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Katie Venit
@katievenit.bsky.social
she/her. National bestselling author in WI

🎪FORTS, Viking
🛰️CASSINI'S MISSION, MIT Kids Press

Rep'd by Joyce Sweeney, Seymour Agency

https://linktr.ee/KatieVenit
Big thanks to Amazon for including Forts in its list of best picture books for 2025! (Psst: it's almost the exact same price at your local indie. 😉)

#picturebooks #kidlit
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I'll be in Madison, WI on 11/8 at Lake City Books, reading from FORTS and CASSINI'S MISSION. Come learn about cozy spaces and wonderous moons and spend the rest of the chilly fall day building forts and dreaming about outer space.

Details: lakecitybooks.com/events/38782...
November 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
October 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I'm agog! FORTS is one of @usatoday.com's bestselling #picturebooks this week!

Thank you to all the indie bookstores who believe in this book and have been sharing it with their customers. ❤️💙📚

#kidlit

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August 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
August 13, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Happy Birthday, CASSINI'S MISSION!! This picture book has my whole heart. It's about Cassini as she explores the Saturn system and discovers the ingredients of life on the moon Enceladus. Julia Blattman's illustrations are jaw-dropping!

#kidlit #picturebooks #picturebook
@joycekay.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Thanks to @katiemcenaney.bsky.social for the adorable FORTS photoshoot!
August 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
FORTS was listed on Amazon's best of the month list, which is a wonderful recognition.

(Still, I recommend buying from indies!)

#books #kidlit #picturebooks
August 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
ISO pictures of the #forts your kiddo (or you!) were inspired to find or build after reading FORTS!

(This would be for a SM post, so only send me pics you’d be ok with me resharing)
#kidlit #picturebook
July 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Happy book birthday to my debut, Forts! Brilliantly illustrated by @kenardpak.bsky.social
#kidlit #picturebooks
July 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Nothing, NOTHING has prepared me for the thrill of searching for my books on my library website (the best library in the world) and finding them both there--and there's a queue! 🙀

#kidlit
July 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I commissioned my 13-year-old to make this post. Simple? yes. Effective? YOU BE THE JUDGE.

Starred Kirkus review, on the Kids Indie Next list, favorable reviews from PW and Booklist. But my favorite review has been when my nephew merely saw Kenard's amazing cover and said, "I want to build a fort!"
June 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Many thanks to the ABA for including @kenardpak.bsky.social and my FORTS in their Kids Indie Next list!

#kidlit #picturebooks #forts #kidlitart

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June 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Yay! I'll be joining the faculty at the Wisconsin Writers Association's annual conference this fall. Registration is open, please come!

This conference is so much fun, full of the most supportive writers you'll ever meet.

#kidlit #picturebooks #amwriting
June 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Please observe how adorably my dog sleeps.
May 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Over five years after I wrote FORTS, today I got to hold it in my hands and see @kenardpak.bsky.social’s stunning art in person. It’s finally finally a real book!

#kidlit #picturebook
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May 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
#kidlit gatekeepers: "Kids don't want stories about adults. They don't want stories about grownup worries like jobs or protecting your children or navigating marital issues or growing old and facing your mortality or anything."

Pixar: Okaaayy.....
May 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
First look inside CASSINI’S MISSION!
#kidlit #picturebooks #nasa
May 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Very important package! 1 author of Cassini’s Mission arrived… but I haven’t opened it yet.
#kidlit #picturebook #amwriting #nasa
May 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM