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San Jose Library recommends “Rockin’ the Boat”
The San Jose Public Library just put out a great list of “larger than life” biographies for young-adult readers. It includes my book “Rockin’ the Boat: 50 Iconic Revolutionaries from Joan of Arc to Malcolm X,” which was a 2017 Illinois Reads selection by the Illinois Reading Council. The book was briefly available only in […]
Votes of Confidence wins International Book Award
The 2020 International Books Awards by the American Book Fest released their list of winners and finalists. There are tons of categories, and Votes of Confidence 2nd Edition was named the winner for Young Adult Non-Fiction.
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 […]
