#WeNeedDiverseBooks Incorporates, Is in for the Long Haul
A celebration and some suggestions for the #WeNeedDiverseBooks movement, which just incorporated as a nonprofit organization to continue the campaign.
A celebration and some suggestions for the #WeNeedDiverseBooks movement, which just incorporated as a nonprofit organization to continue the campaign.
Building on Grace Lin's "Cheat Sheet for Selling Diversity," I offer alternative ways of presenting small press and less heralded diverse titles.
A report on the #WeNeedDiverseBooks panel and the multicultural small press panel at the 2014 BookCon in New York City.
Author and teacher Jane Kurtz talks about her work in Ethiopia, her new novel Anna Was Here, and the relationship between writing and teaching.
Profile of a new literary agency, Quill Shift, that seeks to bring writers of color into traditional publishing and prove their market viability.
At a middle grade authors' panel with Caroline Carlson and Catherine Gilbert Murdock at the Big Blue Marble Bookstore we gave advice to a 9-year-old writer.
As part of the World Tour Blog, I talk about my work-in-progress, my world music radio program, and some notable books I read recently.