Here are all my wonderful clients that I am so lucky to work (ordered by sign date). If you are interested in working with any of them whether through IP or to hear about their latest stories, please email me. And if you'd like to learn more about the illustrators below, their portfolios have their own page on my website. Thank you!
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Mishal Syed
Mishal Syed is an author and poet with side jobs as a jinn and a selkie. She holds a BA in English and cognitive science from UCLA and is currently an MFA candidate at UC Irvine. She writes whimsical middle grade manuscripts and Gothic fairytales. She is also working on her poetry thesis. In her free time, she enjoys playing the piano, entertaining her pet bunnies (Honeyluna and Willowfawn), and daydreaming. Her whimsical MG fantasy, AURORA AND THE REALM OF SOULS, sold Carey instantly after comping to one of her favorites (The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill).
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Ellie Fortune
Ellie Fortune is an author & illustrator based in Colorado. Her picture book, THE GREEN DUCKLING, swept Carey away with its whimsical prose and gorgeous art. You'll be able to learn more about this story soon.
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Cindy Grace Lamug
Cindy Grace Lamug is an author & illustrator with stunning and important picture book manuscripts. Carey loved the emotional journey her books take readers on, as well as her wonderful art style. Her debut picturebook, THE WALKING NIPA HUT that highlights one of Philippines' greatest traditions "Bayanihan" through the perspective of the nipa hut, is out on sub.
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Tangi James
Tangi (TAWN-JEE) Dion James (she/her) is a bubbly Caribbean-Canadian illustrator and visual development artist with 12 years of experience working for studios like Wild Canary and Fisher-Price. She balances her roles as Editor of ALJ Studios and as a first-time author of her debut children’s book, PRINCESS PEPONI AND A SPOONFUL OF MOON. Tangi is drawn to fantasy, sci-fi and YA, and would love to illustrate books ranging from preschool to middle school and cover art.
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Gabriela Lanza
Gabriela is a writer of YA and adult fantasy. She holds a BA from Wellesley College and an MBA from MIT, and lives in Maine with her wife and pair of mischievous cats. Her story, THE DRAGON POST, stole my heart and had my pulse racing. If any editors are looking for a cozy fantasy with higher stakes about postal workers who deliver mail on the backs of dragons, let me know!
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Jude Lee Baet
Jude Lee Baet (pronounced buy-eht) is a Filipino-American author of emotional YA contemporary stories. She is currently based in the US but was globally raised, and grew up living in various countries like Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom. When she's not busy tormenting her characters and breaking her readers' hearts, Jude enjoys listening to BTS, watching kdramas, and drinking boba. Her novel, TRUTH WITHOUT THE DARE, expertly portrays an emotional story centered on mental health and the human experience that will have you sobbing late at night as you finally reach the end.
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Helen Dong
Helen Z. Dong is a Chinese-American author, game writer, and technical program manager. She has a particular love for dark, haunting, atmospheric settings with a light touch of magic. When not writing, she can be found playing video games or watching cartoons with her cat. Her novel, SYMPHONY OF A HAUNTING, is a gorgeous gothic fantasy filled with twists and turns and something that models PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
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Justin Lewis
Justin Lewis is an artist and author based in Columbus, GA. His love of comics came from his childhood obsession with superheroes. In his youth, he spent countless hours designing heroes, villains, and monsters to inhabit the world of his imagination. He has a deep love of all things spooky, which led him to combine his two passions into stories about the weird and supernatural. Justin studied art at Columbus State University and has years of self-taught experience. His horror graphic novel, SOMNIUM, is an terrifying story about one queer boy's journey into acceptance while battling actual demons and his religious hometown.
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Libby Edwardson
Libby Edwardson is an author and artist who has called a lot of places home. She has been a cabaret singer in Dublin, a dog walker in NYC, and driven a bookmobile through the hills and hollers of eastern Kentucky. Now she lives on the coast of Maine, where she paints ghosts, writes about monsters, and wanders seaside cemeteries.
Libby studied theater at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland, and earned a B.A. in English from the University of Maine at Presque Isle. Libby has also appeared on Good Morning America as co-founder of a volunteer group for Appalachian youth called "52 Weeks of Giving." Libby's adult debut novel is a horror story about greed, grief, and growing up and is set in the Appalachian Mountains. |
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Sunny Sponder
Sunny Sponder is a writer-illustrator by day, gamer by night, and hypochondriac 24/7. A Cannes Young Lion-award winning creative director turned comics artist, he has received critical acclaim for his dance moves by his mom.
He found his artistic voice watching Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and the manic enthusiasm of tween actors in Go-Gurt commercials. Though he colors like an episode of Rugrats or Adventure Time, he writes stories that live in the darker corner of fantasy, exploring characters who suffer from chronic anxiety, psychological puppeteering, and a conflicted sense of belonging—but always with a cereal spoonful of whimsy to help readers escape their everyday to a place with just enough magic. When he’s not doodling at home in Downtown Brooklyn, New York, you can catch him in a train or plane pretending to write important thoughts in his red pocket Moleskine, usually en route to another comic con where he gives talks on identity design for independent artists and sells tchotchkes you can pin on your jean jacket. |
