california coastal creature • still workin’ on it 🌱🌈✨ https://featherflores.com/ she/her • kitty art by Carrie Liao 🐾 🩷💜💙
@triciaebarvia.bsky.social
Educator • #DisruptTexts • #31DaysIBPOC • Institute 4 Racial Equity in Literacy • Opinions my own • 🇵🇭🇺🇸 • she/her/siya • Author of Get Free: Antibias Literacy Instruction for Stronger Readers, Writers, and Thinkers https://linktr.ee/triciaebarvia
@genielysse.bsky.social
She/her Fil-Am 🇵🇭 author and artist 🦋 Repped by Janine Le 💛 Maker of PBs, GNs, and verse novels 📚 Enthusiast of animated movies 🎥 …and oatmeal chocolate chip cookies 🍪 🖤🤍💜
@lynnekelly.bsky.social
USA Today bestselling children’s author & sign language interpreter, mom of 2 dogs and 1 human SONG FOR A WHALE THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF BIRDS THREE BLUE HEARTS coming Fall ‘25 lynnekellybooks.com #SCBWI Houston
@richardmercz.bsky.social
🇵🇭🏳️🌈 Comic Artist | COMING OUT PERFECT ( Scholastic Graphix, 2025) | Production Artist at Skybound 🥳 | repped by ASH Literary(views are my own!)
@andreaywang.bsky.social
2022 Newbery Honor, APALA Award, & Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor winner. NYT Best Books 2021. PB & MG author. http://linktr.ee/AndreaYWang Rep: @agentemurph.bsky.social emliterary.com
@authorsguild.bsky.social
Authors working together to ensure fair pay, protect copyright, and defend free speech.
@saribelp.bsky.social
She/Her Literary Associate at Gallt and Zacker Literary Proud nerd and Kidlit advocate Loudest GRD Jeerleader All thoughts are my own
@maggietokudahall.bsky.social
kids and young adult book author. The horrors never cease but neither do I. Founding member of Authors Against Book Bans. (She/her) blessed stressed depressed ✌🏽 Prettyokmaggie.com
@lilylamotte.bsky.social
Kidlit author of MEASURING UP, CHLOE’S LUNAR NEW YEAR, and UNHAPPY CAMPER. Repped Laura Rennert (ABLA) and Mary Pender (UTA) https://lilylamotte.com/
@claribelortega.bsky.social
NYT Best-selling raccoon enthusiast 🦝 Witchlings 4: Scepter of Memories out 9.16.25 I wrote Ghost Squad, the Witchlings series & the Eisner & Pura Belpré winning graphic novel Frizzy 🐓 https://linktr.ee/claribelortega