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NYPL’s 100 Great Children’s Books | 100 Years list
In celebration of their exhibit The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter, the New York Public Library has released a list of 100 great children’s books from the last 100 years. I’m pretty happy to...
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5 Books for Hispanic Heritage Month and a little Colbert
Colbert is “celebrating his Latino hermanos and hismanos even more than usual because it is Hispanic Heritage Month!” All joking aside, want to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month in a way that involves...
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Once Upon a Time season 3–spoilers ahoy
I’m sitting at home, waiting for the dizziness to stop (stupid sinuses, stupid vertigo) and thinking about last week’s and night’s episodes of Once Upon a Time. Ever since Mulan showed up at the...
View ArticleCall for Papers: Authenticity, Artifacts, and Publishing Patterns in...
Sharing on this Call for Papers that was just brought to my attention. I know several people who might be interested in this (I’d love to myself, but I don’t have time to write a paper). Call for...
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Fantastic yet realistic Columbus Day reading
Columbus Day is a complicated holiday—after all, we really shouldn’t be honoring a man who introduced the slave trade to the Americas for “discovering” the New World. His legacy includes the decimation...
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Tu Books fall Friends & Family sale: a reader’s guide
If you haven’t noticed me talking about it EVERYWHERE, this week is Tu Books’ Friends & Family sale! We’re offering some pretty amazing discounts on our books—in particular, Cat Girl’s Day Off by...
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Another review roundup
The Horn Book Guide reviews have come out for several of Tu’s recent books. Thought I’d share a couple of the highlights. Review of Awakening by Karen Sandler “The innovative premise, detailed...
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#diversityinSFF is not superficial
Over the weekend, a discussion of diversity in SFF magazines has been brewing in SFF circles. I don’t read many SFF magazines, so I hadn’t been aware of the discussions until Janni Lee Simner pointed...
View Article#WeNeedDiverseBooks kicks off today!!
I’m sure you’ve seen me talking about this EVERYWHERE else, but I’m posting this here too just to be sure. If you don’t know what #WeNeedDiverseBooks is, check out the original post on Tumblr. Then...
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Where I’ve been lately
As you can tell, I haven’t really blogged much in the past couple of years. I even forget to blog when I have a new book, though I’m sharing that news *everywhere* else. This blog isn’t quite dead, but...
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Submit your manuscript to the New Visions Award
In case you missed it, I’m open again for submissions to the New Visions Award. Details can be found on this blog post. This is the first year we’re taking only electronic submissions. You can submit...
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Where do I even start?
I often discuss diverse books with people, especially white people, who need the “101”—parents and other people who love children who want to give them good diverse books but don’t know where to start....
View ArticleAh, vacation
Ah, vacation time, when I can at last have time to pause and read my submissions and prepare my presentations! No, really, I’m going home to farm country later this week, and I’m going to be out of...
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