Samantha M Clark
@samanthamclark.com
Author of books for kids and young at heart. Repped by Rachel Orr, Prospect Literary. Samanthamclark.com | Samanthamclark.substack.com | Bsky.app/profile/samanthamclark.com
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Samantha M Clark
@samanthamclark.com
· Dec 2
Intro post! I'm a dog lover, ghostwriter, writing mentor and author of these books for kids: ARROW (MG, Simon & Schuster) Mad Max meets Jungle Book. Arrow's the only human in a magically hidden rainforest. When they're found by the arid outside world, he must figure out the truth to save his home
Oh my goodness. Grateful for the cuteness of otters!
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Oh my goodness. Grateful for the cuteness of otters!
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We're not like regular audiobook retailers. We're a cool audiobook retailer.
That's why we're running a Shop Small Sale now through Dec 1, and every purchase you make supports the indie bookshop of your choice 🎧
Shop the sale: libro.fm/sale/all
That's why we're running a Shop Small Sale now through Dec 1, and every purchase you make supports the indie bookshop of your choice 🎧
Shop the sale: libro.fm/sale/all
All sale audiobooks
Check out the selection of Libro.fm’s on-sale audiobooks!
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November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
We're not like regular audiobook retailers. We're a cool audiobook retailer.
That's why we're running a Shop Small Sale now through Dec 1, and every purchase you make supports the indie bookshop of your choice 🎧
Shop the sale: libro.fm/sale/all
That's why we're running a Shop Small Sale now through Dec 1, and every purchase you make supports the indie bookshop of your choice 🎧
Shop the sale: libro.fm/sale/all
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If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
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Some watercolor practice!
November 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Some watercolor practice!
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This little hummingbird wants to land on your uplift feed 🥰
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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🎉 Congratulations to WINGING IT for another week on the indie bestseller list! Celebrating with you @buttersketch.bsky.social!
@ksonnack.bsky.social
@ksonnack.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🎉 Congratulations to WINGING IT for another week on the indie bestseller list! Celebrating with you @buttersketch.bsky.social!
@ksonnack.bsky.social
@ksonnack.bsky.social
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Wkly #KidLitLaunches thread: Did you post about a #KidLit or #YALit book launching this wk? Want to help boost a #PublicationDay #BookBirthday?Reply with link to the Bluesky or blog post. Only for books launching Nov.24-30, 2025 #2025-Wk48.
Book bloggers, agents, publishers welcome to post links!
Book bloggers, agents, publishers welcome to post links!
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Wkly #KidLitLaunches thread: Did you post about a #KidLit or #YALit book launching this wk? Want to help boost a #PublicationDay #BookBirthday?Reply with link to the Bluesky or blog post. Only for books launching Nov.24-30, 2025 #2025-Wk48.
Book bloggers, agents, publishers welcome to post links!
Book bloggers, agents, publishers welcome to post links!
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YES!!! It's time for @npr Books We Love . . . and here are two that I picked. #antwan.eady and #caswasshere, I loved your books!!!!
#BooksWeLove #NPR #booksbooksbooks #KidLit #GraphicNovel #PictureBook #Reading @antwaneady.bsky.social
#BooksWeLove #NPR #booksbooksbooks #KidLit #GraphicNovel #PictureBook #Reading @antwaneady.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
YES!!! It's time for @npr Books We Love . . . and here are two that I picked. #antwan.eady and #caswasshere, I loved your books!!!!
#BooksWeLove #NPR #booksbooksbooks #KidLit #GraphicNovel #PictureBook #Reading @antwaneady.bsky.social
#BooksWeLove #NPR #booksbooksbooks #KidLit #GraphicNovel #PictureBook #Reading @antwaneady.bsky.social
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New York Public Library recently shared their best books of 2025, which included these 12 ABLA titles!
For the full list of these titles plus the authors & illustrators who created them, check out our IG post.
Congratulations to all our clients and their agents! We are one proud agency!
For the full list of these titles plus the authors & illustrators who created them, check out our IG post.
Congratulations to all our clients and their agents! We are one proud agency!
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
New York Public Library recently shared their best books of 2025, which included these 12 ABLA titles!
For the full list of these titles plus the authors & illustrators who created them, check out our IG post.
Congratulations to all our clients and their agents! We are one proud agency!
For the full list of these titles plus the authors & illustrators who created them, check out our IG post.
Congratulations to all our clients and their agents! We are one proud agency!
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Co-author Stacy Wells surprised me. Quite the hustler, she carried an advanced copy of our picture book, Stronger Than, throughout NCTE, coaxing folks, me included, to pose with her holding a copy of the book! (She even strong-armed passengers into reading it on her flight to Denver!) Go, Stacy!
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Co-author Stacy Wells surprised me. Quite the hustler, she carried an advanced copy of our picture book, Stronger Than, throughout NCTE, coaxing folks, me included, to pose with her holding a copy of the book! (She even strong-armed passengers into reading it on her flight to Denver!) Go, Stacy!
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And like we always do when we're together, we covered 70 topics in those 10 memorable minutes!
I'm soooooooooo grateful for the 10 minutes I spent with @kaaauthor.bsky.social today! Thank you, Katherine!!!
November 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
And like we always do when we're together, we covered 70 topics in those 10 memorable minutes!
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First review is in for Shrinking Violet, and it's a ⭐ from Kirkus.
So very happy!
So very happy!
November 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
First review is in for Shrinking Violet, and it's a ⭐ from Kirkus.
So very happy!
So very happy!
Great seeing PJ Hoover at Lark & Owl Booksellers today and getting a copy of her new interactive graphic novel DRAGON VS UNICORN!! The book looks adorable!! I can’t wait to read it. #kidlit
November 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Great seeing PJ Hoover at Lark & Owl Booksellers today and getting a copy of her new interactive graphic novel DRAGON VS UNICORN!! The book looks adorable!! I can’t wait to read it. #kidlit
Congratulations @mrschureads.bsky.social !!
November 23, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Congratulations @mrschureads.bsky.social !!
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@slj.com has released its Best Picture Books of 2025 list, and TWO titles by book creators from our collective are on it!
Congrats to everyone, especially @cordellmatthew.bsky.social for TO SEE AN OWL and @dansantat.bsky.social and Neil Sharpson for DON'T TRUST FISH
www.slj.com/story/best-p...
Congrats to everyone, especially @cordellmatthew.bsky.social for TO SEE AN OWL and @dansantat.bsky.social and Neil Sharpson for DON'T TRUST FISH
www.slj.com/story/best-p...
November 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
@slj.com has released its Best Picture Books of 2025 list, and TWO titles by book creators from our collective are on it!
Congrats to everyone, especially @cordellmatthew.bsky.social for TO SEE AN OWL and @dansantat.bsky.social and Neil Sharpson for DON'T TRUST FISH
www.slj.com/story/best-p...
Congrats to everyone, especially @cordellmatthew.bsky.social for TO SEE AN OWL and @dansantat.bsky.social and Neil Sharpson for DON'T TRUST FISH
www.slj.com/story/best-p...
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I saw the almost final art for Lily-May's Joyful Day last night. Holly's art is soooooooooooooo joyful! Publication Date: September 1, 2026
Publishers Weekly announced Lily-May's Joyful Day, illustrated by Holly Hatam and written by me, today! It is a celebration of the cascading joy that arises from acts of collective inspiration. Thank you, Holly, Candlewick, @mollyoneill.bsky.social, Karen Lotz, and @skeetervm.bsky.social!
November 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I saw the almost final art for Lily-May's Joyful Day last night. Holly's art is soooooooooooooo joyful! Publication Date: September 1, 2026
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New octopus dropped down in Coral City 👽✌️🐙 #octopus #cephalopodsofcoralcity #cephalopod #headfoot #alien #dropdown #peaceout #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
New octopus dropped down in Coral City 👽✌️🐙 #octopus #cephalopodsofcoralcity #cephalopod #headfoot #alien #dropdown #peaceout #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
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So happy to see the three-book paperback set of IVAN, BOB, and RUBY on this @harperkids.bsky.social list! 🦍🐕🐘
Lots of great gift ideas here—and we all know that books make the best gifts. ❤️
Lots of great gift ideas here—and we all know that books make the best gifts. ❤️
Best Books to Gift Kids in 2025
The holidays are fast approaching, and we all know choosing a great gift can be tough. Not every kid is the same, so we've put together a list of the best books for all kinds of young readers. Maybe…
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November 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
So happy to see the three-book paperback set of IVAN, BOB, and RUBY on this @harperkids.bsky.social list! 🦍🐕🐘
Lots of great gift ideas here—and we all know that books make the best gifts. ❤️
Lots of great gift ideas here—and we all know that books make the best gifts. ❤️
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“What is Reading Rainbow?” 📚🌈
Library joy was featured as a Jeopardy! clue, alongside LeVar Burton and PBS 🤯🥹
💙 @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social
💚 @pbs.org
Library joy was featured as a Jeopardy! clue, alongside LeVar Burton and PBS 🤯🥹
💙 @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social
💚 @pbs.org
November 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
“What is Reading Rainbow?” 📚🌈
Library joy was featured as a Jeopardy! clue, alongside LeVar Burton and PBS 🤯🥹
💙 @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social
💚 @pbs.org
Library joy was featured as a Jeopardy! clue, alongside LeVar Burton and PBS 🤯🥹
💙 @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social
💚 @pbs.org
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
Congratulations @davidbowles.us !
Booth visitor royalty! @davidbowles.us author & translator posing here with his @leeandlow.bsky.social: Tales of the Feathered Serpent, of which he's the author, and El otoño de las luciernagos which he translated #NCTE25 Booth 504
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Congratulations @davidbowles.us !
Fantastic!! Congratulations to Daniel Nayeri
Congratulations to Daniel Nayeri, the winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Young People's Literature!
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Fantastic!! Congratulations to Daniel Nayeri
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Celebrate #NationalIllustrationDay2025 on 28 Nov in your school library! 📖🎨Illustrations unlock meaning, build visual literacy and make learning accessible. Check out the blog for book-recommendations & teacher/librarian tips. Ready to inspire creativity? @cilip.bsky.social
Celebrate National Illustration Day in Your School Library
National Illustration Day on Friday, 28th November is a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the art of visual storytelling. Illustrations are more than just pictures—they help readers interpret idea…
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November 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Celebrate #NationalIllustrationDay2025 on 28 Nov in your school library! 📖🎨Illustrations unlock meaning, build visual literacy and make learning accessible. Check out the blog for book-recommendations & teacher/librarian tips. Ready to inspire creativity? @cilip.bsky.social
I feel ya, Steve
Steve has really been trying his best recently. I think it's taking it's toll.
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I feel ya, Steve