So honored and grateful that DREAMS BIGGER THAN HEARTBREAK won the Locus Award for best YA novel.
Like I said in my speech, this turned into a book about facing up to mind-blowing horror and trying to keep creating something beautiful. I'm in awe of anyone who's doing that right now 💘
Please note that when the US employ armed thugs, they're "contractors", while they are described as "mercenaries" when anyone else does it.
This was yr vocab lesson for today.
"I feel the need to explain something to the generation that does not remember, or never saw, a world where one person with a high school education could support a family of 5 comfortably.
"This was real. For millions of US families. It was *normal.*
"It was stolen from you."
"With Meta joining the Fediverse, instance administrators will need to abide by Meta's content policies, or risk being defederated"
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