Karen Kilpatrick

#agent #kidlit #author, toy inventor, lawyer, publisher, marketer, consultant (not necessarily in that order)

[East West Literary @EastWestLit]

Congrats @AuthorKarenK —signing When Glitter Met Glue (Illus Germán Blanco @HenryHolt ) at @aasl in St. Louis this weekend! 📚🌟📚🌟📚🌟📚🌟📚🌟 Thanks to @VircoInc

[Blair N Williamson, Children's Author @theislandwriter]

Watching my dreams unfold 😭😭😭

Thank you @AuthorKarenK & @EastWestLit for believing in me🥹

Preorder The Ocean Protectors now:

https://t.co/hvVBoLB80h

#5amwritersclub #author #kidlit #publishing #ocean #editors #pb #writerslift #marketing #books #clifi #library #teachers

[East West Literary @EastWestLit]

GOOD NEWS from @EastWestLit https://t.co/Q4oWfHf0Gc Book Birthdays @meganefreeman AWAY @AnnaDewdney and more! Deal announcements @apalessandri Kara Thom @AuthorKarenK and Accolades @movingupusa @MarieBoydAuthor @Author_Cisneros @NicoleMHewitt @SarahHoffman101 Congrats to ALL. 📚

[Blair N Williamson, Children's Author @theislandwriter]

Pic of an #author who just had an EPIC call with her #agent!!! ‼️🥳🙌🏻

Thanks for being my biggest supporter, @AuthorKarenK ! This is our year & I wanted to share some major agent love! @EastWestLit 💙💙

#amwriting #tgif #writingcommunity #5amwritersclub #kidlit #books #pb

[Blair N Williamson, Children's Author @theislandwriter]

What a gift it is to write.
What an opportunity I have to protect our oceans.
What a calling— one that I do not take lightly.

Thank you @AuthorKarenK & @EastWestLit for believing in me 🥹

#5amwritersclub #author #kidlit #publishing #ocean #onsubmission #editors #pb #writerslift

[East West Literary @EastWestLit]

Happy Everything and Merry Always! from @EastWestLit

https://t.co/6jKrc9ImWw

With art by @heathertbl Nora Hilb, Luciana Navarro Powell @LisaJHancockArt Kerstin Stock @gelakalaitzidis Dow Phumiruk @john_ledda_art @kirkreedstrom and Tammy Do.
~ @AnaCrespoBooks @AuthorKarenK

[East West Literary @EastWestLit]

Congratulations @AuthorKarenK & Illus. Germán Blanco --WHEN GLITTER MET GLUE @HenryHolt was voted the 2023-2024 favorite by over 39,000 students in the state of Florida! Awarded the recent #FAME conference.

2024 Sunshine State Young Readers Award.

[Blair N Williamson, Children's Author @theislandwriter]

DREAM MOMENT:

#editor @IvanTaurisano LOVED my new ms so much that we HAD to send my agent @AuthorKarenK a video message early am on a Saturday 🤩🥳

The news couldn’t wait!

WHO AM I? 😭🥹🥳😍

#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #kidlit #author #coffee #RUCCL #onsub #publishing

[Linda Hume @LindaHume10]

#VAASL2024 was AWESOME!

Learning with other librarians is wonderful…but meeting with authors is so exciting! 📚❤️
@VAASL
@FCPS1News
@ericaperl
@senorakyle
@LisaYee1
@AuthorKarenK
@LeahMoserWrites
#DavidGorman
#JasonChin

[East West Literary @EastWestLit]

Congratulations @KaraDThom
SWEET, TART —a coming-of-age mg novel, acquired at @Candlewick for Sept. 2025–as announced in @PWKidsBookshelf ⭐️📚⭐️

Congrats also to agent @AuthorKarenK @EastWestLit 🎉🎉🎉

[East West Literary @EastWestLit]

@SarahHoffman101 @MaginationPress @AuthorKarenK 7/❤️ #ALAAC24 📚
SAUDADE @AnaCrespoBooks Andre Ceolin @NealPorterBooks

DAUGHTER OF THE LIGHTFOOTED PEOPLE Belen Medina & Batalia Rojas Castro / Atheneum

GROW UP LUCY ZAPATA @apalessandri

LAND OF AFRONIA @afrounicorn1 @AuthorKarenK @amp_kids Anthony Conley /Ronaldo Barata

[East West Literary @EastWestLit]

@SarahHoffman101 @MaginationPress @AuthorKarenK @AnaCrespoBooks @NealPorterBooks @apalessandri @afrounicorn1 @amp_kids @SimonKIDS @charlesbridge @aportisa @HarperChildrens @BrynneBarnes @RuthEHarperArt 9/❤️ #ALAAC24 East/West represent!
NOBU dinner 📚❤️
@SarahHoffman101 @AuthorKarenK @staciadeutsch @LaurenKerstein

Germán Blanco @Author_Cisneros @shihopate DW @jimaverbeck @ErinDealey

[East West Literary @EastWestLit]

Also TODAY! #ALAAC24 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
@AuthorKarenK
@SarahHoffman101

[Blair N Williamson, Children's Author @theislandwriter]

Browsing #books yesterday and found MY AGENT @AuthorKarenK’s book on display in NC! 🥳

I love knowing more and more creators on the shelves & I’m so proud to be a small part of this incredibly talented community 🩵

#kidlit #author #writingcommunity #5amwritersclub #publishing

[East West Literary @EastWestLit]

Thank you @AndrewsMcMeel
THE LAND OF AFRONIA
@afrounicorn1 graphic novel!

[Jennifer Broedel @JBroedelAuthor]

@AuthorKarenK @RosiePOV I just finished the replay, under the wire. My hands couldn’t take notes quickly enough! What a fresh topic for a workshop!

[Claudine Pullen @pullen_claudine]

Just finished @AuthorKarenK workshop. WOW!!! Thank you @RosiePOV for organizing.

[East West Literary @EastWestLit]

Our April newsletter: https://t.co/XxsHnauQ9S Happy #BookBirthdays @zombietardis @julia_wasson & Nicholas Hummingbird @ErinDealey @apalessandri @ShanonHitchcock @AnnaDewdney Thomas Gonzalez @staciadeutsch @RuthEHarperArt @AlmaFullerton DEALS & so much more!

[Nicole Garnett @garnett_nicole]

YAY me for registering last minute! 😅The information on marketing and creating your brand was priceless! 🙌

The motivation I have to get my #PBchristmasseries to where it needs to be is limitless! 🔥
Comet, let's do this 😈🦌

Thank you @RosiePOV and @AuthorKarenK !

[Karen Kilpatrick @AuthorKarenK]

@WriterRowland @RosiePOV Thank you!!