Morgan A. Taylor

The Weekly 411 (11/28/25) A one-stop place for all your kid lit information needs.

Our weekly big list of kid lit links is up (Nov 28): kidlit411.com/2025/11/the-... Inside: Break Thru Creative Barriers; @inkedvoices.bsky.social scholarships, more. Thanks @matillustration.bsky.social for the illo, @penguinkids.bsky.social & @dellarossferreri.bsky.social for the giveaways.

Thank you so much! And thanks for making those brushes, I love them! 😊

My Cautionary Tale in Book Publishing You write your first manuscript. Obviously, it’s crap! You realize you need to take your skills to the next level for a chance to beat the odds in this business. You invest in courses. You rewrite....

The author who describes her terrible publisher experience doesn't name the pub, but I will (w/permission): Clear Fork Publishing, (imprints Spork, Blue Whale, &MG, and Rise). If you have a similar story to tell, pls contact me: beware@sfwa.org (in confidence) www.vanessakeel.com/blog/my-caut...

Here’s the process, in case anyone is curious.

Another quick study. An American Flamingo at Greensboro Science Center.
#digitaldrawing #flamingo #speeddrawing #illustration

Just finished! #coiledrope #craftsky #quiltsky #batikfabric #quilts #quilting

Here’s the process, in case anyone is curious.

Another quick study. An American Flamingo at Greensboro Science Center.
#digitaldrawing #flamingo #speeddrawing #illustration

A digital drawing showing a house front with six large windows and some ivy growing between them. Inside the windows, cats are engaging in different activities in front of differently designed backgrounds. On the left side of the house, A cat-mom has just baked cookies in what looks to be a window and her child is lowering something on a line desceding from their window. Next to them, a cat in a straw hat is tending to flowers on their balcony, to the right, an orange cat is balancing in a stool, hanging up a prideflag while her roommate is watching from a bench at the window. On the second row of windows, a small cat is grabbing a red bucket with a "cookies" label that is lowered by their friend while its sister watches from the top of a bunkbed. Next to them a cat looking similar to them is reading in a large book, in a room decorated with stars and a telescope. They also have a foto showing a smiling lucky cat. In the last window a similar looking lucky cat is painting something on an easle. Between the different windows, small other animals are drawn, with two tiny windows with mice, one hiding and one blowing bubbles and two sparrows and a pigeon sitting on different window frames.

Cats at #home 🏡
I have been working on this drawing for a while, little by little, and I really like it 💛

#sensoryart #artyear #smartist #catsky #art #pigeonsky

Just a quick study. The current contents of my dining room table fruit bowl. I’m slowly finding my way back to creating.

Done with @ittaimanero.bsky.social’s soft pastel medium brush.
#stilllife #procreate #fruit #digitaldrawing #mango #tomatoes #nectarines

Yes, thanks they are! 🧡 I just got a book that shows how to stitch a bunch of flowers, I can't wait to try it.

I thought that this administration was ran on a pledge for peace, and saving money. Bombing Iran will do neither of these things. Another war in the Middle East in my lifetime. God forgive us.

Thank you! I put little beads in the center of the flowers. I'm currently working on a stitch chart

These are all things I've posted here. Nothing new to post yet.

Embroidery has consumed a good chunk of my life. It's something that I can really escape into.

Hope that all of you are surviving, and finding ways to escape the madness, just for the little bit.

I am going to draw something in the coming weeks. It's been too long.

All I wanted to do was to login to Twitter just to check the weather from my local weather man...

🙌🏻🖍️A handmade drawing Starter Pack for #starterpacknoai ✨ I also symbolically added my handmade sweater and hat 🧶🩷

#starterpacknoia

Wow! Great foreshortening and composition!

Sketch Request of Shrike from the indie cartoon Monkey Wrench, aka PEAK

Shrike got that Scud energy about him. #monkeywrench #fanart #sketch #sketchrequest #artchallenge

Photo of a slim rectangular wooden sculpture with central stained glass in rainbow colours the artwork is on a beach with wet sand and under a blue sky

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

If you love your library, listen up…

It always warms my heart to see illustrators creating to oppose the latest A.I. trend. ❤️

drawing of a toy “starter pack” featuring me, the artist, along with some isopods, sushi and caterpillars escaping from the packaging.

Me as a tiny thingamajig with a few micro friends✨👀

Human creativity matters! Reject ai, support the arts! Pick up a pencil, crayon or stylus and start scribbling!✍🏼😤🌈⭐️🎨

#starterpacknoai #art

Hope you feel better soon. I am on the brink myself from this really bad allergy season.

Photo of a fluffy white cat meowing at the camera. Sloppy digital crayon letters spell out Art Show.

THURSDAY ART SHOW! If you are a working artist (i.e. you depend on income from your art) just respond to this post with your non-pornographic, non-violent, non-AI generated ✨CAT-RELATED✨ art/crafts and I will repost! From now until 7 pm EST. Include any relevant links like your website or etsy!

Thank you so much for the sale! It's the first one I've had this year; I appreciate it so much and I hope you enjoy your print 😊

Thank you! I appreciate that 😊

Sorry about that. You can search my username: matillustration.
This link should work to get to my shop.
www.inprnt.com/gallery/mati...

A moody blend of indigo and lavender paint is in the background. Many small, bright yellow wildflowers stack along the left side of the painting. Some of the wildflowers are in focus and some are blurred and out of focus. Near the middle, perched on a flower is a fuzzy bumblebee.

This one was in time out for several weeks b/c it wasn’t going great and I was super frustrated. Eventually it went back on the easel to be completed, and even though it didn’t turn out as I imagined, I learned a ton and count that as a win.

“Temporary Time Out”
#pnwartist #artsky #bumblebeeart

For #portfolioday, here’s a sampling of some of my favorite still lives. All done digitally in #procreate. For whatever reason, I feel that produce has a lot of personality. I love drawing food 😊.

All of these are available as prints upon request, please message me for details.