Tuesday Debut

Tuesday Debut is a weekly feature designed to introduce authors, illustrators, and author/illustrators who are publishing their first picture book. It posts on Tuesday because that is the day most picture books release.

Tuesday Debut is a chance for newly published picture book authors, illustrators and author/illustrators to get some visibility, and a chance for us to learn from their journey to publication in the hopes that it may help us with ours.

Topics range from where their book idea came from, to how much revision they did, to research, to contracts and advances and print runs, to marketing and publicity efforts and lots of other things. Debut picture books can be fiction or nonfiction for any age of picture book reader.

While most of the debut books shared are traditionally published (because that is what most readers here are interested in pursuing) we do have some self-published books as well. There are also a few different types of debuts: a debut publishing house, a few debuts specifically for religious markets, one or two board books, a co-writing debut, and a hybrid publishing debut among others. Hopefully something for everyone to learn from and gain from!

Interested in being featured? Please ask! I’d love to help you spread the word about your first ever published picture book! You can contact me using the handy button on the menu bar above CONTACT or by emailing susanna[at]susannahill[dot]com.

All previous Tuesday Debuts are listed below for your convenience:

Tuesday Debut Round-Up 2/11/25: Debuts Listed by Specific Groups (Author/Illustrator Debut, Board Book Debut, Collaboration/Co-writing Debut, Fiction – Smaller Publishing Houses Debut, Foreign Publishing House Debut, Graphic Novel Debut, Hybrid Publishing Debut, Illustrated with Photographs Debut, Informational Fiction Debut, Nonfiction Debut, Picture Book Poem Debut, Picture Book Promotion Groups, Publishing House Debut, Religious Market Debut, Self-Assisted Publishing Debut, Self-Published Debut, Writer Service Debut)

Christy Mihaly – Hey! Hey! Hay! A Tale of Bales And The Machines That Make Them (informational picture book) (Holiday House)

Jessie Oliveros – The Remember Balloons (Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers)

Beth Anderson – An Inconvenient Alphabet: Ben Franklin And Noah Webster’s Spelling Revolution (nonfiction) (Paula Wiseman Books/Simon & Schuster)

Hannah Holt – The Diamond And The Boy (nonfiction) (Balzer+Bray)

Laura Renauld – Porcupine’s Pie (Beaming Books)

Annie Romano – Before You Sleep: A Bedtime Book Of Gratitude (Page Street Kids)

Melissa Stoller – Scarlet’s Magic Paintbrush (Clear Fork/Spork)

Sherry Howard – Rock And Roll Woods (Clear Fork/Spork)

Kate Narita – 100 Bugs! A Counting Book (informational fiction) (Farrar Straus Giroux, a Macmillan Imprint)

Vivian Kirkfield – Pippa’s Passover Plate (Holiday House)

Laura Roettiger – Aliana Reaches For The Moon (Eifrig Publishing)

Matthew Lasley – Pedro’s Pan: A Gold Rush Story (Historical Fiction) (Alaska Northwest Books, an imprint of Graphic Arts Books (now West Margin Press))

Natalee Creech – When Day Is Done (Beaming Books)

Margaret Chiu Greanias – Maximillian Villainous (Running Press Kids)

Wendy Greenley – Lola Shapes The Sky (Creative Editions)

Danielle Dufayet – You Are Your Strong (Magination Press)

B.J. Lee – There Was An Old Gator Who Swallowed A Moth (Pelican Publishing)

Cathy Ballou Mealey – When A Tree Grows (Sterling Children’s Books)

Pippa Chorley – Counting Sheep (Marshall Cavendish)

Sandra Sutter – The Real Farmer In The Dell (Clear Fork/Spork)

June Smalls – Odd Animals ABC (Blue Manatee Press)

Jill Mangel Weisfeld – Riley The Retriever Wants A New Job (self pub)

Kathleen Cornell Berman – The Birth Of Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound (nonfiction) (Page Street Kids)

Eleanor Ann Peterson – Jurassic Rat (nonfiction) (Clear Fork/Spork)