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Nazanin Mirsadeghi
@nazanin-mirsadeghi.bsky.social
Persian-American children's book writer, poet & translator. Paper collage illustrator. Rep'd by the amazing Mary C. Moore @ Aevitas Creative
MA in English from ASU
www.nazaninmirsadeghi.com
www.baharbooks.com/en/
#MG #PB #kidlit #SCBWI #StorytellerAcademy
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Learned that the Prickly Pear Cactus's purple color is very specific pigments that also act like sunscreen, anti-freeze, and stop water loss. 💜🌵

Nature is cool.

#kidlit #kidlitart #kidlitillustrator #illustration #illustrator #science #sciart #cacti
December 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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A new story for Anita and her Abuelo are in the works! #charlesbridge #AbueloandI #fishing
December 4, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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This makes me so happy!! Thank you so much for sharing EMMY and the rest!
Thank you @aimeelucido.bsky.social for sharing your books with our school’s community of readers. Since this was #CSEdWeek, I’ve been reading EMMY IN THE KEY OF CODE & I’m really enjoying it. I can think of a few readers to hand it off to once I’m done! #kidlit #MGLit
December 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Melissa’s been honored by the Society of Illustrators and American Illustration. She was the SCBWI 2017 Winter portfolio showcase winner. And, she teaches at BYU.

Melissa’s worked with the Google Doodle team, including projects honoring Maya Angelou and Fred Rogers.
December 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Congrats 🎉 to ASU English Professor @nnedi.bsky.social, whose novel "Death of the Author" was named among the best fiction of 2025 by @readbookpage.bsky.social.

See the full list: ow.ly/WIHk50XAjC9 #ASUHumanities
The Best Fiction of 2025
The greatest novels of 2024 were notably unafraid to rewrite the past. Even better: Many of them made us laugh along the way.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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This Sunday #JaneAusten will be on @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social & I'll be a part of it. Wonderful Seth Doane & crew put me at ease. I didn't feel nervous then. I do feel so now at the idea of millions of people watching whatever I said! Here's hoping I did justice to the great novelist & #janeites
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Best Middle Grade Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books
www.slj.com/story/newsfe...
Best Middle Grade Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books
The Best Middle Grade titles of 2025 feature action-packed fantasies, resonant realistic fiction, and heart-pounding horror stories for tweens.
www.slj.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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You never know what will come out of a broken crayon. #Uplift

More broken crayons, classroom activities, my broken crayon #KidLit picture book with Linda Sue Park: debbieohi.com/resources/re...
November 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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But never let yourself be defeated.
~ Maya Angelou
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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A little quiet time for bear. #illustration #kidlitart
November 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Follow your dreams they know the way.
~ Kobi Yamada, Author
November 7, 2025 at 9:13 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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For you if you’re working on your author website!
Still time to register for my "Selling Yourself (without selling yourself short): Wonderful Websites that really Work" virtual workshop on 27 Oct 2025 (1 pm EDT) - tinyurl.com/wonderful-we... You don't need a degree in web design to make your own author website. I'll help you get started!
November 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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JUST FLOWERS Illus. @k8cosgrove.bsky.social #FlowerDay @eastwestlit.bsky.social @pbpros.bsky.social

"#Kindness can soften the hardest hearts & we miss out when we make snap judgments. A vibrant reminder to look beyond appearances—a lesson that applies to #flowers as well as to people." --KIRKUS
May 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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🥳 I’m preparing to mail out postcards announcing my next picture book, Butterfly Sea! Join our launch team! Sign up here! forms.gle/n1C9nMjegG8J...

#kidlitmegafeed #edusky #libsky #lyrical #booklaunch #illustrations created by @marielaurecouet.bsky.social
@picturebookseh.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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It's #OCDAwarenessWeek so I'll share poet and author Jordan Scott's very kind blurb about I THINK I THINK A LOT. It's inspired by my own #OCD.

@joseebisaillon.bsky.social @freespiritbooks.bsky.social @esckeyes.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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October 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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An artist at work carving her new friend, an ice dragon.

And me painting with new brushes in Procreate creating art that makes my heart sing.

#SCBWIArtober2025 #Carve #kidlitart #PaintPlay #dragon #artober #drawingchallenge #artist #art #Procreate
October 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Less than a month until #DVpit, a pitch event for marginalized creators looking to find an agent & get traditionally published! Here's a reminder of the rules!
For more guidelines & info go to dvpit.carrd.co
See you all at DVpit on October 8th, 2025!
#writersky #booksky
September 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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I THINK I THINK A LOT has been out for 2 years today! If you've borrowed it, bought it, read it, shared it, opened it up to flip through the pages, talked about it, or you're simply following me here, thank you. @joseebisaillon.bsky.social @esckeyes.bsky.social @freespiritbooks.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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This month I THINK I THINK A LOT will have been out for two years!

I wrote it to show how sometimes if we look on the underside of what's troubling we can find something beautiful. #OCD #anxiety

Illust. by
@joseebisaillon.bsky.social

Pub: @freespiritbooks.bsky.social
@esckeyes.bsky.social
August 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM