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Took a while this year- but the tomatoes in our little garden are finally growing!

The PB Retreat with Ebony Lynn Mudd Picture book writing courses and community through The PB Retreat with Ebony Lynn Mudd.

Thanks to @ebonylynnmudd.bsky.social Ebony for a wonderful workshop in revisions @pbrisingstars.bsky.social
Her classes will also be available at PB Retreat

www.thepbretreat.com/courses/comm...

Thanks to Jerrold for a great PB Webinar! @pbrisingstars.bsky.social
@jerroldconnors.bsky.social

PRESENTING: the 2025 PB RISING STARS mentees, runners up, and honorable mentions! 🤩🤩🤩

We’re thrilled to work with our 28 new mentees, and we’re so proud of our RUs and HMs.

CONGRATS TO ALL!
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I got some exciting news last night! #PBRisingStars
#kidlit

Excited to see My Heart Remembers on the #PBParty 2025 Honorable Mentions list!

Thanks! 😀

Thanks! 😀

Thanks!

Thanks!

Giving #PBRisingStars a try- fingers crossed!

Congratulations to all the #PBparty finalists & best of luck to you next week! 🎉

2025 PBParty Annual Contest ⋆ Mindy’s Writing Wonderland The annual PBParty contest is for unagented writers and author/illustrators with finished and polished picture book manuscripts. We pick a wide variety of genres for agents/editors to browse in the sh...

The #PBParty 2025 contest now has 59 agents & editors for the showcase. Wahooooo!

We're hosting a PBParty Prep Zoom to go through the Google entry forms in detail, share tips & make sure all questions are answered. I added the Zoom link here:

mindyalyseweiss.com/2025-pbparty...

❄️Winter Walk❄️

Looking forward to taking part in this terrific contest again this year!

Someone is on Santa’s Good list! ❤️🌲🎅🏻

This sounds great!

🍁Fall is trying…🍁

I saw this online today and it made me laugh!
#kidlit

Yes- really enjoying the summer!

#kidlit

Do you want to write books for children? 🧒📚👧
I have a FREE (extensive but not exhaustive) list of resources available on my website under the "Resources for Writers" tab. Books, orgs, podcasts, webinars, challenges & more!
www.heatherpiercestigall.com/resources-fo...
#kidlitcommunity

My smiley boy ❤️

Case in point - @andreabrownlit.bsky.social recently embraced Bluesky, and has 1320 followers as of my post. But their recent announcement of their 2nd Chance Inbox already has 120 engagements. And those are from REAL people, relevant to their interests. bsky.app/profile/andr...

Hi! I’m a friendly #KidLit agent. In 15 minutes (at 6pm Eastern) I’m going to do a mini impromptu AMA session just so I can see what happens. This is not a time to pitch your book to me — but if you have questions about agent stuff, books, publishing — maybe I can help! Use the hashtag #AskAgent 😃

Photo of smiling Asian woman in glasses holding up a spiral bound notebook. Text on the notebook reads: "Hi, I'm Charlene Chua (@charlenedraws.bsky.social). I'm doing a #KidLitAMA on Wed. January 24th, 2024, 12-2 pm ET. Ask me anything about: Picture books, illustration, cats. Hosted by Debbie Ridpath Ohi (@debbieohi.com). More info: DebbieOhi.com/KidLitAMA. In the righthand column is a display of some of the books Charlene has helped create.

Reminder (esp for those who have attended #kidlitchat): Wed.Jan.24, 2024, I'm hosting Bluesky's first #KidLitAMA ("Ask Me Anything"), My first guest is picture book author/illus @charlenedraws.bsky.social! Free, publicly viewable, anyone on Bluesky can post Qs.

Details: debbieohi.com/kidlitama/

Snowy day at the park

Congratulations! 🎉

Congratulations, Sylvia! 🎉

Blue sky day