🎙💜✨ Ep. 27 just dropped: The Dreaded Demotion & the Power of Not Yet in which we learn new & disappointing things about the publishing industry, discuss how our writing routines have changed over time & adopt the mindset of "not yet."
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
🎙💜✨ Ep. 27 just dropped: The Dreaded Demotion & the Power of Not Yet in which we learn new & disappointing things about the publishing industry, discuss how our writing routines have changed over time & adopt the mindset of "not yet."
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
🎙💜✨ We're back for season 3 of The Paper Trail!
Ep. 26: Creative Resets (& Say Hello to Your Season 3 Round Table!)
The one where we reflect on a difficult 2025, discuss our hopes & goals for the year ahead & commit to fighting for our creative joy.
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
🎙💜✨ We're back for season 3 of The Paper Trail!
Ep. 26: Creative Resets (& Say Hello to Your Season 3 Round Table!)
The one where we reflect on a difficult 2025, discuss our hopes & goals for the year ahead & commit to fighting for our creative joy.
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Folks in MA, the number for the LUCE ICE Watch hotline is
☎️ 617-370-5023
5am-9pm, multiple languages. More info: www.lucemass.org
Maine Immigrants Rights coalition needs multilingual telephone operators & people with reliable transportation for verification. They are holding trainings for both positions.
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
Season finale just dropped!
The one where we discuss publishers forfeiting their role as creators of culture, brainstorm ways to successfully promote a book these days & celebrate @authorhien.bsky.social debut novel Twin Tides!
open.spotify.com/episode/2ob2...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Season finale just dropped!
The one where we discuss publishers forfeiting their role as creators of culture, brainstorm ways to successfully promote a book these days & celebrate @authorhien.bsky.social debut novel Twin Tides!
open.spotify.com/episode/2ob2...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
Every little bit helps. Thank you so much!
I have a book due Mon & here is how I get myself to write for long stretches on deadline
1. Turn on HGTV
2. Watch the first 10 min of the ep. so I can see the fugly house they're going to renovate
3. Press mute & do a 20-min sprint
4. Watch the last 10 min of the ep. to see the results
5. Repeat
⏰️🚨6 HOURS LEFT🚨⏰️
📚✨Please share✨📚
For the next 10 hours donations to my classroom library will be DOUBLED meaning I actually only need $141 in donations to be able to fully fund this project!
Not only that but today is actually the LAST DAY this project can be funded period.
www.donorschoose.org/project/span...
📚✨Please share✨📚
For the next 10 hours donations to my classroom library will be DOUBLED meaning I actually only need $141 in donations to be able to fully fund this project!
Not only that but today is actually the LAST DAY this project can be funded period.
www.donorschoose.org/project/span...
My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
Texting with another YA author friend this morning about the rough state of the market, and our consensus was, publishing keeps looking for the next Hunger Games, but they wouldn’t acquire the original if it were in their inboxes today
hey @theonion.com what's up with this unwarranted attack on me, personally 😭
✨💜✨NEW EPISODE✨💜✨
The one where we celebrate the release of The Silenced, discuss book banning efforts in Texas, and question whether the U.S. publishing industry can survive this dystopian hellscape.
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1ggW...
I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
It's banned books week and so I'm legally obligated to bully you, a person who has ever had their name on a book, into joining @authorsabb.bsky.social.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
We fight the source of book bans with calls to action, partnership w everyone in the game, and offer training.
$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.
$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.
✨💜✨NEW EPISODE✨💜✨
The one where we celebrate the release of The Silenced, discuss book banning efforts in Texas, and question whether the U.S. publishing industry can survive this dystopian hellscape.
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1ggW...
Here's some amazing news... READING RAINBOW is back and @mychal3ts.bsky.social is the new host!
Congrats, Mychal!
bookriot.com/new-host-of-...
If this week had you mad and taking action against censorship, might I recommend finding a way to join the fight against book bans?
Readers: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/
Authors: @authorsabb.bsky.social
✨💜✨NEW EPISODE✨💜✨
The one where we discuss the grief that comes with seeing behind the proverbial publishing curtain, using your day job as a way to stay hungry & how to be a publishing anti w/author Sami Ellis.
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4nk8...
✨💜✨NEW EPISODE✨💜✨
The one where we discuss the grief that comes with seeing behind the proverbial publishing curtain, using your day job as a way to stay hungry & how to be a publishing anti w/author Sami Ellis.
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4nk8...
Oh look. When you fight instead of capitulating, you can have your funding restored.
Democrats are averaging a +20 overperformance in 2025 elections. That is why the GOP is trying to restrict mail in voting, deny access, and gerrymander for favorable demographics.
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
