Welcome to KidLit Cares, an online talent auction to benefit the Red Cross relief effort to help communities recover from Hurricane Harvey and related flooding. Agents, editors, authors, and illustrators have donated various services to be auctioned off to the highest bidder, with donations being made directly to the Red Cross disaster relief fund. You can read more about KidLit Cares here. Now, on to the auction!

Editor Bess Cozby of Tor Teen has donated a manuscript critique for a YA writer. The winner of this auction will receive a critique of their query and the first 50 pages of their manuscript in the form of in-line notes and a short editorial letter.Opening bid: $50
Auction ends:Thursday, September 7, 2017 at 9pm EST.
Any bids submitted in comments after that time will be void. (Please note: bidding at the last second isn’t a good idea. Websites get overloaded & there’s always a chance that your bid might not post on time. So please bid your best offer with plenty of time to spare.)
If you’d like to bid on this auction, check the current high bid and place a higher bid by leaving your name and bid amount in the comments, along with some way to contact you (email, FB or Twitter…I’m not fussy.) Winners will be notified when the auction ends and should be prepared to make an online donation to the Red Cross Hurricane Harvey Disaster Relief fund in the amount of the high bid at that time. After you’ve made your donation, you’ll forward your receipt to me, and I’ll put you in touch with the person who donated the service you won so that the two of you can work out the details about how and when. All services will be provided at the convenience of both the person making the donation and the auction winner, but this should happen within three months of the auction’s end unless something else is agreed upon by both parties.
Good luck, and thanks for bidding!





You like modern but your partner prefers a cottage-style Tiny House. Both of you can get what you want with this original Lego Tiny House designed by author and translator Lyn Miller-Lachmann. This adorable house on wheels features large windows and a sleeping loft for your minifigures. This Lego Tiny House has appeared in displays at several BrickFestLive! events in the New York metropolitan area. Along with the house, the winner of the auction will receive a custom minifigure from Lyn’s giant Lego town, Little Brick Township:
Aisha Saeed, Anna-Marie McLemore, and Emery Lord, three YA authors, are offering a joint critique for 3 chapters (or up to 40 page) of a manuscript. Can be any YA genre, though they personally write contemporary and magical realism, respectively. The authors say of this critique: “The first three chapters are vital for hooking agents, editors AND readers- we’d love to help you fine-tune those pages to perfection. We’ll each provide feedback and interact with one another’s comments via Track Changes. So, you’ll see our individual POVs as well as us piggy-backing off of one another’s ideas.”
Native of San Antonio Texas and literary agent Stefanie Sanchez Von Borstel at Full Circle Literary will donate a written critique of your 1-page query letter and manuscript (picture book full manuscript or 20 pages of mg/ya) to the highest bidder of the auction. In addition, Stefanie will offer a 15-minute phone call to discuss the critique and answer your publishing questions.
Caryn Lix, author of the upcoming young adult sci fi book Sanctuary, is offering a full manuscript critique of MG or YA works. Critique will include chapter comments and a full editorial letter as well as a query critique.
Susan Hood
Anne Marie Pace and her agent Linda Pratt of the Wernick and Pratt Agency are offering a tag-team critique of a picture book manuscript. The winner will send Anne Marie a picture book manuscript within 30 days of the end of the auction. Anne Marie will provide an in-depth critique. After she has returned the manuscript and critique to its author, the author has 30 days to revise the manuscript, at which time the manuscript can be submitted to agent Linda Pratt, who will review the manuscript and send a personal response. (Wernick and Pratt generally has a no-response policy.) Please note that this critique is offered for a picture book manuscript only, not illustrations or dummy.
Author Amy Guglielmo (Touch the Art series) and editor Stephanie Pitts of Putnam Children’s are teaming up for a picture book manuscript critique for an aspiring picture book author! Amy Guglielmo will provide a manuscript critique and Stephanie Pitts will provide a short editorial letter. The winner of this auction will also receive a 15-minute telephone conversation with Amy and Stephanie to discuss the critique.
Author Jacqueline Davies is offering a 30-minute Skype visit and a complete hardcover set—signed and personalized—of all five books in the Lemonade War series. Please note—although Jacqueline visits dozens of schools each year in person, she does not usually do Skype visits—so this is truly an experience you can’t get anywhere else! Jacqueline is the author of the bestselling Lemonade War series. Her two most recent books are NOTHING BUT TROUBLE and PANDA PANTS. She lives in a small town in Massachusetts west of Boston, and always longs to be closer to the sea.