Michael F. Stewart
@openmike.bsky.social
Writes books for kids and young adults. VCFAWYCA, Canscaip, SCBWI, #kidlit, #canlit
Latest: Seeking Draven, Red Deer Press, 2024
Next: Turn to Burn, Renaissance Press, 2025
Latest: Seeking Draven, Red Deer Press, 2024
Next: Turn to Burn, Renaissance Press, 2025
What I love about all the book club scam emails targeting authors as of late is that someone must have trolled the scammers into believing authors have enough money to be worth scamming in the first place.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
What I love about all the book club scam emails targeting authors as of late is that someone must have trolled the scammers into believing authors have enough money to be worth scamming in the first place.
Umm ... @whalerockworkshops.bsky.social is having a huge fundraiser and there are critiques from absolute powerhouses on there. Go get out bid me! givebutter.com/c/writing-sc...
#share #kidlit
#share #kidlit
Whale Rock Workshops Writing Scholarship Fundraiser
By Whale Rock Workshops
givebutter.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Umm ... @whalerockworkshops.bsky.social is having a huge fundraiser and there are critiques from absolute powerhouses on there. Go get out bid me! givebutter.com/c/writing-sc...
#share #kidlit
#share #kidlit
Can I mention 'Christmas' yet?
Here's some fresh #kidlit book ideas—perfect reads to spark imagination and cozy up with this season! 📚✨
@parentclub.bsky.social
@suecurrie24.bsky.social
@reganmacaulay.bsky.social
@carolmatas.bsky.social
@jtorrescomics.bsky.social
@heathermoconnor.bsky.social
Here's some fresh #kidlit book ideas—perfect reads to spark imagination and cozy up with this season! 📚✨
@parentclub.bsky.social
@suecurrie24.bsky.social
@reganmacaulay.bsky.social
@carolmatas.bsky.social
@jtorrescomics.bsky.social
@heathermoconnor.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Can I mention 'Christmas' yet?
Here's some fresh #kidlit book ideas—perfect reads to spark imagination and cozy up with this season! 📚✨
@parentclub.bsky.social
@suecurrie24.bsky.social
@reganmacaulay.bsky.social
@carolmatas.bsky.social
@jtorrescomics.bsky.social
@heathermoconnor.bsky.social
Here's some fresh #kidlit book ideas—perfect reads to spark imagination and cozy up with this season! 📚✨
@parentclub.bsky.social
@suecurrie24.bsky.social
@reganmacaulay.bsky.social
@carolmatas.bsky.social
@jtorrescomics.bsky.social
@heathermoconnor.bsky.social
🍂 Discover these fresh fall #kidlit books—perfect reads to spark imagination and cozy up with this season! 📚✨
@parentclub.bsky.social
@suecurrie24.bsky.social
@reganmacaulay.bsky.social
@carolmatas.bsky.social
@jtorrescomics.bsky.social
@heathermoconnor.bsky.social
@parentclub.bsky.social
@suecurrie24.bsky.social
@reganmacaulay.bsky.social
@carolmatas.bsky.social
@jtorrescomics.bsky.social
@heathermoconnor.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
🍂 Discover these fresh fall #kidlit books—perfect reads to spark imagination and cozy up with this season! 📚✨
@parentclub.bsky.social
@suecurrie24.bsky.social
@reganmacaulay.bsky.social
@carolmatas.bsky.social
@jtorrescomics.bsky.social
@heathermoconnor.bsky.social
@parentclub.bsky.social
@suecurrie24.bsky.social
@reganmacaulay.bsky.social
@carolmatas.bsky.social
@jtorrescomics.bsky.social
@heathermoconnor.bsky.social
Pretty sure Google thinks we're having another baby. Really I'm starting a new book ...
#worldbuilding #babynames
#worldbuilding #babynames
July 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Pretty sure Google thinks we're having another baby. Really I'm starting a new book ...
#worldbuilding #babynames
#worldbuilding #babynames
"Oh, it is wonderful to have a giant’s strength. But it is tyrannous to use it like a giant." Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
April 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
"Oh, it is wonderful to have a giant’s strength. But it is tyrannous to use it like a giant." Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
What do you think, peeps? Picture book about a canoe over it's lifetime? Nonfiction reader about inanimate heroes? Maybe it can be themed to counter disposable culture? Just spit balling here. Proud of our big yellow banana canoe!
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
Firefighters rescue kayaker using bystander’s canoe near Billings Bridge
Ottawa Fire Services says crews rescued a man after his kayak flipped over on the Rideau River using a bystander’s canoe in the area of Bank Street and Riverside Drive, north of Billings Bridge Thursd...
www.ctvnews.ca
April 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
What do you think, peeps? Picture book about a canoe over it's lifetime? Nonfiction reader about inanimate heroes? Maybe it can be themed to counter disposable culture? Just spit balling here. Proud of our big yellow banana canoe!
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
Interview alert! The wonderful @spencerbmiller.bsky.social took some time to ask me a few questions about my most recent project and the @kidsbookcentre.bsky.social Book Week Tour. Check it out: bookcentre.ca/blogs/articl... #kidlit #mg #verse #digitalmedialiteracy
Creator's Corner: Michael Stewart
Michael Stewart is the multi award-winning author of dozens of books from illustrated chapter books and graphic novels with Rubicon Publishing (Savvas); to young adult, including Heart Sister, out thr...
bookcentre.ca
March 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Interview alert! The wonderful @spencerbmiller.bsky.social took some time to ask me a few questions about my most recent project and the @kidsbookcentre.bsky.social Book Week Tour. Check it out: bookcentre.ca/blogs/articl... #kidlit #mg #verse #digitalmedialiteracy
Presented to a group of grade fivers at the Chelsea Library today and, I gotta say, we're gonna be fine. These kids are great.
#FundLibraries #FundEducation #KidsAreOurFuture
#FundLibraries #FundEducation #KidsAreOurFuture
March 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Presented to a group of grade fivers at the Chelsea Library today and, I gotta say, we're gonna be fine. These kids are great.
#FundLibraries #FundEducation #KidsAreOurFuture
#FundLibraries #FundEducation #KidsAreOurFuture
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We LOVE when our clients get collaborative.
Check out this interview between children's book authors Dionna L. Mann and Michael F. Stewart, with included illustrations from Caroline McPherson all of whom are part of the @kellydhouse.bsky.social crew!
www.dionnalmann.com/interviews-b...
Check out this interview between children's book authors Dionna L. Mann and Michael F. Stewart, with included illustrations from Caroline McPherson all of whom are part of the @kellydhouse.bsky.social crew!
www.dionnalmann.com/interviews-b...
Interviews, Blog Parties & More
(c) Caroline McPherson, carolinemcphersonillustration.com
www.dionnalmann.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We LOVE when our clients get collaborative.
Check out this interview between children's book authors Dionna L. Mann and Michael F. Stewart, with included illustrations from Caroline McPherson all of whom are part of the @kellydhouse.bsky.social crew!
www.dionnalmann.com/interviews-b...
Check out this interview between children's book authors Dionna L. Mann and Michael F. Stewart, with included illustrations from Caroline McPherson all of whom are part of the @kellydhouse.bsky.social crew!
www.dionnalmann.com/interviews-b...
"Most dominant civilization"
Here is what was transcribed on one broken pillar:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Shelley
Here is what was transcribed on one broken pillar:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Shelley
March 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"Most dominant civilization"
Here is what was transcribed on one broken pillar:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Shelley
Here is what was transcribed on one broken pillar:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Shelley
I’ve been sidetrumped today, my mind trumbled and perplumped as to why. Ideas to cope?
March 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I’ve been sidetrumped today, my mind trumbled and perplumped as to why. Ideas to cope?
I am stunned that US National Park Service removed transgender and queer representation from its Stonewall monument site. A monument that stands for hard fought acceptance has now become one of intolerance, from pride to shame. Don't stand for it. Resist.
March 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I am stunned that US National Park Service removed transgender and queer representation from its Stonewall monument site. A monument that stands for hard fought acceptance has now become one of intolerance, from pride to shame. Don't stand for it. Resist.
Luckily I have 25% more love for y'all America. And I am here to consume all of our surplus maple syrup.
February 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Luckily I have 25% more love for y'all America. And I am here to consume all of our surplus maple syrup.
Editing verse feels a little like taking stones and dipping them in water so that I can discover how they truly look.
I'm also working on back cover copy for a YA urban fantasy and I think that less is more. As if, the longer the copy, the more reasons the reader has not to open the cover?
I'm also working on back cover copy for a YA urban fantasy and I think that less is more. As if, the longer the copy, the more reasons the reader has not to open the cover?
January 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Editing verse feels a little like taking stones and dipping them in water so that I can discover how they truly look.
I'm also working on back cover copy for a YA urban fantasy and I think that less is more. As if, the longer the copy, the more reasons the reader has not to open the cover?
I'm also working on back cover copy for a YA urban fantasy and I think that less is more. As if, the longer the copy, the more reasons the reader has not to open the cover?
I subsist on the praise of editors.
Thank you editors. 💚
Thank you editors. 💚
January 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I subsist on the praise of editors.
Thank you editors. 💚
Thank you editors. 💚
What do you do when you're waiting on not one but TWO sets of edits?
Well, I don't know what you do, but I
CLEAN!
Well, I don't know what you do, but I
CLEAN!
January 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
What do you do when you're waiting on not one but TWO sets of edits?
Well, I don't know what you do, but I
CLEAN!
Well, I don't know what you do, but I
CLEAN!
I'll be editing a book about conspiracies, twisted minds, and revolution today.
No reason.
No reason.
January 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I'll be editing a book about conspiracies, twisted minds, and revolution today.
No reason.
No reason.
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Hello 2025~I’m back in the office and open to queries this week! #amquerying #kidlit #writers #illustrators, I’d love to see your #YA, #MG, narrative NF proposals, and #PBs. I’ve updated my #MSWL, but some particular things I’d love to see in my inbox:
January 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Hello 2025~I’m back in the office and open to queries this week! #amquerying #kidlit #writers #illustrators, I’d love to see your #YA, #MG, narrative NF proposals, and #PBs. I’ve updated my #MSWL, but some particular things I’d love to see in my inbox:
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Join #RosebudAuthors & @thetobiasagency.bsky.social w/ our annual #SpreadTheJoy campaign. To win a submission package critique (query, 1-2 pg synopsis, & 1st chapter) by ME! Follow go.bsky.app/Kvshpxt, comment below, and repost. Winners chosen at random.
(Day 27 & our last giveaway)
(Day 27 & our last giveaway)
December 29, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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Join #RosebudAuthors & @thetobiasagency.bsky.social w/ our annual #SpreadTheJoy campaign. To win a query letter critique by @kellydhouse.bsky.social Follow go.bsky.app/Kvshpxt, comment below, and repost. Winners chosen at random.
(Day 12)
(Day 12)
December 12, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Join #RosebudAuthors & @thetobiasagency.bsky.social w/ our annual #SpreadTheJoy campaign. To win a query letter critique by @kellydhouse.bsky.social Follow go.bsky.app/Kvshpxt, comment below, and repost. Winners chosen at random.
(Day 12)
(Day 12)
Hey freedom fighters, here's a campaign that looks worthy of our support.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-ded...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-ded...
There is NOTHING controversial about being queer. PERIOD.
1. A teacher in Ohio who has worked at the same public school for 34 years was suspended without pay and threatened with termination for offering four books in her classroom library that contained LGBTQ characters.
She's fighting back.
She's fighting back.
December 12, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Hey freedom fighters, here's a campaign that looks worthy of our support.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-ded...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-ded...
I'm going on tour! Woot! Thanks for the opportunity, CCBC!
We are excited to announce the tour roster for Canadian Children's Book Week 2025. 32 authors, illustrators, and storytellers have been selected to take part in this hybrid tour.
Learn more: bookcentre.ca/news/announc...
Learn more: bookcentre.ca/news/announc...
December 9, 2024 at 8:01 PM
I'm going on tour! Woot! Thanks for the opportunity, CCBC!
I'm on rewrites and am at the 'oh crap, I broke it' stage.
And there's still a lot more to break ...
And there's still a lot more to break ...
December 4, 2024 at 2:14 AM
I'm on rewrites and am at the 'oh crap, I broke it' stage.
And there's still a lot more to break ...
And there's still a lot more to break ...
Writing with generative AI and putting your name on it feels like going to the store, choosing a greeting card you like, and telling everyone you wrote the poem inside.
November 26, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Writing with generative AI and putting your name on it feels like going to the store, choosing a greeting card you like, and telling everyone you wrote the poem inside.