Monica Free(wo)man

2025 Participant badge for Kidlit Zombie Week. Illustration of a mermaid zombie

2025 Winner badge for Kidlit Zombie Week. Illustration of a mermaid zombie

Thanks again for a great #KidlitZombieWeek! If you participated or were a winner, you can pick up your badges here.

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Kidlit Zombie Week - Forms Please note: forms will open up the Friday of Kidlit Zombie Week. So excited to see your pitches and pledges!

The Pitch and Pledge forms are alive! Go to sites.google.com/view/kidlit-... to fill them out for a chance to win prizes.

Remember to take the pledge by commenting below (or your own post) with "I solemnly swear I’m using my yummy brain to bring a zombie manuscript back to life. #KidLitZombieWeek"

Here we go zombies!

So thrilled to be a part of this crew 💚

Tag zom-buddy you hope is participating in #kidlitzombieweek 2025! (Because brains are better shared...)

7 days to go!

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It's ba-ack.
Dunh, dunh, DUNH!

Hey, #KidLit #WritingCommunity! #kidlitzombieweek hosted by @kaitlynleann17.bsky.social & Co has moved right here to BlueSky.

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tysm natasha!

How do you decide which is your most queryable story?

And congrats to my CP and fellow runner-up @musingmommumble.bsky.social!! Call us butter because we’re on a roll!

Thank you to the whole PBRS team for this beyond wonderful opportunity and my Chicka Chicka Zoom Zooms for reading (and rereading, and rereading…) my stories to get me to this point! It takes a VILLAGE!!

WHOA what a week! I’m ELATED to be a @pbrisingstars.bsky.social runner-up for the 3rd year in a row! What an honor to be considered by the totally rad @juliapierrehammond.bsky.social.

One more story before I go: I entered an early version of this one in #PBpitch years ago. It got a heart from a really cool agent, but she (understandably lol) passed. It was honestly a terrible draft. But now it has real purpose and is coming to life! TL;DR keep on revisin’ 🙌

Thank you @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social @sylviaichen.bsky.social & the PBParty crew! And most importantly thank you to my Chicka Chicka Zoom Zooms @rynkatt.bsky.social @jenzlowe.bsky.social @rachelgrodsky.bsky.social @musingmommumble.bsky.social I am so unbelievably lucky to call you my CPs!

It’s been a minute, but I’m back here to share that The Dot Went for a Walk made the #PBParty HM list! This story has had a JOURNEY, and I’m so thrilled to hear that its new direction is resonating with creators I deeply admire.

@rynkatt.bsky.social

🍦✨ Calling all aspiring picture book authors and illustrators! Join us for our Third Annual Virtual Ice Cream Social on Tuesday, January 28th from 8-9:30 PM Eastern!

Connect with the co-directors, meet past mentees, get insider tips on applying to the program + more!

Register at pbrisingstars.com

Hi, ‘Sky!