iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Lotte Elsa @lotteelsa.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

*Future of Childhood x AI* The future belongs to children, but they're missing from AI conversations. Let's change that! This feed explores how AI transforms childhood, how we can shape it to safeguard children and innovate for their wellbeing. 🔗 Follow → bsky.app/profile/lott... Tag: #AIChildhood

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Lotte Elsa @lotteelsa.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

It’s an absurdity to think it would protect children to limit their access to science and wonder and learning about our world’s beautiful diversity. We must #endbookbans and support diverse voices in #kidlit.

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Laken Brimicombe @lakenbrimicombe.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

Here’s your daily reminder to ✨keep writing✨

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Brian Kirby @boringstorybook.com · 25/07/2024

New to Bluesky? A feed lets you scroll the topics you want to see. A list shows a group of people with something in common. Starter Packs help you follow people and feeds easily. An explainer w/ links relevant to #kidlit & #publishing here: boringstorybook.com/a-list-oflis...

KIDLIT MEGA FEED
KIDLIT COMMUNITY LIST
#KIDLITART FEED
KIDLIT/YA AGENTS
BOOK INDUSTRY NEWS FEED
KIDLIT/YA EDITORS LIST
KIDITARTPOSTCARD FEED
KIDLIT/YA AGENTS PACK
KIDIT ILLUSTRATORS OF BLUESKY PACK
KIDLITCHATTERS PACK
KIDLIT AUTHORS PACK
ANDREA BROWN LITERARY AGENCY PACK

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Breanna Carzoo @breannacarzoo.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

Spreading joy one manatee at a time 💙

cut paper art of a manatee and a little blue fish, illustrated by Breanna Carzoo

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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

In the Belgian city I lived in at the time, people put stuffed toys (mainly teddy bears) in the windows for children to spot on their daily neighbourhood walks. One family made beautiful little scenes with their resident Tigger.

A leaded glass window in an early modern brick house. A Tigger toy, dressed in a blue bathrobe, sits on a white cushion reading a handmade book titled "How to save the world by doing nothing?".

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Lotte Elsa @lotteelsa.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

I forgot that social media could be fun. While trying to endure an apocalyptic heatwave while pregnant, I’ve been finding hope on here, reading about Octavia Butler’s beautiful mind (yday was the day of the parable 🤯), and Tolkien’s deep understanding of human nature. #bluesky

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

Here’s what I tell my student when they express this anxiety: Write in community along the way and your community will be there to support you further down the path too. Share your work with friends. Go to readings and cheer on peers and mentors. Activate yourself as a literary citizen.

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Lotte Elsa @lotteelsa.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

I immediately added this to my summer reading list. Grown-ups have much to learn from children, and also from children’s books. Writing for and with children has taught me much of what I know about this world ✨

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 20/07/2024

Nothing pleases me more than seeing the joy and comfort of Wallace the former stray. I think of him shivering and injured, angry and semi feral, last January… and now he cuddles and plays and just enjoys his life. I basically want this for everyone—May we all be warm and well fed.

A black cat cuddling against, lying on his back and nestled in the crook of my arm

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Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com · 27/06/2024

EXERCISE! It’s essential, especially for the likes of us who often live/work sedentary lives. I walk 3-4 miles a day, and not only is it great cardio, but it jazzes my brain so that I have written the majority of my graphic novels on those walks! #protip #comics #writing

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Kayleigh | Developmental Editor ✍🏻📚 @editsinthemargins.com · 20/06/2024

Dear Writer, Remember to find the joy in your story. Deadlines, word counts, and other expectations (whether they’ve been set by others or ourselves) can get in the way of what made us fall in love with writing in the first place. Don’t let pressure ruin the process for you. Enjoy your . . .

Dear Writer, find the joy in your story. Love, Kayleigh

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Lotte Elsa @lotteelsa.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

I wish we could throw away some submission rules. They make the least sense to my neurodivergent mind…

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 18/06/2024

Books are ad free. AD FREE. This glorious feature is largely undercelebrated imho.

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Lotte Elsa @lotteelsa.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

Do any other #kidlit authors have a problem with the phrasing “in the querying trenches”? It makes me think of homesick, cold, hungry teenage boys in mud holes, caught up in tragic, atrocious wars. Querying can be a lonely journey indeed, but is there a more pacifist term to describe the struggle?

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Lotte Elsa @lotteelsa.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

Reposting this so I remember to purchase it, because it sounds delightful! ✨

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Lotte Elsa @lotteelsa.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Hi Crystal! Your work looks stunning (and your parent had a pretty cool job!) ✨

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Jem is OPEN to queries @jemiscoe.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

Please follow our agency, fellow authors, illustrators, industry peeps, and book lovers. We are in the process of migrating over and building up our community base. Thank youuuuu!

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chris. @azedand2knots.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

Books go bad if you leave them out on the counter unfinished for too long. You could end up with listeria, salmonella, some sort of giant worms on the brain. Better to stay up until 4 am and finish the things, really. You are an adult now, with responsibilities to uphold and an example to set.

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Lotte Elsa @lotteelsa.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

💔 The least we can do for these survivors is to promise them that we’ll continue telling their stories. That we won’t forget.

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