A cozy, cocktail-only speakeasy in Omaha. Real ingredients, immersive experiences, and a vibe that’s all our own. 🍸 Calm, cool, and always welcoming behind the locked door. #KeepItCool
A full-service literary agency representing authors of fiction and nonfiction.
https://thetobiasagency.com/
Pronounced why-zick. NYC. Literary agent at Trellis Literary Management. Opinions my own. Cat mom; fast talker; Garamond enthusiast; she/her. SUNY Geneseo alum.
The Bluesky home of Authors Against Book Bans Rhode Island , a coalition of book creators united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. Learn more and join at https://www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/
YA writer of cozy mysteries || rep: Natascha Morris of the Tobias Literary Agency || kristenwilley.com
YA Author of The Keys & Guardians Series 🗝 , Never Say Never 💕, Editor-in-Residence at @Write_Hive, Director of Operations @IKnowWhySheStayed Neurodiverse Spoony, Mama, Wife, Geek, Badass. She/Her 🏳️🌈
yallwest | yallfest (book festival producer)
reader's digest | paste | teen librarian toolbox/slj (freelance book media coverage)
teen librarian
she/her
doodler, demi, NYT, USA Today & Sunday Times bestselling author of LITTLE THIEVES, THE MERCIFUL CROW, & more ✨ She/her. Rep: Victoria Marini
author of NYT bestsellers “Cemetery Boys”, “Lost in the Never Woods”, “The Sunbearer Trials” and “Celestial Monsters”.
currently writing: “Cemetery Boys 2: Espíritu”
just Some Guy.
https://linktr.ee/aidenschmaiden
📕 13 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE (HarperCollins, March 18, 2025)
📕 THE SONG OF US (KTegenbooks/HarperCollins)
✍ DVMentor '22
✍ MFA Lesley ‘21
🏳🌈Queer she/her
rep: Eric Smith @P.S. Literary
Author of the Enchantée series, lover of magic (she/her)✨ Author website: gitatrelease.com ✨ Rep: Molly Ker Hawn
|Writer: THE FRAME-UP, THE QUEEN CON, THE VIGILANTE GAME| Corgi enthusiast | FEI equestrian | child wrangler | audiophile | Rep'd by Nelson Literary | She/her |
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
#amquerying author of contemporary fiction || 🇨🇦
#indieauthor My YA sci-fi novel “Leeta Simtar: A Life on Two Planets” available #KU ebook print audiobook. My paranormal mystery “The Little Things That Kill” is available in all realms.
AnnieFox.com
linktr.ee/anniefoxauthor
#YAauthor #Resist
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
#KidLit Artist Writer. ND Fam.
Turtle on a marathon
💚SCBWI Co-RA, SF North & East Bay
...drawing writing gardening sewing...
Always Making Something.
https://maritzaruizkim.com
My name sounds like🧜♀️mer-izza🍕
On the lam from my day job moonlighting as a critically acclaimed Upper MG and YA author, Co-founder of The Brown Bookshelf and momager to MDBallerina. Rep: Jennifer Carlson, DCL Literary Linktr.ee/paulachase
Author | Poet | SDWF Kids Write Judge | MGpies | SCBWI Mentee: Joy McCullough | Agent: Leslie Zampetti | #KidLitChat [Tuesdays 9pm ET] | MG Hub | Highlight’s Kay Yoder Scholarship for US History ‘24 | Intern for Kaitlyn Sanchez | https://bit.ly/3Zf7FiH
Writer, mom, cat lover
Author of 5 series:
Math Pirates
Funny Math Stories
Preemie Sibling
Gobbled (YA)
The Bridge to Nowhere (Paranormal Romance)
sarahburr.com
Querying a contemporary fantasy:
Sunrise Psychiatric (vampires)
The Bridge to Nowhere
Author of GOOD DIFFERENT & THE GIRL IN THE WALLS @Scholastic
Christ-follower #Actuallyautistic #2023Debuts #MGin23
rep'd by @laurenspieller.bsky.social
http://www.megedenbooks.com/
#kidlitchat happens every Tuesday night at 9E/6P, co-hosted by @bonnieadamson.com and @gregpincus.bsky.social. The topic is posted here as each chat begins, as well as any important chat news.
Banner art by Brian Kirby: @boringstorybook.com
Writer. Likes to rhyme, though not when writing movies or novels. But you should see my shopping lists! Has never bought an orange. #kidlitchat cohost for 14+ years on ex-Twitter (and now here on Tuesday nights at 9 PM EST!). Still bats and throws righty.
The Happiest Place in Publishing! Classes, agent consultations + a thriving community at ManuscriptAcademy.com. Brought to you by the makers of Manuscript Wish List® + #MSWL.
Senior Editor at Bloomsbury | My dog’s biggest fan | 🇨🇺🇺🇸 | she/her
www.editoralexborbolla.com
Trade publishing's daily rundown, and sibling of the source of Deal Reports.
Associate Art Director • Children's Illustrator
Rebeccasyracuse.com
She/her
💚HAROLD THE ICEBERG IS NOT A SUPER FOOD💚 is now available wherever your favorite books are sold.
HOW TO TALK TO YOUR SUCCULENT 2025. Author & Illustrator. She/Her. Work inquires to persico.zoe at gmail and/or to Natascha Morris at Tobias Literary https://zoepersico.com/
A free e-newsletter from Publishers Weekly that reports on children's and YA books. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/9Ubz9L
Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators
Supporting quality children’s books & the artists who make them since 1971.
🥕 artist & tiny creature enthusiast
🦊 community lead & marketing @ spry fox
🎮 past: strange scaffold, winter burrow, potionomics, ooblets
linktr.ee/itsachrista
(He/Him) Story person. Actor. Managed by The Gotham Group. Union: TAG, SAG. The views expressed here are my own.
https://michael-herrera.com/
📚The new, non-Twitter home of #MSWL! We are a way for agents and editors to tell writers what they *wish* they had in their inboxes. Full agent profiles here: https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/ Newsletter: https://manuscriptwishlist.com/subscribe
I report on the publishing industry through my paid newsletter, The Bottom Line, and educate writers on the business of authorship in THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WRITER (University of Chicago Press).
#Kidlit author (How We Fall, Ballad of Dinah Caldwell, +) of #LGBTQ YA romance & suspense about queer girls & furious joy.
Editor in publishing. Come for the books & bakes, stay for the exvangelical rage. Bi af 🏳️🌈 www.katebrauning.com
Writer. Book fanatic. Kdrama ❤️. Young Adult Romance Author.
THE WAY TO GAME THE WALK OF SHAME, FAKE IT TILL YOU BREAK IT, & JUST ANOTHER MEET CUTE (Scholastic May 2025) Repped by the talented Natascha Morrison & Sarah Fisk at The Tobias Literary Agency
🇨🇦 Kidlit author & illustrator. Illus books by Judy Blume, Michael Ian Black, others. Current goal: debut MG author 🤞🏽
📚 I WANT TO READ *ALL* THE BOOKS
🎨 I'M BUSY (w/ Michael Ian Black, 2026/02/24)
DebbieOhi.com @work.debbieohi.com
Nemophilist, Goblin, Swordsman, Socialist. 35 summers to my name, here to learn interesting things, shoot the shit and have a space to just be myself.
Pfp alt text: an image of myself (headshot) close up, looking at the camera.
NYT bestselling author. Working on my 10th book. 🤯 Trying to be a speck of calm in an ocean of chaos. 🧘🏾♀️Mostly on IG: sandhyamenonbooks
NYT & indie bestselling author of Love Hate & Other Filters, Internment, Hollow Fires, Ms. Marvel: Beyond the Limit, This Book Won't Burn, The Singular Life of Aria Patel. Nat'l leadership team Authors Against Book Bans
www.samiraahmed.com
Yes! My mother named me this!
Author of Eleanor & Park, Slow Dance and the Simon Snow Trilogy. Writer of She-Hulk and Runaways. My next book is called Cherry Baby, and it comes out in April 🍒
Author of Chaos Walking, Monster Calls, More Than this, Burn, Different For Boys. Won a couple Carnegies and an Olivier. Four wins away from an EGOT.
#1 NYT bestseller & National Book Award finalist.
Everything, Everything, The Sun is also a Star, Instructions for Dancing & One of Our Kind
Co-publisher: Joy Revolution Books
Rep: Jodi Reamer (Writers House)
Edgar-Award winning author of The Female of the Species and Heroine. Upcoming: Under This Red Rock. Banned in a lot of places. Okay with that.
Author of The Princess Diaries graphic novel (June 2026) and The Magic We Made (Aug 2026)
Insomniac. Cat Lover. Optimist.
she/her
Author. Not the one from Rent.
https://maureenjohnsonbooks.com
kids and young adult book author. The horrors never cease but neither do I. President of Authors Against Book Bans. (She/her)
blessed stressed depressed ✌🏽
Prettyokmaggie.com
Forest creature who writes books & champions libraries. American heart, Danish soul.
Author of YAs: Speak, Shout & many more
Historical adventure novels: Chains, Forge, Ashes & Fever 1793.
And…. Rebellion 1776 is a NY Times bestseller! Huzzah! 🎉❤️🇺🇸📚
NYT & Sunday Times bestselling author of Daughter of Smoke & Bone series and Strange the Dreamer duology. Inventor of gods, eater of mangoes, killer of darlings, mother of yetis, keeper of ghosts. Portland, OR.
#1 New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning tortoise owner
I’m also on Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Threads, the site formerly known as Twitter, and a blog powered by Blogger! All through one brand called KlicKNet.
#1 NYT and international bestselling author of the ONE OF US IS LYING series & other young adult mysteries. Latest: SUCH CHARMING LIARS. Will keep you up too late.
www.karenmcmanus.com/links
Award winning writer and New York Times Bestseller. Sometimes agent at Handspun Literary. I also do TV and comics.
Food is a scam in this country.
Up next: Secrets
NYT bestselling author. Yarn enthusiast. Cat person.
www.jodimeadows.com
jodimeadows.substack.com
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Books: MY LADY JANE, BYE FOREVER, I GUESS, THE ORPHAN QUEEN
See website for full list <3
Librarian. NYT Bestselling Author. | LOUDER THAN HUNGER, RUTHIE ROSE’S BIG IDEA, THE GIFT OF STORY, THIS IS A SCHOOL, THIS IS A STORY | Agent: Molly O'Neill
Author (The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed, etc.)
YouTuber (vlogbrothers, Crash Course, etc.)
Football Fan (co-owner of AFC Wimbledon, longtime Liverpool fan)
Opposed to Tuberculosis
Wrote some books (SICK KIDS IN LOVE, TEETH, GONE GONE GONE etc)
author of Code Name Verity and major procrastinator
✒️ New York Times bestselling & award-winning author: THE ASTONISHING COLOR OF AFTER, FORESHADOW YA, and AN ARROW TO THE MOON. Here for collective liberation. https://exrpan.substack.com/welcome
Anti-authoritarian. Author of stories for young people, including the YA novel DESSERT FIRST. Former Supreme Court law clerk. Former standup comic. VCFA MFA. Write on. He/him.
I'm your favorite author's favorite author.
You will not see me here much.
courtneysummers.ca
courtneysummers.substack.com
ig summerscourtney
I write things. NIGHT OF THE WITCH: out now. HOUSE OF HEX: December 2023. THE FATE OF MAGIC: Fall 2024. Something else: Winter 2024. bethrevis.com
Author of books. Maker of art. Speaker of speeches. Part squid/part earthquake. Literacy fanatic. Lover of corn. Ardent supporter of teenagers. Founder of 🏳️🌈 Gracie's House: www.gracieshouse.com.
She/her https://linktr.ee/AS_King
#1 NYT Bestselling author - The Hate U Give, Concrete Rose, etc. On the Come Up streaming on Paramount+ . Nic Blake and The Remarkables out now!
🌈 NYT and internationally bestselling author. (she/her)
📚 Out now: The Isles of the Gods
✍🏼 Newsletter: amiekaufman.substack.com
Author of THEY HATE EACH OTHER (Viking PRH) | Rep: Suzie Townsend 🍃 | they/them
Novelist & ex-NASA engineer. Also write as Jennifer McKissack. WINNIE'S WAR. SHADOW. TAKING OFF. SANCTUARY. ~ Rep: Trish Lawrence at Aevitas Creative Management
https://www.jenny-moss.com/
Author and Editor. Repped by Jim McCarthy @Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. Queer AF🌈 she/they. www.saundramitchell.com
Author of THE WARNING series with Sourcebooks Fire. English teacher for 25+yrs. Gardener. Not a hologram. Rep: @herringali.bsky.social she/her
https://linktr.ee/kristyacevedo
YA & adult romance author 🩷 | casual crocheter 🧶 | reality tv enthusiast 📺
she/her 🌈
latest: FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (celadon books)
🌐: marisakanter.com
MG/YA author. Tree lover. Ice cream eater.
I wrote LUCY, UNCENSORED (Knopf 2024) with my sister Teghan.
Melhammondbooks.com
young adult author
I ❤️: Taylor Swift, Iced Coffee, Gilmore Girls, Books &🍕
📚 ONE SUMMER ON MACKINAC out now
YA and MG author
📚 There's No Way I'd Die First (out now)
📚Who's All Going (to Die) Fall 2025
Rep: Danielle Burby - MWLA
Award-winning & New York Times Bestselling author of THE WICKED BARGAIN, MOST ARDENTLY, THE DIABLO’S CURSE & more. Trans masc. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (he/him)
🔗 lnk.bio/thegabecole
✨Program 38: Sparks- OUT NOW✨
🧡Superhero/Magical Realism YA author
🦋Hoping to become your favorite author🦋
📚Author, Reader, 90s Music Fan📚
Art by @Starsdenn on Insta.
Author. Editor. Professor.
SING THE NIGHT (8th Note Press, Fall 2025)
Rep’d by LKG Agency
https://linktr.ee/meganjaureguieccles
Writer. Drummer. Seattle.
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Writing an 80’s-set YA horror novel about heavy metal, Catholicism, Bowie obsession, and dogs.
Kidlit author; writing course creator; lover of dogs, mountains, and all things magical. Blogs every week here: https://janetfox.substack.com/
Award-winning author of A DRAGONBIRD IN THE FERN. American in Germany. Proud 🏳️⚧️ mom. Probably eating European chocolate right now. she/her
https://linktr.ee/LauraRueckert
Reader, writer, editor. YA author of Badass(ish). jaymieheilman.com
I write books about teens and adults with big hearts. I often write about climate and environmental subjects, and was a historian of Peru in my first career.
Author of "Return to Eden"
Ret. PI (Missing Persons) & Family Advocate
'There is no Planet B' (Environmental Psychology)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221099767-return-to-eden
https://linktr.ee/sgclark
Canadian - fantasy/horror writer + nature photographer
Neuroscientist turned science fiction, fantasy, romance #writer. Stories in Analog, Escape Pod, Cast of Wonders, Utopia SF. Latest novel: THE MISFIT & THE BEAST, YA romance about first love & high school theater. Based in Edinburgh. verabrook.com. she/her
Author of THE CITY OF DUSK (Orbit), WE SHALL BE MONSTERS (Penguin), Scavenge the Stars, & Timekeeper. Biracial/desi. Grumpy. BLM. She/her.
Award-winning author of books for kids, teens, and those who are young at heart
She/they
https://linktr.ee/Katielcarroll
Award losing author 📚🌈
Being Aro 💚 (5/26/26)
Summer Coven 🩸(8/25/26)
Life is Strange: Out of Focus 🎸(9/1/26)
Ask me about my plants. (they/them)
https://linktr.ee/rosieethor
linktr.ee/heywhitney
✨Graphic Novels: FREE PIANO (NOT HAUNTED), THE RACC PACK, LONG DISTANCE & FAKE BLOOD✨YA Novels: YOU'RE WELCOME, UNIVERSE & CHAOTIC GOOD✨
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Award-winning author. Bronx born, L.A. living. Latest: TINY THREADS (Del Rey Books), available where books are sold.
https://www.lilliamrivera.com
Author of spicy romcoms, co-owner of Good Girl Books (Knoxville), ravenous romance reader, and inveterate yapper.
putting down new roots abroad with two bossy cats, a soulmate, and a gaming laptop
Author of MG/YA fiction & game stuff. Rants about folklore. Opinions my own. He/him. Lead Writer for Warframe (you shiny things). Leopards, faces etc.
