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Heather Bell
@heatherbell37.bsky.social
Artist, writer, and professional overthinker 😸 She/They 🏳️‍🌈 Rep’d by Kaitlyn Sanchez, Bradford Literary Agency. 📚SIMPLY SKYE out now

Portfolio: https://heatherbellbooks.com/
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Our weekly big list of kid lit links is up (Nov 14): kidlit411.com/2025/11/the-... Inside: Writing Scenes with Senses, Tabling Comic Shows, Crowdfunding webinar, more. Thanks @heatherbell37.bsky.social for the illustration, Manu Delpech and @laurenkerstein.bsky.social for the PB giveaways.
The Weekly 411 (11/14/25)
A one-stop place for all your kid lit information needs.
kidlit411.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🍁Spooky season is almost here, and so is our agency’s Fall Art Blast! 🍂✨ Meet this brave kiddo and the not-so-scary monster in their closet!
👒
Title: They Only Come Out at Night
Medium: colored pencils on black paper
#kidlit #kidlitart 🎨
September 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Summer Solstice has finally come, and it's time to cool off with some ice cream. #KansasCity is blistering hot right now, but a towering cone of creamy scoops would certainly help take the edge off.

Title: A Summer Dream

#bombayinks #childrensbookillustration #kidlitart 🎨#illustrations
June 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
🥳 Happy Book Birthday to Katie Finds Her Voice! 🎉✨
I’m so excited to see this story, written by the wonderful Amy McCoy, out in the world today!
Loved illustrating Katie's journey and can't wait for readers to experience her story!
#BookBirthday #Illustration #PictureBook #kidlit #kidlitart 🎨
March 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
It's the Holiday season! ❄️Hope everyone living in a cold climate is staying toasty and warm! Sharing my illustration for Bradford Literary's Winter Art Blast ⛄️❄️

Title: "Found Family Festivities"

Media: Watercolor ink and digital editing
#scbwi #illustrators #kidlitart 🎨 #kidlit
December 16, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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Get ready, #skypitch is happening on Wednesday. boringstorybook.com/skypitch/
October 21, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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"Fall Moods" by @heatherbell37.bsky.social 🎒

Heather is available as: an author-illustrator or illustrator

Focuses: picture books and graphic novels (open to all #kidlit projects, including, board books, cover art, MG)

Rep: @kaitlynleann17.bsky.social
Website: heatherbellbooks.com
#kidlitart
September 23, 2024 at 4:34 PM
It's SUMMER! So, here's my illustration for our agency's Art Blast going out next week. Whether you have fireflies or click beetles where you live, summertime is the best time for catching summer night's winged lights.

Title: Catching Hope
#bombayinks
#kidlitart
🎨 #kidlit
#illustrator
June 21, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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#kidlitzombieweek starts Monday! Do you have manuscripts you thought were dead? Join us to bring those zombies back to life w/ blog posts, discussions, & of course #prizes! Check all the details out here:
sites.google.com/u/0/d/1uPxbh...

Share and tag all your #amwriting #amrevising #kidlit friends
June 15, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Today is our agency's Spring Art Blast! Here's my piece.
Title: "Make the Morning Last"
... a little nod to Simon and Garfunkel on this gorgeous spring morning🌞 🌱🌷

#kidlitart 🎨
#scbwiillustrators #illustration
March 15, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day from my creative spark!

I love portraying diverse characters and different perspectives in PBs, CBs, and MGs, and love exploring the magic in everyday life.
✨🎨
Website:  heatherbellbooks.com
Rep’d: Kaitlyn Sanchez at Bradford Literary
 
#kidlit #kidlitart #illustration
March 7, 2024 at 2:14 PM
My newest commission painting in honor of a gorgeous pup who has crossed the rainbow bridge 🌈 🐕‍🦺 🎨

#petportrait #artist
March 1, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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youtu.be/lxBrtswO_TE?... My book comes out in 2️⃣ weeks and I have a trailer!
Am I excited? Yes! 🎬 #kidlitchat
January 29, 2024
An Accidental Hero: A Mostly True Wombat Story book trailer
youtu.be
January 31, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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The 2024 Queer Kidlit Mentors are posted! We have mentors for PB (manuscript or dummy), GN (script or pages) CB, MG, YA, and illustrator portfolios

Applications for this program will be open on January 10th.
Thank you for sharing to help spread the word! #Kidlit

queerkidlit.weebly.com
January 3, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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Exciting news! We’re bringing our beloved #KidLitArt chat over to BlueSky in 2024!

Stay tuned & please follow @kidlitart.bsky.social for updates to come!

#KidLit
December 14, 2023 at 9:13 PM
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There's only about a day left in the auction and, alas, this morning there were still no bids, so I bid on myself, lest WNDB lose out on the minimum donation.

I do enjoying talking to myself, but, also, I would genuinely love to talk to you! I invite you to outbid me! Give WNDB your $upport!

💙❤️
Hey #kidlit illustrators the “We Need Diverse Books” 2023 Winter Auction has begun! Proceeds support WNDB programming including initiatives that fight book banning. 

I'm offering a 1-hour portfolio-review/coaching-session!
e.givesmart.com/events/zGk/i...

Bid for yourself or gift it to a friend! 💙❤️
December 11, 2023 at 2:45 PM
❄️I never saw snow until I moved away for college, and I spent literal hours lying on my dorm bunk staring at it falling when it finally came 😻
"Let it Snow" 🎨

#kidlitart #scbwi #illustrator
December 11, 2023 at 3:27 PM
Got a bit sidetracked, but may I present—#inkvember 27 and 28. See? I didn't totally forget about these kids and their adventures.
Drawing Prompts: Beast and Sparkle
#kidlitart 🎨
November 29, 2023 at 1:17 AM
November always seems to be chockful of commission work and other things, so I haven't tried it yet. But I am curious how others feel about it. It seems like a good way to encourage butt in chair. #middlegrade
A few people have already mentioned this, so... here's #MiddleGrade chat question 4!

(I think we'll leave it at four for this week, as I've been a little behind in posting, and few people share snippets)
November 5, 2023 at 5:56 PM
I can only speak to this for picture books for which I've done many! 😜 But I have not done a whole rewrite for #middlegrade and even hearing others around me working on one causes me to break out in a sweat 😆
#MiddleGrade chat question 3.

If you've not rewritten from scratch, how chunky are your edits? Have you done big structural work before, or do your first drafts come out pretty clean? (If so, I'm a little jealous 😂)
November 5, 2023 at 5:42 PM
Still finishing up #inktober prompts...er....#inkvember 😅...

Here's a whole bunch in one, the story is almost done:
Daily Drawing Prompts: Scratchy, Celestial, Shallow, Dangerous, and Remove from days 22-26.

#kidlitart 🎨 #illustrator
www.instagram.com/heather.bell...
November 5, 2023 at 3:39 PM
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Teachers, librarians, educators, parents, & readers! It’s #giveaway time! I need to find these 18 middle-grade illustrated/graphic novels a new home!

FOLLOW, ❤️, and RT/QT or Comment+Tag a friend to enter for a chance to add these great books 📚 to your collection! Winner selected 11/5.
November 2, 2023 at 9:57 PM