Laekan Zea Kemp

Families on SNAP worry about not just feeding themselves but also their pets 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.

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.

Episode 25: Nothing is Selling (or What Happened to the Tastemakers?)

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!

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Episode 25: Nothing is Selling (or What Happened to the Tastemakers?)

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🚨⏰️

Spanish Classroom Library for English Language Learners!, a project from Ms. Kemp Help me give my students a Spanish language classroom library to support their native language literacy skills while they begin the process of learning English. I'm returning to the ESL (Englis...

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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...

Spanish Classroom Library for English Language Learners!, a project from Ms. Kemp Help me give my students a Spanish language classroom library to support their native language literacy skills while they begin the process of learning English. I'm returning to the ESL (Englis...

📚✨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...

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

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

AABB Author Sign-Up Form Hello! We're Authors Against Book Bans, a group of authors who’ve come together to protect and promote the freedom to read on both the national and local levels. We’re creating a network of authors to...

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...

Meet the New Host of Reading Rainbow: Mychal the Librarian After 20 years, Reading Rainbow is back! The new host is Mychal the Librarian, who has been spreading library joy online for years.

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

Paper Trail Books Podcast · Updated Monthly · A monthly writing and publishing podcast featuring a rotating roundtable of children's book authors.

✨💜✨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...

Paper Trail Books Podcast · Updated Monthly · A monthly writing and publishing podcast featuring a rotating roundtable of children's book authors.

✨💜✨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!

Episode 22: What Ever Happened to So-and-So? Or Publishing is a Game of Survivor​ (A Kidlit Happy Hour Crossover Episode) with Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard Paper Trail · Episode

✨💜✨NEW EPISODE✨💜✨

What Ever Happened to So-and-So? Or Publishing is a Game of Survivor (a Kid Lit Happy Hour Crossover Episode) with @joannahowrites.bsky.social & @carolinepritchh.bsky.social

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5CbM...

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Episode 22: What Ever Happened to So-and-So? Or Publishing is a Game of Survivor​ (A Kidlit Happy Hour Crossover Episode) with Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard Paper Trail · Episode

✨💜✨NEW EPISODE✨💜✨

What Ever Happened to So-and-So? Or Publishing is a Game of Survivor (a Kid Lit Happy Hour Crossover Episode) with @joannahowrites.bsky.social & @carolinepritchh.bsky.social

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5CbM...

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Do you want to know who DOESN’T receive Medicaid in the US?

Anyone who is here without documentation

Do you wanna know who DOES receive Medicaid and is subsequently on that list?

US citizens — who ICE is 100% preparing to target next

Massachusetts! Freedom to Read legislation is in the legislature & there is a hearing next week! Info you need to submit written testimony here: malegislature.gov/Events/Heari...
You can also sign up to get updates from Mass Freedom to Read here: instagram.us12.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

Friends! Right to Read legislation is live in Mass right now and you can help make it law! See the post below for info on how to submit testimony for the hearing next week.

Thank you so much!