Are we finally getting some good disability representation in fiction? Certainly, the publishing industry seems to have belatedly recognised the need to get disabled writers through the door. After a successful social media campaign, Amazon has recently introduced a “disability fiction” section. The Society of Authors now has a dedicated peer network for disabled and […]
Donald Trump says he is writing a book – which will “depress” readers – about his lie that electoral fraud caused his defeat by Joe Biden in 2020. Speaking in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, Trump said: “This is the greatest hoax, heist. This is one of the greatest crimes in the history of our country. […]
Book bans are nothing new in the United States, but our guest this week says the current movement to restrict access to books about race and gender has a different flavor than bans in previous eras. Rather than coming from individual parents or from the ground up in a community, demands to ban dozens or […]
When Lauren Soloy’s publisher asked if she was interested in illustrating the first picture book adaptation of an iconic Newfoundland folk song, she didn’t hesitate to say: yes. At that point, Soloy knew the catchy song “I’s the B’y” and could instantly sing the first verse: “I’s the b’y that builds the boat and I’s […]
When he was still in school, Alex Vassar lost his driver’s license while traveling, and says that when asked to produce ID he only had a shopper’s club card. Sensing that wasn’t going to cut it, he offered that he also had a library card. Or two. Wait, four. Four library cards. “I’m like, Yeah, […]
Teenager Joslyn Diffenbaugh is growing up in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, a borough of just more than 5,000 southwest of Allentown, and she has a new hobby of late: reading banned books. At a time in which Republican state legislatures and school districts across the country have cracked down on a variety of books that deal with […]
A gran was left red-faced when she accidentally sent her granddaughter to school with an adults-only spoof of a childhood book. Sue Mackay, 60, innocently brought “Five Get Gran Online” for little Skyla-Rae Muttram thinking it was a Famous Five book to continue a family tradition of reading the books that her mum started years […]
As book banning in schools reached unprecedented heights in the United States, 14-year-old Joslyn Diffenbaugh was having none of it. “It’s really problematic, because books are the only way that you can be in another person’s shoes,” said Joslyn, a self-proclaimed “book nerd,” who lives in the small town of Kutztown, Pa., near Allentown. She […]
“Khayyami Theology”: Book 5 of the 12-Book Series “Omar Khayyam’s Secret” Published – Book Publishing Industry Today – EIN Presswire Trusted News Since 1995 A service for publishing professionals · Tuesday, May 10, 2022 · 571,854,933 Articles · 3+ Million Readers News Monitoring and Press Release Distribution Tools News Topics Newsletters Press Releases Events & […]
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