皓月 ✦ 🇨🇳🇺🇸🏳️🌈 ✦ She/They ✦ Lv. 25 ✦ Award-Winning Illustrator from Boston
Portfolio: https://dreamu.art/
Author of THE BONE BRIDES (Oct 6, 2026, Page Street). Theatre director. Occasional anime panelist. Once jammed a knife into my leg while carving a pumpkin. Queerer and queerer. She/her. Rep: Hannah Andrade
New York Times bestselling author and audiobook narrator.
Host of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton
Retired Starfleet officer.
Husband, father, Traveler.
Nazi punks fuck off.
I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Starling Literary + Media represents bestselling and award-winning creators, as well as debuts. Our goal is to help create enduring legacies through our strategic guidance, editorial savvy, and innovative business tactics.
• author of character-driven love stories
• literary agent assistant @andreabrownlit
• fangirl. friend.📍california
www.taikoendo.com
SORCERY & SMALL MAGICS (Orbit, 2024) | SFF writer | 🏳️🌈 | rep:
Allegra Martschenko
Children’s book writer and illustrator. Artist. Teacher.
www.eviewoltilrichner.com
Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
Bylines @TheGuardian.com, @advocate.com, @xtramagazine.com
Subscribe to support my journalism www.erininthemorning.com
Official BlueSky account for Writing the Other, an online creative writing educational space for creators who want to depict people and cultures different from their own sensitively and convincingly.
Author of books for children and teachers | Longtime educator | DEIAB advocate | Born in NY | Raised and resides in CT
https://valeriebolling.com
Authors Guild; SCBWI; 12x12; Boyds Mills, #kidlit #PB #earlyreaders #booksforteachers
SCBWI NY Eastern Up! Critique Coordinator
Kidlit writer, published poet, gemologist-in-training, wannabe polyglot, occasional mermaid, reluctant zebra 🍰💜🩶🤍💚 #kidlit #scbwi #amquerying #actuallyautistic
🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 Pronouns: you choose (anything but he)
We Need Diverse Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit revolutionizing what we read to create a world where everyone can find themself in the pages of a book.
🔗 bio.site/WeNeedDiverseBooks
Author of bestselling sexy book as Kit Rocha. Rep'd by Sarah Younger at NYLA. Hiding in the Alabama woods. #TeamADHD Book Stuff: https://linktr.ee/kitrocha Whistle Stuff: https://linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
West coast illustrator & writer🤖🦕🛼
Short, left-handed, adhd, lighthouse keeper’s daughter. Nature & neon
Rep'd by @jemiscoe.bsky.social -Starling Literary & Media
@starlingliterary.bsky.social
PBs: MAYBE A WHALE | MOTHER ASPEN
www.heycrystalsmith.com
https://youtube.com/@zyflyyy?si=PJV1oziqI4vL5n4e
artist🧑🏾🎨🎨
he/him
21
PA📍
♏️
✨Middle grade writer
🐈⬛Cat mom
✨Lit Agent @andreabrownlit.bsky.social✨
@aalitagents.bsky.social Member✨ #tabletop nerd ✨Coffee junkie✨Romance Enthusiast✨💖💙💜Boricua✨#LGBTQIA & Autism Advocate✨
https://QueryTracker.net/query/Saritza
Executive literary agent at Andrea Brown Literary Agency. www.litagentlaurarennert.com
YA and Romance Author/Anthologist. LGBTQReads founder. Choices writer. Macaron aficionado. Next up: SOON BY YOU (5/19/26). Rep: Patricia Nelson. She/her. Update your website.
Founder + Agent @Starling Literary + Media, representing authors & Illustrators. Wife, mom of 3, MFA grad, & former Asst. Director for film & TV. https://www.starlingliterary.com | http://querymanager.com/query/Jemiscoe
🇨🇦 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
Children's Agent. Reader. Mama.
Header art by Marissa Valdez.
NY Times bestselling children's book author of Beekle ('15 Caldecott) A First Time for Everything ('23 National Book Award) Creator Disney's The Replacements
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
THE ROAD TO AFTER (Nancy Paulsen) |
CATCHING FLIGHT (Doubleday) |
Author/Illustrator | RISD | Hollins | Rep: @pterlip at ABLA ✨
Editor at HarperCollins - Author with ABLA
NYT bestselling author of 70+ books for kids. Educator. Speaker. Adirondack 46er. Passionately curious. Latest book: THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES
www.katemessner.com
✨ Writer of Books / Eater of Snacks
✨ APALA Honor Award, NPR Best Books
✨ www.maerespicio.com
✨ Author brand: tender+joyful+Filipino dad jokes
✨ Agent: Jennifer Laughran
Writer. Law Librarian. Wife. Mom.
Puck Struck Series: WAKE UP, NAT & DARCY, YOURS FOR THE SEASON
I’m mean because I grew up in New England
rep: Paige Terlip
bi // a FL nigga 🐊//gemini // she/her // southerner // trans lives matter always // National bestselling author of THE POISONS WE DRINK & the author of THE BEAST YOU MADE OF ME // patreon: bit.ly/paybeth
He/Him
🏳️🌈🇵🇸✊🏾
https://linktr.ee/Jupiterbaal
Queering up your shelves, one rec at a time. Check it out at LGBTQReads.com
✨ he/they • 🏳️⚧️🌈 • assistant editor acquiring @ Peachtree / Peachtree Teen • rep: Daniele Hunter • protect trans kids • opinions mine ✨
linktr.ee/kade_dishmon
writer. obsessive cat photographer. pro tennis aficionado. nonprofit professional. literary assistant. 🇵🇭🇺🇸
(She/Her) Horror Author. Cryptid Enthusiast.
IT CAME FROM THE TREES
WEDNESDAY: BOOK OF OUTCASTS
MYSTERY JAMES DIGS HER OWN GRAVE
DOWN CAME THE SPIDERS
Rep'd by Paige Terlip at Starling Literary + Media
https://linktr.ee/onedarkally
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
Authors working together to ensure fair pay, protect copyright, and defend free speech.
Founder + Agent @StarlingLiterary | she/her | @MillsMFALit alum | horror fan (bring on the blood) | In love with all things story | ✨Revision is magical!✨
Reclaiming trans history one novel at a time. | THE LILAC PEOPLE (Counterpoint, 4/29/25) ***Preorders now available!***
Kidlit author, playwright, ambivert, coffee addict, neurospicy, queer ✨ SIMPLY SKYE available now ✨
Website: www.pamelamorganwrites.com
📚 Author — Pearl Bound (gothic sapphic horror). #HWA member
🎬 Screenwriter — Says Simon, Angels of War, Exposed etc
🔗 https://linktr.ee/nataliegbergman
🔗 amazon.com/author/ngbergman
🔗On Goodreads (https://bit.ly/4oIpLni)
www.nataliebergman.com
kidlit author, scientist. Insect lover. RAINBOW SCIENCE (Storey). THE GRUMPY PIRATE (Scholastic), DO JELLYFISH LIKE PEANUT BUTTER? (Persnickety) etc. STEM Virtual visits. rep: @JVNLA
Writer, editor,publisher, creative funding expert in Brooklyn. Editor of ABSOLUTE PLEASURE. Previously @feministpress & @kickstarter. She/they 🌈📚
https://margotatwell.com/
Literary agent, #author, travel-junkie, part-time singer, full-time fed up with the rolling back of our rights.
www.knightagency.net
www.luciennediver.com
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit helping people from underrepresented groups become literary agents.
linktr.ee/literaryagentsofchange
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).
Gay dad to 12 and 7 yo
PB/MG Author
#SCBWI
#12x12PB
#InkedVoices
Represented by @JoyceKay.bsky.social
The Seymour Agency
That historical bitch. Critically acclaimed author. Latest book: AND THE TREES STARE BACK. #Neurodivergent 🏳️🌈🏴☠️ Rep: Paige Terlip.
Omnivorous bipedal mammal, dad of girls, rides bikes, edits doc sometimes.
ZinRock.com
author of the award-winning FLOWERS FOR THE SEA. rep Arley Sorg of KT Literary. preliminary editor and sensitivity reader. horror, grimdark, and dark fantasy obsessed. weirdo. Queer Black af depressive. toss a coin? https://ko-fi.com/zinrock
PB author
🦙 ALPACAS MAKE TERRIBLE LIBRARIANS (Out now!)
🦉OWLS MAKE TERRIBLE TEACHERS (Gnome Road, April 2026)
12x12 PB, SCBWI, PBSoar, 24CarrotWriting
rep'd by @elisahouot.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/kristimahoneybooks
Author | Mac Wears a Hat - PRE-ORDER NOW | Molly's Tuxedo | www.vickijohnsonwrites.com | https://linktr.ee/vickijohnsonwrites
Kids book author and kids book editor
Check out some of my books! Acorn Was a Little Wild (S&S), Besos for Baby (Little Brown), GIVE (Knopf), Marta! Big and Small (Roaring Brook)
agent: Stephanie Fretwell-Hill, Red Fox
jenarenabooks.com
they/them. Nonbinary 💛🤍💜🖤
Author/illustrator: BLOB. WHAT IF YOU WISH?. LOCH NESS MONSTER’S UNBELIEVABLE SCIENCE (2026)
Illustrator: ZOOMI & ZOE (Summer 2025)
Rep: @charlottewenger.com #KidLitArt
Art: anneappert.com
Other: https://linktr.ee/Anneappert
(She/her), trans lesbian
Comic writer
Written for Marvel, BOOM, Titan, Tiny Onion, IDW and Dark Horse.
Co-creator of www.blademaidens.com
SYTI ON KS 01/20/26
Rep'd by @desir.ee
Work: zoetunnellwrites@gmail.com
zoetunnell.com
Pfp @speremint.bsky.social
2022 Newbery Honoree, Walter Award, Golden Kite winner. Doctor, author of MG & PB, fiction & nonfiction, prose & poetry. Pro-democracy, pro-reproductive freedom, anti-book bans.
Rep: Brent Taylor
www.RajaniLaRocca.com
illustrator / author / Cartoonist
📚Pumpkin and Beetle (July 2025)
The Lost Mitten, Fry Guys
www.chickengirldesign.com
YA author: WHITE ROSE, THE MOST DAZZLING GIRL IN BERLIN, ONE LAST SHOT, & ALL THE LOVE UNDER THE VAST SKY | high school librarian | anti-fascist | www.kipwilsonwrites.com
Award-winning author of books for kids. Library Media Specialist. I SEE SEA FOOD: SEA CREATURES THAT LOOK LIKE FOOD (2019, Millbrook Press), THE STORY OF PRINCESS DIANA (2021, Rockridge Press) Rep: Vicki Selvaggio
www.jennagrodzicki.com
📕 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
Children’s book writer PB/MG/YA ❇️Founder of Seaside Scribes/SCBWI, ❇️One Book at a Time/FB❇️SCBWI/12x12/Inked Voices 📖my work ➡️ katelynchbooks.com
Aspiring Children's Book writer and illustrator
M.Ed. Children's Book Writer. Picture Taker. Nature Lover. Anglophile.
Curious about flora and fauna of all kinds but particularly fond of elephants, wolves, birds, insects, and trees.
#SCBWI. #12x12 #kidlit #naturalist
elizabethvolkmannauthor.com
Children's author, freelance editor/writer. An avid reader, walker, baker, voter, museum goer, bird feeder. Cat lady. Likely drinking tea.
12x12 I Courage to Create I SCBWI member
Writers' Loft member and PBCG leader
2025 PB Rising Stars HM
Scruffy-looking word herder. PB + YA author. 🚀 ROCKET SHIP, SOLO TRIP (Viking, '24). ROCKET BEAMS, LUNAR DREAMS (Viking, '25). 🇮🇹 | 🏳️🌈🩷💚💙 | She/Her | Photo credit: Lauren Barkume
www.chiaracolombi.com
I write picture books for adults to read to children so that children fall in love with reading.
New in 2026: A Celebration of You (3.17); The Dino Door (5.5).
linkin.bio/joshfunkbooks
literary agent with a lot of opinions 👀 also a podcast 👀 also my puppy looks like baby chewbacca! www.jenniferlaughran.com / www.andreabrownlit.com
Dog lover, book hoarder, outdoor enthusiast 🌈 Founder + Lit Agent @ Starling Literary + Media
www.paigeterlip.com
www.starlingliterary.com
www.cowritecollective.com
We are a full service literary agency repping the best books in the world since 1981. (Not that we're biased.) We LOVE books and their creators! www.andreabrownlit.com
She like a pirate ship & they like a murder of crows. (Formerly @VeroniKaboom)
Creator of BLOOD CITY ROLLERS. Audio Producer/Screenwriter/Director. Firefighter. Former Lit Agent w/opinions on pub praxis. Lit Rep: Paige Terlip.
🔗https://linktr.ee/vpanderson
Writer/Illustrator. Loves GNs, humor & cats. She/they. Nonbinary, Bi & Fibro. 🌈#12x12PB
www.daniduck.com
Writer of Southern Gothic for kids & adults. Walter Award Honoree. Shirley Jackson, Bram Stoker, & Ignyte Award winner. Nebula finalist. ROOT MAGIC | THE CREEPENING OF DOGWOOD HOUSE | HOLLOW TONGUE
she/her
https://linktr.ee/edenroyce
Novel: Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea (Bloomsbury). Indie Next, Barnes & Noble Discover, Good Morning America Buzz Pick. Stories in Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, One Story, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, etc. rchetypes.com
34y old illustrator, currently migrating from Twitter to here because I was told it's where we all are heading. follow for #art #ffxiv #fanart #webcomic stuff.
Trans woman. Comic maker. Sometimes YouTuber and Podcaster. Not American. Everything I do is at veronicajane.net
They/them
Author/illustrator repped by @litagentsaritza.bsky.social
#nescbwi, #12x12pb
MY SISTER, DAISY (Capstone, 2021)
www.adriakarlsson.com
picture book writer. mom. geologist. environmentalist. gardener. jigsaw puzzler. #SCBWI #kidlit 🏳️🌈
Co-Assistant Regional Advisor, SCBWI NY: West/Central
PBParty2025 Finalist!
www.caitdarfler.com
Rep'd by Joyce Sweeney @joycekay.bsky.social
Kidlit writer | Youth Services Librarian | she/her | Instagram: heykileya
Rep'd by Analía Cabello at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
I write stuff. I knit stuff. I cook stuff. Ask me about my weird little books. https://www.clpolk.com/
Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet.
🏠 Founder & Agent at Neighborhood Literary.
📚 Award-winning Author.
👴🏽 Perpetually Tired Dad.
Latest book: With or Without You (a Junior Library Guild selection!), out now!
🚪 https://www.neighborhoodliterary.com
Writer editor singer songer. I'm just another part of you.
They/He
Politically Fat & Queer.
Polyamorous, neurodivergent, giant fuckin' nerd.
SFF writer • Stories in Clarkesworld, F&SF, Apex, more • #VP2022 • Codex• not often on social media (updates only)
Author, editor, book monster
Up next: A SPELL TO WAKE THE DEAD (Putnam/PRH, 8/26/25)
Rep: Kathleen Rushall, ABLA | She/her
nicolelesperance.com
Author of STRANGE BEASTS and WAYWARD SOULS (March 2026), out from Hodderscape and Bindery Books. Bi. She/her. Rep: @jenazantian.bsky.social at Azantian Literary Agency. Headshot: Andrea Prudente.
Links to book stuff: linktr.ee/susanjmorris
Speculative writer, reader, marketing coach, tea drinker | SFWA | VP '23 | Stories in Strange Horizons, Haven Spec, Trollbreath | Digging: green tea, dragons, puzzles | she/her #specfic #sff
linktr.ee/allisonpottern | pottern.com
Writer. Little dog owner. (Aspiring) Magnificent and Deeply Kind Weirdo. SFWA and HWA member. Viable Paradise 2022. Portlander. Represented by Joshua Bilmes/JABberwocky. He/Him.
Mama, entrepreneur, leader. I write speculative fiction for grown folk and littles. Viable Paradise 2022, Grub Short Story Incubator 2021.
http://www.kwonley.com
Writer. Spends too much time with the dog. #mg #pb rep: @literarylesliez
