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Ah yes, hello, did you know Barnes & Noble is having a 25% off sale for preorders? It's true. And you could order mine & faith 🔜swordtember's THE WORST RONIN and no one would stop you!

Use code PREORDER25 while ordering to get the discount

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On the eve of the new season of Bridgerton, I stand by this even though I know it isn't happening

I am so excited for THE WORST RONIN to release on May 21st!

It's a YA graphic novel featuring girl samurai, monsters, cell phones, farts, revenge and friendshipppp

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Illustrated by the excellent faith 🔜swordtember!

I got to read an advance copy of maggie tokuda-hall (updates only) + faith 🔜swordtember's wonderful new graphic novel THE WORST RONIN. It is very beautiful and very funny and you should pre-order one right now. Also, THIS IS MY FIRST BLURB SO THAT'S PRETTY EXCITING FOR ME TOO!

I am so excited for THE WORST RONIN to release on May 21st!

It's a YA graphic novel featuring girl samurai, monsters, cell phones, farts, revenge and friendshipppp

Preorder here: harpercollins.com/products/the-w…

Illustrated by the excellent faith 🔜swordtember!

We all say we stand against book bans, but these librarians in Prattville, Alabama lost their jobs for ACTUALLY standing against them.

Please consider donating to their GoFundMe so they can make ends meet in this tough time.

Which is, I believe, the ultimate tacit goal of book bans. We have to fight back and we have to do it NOW.

Restricting access to children’s books not only discourages reading but also diminishes a child’s ability to think for themselves. In a world where social media holds increasing power of what people believe, a lack of critical thinking could devastated entire generation.

Placing an oversight board of ideologically-motivated parents and politicians in charge of who has access to certain children’s books is a framework for book banning, which is the most rampant form of censorship in America today.

I was busy while on vacation. Yesterday, in conjunction with AuthorsAgainstBookBans, Elana K. Arnold MariNaomi (they/them) Molly Knox Ostertag, maggie tokuda-hall (updates only) and I joined Huntington Beach council members to speak out again a recently passed ordinance aiming to restrict access to certain children’s books.

Cool stance to take for an organization that *checks notes* defends free speech?

PEN America it feels so pointed that this comes in the wake of staff/authors/the general public demanding you do better re: the genocide in Palestine.

Your employees deserve better.

TLDL: europeans smell bad

This just goes to show that book bans are a not only a red state issue.

In California alone, there were 38 ban attempts covering 78 titles in 2023.

Are you a book creator? Join the fight against book bans by signing up here:

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While the CA state legislature took action with AB1078 last session to help ensure that school
districts could not reject textbooks or school library books for discriminatory reasons, the passage of
Ordinance 4318 shows that book bans are still alive and well in CA. -MariNaomi (they/them)

Authors Against Book Bans condemns Huntington Beach City Ordinance No. 4318, which takes away
the public's freedom to read, and unjustly targets LGBTQ books for removal.

Our CA members will fight this. Here's a letter from Dashka Slater:

HB Public Library, SupportHBPL, EveryLibrary

I’m sorry, did someone say “sapphic werewolf revenge fantasy”? 👀