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Julian Plum @julianplum.com · 1d

It's #portfolioday!!

I'm Julian, a queer 🏳️‍⚧️ illustrator from the foggy Finger Lakes of Upstate NY. I work in traditional gouache & promise I know colors that aren't green. I'm rep'd by Naomi Davis @ BookEnds Literary!

🌿 julianplum.com
🐌 [email protected]

#kidlitart #picturebooks #illustration

A lush, intricate gouache painting featuring many leaves in different colors and textures, plus native birds, insects, flowers, and seeds.

A gouache painting featuring a grasshopper sparrow sitting among a riot of pastel wildflowers. Behind it a gray birch reaches into a blue sky.

A crop from a painting featuring a windswept brown-haired girl gently holding an egg, looking up in the direction of the wind at the legs of a crane taking off above her.

Gouache painting featuring a cross-section of a garden: above the earth, radish leaves are covered in ladybugs; below the earth, radishes, roots, and earthworms are visible in the dirt.

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Sarah Guillory @sguillory262.bsky.social · 6d

You can now request an arc of my next middle grade from Netgalley!

Netgalley headline with book cover underneath. Girl holds an egg with bird soaring behind her. Text: A Wish With Wings by Sarah Guillory.

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Sarah Guillory @sguillory262.bsky.social · 6d

You can now request an arc of my next middle grade from Netgalley!

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Sarah Guillory @sguillory262.bsky.social · 8d

I’m so excited to share the cover of my next middle grade! A WISH WITH WINGS is out in May. I am so grateful to @julianplum.com for this gorgeous artwork and to the designers L. Whitt and Emma Schoeni!
@mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

A young girl cradles an egg as a whooping crane soars behind her. Book cover for A Wish with Wings by Sarah Guillory.

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Sarah Guillory @sguillory262.bsky.social · 8d

She was absolutely my favorite character to write. All the best people are a little feral.

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Sarah Guillory @sguillory262.bsky.social · 8d

Oh! Thank you!!! 🥺

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Sarah Guillory @sguillory262.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you so much for this cover! It is stunning. ❤️

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Julian Plum @julianplum.com · 8d

Ahh my first cover reveal!! HUGE huge thank you to the team at Macmillan for working with me on this project! It's my first-ever MG cover and a huge dream to paint as a person who really IDed with the main character of this gorgeous novel and also as a certified bird lover.

Sarah Guillory @sguillory262.bsky.social · 8d

I’m so excited to share the cover of my next middle grade! A WISH WITH WINGS is out in May. I am so grateful to @julianplum.com for this gorgeous artwork and to the designers L. Whitt and Emma Schoeni!
@mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

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Sarah Guillory @sguillory262.bsky.social · 8d

I’m so excited to share the cover of my next middle grade! A WISH WITH WINGS is out in May. I am so grateful to @julianplum.com for this gorgeous artwork and to the designers L. Whitt and Emma Schoeni!
@mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

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Sarah Guillory @sguillory262.bsky.social · 12d

GUS AND GLORY has earned four starred reviews! If you love dogs, you will adore Gus, a drooling, sniffing, trouble-finding bloodhound! 📚
@mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @ashliterary.bsky.social

SARAH GUILLORY
A dog with a nose for trouble.
A girl on a quest for the truth.
GUS GLORY
* "A charming and moving novel that's sure to tug at readers' heartstrings." --Kirkus
Reviews, starred review
* "Begging to be read aloud, the writing is tight, peppered with folksy turns of phrase that manage to both drop readers into the setting and lighten up the somber circumstances. This story will satisfy both animal lovers and tween readers who like a good cry." -- School Library Journal, starred review
* "Glory's voice is strong and affecting, and Gus is absolutely the goodest boy. They're two funny, poignant, memorable characters in this moving and hopeful tale about a transformative time in a girl's life, and the ways in which she and her dog leave those around them forever changed as well." --
Bookpage, starred review
* "In a heart-tugging and hopeful novel from Guillory, a rambunctious bloodhound bounding nose-first through life proves to be the glue that bonds a 12-year-old to biological and found families." -- Publishers'
Weekly, starred review

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Wren @wrenriosart.bsky.social · 13d

Fall festivities! 🍂🍁🍂🍁
#ablartfest #kidlitart #kidlitartist

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danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social · 15d

Kind of want to put this bit on a billboard somewhere (or, idk, replace every web ad everywhere with this text) bsky.app/profile/edzi...

Text describing the current state of business in media and tech (and most industries, truly)

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Chris Barton @bartography.bsky.social · 19d

If there’s an author you appreciate, one of the simplest, most helpful, least expensive things you can do for them is ask your public library to add that author’s newest book to their collection.

Many library websites have a form for that. So give it a try, and make an author’s day!

Submit a Suggestion
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American Association of School Librarians (AASL) @aaslala.bsky.social · 16d

They tried to silence these stories, but they live on. Banned Books Week is almost here! Join us October 5-11 to celebrate the freedom to read and discover books that sparked debate and change. Stay tuned for events and reading lists! #BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead #aasl https://bit.ly/3XXdrFi

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Sarah Guillory @sguillory262.bsky.social · 18d

GUS AND GLORY earned its fourth starred review, this time from @slj.com! 🤩
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SARAH GUILLORY
A dog with a nose for trouble.
A girl on a quest for the truth.
GUS GLORY
Readers should get ready to laugh and cry as they spend the summer helping
Glory and Gus solve the mystery of belonging.
—School Library Journal starred review

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22d

#AbolishAi

Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 22d

Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring.

So Science did a study.

ChatGPT failed.

Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." www.science.org/content/blog...

Can ChatGPT help science writers?

www.science.org

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Sarah Guillory @sguillory262.bsky.social · 26d

Dogs love GUS AND GLORY! Head over to my Instagram to learn how to win some @mackidsbooks.bsky.social dog books! 📚 @mackidssl.bsky.social

A woman reads a copy of GUS AND GLORY to an adorable bloodhound puppy.

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Sarah Guillory @sguillory262.bsky.social · 26d

Dogs love GUS AND GLORY! Head over to my Instagram to learn how to win some @mackidsbooks.bsky.social dog books! 📚 @mackidssl.bsky.social

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 26d

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.

They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

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Macmillan Children's School & Library Marketing @mackidssl.bsky.social · 26d

We stand in support of the librarians and teachers who are doing their part to share a love of reading with their students, and we believe that all readers deserve access to an inclusive selection of titles. Prepare to celebrate Banned Books Week this coming Oct 5-11: bit.ly/4gBiTp4

#edusky

These books are yours to read
Discover titles and download free resources!
Five book covers are shown in a row. From left to right they are: All Boys Aren't Blue; We Are Water Protectors; Speak; Bad Kitty; Flamer

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 27d

If you need AI to generate your first draft as a writer, you're not a writer and you're in the wrong field.

Also, time to stop reading Business Insider.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 28d

Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...

Business Insider and the Bots

The Axel Springer-owned newsroom is buzzing over new ChatGPT writing guidelines—part of an aggressive A.I. strategy pushed by its German parentco and detailed in a memo obtained by Status.

www.status.news

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Sarah Guillory @sguillory262.bsky.social · Sep 14

If y’all haven’t read COME AS YOU ARE by @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com yet, you need to get on that ASAP. So freaking good. 📚

Book cover for Come as you Are by Dahlia Adler. Blond girl climbing rope ladder to brunette boy. Tag line reads: She’s not very good at being bad.

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Sarah Guillory @sguillory262.bsky.social · Sep 6

Happy National Read a Book Day!
@mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

Book covers for Nowhere Better Than Here and Gus and Glory sitting on a library ladder.

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