Historical Fiction Defines a Year’s End: December 2020 Celebrity Book Club Picks
Some of the year’s hottest books are being read by the most active celebrity-led book clubs. See if you’re interested in any of the …
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How Moments of Racial Tension Are Shaping YA Literature
Six well-known Black female authors with best-selling credentials came together to announce their joint project of a young adult novel surrounding the 2003 New …
Teen Magazine Posts Tweet Tagging Wrong Black YA Author
A magazine for teen girls mistakenly confused two Black young adult authors in a tweet that took six hours to come down. Middle grade …
After Creating #PublishingPaidMe, LL McKinney Hosts Juneteenth Book Fest
L.L. McKinney, the author behind A Blade So Black, A Dream So Dark, and the upcoming third novel in the series A Crown So …
#PublishingPaidMe Reveals Pay Discrepancies Between Black and White Writers
Going into the third week of protests over the police killing of George Floyd, book Twitter went down another road in revealing the racial …
Author Dhonielle Clayton Says Students Called Her a Racial Slur on Zoom
The Belles author and We Need Diverse Books chief operating officer Dhonielle Clayton says she was called the n-word several times during a Zoom …
YallStayHome’s Writing Empathy
Sponsored by Fierce Reads GIVEAWAY: 15 Finished Copies of A Breath Too Late by Rocky Callen Authors discuss the process of writing inclusively, empathetically, …
Women Authors Attack Sarah Dessen Critic in Social Media Uproar
This past week, young adult author Sarah Dessen tweeted a quote from a college article by a woman who campaigned against her books in …
Book Review: ‘The Belles’ by Dhonielle Clayton
The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton My rating: 3 of 5 stars “The Belles” by Dhonielle Clayton revolves around a fantasy world built on beauty …
