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Priscilla Gilman

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Disabled writer 💪🏼 Artist 🖌️ Kidlit devotee 📚 Geek 📡 she/her Rep’d by: ✨Emily Keyes✨ @esckeyes.bsky.social 👉🏻 http://priscillagilman.net 👈🏻

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · Aug 23

Hey #kidlit community! I write PB & MG, fiction & NF. All for creativity, play, intimacy, curiosity. I ❤️ writing about the natural world but have recently gotten geeky with tech STEM projects. Writing kept me alive through decades home in bed fr chronic illness. Aiming for pub, committed regardless.

photo middle-aged, white woman making a pseudo tough face, fist forward with LOVE spelled out on the fingers. Comics image filter.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 6d

Even in the middle of the woods, readers need to know.
#library #kidlitcommunity

Color photograph of a wooden sign nailed to a tree in the middle of the woods with the word "library" and a right pointing arrow on it.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 9d

Yikes

Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 22d

🌊🚢 Gold belt chains, hidden bombs, and deadly fires. Find fascinating shipwrecks in these luminous spreads with beautifully balanced lyrical and informational text. 🫶🏼🚢 🌊

Spotted in the wild @boulderbookstore.bsky.social
📚👍🏼@deirdrelaide.bsky.social & Carlos Velez Aguilera

Cover of _Shipwreck_ created by Deirdre Laide and Carlos Velez Aguilera: a ship at the bottom of the ocean.

Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 28d

I'm harassed by a recurring dream that I have to go back to high school, but maybe I just need to make sure I get in your class and it'll be great.

Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · Sep 7

🧙🧙 I adore the emotional arc in This Year, a Witch! 📚👍🏼

This was my first of Zoey Abbott's, and I immediately gobbled up every other one I could get.

She is _masterful_ at making a potent story out of every day stuff. Just exactly what I love. 💕

Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · Sep 5

delightful style!

Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · Sep 5

All things bright and beautiful! 🩷🧡💛🩵💜

Emma Jayne @emmajaynedesigns.bsky.social · Sep 4

Happy #kidlitartpostcard Day!

I'm Emma Jayne a full time illustrator and lover of all things travel, nature, history, transport, cultures and colour!

I'm passionate about nonfiction and would love to work on any BB, PB and children's magazines.

🎨 bit.ly/3Qsabxx
📨 [email protected]

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · Sep 3

I love it too!

Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · Sep 2

🐋🐋 What a book! 🐋🐋

This one is top of the top of the top. 📚👍🏼

From @mcusolito.bsky.social ⭐️
and @jessicalanan.bsky.social ⭐️

The cover of In the World of Whales words by Michelle Cusolito, illustrated by Jessica Lanan. Two adult sperm whales lift a baby to breathe at the surface while a free diver looks on from below.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · Aug 6

Frustrating! I'm so sorry your big announcement has that error. Sounds like a marvelous book!

Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · Aug 1

Super intrigued! Integrating science and story, fact and feeling, is certainly my dream, so I can't wait to read it. In the meantime, can you say anything more about the science part? I'm puzzling over the "trillions of years ago" timeline in a universe much younger than that. What am I missing?

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · Jul 12

🐞🌿🧠 After a brief hiatus for budget reasons, I just rejoined @kirstenwlarson.bsky.social's Reimagine Insiders community.

Y'all, if you write #KidLit #NF, it is an unbeatable, high-quality deal in craft/industry education. 🦋🐋🦖

writers.kirstenwlarson.com/b/insiders

Reimagine Insiders

writers.kirstenwlarson.com

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · Jul 11

Working class occupations are sooooo underrepresented in #Kidlit. More of this please!

@jesustrejo.bsky.social masterfully turns an ordinary water jug into the golden thread on which the story beats are strung. And @elizakinkz.bsky.social makes nonstop fun of line and color.

📚👍🏼 #KidLit

Colorful cover of Papa's Magical Water Jug Clock by Jesús Trejo and Eliza Kinkz. A boy rides a purple skateboard with a red water jug down a suburban sidewalk, as his father was a lawn in the background.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · Jul 11

Yay! So excited for this one! The world needs it!

Gennie ✨Jenny with a G✨ Gorback @gennie.bsky.social · Jul 9

🎉COVER REVEAL!!🎉

We are thrilled to share this gorgeous cover!

GO PLAY will be released by @broadleafbooks.bsky.social on April 14, 2026!

Thank you to our editor Lisa Kloskin, our book’s agent @literarylesliez.bsky.social and the cover designer Angie Chiu.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · Jul 4

Fun! And so eye-catching!

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · Jul 4

This work! It is so everything. Beautiful, painful, sharp, sly, but most of all--beautiful. I've just requested every Zahra Marwan book available to me on interlibrary loan. #kidlitartpostcard

Zahra Marwan @zahra-marwan.bsky.social · Jul 3

Hello #kidlitartpostcard
I write and illustrate books on migration, statelessness, war, art, friendship, and often a deep love of the Middle East and it's intricacies.

zahramarwan.com

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · Jul 4

That face! ❤️❤️❤️

Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · Jul 4

Totally marvelous! #kidlitartpostcard

danamarie hosler/ mightypigeon @mightypigeon.bsky.social · Jul 3

Who’s up for a mystery? I am! Happy #kidlitartpostcard day, ADs & editors! I’d love to solve a riddle with you. Available for PBs & BBs. Repped by @jenrofe.bsky.social @andreabrownlit.bsky.social Let’s work together! www.DanamarieHosler.com

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · Jul 4

Always love your art!

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · Jun 20

🤗 I. Was. This. Kid. 🤗

I wanted to write a PB on this but never found the story. @jashar.bsky.social did it--charmingly.

But ignore the promo copy. It's not a "surprising celebration of community helpers". No, no, it's about loving the--

well... you'll see.

📚👍🏼

Yellow cover of Every Monday Mabel by Jashar Awan. A cartoon little girl dragging a chair past a window through which you can see the front of a big truck.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · May 29

WHAT?!!! I'm stunned to see Internet Archive taking this horrible turn. Please don't become my enemy. I love your work.

Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · May 27

Any more English picture books in the works?

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · May 26

I ❤️💚💜

🌋🌋🌋Stranded!: A Mostly True Story from Iceland
by Ævar Þór Benediktsson @aevarthor.bsky.social

Every little bit is playful! I love the authorial asides and the hunt for the one detail that is not true--a wonderful way to make this fantastical (but real) story extra believable.

#PB #NF 📚👍🏼

Cover of Stranded!: A Mostly True Story from Iceland by Ævar Þór Benediktsson shows a volcanic island in brilliant blue and red, with a Norse god figure under the water and lava pouring down the volcano. Two figures stand silhouetted on the shore, arms up, as if hailing someone.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · May 24

Who can possibly resist this big-hearted, spunky elf?
And when have Christmas colors
ever been so soft and fresh? 💚💞💜
#KidLit

😼🎃 Erin Hiss-ka 🙀👻 @erinsiska.bsky.social · May 24

Noelle is a rule-stickling Christmas scout elf whose host family won't stop breaking all the rules—she'll have to turn them from Naughty to Nice before she loses all her Christmas magic. #WIPPIT #PB #HA

Collage picture (by yours truly) showing a cute Christmas elf’s face framed in a wreath. Noelle has pink hair and pointy elf ears.

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · May 16

Great anti generative-AI statement from developmental editor @juliescheina.com. I see enough prominent folks in the #KidlitCommunity softening to AI that I am extra glad for every clear NO.

Julie Scheina @juliescheina.com · May 16

juliescheina.com/2025/05/16/p...

Preaching to the Choir: On Advertising, AI, and Paper Towels | Julie Scheina Editorial Services, LLC

Something you may not know about me is that I double majored in English and marketing in college. Beyond the countless group projects and hours using Excel

juliescheina.com

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