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Joshua Chennault
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Illustrator & Author | #Kidlit | Humorous and Spooky Early Reader & Middle Grade Graphic Novels are my jam!

Currently seeking representation.

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Joshua Chennault @joshuachennault.com · Oct 30
👻 Bullied by other kids and ignored at home, desperate oddball Frankie Stein replaces her need for human connection with a menagerie of undead monsters. But when her creations lash out against the town, Frankie is left with two choices: halt the subjugation or lead it. 👻

#GhostPit #MG #GN #Q #H #SF
Frankie Stein middle grade horror graphic novel cover with the titular character standing amongst her laboratory with syringe full of ominous fluid and bone saw in hand. An eerie orange smoke blasts forth from the machinery. Title reads Frankie Stein, with the author byline as Joshua Chennault. A series of graphic novel pages showing Frankie digging through a pet cemetery for various parts for her undead collection. Character designs for Frankie and some of her creatures. Frankie is a tall, lanky, black haired 12-year-old girl. Speckled by freckles all over and her clothes are tattered and old. The creatures are amalgamations of various parts of animals, with glowing orange eyes, and sickly slimy tongues. Character designs for the bullies and Frankie's parents. A blonde haired ruffian girl, and short-wide spiky haired tough guy, and a slim brute punching a fist into his other hand. Frankie's mom is tall, freckled, and black headed just like her, but is much more of an athlete and wannabe influencer. Her father is incredibly short, with sunken eyes, and ungroomed.
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Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day!

I'm an author/illustrator loving to work on picture books, board books and comics!

Rep'd by the amazing @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social

Portfolio: estrelalourenco.com

#kidlitart #comics #comicart #picturebook #illustration #childrenbookart
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day!

I write and illustrate board books, picture books, readers, and comics. I love quirky characters and projects that let me show a range of emotions.

Rep’d by Jamie Weiss Chilton, Andrea Brown Literary Agency.

#kidlitillustration @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
Two-color image of a small group of bugs enjoying the day. Eating leaves, running, taking a pet worm for a walk.
November 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I'm Paula, and I love to create whimsical, quirky, fun, (and also sweet!) illustrations for kids!

Folio: paulajbecker.com
Email: [email protected]

#kidlitartist #portfolioday #kidlitcartoonist #childrensbookillustrator #kidlitillustrator #paulajbecker
November 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! ⭐️
My name is Farah, I’m a children’s book author & illustrator and I love creating characters with their own stories to tell.

Open to work on PB, fiction and MG projects.

⭐️ Rep’d by Emily Talbot at @unitedagents.bsky.social

#kidliart #illustration #cutecharacters
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Happy November #kidlitartpostcard . Who else has been carving pumpkins? 🙋🏻‍♀️🎃 If you’re on the lookout for an illustrator to bring a little magic to a story, please reach out! I’m open to both PB and MG. Portfolio: kirstenmcgonigal.com
rep’d by: @beccalangton.bsky.social of @da-childrens.bsky.social
Children’s book illustration showing 2 girls carving a Jack O Lamtern together on a stump in the woods. One girl is dressed like Little Red Riding Hood and holding a candle in her hand. The other girl is dressed like a wolf, and is reaching across to the other girl with a match to light tue pumpkin. In the background are trees ans bushes. The illustration is done is shades of purple and orange.
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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How smart are your pets? Our dog Mayo is really smart. Our other dog Noodle…not so much.

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day. My name is Mark Hoffmann and I’m a kidlit author/illustrator. I am rep’d by Jenn Laughran (@literaticat) with @andreabrownlit.
November 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Hello #kidlitartpostcard ! I am Charlene Chua & I illustrate books for kids.

🌟Open for 2026 book projects! 🌟

Portfolio - charlenechua.com
Rep' by Tracy Marchini Literary

#kidlitart #kidlit #illustration #PB #GN #starwars
Art showing a couple of Jedi kids holding lightsabers. One is a blue twi'lek girl and the other is a human boy. In the background are Chewbacca, C-3PO and R2D2 looking on with comic concern. Various spaceships from Star Wars are in the sky above.
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day! I’m Gina Perry, a New England children’s book author and illustrator. I’m open for new projects mid-2026. Rep’d by Sean McCarthy. More at: www.ginaperry.com #kidlitart #illustration
Spot illustration of a frog on roller skates, listening to music on headphones, wearing a cape. The cape is flying out behind him and it’s decorated with drawing and writing. Leaves swirl around. Art by Gina Perry. Text reads www.ginaperry.com Rep’d by Sean McCarthy
November 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Next to last #KidLitArtPostcard day of 2025!

Hello everyone, my name's Gustavo and I'm an Illustrator available for projects in PB, KidLit, MG, GN, Editorial Projects, Board Books, you name it.

I'm also seeking representation.

#kidlitart #BRArt
Drawing of a girl and an Edmontosaurus taking a bath on a bath tub.
November 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day!

I’m an author-illustrator whose favorite season is Fall and who loves a good pun. 😉 You can see more of my work at diandramae.com. (I do not have representation.)

#kidlitart #kidlit #illustration
an illustration of a little brown acorn with arms and legs holding on to a yellow oak leaf as it drifts downward, surrounded by other leaves in tones of yellow, orange, and brown. A speech bubble from the acorn says, "BeLEAF in yourself,"
November 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Hi #KidLitArtPostcard day, I’m Mike and I love creating fun, character-driven work, spooky or no.
I'm repped by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social and I'm especially looking for middle grade cover work.

See more work at mdashow-kidlitart.carrd.co

#kidLitArt #spooky #werewolf #spookyMG #kidLit #MG
In a dark nighttime hallway with huge arched windows, a girl and a werewolf (also a girl) are sneaking around. Both are wearing school uniforms, although the werewolf's has ripped a bit from her transformation. She has just knocked over a small table and broken a vase and the girl is shushing her. Through one of the large windows, we see more school buildings and a full moon. The text on the bottom reds "Michael Dashow, mdashow-kidlitart.carrd.co, repped by Vicky Weber @ CMA."
November 6, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Hello #KidLitArtPostcard day. I'm Joshua, an author/illustrator that loves creating comics. I'm currently seeking representation and looking for early reader and middle grade graphic novel work. Feel free to reach out!

🎨 joshuachennault.com
✉️ [email protected]

#kidlitart #kidlit #MG
ChickenZilla comic. The farm dog confronts Henrietta the hen about the terror her offspring is. Henrietta challenges the farm dog as to why he thinks it is her definitely not adopted son that is terrorizing the farm. The whole area is aflame as Henrietta defends her son Godzilla from the accusations as smoke seeps out of his mouth.
November 6, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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THE OFFICE X GOOD OMENS

A satire of both business and the supernatural, Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, must restore Heaven's faith in Hell by saving a vampire-run Ohio gas station in just three months to save his job and Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for.

#GhostPit #F #Con #E #LGBT
The silhouette of a man with a briefcase and an angel with horns stand in front of a fogbound gas station at night as above them a large billboard proclaims "Hell Is Work" The tag line in glowing yellow text at the bottom says "Hell is empty and all the demons are in polo shirts"
October 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE

Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag.

#GhostPit #A #DS #SF #W
Made from non-AI free stock images. This image is a book cover design for a novel titled "Happy Death Inc." by B. Van Bodegom. The cover is divided into three distinct horizontal sections: 1. Top Section: Features a cartoonish blue sky with white clouds and a bright sun. At the top, a tagline reads: "How much would you pay to die with a smile?" The word "HAPPY" appears in large, playful, hand-drawn-style font, partially overlapping the sky background. 2. Middle Section: A photograph of a deceased man in a suit, lying in a casket. He has an exaggerated smile on his face, almost unnaturally wide and clean, suggesting artificial enhancement or post-mortem alteration. Overlaid on this image is the word "DEATH" in the same large font as the previous word. 3. Bottom Section: A cartoon city skyline in pastel tones, similar in style to the top sky background. The word "INC." is overlaid prominently in the same large font. At the very bottom, in smaller capital letters, it says: "A Novel by B VAN BODEGOM"
October 30, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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A teen outcast from a secret line of Irish plant magicians must harness newfound powers to protect herself from a poison-wielding ancestor who hunts her family across time.
🍄 Plant magic
🌿 Poisons + elixirs
💌 Romance subplot
🎂 Magical baking
🚪 Portal to another realm
#amquerying #GhostPit #ya
Door in the Fernwood: In this magical Irish bloodline, poison runs deep. When sixteen-year-old Quinn puts on an ancient ancestral ring, it shatters the protective binding spell her family cast at birth—awakening clairvoyant powers she should have inherited from her Irish magical bloodline. But the ring also makes her visible to Neris, a Victorian sorceress who hunts Quinn to steal the ring. Hidden away in an Oregon enchanted forest with extended family, Quinn must master her powers before Neris destroys not only her, but their entire family tree. Portal to another realm, plant magic, elixirs and poisons, romance subplot, magical artifacts, time travel, magical baking Quinn gripped her camera and leaned forward, her shins pressing against the greenhouse ladder. Face to face with her majestic corpse flower, she held her breath as its infamous, putrid odor spilled from the curling burgundy folds. After years of careful cultivation, she couldn’t afford to miss a single stage of its first bloom. The camera’s shutter clicked one final time as she aimed into its central chamber. Satisfied with her shots, she climbed down and switched on the exhaust fan. Through the greenhouse glass, she watched her elderly neighbors on their back deck, gossiping as usual, completely unaware of the olfactory surprise heading their way. Right on cue, Vera’s voice rang out. “Woo-ee! Who died?” she screeched, sniffing the air. “Nobody croaked,” her husband Artie grumbled as he sipped coffee from his John Deere mug. “It’s that young girl next door. You remember she invited us over to look at some big, stinky flower tonight?” “Well, I’m not goin’. Bet you I’d pass out if I got any closer,” Vera said. “You know her mother keeps her locked up in that backyard doing the strangest things. It’s just not normal for a girl her age.” Although the comment stung, small-town judgments like this only fueled Quinn’s retreat into her own backyard utopia, where she propagated plants from all over the globe—the carnivorous, poisonous, endangered, the beautiful, the ugly, and the common. She sketched the rare or interesting ones—charcoal drawings lined the interior walls of her garden shed wherever she found a blank space. She collected their seeds, dried their leaves, made teas, salves, and medicinal remedies.
October 30, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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A guide to: STRANGE HAPPENINGS, my MG contemporary fantasy, NIGHTBOOKS X AMARI & THE NIGHT BROTHERS

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‘The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.’ Sherlock
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#GhostPit #mswl #C #agentsguide #GhostPit #MG #F
A guide to: STRANGE HAPPENINGS, my MG contemporary fantasy, NIGHTBOOKS X AMARI & THE NIGHT BROTHERS ₊✩‧₊˚₊✩‧₊ ‘The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.’ Sherlock ₊✩‧₊˚₊✩‧₊ #GhostPit #mswl #C #agentsguide #GhostPit #MG #F Six photos showing spooky illustrations
October 30, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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#GhostPit #Q #A #RF 👻
Nefarious Enterprises
Hope rests on thin ice when a desperate unemployed witch juggles a double life by teaming up with a clumsy debut Overlord to save her town from the Snow Queen’s harsh economic freeze❄️
🎃Halloween Core
💎Heist
🤏🏻Pinch of spice
October 30, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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👻 Bullied by other kids and ignored at home, desperate oddball Frankie Stein replaces her need for human connection with a menagerie of undead monsters. But when her creations lash out against the town, Frankie is left with two choices: halt the subjugation or lead it. 👻

#GhostPit #MG #GN #Q #H #SF
Frankie Stein middle grade horror graphic novel cover with the titular character standing amongst her laboratory with syringe full of ominous fluid and bone saw in hand. An eerie orange smoke blasts forth from the machinery. Title reads Frankie Stein, with the author byline as Joshua Chennault. A series of graphic novel pages showing Frankie digging through a pet cemetery for various parts for her undead collection. Character designs for Frankie and some of her creatures. Frankie is a tall, lanky, black haired 12-year-old girl. Speckled by freckles all over and her clothes are tattered and old. The creatures are amalgamations of various parts of animals, with glowing orange eyes, and sickly slimy tongues. Character designs for the bullies and Frankie's parents. A blonde haired ruffian girl, and short-wide spiky haired tough guy, and a slim brute punching a fist into his other hand. Frankie's mom is tall, freckled, and black headed just like her, but is much more of an athlete and wannabe influencer. Her father is incredibly short, with sunken eyes, and ungroomed.
October 30, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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#GhostPit will be happening October 30, 2025!
There is a black background with big circle with a smaller circle inside of it. In the big circle at the top is #GhostPit 2 Ghosts to each side of that between that and the bottom words that read The Halloween Pitch Event. In the smaller circle there are greeb and orange/gold stars. In front of them in a cute sheet ghost and in front of him is a pencil and an open green book with yellow pages.
August 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Found these again whilst rummaging through some files. I remember the spread was a pain to do, and never attempted to do it again.
A princess knight donning cardboard arms and armor rides her trusty tricycle steed. Princess knight looks on. A full spread of a princess knight, clad in cardboard armor, saves her prince by doing battle with a frighteningly dangerous dog....er...dragon.
October 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Hi #PortfolioDay I am Joshua Chennault and I write/illustrate early reader and middle grade graphic novels.

⭐ Currently seeking representation ⭐

🎨 joshuachennault.com
✉️ [email protected]
Frankie Stein cover image, with the titular character maniacally standing in her laboratory as eerie orange smoke billows from one of her machines. A comic spread from the Frankie Stein graphic novel. Frankie rummages through remains in a pet cemetery. Chickenzilla comic page. Henrietta's son (Godzilla) burns down the barnyard chasing young chick Tedwin around the chicken coop as his mother defends him from the accusations. Endpage for Chickenzilla where a singed Tedwin comments he smells really tasty.
October 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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For Frankie Stein, she's a 12-year-old oddball, with no friends and a penchant for collecting deceased animals (and using them to revivify a friend just for her). The Birthday Massacre and other goth rock style fits nicely for Frankie.
#LateNightWrite
October 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I always make playlists for entire projects. Case in point:

Frankie Stein - lots of goth type rock (The Birthday Massacre, Dogma, HIM)

Frida Fuego - about a 10-year-old hot headed super hero that features lots of ska and punk (PUP, Sum 41, Less than Jake)

#LateNightWrite
blackbirb.bsky.social Blackbird @blackbirb.bsky.social · Oct 12
#LateNightWrite Welcome back! I’m in a playlist mood tonight and about to make it everyone’s problem! Do you often make playlists for your WIPs or characters? (spoiler: if you don't, you're about to!)

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Simple canva graphic displaying the same prompt as the body of the post.
October 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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I'm super late to this (only just found it), but thought I would join in. I'm Joshua, and I write/illustrate early reader/middle grade graphic novels. Currently working on Frankie Stein about a desperate oddball replacing her need for human connection with revivified amalgamations. #LateNightWrite
blackbirb.bsky.social Blackbird @blackbirb.bsky.social · Oct 12
Happy Saturday and welcome to another #LateNightWrite! Let's start with Introductions, tell us about yourself and your WIP(s) in any way you like.

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Simple canva graphic displaying the same prompt as the body of the post.
October 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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This is an idea that's been rattling around in my noggin for a good while now. Cryptid Scouts (like the Cub Scouts, but for cryptids). Never really developed it too much. What constitutes a cryptid seems to be a pretty divisive conversation. In fact, pretty sure only Sassy in this instance is one.
3 photos pinned to a tree, featuring goofy characters of Mo the Mothman, Jackie the Jackalope, and Sassy the Sasquatch. All members of the Cryptid Scouts.
October 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM