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Kirsten | Fantasy Author @kirstenwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A DEADLY EDUCATION x NANCY DREW What if the chosen one failed, and the only one who could save him was a magic school reject? NOT A WITCH / YA Fantasy with dark academia and dystopian elements #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #DF #MY #D

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❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

✨ SIX OF CROWS X ARCANA ACADEMY✨ After an ancient prophecy resurfaces mid magic trial, six artists must uncover who is trying to enact calamity. This Adult Epic Fantasy features: 📜Deadly Deals 😈Ravenous Monsters 🤫Secrets Best Left Unspoken 💔Rivals to Allies to 👀 #questpit #F #DF #R #A #Q

An Artistic Deception - An Adult Sapphic Epic Fantasy - A girl dancing in an abandoned church

Enemies to lovers
Sapphic
Sentient Magic School
Indigenous Diaspora
Can Your Fate be Changed?

Martyred by her people, a priestess awakens as a refugee displaced through time to find her sacrifice in vain.

Agni attends a magical college to build a new life, but when the past resurfaces, she must either embrace martyrdom again or flee, leaving behind the life she’s built and the woman she loves. before fate claims another kingdom.

Reads like Hozier’s Yell

Putting the con in economy - The lies of locke lamora
a deadly education - my school is trying to kill me
six of crows - ensemble cast x found family
witch hat atelier - magic consequences for me like 💀
arcana academy - so you like pining?

Character art of Agni and Fala

“Can’t you ever do as you’re told?” Fala snaps.
“No.” The word rolls off my lips, sweet as candy.
“Impudent.”
“Arrogant,” I bite back.
We are toe-to-toe, nose-to-nose, her amber irises trembling.
“You know nothing.” Fala seethes. I laugh, drunk on her wild temper on I can ignite. That may have been true at the beginning of term but not now.
I know all about the woman I’ve spent the year ruefully falling in love with.

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Kelly Clasen, PhD @kellyclasenwriter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

How does a vulture beat the heat? By pooping on its feet! From splashing and splooting to fluttering and pooping, some wild creatures engage in wonderfully weird behaviors when temperatures soar. SPLASH! SPLAT! SPLOOT! AMAZING WAYS ANIMALS BEAT THE HEAT #QuestPit #PB #NF #STEAM #AG

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Relaxing Capybara with Orange Bath

Alt: Relaxing Capybara with Orange Bath

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Deidra Purvis @fspacquisitions.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I'm so excited to share our new imprint at TCM: Curiosity Unlocked Books! Learn more here: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... I'll be posting more about our submission guidelines this week! I'm seeking books for curious kids. 💕

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Teacher Created Materials Announces New Imprint

Curiosity Unlocked Books, Teacher Created Materials

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Kelly Clasen, PhD @kellyclasenwriter.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I might be craving ✨Magic ✨Wonder ✨Beauty ✨Faraway lands ✨Mystical creatures #kidlit #bookstack #currentltlyreading #fantasy #picturebooks

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Kelly Clasen, PhD @kellyclasenwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

How exciting! I look forward to expanding my entry, SPLOOT! SPLISH! SLURP! HOW ANIMALS BEAT THE HEAT, into a full PB! 🎉 Thank you to organizers @buchetbooks.bsky.social @swildmansf.bsky.social @kmgreenwald.bsky.social and all the amazing donors!

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Deidra Purvis @fspacquisitions.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I'm seeking submissions for high-interest picture books and early chapter books aligned with social studies topics—fun read-aloud titles written to inspire a love of learning, not necessarily written to teach content. Learn more and submit here: freespiritpublishing.submittable.com/submit/33759...

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Free Spirit Publishing and Shell Education - Call for Social Studies Books for Kids

Description: Teacher Created Materials is seeking submissions for new lines of high-interest picture books and early chapter books aligned with social studies topics. These should be fun read-aloud ti...

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Kelly Clasen, PhD @kellyclasenwriter.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I ♥️ Nell Cross Beckerman's books for their blending of lyrical writing with kid-friendly NF details. Here's a favorite, illustrated by Kalen Chock. #SunWriteFun #WritingCommunity buchetbooks.bsky.social kmgreenwald.bsky.social‬ swildmansf.bsky.socialwww.karengreenwald.com/sunwritefun-25

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Kelly Clasen, PhD @kellyclasenwriter.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I am moving full S.T.E.A.M. ahead with this year's #SunWriteFun entry. 😎 Thank you to the organizers and amazing donors. @buchetbooks.bsky.social @kmgreenwald.bsky.social @swildmansf.bsky.social You can learn more about supporting the Reader to Reader drive here: www.readertoreader.org/donate/

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Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

So, you've finished your manuscript and are eager to share your work with literary agents. How do you write the perfect pitch letter to a literary agent? 🤔 Here are CBC founder Anna Davis' top tips on how to make your submission pitch letter stand out from the pack:

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How to write the perfect pitch letter to an agent

How do you write the perfect pitch-letter to a literary agent? Here are my top 15 tips on how to make your letter stand out from the pack.

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Kelly Clasen, PhD @kellyclasenwriter.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

When Nora Thorne’s parents uproot her family to take over a ramshackle pumpkin patch where the previous owners’ daughter went missing, Nora must unearth the truth about the girl’s disappearance if she’s going to convince her folks to leave Middle of Nowhere, KS. For good. #QuestPit #MG #Q

Moodboard for Chrysanthemum Corner, a middle-grade mystery by Kelly Clasen. Features pitch, comps, tropes, and snippet on fall backgrounds.

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Inked Voices @inkedvoices.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The Plot Lab is happening this Friday! Everyone who registers also gets access to Damon Suede's recent webinar, The Genre Plot: Unpacking the Universal Truths of Narrative. A terrific opportunity to dig into the building blocks of Story and apply to your own WIP. app.inkedvoices.com/event/worksh...

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Dorian Maffei @dorianmaffei.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Get your sub materials in shape w/ KC&A agents in the @writersdigest.bsky.social agent-one-on-one boot camp this May! Receive valuable feedback on your query, synopsis, & 1st 10 pages of your ms, along w/ a 2 hour AMA & webinar! 📝 Sign up now! writersdigestuniversity.mykajabi.com/how-to-craft...

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5/20-5/23/2025 How to Craft Query Letters & Other Submission Materials

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Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong, Lit Agent @charmstrong.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

If you’re not busy on Wednesday, join me! I’ll be doing a walk-thru on some of the biggest issues I find in the opening pages of query submissions that cause me to pass. Register here: sistersincrime-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Emily Keyes @esckeyes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Hi, I am open to queries again today. I was trying to think of what I am looking for. I'd love to see more multicultual picture books and I am in a weirdly dystopian mood (even though I am in one? Maybe a more fun and exciting and less stupid dystopia?) querytracker.net/query/EmilyK...

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Query Emily Keyes at Keyes Agency

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KaitlynLeann7 @kaitlynleann17.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

#kidlit friends tag a friend to tell them about our FREE #springflingkidlit contest with great prizes! Make sure to follow everyone in the thread. @ciaralovesbooks.bsky.social & I can't wait to read your submissions. All info here: sites.google.com/view/springf...

image with a dandelion stating the spring fling kidlit contest is almost here and to tag a friend to tell them you want to see them submit a story

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 15/03/2025

Just heard from my pals @1booknerd.bsky.social & Sarah McGuire that they've partnered w/Ulysses Press to help them find debut authors. Free #SurvivorChallenge runs Mar.15-Jun.30. Submission can be for any age group. Details & how to enter: readychapter1.com/survivor-sto... #WriterSky #KidLit

Promotional graphic with bold white text on a blue background reading "SEEKING AUTHORS." Below, a 3D-rendered book titled Survivor Stories features a cover illustration of a boat caught in towering, stylized waves. On the left, three checkmarks highlight acceptable story types: "Narrative Nonfiction," "Fiction," and "Based on a True Story." On the right, text states that the challenge is issued by Ulysses Press and Ready Chapter 1. A call-to-action at the bottom reads, "Join the challenge @ readychapter1.com/SURVIVOR."

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Jen Babakhan @jenbabakhan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🚨Reminder! This Friday I’ll host my first Pitch-Me Day here! I’ll make a post that you can pitch under, if I “heart” it, you get to skip the query and send me your proposal! #authorsky #booksky #writingcommunity #MSWL

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Kelly Clasen, PhD @kellyclasenwriter.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

My lyrical, whimsical entry is officially IN. Good luck today, creatives! #PBParty #writingcommunity #kidlit #amwriting

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Deidra Purvis @fspacquisitions.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Attention #kidlit authors and #educators: Free Spirit Publishing and Shell Education are now open to submissions! 🎉📚 Review our guidelines and how to submit here: www.teachercreatedmaterials.com/submission-g.... #writers #callforsubmission #mswl

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Submission Guidelines

Teacher Created Materials is accepting submissions from authors and agents for our Free Spirit Publishing and Shell Education imprints.

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Nicole Garnett @teachertoauthor.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Comet’s day is FINALLY here! It’s the Reindeer Games 🍬🎶🪑🛷🤹‍♂️, and he plans to SHINE! 🌟 As reigning champion, he wants another 🏆! But when 🎅 changes the rules, Comet must adjust his strategy, or at least convince the others he did. 😏👀 #P2Ppit #PB #UA #humor

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💀Chris💀 @cotexican.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

In a villa on the Texas coast, a Mex-Am woman's marriage splinters as her husband’s care becomes a cage. Amidst rising tides and the vengeance of a ghost, she must reclaim her freedom before the storm---and the dead---consume her. JANE EYRE X THE HACIENDA #P2Ppit #q #latinx

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Emma Applegarth @emmaapple.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

COYOTE GOES OVER THE MOUNTAIN A new Coyote tale. #UW #W #PB #p2pPit 🐺 Coyote is clever: or is he?🐾 🏜️ecology and nature learning⛰️ 📖folktale inspired🌱

Coyote is tired of eating dusty dates in the farmland. When he decides to go over the mountain to eat manzanita berries instead, all the animals, from Roadrunner to Rattlesnake, call him silly. Will he figure out why? Coyote and the reader encounter the animals, plants, and landscapes of the California Sonoran desert ecosystem in a modern Coyote story #WIP #PB #UW

graphic titled "Comps for Coyote Goes Over the Mountain." Contains three book covers and notes for each.
Over and Under the Canyon (Messner): Love of place and fidelity to environmental detail
Hungry Coyote (Blackford): Real-life animal antics
The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote (Johnston): classic folktale flavor

moodboard for Coyote Goes Over the Mountain: six images. creosote flowers, desert lavender flowers, desert mountain landscape shots, and a coyote standing on a rock

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Kelly Clasen, PhD @kellyclasenwriter.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

When a 12yo and her nontraditional family land in rural TX, she must find a way to save the only friend she’s made over the drought-plagued summer: the abandoned horse down the road. Even if it means breaking the law. FREYA is Moo X Haven Jacobs Saves the Planet in verse. #MG #P2Ppit #Q #CLI #MH

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Aliash Rodri @aliashrodri.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

BIG CHICAS DON'T CRY X YOU, WITH A VIEW Recently divorced and out of a job, Camila is on the precipice of an existential crisis. She does the only thing a person close to the edge could do: book a flight to Mexico. #P2Ppit #UW #A #Q Check out the #Romcom menu 🤤

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Kelly Clasen, PhD @kellyclasenwriter.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Hiking deep into the river woods, a child must confront the challenges of foraging if she wants to locate the elusive morel mushroom before its fleeting life cycle ends. TREASURES OF THE WOODS revives the timeless themes of Owl Moon & Watercress in lyrical prose. #P2Ppit #PB #STEM #Q

Moodboard depicts river scenes from the spring with a child hiking and holding a handful of morel mushrooms.

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Kelly Clasen, PhD @kellyclasenwriter.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Stale gingerbread house remnant of holiday cheer funky chicken treat 🐓🥚🐓🥚🐓🥚😊 #HaikuSaturday #writingcommunity #haiku

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Ann Rose @annmrose.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Join #RosebudAuthors & @thetobiasagency.bsky.social w/ our annual #SpreadTheJoy campaign. To win a submission package critique (query, 1-2 pg synopsis, & 1st chapter) by ME! Follow go.bsky.app/Kvshpxt, comment below, and repost. Winners chosen at random. (Day 27 & our last giveaway)

Mostly text - SPREAD THE JOY.
Rosebud Authors & The Tobias Literary Agency.
"How do you spell love," Piglet asked.
"You don't spell it, you feel it," answered Pooh.

Day 12 - Critique from Ann Rose with a photo of her.

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Kelly Clasen, PhD @kellyclasenwriter.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Into prairie grass and over sandhills, light-filled blue-gray shortest day ❄️☀️ #solstice #HaikuSaturday #writingcommunity

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 24/11/2024

Thanks to all who have shared my Unofficial Guide To Bluesky! MUCH appreciated. Other ways to help: - Pass it forward. Help/welcome a Bluesky newcomer. - I make a living writing/illus #KidLit, so consider boosting, borrowing, or buying one of my books? More: publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bl....

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a. Welcome - Debbie Ridpath Ohi - Obsidian Publish

Welcome to Debbie's Unofficial Guide To Bluesky Greetings to those finding me via the recent Vox post about Bluesky! You may already be familiar with my Bluesky tips blog post, Bluesky article in Sch…

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Ann Rose @annmrose.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Join #RosebudAuthors & @thetobiasagency.bsky.social w/ our annual #SpreadTheJoy campaign. To win a 1 of 3 Query Critiques w/ notes on the 1st 10 pages of your MS by @chelseamargomoyer.bsky.social Follow go.bsky.app/Kvshpxt, comment below, and repost. Winners chosen at random. (Day 17)

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Kelly Clasen, PhD @kellyclasenwriter.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Should be cleaning or wrapping … but how could I disturb this cinnamon loaf? #winterbreak

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Ann Rose @annmrose.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Join #RosebudAuthors & @thetobiasagency.bsky.social w/ our annual #SpreadTheJoy campaign. To win nonfiction MG book proposal or MS (up to 10 pages) or a nonfiction PB critique by @stephaniegibeault.bsky.social Follow go.bsky.app/Kvshpxt, comment below, and repost. Winners chosen at random. (Day 18)

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SteelWorks Literary @steelworksliterary.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

To ring in the new year, SteelWorks Literary will open to unsolicited queries Jan 1-5, 2025! Scroll through to learn more about what Lori is hoping to find. QM link in bio above. #amquerying #amagenting #kidlit #picturebooks #PB #MG #YA #GN #illustrators #kidlitillustration #kidlitart #mswl

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Kelly Clasen, PhD @kellyclasenwriter.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

This is such a beautiful, innovative #picturebook. To read more about its backstory, check out the SeasonsOfKidLit.com blog! @literallylynne.bsky.social @authorhmacht.bsky.social #kidlit #writingcommunity #currentlyreading

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Kelly Clasen, PhD @kellyclasenwriter.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Cherished companion, silver paws, crackle-crisp air. Lead the way, always. ❤️❄️ #haikusaturday #writingcommunity #dogs

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Vivian Kirkfield @viviankirkfield.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Thankful for friends, family, and my box of author copies of One Girl’s Voice illustrated by Rebecca Gibbon, published by Astra books for young readers and launching on February 11, 2025, which is the day I turn 78 years old. Please, dear friends, we are never too old to follow our dreams

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Kelly Clasen, PhD @kellyclasenwriter.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Winter-sun cactus ho-hum cinderblock office pink petals spark smiles Happy #haikusaturday, #writingcommunity. 🌺❄️🌺

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Kelly Clasen, PhD @kellyclasenwriter.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It was an honor to be among the finalists in this year’s Halloweensie #kidlit #writing competition with this short, spooky tale. 👻🎃🧡 #writingcommunity

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