Jess Chrysler
@jesschrysler.bsky.social
Writer, Artist, Educator, and reviewer for Booklist. Fantasy is my genre. | Hamline MFAC '21 | she/her | JessChrysler.com
ever lurking the socials while my child sleeps… hopefully not in vain, or for eternity🖤
December 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
ever lurking the socials while my child sleeps… hopefully not in vain, or for eternity🖤
100% and when you read that nonsense as a person who has experienced poverty it makes you want to take the book back and get a refund.
Poor character written by an author who has experienced poverty: My problem is that I'm $300 short on the rent and now my car is making a noise
Poor character written by a rich author: My problem is that I feel so inferior beside these beautiful, sophisticated rich people
Poor character written by a rich author: My problem is that I feel so inferior beside these beautiful, sophisticated rich people
December 23, 2024 at 12:09 AM
100% and when you read that nonsense as a person who has experienced poverty it makes you want to take the book back and get a refund.
one of my favorite couples🖤
“Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe.”
“Blonde.”
“Blonde.”
December 11, 2024 at 6:08 AM
one of my favorite couples🖤
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Kate's Substack is one of the very best go-to resources for authors and publishers alike. And this entry is especially helpful.
I wrote about how to (re)build on a new social media platform. And MiniBrands Books.
open.substack.com/pub/katemcke...
open.substack.com/pub/katemcke...
If You Build it Again, Will They Come?
To Bluesky?
open.substack.com
November 19, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Kate's Substack is one of the very best go-to resources for authors and publishers alike. And this entry is especially helpful.
HamFam take note!
this is unrelated to what my acc is usually about but i just had to say that my uni module on Children's Lit had a seminar on wordless picture books, & the essay on them from this book was brilliantly helpful for analysis & a definitional part of the lecture! loved it & hoping to read more of this
November 17, 2024 at 5:13 PM
HamFam take note!
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Attention rhymers! Renée LaTulippe is having another contest. Who’s throwing their hat in?
POETRY CONTEST!!
We're baaaaaaaack ... but this time it's for RHYMING VERSE for PB, MG, YA! Submissions open Monday, November 18.
My fellow judges are back: Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, Suzy Levinson, and Lou Piccolo. We can't wait to read your kidlit poems!
www.reneelatulippe.com/poetry-conte...
We're baaaaaaaack ... but this time it's for RHYMING VERSE for PB, MG, YA! Submissions open Monday, November 18.
My fellow judges are back: Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, Suzy Levinson, and Lou Piccolo. We can't wait to read your kidlit poems!
www.reneelatulippe.com/poetry-conte...
November 15, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Attention rhymers! Renée LaTulippe is having another contest. Who’s throwing their hat in?
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Hi hi, Blasian author here with a new middle grade portal fantasy (starring a Blasian Muslim heroine) coming in 2025 from Greenwillow Books, SABRENA SWEPT AWAY! Tell your friends!
November 16, 2024 at 3:33 AM
Hi hi, Blasian author here with a new middle grade portal fantasy (starring a Blasian Muslim heroine) coming in 2025 from Greenwillow Books, SABRENA SWEPT AWAY! Tell your friends!
Now on my tbr
If you’re feeling salty about lying liars trying to gaslight folks and getting away with it, I recommend reading the extremely therapeutic I DO NOT EAT CHILDREN by Marcus Cutler. It’s got a delightful surprise ending that comes with a steaming side of schadenfreude. 📚👍🏻
November 16, 2024 at 6:10 AM
Now on my tbr
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November 16, 2024 at 12:40 AM
logged back on to try to see some good news… there’s some… but, oh boy, I’m starting to get anxious again. How do people do this social media thing anymore?
November 14, 2024 at 5:25 AM
logged back on to try to see some good news… there’s some… but, oh boy, I’m starting to get anxious again. How do people do this social media thing anymore?
Just axed the X (finally) and boy, does it feel good.💪
Still don’t have a lot of time to be social on the medias, but it’s good to know the x can’t call anymore😂
Still don’t have a lot of time to be social on the medias, but it’s good to know the x can’t call anymore😂
November 11, 2024 at 12:24 AM
Just axed the X (finally) and boy, does it feel good.💪
Still don’t have a lot of time to be social on the medias, but it’s good to know the x can’t call anymore😂
Still don’t have a lot of time to be social on the medias, but it’s good to know the x can’t call anymore😂
wisdom right here
"Inferring is one of the greatest pleasures as a reader. Your job as a writer is to imply. This is what 'show vs. tell' really means." -Elana K. Arnold
#HamlineMFAC
#HamlineMFAC
July 19, 2024 at 5:03 PM
wisdom right here
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The Kidlit illustrators (general) list is for illustrators who are interested in children’s books & illustration but who are NOT published yet.
To be added: Send me a dm with a link to a portfolio showing interest in illustration for children
To be added: Send me a dm with a link to a portfolio showing interest in illustration for children
July 19, 2024 at 4:41 PM
The Kidlit illustrators (general) list is for illustrators who are interested in children’s books & illustration but who are NOT published yet.
To be added: Send me a dm with a link to a portfolio showing interest in illustration for children
To be added: Send me a dm with a link to a portfolio showing interest in illustration for children
Would’ve loved to have had this kind of opportunity when I was just starting out 🌼 Get your subs in kids!
lbartistaward.com/rules
#kidlitart #kidlitillustration
lbartistaward.com/rules
#kidlitart #kidlitillustration
April 9, 2024 at 11:56 PM
Would’ve loved to have had this kind of opportunity when I was just starting out 🌼 Get your subs in kids!
lbartistaward.com/rules
#kidlitart #kidlitillustration
lbartistaward.com/rules
#kidlitart #kidlitillustration
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Okay, let's see how this goes. I'd like to give away two copies of my new middle grade horror, Not Quite a Ghost to educators/librarians. So if you are a #teacher or #librarian and are interested, please respond to this post. #edusky, #skybrarian #kidlit, #schoollibrary
Not Quite a Ghost
From the award-winning author of The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy comes an unforgettable and deeply personal story of the ghosts that surround us—and the ones we carry inside. The house seemed...
www.harpercollins.com
January 12, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Okay, let's see how this goes. I'd like to give away two copies of my new middle grade horror, Not Quite a Ghost to educators/librarians. So if you are a #teacher or #librarian and are interested, please respond to this post. #edusky, #skybrarian #kidlit, #schoollibrary
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We have 13 mentors this year across picture books (dummies or manuscripts), chapter books, graphic novels (scripts or pages), middle grade, young adult, and portfolio review. Applications open January 10th #Kidlit #LGBTQIA+
@michaelleali.bsky.social is a 2024 Queer Kidlit Mentor for middle grade. Check his mentor profile by going here and clicking on his name: queerkidlit.weebly.com/meet-the-men... Applications open soon! (January 10th) for a March-May program.
January 8, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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A.C. Bose Grant Open To Applications locusmag.com/2024/01...
A.C. Bose Grant Open To Applications
The A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian Speculative Literature is open to applications through January 31, 2024. The grant provides $1,000 to “South Asian or Desi diaspora writers developing spec…
locusmag.com
January 8, 2024 at 11:11 PM
A.C. Bose Grant Open To Applications locusmag.com/2024/01...
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Not Quite a Ghost is a middle grade ghost story about a girl who comes down with a #CFS -like illness and is stuck in the bedroom of her new house with its creepy yellow wallpaper--where it seems like she's not alone. It's out *checks watch* Jan. 16!
anneursu.com/books/not-qu...
anneursu.com/books/not-qu...
TELL BLUESKY MORE ABOUT YOUR BOOK PLEASE!
Me too. (It doesn't help that my book goes into the 1950s drought and why so few noticed it.)
January 5, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Not Quite a Ghost is a middle grade ghost story about a girl who comes down with a #CFS -like illness and is stuck in the bedroom of her new house with its creepy yellow wallpaper--where it seems like she's not alone. It's out *checks watch* Jan. 16!
anneursu.com/books/not-qu...
anneursu.com/books/not-qu...
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Early #KidlitChat
Need some help circulating this mentorship program for prepublished LGBTQIA+ kidlit creators! Thank you!! We will be posting the 2024 mentors soon.
queerkidlit.weebly.com
Need some help circulating this mentorship program for prepublished LGBTQIA+ kidlit creators! Thank you!! We will be posting the 2024 mentors soon.
queerkidlit.weebly.com
December 18, 2023 at 11:22 PM
Early #KidlitChat
Need some help circulating this mentorship program for prepublished LGBTQIA+ kidlit creators! Thank you!! We will be posting the 2024 mentors soon.
queerkidlit.weebly.com
Need some help circulating this mentorship program for prepublished LGBTQIA+ kidlit creators! Thank you!! We will be posting the 2024 mentors soon.
queerkidlit.weebly.com
Definitely feeling this…
We're at that point in November where it has simultaneously gone on too long and also there's not enough left of it to do all the things I still have to get done this month.
November 29, 2023 at 11:21 PM
Definitely feeling this…
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UPDATED POLL for those who have been enjoying Bluesky: What are YOUR top pieces of advice for those new to the platform?
My advice: Instead of "Sigh, yet another new social media platform," try to think "Yay, clean slate! What can I do differently here to create a social media experience I ENJOY?"
My advice: Instead of "Sigh, yet another new social media platform," try to think "Yay, clean slate! What can I do differently here to create a social media experience I ENJOY?"
(*Updated Nov/2023*) Do you know a kidlit/YA person new to Bluesky? Here are starting resources that might help, pls see full thread 👇🏼
My take on social media
Quick tips + templates
My Bluesky how-to videos
KidLit Authors & Illustrators On Bluesky
Kate Messner's KidLit Community list
cont'd
My take on social media
Quick tips + templates
My Bluesky how-to videos
KidLit Authors & Illustrators On Bluesky
Kate Messner's KidLit Community list
cont'd
November 9, 2023 at 4:24 PM
UPDATED POLL for those who have been enjoying Bluesky: What are YOUR top pieces of advice for those new to the platform?
My advice: Instead of "Sigh, yet another new social media platform," try to think "Yay, clean slate! What can I do differently here to create a social media experience I ENJOY?"
My advice: Instead of "Sigh, yet another new social media platform," try to think "Yay, clean slate! What can I do differently here to create a social media experience I ENJOY?"
#kidlitchat I’ve always sent it out when I think that it’s the best I could make it. After a few workshops, or beta reads, and many rounds of read-aloud to myself (and my partner) and self-editing. When it doesn’t it, I go back and repeat the process.
TOPIC: What steps do you take to ensure that your work is ready to submit? Workshop it? Submit it for paid critique? Rely on the opinion of your critique group? And how do you decide it's time to click "send"? #kidlitchat
November 8, 2023 at 2:27 AM
#kidlitchat I’ve always sent it out when I think that it’s the best I could make it. After a few workshops, or beta reads, and many rounds of read-aloud to myself (and my partner) and self-editing. When it doesn’t it, I go back and repeat the process.