Kim Long 🐙

It's here! Catching Cryptids is out in the world! Starred review from Booklist, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, and called "stimulating fare for both outdoor and armchair cryptid hunters" by Kirkus! Pick up your copy today! #STEM #kidlit #cryptids #cryptozoology

@qzion_t_gipson @estherbirdbooks If a version of it was subbed more than a year ago, I would save it for the offer call. If it's the same version and more recent, I'd qualify with something like, "Please know my previous agent subbed this manuscript to approx seven editors before we parted ways."

#Agents and #writers, any advice on etiquette when querying a manuscript that has already been on sub? I've been up front about it at the end of my query letter, but I just got an agent response saying I should save that for the offer call. Thoughts on this?

Excited to be featured on First Chapter Friday! Had a blast visiting Willow Bend and chatting cryptids with the kids! #MGlit #STEM #cryptids #mothman sites.google.com/ccsd15.net/wil…

@david_perell This is a great conversation. Thanks for posting.

Jon Yaged runs Macmillan, one of the five biggest publishers in the world, so I asked him to explain the book publishing industry to me. My main question: why should authors work with a traditional publisher, especially when self-publishing is taking off? What I got was a full tour of how book publishing works. Everything from how authors make money, to how publishers choose which books to back, to the traditional vs. self-publishing debate. Timestamps: 2:01 Consolidation in book publishing 4:01 Celebrity books 7:57 The scale of the publishing industry 9:48 How to get your book published 14:15 New York 16:25 Using data to find great books 29:33 How to work with a publisher 31:11 The economics of a book deal 36:42 How sequels work 42:21 Children's books 48:42 Books in Europe vs. America 50:25 Should writers use AI? 1:00:57 How printing works 1:04:52 Book marketing advice 1:09:48 What a publishing CEO does 1:11:06 Audiobooks 1:15:17 Are people getting stupider? 1:18:20 The publisher business model 1:19:08 Macmillan I've shared the full interview with Jon Yaged below. If you'd rather watch or listen to the interview somewhere else, check out the first reply tweet where I've linked to the interview on YouTube, and also on Apple / Spotify. Enjoy!

So thrilled and excited to work with Krista!

@itsrosesm Gertrude

All I want for Christmas is for Microsoft Word to stop sending me a frickin email that notifies me I made a comment in a manuscript I am not sharing with anyone. I make hundreds of comments in my developmental edits and it is driving me bonkers.

Had a blast visiting three classes for Illinois Read Aloud Day today! The next is in February! Invite me for a zoom/Google meet up to talk Catching Cryptids! #wrad2026

Time to talk cryptids with @MixedUpFiles! Stop by for a chance to win a free copy of my book! #MGlit #STEM #writingcommunity #kidlit fromthemixedupfiles.com/stem-tuesday-z…

@DavidBartram_ 5!

We're doing it again! New location! Lisa and I had such a blast. Come by this Sat, Oct 18 to the Barnes and Noble in Naperville 1:00-3:00!!!

Had a blast at South Park School in Deerfield this morning. We *may" have caught the skunk ape and made some headway into locating the kraken! #catchingcryptids

We're here! Come to the Oswego Barnes and Noble to meet me, Lisa, and Max mothman and pick up some free book swag!!!

This Saturday! Come on by to visit me and Lisa at the Barnes & Noble in Oswego! Story time! Free swag! Lots of fun!!

@StacieTurner harangue. My characters have many harangues. 😂

My list of the best middle grade books featuring cryptids is live at Shepherd! shepherd.com/best-books/mid…

@JEngelMattern JENNY! I just saw this and came over to send my congrats! So happy for you!!!

I had such a blast visiting Channing Memorial Elementary School in South Elgin and Sandburg Elementary in Wheaton yesterday! Kids were great and who knows, maybe we even caught a cryptid! 🦑#kidlit #schoolvisit #librarians #cryptids

My books have arrived! Mothman approved! #cryptids #cryptozoology #kidlit #STEM #MG

@Summer_Rachel_ Thanks, Summer!

Such a great read!! Get copies for all the cryptic lovers in your life!

@StephanieWard_L Thanks, Stephanie!!

It's here! Catching Cryptids is out in the world! Starred review from Booklist, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, and called "stimulating fare for both outdoor and armchair cryptid hunters" by Kirkus! Pick up your copy today! #STEM #kidlit #cryptids #cryptozoology