Bumping this post about long-standing payment problems at @CricketMediaInc, which continue to go unaddressed. Latest comment is from an illustrator owed $3,000 for over 3 years #WriterBeware #illustrators #kidlit https://writerbeware.blog/2022/11/18/long-standing-payment-problems-at-cricket-media/
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A super "Science Behind the Fiction" event at #PortobelloBookFestival with #DougJohnstone (THE SPACE BETWEEN US) and myself talking about FRIEND ME.
We chatted about writing sci-fi proudly, how other writing like journalism affects our fiction, and the joys & terrors of Enceladus and AI. Thrilled to hear the sequel to Doug's book is out next march. Sci-fi forever!
#kidlit #scifi #sff #SheilaMAverbuch #MiddleGradeBooks #edinburgh #writingcommunity @bookstodon #Edinburgh
Hey all. I've rather unwillingly stepped through the looking glass into #Bluesky (all of #kidlit appears to have decamped there.) So if you happen to be on that platform too, please do look me up:
https://bsky.app/profile/victoriamadams.bsky.social
I'll still be popping by #Mastodon from time to time to talk all things #books and #fantasy related.
Sticking my head back into Mastodon to say hi 👋 and to say that an excerpt of YA sci-fi murder mystery Stars, Hide Your Fires (think "queer Knives Out in space") is up on Tor.com which as an editor, I was very hyped for. Like Tor!! Wow!!
Anyway, check out this lil chunk of Stars, Hide Your Fires by Jessica Mary Best if you are so inclined ➡️
https://www.tor.com/2023/06/27/excerpts-stars-hide-your-fires-by-jessica-mary-best/
#bookstodon #sff #scifi #yalit #kidlit #bookrecommendations #BookToot
#kidlit #writers Undiscovered Voices is open!
A competition for unpublished and unagented children’s fiction writers living in the UK and EU
Submissions for Undiscovered Voices 2024 are open 15th June – 20th July 2023
UNAGENTED MG WRITERS!
"Between 12th and 16th of June 2023, we ask all unpublished and unagented middle-grade writers to submit their novels for consideration in the competition... Please email your submission to submissions@guppybooks.co.uk between 9am GMT on Monday 12th June and 6pm GMT on Friday 16th June 2023."
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Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! I'm Steph, an author-illustrator of PB and GNs — usually humorous & with a splash of mischief.
🐷Website: http://www.stephlaubooks.com
🌊Rep: Allie Levick at Writers House
🐺Other social media: @Stephlaubooks
#scbwiartists #scbwi #KidLitArt #WritingCommunity #kidlit #mastoart
Didn't do much over vacation except read but what I did read was delightful! Can't recommend enough The House That Whispers by Lin Thompson, perfect for fans of Kyle Lukoff and anyone looking to read haunting and heartfelt queer middle grade fiction.
#kidlit #bookrecs #bookstodon #mglit #booksandcats #caturday #caturdayeveryday
CALLING ALL ILLUSTRATORS
#writing #publishing #education #teaching #reading #kidlit #writers #books #bookstodon
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Useful resource for writers, educators and anyone interested in a list of children's publishers in the UK.
https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/resources/childrens-book-publishers-in-uk/
#writing #publishing #education #teaching #reading #kidlit #writers #books #bookstodon
KIDLIT KLAXON!
Well worth checking out. @MissDePlume has a sequel out soon to her wonderful 'Small'. She talks about it here:
https://scopeforimagination.co.uk/2023/05/07/small-bites-back-by-hannah-moffatt-blog-tour/
As #DraculaDaily returns, please consider: Hanging with Vampires, a nonfiction field guide to the supernatural!
This one's for the scholastic book fair kids, the mythology kids, and the spooky kids 🦇✨ and you can get it wherever books are sold -- or here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/hanging-with-vampires-a-totally-factual-field-guide-to-the-supernatural-insha-fitzpatrick/18595969?ean=9781683693413
I had a lot of fun editing this one, and ofc the author and I had to take the ARC on a field trip to the Dracula exhibit at the Mutter Museum 🧛
#KidLit #MGlit #vampires #dracula #bookstodon #bookrecs #BookToot
Hi #KidLitArtPostcard! I'm Steph, author-illustrator of picture books & graphic novels based in the Bay Area, CA.
🍪I make weird, funny books with a splash of mischief
🍪Links in my bio!
🍪Rep: @AllieLevick (Writers House)
Very happy to share the news about this special story! Looking forward to working with Deeba and the team at Simon & Schuster Kids to bring this book to readers in 2025!
So apparently the Missouri House Republicans have voted to defund Missouri public libraries to retaliate against them after the ACLU filed a lawsuit to fight back against a book banning bill. Absolutely infuriating. If you live in MO, please call your reps about this.
You can read more here ➡️ https://heartlandsignal.com/2023/04/11/missouri-house-republicans-vote-to-defund-libraries/
#missouri #stlouis #librarylife #library #bookstodon #kidlit #yalit #lgbtqbooks #BookToot #bannedbooks #bookbanning
A very happy book birthday to A Spoonful of Time by Flora Ahn! 😍🥄💖 Get this heartfelt, magical Korean American MG read if you want to laugh, cry, and think about themes of family, identity, and what food can mean to different generations.
Definitely get something to munch on while you read because you WILL get hungry. Better yet, try your hand at one of the recipes in the book! 😋
#ASpoonfulOfTime #KidLit #Bookstodon #AmReading #BookToot #BookRecs #Bookworm #AsianAmericanAuthors
An early #caturday greeting from my beautiful cat niece. 😾 Here she is angrily posing beside two ARC copies of A Spoonful of Time and Stars, Hide Your Fires. Yes, I brought those books across the country just to take photos of her with them. She's a fantastic, if grudging, model!
#bookstodon #YoungAdultLit #KidLit #bookrecs #bookwyrm #catsofmastodon
Recommendations for upper-middle-grade appropriate novels with ✨absolutely no cancer✨ or grief/death in general, for a grieving 10yo who wants safe-feeling, fun stories right now? Big reader, into inclusive stories, curious about everything. #KidLit #Bookstodon @kidlit Thanks ❤️
I am, as per usual, deeply grateful for the friends I've made in the kidlit world. My life includes more people who I admire and adore than I would have dared to hope for in my youth. #kidlit #WritingCommunity
#picturebooks I like - When's My Birthday? by Julie Fogliano
& @theartoffunnews@twitter.com - #picturebookaday #kidlit
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33163368-when-s-my-birthday
Ready or not it's the Year of the Rabbit. Happy Year of the Rabbit Everyone! (from Go, Sled! Go! Viking Books for Children) #kidlit #cny #illustration #rabbit
I’m writing an as-yet-unannounced chapter book and today I figured out the ending because I am a magnificent heap of wordsmithery #AmWriting #kidlit #WritingCommunity
I took the day off from the day job to write and hang out with writer friends and I feel damned good about that choice #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #kidlit #GraphicNovels