Last Thursday was my official book launch party for Surviving Santiago at the Lower East Side bookstore Bluestockings, ranked one of the top destinations in the Not For Tourists Illustrated Guide to New York City.
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Reflections on the tragic explosion and fire in New York City’s East Village last week and what it means to be part of a community.
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A report on two events involving #WeNeedDiverseBooks, one focusing on young adult fiction, the other a picture book about a woman environmentalist in the Gambia
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In an essay for School Library Journal, Zetta Elliott makes a strong argument for self-publishing to achieve true diversity in children’s publishing.
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An appreciation of the public libraries that allowed me to read 128 books in the past two and a half months for the Cybils, and advice for ending your novel.
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