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Happy #BookLoversDay to all my fellow book buyers, lovers and readers. And everyone who's ever sat weeping over the pages of a book. You're a real one 📚💕🎈
In the mood to talk about books alllll day longggg today! 📚
A few fantastic 2018 releases I've enjoyed:

IF YOU LEAVE ME by @crystalhanak - heartbreaking, consuming, eye-opening
A PLACE FOR US by @fatimafmirza - moving, soul-shifting, beautiful prose
WHAT WE WERE PROMISED by @citizenofspace - compelling, sensitive, thoughtful
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As promised, here is a thread entitled “Confessions of a Clueless White-Lady Novelist.” #amwriting #mglit #kidlit
THE BOY FROM TOMORROW is a *very* white book, and I feel uneasy about this. But I didn’t make my characters white by default, and I want to talk about this today. I also want to tell you how I intend to write more diverse books from now on.
My two main characters are Josie and Alec. Josie is 12 years old in 1916; she is the daughter of a popular (and therefore affluent) Spiritualist medium. They live in a New York suburb.
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