Amitha Jagannath Knight

💔 "He designed and led literacy programs...tutored hundreds of fellow prisoners working toward high school diplomas. He became the first person in the 150-year history of the facility to earn a master’s degree, completing his coursework by correspondence with a 4.0 GPA."

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Illustration of a put out looking black cat wearing an elaborate black and red Dracula-esque cape

local Lord of Darkness just honestly not really feeling it this year

#cats #kidlitart #art

I don't see your images either

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Yes. I keep telling myself to preserve my joy of writing and reading because it is an act of resistance. Sometimes I feel like that's an excuse to live in the bliss of ignorance, but my health is important. (And so is yours!)

MIT course 7 alum. Despite having MIT alum family members and in laws, I have not donated to MIT in a long time for various reasons but esp after their treatment of student protestors, but I might reconsider at this moment when we need them to continue to stand up to this admin's war on science.

I said I was going to do fewer news reactions on here for my mental health so I'm undoing a bunch of reposts! Trying to do a lot less doomscrolling

Hang in there illustrators, I see you fighting that good fight.

Did they end up refiling? I hope not

Anyone know what happened with this?

One of the many reasons I love The Lord of the Rings is because it’s a story about living in the ruins of a world that is already passing away, and still choosing to fight in hope for those who come after you.

Dolly Parton: I ain't dead yet! PBS reply posts: Same, Dolly, same.

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For audio the book helps if there are too many character names and for the book sometimes the acted out version captures me more than the just reading the prose. Also I can listen to a book while doing laundry or dishes.

My new thing is I really love listening to both the audio and physical copy of a book at the same time. I try to get them both from the library but sometimes I will buy one or the other if I can't. It helps for when I can't focus on one format for whatever reasons.

No Sherman!!!

Yeah he thinks it’s a game lol

New York’s largest ICE detention camp is blocking book deliveries. ICE is depraved, and every day they seem to find new ways to lash out. Their incompetence—from out-of-shape squadristi getting embarrassed in Chicago to the poorly written snivelings of racist penc…

New York’s largest ICE detention camp is blocking book deliveries. lithub.com/new-yorks-la...

The “Bush being informed about 9/11” meme has been defeated.

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

gouache landscape painting of rain clouds, lights and trees

dark

Both Marvel and DC higher ups saying this plainly this week is pretty good to see

did you save though or did it crash when you did

I would love to think the notoriety of a book being pulled because of Trump would only help demand but ask any author and they'll tell you that being "banned" doesn't help your sales.

Authors are under attack, publishers are under attack, the first amendment is under attack. Yes I understand, this is a foreign publisher but it just makes me worry that any kind of book criticizing Trump is soon to be withdrawn from publication.

Thinking about this all day especially with regards to it being #BannedBooks week in the US.

USA Today: 'We took the freedom of speech away:' Trump on flag burning protection, First Amendment

Reuters: Trump's war on the left: inside the plan to investigate liberal groups

Yesterday: Trump bragged, "We took the freedom of speech away."

Today: New reporting on Trump's plans to go after opposition groups.

In 9 days: We mount the largest peaceful protest in modern history to say, loud and clear, that America has no king.

nokings.org

Graphic that features a cartoon rock with googly eyes sitting in the middle and staring blankly ahead. Text reads: "It's rough out there. Maybe you need a book about an adorable rock. I Rock: A Geology Tale is a critically acclaimed silly, thorough, clever jaunt through geology, written by science educator Katie Slivensky and illustrated by bestselling illustrator Steph Stilwell. Now available anywhere books are sold!" Graphic shows the cover of the picture book in the bottom right corner. It features the same rock, but smiling, sitting on a cross section of the ground.

Is this how we market books right now? Maybe?

Anyway, a reminder that our adorable geology picture book is out now and is "a must-purchase for nonfiction collections", according to a *starred* review by School Library Journal.

Link: www.simonandschuster.com/books/I-Rock...

#KidLit
#EduSky
#STEMEd

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