What a week! Not only is today, Jan.13, the official release date for the paperback edition of my novel, #RedClay, from @blackstonepub.bsky.social, I learned yesterday that it is also a nominee for the 2026 #NAACPImageAward in the Outstanding Literary Work-Debut Author category. I'm beyond grateful.

So glad to receive this honor for my novel, Red Clay, on Friday: crookscornerbookprize.com/crooks-corne... #historicalfiction #charlesbfancher #blackstonepublishing

Remarks by the great Dr. Carla Hayden, recently fired Librarian of Congress, at the American Library Assn conference in Philadelphia were inspiring. I was proud to be there signing my historical novel, @Red Clay, from @Blackstone Publishing. #ALAconference2025 #charlesbfancher #historicalfiction

I was thrilled to be one of 12 authors invited to be part of Literary Feast 2025 in Fort Lauderdale last weekend to benefit the Broward Public Library Foundation and grateful for the attention my novel, Red Clay @blackstonepub.bsky.social received.

For cryin' out loud! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

This is powerful: www.huffpost.com/entry/french...

This is telling: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/u...

As usual, she gets to the point

Another special column from Margaret Renkl, a calm(ing) voice in a world that desperately needs it.

A straightforward, insightful look at the state we are in, by The Atlantic's Adam Serwer: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This is just pathetic: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/22/l...

This comment cuts to center of it.

Surprise?

Having just experienced my own first publication day earlier this month with my novel, RED CLAY from @blackstonepub.bsky.social , I agree with @elongreen.bsky.social about the importance of library orders. They make a difference!

I enjoyed this interview about my new novel. If you missed it live, you can see it here on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPNy...

Yeah, man, she's the best.

I was thrilled to see this comment from a remarkable journalist about my new novel.

#BannedBookSkyClub Don't forget, March 2025's book is #ParableOfTheSower Schedule: Feb 2025: The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin March 2025: Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler April 2025: Banned Book Club, Kim Hyun Sook, et al. May 2025: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King #BookSky

Something to consider: thehill.com/opinion/camp...

☺️

Clear thinking on the issue of our times: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...

Elmo, Big Bird and the rest of the gang are weeping: www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

would make for a good book

We salute you, sir!

Calling the costs of running scientific research labs “administrative overhead” might fool the lab rats and guinea pigs. It won’t fool the people dying of cancer or heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues: - Develop new cancer treatments for kids - Are curing sickle cell disease - Build new tech to help premature babies survive - Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose - And more #NIH #MedSky #research #science

Sigh....

President Donald Trump’s threat to annex Canada is ‘a real thing,’ Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau tells business leaders

This graphic says it all.

This is important

This story from The Atlantic suggests grim potential consequences of what is happening in Washington: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Remarkable!

Enjoyed a terrific conversation last night about my new novel, RED CLAY from @blackstonepub.bsky.social , with @CynthiaTucker , Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-author of THE SOUTHERNIZATION OF AMERICA, on the “Author Hour in Massachusetts” www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2L4...

Worth considering

Rep. Jasmine Crockett is a serious person, not to be taken lightly

Words fail....

2.2 billion gallons of water flowed out of California reservoirs after President Trump’s order to open dams. But water experts say the water will not flow to Los Angeles, and that it's being wasted by being released during the wet winter season: cnn.it/3CyhEHy

You know, it just may be—I know it’s hard to believe, but please, hear me out—that our felonious president and premier digital rapist may be an gullible, easily manipulated dumbass.

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

IN CONJUNCTION WITH THIS NEWS: Acting Treasury Secretary, David A. Lebryk: “the highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department is departing after a clash with allies of billionaire Elon Musk over access to sensitive payment systems.” (Gift link here: wapo.st/4jH7XYa)

DEI exists to help right the historic wrong of unqualified white dudes always getting the gig.