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

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...

✨💜✨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...

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

✨💜✨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...

✨💜✨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!

✨💜✨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...

✨💜✨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.

@laekanzeakemp.bsky.social Congrats! Your book An Appetite for Miracles has been selected as a 2025-26 Oregon Battle of the Books high school title. OBOB has over 30K participants annually, with 750 schools fielding 8,000 teams of students. We're excited to share your book with Oregon readers!

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

Interested media should RSVP to media @ ufw . org. Ahead of his press availability, George Retes issues the following statement:

Just me reacting: Woot! Congrats on getting the paperback AND doing those edits 👏👏 Also, not a blog post but #blogpostshare lol

✨💜✨NEW EPISODE✨💜✨ Publishing is Not a Meritocracy w/Alex Villasante Alex talks publishing her sophomore novel 6 years after her 1st, we discuss the Luke Bateman controversy & I celebrate my 5-year anniversary of being a full-time author by going back to teaching open.spotify.com/episode/7xfE...

✨💜✨NEW EPISODE✨💜✨ Publishing is Not a Meritocracy w/Alex Villasante Alex talks publishing her sophomore novel 6 years after her 1st, we discuss the Luke Bateman controversy & I celebrate my 5-year anniversary of being a full-time author by going back to teaching open.spotify.com/episode/7xfE...

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Trump’s number one gal, revealing MAGA’s real goal: Latino genocide.

Can you press charges against a reality TV show?

Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.

✨ATTENTION AUTHORS✨ I am humbly asking for your help! You'll hear more about this on the next ep. of The Paper Trail podcast but I'll be returning to the classroom this fall after 5 years of being a full-time author. This means I'll be rebuilding my classroom LIBRARY from scratch! 📚

✨ATTENTION AUTHORS✨ I am humbly asking for your help! You'll hear more about this on the next ep. of The Paper Trail podcast but I'll be returning to the classroom this fall after 5 years of being a full-time author. This means I'll be rebuilding my classroom LIBRARY from scratch! 📚

The speed with which the country is disassembling! I keep wondering how the regime thinks the US will function without Black and brown people, in a white fantasia. The people left won’t be able to feed themselves, heal themselves, build their homes, or flavor their food. What a choice!

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

😜⬇️✨ In case you missed it!

The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.

😜⬇️✨ In case you missed it!

✨💜✨NEW EPISODE✨💜✨ Publishing is a Mountain Range: The one where we talk to authors @jgv.bsky.social & @aaronhaceves.bsky.social about strategies to pitch & sell our next projects, career planning years into the future & a fundraiser for the Queer Liberation Network open.spotify.com/episode/0b4K...

✨💜✨NEW EPISODE✨💜✨ Publishing is a Mountain Range: The one where we talk to authors @jgv.bsky.social & @aaronhaceves.bsky.social about strategies to pitch & sell our next projects, career planning years into the future & a fundraiser for the Queer Liberation Network open.spotify.com/episode/0b4K...

If you have any relationship to TX-- you're from there, you have family there, you know people there-- now's the time to get on the ringer and rally against this truly disastrous bill. It's a death wish for school libraries statewide.

Update: this session’s school library book ban bill- SB 13 - has been added to the calendar for Monday. 😩 Keep calling your reps to urge them to run out the clock on this horrible bill. If this passes, we will not be able to undo the harm done to TX public school libraries.

This was inevitable. Grotesque.

Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"

If you don’t do anything else today, do this. Dr. Carla Hayden has impeccable credentials and has revitalized the Library of Congress. Trump does not have the authority to dismiss her, but Congress must intervene.

Fun fact: Under the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. sec. 407, two copies of every copyrighted book must go to the Library of Congress. So she was dismissed because of the Copyright Act and the fact that not every book is appropriate for children. Got it, Klaus Barbie.

It took decades for us to reach a place where people were comfortable talking about their autism. Where diagnosis became achievable because awareness & advocacy efforts were successful This move will undo all of that. People will fear being diagnosed & mask themselves more The cruelty is the point

They’re lashing out against Habeas and arresting Mayors because they know their position is weak and getting weaker, and they’re panicking. It’s scary to live through, but it’s less scary when you remember this isn’t coming from a position of strength, it’s sweaty desperation.

An absolute disgrace and yet another targeted attack on books & libraries. Not to mention very targeted due to the fact that Dr. Carla Hayden is a Black woman and the first to be the Librarian of Congress…something that a fascist & racist admin cannot fathom

The arrest of Mayor Baraka is an escalation from ICE. New Jersey passed a state law prohibiting immigration detention centers. Despite the will of the voters, ICE has tried every avenue to expand detention in the state.

✨NEW EPISODE✨ Episode 19 is also our first crossover episode featuring the fabulous hosts of Of the Publishing Persuasion! We chat about Meta stealing our books, how this administration is adversely affecting the publishing industry & embracing the creative pivot. open.spotify.com/episode/6EmA...

📢 If you’re able to get to Newark: Protest outside Department of Homeland Security office! 📢 620 Frelinghuysen Ave. Newark, NJ 07114 Organizations and community members on the ground are asking for support and for all of us to stand with them now.

✨NEW EPISODE✨ Episode 19 is also our first crossover episode featuring the fabulous hosts of Of the Publishing Persuasion! We chat about Meta stealing our books, how this administration is adversely affecting the publishing industry & embracing the creative pivot. open.spotify.com/episode/6EmA...

Chair Comer denied our request for an official trip to El Salvador to advocate for due process and the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Pretty shameful. Good thing I don’t need Comer’s permission to get on a plane.