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Jacob Souva
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Hello 👋… my name is Jacob Souva and I’m an illustrator and author of books for kids. I’m rep’d by Jen Rofé of Andrea Brown Literary Agency. ✨ www.twofishillustration.com/links ✏️ https://open.substack.com/pub/jacobsouva
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Jacob Souva @jacobsouva.bsky.social · Sep 8
I've compiled a bunch of picturebook #kidlit #kidlitart making truths that I think are helpful.

Things like #9: From my Mom: “If you speak with your heart, people will hear with theirs.”

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The Truth About Making Books for Kids*
*According to me, just one guy, so far
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simplepretty.bsky.social @simplepretty.bsky.social · 14h
oliver jeffers on jimmy kimmel!! <3

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Oliver Jeffers on Becoming an Illustrator, His Amazing Children’s Books & What His Kids Think of Him
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 12h
Pls consider ordering a book from your local indie bookshop *NOW* before holiday season to give store time to order title if they don't have it? This helps:

(1) support indie bkshops, (2) support human creators, (3) gets you ahead re: busy shopping time.

Psst: maybe one of my books? 🙏🏽💛 #KidLit
a cartoon of a woman hugging a book standing in front of a store that says support indie bookshops
Alt: Illustration of smiling person hugging a book. In the background is a friendly-looking bookstore with lighted windows, text on wall reads "Support Indie Bookshops."
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d
It is at least *interesting* that the people making this supposedly world-changing technology think its most profitable use cases are: social media videos and sexting.
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Kelsey King Illustration @kkingillustration.bsky.social · 1d
Hello #portfolioday! I'm an illustrator and storyteller who loves all things nature. Please enjoy this fall/Halloween themed portfolio. Please consider me for your book covers or children's books that call for dramatic lighting, quirky animals, and outdoor scenes!

www.KelseyKingIllustration.com
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Jenn Harney @jennharknee.bsky.social · 1d
Hiho #portfolioday

It’s me! I’m Jenn. I like to draw all the things and I’m ALWAYS looking for work. (I do the writing stuff too sometimes!)

jkharney.blogspot.com

#kidlitart #childrensbooks #hiremeplease
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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 5d
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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Jacob Souva @jacobsouva.bsky.social · 1d
A wee bit late - BUT - here's my #ABLArtfest entry for "The Crystal Ball Reveals..."

A bit of a departure style-wise, but had fun going where it wanted to. Also the familiars and fish made me smile.

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A witch mistakes a fish bowl for a crystal ball
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Jacob Souva @jacobsouva.bsky.social · 1d
Beautiful work, Lenny!
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Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social · 1d
Happy #PortfolioDay I'm a children's book illustrator-author based in Austria. I love to draw and write a lot of things from nature to supranatural, spooky to sweet, peculiar to mundane.
You can check out my work at: www.lennywen.com

✉️ [email protected]
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Jacob Souva @jacobsouva.bsky.social · 1d
Hello 👋 #portfolioday … I’m a #kidlit #kidlitart author and illustrator rep’d by @jenrofe.bsky.social of @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

🌟 work: www.twofishillustration.com
📚 books: www.twofishillustration.com/books
A boy is on a balloon ride over the city A pillbug is playing the banjo A boy is building a tower out of blocks. A bird landed on the top. A cat is looking mischievously at the whole thing A spot from Whirby, a book from HarperCollins out in Feb ‘26
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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 1d
More humorous picture books should win important awards.

(This is not self serving, I really think humor is important)
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d
federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 5d
Hang in there illustrators, I see you fighting that good fight.
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Jacob Souva @jacobsouva.bsky.social · 5d
Some new #kidlit #kidlitart art work and musings from the studio this week 👇

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Taking on Risk
5 things from the studio this week
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 6d
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 6d
Indicting your political enemies because they’re your enemies, not because they’ve committed crimes, is unAmerican.
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Jacob Souva @jacobsouva.bsky.social · 6d
Same
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Uzair Rashid @uzairrashid.bsky.social · 6d
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d
AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.

This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.

Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.

Be warned.
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Jacob Souva @jacobsouva.bsky.social · 6d
That works! 😂
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Jacob Souva @jacobsouva.bsky.social · 6d
😜 You will! It's not always super smooth - but persistence is your friend
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Jacob Souva @jacobsouva.bsky.social · 6d
Ha! Excellent news - this post was from a bit ago - part 2 is here: open.substack.com/pub/jacobsou...

And the finale: open.substack.com/pub/jacobsou...

I think all 3 are not behind the paywall - let me know and I’ll comp you a month 😉
Preparing for Querying Success
A mostly true account of the time I queried my literary agent (Part 2)
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Jacob Souva @jacobsouva.bsky.social · 6d
That time I was agent-less, book dummy in hand:

“If you know me, you’ll know the moment I wrapped on this book dummy I began to question if it would get my foot in any of the doors I was trying to get into.”

#kidlit #kidlitart

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How I Queried My Literary Agent
A tale full of intrigue, doubt, and success (Part 1)
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6d
This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Jacob Souva @jacobsouva.bsky.social · 6d
Nice! Good luck 💪
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 7d
publisher / author / literary agent
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We Call Them Water Dudes @jurisdudence.bsky.social · 7d
Corporate/ personal injury /criminal defense
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