Erika Meza
@erikadraws.bsky.social
Award winning, Carnegie shortlisted Author Illustrator - Mexican, Tijuanense in London.
Repped by Claire Cartey - get in touch at holroydecartey.com
Repped by Claire Cartey - get in touch at holroydecartey.com
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Erika Meza
@erikadraws.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Hi, Bluesky!
Figured I’d introduce myself properly. I’m the author and illustrator of To The Other Side, as well as illustrator of other books. I tuit in Spanish and English about migration, politics, books, walks, dogs, and now about being a parent.
Basically, if it’s in my brain, it comes out.
Figured I’d introduce myself properly. I’m the author and illustrator of To The Other Side, as well as illustrator of other books. I tuit in Spanish and English about migration, politics, books, walks, dogs, and now about being a parent.
Basically, if it’s in my brain, it comes out.
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💔 11-Year-Old Jocelynn Rojo Carranza took her life after experiencing months of relentless bullying from her sixth grade classmates over her family's immigration status, with some students even threatening to contact the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
February 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
💔 11-Year-Old Jocelynn Rojo Carranza took her life after experiencing months of relentless bullying from her sixth grade classmates over her family's immigration status, with some students even threatening to contact the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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Love seeing @erikadraws.bsky.social on this list!
Day 27: 31 Days, 31 Lists - Books Celebrating a Love of Nature and the Environment. Essentially these are nature and climate books inspired by my library's Blueberry Award. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2024/12/27/3...
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Blueberry Award Contenders (Celebrating A Love of Nature and the Environment)
The Blueberry Awards are given to,
afuse8production.slj.com
December 28, 2024 at 12:27 AM
Love seeing @erikadraws.bsky.social on this list!
It only very nearly took me 38 years to be able to say “because I don’t want one” when the cashier asked me, yet again, why I would not let her sign me up for the store’s Loyalty card.
December 17, 2024 at 5:12 PM
It only very nearly took me 38 years to be able to say “because I don’t want one” when the cashier asked me, yet again, why I would not let her sign me up for the store’s Loyalty card.
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In light of the findings in the CLPE Reflecting Realities report, in 2025 I’m going to be starting regular free Ask Me Anything Zoom sessions for UK children’s writers of colour and BookTrust will host the first in March to help reach more writers! 📚
December 9, 2024 at 2:41 PM
In light of the findings in the CLPE Reflecting Realities report, in 2025 I’m going to be starting regular free Ask Me Anything Zoom sessions for UK children’s writers of colour and BookTrust will host the first in March to help reach more writers! 📚
Can we talk about THIS REVIEW???
Today's #ChewyReviewy is "Iggy Who Breathes Fire" by @carriekruck.bsky.social and @erikadraws.bsky.social.
The story of a natural spitfire.
Online review on Amazon & Goodreads!
#kidlit #bookrecs #pb #heart
www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
The story of a natural spitfire.
Online review on Amazon & Goodreads!
#kidlit #bookrecs #pb #heart
www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
December 9, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Can we talk about THIS REVIEW???
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Beira, Scotland's Queen of Winter, (Cailleach, Irish), is a personification of winter in Gaelic #mythology. ❄️ As a #weather deity she can create mountains, make winter storms, herd deer, fight off spring, & she uses her staff to freeze the ground. #FolkloreSunday #Witchsky
🎨 John Duncan, 1917
🎨 John Duncan, 1917
December 1, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Beira, Scotland's Queen of Winter, (Cailleach, Irish), is a personification of winter in Gaelic #mythology. ❄️ As a #weather deity she can create mountains, make winter storms, herd deer, fight off spring, & she uses her staff to freeze the ground. #FolkloreSunday #Witchsky
🎨 John Duncan, 1917
🎨 John Duncan, 1917
This is never a sour view.
December 3, 2024 at 4:58 PM
This is never a sour view.
Big sketch deadline coming up. Normally I would stay working until late and produce my best stuff after dark.
Now, I am looking at my phone refreshing social media and trying to think of how to paint 12+ characters quicker 🥲
I should’ve read that text and measured my time more carefully…! 😂
Now, I am looking at my phone refreshing social media and trying to think of how to paint 12+ characters quicker 🥲
I should’ve read that text and measured my time more carefully…! 😂
November 28, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Big sketch deadline coming up. Normally I would stay working until late and produce my best stuff after dark.
Now, I am looking at my phone refreshing social media and trying to think of how to paint 12+ characters quicker 🥲
I should’ve read that text and measured my time more carefully…! 😂
Now, I am looking at my phone refreshing social media and trying to think of how to paint 12+ characters quicker 🥲
I should’ve read that text and measured my time more carefully…! 😂
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This is the case in the UK because of PLR, which did not happen by magic, but because of two queer feminist writers: Maureen Duffy & Brigid Brophy, who also formulated & fought for ALCS. Know your history & also sign up for both!
Authors receive a payment every time you borrow a book, audiobook or ebook from libraries in 35 countries. Those countries include the UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany to name but a few. Borrowing a book helps the author’s pocket as well as yours.
November 26, 2024 at 1:38 PM
This is the case in the UK because of PLR, which did not happen by magic, but because of two queer feminist writers: Maureen Duffy & Brigid Brophy, who also formulated & fought for ALCS. Know your history & also sign up for both!
Bluesky!!! Let me toot my little horn for the first time and share this interview - we spoke about To The Other Side, since I was lucky enough to receive the Diverse Book Award on the Picture Book category. And it was a lovely time - hope it makes ANY sense! C:
Episode 15 is now available - interviews with @naomijones1.bsky.social and @familyofbeasts.bsky.social who won the Diverse Book Award Readers' Choice Picture Book Award for Thunder Boots and with @erikadraws.bsky.social who won the overall Picture Book Category with To the Other Side #kidlitUK
November 23, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Bluesky!!! Let me toot my little horn for the first time and share this interview - we spoke about To The Other Side, since I was lucky enough to receive the Diverse Book Award on the Picture Book category. And it was a lovely time - hope it makes ANY sense! C:
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Took this the other day
November 20, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Took this the other day
Y sus amarillos y sus rojos y naranjas y violetas.
November 20, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Y sus amarillos y sus rojos y naranjas y violetas.
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keep a place open in your history-bruised heart for Luis Barragán pink
November 20, 2024 at 2:45 AM
keep a place open in your history-bruised heart for Luis Barragán pink
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From the comments on the original thread: "Crazy little thing called Tierra y Libertad"
(It's good to see @miblogestublog.bsky.social posting here regularly now.)
(It's good to see @miblogestublog.bsky.social posting here regularly now.)
November 20, 2024 at 1:04 PM
From the comments on the original thread: "Crazy little thing called Tierra y Libertad"
(It's good to see @miblogestublog.bsky.social posting here regularly now.)
(It's good to see @miblogestublog.bsky.social posting here regularly now.)
It’s also annoyingly beautiful outside.
November 20, 2024 at 1:56 PM
It’s also annoyingly beautiful outside.
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A few years ago I made a series of mini drawings of interesting Irish women (available as a print here www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...) - this thread is a little information on the women featured, partly because it's useful, but mostly because I'm trying to be sustainable by recycling content.
November 20, 2024 at 8:32 AM
A few years ago I made a series of mini drawings of interesting Irish women (available as a print here www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...) - this thread is a little information on the women featured, partly because it's useful, but mostly because I'm trying to be sustainable by recycling content.
Not sure of the way the artist intended for this piece to be seen. One of these has got to be right.
November 20, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Not sure of the way the artist intended for this piece to be seen. One of these has got to be right.
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Thank you so much to Kirkus Reviews for naming MAGICAL/REALISM one of the Best Essay Collections of 2024, and for listing it among such incredible nonfiction titles this year. I can't believe my luck, truly. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/b...
Best Essay Collections of 2024 | Kirkus Reviews
Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.
www.kirkusreviews.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Thank you so much to Kirkus Reviews for naming MAGICAL/REALISM one of the Best Essay Collections of 2024, and for listing it among such incredible nonfiction titles this year. I can't believe my luck, truly. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/b...
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“Write for your dead. Tell them a story. What are you doing with this life? Let them hold you accountable.
..Be sure you write for the living too. The ones you love, and the ones who are coming for your life."
-Alexander Chee
Read the whole essay. I will, with my students today.
#everynightapoem
..Be sure you write for the living too. The ones you love, and the ones who are coming for your life."
-Alexander Chee
Read the whole essay. I will, with my students today.
#everynightapoem
November 6, 2024 at 3:32 PM
“Write for your dead. Tell them a story. What are you doing with this life? Let them hold you accountable.
..Be sure you write for the living too. The ones you love, and the ones who are coming for your life."
-Alexander Chee
Read the whole essay. I will, with my students today.
#everynightapoem
..Be sure you write for the living too. The ones you love, and the ones who are coming for your life."
-Alexander Chee
Read the whole essay. I will, with my students today.
#everynightapoem
Hi, Bluesky!
Figured I’d introduce myself properly. I’m the author and illustrator of To The Other Side, as well as illustrator of other books. I tuit in Spanish and English about migration, politics, books, walks, dogs, and now about being a parent.
Basically, if it’s in my brain, it comes out.
Figured I’d introduce myself properly. I’m the author and illustrator of To The Other Side, as well as illustrator of other books. I tuit in Spanish and English about migration, politics, books, walks, dogs, and now about being a parent.
Basically, if it’s in my brain, it comes out.
November 19, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Hi, Bluesky!
Figured I’d introduce myself properly. I’m the author and illustrator of To The Other Side, as well as illustrator of other books. I tuit in Spanish and English about migration, politics, books, walks, dogs, and now about being a parent.
Basically, if it’s in my brain, it comes out.
Figured I’d introduce myself properly. I’m the author and illustrator of To The Other Side, as well as illustrator of other books. I tuit in Spanish and English about migration, politics, books, walks, dogs, and now about being a parent.
Basically, if it’s in my brain, it comes out.
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The premise that mass deportations shouldn’t happen because immigrants pay more in taxes than what it would cost to deport us is 😵💫
how about don’t tear families apart period.
how about don’t tear families apart period.
November 19, 2024 at 5:56 PM
The premise that mass deportations shouldn’t happen because immigrants pay more in taxes than what it would cost to deport us is 😵💫
how about don’t tear families apart period.
how about don’t tear families apart period.
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Agree completely. They’re being seduced by dollar signs and ignoring the environmental impact entirely
I know I bang on about this but I think the fight needs to be taken to publishers on CSR grounds. Lots of publishers are signed up to agreements on forestry stewardship, the Green Book Alliance etc - AI is so terrible for the environment, it could be terrible publicity for them.
November 19, 2024 at 10:24 AM
Agree completely. They’re being seduced by dollar signs and ignoring the environmental impact entirely
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Can’t say I’m surprised to see this. Authors, keep yourselves informed on what your publishers are doing re: AI & talk to your agents & Soc of Authors. lithub.com/harpercollin...
HarperCollins is selling their authors’ work to AI tech.
On Friday, author Daniel Kibblesmith posted a series of screenshots on Bluesky in order to share a concerning email he received from the agency who’d repped him on his children’s book S…
lithub.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:11 AM
Can’t say I’m surprised to see this. Authors, keep yourselves informed on what your publishers are doing re: AI & talk to your agents & Soc of Authors. lithub.com/harpercollin...