Amy Stern

Literary Agent at the Sheldon Fogelman Agency (my views ≠ theirs). Alum of Bryn Mawr and Simmons CHL. Lover of kidlit, Muppets, comics, camp, reality TV & crit.

[Amy Stern @AmyRStern]

(Sorry for the gratuitous self-promo, but I want to make sure people know that (A) it's available and (B) I am happy to spending those ten minutes listening to a pitch, OR workshopping a query, OR arguing about the thematic arc of a classic picturebook. I have done all of these.)

[Amy Stern @AmyRStern]

There's still time to sign up for one-on-one pitches at the 2022 Kansas City Writing Workshop (online) on Aug 5-6. Anyone can attend from anywhere and you can sign up to spend ten minutes asking me (or another person) anything you want. Learn more here: https://t.co/Ca0yOCN0hT

[Amy Stern @AmyRStern]

I'm taking pitches for this tomorrow, if anyone's interested in video chatting with me for fifteen minutes. I am basically unable to not ask you way too many questions. It will be fun for both of us! I set up air conditioning and internet in the same room for this!

[Writing Day Workshops (Writers Conferences) @writingdaywksp]

Join us at the Florida Writing Workshop, a two-day online writers conference, July 8-9, 2022. The event has classes, critiques, and one-on-one virtual agent pitching. Anyone can attend from anywhere! https://t.co/PBJ4AugVje

[Amy Stern @AmyRStern]

Do you ever forget your realname Twitter password and then the world just keeps getting worse and worse and you just keep hiding deeper and deeper under blankets and that does not magically help you re-enter the Twitterverse?

Anyway. Hi, everyone.

[Amy Stern @AmyRStern]

However many good things you hear about Jerry this week- and I'm sure there will be many- know that it's just scratching the surface. Jerry was a brilliant artist, but he was also one of the kindest people I've ever met. His life was a blessing; may his memory be one as well.

[NPR @NPR]

The celebrated illustrator Jerry Pinkney, a legend in the world of children's publishing who won a Caldecott medal for his picture book "The Lion and The Mouse," has died at 81 after suffering a heart attack.
https://t.co/IrHPJpUnU0

[Amy Stern @AmyRStern]

I am now up to date on #TedLasso and here to formally request some middle grade with family relationships like Roy Kent's with Phoebe. #MSWL

[Amy Stern @AmyRStern]

This is actually true.

[Robin Robinson @RobinRobinsonia]

Oh I love #KidLitArtPostcard day! Thanks to my agent @AmyRStern today and every day
https://t.co/NYs7cRMolr

[Robin Robinson @RobinRobinsonia]

It's #KidLitArtPostcard day! I'm an illustrator and cartoonist repped by @AmyRStern and my debut author-illustrator graphic novel came out in May of 2021!

[Amy Stern @AmyRStern]

#MSWL https://t.co/1oADUMZ5ha

[Worst Bestsellers @worstbestseller]

We're going to summer camp...Flashback Summer Camp! We read two classic Baby-Sitters Club books with @AmyRStern. Join us! We saved you a seat on the bus to Camp Mohawk/Moosehead! https://t.co/pVXqsBOwEf

[sylvie shaffer @sylvie_shaffer]

Speak your dreams into the universe so you may manifest them! I am THRILLED to be moderating this incredible Body Diversity panel next Thursday June 3rd for P & P Live! It’s gonna be awesome, join us! @politicsprose https://t.co/BS7bjVpttC

[Robin Robinson @RobinRobinsonia]

Today is my book's birthday!! No One Returns from the Enchanted Forest is out in the world! Thanks to everyone checking it out +I'm tearing up: kids can check it out from libraries now! https://t.co/nfdvY11MuN @01FirstSecond @MacKidsBooks #kidlitcomics #graphicnovels #kidscomics

[Robin Robinson @RobinRobinsonia]

Concept art from 2018...to finished book 2021! I'm kvelling. The book is out on May 25th! https://t.co/nfdvY1jnml @01FirstSecond @MacKidsBooks #cutegoblins #fantasycomics #kidlitcomics #allagescomics #middlegradegraphicnovels

[Amy Stern @AmyRStern]

Happy book birthday to @RobinRobinsonia and NO ONE RETURNS FROM THE ENCHANTED FOREST. If you like goblins or sibling stories or lush art, you definitely want to read this. I am so excited all of you will get a chance to love it as much as I do!

[Amy Stern @AmyRStern]

@Tiff_Liao @zandoprojects Congratulations!

[First Second @01FirstSecond]

"The enchanted forest is a dangerous place filled with monsters and mystery..."

Bix follows her sister Pella as she ventures to confront the Earth Queen. No One Returns from the Enchanted Forest by @RobinRobinsonia, out 5/25! https://t.co/ZnyUOa9j8c

[Amy Stern @AmyRStern]

@AmandaIsA_Ram (For the Sheldon Fogelman Agency. We've been working on updating our spreadsheets, this would be SO helpful.)

[Amy Stern @AmyRStern]

@AmandaIsA_Ram PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE YES

[Amy Stern @AmyRStern]

I respect like hell those of you who have been tweeting here through this election and COVID spike.

I try to keep my realname twitter reasonably free of profanity and despair, so i haven't known what to say. Thanks to those of you keeping it up for the rest of us.