They are going to get these babies killed
Site's been down for a couple of days due to a maintenance snafu but it's back up and we're about 50% of the way to the awards funding goal!
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Committing full time to the author life looks more like Rent than Industry. It’s more like an actor’s life than a tech bro. But it’s not all doom & gloom. Some people have cracked the code on making money & in unexpected ways. #writing
Is Book Life the Broke Life?
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Kiddos. High school aged. We were brainstorming at our last meeting about ways to encourage and celebrate student readers.
The school Book Club wants a an Iced COFFEE social instead of an Ice Cream Social. Anyone have a lead on community relations at #dunkindoughnuts ? #booksky #coffeesky #corporatesky
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I get almost as many comments about how ugly or fat I am on my workout posts as I did on my posts before I started lifting. I’m not asking for sympathy. I just want to remind Black women that the point isn’t if we are pretty or skinny or not. The point is they want us to not exist.🙄
I, MEDUSA is on sale #booksky #blackbooksky
If you're boycotting Amazon, I support you!
If not, get it here for $1.99
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If you'd like to get it from a Black and Woman Owned indie shop, get it here ALSO for just $1.99 with the @bookshop app
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Applications are open for penguin random house internships. They close on the 16th.
It’s remote! #blackbooksky
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"If your vision of liberation for people of color doesn’t include disabled people of color, it’s an incomplete vision." #booksky #blackbooksky
Technically, yes but practically that would never happen.
Distribution through the publisher.
You know they will and the line would get murkier and murkier on what is considered "explicit" or objectionable.
I see where you're going, but it makes it hard to hold your personal Congressman accountable and corporations could just buy anyone off. Unless we had a ban on lobbying I don't think it would help much.
Thank you so much for supporting us! We're funded. If you'd still like to help, we have an Amazon list for March to support our "Manga Madness" and other giveaways for readers. #readacrossamerica
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Haven't authored a bill in a decade, but sit and chat and collect a check.
A little quiz.
Or well meaning, but didn't have the negotiation skills or connections to make things happen.
Absolutely.
Agreed.
My Congressman is 80. Retirement age is 65. Now I'm not saying we don't need older people in Congress because they need representation too, but just sitting and taking up space? No.
I'm still trying to get funds to raffle off a #kindle for my kiddos who won the reading challenge earlier this month. We need $198. Please share!
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NEW: ALA strongly denounces new federal book banning legislation introduced in Congress, HR 7661.
As ALA President Sam Helmick said, "Parents, not politicians, should guide their children's reading." Call your Rep and tell them to oppose this new bill.
More from ALA: www.ala.org/news/2026/02...
I get really irritated with Congressmen who just sit and vote with the party line. We need term limits, because I need ACTION behind some of these bills.
🚨NATIONWIDE BOOK BAN ALERT
Whenever the administration takes a loss (like in the supreme court for tariffs) they go for low hanging fruit and book banning is a favorite.
Call and Email your Congressman to keep their hands off school and library funding.
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I’m making my way through! Started yesterday
What are we reading this week #booksky
I like to celebrate the Ides of March on March 15 in our school library. Got any ideas of ways that we could celebrate this year? #shakespeare #tlsky
"Wyoming legislators have on their docket this session a bill that would effectively dismantle YA sections in public libraries. It follows the same patterns seen in South Carolina."
Y'all focus too much on the presidency & let local elections go to pot.
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How is it that in 2026, the Black church, which has a history of fighting for equality and social justice since enslavement to Civil Rights, now calling for Black people to denounce their Blackness in favor of their Christian-ness (as if the two could be separated)?
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