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All things art & kidlit 🪲 🤎Aussie dog mom 🤎Probably holding a pencil or ice cream (or both).🎨🐶 Rep’d by Rebecca Angus & Ashlee McCallum @ Howland Literary Agency My Portfolio: https://brierhaigh.myportfolio.com/creative-hub

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Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social · May 26

Being grateful & giddy is an understatement 🤩

I officially have the coolest AGENTS! 💚

@bookfairyangus.bsky.social @ashleedani.bsky.social
@howlandlit.bsky.social

Rebecca Angus @bookfairyangus.bsky.social · May 26

@ashleedani.bsky.social
and I are SO excited to be co-representing @howlandlit.bsky.social
first author-illustrator for our growing kidlit list! @briermarilyn.bsky.social
sent us the PB of our dreams and we fell in love with Cheese Dog. She is also open to illustration work.

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Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social · 8d

Yeehaw! If you like your cowboys undead and your burgers plant-based, I've got some rootin' tootin' news for ya!🤠🧟
I'm beyond excited to announce that my newest picture book ZOMBEEF is officially out on submission!
🐂🧠🌵🏜️

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Emma Wiklund | Illustrator @emmawiklundart.bsky.social · 10d

#quilt for #calmtober

#KidLit #KidLitArt #illustration

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Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social · 10d

Getting into the spooky mood, one Coraline drawing at a time. 🖤🪡🐈‍⬛
‘When you’re scared but you still do it anyway — that’s brave.’”

Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social · 12d

The Coraline audiobook has been keeping me company lately, and I couldn’t resist starting a spooky little fall-inspired drawing because of it 🗝️ Here’s a sneak peak at some of the details #WIP

Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social · 18d

Who likes their cowboys undead and hungry?? 🧠 🍔 My WIP has me way too excited as this book gets ready for submission 😊😊

Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social · 28d

My face when this guy goes on SUB this spooky season 😆🤠😄

Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social · Jul 19

I am super excited to be apart of this event tomorrow! 😄

Danielle Render Turmaud, PhD @drenderturmaud.bsky.social · Jul 18

Take Your Kid to Publishing Day 2025 is TOMORROW! We’ve had a few spots open up, so if you know a child 5-17 who would want to see a publishing play, write a short story, meet authors/agents/editors & more, please share w/ them! #kidlit #writingcommunity

danielleturmaud9.wixsite.com/danielle-ren...

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Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social · Jun 24

Heat wave of a 100 ° calls for lobsters and cokes by the beach ❤️ Happy Summer Vacation to me!!

Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social · Jun 9

Hyper fixation but make it an idea for a PB title I just keep saying over and over again

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Rainbow Rowell @rainbowrowell.bsky.social · Jun 8

Absolute sincere advice: Print your project out at least once, and read it out loud at least once. You will find SO MANY things to fix and smooth out. You'll hear repetition and inconsistencies. If you print it out, the book will be more real in your head.

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Howland Literary @howlandlit.bsky.social · May 30

Brier Marilyn is an author-illustrator who balances carefully coloring inside the lines with letting her artwork spill beyond them. She creates stories that blend humor and heart, with sunlit storytelling and illustrations that not only burst with color but are packed with hidden surprises.

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Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social · May 29

I’m beyond excited to say I now have not one, but TWO agents!
(If you told me this a month ago, I’d call you cuckoo 😜)

Huge thanks to @bookfairyangus.bsky.social & @ashleedani.bsky.social
Here’s to more stories as fun as 🧀🐶 and all the art my brain can dream up. 💛

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Rebecca Angus @bookfairyangus.bsky.social · May 27

SO excited to finally share the news we’ve been sitting on for months! Huge congrats to
@booksbygemma.bsky.social for her two book deal with Podium for her traditional publishing debut. THE SLEEPING KEY will be available in print, e book, and more 👀 (which we can’t announce yet).

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Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social · May 26

Being grateful & giddy is an understatement 🤩

I officially have the coolest AGENTS! 💚

@bookfairyangus.bsky.social @ashleedani.bsky.social
@howlandlit.bsky.social

Rebecca Angus @bookfairyangus.bsky.social · May 26

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Rebecca Angus @bookfairyangus.bsky.social · May 26

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Rebecca Angus @bookfairyangus.bsky.social · Apr 10

Team @howlandlit.bsky.social made me a gorgeous new #MSWL brochure. Here’s what I’m looking for when I open back up to queries in May.

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Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social · May 24

Rainy Saturday treat… The green flavor is called Upchuck 🤢 We couldn’t help ourselves—we had to try it! (Spoiler alert: it was actually super yummy!)

Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social · May 22

Ft. My beautiful boys 💕

Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social · May 22

After so many ups and downs in the swirling world of all things art & writing…
🌱 VAGUE 🌱 things are happening and I don’t know what to do with myself!! 🤪

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Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social · May 19

#WIP Crayola Colored pencils… you have a special place in my heart ❤️

Work in progress card, pencil, drawing of an older woman

Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social · May 15

I love Epcot… that is all 💙

Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social · May 9

Never underestimate the power of crayola colored pencils… here’s my creation from my art classes this morning!

Portrait drawing is one of my favorite things to teach, and this random lady on Pinterest sparked my artsy fartsy brain this morning.

My students love when I create beside them ❤️ #wip

Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social · May 9

Happy Friday everyone!
Here was my poll for my middle school art students earlier this week.

What’s your thoughts? Maybe I’m bias as an art teacher- but I think art is everywhere and in every subject! 🎨

Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social · May 8

I have loved watching this unravel! So cool!

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Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social · May 7

My middle school art students were asked an important question: Do you think you have to be “good” at art to be an artist?

Here are the results- what are your thoughts?