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Adria Karlsson @adriakarlsson.bsky.social · 1d

Got my 2nd piece done for #ABLArtFest - this one is for #TheCrystalBallReveals! This started out fun and ended up slightly ominous… what with the approaching rain clouds and all.
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@andreabrownlit.bsky.social #kidlit #illustration #cutpaper #picturebookillustration #itsybitsy #spider #treehouse

Child with black pigtails and a green hoodie gazes into a crystal ball sitting on a brown wooden chair. A friendly spider is perched on top of the crystal ball. Inside the crystal ball is a treehouse with a same size spider web built next to it and a tiny image of the kid and the spider waving at each other. In the top of the crystal ball are approaching rain clouds. All of the image is rendered in cut paper.

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Adria Karlsson @adriakarlsson.bsky.social · 4d

My 1st piece for #ABLArtFest - the prompt was #fallfestivities!

I adore the sneaky dragon, the determined bunny, and the trying-ever-so-hard robot…. But the mad scientist and dog for sure “steal” the scene (see what I did there?!).

#kidlitart #illustration #cutpaper @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

Four kids are trying to eat donuts hanging on strings without using their hands. The first one is a curly redheaded white kid dressed as a purple dragon and is cheating- using their hands to hold the donut. The second is a south Asian kid with straight black hair in a large pink bunny suit. The third is Black kid with an Afro and a hair pick, dressed up as a mad scientist - his donut has been stolen by a white dog. The dog is running away with the donut. The fourth kid is a smaller white kid dressed as a robot who has not gotten any donuts yet. There’s a large tree with fall leaves and a stone wall in the background.

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Steph Lau (she/her) @stephlaubooks.com · 9d

Pleased* to announce my second picture book! MEDUSA'S PET ROCK is slated to launch Fall 2026, with @harpercollins.bsky.social

*Pleasssssssed

Thanks to my agent @allielevick.bsky.social and editor Megan Ilnitzki for loving this story as much as I do ❤️🐍🏺 Can't wait for you all to read it!
#kidlit

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cynthia @ NYCC C-33 @cynthiaycheng.bsky.social · 9d

I'll be co-teaching an introductory course on graphic novels this fall via @highlightsfound.bsky.social! If you've wanted to make a GN but don't know where to start, this might be the workshop for you.

I'm honored to teach alongside @mythjae.bsky.social & @anneappert.bsky.social for this course! 💞

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 14d

If you want to join the #KidLitArt chat tonight, here's how! 👇

KidLitArt @kidlitart.bsky.social · 14d

To join the chat, you can:

1) Follow @kidlitart.bsky.social and manually check the Q's & A's here

2) Use the Search for Latest Results with #kidlitart

3) Use @deck.blue to make a column for #kidlitart
and see the new replies in real time

KidLitArt @kidlitart.bsky.social · Sep 9

September's topic for #KidLitArt chat will be - Making Money with your Art!

Join your hosts on Sep 25, 9pm EST/6pm PST for an hour-long chat about m-o-n-e-y (and art)!

Banner art by Scout Underhill

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Jasmine W. @ LA Printer's Fair B-69 @mythjae.bsky.social · 16d

I'll be a guest lecturer for @highlightsfound.bsky.social ✨
If you or anyone you know has been interested in getting into graphic novels, this is the course for you! Taught by @cynthiaycheng.bsky.social myself and @anneappert.bsky.social

Register here: www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/fro...

A promo for the From Story To Script: An Introduction to Writing Graphic Novels course, showing photos of the three lecturers, Cynthia Yuan Cheng, Jasmine walls, and special guest Anne Appert. This is a 4-week online course from October 23 - November 13

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 23d

Happy #BiWeek ! 💗💜💙

Painting of a cat in the colors of the bi flag

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Anne Appert (they/them) @anneappert.bsky.social · 24d

I personally like to cross them off with highlighters. That way at the end of the day I can see what I did and I have a very colorful (sometimes sparkly) ta da! List.

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Anne Appert (they/them) @anneappert.bsky.social · 24d

What a lovely description. I always strive for a painterly, textured style with my work! Here are samples of some of the styles I do (including some watercolor type illustrations) and my portfolio. Thank you for considering!

www.anneappert.com

An illustration of a mole on a purple watercolor background opening a jar of fireflies that is exploding into fireworks above the mole’s head.

An illustration of two brownstones with flowers in the windows and bushes along the sidewalk. A parade of diverse children walks in front of them holding or wearing towels and carrying toys. At the bottom of the steps stands a kid dressed in a koala onesie watching the other children.

An illustration of a tree on a snowy day. In the tree are various sized mailboxes. A beaver in a winter hat and carrying a satchel delivers mail in the lowest mailbox. A bird in earmuffs carries a letter above the beaver.

A purple field of fireflies at sunset has bunnies in pjs chasing the fireflies and watching the stars. A bunny in front holds a floating star in their paws.

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 24d

Hey #kidlit illustrators!

We're beginning work on new Christmas/nighttime themed picture book. I'm looking for someone with a painterly, textured, and literary style capable conjuring magic, light, and wonder.

Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.

💙❤️ #artcommissions

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Anne Appert (they/them) @anneappert.bsky.social · Aug 14

Omg this is adorable

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hey Bluesky, could you help me spread the word about my Big Cartel shop? A sale or two would be a colossal help.

All of my creations are designed, sewn, and hand-embroidered by me. Each takes many hours to make.

jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Here's a lovely photo of a plethora of my fabric art creatures. There's a green fur floor and a galaxy print fabric background in the pic. Here are some of the creatures: a watermelon ghost with a green body and pink face and twinkly black eyes and a little frown. There's a black crablike creature with wide set blue eyes and purple eyeshadow. She has red lips, four tentacle-like arms and an embroidered rainbow flower on her forehead. There's a black ghost bag covered with red embroidered flowers. There's a watermelon ghost bag. There are two yellow creatures. Each has three eyes, two tentacles, and mouths full of sharp teeth. There's a cosmic moth sitting on a little chair. The moth is black with a gray face, twinkly red eyes, and a wide grin full of sharp teeth. The moth is covered with hand-embroidered stars and planets of various sizes and colors.

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Anne Appert (they/them) @anneappert.bsky.social · Aug 10

Thank you!

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Anne Appert (they/them) @anneappert.bsky.social · Aug 8

This is so amazing!! Congrats!!!

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Anne Appert (they/them) @anneappert.bsky.social · Aug 7

My next picture book was announced on Tuesday! So thrilled I get to illustrate these wonderful happybaras and their adventures, as written by my friend @sudiptabq.bsky.social .

Image of a book announcement with two headshots to the left and text that reads “
Mary-Kate Gaudet at Little, Brown has acquired world rights to Happybaras, a picture book by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, illustrated by Anne Appert, about two capybaras with different outlooks on life who take a trip to Alaska. Publication is set for Summer 2026; Rachel Orr at Prospect Agency represented the author, and Charlotte Wenger at Prospect Agency represented the illustrator.

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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · Aug 5

New book deals on the way from @sudiptabq.bsky.social @anneappert.bsky.social @rebeccaefbarone.bsky.social + more buff.ly/JPLQ8ig

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · Jun 27

We read books by LGBTQ+ authors before. We will read books by LGBTQ+ authors now. We will read books by LGBTQ+ authors tomorrow. Literature is for and by everyone.

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · Jun 26

Hey Bluesky, could you help me spread the word about my Etsy shop? A sale or two would be a colossal help.

All of my creations are designed, hand-sewn, hand-embroidered by me. Each takes many hours to make.

jeremycreature.etsy.com

Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · Jun 13

Here are some of my recent creations!

jeremycreature.etsy.com

Here's a lovely photo of three fabric art eggs watching the tiny witch homunculus balancing on one foot on a small broom. The eggs are purple, pink and white, and they're covered with embroidered flowers. The eggs have mouths with lip colors that match their flowers. They have two flat teeth poking out of their mouths. The pink egg is wearing a small sun hat. The tiny witch homunculus is green with large sparkly red eyes and a little frown. There's green fur in the background of the photo.

Here's a lovely photo of the cosmic ghost bag. She's a black ghost with various stars and planets embroidered on her body. There are little white stars, larger white stars, yellow stars, purple stars, a dark purple planet, a light purple planet, a red planet with a yellow ring. She has a gray moon-like face with large sparkly black eyes and a little frown. She's wearing a black fabric witch hat. She's resting on my palm and there's green fur in the background of the pic.

Here's a lovely photo of Big Bad Beatrice. She's a tall, purple ghost-like being, with seven yellow cat-like eyes and greenish blue eyeshadow. She has a large mouth filled with big, sharp teeth. She has two greenish blue tentacle-like arms. Her lower body is covered with embroidered greenish blue flowers. There's green fur in the background of the photo.

Here's a lovely photo of my fabric art creature Sweet William. He has a black gumdrop-shaped body and a blue face with four lavender eyes. He has an open mouth and seven sharp teeth. He has long arms with hands that are like pincers. He has six lavender, lightning-shaped spikes coming out of the top of his head. There's green fur in the background of the photo.

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · Jun 25

And while we're reminding folks about stuff with deadlines, applications are now open for our 2026 Writers in Residence! Assuming we make it to 2026, we'll once again welcome an author for adults & an author for young readers into our community! portersquarebooks.com/porter-squar...

Porter Square Books Writers in Residence Program

Porter Square Books will once again be hosting Writers in Residence in 2025

portersquarebooks.com

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Anne Appert (they/them) @anneappert.bsky.social · Jun 25

Hooray! 😊

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Anne Appert (they/them) @anneappert.bsky.social · Jun 25

This is awesome! I’d love to share with my Cambridge friends, but it says on the website the deadline to apply is past?

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jun 20

1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jun 20

I am getting multiple reports that the Trump admin is NOT complying with the court order requiring passport updates for transgender people.

Some passport agencies are being told not to give trans people passports with their correct gender marker, for now.

Sol B(ack in Action) @wuffles.bsky.social · Jun 20

#Trans folks in the US who are reapplying for their passport to be fixed. Don't bother. Just had an emergency appointment today (I travel on the 30th) and they cannot issue me a corrected #passport. All decisions regarding this 'issue' are on hold until they receive guidance from the head office.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jun 19

When Dobbs came down, the media rightly saw it as the culmination of a decades long effort to eliminate abortion rights by the conservative legal movement. When Skrmetti came down, the media blamed trans people and not that same conservative legal machine.

It's the same court and lawyers.

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Zodi Mamuwalde @zodi777.blacksky.app · Jun 19

If you really want to dig into some extensive #Juneteenth primary sources, the Library of Congress has a massive archive of interviews from formerly enslaved people. Here is part of the Texas collection:

www.loc.gov/item/mesn161/

Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 16, Texas, Part 1, Adams-Duhon

www.loc.gov

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“Surely, she dies first” Jackson @lioninthetrees.bsky.social · Jun 19

I'm Shirley, a Black/Korean woman who makes really cool art.

It's Juneteenth, and Black people still have yet to receive reparations. But here are some of the ways you can financially support me today! ✨💖

✨: paypal.com/paypalme/lioninthetrees
✨: ko-fi.com/lioninthetrees
✨: shop.lioninthetrees.com

Selfie of me in my incredible DIY San from Princess Mononoke outfit

A colourful collection of pottery featuring little dragon totems, a small barn swallow totem, larger animal totems in the back, and further in the back are mugs/vessels stacked on top of each other.

Large sgraffito dragon totem with California Poppy motifs carved into it's side, and gold glaze details on it's spine and antlers. Done with black and orange underglazes. Left side view.

Group picture of all of my November Pottery

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