This Week at Book Riot and Elsewhere

March 10, 2017 |

While you’re reading this post, I’m on my way to Tucson, Arizona, for a weekend at the Tucson Festival of Books. If you’re around, see me on Saturday at one or both of my panels in the morning and early afternoon.

Over on Book Riot this week…

For International Women’s Day, a round-up of some great bookish gifts featuring female authors and books.

This week’s “3 On A YA Theme” goes international, too, highlighting 7 YA books set across the 7 continents. Yes, even Antarctica.

Here are 40 YA paperbacks to have on your radar for the spring.

And here’s where you can find me (or listen to me!) talk about Here We Are, feminism, and more:

The Horn Book talks about recent anthologies, including a really nice review of mine.

In Style Magazine calls Here We Are a must-read feminist book.

You can read an interview I did with Justine Magazine here.

There’s a nice review of Here We Are in The Roanoke Times.

I loved doing this interview with School Library Journal.

You can hear me (!!) talk with Joy Powers on Milwaukee’s Public Radio station, WUWM. The trip to do this was one I didn’t think I’d successfully make with the weather, but I’m so glad I did (I’ll assume it sounds good since I can’t listen to myself).

Finally, a nice interview I got to do with Dazed Magazine.

This coming week, you’ll be treated to a week-long feminism party right here on STACKED, as well as throughout the social media sphere with the hashtag #HereWeAre. I hope you join in the big party on March 15, and you can get all of the details about the event, as well as downloadable images to use, right here.

This Week at Book Riot and Elsewhere

March 3, 2017 |

Over on Book Riot this week…

100 must-read YA books for feminists and young feminists-in-training. This list was a blast to write.

This week’s (way more than) “3 On A YA Theme” highlights fiction and nonfiction featuring girls in STEM.

And I got to write this month’s books to watch for post, which highlights fiction and nonfiction, for young readers and for adults.

Elsewhere around the web….

A nice list from Shelf Awareness of great children’s books for Women’s History Month.

Shara Zaval interviewed me for this excellent piece at Kirkus Reviews. Seriously, this is so good.

A really wonderful review of Here We Are from a teenager who 100% GETS the book. I love that.

An interview with Dazed Magazine in the UK.

In Rebellious, a Chicago-based magazine, there’s a wonderful review of Here We Are.

Another interview, this time with Clover Letter, about Here We Are. If you work with teens, y’all might want to check out Clover Letter more closely, too — it’s a fabulous teen online newsletter in a similar fashion to Teen Vogue.

If you’re in Madison, WI, I hope you can see me Tuesday night at 7 at A Room of One’s Own or, if you’re in Chicago, I’ll be speaking with Mikki Kendall at Women and Children First on Thursday night at 7.

This Week at Book Riot

February 24, 2017 |

Over on Book Riot this week…

A look at 3 recent/forthcoming YA books that explore money, class, and power. Please get these on your to-read if you haven’t already. The topics they explore — food insecurity, gentrification, the fear of losing a home because of medical bills — are powerful and important.

And then for a break from the heavy stuff, here are 27 bookish things that any cat lover will love. Meow.

Other News…

Next week begins a series of events throughout the US for me and for Here We Are. If you’re in the Milwaukee area, I hope you’ll come out to Boswell Books to see Mikki Kendall and myself on Thursday evening. All event details throughout March are listed here and are updated as information becomes available.

Have you signed up to take part in the Thunderclap that will launch the online feminism party #HereWeAre on March 15? You can sign up, as well as grab fun images to use for that day, right here.

I’m beyond excited to share that “About The Girls,” the annual series here at STACKED, will be back for its fourth (!) year this coming month. We have six (!) posts from different YA authors to share that week. The focus, as always, is on girls and girls in YA, but this year, we’ll be going even wider into issues of feminism and inclusivity, so get ready for that. We’ve got debut authors, as well as long-established authors, who are taking part to make this event fun, provocative, and insightful.

This Week at Book Riot and Around The Web

February 17, 2017 |

Over on Book Riot this week…

For this week’s “3 On A YA Theme,” I talked about three YA book adaptations that are streaming right now.

I really loved putting together this collection of ways libraries around the USA are practicing tolerance and resistance.

A look at YA books where there are well-developed older and elderly adults. This was fun . . . and challenging to pull together.

Elsewhere around the web…

A review of Here We Are in The Chicago Tribune!

Want to use Here We Are in a book group? I wrote a reading group guide for that!

Will you join the big online feminist party on March 15? Sign up with the Thunderclap to help spread the word. More info about this event to come — including an announcement of the “About The Girls” series returning this year (and it’s going to be excellent!).

This Week at Book Riot & Around The Web

February 10, 2017 |

What a week, y’all. I’ve been fighting off a cold and trying to both nurse that and not fall down into full-on sickness because I’ve got so much I need to get done. But that said, I managed to get quite a bit of writing done and tackle the to-do (including writing and scheduling out a ton of posts here!). Over on Book Riot this week…

A round-up of middle grade and young adult books by/about/set in the countries impacted by the president’s travel ban.

30 pairs of excellent bookish earrings.

This week’s “3 On A YA Theme” explored YA books with bipolar disorder (which are well-done).

Elsewhere around the web:

At The Book Smugglers, I wrote about my influences and inspirations behind Here We Are, and there’s a giveaway of a finished copy to US residents. There’s a comment that I absolutely love down there, about how this helped a reader better understand where I’m coming from in the other venues where I write. That was really nice to hear.

The New York Public Library called Here We Are one of the hottest YA books of 2017 so far.

Foreward Reviews interviewed me about Here We Are.

If you’re in the Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago, Tucson, New York City, Providence, Manchester (VT), Rhinebeck, Austin, or San Antonio areas, you should come see me and fellow contributors!