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Podcast on the Lerner Books blog
Earlier this week, I recorded a podcast with Rachel Zugschwert of the Lerner Books blog, to talk about Votes of Confidence 2nd Edition for 2020 and the 2020 election and voting more generally. The podcast is now available here, as well as on Spotify and other streaming apps.
Bay Area Book Festival reading list
The Bay Area Book Festival this year, which was originally going to happen in Berkeley in early May, instead moved online this year. I recorded a panel on voting for it, and was pleased that Votes of Confidence 2nd Edition was also included in this list of cool books featured in the festival.
Bay Area Book Festival Panel
With so many book events canceled due to the COVID-19 coronavirus, my panel at the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley became an online event. I joined Dr. Carol Anderson and Elizabeth Rusch for a discussion of voting rights, moderated by Khepera Lyons-Clark of Cinnamongirl, a rising college freshman and the kind of engaged young […]
First draft of the next book is done
This morning I sent the first draft of my next book to the publisher. “A Hot Mess: How the Climate Crisis is Changing Our World” should be out in September 2021 from Lerner Books, and will be my fifth non-fiction book. It will explain climate change and its impacts for a young-adult audience, in a […]
Nice review of “Redundancy” in Oscilloscope
Saw this a little late, but my short story “Redundancy” in the Spring 2020 issue of Glassworks received a nice review in the online literary magazine Oscilloscope. The magazine also commissioned a story from me for its fall issue, which I’m already working on. An excerpt: Fleischer’s work is deeply comical, although in a subtle […]
Reading of (part of) “Redundancy”
As part of its spring issue, Glassworks released readings of the stories. Because I was on a tight book deadline still, I didn’t have time to rehearse and film a reading myself, but senior editor Steve Royek took over those duties. The story is too long for a full read, but here’s an excerpt.
Best-seller in category at Good e-Reader
Nice to see the ebook version of Votes of Confidence 2nd Edition still consistently placing as a top-ten best-seller in category at Good e-Reader. It’s been up there on the list since its release, and is #5 as of today.
