✨I’ll be reopening to queries on 4/22, but before I do that I’d like to give back to the #writingcommunity by doing a free giveaway. Follow and RT to enter for a chance to win a 1st 10 pgs critique from yours truly. I’ll choose a winner on 4/10. #amwriting #amquerying 👀👀✨📚

Excited to see NealShusterman Lamar Giles is rarely here Kelly Coon and Zoraida Córdova at HCPS SLAM HCPS Art Education FAME Florida Teens Read Florida SSYRA

Please continue to support Scholastic Diverse authors. Some of us have the highest visibility for our books through the book fair alone. Not so much in actual bookstores. My books are spooky MG horror that focus on Black history.

Do you exclude Black authors on purpose when you make a table like this? It’s a choice, right? There are greats books here. The issue is that you have 30+ titles here and no Black authors.

I put The Vanquishers on there myself btw 😒

Everyone has a right to read, learn, and access information freely.

This #BannedBooksWeek , I’m celebrating the brilliance of our authors and librarians over attempts to erase and censor our literature.

Will I be spilling some tiny tea tidbits about a certain film adaptation at this event? I do think I’ve packed some extra goodies in my swag bag… #acubangirlsguidetoteaandtomorrow

Incandescently happy to share the cover of POEMHOOD:OUR BLACK REVIVAL with you all! This is a YA poetry anthology with OVER 35 Black poets. Edited by Me (Amber McBride)⁷ Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. & Erica Martin ! 🌼

Designer: David Curtis
Illustrator: Lord Kpuri

Epic Reads 🌸

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Flora has landed! Stay tuned for a first out of the box giveaway! Simon Teen #abritishgirlsguidetohurricanesandheartbreak

I got to hold the book of my heart for the first time🥹

For those of you who don’t know, it took me 8 years to publish TO GAZE UPON WICKED GODS. I began writing this book the summer before college, after both of my grandmothers passed away in the span of two months and

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Justice Alito accepted tens of thousands of dollars in lavish vacation gifts from a billionaire who lobbied to cancel the student loan forgiveness.

After the gifts, Alito voted to overturn. This SCOTUS’ corruption undercuts its own legitimacy by putting its rulings up for sale.

The SPLC says: “Moms for Liberty was the most prominent of 12 extremist “anti-student inclusion groups” mobilizing to “attack public education, ban books, and remove any curriculum that contains discussions of race, discrimination, and LGBTQ+ identities”.

And FLDoE does this:

This image tells you everything you need to know about who is controlling education in Florida 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

FLDOE joined with group who thinks there is a national coordination to make your kids gay and trans. This group is nothing more than an LGBTQ hate group like all the others that came before them. It should be shocking that FLDOE would associate with them, but it's not.

When a state department of education endorses a hate group…

The hitler quoting organization?!

This is extremely concerning. Florida Teachers, this is who is running the show. The Department of Education is supporting a known hate group that quotes Hitler in their newsletters. #teachertwitter #teachersoftwitter

How do you signal that your state department of education is owned by deeply funded hate groups.

Let me rephrase: FLDOE met with ACLU recognized hate group to discuss defunding public ed.

Is that why you are banning diversity and history in Florida classrooms? High quality?