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Stephanie Campisi
@stephcampisi.bsky.social
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Aussie writer in SoCal. Kidlit, romcoms w/ Harper, Pan Mac, S&S.

Aka Kit Holliday, Hazel Graves, Heather Spellman.

Open to IP work. She/her. TAG. Work stuff: jrasheed@ultraliterary.com

www.stephaniecampisi.com www.broomsticklers.com www.hazelgraves.com
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got back from our walk just in time!
Stormy skies over a desert walking trail
November 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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It's #caturday! Here are some spreads from LUIS AND TABITHA (words by me, art by Hollie Mengert) 🐈‍⬛ 🎈 🐾

familius.com/book/luis-an...
The cover of Luis and Tabitha, showing a tuxedo cat with a rose in his mouth following after a fluffy cat being carried by a snooty woman in cats-eye glasses. It's painted in midcentury style. A Romeo and Juliet-style balcony scene, but with cats! Luis and Tabitha staring lovingly at each other. There's a door with a catflap in the background, and the text "...and Luis and Tabitha were inseparable" Luis, a tuxedo cat, and Tabitha, a fluffy cat, holding their paws together against a full-moon backdrop. There are fireworks in the background.
November 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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If you've been wanting to check out Sparkle Pigs (words by me, art by Dizzy Devil Designs), there's a 3 for the price of 2 deal going on:

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPK2HFTX

#BookSky #KidLit
The Sparkle Pigs chapter books, showing cartoonish guinea pigs in costumes against sparkly backgrounds
November 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Tonight's bedtime story: Tacos Today by @raulthethird.bsky.social! Absolutely glorious art.
A vibrant spread showing a group of illustrated luchadores eating tacos in a town plaza
November 14, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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What is this wet stuff 😠
A weather forecast for the desert showing A WEEK OF RAIN and cool temperatures
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Another cute spread from Quacks Like a Duck (words by me, art by Maria Lebedeva)
A platypus in a party hat carrying a pavlova rocking up to a house filled with costumed animals. It's painted in a bright, cheerful style
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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did you know that I'm huge* in Germany?

WARRIOR FAIRIES is published by Schneiderbuch/Harper Germany, with cover art from @benteschlick.bsky.social

*lies, I am 5'1" there as well

#BookSky
Warrior Fairies book 1, showing a blonde fairy riding a blue dragonfly against a tree castle backdrop Warrior Fairies book 2, showing two fairies riding a falcon against a sunset backdrop
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Thrifty friends, Four Weddings and a Funeral Director (by me, as Hazel Graves) is just 99p in ebook!

It's Freaky Friday x Six Feet Under x Legally Blonde, and it's heaps of fun!

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DK8L8BHV

#BookSky #Romancelandia
Four Weddings and a Funeral Director, with the text "you are cordially invited to the wedding of the year", with "wedding" crossed out and replaced with "funeral"
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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seriously, for Christmas every year, my husband gets me a Folio Society diary, and I write down every little good thing.

I've had some fantastic book stuff happen this year (multiple deals, a TV option with a huge studio), but if I don't write it down my brain just goes, "lol you lowly worm"
A Folio Society 2025 diary featuring a silvery concentric circle pattern, with a decorative pen on top
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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An interior spread from QUACKS LIKE A DUCK (words by me, art by Maria Lebedeva)

I've been watching Kiff, and I keep getting Petunia the Platypus vibes!
A picture book spread showing, on the left-hand side of the page, a platypus rocking up to a costume party. The right-hand side of the illustration shows a dozen or so animals in costume - a crocodile dentist, a cow cowgirl, a basset hound detective etc
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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My silly things include these! (Romcoms as Hazel Graves, and chapter books as Kit Holliday)
Four Weddings and a Funeral Director! The Little Coffee Shop of Terrors Sparkle Pigs!
November 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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stunning! Here's some #birdart from Madalina Andronic, from our book Five Sisters!
A spread from the book Five Sisters, showing five nesting doll sisters surrounded by stylised birds against a green background. The scene is painted in traditional Romanian folk style, with curved lines and floral patterns.
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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yep
A Jack Russell with brown eye patches and one brown ear looking up at the camera. He's wearing a collar with a blue tag that says "Samson" on it
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Had a fab time at the 29 Palms Book Festival speaking on the Books Don't Need Chargers panel!

(I reckon I deserve extra points for not saying you should read books so that Joyce Carol Oates won't have cause to troll you on Twitter)
A sandwichboard sign for the 29 Palms Book Festival The session list for the 29 Palms Book Festival, including Books Don't Need Chargers and Paths to Publishing
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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some cool vintage book covers
Rough Neck by Jim Thompson, in a cool vintage edition that's heavy on the shadows and text effects The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis, showing white stylised skeletons on a background with green title text Background to Danger by Eric Ambler, showing two stylised hands holding an envelope
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Should be able to announce some Broomsticklers illustrator news soon! 🧹✨

broomsticklers.com
broomsticklers a middle grade series by Stephanie Campisi Simon & Schuster, 2027 Broomhilda is a studious witch who does things by the spellbook, while Poppy is a free-spirited human inventor who rigs up broomsticks out of whatever she has at hand - like pool cues and pot pourri. But although opposites, they bring out the best in each other while repairing brooms at the Otherworld’s second-best broomsmithery, solving mysteries, getting up to mischief, and exploring all that the Otherworld has to offer!
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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It's Saturday! 📺
Post a cartoon TV series you love
Pinecone & Pony!
November 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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A still from Pluribus showing Reha Seehorn on the phone looking anxious
November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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SoCal friends, I'll be at the 29 Palms Book Festival tomorrow for the Books Don't Need Chargers panel, where we'll be chatting about raising avid readers in a screen-heavy world.

Hope to see you there!

www.29pbf.com

#BookSky
A graphic for the 29 Palms books Festival, rendered in stark black and cream and stylised to look like books (or perhaps tumbling blocks?), with the dates November 7, 8, 9, 2025
November 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Happy #Caturday! Luis and Tabitha is a purrfectly delightful picture book featuring words by me and art by Hollie Mengert. It's available in Spanish and Italian, and as an animated short:

watch.vooks.com/videos/luis-...

You can grab a signed copy from me tomorrow at the 29 Palms Book Festival :)
Luis and Tabitha, showing a tuxedo cat with a rose in his mouth following after a fluffy cat being carried by a snooty woman in cats-eye glasses. There's a nighttime cityscape in the background overseen by a full moon. It's painted in midcentury style.
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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trying to write 😅
A Jack Russell with his snoot turned up to block the post author's view of her laptop
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL DIRECTOR (by me, as Hazel Graves, Harper) is currently 99p in ebook!

It's a wild ride of a romcom about a funeral parlour and a bridal parlour that undergo a switcheroo...and the poor couple who have to clean up the mess. 🎂 🖤 🪦 💍

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DK8L8BHV/
Four Weddings and a Funeral Director, showing a blonde woman handing some wilted flowers to a guy who looks like Hugh Grant The goth house /barbie house meme with "they're dating" superimposed
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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I have a middle grade novel coming out in March! It's about a girl who inherits a ghost-busting business called The Unfinished Business and is then tasked with finishing the unfinished business of its late owner.

I worked on it for years, and I hope you love it as much as I do!

#BookSky #KidLit
The cover for The Unfinished Business for Stephanie Campisi, showing a night-time cityscape with various buildings with lamplit windows. Three ghosts fly overhead, and a girl looks out a window up at them.
November 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Did you know that I have a chapter book series called Sparkle Pigs out through Harper? Words are by me, writing as Kit Holliday, and the art is by Dizzy Devil Designs. 🥕✨

Some super-fun news coming about these cuties soon, so stay tuned!

#BookSky #KidLit
The 3 Sparkle Pigs books stacked atop each other. Book 1 has been heavily bedazzled with sparkly gems. There's a sparkly pen at the bottom of the image
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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me in Ken Calvert's district
The "Sickos" meme, showing a guy with Sickos on his shirt say "yes, hahaha, yes!"
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM