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Katie Venit

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she/her. National bestselling author in WI 🎪FORTS, Viking 🛰️CASSINI'S MISSION, MIT Kids Press Rep'd by Joyce Sweeney, Seymour Agency https://linktr.ee/KatieVenit

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Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · Aug 14

I'm agog! FORTS is one of @usatoday.com's bestselling #picturebooks this week!

Thank you to all the indie bookstores who believe in this book and have been sharing it with their customers. ❤️💙📚

#kidlit

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The cover of the picture book FORTS, showing a girl and her cat sitting in a cozy treehouse.

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Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · 1d

Free shipping from bookshop today and tomorrow!

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · 2d

thank you!

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Travis Jonker @100scopenotes.bsky.social · 7d

Nominations are now open for the 2025 Undies Case Cover Awards and Endies End Paper Awards! Anyone can nominate a book. Head here to get started: 100scopenotes.com/2025/10/01/n...

Nominate Your Favorites for the 2025 Undies and Endies Awards!

The best (see: only) case cover and endpaper awards in children’s literature are back! That’s right, the 2025 Undies and Endies are officially up and running. It’s time to submit your favorite case co...

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Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you to Cait for the kind words! 🥰🥰🥰

Writers, you know how much it means when another author says they wish they had written something. 🫶🥹😭

Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com · 7d

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

Forts
Katie Venit & Kenard Pak
@katievenit.bsky.social
@kenardpak.bsky.social

This is a story I wish I wrote. Lyrical. Gorgeous. My little talked about all the forts we have around the house now and have had in the past. So lovely.

Cover for Forts shows a treetop scene with a small blue tree house and a little girl with a white cat sitting in the door to the fort.

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Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you Cait!!

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Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · 8d

This book is gonna be so awesome!!!!! #kidlit

Steph Lau (she/her) @stephlaubooks.com · 8d

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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Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you so much to Writers Rumpus and @marianneknowles.bsky.social for her amazingly kind review of CASSINI’S MISSION! Publishing is a weird journey, but it’s all worth it when a writer you admire—as I admire Marianne—“gets it”

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Book Reviews – WRITERS' RUMPUS

Posts about Book Reviews written by Marianne Knowles, Keri Demers, Hilary Elizabeth Margitich, Monica Acker, Laura Fineberg Cooper, DrZatHome, Joyce Audy Zarins, and Marcia Strykowski

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Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · 9d

Whaaaaaaat!!! Oh my god, amazing!!!!!!!!!

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Karen (Cryin’) Yin 😢🎃 | Buy My BOOOOks @karenyin.bsky.social · 11d

Ghosts in sheets? BOO-ring! Check out the haunt couture in #SoNotGhoul. This underworldly tale about Mimi, a Chinese American ghost in bicultural limbo, is brought to life by Chinese-style rituals, Mandarin puns, and—of course—ghost fashion. Written by me and illustrated by Bonnie Lui. #Halloween 👻🎃

Graphic featuring cover of "So Not Ghoul" has a blue-and-pink palette to match the cover. On the cover: Mimi, a smiling Chinese American girl ghost, is next to a white cat, who is side-eyeing three girl ghouls sneering at Mimi. Above: "Mimi doesn't look like the other ghosts—but she wishes she did." Below: "A pun-tacular ghost story."—Booklist

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Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · 12d

love this!
#kidlit #picturebooks

Katie McEnaney @katiemcenaney.bsky.social · 14d

When the teacher knows your kid is the right one to take the giant cardboard tube home ...

Thanks for the inspiration, FORTS by @katievenit.bsky.social & @kenardpak.bsky.social ! #kidlit

Blanket fort made of cardboard center tube and two chairs with a duvet cover. Inside in a sleeping bag and pillow. Also shows the cover of the book FORTS by Katie Venit and Kenard Pak.

Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · 21d

@100scopenotes.bsky.social When do you think you'll open up nominations for Endies and Undies? I've got a couple I'm excited about!

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Anne Ursu @anneursu.bsky.social · Sep 7

If you are a Minneapolis area educator and you're interested in a copy of @grubreport.bsky.social's Not Like Every Day: Finding Calm During School Lockdown Drills, please send me a message. wildrumpusbooks.com/book/9780593...

Not Like Every Day: Finding Calm During School Lockdown Drills

For Henry, lockdown drills can be scary. Staying quiet and still is tough, but with the support of his teacher, he’s able to stay calm. This reassuring story explores the complex emotions surrounding ...

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Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · Sep 6

THANK YOU I FORGOT IT WAS RELEASING TODAY!!!!

Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · Sep 4

Illustrating my belief that movies and TV are not my competition as a writer. Kids who love a movie want to read books that are like that movie.

Kelsey Bogan -DontYouShushMe.Com @kelseybogan.bsky.social · Sep 4

3rd week of school & I finally had time to get a little book display put up!

Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · Sep 4

I just gobbled the Book of I by David Greig. It was a mere snack that just made me hungry for more slim books. What other super short (~150 page) books have you loved? (I'm thinking adult books, but I might be interested in short YA at the moment!)

#amreading 📚💙

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Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · Sep 3

This funny thread is 100% why I don't believe video games are my competition as a writer. Kids who love Fortnite want to read about Fortnite. Anything that makes a kid want to read turns them into a reader, which is good for everyone, everywhere.

Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · Sep 3

It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.

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Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · Sep 3

I’ve debuted! With two picture books almost simultaneously! I’m exhausted!
#kiditchat

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Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · Sep 2

Well done, Stephanie, on bringing a very important and a very silly (thus, also important) book into the world.

Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic @grubreport.bsky.social · Sep 2

Very conflicting emotions today as I celebrate TWO book birthdays. I'm very proud of NOT LIKE EVERY DAY *and* ZOMBIE AND BRAIN ARE FRIENDS. Both sold in the exact same month in 2022 to different champions (editors) who have been so supportive and wonderful to work with.

cover of picture book NOT LIKE EVERY DAY showing kids huddled around a teacher for an active shooter drill

cover of ZOMBIE AND BRAIN ARE FRIENDS with a zombie farmer boy lying in the grass with an anthropomorphized brain

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Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happy book birthdays! I can't wait to get my hands on them. :)

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Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · Sep 1

Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · Aug 30

Thank you to the Midwest Writers Room for having me on to talk about debuting with two books in two weeks! I was brave and said this could also appear on video. :)

#kidlit #picturebooks #amwriting

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Season 3, Ep 13 Katie Venit, August 2025

YouTube video by WWA presents: Midwest Writers Room

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Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thank you to the Wisconsin Writers Association and the Midwest Writers Room for having me on the podcast! Can't wait for the conference in October.

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Season 3, Ep. 13 - Katie Venit, August 2025 - Midwest Writers Room

BIO:Katie Venit is a children’s author who writes children’s books filled with wonder, humor, and a deep respect for the emotional power of language. Her titles include USA Today bestselling picture b...

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Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · Aug 25

without looking this up, I would guess Ursula wrote this when she was in perimenopause.

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · Aug 24

We broke the world to make it whole...

Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · Aug 20

This is just a delightful thread of scientists introducing themselves and their nerdy pursuits.

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Aug 20

Scientists of Bluesky, introduce yourselves by replying to this post and I’ll share it and help you get some followers!

I’m David, I’m based in DC and study shark ecology and conservation policy. I’m the author of “Why Sharks Matter.”

🧪🦑🌎🐠🦈

Me securing a shark getting measured for a research workup

Posing with some friends as part of my Why Sharks Matter book tour.

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Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thanks to Volume One and Barb for the fun article about my two debuts. And check out the amazing forts in the background of the photos!

#kidlit #picturebooks

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KATIE’S MISSION: Chippewa Valley Author Debuts Two New Children's Picture Books

Getting any book published nowadays is an uphill climb. Two books, positively sky-high. Yet, Eau Claire’s very own Katie Venit has done it — over five years — in one of the toughest markets to enter; ...

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