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A #homophobe #rebuked an #author for including #LGBTQ #content in her #book and sparked the best #clapback to #bigotry you’ll see anytime soon

The #author of #TheFamilyUpstairs, and 21 other novels, #LisaJewell wasted no time in #crafting the #perfect #response.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture #Megathread

https://www.thepoke.com/2024/10/01/homophobe-rebukes-author-for-lgbtq-content-sparks-best-clapback-to-bigotry/

A homophobe rebuked an author for including LGBTQ content in her book and sparked the best clapback to bigotry you’ll see anytime soon

It would be a weird old world if we all thought the same way or enjoyed the same things, so it’s understandable that some people might begin reading a book and decide it’s not for them. What isn’t so understandable is when someone is enjoying a book, only to discard it when they realise it’s […]

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Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Oct 1, 2024

An #excerpt to #TheDemon by #VictoryWitherkeigh.

Face your #innerdemons with Victory Witherkeigh’s thrilling #YA Novel about a #demon who #possesses a #teen #girl and faces her #toughest #challenge yet.

https://booksbywomen.org/the-demon-by-victory-witherkeigh-excerpt/

THE DEMON by Victory Witherkeigh, Excerpt - Women Writers, Women's Books

Face your inner demons with Victory Witherkeigh’s thrilling YA about a demon who possesses a teen girl and faces her toughest challenge yet: freshman year of college. The Demon (Oct 1, 2024) follows a girl possessed by a demon who is abandoned by her master and punished with a mortal life. Continuing the threads of […]

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Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Oct 1, 2024

The #NationalBookFoundation has announced the #Finalists for the #2024 #NationalBookAward for #YoungPeoplesLiterature

#VioletDuncan for #BuffaloDreamer (#Penguin/#Paulsen); #JoshGalarza for #TheGreatCoolRanchDoritointheSky (#Holt); #ErinEntradaKelly for #TheFirstStateofBeing (#Greenwillow); #ShifaSaltagiSafadi for #KareemBetween (#Putnam); and #AngelaShanté for #TheUnboxingofaBlackGirl (#PageStreet).

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/96066-finalists-for-2024-nba-in-young-people-s-literature-announced.html

Finalists for 2024 NBA for Young People's Literature Announced

The National Book Foundation has revealed the five finalists for the 2024 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

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Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Oct 1, 2024

The Best #Books Coming Out in #October

In any case, we are firmly in the #Season of the #Reader—a time when we can wear all the #cardigans, #drink all the #squash-flavored #lattes, and read all the #darkacademia/#spooky/#witchy #books we can. In other words, we are in our #cozyera, and I truly love that for us.

https://bookriot.com/the-best-books-coming-out-in-october/

The Best Books coming Out in October

Here are some of the best new books out this month, what they are about, and why you should add them to your TBR!

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Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Oct 1, 2024

#MyWritingProcess by #SusanPlunket

This summer at #Oxford I learned about other things #writers are supposed to be aware of. Things like the #fictivedream, #authorialvoice, #character is #plot, #fabula and #syuzhet, #psychicdistance, #filtering, and #editing in #layers.

https://booksbywomen.org/my-writing-process-by-susan-plunket/

My Writing Process by Susan Plunket - Women Writers, Women's Books

     Until this summer what I knew about writing I learned mostly from a lifetime of reading – Jane Austen, Stefan Zweig, Virginia Woolf, others. I love stories. My process was to sit most mornings before work and write, without censoring, until I had a first draft. Then, using intuition, hard thinking, and listening for the […]

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Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Oct 1, 2024

#Explore the #Darkest #Corners of the #Internet to #Understand #Real-#World #PoliticalViolence: Read an #Excerpt of #BlackPill by #ElleReeve

If you’ve been struggling to understand how we arrived here, with an #insurrection in our recent past and #politicalviolence becoming almost #commonplace, take an eye-opening journey with an award-winning #journalist who has breached the #digital and #reallife #spaces where #hate and #conspiracy coalesce.

https://bookriot.com/black-pill-by-elle-reeve-excerpt/

Explore the Darkest Corners of the Internet to Understand Real-World Political Violence: Read an Excerpt of BLACK PILL by Elle Reeve

In Elle Reeve's BLACK PILL, we meet a woman who championed a misogynistic white supremacist movement and revealed its chilling secrets.

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Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Oct 1, 2024

The #RealLife #Making of a #Fictional #Psychologist.

#Psychotherapy is ultimately about #helping #people shape their lives into cohesive #narratives; I was listening to people’s #stories instead of #writing them myself. And in some instances I was #helping people #change their #lives for the #better, which is an #addictive kind of #joy.

https://booksbywomen.org/the-real-life-making-of-a-fictional-psychologist/

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