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Join us as we chat with one of your most beloved Bookstagrammers @elaineandthebooks , Elaine Mullane. As a leader of the Banned Books book club, and Stephen King 'We All Float' buddy reads, Elaine deep dives into her love of reading, why she is so impassioned about reading about the experiences of others, and why she thinks books are important places where we find validation about ourselves. We loved catching up with Elaine and we hope that you enjoy our chats as much as we did.Books mentioned by ElaineBooks that impacted her as a child/teenThe Colour PurpleFlowers in the AtticBooks everyone should readKnow My Name by Chanel MillerPoor by Kaitriona O' SullivanEducated by Tara WestoverA Heart That Works by Rob DelaneyWild by Cheryl StrayedTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeFavourite reads of 2024All the Colours of the Dark by Chris WhitakerHeart Be at Peace by Donal RyanMargo's got Money Troubles by Rufi ThorpeI Love You, I Love You, I Love You by Laura DockrillHagstone by Sinéad GleesonWhen We Were Silent by Fiona McPhilipsHow To Build A Boat by Elaine FeeneyThe Amendments by Niamh MulveyFrankie by Graham NortonSandwich by Catherine NewmanBooks which are excellent on AudioDaisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins ReidI Love You, I Love You, I Love You by Laura DockrillStephen King Books/NovellasCarrieThe Green MileThe BodyDolores ClaiborneMiserySalem's LotITBanned Book Club mentions (if not already mentioned)Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Other Book RecommendationsOlive Kitteridge by Elizabeth StroutThe Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan Kindred by Octavia Butler- - -Thanks to Helen Becerra for the artwork and Mark Neville for the mixing.Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/make-it-work License code: PLGGIGEZMJI9NR3G and https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/funky-junkLicense code: BZFZTXSSQI4PW6NW ---Follow us on Instagram: @another.chapter.podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode we discuss all of the amazing books we read in 2023, from literature to nonfiction and audiobooks. We also discuss some of the things we experienced as "social media influencers" and "Bookstagrammers," what our goals are for 2024 and so, so much more. Thank you to everyone who has watched or listened to our book podcast this year. We couldn't have done it without your support, and we're looking forward to sharing and talking about more books with you in the new year! Year End Pod Show Notes The Netenyahus by Joshua Cohen https://amzn.to/3S1PBVM Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon https://amzn.to/48DpQk0 The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon https://amzn.to/48B7jF7 Angels by Denis Johnson https://amzn.to/3RKtRwt King: A Life by Jonathan Eig https://amzn.to/3RFKwkv Libra by Don DelIllo https://amzn.to/4aQmv3c The Wager by David Grann https://amzn.to/3U1mdR9 Grimmish by Michael Winkler https://amzn.to/4aG34d3 Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park https://amzn.to/3NOoM4V The Tunnel by William H. Gass https://amzn.to/48h92iW The Bridge at No Gun Ri https://amzn.to/3NKJEdk 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez https://amzn.to/3TJJjv7 Pay as you Go by Eskor David Johnson https://amzn.to/3NNbHZP Love and Terror by William Herrick https://amzn.to/3S2BfEz Troll by Dave Fitzgerald https://amzn.to/48DVgXs The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen https://amzn.to/48zcpBG https://amzn.to/48fYJM1 This Other Eden by Paul Harding https://amzn.to/3vfBVxv JR William Gaddis https://amzn.to/3S2yGSY War Trash by Ha Jin https://amzn.to/41JBvvF Antagony by luis goytisolo https://amzn.to/3RLbfw6 The Lift by Dimitri Kralj https://coronasamizdat.com/index.php?id_product=70&rewrite=the-lift-by-dimitrij-kralj&controller=product The Hole by Jose Revueltas https://amzn.to/48cjcl0 The Pearl by John Steinbeck https://amzn.to/4aCw4Tc The Hospital by Ahmed Bouanani https://amzn.to/4aCEwSp The Trees Grew Because I Bled There by Eric LaRocca https://amzn.to/47kXfPF Babel by RF Kuang https://amzn.to/47g86tX The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas https://amzn.to/47lvvuf Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace https://amzn.to/3NP1eNj The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins https://amzn.to/48eoYCT The Logos by Mark DeSilva https://amzn.to/3TIddzW A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava https://amzn.to/3S2Ys9S Warlock by Oakey Hall https://amzn.to/3vr4MPj Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick https://amzn.to/3vr4MPj A novel to read on the train by Dumitru Tsepeneag https://amzn.to/3RJoZrf Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by Laszlo Krasnahorki
What's it like to be a professional book editor? Nicole Frail takes us through her journey to become a professional book editor and the many hats that the editor wears. What are publishing seasons, The Big 5, BookStagrammers, as well as the lifecycle of a book. What does she like and dislike about this job? We cover it all! If you're curious about what it's like to be a professional book editor, you're going to love this one. Follow Nicole Frail on IG: https://www.instagram.com/nicolefrailedits/ If you're #CareerCurious or want to help others learn what jobs are really like, subscribe to the Work University Podcast and take a peek behind the curtain of what really goes into jobs from the people doing it! For links to podcast & The Work University site: https://linktr.ee/WorkUniversity Get updates on new episodes on IG: https://www.instagram.com/work.university/ Contact me at: hello@workuniversity.org Work with me 1:1 for Mock Interview preparation to smash your interview anxiety! I also speak to groups and organizations about the value of networking and how it can help job seekers achieve their career goals. Contact me for availability!✌
In today's Episode of the summer Book People series, I am joined by one of my favorite Bookstagrammers, Samantha of the account Everlasting.Bookworm. You can find Samantha on Instagram here. ♡Books Mentioned♡ A King So Cold by Ella Fields Master of Salt & Bones by Keri Lake The Coldest Winter by Brittainy Cherry The Air He Breathes by Brittainy Cherry Long Shot by Kennedy Ryan The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang American Queen by Sierra Simone Hades Hangmen series by Tillie Cole ♡Shops Mentioned:♡ Little Inklings Design Hello Lovely Box Patreon page is linked here ♡♡If you enjoyed today's episode and listen via Apple Podcast, please consider rating and leaving the podcast a review. This is the easiest way to support us and will help other Category Romance readers find us ♡ For a list of all the places where you can find the podcast along with where you can find us on social media, click herefor our linktree! Our Email is thecategoricallyromancepod@gmail.com ♡ This podcast is engineered by Sincere Alexander and contains music from Lukrembo
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians return this week with a podcast episode featuring two local book reviewers! Listen as Robyn and Jim interview Pittsford Bookstagrammers Emily Waller and Hannah Ramsey—otherwise known as @emilyisoverbooked and @booksandbitesroc—and get ready to add some titles to your TBR (to be read) list!
A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. This episode highlights a wonderful hybrid book club event from AACRE, Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality a collective of Progressive Asian organizations that APEX is a part of. It was hosted at the East Wind Bookstore in Berkeley, CA. Ko Kim of “We are the Gems” joined us in a conversation about books people enjoyed reading growing up and later Innosanto Nagara is interviewed by Miko Lee. This book club event was so sweet and so lovely, and admittedly was very eye-opening for me as someone who has quote unquote graduated from children's books, but more about that later. We came up with a list of books people enjoyed reading growing up! AACRE Thursdays is monthly radio show featuring an organization from the AACRE: Asian American for Civil Rights and Equality. AACRE Thursdays premiers every third Thursday of the month at 7pm. Find more APEX Express Shows here. APEX Express is a weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. Miko's Favorite AAPI Children's Books (live from East Wind Books in Berkeley) With author Ko Kim All books written and illustrated by AAPI authors/artists unless noted Ko Kim Ko Kim's Book We are Gems attached is the watermarked PDF only for the AACRE community. Board Books A is for Activist Counting on Community Round is a Mooncake: A Book of Shapes Red is a Dragon: A Book of Colors The Story of Rap Picture Books It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way biography on artist Gyo and the impact of the Japanese American incarceration during WWII Drawn Together. A boy and his grandfather draw and talk story. Deals with intergenerational drama and imagination. Check out a lesson plan for this book I helped develop with Agency By Design in Oakland Juna's Jar Juna goes on adventures and collects things. Good STEAM book. Check out this lesson plan for this book by Agency By Design in Oakland Dad Bakes -Formerly incarcerated Cambodian dad bakes with his daughter The Paper Kingdom – Janitor parents take their son to work at night and he imagines a kingdom. A Friend for Henry – Focused on Henry, a young boy with autism The Ugly Vegetables – Chinese family grows Chinese vegetables and daughter is embarrassed and longs for the neighbors flowers, until mom makes soup that everyone longs for. Whoever You Are – Mem Fox's beautiful book about our diverse world (non AAPI writer, but beautiful book with great message) The Paper Crane – A paper crane transforms a town (non AAPI writer, but beautiful book with great message) The Sound of Colors: A Journey of the Imagination – a young woman, who is going blind reimagines the NY subway Positive Body Image Eyes That Kiss the Corners – a girl learns to love her Asian eyes Eyes that Speak to the Stars – a boy learns to love his Asian eyes Happy to Be Nappy – a child learn to appreciate her black hair Laxmi's Mooch – a girl learns to appreciate her body hair (mustache) Global First Laugh–Welcome, Baby! Indigenous writers share Navajo story about baby's first laughter ceremony. Enough! 20 Protesters Who Changed America picture book about protests Bread, Bread, Bread, Families, Houses and Homes White writer Anne Morris photo compilations showcase commonalities around the world. We March African American writer Shane Evans picture book about 1963 March on Washington Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness White writer talks about privileged. This is the book for your white friends kids who want to use a book to spark a family conversation about racism. Audience Recommendations of Children's Books Book Recommendations with Links Coffee Rabbit Snowdrop Lost by Birkjaer — https://enchantedlion.com/all-books/coffee-rabbit-snowdrop-lost It Might Be An Apple, Yoshitake — https://bookbugsanddragontales.com/product/9780500650486 Julian is Mermaid by Jessica Love — https://jesslove.format.com/julian-is-a-mermaid His Own Where — https://www.nationalbook.org/people/june-jordan/ Dragon Hoops by Gene Yang — https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626720794/dragonhoops Little One or We Sang You Home by Richard Van Camp — https://www.orcabook.com/We-Sang-You-Home American Born Chinese by Gene Yang — https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250811899/americanbornchinese In the Beautiful Country by Jane Kuo — https://janekuo.com/book/in-the-beautiful-country/ Hush by Min Fong Ho — https://www.bfbooks.com/Hush-A-Thai-Lullaby Rob Liu Trujillo — http://work.robdontstop.com/ Who Turned on the Sky by Marielle Atanacio — https://www.bymatanacio.com/ Juna and Appa by Jane Park — https://www.leeandlow.com/books/juna-and-appa A map into the World — https://lernerbooks.com/shop/show/17915 A Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen — https://solrad.co/refugee-fairytales-the-magic-fish-by-trung-le-nguyen All these below you can buy at East Wind Bookstore! Lunchtime with Samnang Our Little Kitchen by Tamaki A Place Where Sunflowers Grow When the Cousins Came by Playing at the Border: A Story of Yo-Yo Ma A Different Pond by Thi Bui Places to buy your books: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/ aka East Wind Bookstore https://diversebooks.org/resources/ https://socialjusticebooks.org/ https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/peoples-history-of-the-united-states https://www.learningforjustice.org/ Transcript: AACRE Children's Book Club [00:00:00] Swati: Good evening everyone, and happy Thursday. This is Swati Rayasam, your very special guest editor for tonight's episode of APEX Express. Tonight we're going to listen in on a wonderful hybrid book club event from AACRE, Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality a collective of Progressive Asian organizations that APEX is a part of. [00:00:55] Swati: This book Club event was so sweet and so lovely, and [00:01:00] admittedly was very eye-opening for me as someone who has quote unquote graduated from children's books, but more about that later. I wanted to also flag for listeners that because this was a hybrid event, there are some weird bumps and pops as a result of the recording that impact the audio quality just a bit. Hopefully it's not too distracting, but whatever you may not be able to fully hear, we've tried our best to capture in either the transcript or the show notes. [00:01:29] Swati: Now, without further ado, I'll pass you along to Miko over in Children's Book Landia, AKA East Wind Books in Berkeley. Stay locked in! [00:01:43] Miko Lee: We are thrilled to be here and every time we talk about getting a book, of course where you go to buy that book is here in Berkeley at East Wind Books or online. So we are thrilled to see you all and as some of you know, initially today [00:02:00] was gonna be with Innosanto Nagara and I sent stuff out on Ino and then just, we had this whole last minute mix up. We're gonna showcase some of his books, but instead, B was amazing to recommend Ko Kim. And then I learned about Ko's book, which was just so exciting. So we're gonna start off just with Ko reading through the book and having you all ask questions of Ko, and then Ko and I are gonna talk about our favorite AAPI children's books so that you all can get your gift ons for the holidays and for baby stuff that's coming up. [00:02:33] Miko Lee: There's so many. When I was growing up, I was longing for books that represented our community and now there are so many that represent our intersectionality, our diversity, our specific communities. So there are so many things that we will share with you soon. [00:02:51] Miko Lee: But first, I wanna take a moment to just introduce Ko. We are so happy that she joined us last minute. She worked with two amazing illustrators, Christine [00:03:00] Yoon and Andrew Hem and co grew up 10 minutes from the US Mexico border and like so many of us just felt invisible in school. She didn't see herself in textbooks and in bookshelves or anywhere. And that isolation motivated her to become an educator, a public school teacher in title one schools. So she got the traditional education with a masters at Stanford, but keeping it real in the community with low income students showcasing what progressive education can be about. And I'm gonna now throw it to Ko. Thank you Ko, so much for joining us. [00:03:37] Ko Kim: Wow. Thank you Miko, for that introduction. I wanna carry you everywhere I go, and just have you introduce me. Cuz, that was such a beautifully done one. And I just wanna say thank you everyone for the honor of being here. I love community. I love learning in community. I really want this to be a learning space, so before we begin, it sounds like from the audience, I heard a lot of folks saying they like picture books. They're looking [00:04:00] for more resources, they have nieces and nephews in their lives or a baby on the way. [00:04:05] Ko Kim: So I wanted to share a quick resource. I'm sure a lot of you follow Bookstagrammers on Instagram. There is a whole ecosystem of children's book Instagrammers. Some of them are Berkeley native slash assistant principal Shuli who runs Asian Lit for Kids. [00:04:21] Ko Kim: And then there's also my story books who's based in Southern California. Just a little heads up there. [00:04:27] Ko Kim: So as Miko mentioned, I created a book with Christine Yoon and Andrew Hem called We Are Gems: Healing From Anti-Asian Microaggressions Through Self Love and Solidarity. What a title. Christine Yoon is by the way, an ER doctor who's also an artist, Andrew Hem started off as a street artist and now his work is seen globally and his murals are in over, I believe 10 countries. [00:04:50] Ko Kim: Andrew identifies as Cambodian American. Christine and I identify as Korean American, and I think context is important here because I think stories in our own voices are really important. [00:05:00] [00:04:59] Ko Kim: We are Gems shimmering with wisdom handed down from our Asian and Asian American elders. You may face cuts and scrapes called microaggressions, but like those before you, your inner luster will blaze if placed in shared liberation. Shared liberation is solidarity with our Black and Indigenous neighbors against systemic racism, lost traditions and behaviors that harm people with African and Indigenous roots from classrooms to courtrooms, only through solidarity will we glisten. [00:05:32] Ko Kim: So when people ask you where are you really from? Reply that you are at home as long as you hold sacred the air, water, soil, animals and plants. Reply that you are at home when you honor Indigenous elders. Then ask in return, how are we taking care of all that has life? When Indigenous youth and elders resist polluting pipes, how do we respond? [00:05:56] Ko Kim: Our liberation is bound to the life and dignity of Indigenous [00:06:00] peoples. When they advise you to speak up, tell them to listen closely, our voices have been roaring for generations. Then ask, how intently do you listen to the hopes and dreams of Black activists leaders? For seven decades, Grace Lee Bogs rallied for fair wages and housing alongside Black community organizers [unclear] introduced civil disobedience to the Highlander Folk School, helping Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. prepare for the fight for freedom. Our liberation is tied to Black joy. When people try to commend you with, you are unlike the others. Reply that you're not straining yourself toward the dull cast of saying this and tell them, I am blooming as myself under the light of the divine and the glow of our grandmothers, our liberation is self love. [00:06:49] Ko Kim: Thank you so much. [00:06:51] Miko Lee: So thank you Ko for sharing your new book with us. I wanna open it up to see if anybody has any questions for [00:07:00] Ko And while you're thinking about those questions, I wanna just ask Ko to tell about what inspired you to create this work. [00:07:06] Ko Kim: Yeah, two things. One, I'm an auntie to many nieces and nephews, and it pained me to not see our voices represented on the bookshelves. Public school teacher as well, former public school teacher and it really pained me cuz I would see my students experiencing microaggressions, but it'd be hard to process that with them. Lastly 2020 during shelter in place a man holding a tray of sushi started to say all the racial slurs at me at a grocery store and came so close to my face, I felt the spit on my cheek. And I was like, oh, great, I'm gonna get COVID and verbally assaulted today. And when that happened, there were children around who witnessed that, and the educator in me was like, in pain. Made me wonder, okay, here's this episodic explosive event, how are caregivers and explain that to their children and then the other thought I have [00:08:00] had was what about the everyday racism that Asian American face? Right? How are we helping caregivers, teachers, parents talk about everyday anti-Asian racism? [00:08:11] Miko Lee: I just wanna point out that Ko also has a presentation that she does in schools. So if you know teachers that are interested in that, she has a whole presentation, reads some of the book and then breaks down who is Grace Lee Boggs, what is the background. So it's really helpful. And also talking about not just the times we are in right now with the microaggressions that our community are facing, but who are our solidarity leaders historically and who are people that are working in the community now. So does anybody else have a question for Ko, the author in the space? [00:08:44] Paige: Hi, Ko, thanks for reading your story, and I'm really sorry that a person assaulted you verbally. [00:08:50] Paige: I, I was looking at the title and wondering if there was any association with the TV show where they're like all gems and then they like sing [00:09:00] songs. Stephen Universe. [00:09:00] Ko Kim: I'm just gonna lie and be like, yes. I, I planned that . No, there isn't, but I actually pulled a lot of my teacher educator friends. To think about how could we self love our and love our Asian Am AAPI children? And that's what I came up with. But, great question, Paige. [00:09:23] Miko Lee: And Ko, you did a non-traditional method for publishing. Can you share a little bit about that and why you chose that route? [00:09:30] Ko Kim: Yeah, I would love to share that cuz I do know there's someone in the audience who talked about possibly writing a children's book of their own. [00:09:37] Ko Kim: So I think we use the tools we're most familiar with, and I'm really used to reaching out to mutual aid, through my community. I'm sure this is something that everyone knows a lot of public school teachers fund their own libraries, fund their own field trips, right? And so I often reached out to my community to help fund those activities, resources , and I had no connection to the publishing world. [00:10:00] So I did this unconventional way and I made sure to recognize the folks in my community that made this book possible. If you look at the very back, their names are listed on the Kickstarter. I also, maybe I was like creeping on fans, people that I really like, but I DMed a bunch of authors on Instagram and asked them for some advice. And Innosanto Nagara has also been very gracious in that process. I have no idea if he remembers that I DMed him, but he gave me some really good tips. He himself started off as a Kickstarter, as you know, and his book was picked up by [00:10:33] Ko Kim: Seven Story Press. [00:10:36] Jasmine: Thanks. I'm curious, Ko if you've read this book with your students and your nibbling, how have the kids received it? [00:10:46] Ko Kim: It's really interesting. I thought only middle grades or like upper elementary children would be interested in this, but I actually presented this to a bunch of high schoolers in Hayward and there was a huge response from them. They loved [00:11:00] it. I think we do this false age designation where we're like, oh, by the time you're 18 you don't like pictures. Which is not true, right? Like if the look at the popularity of TikTok, it's such, such a visual medium, right? People rely on visuals and I think art is actually a great activist tool and way of being. And so, I've seen K through 12, a lot of warmth about the images. I had one Jamaican American teacher email me and say, these things happen to me all the time and I brush them aside, and this book helped me heal. I had another teacher in the audience write me that they went to therapy after the book reading, which I think is a great next step. I'm all about healing ourselves. Thanks for that question, Jasmine. [00:11:49] Miko Lee: Thank you. Anybody else with questions for Ko? [00:11:52] Paige: I have another question related to the topic, we were reading the Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead in college my [00:12:00] freshman year. And I remember someone asked in class like, how early is it to talk about these things? Like kind of how you're talking about the age of what you had imagined, the children reading the book. And my teacher was like, I don't think sixth grade is that early for this book. And that book it was really, it's quite violent , so I was just, yeah. How were you thinking about that when you were writing this book? Can you say more about thinking about the violence, about introducing that to children? [00:12:29] Ko Kim: Yeah, for sure. I did try really hard to be age appropriate, if you notice. I intentionally focused on microaggressions and not the explosive physical violence just cause I know our children, they can't handle things, but it has to be done in a way that's scaffolded. There's that piece of it, but I also wanna cite, a really well known Instagram Spanish educator, she goes by the woke Spanish teacher. She co-wrote an academic article with a college professor in education. [00:13:00] It's called The Myth of Teaching Social Justice to Elementary School Students. And it kinda debunks some of the ideas that our children cannot handle these experiences because it's fact of the matter is they are experiencing these racialized moments and they're turning to adults to make sense of this, or turning to each other to make sense. Right? And it feels weird to just neglect that and wish them good luck versus addressing it and centering their lived experiences. [00:13:28] Miko Lee: The other person I'd shout out in that vein is that woke kindergarten, and that's an amazing educator who's introduces all these topics with kindergarten students and recognizing that the world we live in, you have to, because that's the only way that we can create children that understand a greater sense of justice in the world. They do such amazing work, check out their website and they've done teach-ins and. [00:13:55] Miko Lee: Other questions for Author Ko Kim? [00:13:57] Ko Kim: Bring it. Everyone. Just give me the questions.[00:14:00] [00:14:02] Tran: Hey Ko, this is Tran! How are you? [00:14:04] Ko Kim: Oh my gosh. Can I just take a moment to thank you for being such a model to me? When I was at UCLA? I was such an undergrad. I was such a poop head and you really helped me understand, solidarity. [00:14:14] Tran: Oh, thank you. Yeah. Small world that we went to college together and now you're a children's book author. That's amazing. so I'm actually a mom to a toddler, and so of course making sure that I have a library of books that he can see himself, in and relate to, right. And not just like Asian American, but other like BIPOC books as well. And I actually didn't know about this book until this event, so I'm really glad, that y'all are hosting those events. So now I know about it and added to my collection, but I was curious, Ko do you have, other ideas for books that you wanna do in the future? Are you planning on doing more books? Cause I'd love to hear if you are. [00:14:55] Ko Kim: Yes. Oh my gosh. I do wanna create an ethnic study series for children. [00:15:00] I've been toying with the idea of debunking the American Dream myth, just trying to figure out how to do that in a way that's accessible to young readers. Another one I've been toying with is the idea of how do we talk about the anti-Blackness that does exist in the Asian American community, even though we do have a long history and legacy of solidarity with, Black folks. I've been toying with those and have been drafting. Thank you Tran. [00:15:24] Miko Lee: Exciting coming soon, Ko Kim's latest work. Yay. [00:15:28] Swati: You are tuned in to APEX express at 94.1 KPFA and 89.3 KPFB in Berkeley. And online@kpfa.org. Coming up is Ka BJ or Puzzle by Diskarte Namin from the album Kultural Guerillas. [00:16:00] [00:17:00] [00:18:00] [00:19:00] [00:20:00] [00:21:00] [00:21:45] Swati: That was Ka BJ by Diskarte Namin from the album Kultural Guerillas. And now. Back to the children's book club with Miko [00:21:57] Miko Lee: We can start talking about some of me and Ko's [00:22:00] favorite books that you all can have access to. I wanna first talk about who we talked about in the very first place, who was a mentor and was supposed to be here today. Innosanto's work A is for Activist, people often ask me, what children's books I get, I as a few of you mentioned love children's books. I personally try to never keep adult books because I read 'em and I pass 'em on to other people or I'm a big library person, but the only books I buy all the time are children's books because I like the art, the vibe, what it's about and my go to little kids, like when somebody first has a baby, are these books, A is for Activist and Counting on Community. And I like them because they're board books, which kids can chew on, but they're also like teaching their alphabet books. But they're teaching. Our values about activism, about community, about movement, about growth, and about where we are in our world. The other thing I wanted to mention is the other Ino book for [00:23:00] older kids, to the question about, when do you start introducing social justice concepts? You start as early as possible. And with my own kids, you start when they're babies, you start teaching sign language. So you're talking about different access to learning and understanding. But then as we know, people grow and they get more sophisticated and they want more information. So actually this is one of, Ino's more recent books. It's called The Wedding Portrait the under title is the Story of a Photograph and Why we Sometimes Break the Rules, and this would be good for like fourth graders because it breaks down how critical it is for us to take action. So it talks about from the Dakota pipeline to nuclear weapons to the farm workers boycott and it breaks it down in a way that's accessible and understandable and really brings it home for older kids that want a little bit more information. So I will follow up with all these books linked [00:24:00] and how you can buy them along with a bunch of others that we might not talk about, because literally I came in here 45 minutes ago and just pulled things off the shelf that were interesting. But I have a whole list of other go-tos. Ko, What are some of your favorites? Or anybody here? What are some of your, like right when somebody's gonna have a baby, books that we give people? What are your go-tos? [00:24:21] Ko Kim: Yeah, I would love to share some, but I would love to hear from the folks first. [00:24:25] Miko Lee: Anybody have some go to children's books that they just love getting every time? [00:24:31] Jasmine: I bought the book Julian is a Mermaid. It's a really beautiful book about this little kid and it's kind of magical and like just exploring gender in different expansive ways. [00:24:42] Miko Lee: Thanks Jasmine for sharing that , I really like the artwork on that too. [00:24:47] Ko Kim: I wanna say everyone likes all categories of books. I understand that. And if you so happen to wanna focus on that topic of gender identity, sexual orientation, there's actually a really cool mobile children's Book Bus. [00:25:00] Maybe you've heard of them. It's called Out and About and they're based in the Bay Area and they have the most beautiful lavender school bus full of books. [00:25:09] Tori: I just read a picture book called Coffee Rabbit, Snow Drop Lost, I think it's Danish, perhaps it's in translation. But it's about dementia and the relationship between a grandchild and grandparents. And it like made me cry in just a couple of minutes that it took to read it, which I wasn't expecting. It was very powerful. [00:25:29] Miko Lee: I'm not familiar with that book. I love it when books break things down in a way that helps to bring an issue to light. [00:25:39] Paige: I also read this in college. I only read two children's book as a child, and one of them is actually my favorite The Giving Tree. When I was little I was like, why am I so sad reading this book? It's so sweet and this tree loves this little boy. And then it felt like when I read that book, it reminded me of my relationship with my parents, like, why do my parents love me so much? [00:26:00] And then, the second book I actually read in college was His Own Wear by June Jordan, it's so beautiful. I love June Jordan. So I would definitely get that for your babies. [00:26:11] Miko Lee: Anybody else wanna share some? [00:26:14] Tracy: I'll just share some thematic books that I can't remember the names of them. But as a child since I grew up in San Francisco I got exposed to a lot of books around Chinese folklore about the moon festival and like where the moon festival came from, and the woman who ended up in the moon and like the moon goddess. And it's like the shape of a rabbit. So I really loved thematically those kinds of books that taught me about my culture, but through like children's books, but then in terms of an actual book name, I don't know what range we're doing, but because I read a lot of graphic novels, I really loved everything Gene Yang has done, like American Born Chinese. And his latest book is Hoop Dreams and it's about him being a teacher in Oakland at a private high school. And I love, love, [00:27:00] love, everything because it breaks down a difficult topic. So the one about him being a teacher in Oakland was about the different students who are on a basketball team there and their backgrounds. You learn about each of the students, whether they're Black, Asian, or Arab, learn about their specific kind of stories and the ups and downs they have and how like basketball kinda brings them together. [00:27:25] Miko Lee: I'm so glad. Gene I love him. A local person. And there actually, as some of you might know, making a whole TV series based on ABC and the Monkey King thing. So I, I really appreciate his work. There's a ton of graphic novelists we could talk about that I also adore, so we could go down that road. Ko what about you? [00:27:46] Ko Kim: Yeah, I just wanna thank everyone. I'm learning a couple new title. So there's a book that was published this year by Julia Kuo it's called Let's Do Everything and Nothing. Maybe you're familiar with this book.[00:28:00] I love it shows the intimacy and affection between a mother and a daughter in each page. And the illustrations are stunning. I never knew burnt orange and navy blue can make me cry but it made me cry in this book for sure and then I know folks are familiar with this book from 2018, Drawn Together. I love it because just like Julia Cole's book, it talks about the affection between family members, but this one kind of centers a common grief that a lot of AAPI families have where there's a generational language, cultural difference between grandparents and their grandchildren. It talks about bridging that gap. [00:28:36] Miko Lee: Can I add to that one? So I love that book and I actually, um, built a curriculum on that book, which I'm sending to you, and it's linked and I did it with an organization in Oakland called Agency by Design and During the Pandemic, we put together kits for all Title One School Kids in Oakland that included that book and then all the art supplies you could to make on it because it's about imagination and bringing imagination alive. [00:28:59] Ko Kim: [00:29:00] Miko That's, that's amazing. How can I get my hand on a kit? [00:29:05] Miko Lee: I don't, I don't know if they're remaking the kits right now, but you could get your hands on the curriculum and I will say we intentionally made the kits very accessible. So basically even if you didn't have the kit, you could pull it from things at home or have free access. whenever I'm making an arts inclusive kit, I try and make it with high quality supplies, but then also just things you can get from your house. So it makes it more accessible to everybody. [00:29:30] Ko Kim: Great to know. And then I have two other titles [00:29:33] Ko Kim: I'm so glad I was recommending ABC American Born Chinese. This book breaks down what does it mean to acclimate versus assimilate to American culture, right? And that's a huge heavy topic for adults alike. And in fact, Minh Le the author and illustrator of that book he just posted on Instagram under the campaign of Books Save Lives how reading this book in college really helped him stay afloat. [00:29:57] Ko Kim: And then the last middle grade [00:30:00] recommendation I have is called, In the Beautiful Country by Jane Kuo this came out in June, 2022. She's a local Bay Area author and artist actually and each chapter is pithy and painfully beautiful it digs into the richer life of an Asian female protagonist in Southern California. It was very healing. And in talking to Jane she was talking about how this book was supposed meant to also be healing for the caregivers reading the book as well. So I couldn't put this book down. I finished it in one sitting. [00:30:31] Kenny: So I got this as a gift from my newborn coming in it's called Hush and it's a very simple book, it goes through different animals and just the different sounds that other languages make to represent those animals. And I think it's just really fun to go through that and learn all the different noises that they make. And it's a story about a mom who's just telling all of these animals to be quiet cuz the baby is sleeping just something that I feel like is cool to [00:31:00] introduce to my son since he's gonna be half Thai. [00:31:02] Miko Lee: I wanted to throw out some more artist based ones because I think one of the things is sometimes we just get it. For me, I feel like having raised two artists and realizing the importance of art and life, bringing that into our young people is so critical and I love how Drawn Together does that in terms of inter generations. And really talking about intergenerational trauma. There is an another book about an artist, it's about Gyo Fujikawa, who is an amazing artist, and it's called, It Began With a Page and it outlines what is in an artist's imagination and how they create things, how they use and bring the world alive. And there's another one called The Sound of Colors, A Journey of the Imagination by Jimmy Liao and it is about a blind woman and it's the colors that she sees while she's blind and how she navigates through the world. And [00:32:00] it's just such a mix. It's so beautiful. The other is a lovely book about an artist, a kid, whose parents work as janitors in San Francisco and they're low income workers. And because they don't have childcare, they take their kid with them and they're Asian American and the kid uses their imagination while their parents are working. It's just such a good book talking about imagination and labor. Do you have some more? Should I keep going or does anybody wanna throw some out here? [00:32:30] Ko Kim: I wanna shout out a longtime author illustrator named Rob he's one of the organizers of the sixth annual Children's Social Justice book Fair. [00:32:37] Miko Lee: He's also works with Janine Youngblood on this, collaborative that is around trying to publish BIPOC voices, but it's very, very small, they don't have like huge budgets. There are a lot of children's books that have curriculum that go with them. So I don't know if some of you're interested in that, especially during our time of, COVID-y time when people have had to shelter in [00:33:00] place and stay home. Sometimes having activity books for single kids are really great. [00:33:04] Miko Lee: This is one that's about Filipino mythology and culture, Who Turned on the Sky, and it comes with this whole coloring and activity book. The book actually has a whole series of different, Filipino mythology and culture, and I think Tracy was talking about that earlier about how we grow up learning some of these things around culture. So that's one that actually comes with a curriculum. And then this other one, a really sweet one. Called Juna and Appa which is a Korean girl, and it's about her and her father. And it has magical realism in it. And it's again about emotions and intergenerational work. And this also has a curriculum. This was another project I did with Agency by Design that comes with a whole series of questions that young people can do for doing interviews with their elders. Even if you can't write, it's how do you draw an interview process? [00:33:57] Tracy: Ko you mentioned earlier about this [00:34:00] idea of, we should talk about race as early as possible with kids, but, as educator scaffolding is important, I would literally love to hear your ideas of ways we can scaffold learning. I'll give you an example, I have a bunch of children's books that I gave to my sister to give to her kids. And then she took out three of 'em and was like, these are not appropriate for the kids. And I was like, oh, what do you mean by not appropriate? And I didn't get into it, but I was like, she's actually a math teacher, so she also understands scaffolding. so I'm really interested in your ideas of scaffolding and what that means to introduce material at the right level. [00:34:39] Ko Kim: Yeah that's a great question cause I think sometimes the work of Social Justice, I tend to leave out the joy of social justice work sometimes. Cause I get so serious and bogged down. I forget that social justice work, it means wellness for me, wellness for us. Wellness for all of us. So you're right, it has to be age appropriate. Teaching for Justice has really great lesson plans and [00:35:00] they pair books. It goes by grade level. And then as you get to higher grade levels people's history, you know, the Howard Zinn open resource lesson plans also have a great one. I think it, to your point, it's really important to introduce a topic where folks are at. Cause that's also true for adults, right? Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're ready for that topic either. There's a lot of pre-work and scaffolding that has to happen regardless of our age and reading skill. Yeah. Did that help answer your question, Tracy? [00:35:32] Tracy: Yeah. Thanks for the resource. I think that like some of the principles you're sharing is like meet people where they're at and I used to be an environmental educator and my framework I use with kids and adults is appreciation, education, action. So it's like no one's gonna wanna take action on something that they don't appreciate first. So once you feel the joy, like you said, then you learn more about it. Also, you don't wanna learn about anything you don't really like. So it's like you appreciate it, you like [00:36:00] it, you bring joy, then you learn more and then there'll be those like desire to learn. [00:36:04] Tracy: Then you actually wanna take action. It's really hard to get people to take action if they don't really appreciate or understand. So you're reminding me that is a framework, but, the meeting people where they're at is if they're already past appreciation, then maybe they're ready for an education or action book. [00:36:21] Miko Lee: And the only thing I would add to both of your great words is partly part of our work is to just show representation and to show different types of AAPI voices in this context. For instance, this is a lovely book called, a Map Into the World, and it's not, you know, Political, but it's about a Hmong girl and how she feels and how she walks through the world. And then there's another book that I was just introduced to, which is, Incarcerated Dad. I have it in my stacks of books around here, but it's a dad who is Cambodian and he's [00:37:00] incarcerated and it doesn't make a big deal about his incarceration. How great is that? It's about a dad who bakes, but the dad was formerly incarcerated. So just to show this representation is also a political act, right? We are saying that there are many different types of people within our community. Our community is broad. They come from different places, they have different experiences. So that doesn't have to be overly like we are being political , but it's really saying, look, our community is diverse. [00:37:30] Miko Lee: On the same vein I have stacks of children's books around me by the way that I put into categories. So I was going like, food is such an easy fit in for people because, we're looking within the network about narrative power, right? And there's all this research that, what's the number one thing people think of with Asian people? They think of food. Okay? Some people think that is such a drag. Why is it just around food? Why is it on Christmas? You know, everybody's eating at the Chinese restaurants, right? But there's a way to use that to our [00:38:00] advantage. It can be an in for people to understand culture. And so there are tons of books that are just about food and about culture. [00:38:10] Paige: I wanna just mention Magic Fish. I read all the recent children's books that I know in the last three years, or like the last three to five years. That book is so pretty. Like the art is so emotional. [00:38:23] Miko Lee: Yes. Beautiful. Lovely book. We haven't been talking enough about the graphic novels, so I love this. This is such an amazing book. [00:38:33] Miko Lee: This author, Grace Lynn has a bunch of books. Both picture books and board books. This one's called Dim Sum for Everyone, it's really cute. The artwork is quite adorable. She actually has another one that I love that's called The Ugly Vegetables, and it is about how her family grows traditional Chinese vegetables in her neighborhood and the kid hates it because everybody else grows flowers. And then at the end of [00:39:00] the season, the mom cooks the most amazing bitter Melon Soup, and all the neighbors smell the food and they all come and they wanna have the food. And so the whole neighborhood has celebration together over food and they bring flowers. So again, it's using food as a road in. There's also these great books about cultures coming together and making food together that are just titled by like bread or rice and all the different people around the world that eat bread and rice in the ways in which they do that. This one it's called Lunchtime with Samnang, and it's about learning, imagination, exploration, and about this kid's favorite Cambodian dishes as he hears tales from his grandfather. [00:39:43] Miko Lee: I think back to Tracy's original question around, how do you introduce hard topics, the first thing I was saying was representation, which I think is really critical. And then I think the other part is introducing some kind of like soft more deeper threads. [00:40:00] And so this is one that actually talks about a Rohingya, which are the oppressed minority peoples in China. And it's about a kid and his love of this bird. And so you could look at this as this allegory, right? About the oppression of peoples. Or you could read it as a boy and his bird. So you could take it multiple ways and have as in depth conversations as you want to have. But it really depends on who's the reader, right? And what are they reading with it? And there's a few more that are like this. There's a really good one. There's a few good ones about the Japanese, internment that I think, helped to tell that story. Like this one, A Place Where Sunflowers Grow. And it's really sweet and the art is quite lovely and it just tells about the Japanese incarceration, through a lens of a young girl. And I will say, what I find remarkable about this is there's a lot of books about the Japanese incarceration, a lot of children's books. [00:41:00] Almost all of them are about a boy or a male's perspective. Boys play baseball, boys go fishing, boys do this. So this is specifically about a girl and what she goes through and the lens that she leaves the world. I will say to you all, that I am incredibly biased. I raised two daughters and because I felt like the world is always introducing them to male writers and particularly white male writers that the only books I ever, ever read to them were written by BIPOC women, some men, but usually BIPOC women. and so I think it's also about the intentionality when you're picking children's book out about what you want to be able to share with your young people. [00:41:44] Miko Lee: Any other questions or thoughts? Oh, let me share one more one that I just saw, which was so fun. I love this one because this is an intersectional one and it's about a Japanese American and family, but their cousin is African American [00:42:00] and it's about when our cousins come. And so it has the family. And there this author has written a bunch like this I have them all at home. They're all about growing up in the inner city. And it's really this Blasian experience. What is it like to be Blasian and to be living in the inner city? So I think that's really fun. And what do we have to teach each other about our different cultures and how are we creating a new kind of Blasian culture? [00:42:26] Miko Lee: While we have a two more min, few more that's left is, many folks know about Yoyo Ma and his amazing work and how he does this work playing at the borders. The author Johanna Ho, who wrote it, and she's written a lot of other lovely books. But there's a great breakdown too, and if you wanted to do this with your young person, you could also play that actual music and see some of the real videos. So there's a way of reading the book, but then taking it to the next level and really showing with your young people how a book can push you off into additional learning. [00:42:57] Miko Lee: This one Eyes that Kiss in the Corners is [00:43:00] another about body affirmation. You know, a lot of us grow up with like slanting eyes or those stereotypes. And this is about just appreciating your body. Loving your body. [00:43:09] Ko Kim: And Johanna Ho has a male version of that one. Eyes stare into the sky, I think. Cause I think it's different, right? For how that topic is addressed by gender. [00:43:21] Paige: Jasmine, you were gonna say something? [00:43:25] Jasmine: Something I'm curious about, and maybe we'll need to write the book for, but a book for kids who are mixed white and Asian, around understanding their white privilege specifically, yeah. [00:43:39] Miko Lee: Ooh, that would be good. Jasmine. There was a bunch of books with half white kids, but nothing, I haven't seen anything. Ko have you seen anything about white privilege? Jasmine? There you go. There's your opening. Take it, write it. [00:43:55] Ko Kim: I'm here for a jasmine. I would love to see that. [00:44:00] [00:44:00] Miko Lee: Love that. thank you all so much. You know, last book club we talked about Thi Bui's book and I just wanted to point out Thi's Children's book, A different Pond. This is a amazing, Caldecott honor book, which is like the best that you can get in Children's book Landia. And it is just a really beautiful. It was written by a different author, but Tui illustrated it and is really about a boy and his dad and, their relationship. Tui has two more children's books, one actually that she wrote with her son and, another one with the author of the Sympathizer Viet Thanh and his son and they co-wrote them. Okay. We have one minute left. Thank you so much everybody for joining us. Thank you Ko Kim and all of you for joining us today for our AACRE Book Club on children's books. Thank you all. Have a great rest of your day and a lovely weekend. [00:44:52] Swati: Hey folks, Swati here. Miko was so bummed about not being able to have Innosanto Nagara come [00:45:00] to the children's book club but lucky enough she and Inno were able to sit down for a bonus interview! So we're going to play that for you now. [00:45:09] Miko Lee: Welcome Innosanto Nagara to APEX Express. [00:45:12] Miko Lee: We had an AACRE book club event and I was talking about your brilliant books. As I was saying that my go-to gifts for people that I have bought many time is A is for activists and C is for community. Can you tell me a little bit about how you got started writing those? [00:45:33] Innosanto: Thank you so much. Well I wrote a as for activist because I wanted to have the book that I wanted to read to my child. You know, I live in this community, cosent community and my son was the youngest of eight to be born into our community and I'd been reading children's books to children for quite a while. And as you know, when you have kids, you read these books to them [00:46:00] often over and over and over again. And some of those books you love reading over and over and over again. And sometimes, not so much , but that's what they want, so you do it. But, when my own kid was born, I realized I was gonna be reading all these books to my kid over and over and over and over again, and I wanted to have the book that I wanted to read to my kid over and over and over again. So I wrote A is for Activist . [00:46:22] Miko Lee: And that was your first book? [00:46:24] Innosanto: Yes. I had no, aspirations towards becoming a children's book author at that point, my idea was I was just gonna write this to share with my kid, and once I had written it and I was illustrating it, I thought, well, maybe you'll print out, Maybe a dozen or maybe even a hundred and get them out as presents to friends and community members. And I found out that it turns out to do a proper board book, you couldn't only print, a couple hundred. I had to actually print a couple thousand. And so I went into this whole process of trying [00:47:00] to figure out how to finance it and, I had this idea that it was gonna be a five year project and I was borrowing money from friends and family that I would pay back over time and I would put it on a credit card if at the end of the five years it didn't pay off. [00:47:14] Innosanto: But as it turns out, I underestimated how many other people wanted a book just like this. And it took off on its own. And, the rest is history. [00:47:22] Miko Lee: So you self-published A is for Activist? [00:47:24] Innosanto: Yeah. The first time around I self-published it. I had two pallets of books in my living room, in our community living room and every morning I was packing up books to drop off at the post office and every evening I was getting all the labels printed and all this stuff. [00:47:41] Innosanto: So it became a bit of a second job. [00:47:45] Innosanto: What then happened was after we sold it out, all the books, I had to decide whether I was gonna reprint them myself and keep on doing this. Or if there would be a publisher that wanted to take it on. And I think at that point it was actually 3000 books were sold. I thought that was good proof of [00:48:00] concept and a lot of the bookstores were saying, yeah, you should approach this publisher or that publisher, they'll be really happy to publish it a lot of people want this book. [00:48:08] Innosanto: But as it turns out, at the time, self-publishing was seen as the kiss of death for books and no publishers would want to take on a book that had already been self-published. but that's changed since then and one of the publishing companies that changed that as Seven Stories press, they had published, What Makes A Baby by Corey Silverberg, which was originally self-published. And they were realizing that the fact that something was self-published did not make it something that they couldn't produce and distribute more broadly. And so they actually took on A is for Activist as well. And all my books have been published by them ever since. [00:48:45] Miko Lee: That is so interesting. Almost like filmmakers and TV shows that have come off of social media accounts it's just changing the industry in a way. [00:48:54] Innosanto: Yeah, I think there's been some experiences where the industry is opening its mind a little bit. [00:49:00] Publishing has always been a hard to break into industry with a lot of gatekeepers that represent particular demographics and what they think makes a good book. And I think, one of the positive things that's come out of people being able to do things like self-publish and Put your work out in the world without going through those gatekeepers, is that we're discovering that there's actually a lot of missed opportunities, a lot of really good things that have people are producing that perhaps those experts have somehow, missed. [00:49:37] Innosanto: And I think that's been the case in all kinds of media and music as well. So some people like, Maya Christina Gonzalez, who has been working on this field for a long time. She is the author of numerous books on multiculturalism and Gender, and she's pretty much decided to really promote self-publishing to try to fill the gap [00:50:00] of the missing number of books by and for people of color in America. [00:50:08] Miko Lee: Who's that? [00:50:09] Innosanto: Maya Christina Gonzalez. OG has been doing it for a long time. [00:50:12] Miko Lee: Love it. So I also think it's amazing that you've stayed with the same publisher all of these years and your latest book. The Wedding Portrait, I loved discovering that and one of the things we were talking about at the book club is at what age and how do you start to talk with kids about difficult topics? And I really think the wedding portrait really delves into that. Can you share with our audience what the book is about and what inspired you to create it? [00:50:42] Innosanto: Yeah, the wedding portrait. Is essentially about direct action and civil disobedience. And why sometimes to make change and pretty much all the time to make change. It requires breaking the rules. And for kids that can be a complicated Topic because they're being told [00:51:00] to follow the rules all the time. [00:51:01] Innosanto: And so much of schooling and so much of life is learning how to play by the rules. And yet to make change, we have to be able to identify the times and places when we break the rules. And so that, that book, it came out a few years back right when trump was elected, so we were all expecting that there would be a lot of rule breaking that was gonna have to happen on our side. And I guess to answer your question as to when, it's gonna be different for different kids depending on what their experience is and what their life situation is. But, the main question here is who is talking to kids about difficult subjects, right? They will be talking about difficult subjects amongst themselves in a schoolyard. They're gonna be seeing things on tv, they're gonna be talking to other adults, teachers, and so on. And so the question of how do you approach difficult subjects with [00:52:00] kids, it's really a question of who do you want to have had those conversations with them first and through these processes, through the times that we're living in. For me I think it's when they start having questions and when they start wanting to have these conversations, there's really not a time that's too early to be able to address their concerns and question. [00:52:22] Miko Lee: Thanks. So talk to me about your latest book. [00:52:24] Innosanto: Since the wedding portrait there's been a few I did a middle grade book called M is for Movement, which is set in Indonesia. The way that I talk about my books is, A is for Activist is about the issues, counting on community is about how we live. my night in the planetarium, is about art and resistance and colonialism, and of course I say they're about these, but those are sort of the underlying themes. But, My night in the planetarium is about a kid. Me, it's a true story about how growing up under the dictatorship in Indonesia and an experience that I had,[00:53:00] the wedding portrait is about direct action civil disobedience. So it's about tactics and it stems from a personal experience when my partner, I got married, we went and did a direct action civil disobedience action, and there's a photograph of that but the broader context of the book is these vignettes about the different types of direct action and civil disobedience and tactics that have been used throughout the history of social justice movements. M is for Movement is kind of like bringing all those things together. And that one's actually fiction, but it's about overthrowing the government for children. And that's a middle grade chapter book. And then after that I did, Oh all the things we're for, which is very dear to my heart because it's a lot of these other books are about direct actions civil disobedience, protests, the things that we're fighting against. But I think it's really important to also talk about the things that we're for and the solutions and [00:54:00] the better world that we can envision in terms of democracy, in terms of human rights, in terms of environmental justice. And I feel like we have lots of solutions, but we tend to focus on the problems. And it's important to have a vision of the possibilities in order to be able to be motivated to fight for change. And then the last book, I didn't write it, but I illustrated it was written by my friend, Mona Damluji, and it's called Together. And that's also board book format. And it's a bit of a poem about, You'll have to read it, but, the theme that I think comes up a lot when we're talking to children about social change is the idea of collective action. But she does it in a way that, that I found really exciting because there's a lot of really good stories about people coming together to make change. But she does it in a way that is, poetic and accessible. [00:54:55] Miko Lee: Very exciting. I have M is for movement right by my side here, and I really appreciate you [00:55:00] going into middle school, which I think was a new venture for you, right? To write for middle school age? [00:55:06] Innosanto: Yeah, pretty much. I mean, all my books have followed the age of my kids, I basically write for him. [00:55:13] Miko Lee: Does that mean you're gonna be working on a high school book coming soon? [00:55:16] Innosanto: That's always a possibility. [00:55:19] Miko Lee: I also appreciate oh, the things we are for that you're talking about the irresistible future because it's hard we get bogged down in the problems without mm-hmm. imagining the beautiful future. So thank you for that. [00:55:32] Innosanto: Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. And you know, I do believe in protest and confronting injustice, and so it's not an either or, but I do think that we do need both especially for those of us who've been in this fight for a long time, I think having the vision is important as well as having the willingness to fight against the problem. [00:55:52] Miko Lee: Absolutely. It's a yes and [00:55:54] Innosanto: yeah. Yeah. [00:55:55] Miko Lee: Thank you so much for spending some time chatting with me. I always sure look [00:56:00] forward to hearing your voice and I so appreciate your art and your contributions. Thank you, Inno. [00:56:05] Innosanto: Thank you so much for having me. [00:56:07] Swati: Thank you so much to Miko for holding this amazing AACRE book club event. the children's book hour. Thank you to Kim Ko for subbing in last minute and being completely lovely. And thank you to, Innosanto Nagara who came in for a surprise interview. I loved being able to hear about children's books that impacted everyone, children's books that they love, and children's books that they still hope to write. [00:56:33] Swati: I absolutely agree that you know, no matter how old you are, you are never too old for a picture book, especially if it has a good message. There were of course, a ton of books mentioned in the show today, and even more that weren't mentioned. We'll drop a full list into the show notes with links, so please feel free to go to kpfa.org/program/apex-express to check [00:57:00] that out. And of course, as always, we hope that you buy small and local for your nibbling and yourself. [00:57:06] Swati: Finally, thank you so, so much to East Wind Books now and for always for co-hosting these events with AACRE and allowing Miko a chance to get lost in your shelves and emerge with these treasures. We really hope that you enjoyed these recommendations and strongly encourage you to share your own recommendations with us. [00:57:25] Miko Lee: Please check out our website, kpfa.org backslash program, backslash apex express to find out more about the show tonight and to find out how you can take direct action. We thank all of you listeners out there. Keep resisting, keep organizing, keep creating and sharing your visions with the world. Your voices are important. Apex express is produced by Miko Lee Jalena Keane-Lee and Paige Chung and special editing by Swati Rayasam. Thank you so much to the KPFA staff for their support have a great night. The post APEX Express – 12.22.2022 – Children's Books at East Wind Bookstore with Ko Kim appeared first on KPFA.
This week I got the opportunity to have an amazing conversation with Ashley and Kristina the bookstagram duo and founders of Melanated Pages a "community to engage Black readers and celebrate Black authors." Talking to these ladies was such a therapeutic experience. In this episode we talked about why they started their book club and the second book in Jayne Allen's Black Girls series, "Black Girls Must Be Magic." If you haven't read the book, I recommend coming back to this episode later. Follow them on Instagram @melanated_pages Follow me on Instagram: @storieswithbri Check out my website www.storieswithbri.com Check out the video on my YouTube page. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeZIER9uxLDYD7hOoA0p0cA Please remember to like, comment, and subscribe. See you next week!
Trigger Warning: Episode contains book spoilers, discussion on abandonment and rejection, and explicit language. In this week's episode, I had the amazing opportunity to speak with Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Bibliotherapist, Em Rumble. In our hour long discussion she explains why bibliotherapy is healthy and helps us make informed decisions on giving and receiving empathy and compassion. We briefly discuss how she incorporates bibliotherapy into the treatment plan of her clients as a psychotherapist in New York City. We pull from our family life and racial identity to have an enriching conversation on Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson. Therapist Em is currently running a Bibiloiotherapy special until September 1 on her website. Click the link below and you can receive $50 off a one-on-one therapy session that includes a curated list of books to read to help future you. To receive this deal, visit her website https://literapynyc.com/ Follow her on Instagram, Facebook, and Tik Tok: @literapy_nyc Follow me on Instagram: @storieswithbri Check out my website www.storieswithbri.com Check out the video on YouTube page. Please remember to like, comment, and subscribe.
This week we're helping you build your summer reading list with recommendations from some of our favorite bookstagrammers! They each share two books they recommend we read this summer and answer a pressing question: If you could have a meal with any book character at any chain restaurant, which character and restaurant would you choose? Sarah's Picks: Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett (esp for fans of Nothing To See Here) The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger (Out July 5) Find Sarah at @sarahsbookshelves Amber's Picks Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola (Out July 5) Hope and Glory by Jendella Benson Find Amber at @byamberburns and www.byamberburns.com Pheobe's Picks Every Summer After by Carley Fortune A Hundred Other Girls by Iman Hariri-Kia (Out July 26) Find Phoebe at @readandwright Morgan's Picks You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li Find Morgan at @nycbookgirl (and check out our last ep with morgan here!) Ashley's Picks Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Out July 5) Vacationland by Meg Mitchell Moore (Out June 14) Find Ashley at @ashleyspivey, @spiveysbookclub Becca's Picks Book Lovers by Emily Henry Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close Olivia's Picks Flying Solo by Linda Holmes (out June 14) The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead (Out August 16) (check content warnings for this one!) Obsessions Olivia: New Boden dresses Becca: Ten Percent via Amazon Prime What we read this week! Becca: I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close Olivia: The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins The It Girl by Ruth Ware (Out July 12) Cover Story by Susan Rigetti This Month's Book Club Pick: Cover Story by Susan Rigetti Sponsors: Olive and June: Visit OliveandJune.com/Paper for 20% off your first Mani System. Bad On Paper: get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/badonpaper. ZocDoc: go to Zocdoc.com/BOP to download the Zocdoc app for free and start your search for a top-rated doctor today. Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.
In today's Bonus Episode, Bianca first chats with Jessica Payne, author of Make Me Disappear, about getting "the call"; how long the editorial process can take before going on sub; how publishing is like dating; how to tell when you're close to getting offers of representation; writing under contract while launching a debut; and establishing relationships with Bookstagrammers and a potential launch team before you've sold the book.Bianca then talks with Amy Jones, award-winning author of Every Little Piece of Me about writing as rewriting; saving your deleted work; how drafting a novel is like building a house; place-holding chapters and scenes; and drafting mode versus revising mode.After which Carly and CeCe answer your burning questions.Finally, Emilie Sommer from East City Bookshop gives you comps titles!Find us on our socials:Twitter: @TSNOTYAW @BiancaM_author @carlywatters @ceciliaclyraInstagram: @biancamarais_author @carlywatters @cece_lyra_agent @ the_shit_about_writingFacebook: @tsnotyawWebsite: www.biancamarais.com and www.theshitaboutwriting.comJessica can be found on Twitter at @authorjessicapayne and on Instagram at @jessicapayne.writer and at www.jessicapayne.netAmy can be found on Twitter at @amylaurajones and Instagram at @amlaujo and at www.amyjonesauthor.comEmilie can be found on Instagram at @emiliegsommer and East City Bookshop can be found at @eastcitybookshop
Welcome back for Season 2 of the Stories With Bri podcast! I'm kicking this season off with a very powerful discussion between myself and fellow Bookstagrammer Zakiya Jones. Zakiya is a social worker, cat mom, and fiction fanatic according to her Bookstagram bio. She brings a ball of energy to the podcast conversation and I truly enjoyed talking to her. We talk about her love for literature, why she created her bookstagram page and have a very engaging heart-to-heart discussion about Ashley C. Ford's "Somebody's Daughter." If you haven't read the book yet, this is your warning because there are plenty of spoilers here. This is also your trigger warning conversation includes discussion on sexual assault, family trauma, and eating disorders. Follow Kiya on her Instagram page @reader.bae You can follow me on Instagram @storieswithbri YouTube video can be found at this link here. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeZIER9uxLDYD7hOoA0p0cA Check out my website here. https://www.storieswithbri.com/ Please don't forget to like, share, and subscribe to this podcast and my YouTube channel. Thank you for the support!
Recently, I joined a very niche community on Instagram affectionately title "Bookstagram." I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of great people over the last few months and I wanted to highlight them and their stories while talking about books we have read and enjoyed together. First up, is Jasmine "Jas" Buck. Jas is a mom, educator, and avid book reader and book content creator. I had a fun conversation with her as we discussed Issa Rae's "Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl," and her own journey growing up as an awkward Black girl and developing a love for reading. She is a lot of fun! Follow her on Instagram @jas_reads24. You can follow me on Instagram @storieswithbri YouTube video can be found at this link here. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeZIER9uxLDYD7hOoA0p0cA Check out my website here. https://www.storieswithbri.com/ Please don't forget to like, share, and subscribe to this podcast and my YouTube channel. Thank you for the support!
Episode 115 / Cindy Burnett, host of the Thoughts from a Page Podcast, joins us this week and shares tips for authors who want to pitch book reviewers, podcasters, or bookstrammers. We also talk about Cindy's Patreon and how she's structured it to appeal to readers. Show notes: How Cindy's love of reading launched her into reviewing books, writing columns about books, and eventually podcasti How she decides which books to read and review What Cindy wishes authors knew about book reviewers/bloggers/podcasters Common mistakes authors make when they reach out to podcasters and reviewers Common mistakes Cindy sees in books that are a turn off How Cindy's set up her Patreon to attract readers The advantages and challenges of in-person book events Come over and say hi to Jami and Sara in the WIKT Facebook group! You can find show notes and links at wishidknownforwriters.com. Links: Cindy's podcast website: https://www.thoughtsfromapage.com Twitter: @burn555555 Instagram: @thoughtsfromapage Facebook Author Page: @thoughtsfromapage The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes Jami's Launch Plan Sara's Book Release Timeline Checklist Jami's books Sara's books
Kathleen Carter has worked with bestselling authors for years and has launched publicity campaigns for many of our most treasured books. It takes a lot of know-how to work in the publishing industry and her book promotions have garnered the attention of many bestselling authors and literary agents.Today we discuss how she landed this dream job, what goes into book publicity, and what really helps drive book sales for authors.She also shares the social media scoop on how to land those advanced readers, how to write and tag your book reviews, and what helps book marketing the most. Bookstagrammers will love this thoughtful feedback and a glimpse at Kathleen's reading routines.We end our time with some of Kathleen's favorite backlist and under-the-radar book gems that I can't wait to check out.Mentioned in this episode:MomAdvice Book Club ShirtReading RetreatMy Sister's Keeper by Jodi PicoultKirkus ReviewsGone Girl by Gillian FlynnKindle First ReadsBook of the MonthDear Pope Francis by Pope FrancisPope Francis Meets Children Letter WritersHidden Girl: The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave by Shyima HallPeople Magazine Shyima Hall: My Escape From SlaveryThe Dollhouse by Fiona DavisBookGang Podcast: Best Thriller Books You Might Have Missed with Mary KubicaHamnet by Maggie O'FarrellTranscendent Kingdom by Yaa GyasiOlga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl GonzalezInside Out by Demi MooreGoing There by Katie CouricPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenMusical Chairs by Amy PoeppelElin Hildebrand Literati Book ClubLimelight by Amy PoeppelMadWoman by Louisa TregerViola ShipmanMagic Season: A Son's Story by Wade RouseConnect With Us:Amy is @momadvice on InstagramKathleen on TwitterKathleen on InstagramKathleen Carter Communicationspatreon.com/momadvice
In today's Books with Hooks, Carly and CeCe kick it back old-school to review the same three query letters. During the segment, they discuss avoiding flowery language, especially in a query; avoiding "reviewing" your own work and letting the pages show what kind of work it is; pitching your story rather than your writing; making sure you have the right category/genre, so that the right people read it and judge it accordingly; and getting creative with your POV when you need to write a character that isn't a main character.After which, Bookstagrammer Femi Omotade joins us again to interview #1 NYT Bestselling Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half. They discuss the writer's responsibility to their reader; not giving yourself the burden of having to educate the reader; writing with an intelligent reader in mind; imagining that the reader is smarter than you; not trying to be universally appealing; writing as specifically as possible; how reviews are for readers, not writers; finding ways to protect your boundaries; how the book (rather than the author) is the product; and aiming for tonal fluctuations in a book. Find us on our socials: Twitter: @SNOTYAW @BiancaM_author @carlywatters @ceciliaclyra Instagram: @biancamarais_author @carlywatters @cece_lyra_agent @ the_shit_about_writingFacebook: @tsnotyawWebsite: www.biancamarais.comBrit Bennett can be found at www.britbennett.com and on Instagram and Twitter at @britrbennettFemi Omotade can be found on Instagram at @thebookalert
In an attempt to invite people into my Launch Team for Prax (coming April 2022!), we discovered that most people - including authors and Bookstagrammers - have no idea what a Launch Team even is!Well, we are about to fix that.And when I say "we", I really mean me, Nikki Auberkett, and my co-host, Quill (who tried to edit this episode by deleting 80% of it).Check out the new company, and new website, at www.talaeditorial.comFollow us on Instagram @thetalaeditorialAnd, as always, follow your favorite developmental editor on Instagram @nikkiauberkettWant to join the Prax Launch Team and get exclusive behind-the-scenes updates, early access to the ebook, and a signed copy - all for FREE? Sign up here at bit.ly/Prax2022
Skylight's own Lance Morgan is joined on the first Handsell of the year by Christine Bollow, the Programs and Marketing Manager for Loyalty Bookstores and a Bookstagrammer @readingismagical. She serves on the ABA's Bookseller Advisory Committee and is a contributor for the Feminist Book Club Podcast. Christine's book recommendations have been featured in Buzzfeed Books and Elle.com and she was highlighted by Books Forward as one of 10 Bookstagrammers to Follow for Asian & Pacific American Heritage Month. _______________________________________________ Produced by Natalie Freeman, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski. Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang. Visit https://www.skylightbooks.com/event for future offerings from the Skylight Books Events team.
For the last episode in this series, we will hear from some more of Bookstgram's favourites! @sarahsbookchat Still Life - Sarah Winman Love Stories - Trent Dalton The Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Emezi @anopenbookshelf Born Into This - Adam Thompson Henry Hamlet's Heart- Rhiannon Wilde Sorrow and Bliss- Meg Mason @becsbookshelf A Court of Silver Flames- Sarah J Maas Below Deck - Sophie Hardcastle Henry Hamlet's Heart - Rhiannon Wilde @thereadingaffair A Million Things- Emily Spurr Paper Palace- Miranda Cowley Heller 100 Days- Alice Pung @books_bymybed The Paper Palace- Amanda Crowley Heller The Last Woman in the World- Inga Simpson Happy Hour - Jacquie Byron @bedsidebookshelf A Little Life- Hanya Yanagihara The Love Hypothesis- Ali Hazelwood It's Been A Pleasure Noni Blake- Claire Christian @checkyourshelf_ It's Been A Pleasure Noni Blake- Claire Christian Songs in Ursa Major- Emma Brodie Before You Knew My Name- Jacqueline Bublitz @mrlovesbookshelf What Do You Celebrate?- Ashleigh Barton & Martina Heiduezek The Deep- Kyle Perry Back After The Break- Osher Gunsberg @hide.and.go.read Love Stories- Trent Dalton Work. Love. Body. - Edited by Helen McCabe & Jamila Rizvi Life's Too Short- Abby Jimenez Unwell Women- Elinor Cleghorn @aplaceinthesun The Inheritance- Gabriel Bergmoser Wild Place- Christian White With You Forever- Chloe Liese I would love to hear from you! Follow the podcast on IG https://www.instagram.com/sonovelpodcast Or follow my personal account for more bookish content https://www.instagram.com/what_jess_read
Victoria shares her personal top ten books of 2021. In part six of our six-part "top ten books of 2021" series, Victoria closes out the series and season one of the podcast with her personal top ten books of 2021. Download your copy of The BiblioLifestyle 2022 Winter Reading Guide! All books in the guide are organized into categories (we even have one dedicated to the minimalist reader), plus you'll find some fun recipes, things to do at home, and tips to help you improve your reading life. So download your copy of the guide here.Subscribe to the BiblioLifestyle weekly newsletter to get weekly bookish news, curated book lists, inspiration, and podcast updates. You can also join and support our Patreon community, where I share bonus episodes, exclusive content, and you can influence future episodes.Online LinksWebsite: thereaderscouch.com Instagram: @thecouchisbooked Facebook: @thecouchisbooked Twitter: @thecouchisbookd Patreon: patreon.com/bibliolifestyle
Two readers join Victoria on the couch to share their top ten books of 2021. In part five of our six-part "top ten books of 2021" series is Michelle Martin, the bookstagrammer behind @michellereadsbooks, and Kimberly Poole, the creator and bookstagrammer behind @melaninmindscape. Download your copy of The BiblioLifestyle 2022 Winter Reading Guide! All books in the guide are organized into categories (we even have one dedicated to the minimalist reader), plus you'll find some fun recipes, things to do at home, and tips to help you improve your reading life. So download your copy of the guide here.Subscribe to the BiblioLifestyle weekly newsletter to get weekly bookish news, curated book lists, inspiration, and podcast updates. You can also join and support our Patreon community, where I share bonus episodes, exclusive content, and you can influence future episodes.Online LinksWebsite: thereaderscouch.com Instagram: @thecouchisbooked Facebook: @thecouchisbooked Twitter: @thecouchisbookd Patreon: patreon.com/bibliolifestyle
Welcome to the Summer Series! I have some of my fave people jumping on to share their top books of 2021! I would love to hear from you! Follow the podcast on IG https://www.instagram.com/sonovelpodcast Or follow my personal account for more bookish content https://www.instagram.com/what_jess_read @what_jess_read The Deal - Elle Kennedy Milk Fed - Melissa Broder The Coconut Children - Vivian Pham @thats.novel Raybearer - Jordan Ifueko Wild Place - Christian White Project Hail Mary- Andy Weir @katie.reads.things Piranesi- Susanna Clarke The Royal We- Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan Firekeepers Daughter- Angeline Boulley @shehasareaderssoul_ Dead Simple- Peter James The Wife and the Widow- Christian White The Light between Oceans- M. L Steadman @chaptersofnorth Six of Crows- Leigh Bardugo Bath Hause - PJ Vernon The Guncle- Steven Rowley @whiskersandwords_ The Butterfly Garden- Dot Hutchinson The Hunted - Gabriel Bergmoser The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo- Taylor Jenkins Reid Jar of Hearts- Jennifer Hillier @justabookishbabe @betterwordspod Freckles- Cecelia Ahearn Henry Hamlet's Heart - Rhiannon Wilde Social Queue- Kay Kerr @_whatkatiereadnext_ The Good Sister- Sally Hepworth The Riviera House- Natasha Lester With You Forever - Chloe Lise @hayleys.little.library The Simple Wild - K.A. Tucker Snowflake- Louise Nealon Insatiable- Daisy Buchanan
Two readers join Victoria on the couch to share their top ten books of 2021. In part four of our six-part "top ten books of 2021" series is Kelly Hooker, the bookstagrammer behind @kellyhook.readsbooks, and Kimberlee, the creator behind @reading.wanderwoman. Download your copy of The BiblioLifestyle 2022 Winter Reading Guide! All books in the guide are organized into categories (we even have one dedicated to the minimalist reader), plus you'll find some fun recipes, things to do at home, and tips to help you improve your reading life. So download your copy of the guide here.Subscribe to the BiblioLifestyle weekly newsletter to get weekly bookish news, curated book lists, inspiration, and podcast updates. You can also join and support our Patreon community, where I share bonus episodes, exclusive content, and you can influence future episodes.Online LinksWebsite: thereaderscouch.com Instagram: @thecouchisbooked Facebook: @thecouchisbooked Twitter: @thecouchisbookd Patreon: patreon.com/bibliolifestyle
Two readers join Victoria on the couch to share their top ten books of 2021.In part three of our six-part "top ten books of 2021" series is Aimee Gruenwald, the bookstagrammer behind @readwithaimee, and Kelly Lycurgus, the bookstagrammer behind @kellzisbookedup and @diversereading. Download your copy of The BiblioLifestyle 2022 Winter Reading Guide! All books in the guide are organized into categories (we even have one dedicated to the minimalist reader), plus you'll find some fun recipes, things to do at home, and tips to help you improve your reading life. So download your copy of the guide here.Subscribe to the BiblioLifestyle weekly newsletter to get weekly bookish news, curated book lists, inspiration, and podcast updates. You can also join and support our Patreon community, where I share bonus episodes, exclusive content, and you can influence future episodes.Online LinksWebsite: thereaderscouch.com Instagram: @thecouchisbooked Facebook: @thecouchisbooked Twitter: @thecouchisbookd Patreon: patreon.com/bibliolifestyle
Two readers join Victoria on the couch to share their top ten books of 2021.In part two of our six-part "top ten books of 2021" series is Jennifer Furr, the bookstagrammer behind @jm_bibliolater, and Abigail Singrey, the bookstagrammer behind @abigailslostinabook.Download your copy of The BiblioLifestyle 2022 Winter Reading Guide! All books in the guide are organized into categories (we even have one dedicated to the minimalist reader), plus you'll find some fun recipes, things to do at home, and tips to help you improve your reading life. So download your copy of the guide here.Subscribe to the BiblioLifestyle weekly newsletter to get weekly bookish news, curated book lists, inspiration, and podcast updates. You can also join and support our Patreon community, where I share bonus episodes, exclusive content, and you can influence future episodes.Online LinksWebsite: thereaderscouch.com Instagram: @thecouchisbooked Facebook: @thecouchisbooked Twitter: @thecouchisbookd Patreon: patreon.com/bibliolifestyle
Two readers join Victoria on the couch to share their top ten books of 2021.Kicking off part one of our six-part "top ten books of 2021" series is Kim Brock, the bookstagrammer behind @novelsistah, and Dee Baker, the bookstagrammer behind @wordsandcyphers.Download your copy of The BiblioLifestyle 2022 Winter Reading Guide! All books in the guide are organized into categories (we even have one dedicated to the minimalist reader), plus you'll find some fun recipes, things to do at home, and tips to help you improve your reading life. So download your copy of the guide here.Subscribe to the BiblioLifestyle weekly newsletter to get weekly bookish news, curated book lists, inspiration, and podcast updates. You can also join and support our Patreon community, where I share bonus episodes, exclusive content, and you can influence future episodes.Online LinksWebsite: thereaderscouch.com Instagram: @thecouchisbooked Facebook: @thecouchisbooked Twitter: @thecouchisbookd Patreon: patreon.com/bibliolifestyle
Two readers join Victoria on the couch to share the books they recommend you gift this holiday season. Victoria shares her recommendations as well.In part four of our four-part "books to gift" series is Gisselle, the Blogger and Bookstagrammer behind the account @gissellereads and Tayler Simon, the Founder of Liberation is Lit @liberationislit.Get your FREE copy of The 2021 BiblioLifestyle Holiday Gift Guide and get a gift for everyone this holiday season. Whether you're looking for a gift for someone or you want to treat your shelf, you'll definitely find some options in the guide! So be sure to download your FREE copy of The 2021 BiblioLifestyle Holiday Gift Guide.Download your copy of The BiblioLifestyle 2022 Winter Reading Guide! All books in the guide are organized into categories (we even have one dedicated to the minimalist reader), plus you'll find some fun recipes, things to do at home, and tips to help you improve your reading life. So download your copy of the guide here.Subscribe to the BiblioLifestyle weekly newsletter to get weekly bookish news, curated book lists, inspiration, and podcast updates. You can also join and support our Patreon community, where I share bonus episodes, exclusive content, and you can influence future episodes.Online LinksWebsite: thereaderscouch.com Instagram: @thecouchisbooked Facebook: @thecouchisbooked Twitter: @thecouchisbookd Patreon: patreon.com/bibliolifestyle
Three readers join Victoria on the couch to share the books they recommend that you gift this holiday season.In part three of our four-part "books to gift" series is Lisa Harrison, the Bookstagrammer behind the account @lisagetslit; Mindy Von Elling, the Bookstagrammer and Lifestyle Content Creator behind @lifebymindyleigh and Lindsey Lanza, the Bookstagrammer behind @readwithli.Get your FREE copy of The 2021 BiblioLifestyle Holiday Gift Guide and get a gift for everyone this holiday season. Whether you're looking for a gift for someone or you want to treat your shelf, you'll definitely find some options in the guide! So be sure to download your FREE copy of The 2021 BiblioLifestyle Holiday Gift Guide.Download your copy of The BiblioLifestyle 2022 Winter Reading Guide! All books in the guide are organized into categories (we even have one dedicated to the minimalist reader), plus you'll find some fun recipes, things to do at home, and tips to help you improve your reading life. So download your copy of the guide here.Subscribe to the BiblioLifestyle weekly newsletter to get weekly bookish news, curated book lists, inspiration, and podcast updates. You can also join and support our Patreon community, where I share bonus episodes, exclusive content, and you can influence future episodes.Online LinksWebsite: thereaderscouch.com Instagram: @thecouchisbooked Facebook: @thecouchisbooked Twitter: @thecouchisbookd Patreon: patreon.com/bibliolifestyle
Three readers join Victoria on the couch to share the books they recommend that you gift this holiday season.In part two of our four-part "books to gift" series is Rachel, a Frolic contributor and the bookstagrammer behind the account @rcbooksandfood; Caro, the bookstagrammer behind @sanjariti and Allie B, the bookstagrammer behind @literallybookedsolid.Get your FREE copy of The 2021 BiblioLifestyle Holiday Gift Guide and get a gift for everyone this holiday season. Whether you're looking for a gift for someone or you want to treat your shelf, you'll definitely find some options in the guide! So be sure to download your FREE copy of The 2021 BiblioLifestyle Holiday Gift Guide.Download your copy of The BiblioLifestyle 2022 Winter Reading Guide! All books in the guide are organized into categories (we even have one dedicated to the minimalist reader), plus you'll find some fun recipes, things to do at home, and tips to help you improve your reading life. So download your copy of the guide here.Subscribe to the BiblioLifestyle weekly newsletter to get weekly bookish news, curated book lists, inspiration, and podcast updates. You can also join and support our Patreon community, where I share bonus episodes, exclusive content, and you can influence future episodes.Online LinksWebsite: thereaderscouch.com Instagram: @thecouchisbooked Facebook: @thecouchisbooked Twitter: @thecouchisbookd Patreon: patreon.com/bibliolifestyle
Three readers join Victoria on the couch to share the books they recommend that you gift this holiday season.Kicking off part one of our four-part "books to gift" series is Jen Olsen, one half of @thebookishsisterhood book club on Instagram; Amanda Benwell, the bookstagrammer behind @lilacsandliterature and Suzy Lew Book Review, the bookstagrammer behind @suzylew_bookreview.Get your FREE copy of The 2021 BiblioLifestyle Holiday Gift Guide and get a gift for everyone this holiday season. Whether you're looking for a gift for someone or you want to treat your shelf, you'll definitely find some options in the guide! So be sure to download your FREE copy of The 2021 BiblioLifestyle Holiday Gift Guide.Download your copy of The BiblioLifestyle 2021 Fall Reading List! All books in the guide are organized into categories (we even have one dedicated to the minimalist reader), plus you'll find some fun recipes, things to do at home, and tips to help you improve your reading life. So download your copy of the guide at: bibliolifestyle.com/2021frl.Subscribe to the BiblioLifestyle weekly newsletter to get weekly bookish news, curated book lists, inspiration, and podcast updates. You can also join and support our Patreon community, where I share bonus episodes, exclusive content, and you can influence future episodes.Online LinksWebsite: thereaderscouch.com Instagram: @thecouchisbooked Facebook: @thecouchisbooked Twitter: @thecouchisbookd Patreon: patreon.com/bibliolifestyle
Today we have book recommendations from one of my favorite Bookstagrammers, Olivias.Bookish.World. Come see what literary escapes she has in store for us and what books she recommends. Books mentioned in this episode Delicious! by Ruth Reichl Moon Called (Mercy Thompson series) by Patricia Briggs The Other Side of Lost by Jessi Kirby What if You & Me by Roni Loren CLICK HERE to Learn More about any of these books Links from this episode Literary Escape Book Club Olivia on Instagram - @olivias.bookish.world Olivia on Twitter - @OliviasBookish
https://triunfacontulibro.com/Hay un movimiento imparable. Y el que no lo quiera ver, está “ciego”:Es el del colectivo de los “influencers” (YouTubers, Instagrammers, etc). Es el del colectivo de jóvenes comunicadores que se mueven como pez en el agua en las redes sociales. No son unos jovenzuelos sin “fundamento”, son grandes comunicadores, profesionales y muy “currantes”. Parte de su éxito es escuchar y comprender muy bien a sus audiencias.En el episodio de hoy entrevistamos a Judith, una bookstagrammer de gran éxito conocida como @loslibrosdejuliet.Judith en su cuenta de Instagram comenta, recomienda y reseña los libros que le gustan y cree que van a gustar a sus cerca de 50.000 seguidores.Una de las seguidoras de Judith es nada más ni nada menos que Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, la ganadora de la última edición del Premio Planeta. Esta escritora, que comenzó autopublicando sus primeras novelas, desde que comenzó a publicar sus obras se dio cuenta de dos cosas:Si quieres llamar la atención de una editorial lo mejor que puede hacer es autopublicar y no enviarles propuestas en frío.La importancia de las redes sociales y de conectar con gente influyente (cómo nuestra entrevistada de hoy) para conectar con tu público lector y promocionar tu obra. En esta entrevista Judit nos cuenta:Cómo y por qué se hizo bookstagrammerEl tipo de bookstagrammers que recomienda a los autores contactar según el género de sus libros y su propia audiencia en redes sociales. Cómo selecciona los libros que recomienda Cómo trabaja Instagram para llegar conseguir interactividad por parte de su audiencia Qué tipo de contenidos publica en historias y cuales como posts o Reels.Un par de ideas muy creativas para promocionar nuestros libros.
In the regular Books with Hooks segment, author and host, Bianca Marais, chats with P.S. Literary agents extraordinaire, Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra about query letters and opening pages that listeners have submitted. After which, Bianca interviews Traci Thomas, Bookstagrammer and host of the wildly popular podcast, The Stacks, about the value of Bookstagrammers, the influence of social media, and fighting for the the community who champions authors.
You've probably heard of Instagram Influencers, but did you know there are book influencers there too? We discuss what Bookstagrammers are and the age bracket of readers on Instagram. Because the best Bookstagrammers are passionate readers! Plus, we look into how to network with Bookstagrammers, some of the things they can (and can't) do for your book, and how to find the right Bookstagrammer for you. Tune in for new episodes EVERY single Monday. SUPPORT THE AM WRITING FANTASY PODCAST! Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review. Join us at www.patreon.com/AmWritingFantasy. For as little as a dollar a month, you'll get awesome rewards and keep the Am Writing Fantasy podcast going. Read the full transcript below. (Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion). Narrator (2s): You're listening to The Am writing Fantasy Podcast in today's publishing landscape. You can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need a literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from Writing. Join two best selling authors who have self published more than 20 books between them now on to the show with your hosts, Autumn Birt and Jesper Schmidt. Jesper (30s): Hello, I am Jesper Autumn (31s): And I, I am Autumn. Jesper (33s): This is episode 116 of The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast. And today we will have a conversation around waiting out to Book influences or Bookstagrammers I, if that's something we could call those people, they get your books. Yes. That will be interesting. It, it will be like Instagram. Autumn (55s): Well, I usually like Instagram, but we'll get it into that later. I had a cup last week and nothing. I did nothing I touched or broke, but I did notice a neutral ground at the end now we'll get there. And so how are things for you? Jesper (1m 14s): It's a good, I was actually out with my youngest son for, to soccer practice for the first time in a very, very long time today to, to, you know, the Corona lockdown. Yeah. And that was pretty cool at the time. It got pretty cold, pretty fast. I must say that's too funny. I suppose what's the word it's still spring, but it can't be that bad over there. No. Well, the temperature just drop really fast to all of a sudden, you know, We was M I think when we went, there was probably like 10 degrees Celsius and then one and a half hour later, when is the training finished? Jesper (1m 57s): It was a two degrees and I was, and I was standing still. Of course you were just standing there watching it, right. So it's standing still for one and a half hours or while the temperature just drops it. Well, it becomes pretty cold after a while. It's probably a better to be the referee and be like running around and keeping warm much better. Yeah. Much better. Yes. And shouting at people and stuff like that. A little, keep your adrenaline going. Oh, geez. Yeah. Well, you know, you've got to get your exercise, your, a cheer for your son, even though it was just practiced. So it was in a game, but still you can be out there shouting. No, no, no, no. Jesper (2m 37s): I don't think that's good. I mean, it's some, some parents just don't know how to control themselves, honestly. And there's just let, let them have fun. Let them play why'd you have to stand up and shout at them. So that's not just the U S trait that's that's over in the European union too. Autumn (2m 52s): That's good to know that it was just as crazy as Americans. Jesper (2m 56s): Yeah. It's not good. Yeah. Oh, and by the way, It should also mention a name because the PODCAST people can see this, But something new. We've actually, we started recording videos as well, while we are recording this podcast episodes. So, so if anyone wants to, wants to see us then a head on over to the Am, Writing Fantasy, YouTube channel, Autumn. I, No it's Yes. Our, how we do record, these has changed in their offering video. And last week we, we could have done last week, but I was still under an old modem that had a three megabyte upload speed. Jesper (3m 38s): I am in a really rural area, rural cellphone internet, but we just got five G modem. And it actually is just the fastest internet we've ever had. So I'm feeling pretty good. And, and it's a working. I didn't send it up to my husband. Did I didn't touch it? He won't let me. So this was the big rollout, which is pretty good timing. Autumn (4m 5s): We only missed one potential episode that we could've recorded with a video. So it's not too bad. Jesper (4m 13s): Yeah. So the Am Writing Fantasy, YouTube channel will show the video feed as well. If anybody interests. I don't know. I can't see why anybody would be, But, but if they are then that's it. Autumn (4m 28s): Yeah, absolutely. I'm in my husband actually. He's been complaining. I was like, I don't think I like YouTube videos that, or just static images and, well, I'm not saying anything like that. That's ours, but now it isn't. So that's a good thing. Jesper (4m 42s): Yeah. Yeah. So anything else going on on your side? Autumn (4m 48s): Well, everything, everything. I mean, I, I, I feel like, you know how it is when you, things just aren't going well. And I feel like I was stuck and I'm just sitting there spinning my wheels and grinding the gears and whatever was holding me back. I was just trying to move an inch, but whatever it was holding me back, let me go. And instead of just moving an edge, I got Slingshot it to like the next state. And suddenly my life goes from like, just trying to get one thing done to suddenly like 20 things coming at me. And it's good. It's good. But it's just suddenly I can't keep up with suddenly everything that's coming towards me. A little things I'd said in motion ages ago when I was just trying to move that a little bit of an edge. Autumn (5m 31s): So I, I think of it, it it's like playing a game of catch up, but your opponent or your cooperator as invisible in there throwing hot rocks in and just grasping in air and hoping to stay afloat. But yeah, so it was a total change and I haven't broken anything and suddenly things are working well, and that's a good thing, but I'm not caught up yet. Jesper (6m 0s): Yeah. Well, sooner or later, right? Autumn (6m 4s): Yeah. As I said, my tombstone will say to be continued. Narrator (6m 7s): A week on the internet with The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast. Jesper (6m 12s): Sorry. I started the sound of it too early there, but I have in mind. So just a last reminder here, if you didn't pick it up from last week's episode, we are currently running as a special off on Patrion. Yes. Which is fantastic. We hope you will come in and join us over there. At least come and check us out for just a dollar a month. You can join us and help support this podcast, which we definitely appreciate. Nothing's free. I mean, the software we use for uploading and recording and hosting it all costs a little bit. So every bit helps us afford that. So if you like us Patriana is one way of not only helping to support us, but getting something back, especially right now during these special sign up offers. Jesper (7m 3s): Yeah. So for a limited time, everyone who joins us on Patrion will get some extra prices on top of the ones that we already offer. Each one of the different T levels. So every one, and that includes the existing patron supporters will get an e-book of our, a guide that is called a plot development, which is an end to end on a walk through step by step on how to develop a platform novel and also develop the characters and the character arcs. And we will also make a draw. Yes. One lucky winner will get to have a mentoring session by session with both of us on something. Autumn (7m 48s): I assume it'll be on the books. I hope they get their writing publishing. I don't know if we did we limit from what you're mentoring session could be a line. I can do a small house building, but hopefully, hopefully it'll be on the close and learning how to swim a mile. Oh, you have to be a referee as a soccer coach. Oh yeah. Yeah. Okay. So we can do it a few things. Yes. We have to travel the world, but how to behave yourself would be better. It won't be good at it that way. So that it'll be fun. I mean, if it gets one on one coaching, so that it'll be fantastic. Jesper (8m 31s): Yeah. So in a shorter has never been a better time to sign up to SUPPORT THE AM WRITING FANTASY PODCAST and right now, but you will need to be quick about it. 'cause this special offer ends on the 22nd of March. So as always, you will find the links to patron in the show notes. Narrator (8m 53s): Yeah. And on to today's topic. Jesper (8m 57s): Okay. So what are we talking about here? Autumn (9m 2s): We are talking about Instagram, which Okay. True confession for you. How often are you on Instagram? Jesper (9m 9s): I don't even have an account. Autumn (9m 12s): What is the wait? Was I supposed to prepare something for today? A Yes. Do we need to cut it now? So you thank you. And that was it. Oh, you know, I'm good at my hope. You're not alone. This is, I know. So I don't even have an account, but you've seen Instagram. Right. You know, you, you can look at it and you can see it from computers, other places, even if you don't have an account. So I'm hoping you might be seen an Instagram post before. Jesper (9m 48s): No. Or yes, Autumn (9m 51s): but mostly you can't see much to be honest because of your, if you click on it an Instagram post and you don't have an account, you can see the image, but then it will just ask you to log in. So you can really do anything. You, you could just see the image. So that's more or less of a, I think before Facebook bot, you could actually see the posts and everything. It was more like Twitter where you could actually follow it and see it. I remember seeing websites that would have all of their Instagram images. So yeah. I could see Facebook. Maybe we missed it up a little bit, but we won't go there. Jesper (10m 24s): But No. Autumn (10m 25s): So Instagram, I have five minutes. So maybe it's been one of my favorite social media platforms of probably in the last couple of years. I used to be a big on Twitter. Twitter. I've never liked Facebook, but Instagram. I like, so I don't mind talking about this one. Jesper (10m 43s): No. And I think we will see how we get to it, but I would like to have some thoughts, at least around the effectiveness of it all as you see it. Yeah. No, no, but maybe we will get to that. I don't know. Autumn (10m 59s): But, but yes, definitely. Well, I think we should start with, for anyone else, not familiar with it. If you're looking at maybe trying out Instagram, so Bookstagram is a hashtag on Instagram and it just one of many hashtags that are out there. I mean, some of the others Bookstagrammer, which you did come up with that is correct. There. Everyone who does a Bookstagram is a Bookstagrammer there's books, books, books, and reading, live Book, life books of Instagram, readers of Instagram. There's all of these hashtags and Instagram is different because you can follow hashtags just like people. So you can follow your Bookstagrammer. Autumn (11m 39s): As you can follow Fantasy Readers, you can follow FANTASY readers. That's a good one to follow. And then you can interact, you know, find a new post to people you don't even follow well by following the hashtag. And so that's what a Bookstagram is that it gives you an idea. So it's a very active, you might be surprised. There's a lot of readers. There's a lot of active Book audience on Instagram, and there are geared towards a younger, you know, it's mostly thirties and younger. So if you are a Y a or if your target audience is a younger crowd, this is a good place to hang out and get to know people because they tend to be friendly. Autumn (12m 21s): And, but yeah, it's fun, but there's definitely some Instagram rules and ways of approaching. If you want to use it as an advertising platform, there's definitely some, some ways of doing it in some ways of not doing it. Of course. Jesper (12m 40s): Okay. We definitely need to get into some of those, but, but it basically, so it's basic, it's basically like Book tubers, but just on Instagram is, is it's a sort of the same thing, right? Yeah. Autumn (12m 53s): Yes. Not that I, I don't do videos, so I don't know anything about Book tuber as we do that PODCAST. It is all on. Okay. Jesper (13m 5s): Yeah. But, but a Book, tube be is this, usually those people on YouTube who will review books and then talk about what they felt about the book and, and so on and so on. But I don't know how much they do have that on, on instinct. Autumn (13m 17s): Yeah. It depends. And that's, what's really the key. So I think most people hear about Instagram influencers. I mean, they've been targeted by, you know, some Instagram influencers have millions of followers and they make lots of money by reviewing products or promoting products, right. On their channel. For some reason, Instagram, it's sort of Okay to be a promoter, like a lifestyle promoter. Instagram is more selling a lifestyle than a specific thing. So if you are a Bookstagrammer, you're selling a lifestyle of reading Fantasy and being a huge Fantasy fan. Autumn (13m 58s): And that's one of the key things to remember. I mean, they can have thousands of followers. They can have lots of comments and it's great to interact with them. So they are Influencers. But I think what are the biggest take-aways is that these are people who are serious and professional about building a brand, just like we, as authors are serious and professional about building our brands. So you're coming, and this was not a book reviewer. It was a blog that you were just like, Hey, give you a free Book. Well, you look at my book. This is someone who has spent sometimes hundreds of dollars to buy little props for their images. They have a whole look, they have a color scheme, they have a genre, they have something about them that is really that there they're trying to sell and promote as well as gain new followers. Autumn (14m 44s): And you're kind of tapping into someone, especially the upper tier ones that these are the people that are professional about this. You have to treat them as an equal and not as like, yeah, just give me a free book to me as I mentioned. Okay. So there, you should be a little more serious and especially Instagram, it is all about the image. They, there are some people who do videos and so you will get stories. There's Instagram stories that they only last for 24 hours and you will get them. There can be only 15 seconds. And so maybe you'll get them holding up your Book and they'll see a little blurb about it and then it'll be gone or they can do a post about it. And for that, they usually do the pictures and the little, I mean, it's, there are some of the top tier Bookstagrammers, Oh my goodness. Autumn (15m 26s): I want to, I don't know how many props and things they have that you have worn, especially the ones that are in a fantasy genre. Dragon's and one's and Crystal's and sparkly lights. And it's just crazy what they have on it. It makes me want to have a bigger cabin every time we see them. Jesper (15m 49s): Yeah. But I also think that its, it made us a lot too as well as you know, I think you've probably alluded to it, their right. But I would think that they met us a lot to get the right type of influencer in a, it it's not like a one size fits all thing. You need to find somebody who, who loves your showing. Right. And caters to that type of audience, I guess. Right? Autumn (16m 12s): Yeah. Absolutely. And that's one of the things, I mean, if you just ha you know, look at the hashtag Bookstagrammer or follow it, the top nine posts on any hashtag you look at are the top nine trending, you know, like when you go into Twitter and it tells you like the trending posts on the side, it's sort of the same thing on Instagram, you get a block of nine and those are the top ones at that moment in that hashtag. And you can look through them in Bookstagrammer is great, but that is specific to the books, but it's not specific to your genre. So you do need to do some research. Like I noticed right now, a Sarah J mass just released I'm a core to silver flames, which is the next Birt book in her crown of thorns and roses series. Autumn (16m 55s): And so I have seen a lot of people who was posting pictures with that book, I'm doing a little review saying where they are in their reading it, what they are thinking of. It there's tons of posts. But if you read through them, you'll see a few people say I never read Fantasy, But I read this one. 'cause it is a popular Book. And people are trying to build their brand and build their number of followers. By saying, I'm reviewing this really popular book. Well, that's not a reason to go and ask them if they'll review your book. If they typically do not read Fantasy, you want to burrow down. You want to read through some other posts. In fact, when the best things you can do is spend some time, you know, follow the Bookstagrammer comment on some of their other post. So they know who you are before you do as spam, you know, a private message saying, Hey, will you do read my book too. Autumn (17m 41s): You want to get to know them a little bit, see what they're going to offer you. You know, some people you see on Instagram is really interesting. You can't post live link in a post. And so that's one of the fun things. So you can't really sell anything unless you're doing advertising, unless you put it in your bio link. So you need to see how do they promote these books, you know, just because they do a review, what does that going to be by you? Is that going to have their audience really excited? Or will they be able to post a link for something for you or at least have a tag You so that they will go and follow you and you'll get a whole bunch of new followers. That's not a bad outcome because then you can offer them all your new followers. Autumn (18m 22s): Hey, look at my link. Here's a freebie, go follow it. So there's, you've got to be strategic. You can't just say, Hey, I'm going to go get a Bookstagrammer to review my book and it's going to do X. You got to figure out what your X is before you go in and find your own Bookstagrammer. Jesper (18m 40s): Yeah. And nobody likes to be asked to fave out of the blue, by somebody who, who, who, who they have no idea who it is. Right? I mean, nobody likes that. So the starting, starting of building a relationship in, in advanced is very important, I think. But I'm also thinking that going off to the top tier ones might not be very useful, Autumn (19m 3s): But I think if you want it to go for a top tier one, I would say start maybe your first one to start lower, start with someone who has a moderate amount of followers who is willing to work for you or work with you. But definitely if you're going to come from the top tier one is you kind have to have your, you got to have a platform. You've got to have a really gorgeous book, cover. Remember pictures are everything on Instagram, the posts or nice. But it's the picture that really is the most popular thing that people are scrolling through Instagram four. So if you don't have a pretty cover know, and the fact is most of these, Bookstagrammers the big ones. They have these bookshelves and the size of rooms. Autumn (19m 43s): Or again, I am so jealous. They have the organized by color or some of them have them all white. Its just crazy. The amount of time is spent organizing they're books. But think of it, there are real books. They like Real books. So you needed to be offering it. Maybe you can offer a, someone of free ebook, but there are probably going to want to pay per pack. And they're going to respond a lot better if your offering a free paperback. So you're probably, unless you got some money, which if you do it, I don't know why you are trying to hunt down. Bookstagrammers there's other ways of, you know, advertising than, than this. You probably don't want to be sending out like 30 or 40 or 50 paperbacks. You going to have to choose just a couple of grab five paperbacks, choose five. Autumn (20m 25s): Bookstagrammers call that a success because they're going to want paper is going to sound a much better off. Or if you can send them a paper bag because they are going to want that for their photo. Jesper (20m 38s): Yeah. No. And that, that definitely makes sense. But, but then again, I, well it is because I'm not into this world. Right. But my thinking is just, well they want a photo. So a ebook cover is that's a photo, right? What's what's the problem. But I guess it's because they, they are taking photos for themselves and styling and all that kind of thing, I suppose right now. Autumn (20m 60s): Yeah, it is. And it's harder. The most covers you see of like eBooks or iPads with a book cover photo or not actually on the image because of the screen reflection and everything else. Usually those are all digitally altered images and yet to get their prompts and everything else there are, they usually want the paperback. There are pretty old-school, especially the Fantasy ones I have noticed. They really liked it. A real books. They want to hold it up a real book. They want to hold up an iPad or a phone. They want something really pretty. Jesper (21m 33s): Yeah, no, I know. I see the same thing goes for the Book tubers as well. They also want the physical, but in that case I really understand it because they are talking to camera. So they want to be able to show it to the camera that it is this book. Right. So I understand that. But yeah, the Instagram stuff is still weird to me because you could just download the app, the book cover image, right. And then you could do for them and manipulation and do whatever. What never mind I was just me. I know it. It's just me. So just ignore my comments. Yeah. Autumn (22m 5s): Yeah. Well, it was funny because I don't have a big staging area when I do my images on Instagram, I often are. I am often photo manipulating things and putting them in places that I don't actually have. So I get that, but that's not the brand that most of the Bookstagrammers are, they are doing for authentic. This was their Real house. This was their Real reading room and they are really readers' and they're really serious readers. So they want the real deal. That's just the way it goes. Authenticity is the key and they want to show it off. Jesper (22m 36s): No, that's fair enough. But how do you, how do you see the time investment and this stuff? Because what if we are saying, number one, you said you have to build the relationship with these people in advance. So of course that takes a bit of time. So I I'm automatically, they are already thinking that you should probably do this if you like the Bookstagrammer stuff any way. So if it's like, Oh, I love this anyway. I'm it would not be something like if, if I was the one, I probably would not give myself the advice to say start billing relationship with these people. 'cause I don't really like, it's not that I dislike it, but I don't find any pleasure in going on to Instagram and finding pictures and following these people and why I don't enjoy it. Jesper (23m 23s): So wouldn't it be better just to say it didn't don't do it. I am always thinking like, isn't the advice to say? You should only do it if you like it already or what, what, what do you think Autumn (23m 35s): If you like it already? Or if it's your audience, if your audience is younger, if your audience is going to like Bookstagram or Bookstagrammers even if you hate, then it might be a good thing to give a try because I mean, maybe you have to do a follow a books, a couple of Bookstagrammers you have to narrow it down, talked to them for a week or two and three or maybe a month. But again, you'll have to do what every single day you stop in once or twice a week to talk to them and see what they're posting comment on their posts for a month and then private message him and saying, Hey, I really like what you do. I love your look. I love the books are review. I write something similar. I will give you a free paperback. If you are willing to, you know, look at mine and review it. Autumn (24m 18s): And by the way, here is a link to the actual, you know, the e-book so that you can see what you are getting into or even a blurb, or I'll give you the book, if you want to read it first so that, you know, you, you, you know, you will like it or at least a sample. So you want to, at least you don't build up some kind of a relationship with the stuff you gotta be like months in. And you're talking to him for every day for hours on end. You know, it does not take long to go on to Instagram and do a post, especially if you're following a few specific people. Jesper (24m 47s): Yeah. Okay, fine. So that the answer, but then I have, and then I have another, another critical question. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I have to be the critical voice today. So let's say let's okay. Let's try and say, you don't have to overdo the engagement and, and all that. So it's not too much work, but then what is the actual likelihood of them are actually saying yes, because Mr. Nobody comes in and say, Hey, can you please, would you mind the reviewing my book or whatever, or, or whatever, you know? I mean, I understand when you say is Sarah J math and stuff like that? Autumn (25m 30s): No, no, of course. Yeah, of course. She's going to get Bookstagrammers to, to, But, or a Stephen King or a brand and Sanders in whatever write, but what about the rest of us and models? Is it, is it even possible, do you think? Oh yeah, I definitely think it's possible. I having been there and around me as a reader or some of these readers, I mean, they are professional readers. I, they can read a book on a day and so they need a lot of books and a lot of them do like two, some of them that's the thing is to go to books, book sales, and find books that they prefer it. Some of them happily take other books. Again, it's all about finding out which ones are going to be more open to you in some of them might say, no, it's just not my cup of tea, but a lot of, a lot of them are like books, even if it's for a proper, even if they might not get to it for a month or so, you know? Autumn (26m 15s): No, but I think they will be, if you have a nice cover, if you are a good enough writer, you know, if you can entice them, I think you'll be fine. But if you have maybe only one book out or, and it seems that you did the cover yourself, they might politely say no, so you have to do a watch that. Mm. And I definitely, I think it's important to note that, I guess. Yeah. Jesper (26m 40s): Yeah. Go ahead. No, I'm sorry. Yeah, there is a bit of a delay here, so sorry for that. So I didn't pick up the day you start at the talking, but the way I was just wondering as well that I guess they don't really mind how much or how little of an audience you have then, because from their point of view, the main thing that they want is just the free book. And they want some let's call it content that they can produce and by reading the book. Right. So, so they don't really get to that as long as the book looks wonderful. And it is when it in, within the stuff that they like to read already, then I guess they don't really care if you have a, you know, your aunt and your brother following you on Twitter, or if you have a, a, a 125,000 people following you, I guess they don't really care. Autumn (27m 33s): I don't think it does. I mean, it would probably be helpful if you can then promote, you know, cross promote them or offer them some kind of cross promotion in some way. But a lot of them, yeah, they're looking for content. They are looking for nice pictures, are good books to review, and you're basically maybe offering them something, you know, a free meal and as a selection that maybe they wouldn't have found, otherwise they might be happy about it. So it's not about, it's not something that they're going to just out and out, refuse. Not everyone. Some are going to have some, you know, like the reading and learn to be read pile might be a mile long and there just like, no, no, no. More as the one thing about reader's they tend to always won another book. Don't we always, yeah. Jesper (28m 18s): Yeah, because that's, that's basically my fear and all of this is that they might easily say, yeah, sure. Send it to me. But they have like a to be read pile. That is so weird because I imagine a lot of people will be doing this. Right. A lot of people will reach out to them and maybe they would just say, yeah, sure, no problem. And send it to me. And then it goes into the pile and not to say that they'll never get there, but it is, well, what if it takes a year before they get to your book? Right? I mean, is it been worth it? Yeah. Well, of course that'll be a nice once they get to it, but maybe that was not quite the point. Maybe you release the book and you wanted it to give a bit of a boost in and then a year that, well, then you could say to get some more books a year later, but it, is it more sounds like you needed to be aware of your, let's say strategy here or are you set your expectations, right. Autumn (29m 15s): Definitely. I think it's, you need to stay, you need to be clear when you are a private message to them and saying, I have a book that's a new release or that I'm looking to promote in June, just be clear. And like I said, do you need to know what you're going to get? Why are you approaching this Bookstagrammer or is it because they are incredibly popular or because you think they have an audience that you would like to get into or are they going to tag you because you're not going to get a free link that anyone who reads that post we'll have to go and probably search your book, or if they get, if you get tagged, they can go and follow you and read your bio and maybe find out where you are giving away at your freebie, because you only have one link. Autumn (29m 57s): So those are the things to keep in mind that you don't have much of a, you know, there is not a big advertising things. So you have to be really clear on what you're expecting. If it is it going to be followers to come and follow you, or you're going to have a sale, that's going to go with this book. Then you need to tell the Bookstagrammer, Hey, I'm planning on doing this. Would you be willing? Is that something you want to work together and do? Or you can do this review. And when you do the review, I'm going to give you five eBooks that you can give away for free, as well as part of your platform. This is a lot of things that you can make up and that they can do as well. And that's, that is not an atypical and Instagram. They can do. Autumn (30m 38s): A lot of people do like, Hey, I'll choose five people from my comments to give him a private message. You a link to get a free book. People do comment and giveaway is a lot on Instagram. Its like tag follow a comment and then we'll give away a Book and team up with the big Bookstagrammer or, or even a modern Bookstagrammer. I do that with you. It can benefit both of you. You are giving them something to give away for free. They're getting content and also building their own platform. And you're going to cross post. And if your audience likes Instagram as a younger audience, this can be a really fun. You can have fun with it. I think that that's the thing to remember is just Instagram. It's a lifestyle. Autumn (31m 18s): And so you're selling, reading your selling fun and adventure and you love your readers'. Those are the vibe's you should be giving out with your post and with your offer. And if you do that, I think you will get a good response if you're, you know, just saying, Hey, here's my freebie. I think you'll like it, you should read it. You're probably going to hit a brick wall and not a problem. Jesper (31m 46s): Yeah. And I think so too. And well, I guess it's a, it's up to people to try. I mean, why not? You, you can try it out. It, it doesn't cost you anything to send an email or contact these people. So in that sense you can try it out, But I'm still here. Yeah. I was still thinking that it might be more difficult than you think Autumn (32m 8s): You challenging me to go give this a try aren't you? Jesper (32m 13s): Yeah. Yeah. Try it out and see how many new people you can actually get to say. Yes. Because I, I, no. Okay. Let me, let me, let me rephrase that. I think you can get people to say yes, But I'm not So sure that they will get to it in, within the timeframe you would like them to. Autumn (32m 32s): That will be, it would be an interesting topic. But I think again, it comes down to like, especially like right now I'm releasing a whole series. So I know I'm going to be releasing books from here till June. If I could sit up a Bookstagrammer even when the final book that they are going to maybe read one or two of them are, maybe I'll get them all in the series. That's not, as you planning ahead, it's like planning ahead. All of your advertising. You're not expecting an immediate thing. I mean, they are going to have to reach, you have to ship the book, you know, they have to read it or they have to post it. So it might not happen. But I think being clear, a lot of these. Yeah. Like I said it to them, this is the professional level of business. So if they are not being clear and concise and can you give you a time frame, then move on to someone who can give that to you. Autumn (33m 16s): Not, you don't want little, Oh, you know, it looks good. I'll get to it sometime in 2020 for you, you know, you definitely want to pin it down. And to me the biggest hurdle, a in the pet challenge, I see, I mean, I do like Instagram, but I do see problems because it is constantly changing. Facebook does own it now in Facebook likes to change things quite a bit. Yeah. And they love that. Yeah. And so it, it keeps changing. Like when you first, when I first joined Instagram, you never saw a promotional post or, or you could see one every 20 or 30 and then they changed it to like one every third post became promotional and then they could have three together and then they stop doing that and they changed how you do it. Autumn (33m 60s): But it is, it can there's days that I go on there and I'm like, I just can't take that. And then last week, of course, when we are, we're talking now, I'm, it will have been two or three weeks ago. I went on an all of these cross posts from tick-tock and I'm not on Tik TOK for a purpose. I don't really like video. I don't want to do a tock. It's not Instagram. And Instagram tends to be static images. They have some video, but it's, you know, Instagram TV never took off. It's not a big thing. So most of the video are very small or some, a little blurry images that are moving a little bit. And suddenly there's all these cross-post from Tik TOK that were one nut format it to the Instagram size, which is 1400 by 1400. Autumn (34m 42s): So there are odd sized stretched wrong. And I just couldn't take it. I'm on there for the pretty pictures to talk to authors. I like to have conversations in suddenly all of these people doing Tik TOK stuff. It was just like, I'm done. I didn't even look at it the rest of the day. So, you know, if you give a book to somebody, I don't know what Instagram will look like in six months. It as much as I hate to say it, but I don't know. It could change hugely because every once in a while, if Facebook decided to roll out on a massive change, the Instagram and there's usually an uproar and then they bring it back a little bit, but it's not owned by the original founders who had the vision for it that I used to be. Autumn (35m 25s): So it is changing constantly. And so there is that. So if you do a giveaway, it somewhat a book and they say, I'll read it in eight months. It might be fine. Last year we could have hit the earth by too. So I don't know. Jesper (35m 42s): No, that's true. But, but I actually, I was actually thinking while you were talking that that might be THE, so to speak easiest way of getting mileage out of Instagram would be to basically just reach out to, let's say new Bookstagrammer like once a week, every two weeks are once a month or whatever. And they don't care about when they get to it, But, but just sort of get the wheelchair and Autumn (36m 9s): Just turning it off. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Jesper (36m 12s): Yeah. And then eventually something will pop out here and there that, that then they got to it. I mean, that could be a way where I think it could be working, but I'm more of a much more hesitant if you have deadlines and you need it within this timeframe. And so I think that will be difficult, especially if you're talking about maybe not the low grade Influencers. I, but if it's a Influencers with a big following who does this as a professional level, they will not, you know, buy to your time scale that you will have to abide to Dez. Yeah. And, and, and that means that maybe you have to wait 10 months or whatever, but if you keep feeding the monster, as you say, every week or every second week, or once a month or whatever, you have the time for it, and it's something that will trickle out down the road. Autumn (36m 58s): Right. So, so that might be something that could be worth it. Jesper (37m 3s): Absolutely edit it to me. And the other only caveat I have is that you're building a platform on someone else's platform and you and I have discussed this a lot, especially recently. Yes. And so that's a great, if you give 50,000 Instagram followers and you become your own influence or an author influencer, that's fantastic. I don't know many author Influencers other than the really big names that have that many followers. I mean, it seems a lot of them cap out at the 5,000 to 10,000. There's a few who get a little bit higher, but I think that's a great, but I have to admit, I spent a lot of time last week formatting some images to like do a character or a lot of people, sometimes format some stuff for like character introductions or a cover reveals, you know, they do all of these things and it's great. Autumn (37m 53s): And then I feel like it's gone in, or, you know, it'll be on my feet for a while, but it essentially, if I post once a day or a couple of times a day, it's gonna trickle down really quickly. And I ended up taking the images and putting it on my blog and spreading that out too, like Amazon and good reads and all these other places that I think it, it did a lot better in, by being on my blog. It will last a lot longer. I got up, I, I sent it out to my pore subscriber's that I have neglected recently. So I do think it is one thing to consider that, like, what are you doing on Instagram and how is it helping your platform? Yeah. It's great to build something there, but how are you going to convert them into readers? Autumn (38m 34s): And if Instagram changes hugely, how are they going to find you so that, you know, they're on your mailing list? Or do they know where your website is so that they can go and find you because you know, Facebook used to be the big thing and maybe it still is, but I think it's tanking Twitter. I used to, I have, I have so many followers on Twitter, but I have not been active really on that platform for a long time, because it's just changed too much. And I'm not that interested in. I have to have been like, Oh, I'm a graphic designer. I like pretty pictures. I tweet don't do forums. That's just pictures. I don't know. Jesper (39m 9s): Yeah. Yeah. But getting people from those platforms, whatever, whichever one is that you're using it in this case, in a Instagram, getting them off of there and onto your email list is absolutely key. I mean, years ago I wrote a book about how to use Twitter as an author and a low and behold, like six months after I published that book, Twitter changed the, a in terms of conditions so that the strategy that I was using to actually get people off of Twitter and on to the email list, stop working. Jesper (39m 48s): So that's the thing that you all are. I think you always just have to keep in mind with the stuff that if you are not funding the funneling them away from the platform and onto your email list, it could go away tomorrow. And then when I say that, I also know that many people will think, yeah, but that's not really going to happen. I mean, what about YouTube and people who have been YouTube has for years and years and years, and now you're on a living and that's true. Yes. But sometimes it happens and maybe it hasn't happened yet. And maybe it won't happen for the next two years. Who knows? I don't know. But I'm assuming that the being an author means that you want to build a lifetime career out of this. Jesper (40m 31s): And one thing I can say for sure is that Instagram will change over the next 50 years. It will not be the same. So if, if that's the only place where you have your audience, you have an issue. Yes. All right. And that was also the people at some point that we built the entire business spaced on a Google apps and stuff like that. And then at some point Google changed how Google ads worked, worked at, and they didn't pay out affiliates at the same level anymore. And so on. So on and people's business stuff from basically overnight, right. From one way to the next. So it's not to sort of paint a doomsday picture out of things, but I think it is important to be mindful that it's only when you have the control over the customer data, that you can build a proper sustainable business because otherwise you will always be dependent on the Well womens and ideas about THE, whatever the other is this the same thing with Facebook, right? Jesper (41m 35s): I mean, a lot of authors at the moment are selfish, inclusive, inclusive, eh, has a quite big audiences maybe in Facebook groups and stuff like that. And if that's the only place where you have them, you, again, you have an issue. So yeah, I think this sort of stuff is really, really important. All right. Autumn (41m 55s): Yeah. I agree. And that's why, you know, it's definitely got me thinking again that making sure your, your core, your, the stuff you own, like your own website, your own blog, make sure that that's solid and growing and push out to the other platforms, you know, reuse your posts or one of the, I still love that about blogs. I mean, you can list, you can link your website, blog to your Amazon profile, to your good reads profile. You can spread that out to your Twitter, to your Facebook. You can link it to your Instagram, but you can find ways of cross posting it. I know that you use a, a, a social post or I use I'm a social pilot. There are ways of pushing out, even in a blog post, even if the link isn't live, you can kind of, if you have an easy website, which is the whole purpose of having a website name is that it's easy to type. Autumn (42m 43s): You can send people back over to it. And so, you know, making sure that you're generating those links to come back to where your core, your center core that has strong, that you own is, is really the best use of your marketing time. Rather than sitting there on Instagram for hours and hours of sitting on Facebook for hours and hours. That's one not helping you right now. And two, it's not a platform you Oh. And so at the end of the day, those people could disappear overnight. If something changed in the platform. I mean, everyone says that about Amazon and that's one reason I'm wide. And your wide is that if something happens on Amazon where it's not our only basket of eggs, but I really do believe that. Autumn (43m 26s): I mean, I don't just talk That I, I walk that way. Jesper (43m 32s): Yeah. Yeah. And we also had an, I don't remember the episode number anymore, but people can search for it, but we had Joanna Penn on and on a past episode as well, where we talked about diversifying your income and that's exactly what it is so important. And she, she was a big advocate of that as well, to make sure you don't have all the acts in one basket because it's going to hurt one day. If that's what you do, maybe not now, maybe not next five years, but one day it will hurt. So yeah. I try always to diversify, making sure that you control your audience, meaning that you have them on an e-mail list so that you, no, that no matter what happens with Facebook or Instagram or whatever, you have a way to contact those people. Jesper (44m 15s): When you have a new book out, that's the only way to build it sustainable. Yeah. Autumn (44m 20s): Yeah. And speaking of a new book out, according to the end of this podcast is released. I released a book yesterday. I can't wait to the future me to tell the, present me how that goes. So I don't know. We just realize that that's a really exciting, we want to time travel for my book really is okay. Back to the park. That was perfect though. But any final words on a Bookstagram on Instagram and what not? No. Other than, like I said, it is, it's a lot about branding. It's a lot about lifestyle and its a lot about, you know, I would assume a militia WRITING dystopian or something really dark and depressing that it's about having a little bit of fun. Autumn (45m 6s): So do keep that in mind that sort of what Instagram is about. It's not about just selling one thing, its about selling a whole lifestyle of what it's like to be a reader. So treat the Bookstagrammers like professionals who with a professional brand equal, if not better than yours and be nice, but come say hi, it's really fun. And if you do come say hi to me, so I, because I'm on their and you're not, but I really do enjoy it. Assuming they stop cross posting tick talk. Well maybe one day I'll say, okay, so next Monday we are going to share some tips and thoughts on writing a first draft. Jesper (45m 48s): We will try to be as helpful as we can when it comes to a first draft. Narrator (45m 54s): If you like what you just heard, there's a few things you can do to support The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast. Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review. You can also join Autumn and Jesper on patrion.com/ Am. Writing Fantasy for as little as a dollar a month, you'll get awesome rewards and keep The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast, going to stay safe out there and see you next Monday.
Ever feel pressured into raiding Ikea so you can turn your living room into a Bookstagrammers library? Cause, same! While there are endless worries about social media influencing how we feel about our bodies, our careers, our bank accounts etc. I never thought i'd come across feelings of inadequacy while reading! This week's episode touches on the micro pressures from living the Bookstagram life, multiple edition buying and imposter syndrome as a reader and a writer. I also touch on underrated and often overrated books that social media has pushed us into buying! Are any of your faves on the list? As always, I update you guys on my reading and writing goals for the year and hopefully leave you with some positive outlooks for your literary journey! --- Wherever you're listening, make sure to like, rate/review, comment, share, and/or subscribe, to let me know what you think and anything bookish you'd like to share or discuss! All updates can be found on my Instagram and Twitter @charliauthor --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/booksnshit/message
What have books meant to you, and have you felt represented in books? Maybe you frequented the library every week after school, or you were assigned literature in English class. Maybe you read a book with the Pulitzer Prize - what does it even mean for that book to receive that award, given the publishing industry still has a long way to go with regards to diversity and inclusion?As part of our digital communities series, we're elated to be joined by Hilary, someone who's been consciously discovering community on her own around a specific interest: her love of books. Tune into this conversation to hear us chat about:⟡ Hilary's intention for creating a bookstagram⟡ Her hope of discovering marginalized and underrepresented narratives to further educate and inform herself⟡ What we are unlearning about the culture around books⟡ How Hilary has felt seen in navigating her disabled identity with the support of BIPOC disabled bookstagrammers & authors⟡ Some of our most impactful childhood reads!We're so encouraged by how intentional and critically Hilary approaches each book and book review she encounters. If you're ever looking for a new book to read, check out @hilaryreadsbooks for recommendations and thought-provoking reviews.Interested to hear follow up thoughts? Join us on our IG on Tuesday, January 12th at 8:30pm PST where we'll go live to share our reflections on this episode and the topics of decolonizing our bookshelves and finding digital communities!Books mentioned:⟡ The Mysterious Benedict Society⟡ Get a Life, Chloe Brown⟡ Cemetery Boys⟡ Disability Visibility⟡ The Pretty One⟡ Sitting Pretty*the links above will direct you to a page that supports ordering books from your local bookstores!Bookstagrammers mentioned:⟡ @sitting_pretty⟡ @bookedwithemma⟡ @thunderbirdwomanreads⟡ @diversifyyourshelfMore about Hilary:Hilary is an engineer who works in the accessibility space and a bookstagrammer.⟡ instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hilaryreadsbooks/⟡ medium: https://medium.com/hilaryreadsbooksFollow us on:⟡ instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bambooandglass⟡ links to various platforms: https://beacons.ai/bambooandglass⟡ website: https://www.bambooandglass.buzzsprout.com⟡ Da Eun: https://www.instagram.com/daeunkm⟡ Sophia: https://www.instagram.com/sophiasysunSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bambooandglass)
In this episode Kati talks to Antina van der Veen about her upcoming influencer platform for book content creators, Bookstagrammers.com. The January 2021 book club pick is I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez. Follow Shelf Made Woman on Instagram and Twitter to keep up with podcast episodes and news.Join the Shelf Made Women Patreon to support the podcast for as little as $2 per month. Additionally, Shelf Made Women earns a small percentage of purchases from their Bookshop.org Storefront. Mentions: @bookstagrammerscom on Instagram @bookworm_man on Instagram
In today's episode, you will hear from some of my favourite bookstagrammers! Not only are these accounts amazing, but they've always supported my account and this podcast, so I hope you enjoy hearing from them and discovering their top 3 reads of the year, as well as what they are most looking forward to in 2021. @nellreadsbooks 1 Maggie O’Farrell - Hamnet 2 Erin Hortle- The Octopus and I 3 Stan Grant- Talking To My Country 2021- Deborah Levy- Real Estate @sophies.little.library 3 Abi Dare- The Girl With The Louding Voice 2 Ariel Lawhon- Code Name Helene 1 Pip Williams- The Dictionary of Lost Words 2021- Sarah J Maas- A Court of Silver Flames @brookes_bookstagram 3 Kyle Perry- The Bluffs 2 Kristin Hannah- The Nightingale 1 Matt Haig- The Midnight Library @anopenbookshelf 3 Jessie Burton- The Confession 2 Victoria Hannan- Kokomo 1 Erin Hortle- The Octopus and I 2021- Melissa Broder- Milk Fed @becbookshelf_ 1 Claire Christain- It’s Been A Pleasure Noni Blake 2 Ewa Ramsey- The Morbids 3 Taylor Jenkins Reid- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 2021- Taylor Jenkins Reid- Malibu Rising and Beth O’Leary- Road Trip @checkyourshelf_ 3 Steve Cavanagh - Fifty Fifty 2 Colleen Hoover- Verity 1 Sarah J Maas- Crescent City 2021- Angie Thomas- Concrete Rose @_readingnook 1 Tim Murphy- Christodora 2 Claire Christian- It’s Been A Pleasure Noni Blake 3 Abi Dare- The Girl With The Louding Voice 2021- Taliaa Hibbert- Act Your Age Eve Brown @haylesnextpage 3 Ariel Lawhon- Code Name Helene 2 Charlotte McConaghy- The Last Migration 1 Chanel Miller- Know My Name 2021- Taylor Jenkins Reid, Taliaa Hibbert, Emily Henry @ronells_bookshelf 3 Lucy Foley- The Guest List 2 Delia Owens- Where the Crawdads Sing 1 Kristin Hannah- The Great Alone 2021- VE Schwab- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue @myhomelibrary_ 3 Adam Kay- This is Going to Hurt 2 Sally Rooney- Conversations with Friends 1 Hanya Yanagihara- A Little Life 2021- Abigail Dean- Girl A @the_reading_affair 3 Sophie Hardcastle- Below Deck 2 Imbi Neembe - The Spill 1 Frederick Backman- Beartown 2021- Barack Obama- A Promise Land @bookgirlbetweenthepages 1 Sarah J Maas- Crescent City 2 Michelle Andrews & Zara McDonald- The Space Between 3 Jennifer Niven- Breathless 2021- A Court of Silver Flames - Sarah J Maas @lawslittlebookshelf 1 Angie Cruz- Dominicana 2 Eddie Jaku- The Happiest Man on Earth 3 Delia Owens- Where The Crawdads Sing 2021 - Justice, Justice - Ruth Bader Ginsburg @paulineisreading 3 Claire Christian- It’s Been A Pleasure Noni Blake 2 Kevin Wilson- Nothing To See Here 1 Laura McPhee Brown - Cherry Beach 2021- Taylor Jenkins Reid- Malibu Rising @pups_and_paperbacks 1 Kyle Perry- The Bluffs 2 Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald- The Space Between 3 Jane Harper- The Dry 2021- Sarah J Maas- A Court of Thorn and Roses @thats.novel 1 Rosamund Lupton- Three Hours 2 Ariel Lawhon- Code Name Helene 3 Nardi Simpson- Song of the Crocodile @books_bymybed 3 Trent Dalton- All Our Shimmering Skies 2 Craig Silvey- Honeybee 1 Taylor Jenkins Reid- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 2021- Taylor Jenkins Reid- Malibu Rising @hide.and.go.read 3 Sally Hepworth- The Good Sister 2 Claire Christain- It's Been A Pleasure Noni Blake 1 A Court of Mist and Fury @maddys.books 3 Hazel Hayes- Out of Love 2 Meg Mason- Sorrow and Bliss 1 TJR- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Bookstorian Podcast. A podcast for booklovers and bookstagrammers.Books mentioned in this podcast:Boy Swallows Universe by Trent DaltonRing Shout by P. Djèlí ClarkThe Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí ClarkThese Violent Delights by Chloe GongThe Midnight Library by Matt HaigMangos and Mistletoe by Adriana HerreraThe Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie JakuIn a Holidaze by Christina LaurenThe Unhoneymooners by Christina LaurenThe Paris Secret by Natasha LesterThe Last Migration by Charlotte McConaghyA Promised Land by Barack ObamaBecoming by Michelle ObamaIn the Clearing by JP PomereJasper Jones by Craig SilveyMy Name is Why by Lemn SissayThe Nevermore Series by Jessica TownsendPodcast may contain spoilersOther media mentioned in this podcast:Elf (Musical). (2010). Book by Bob Martin and Thomas Meehan, Music by Matthew Sklar and Lyrics by Chad Beguelin. America. AL Hirschfeld Theatre.Holidate (2020). John Whitesell. America. Wonderland Sound & Vision.Noelle (2019). Marc Lawrence. America. Walt Disney Pictures.The Spirit of Christmas (2015). David Jackson. America. Marvista Entertainment.Host: Teagan @bookstorian_Guests: Ally from @whatthedickinson (Ep102 - Thriller reads), Kirra from @bitchezwhobrunchwithbookz (Ep106- The Paris Secret) & Adele from @pages.with.del (Ep109- Jasper Jones)Email thebookstorianpodcast@outlook.com.auFollow me @thebookstorianpodcastDesign by Emma Russell CreativeMusic from https://www.zapsplat.com
Author and host, Bianca Marais, chats with author, K.A. Tucker, who's gone from self publishing to traditional publishing, and then back again. Kathleen explores the pros and cons of both kinds of publishing; moving back and forth between genres; building your brand; reader loyalty and Bookstagrammers; and what you need to know if you're considering self publishing.
Con Tamara Silva y Santiago Villalba. Una conversación sobre libros en Instagram
Welcome to the 3rd season of this podcast. For the 2nd Anniversary party, I got a group of authors and bookstagrammers together and here's what happened. My good friend Erin, co hosted. Panel of authors included Christopher Todd, Amy Voltaire and Jamie McGillen. Bookstagrammers were Erica (sand_between_pages), Jenny (whatJennyreadsinMontana), and Angie (dclazygirl). I hope you all enjoy this wonderful and special episode. If you enjoyed this episode or any of my previous episodes, please write me a review on Apple Podcasts or on www.ratethispodcast.com/livingalifethroughbooks. I thank you. You can email me at livingalifethroughbooks@gmail.com. I'm on a new app called Swell. You can reach me there @bookishpodcast. Check out my swell cast. It's a new way to reach out to me and voice chat. I will be posting more podcast stuff there also. Don't miss the conversation. My website has some older episodes and some of my travels are chronicled there. I know it's a perpetual work in progress. I want the home page to look a certain way and long story short, I sincerely apologize. I have no excuses really other than my lack of html knowledge and my inability to navigate more than the basics of wordpress and given everything else... It is what it is. I would love to hear from you. If there's something you like or want to see, please get in touch with me. And as alway, I thank you for listening to my podcast. I know you have so many other choices and it means the world to me that you chose mine. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/living-a-life-through-books/message
We hear a lot about Bookstagrammers - a hashtag made popular by book loving Instagrammers - but who are they and what can they do for your book? In this episode we'll dig into this popular Instagram hashtag and the book loving folks who push out tons of great reads on Instagram! We love a good DIYer, but if you're ready to take your marketing to the next level, drop us a line and let's chat! http://www.amarketingexpert.comWe have a special promotion for our "How Can I Sell More Books?" Assessment package. Get $50 off with this promo code: amepodcast24754Grab your assessment here! https://www.amarketingexpert.com/sell-more-books
Heute erzählt euch Anna von Chatterbooks eine Geschichte, die mich echt erschrocken hat. Es geht um die "Definition" eines Bookstagrammers. Außerdem teilen Anna und ich unsere Wege zu Bookstagram und Tipps, falls ihr euch gerade überlegt, das Buchbloggen anzufangen. Danke an Anna fürs Mitmachen! Schreibt mir Eure Meinung gerne auf Instagram! @lunatic.booklover Youtube-Accounts: Anna: Chatterbox (Instagram: anna_chatterbox) Josia: Josia Jourdan (Instagram: josiajourdan)
Episode 006 / Dani Sanchez, owner of Wildfire Marketing Solutions, joins Jami Albright and Sara Rosett this week to talk about common mistakes authors make in publicity and marketing as well as publishing trends. You can find show notes and links at wishidknownforwriters.com. Jami and Sara chat about Sara’s WIP. She’s fixing tiny details that make up the clues and red herrings. It’s slow-going, but has to be done in mystery fiction. Jami talks about giving herself some grace and working on ads. A big thank you for all the positive feedback, nice comments, and reviews on the podcast. It’s much appreciated! In this podcast episode, you’ll discover: How Dani focuses on individual goals for each author and helps authors create strategies that will grow their businesses What she wishes authors knew about marketing and public relations The difference between a promotion company and a PR/marketing company What Dani wishes she’d known about working in the publishing industry What she sees authors doing that isn’t getting them results Common mistakes she sees authors make in their marketing Dani’s advice to help authors protect their brand Commonalities she’s seen in successful authors over the long-haul Best practices for working with book bloggers and bookstgramers Possible upcoming romance trends, including mafia, small town, and sports romance How pop culture trends influence book trends How combinations of different genres (such as romance and psychological thriller in the case of The Wives) and “shock factor” can generate excitement and buzz Genres discussed include romantic comedy, contemporary romance, cozy mystery, psychological thriller. Links: Wildfire Marketing Solutions http://www.wildfiremarketingsolutions.com 365 Days https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10886166/ Tarryn Fisher’s The Wives https://books2read.com/u/b55Zn6
Before we were Books on the Subway the Podcast, we were Ride Read Discuss and we are sharing some of our favorite episodes with you!Enjoy our first round table chat with our favorite Bookstagrammers!A fun group discussion of all things books and bookstagram with our favorite bookish people! Anabel (@inthebookcorner), Meaghan (@book.hang.o.ver), Anthony (@thealchemyofbooks), Casey (@casebounder), Horace (@badandbookish). Be sure to check them out on Instagram as well as Anthony and Casey's amazing book sharing project @bookcarouselnyc See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Special Bookstagrammer episode for Labor Day! Today we chat with 5 Bookstagrammers who give us their current reads and we chat about our mutual love of books!Make sure to follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/booksonthesubway/ & Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bookssubway/ to see what book we're dropping next. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Earlier this year, a piece in The Chicago Tribune summed up the world of bookstagram as "addicting, charming, informative and increasingly, a wellspring for the book industry." Not a bad way to describe this literary and social media phenomenon. About much more than colorful covers, perfectly positioned photos and engaging captions, #bookstagram, #bookstragramming and #bookstragrammers are changing the way we find and talk about books, and how publishers and authors connect with readers. On this episode Live From The Library, we learn from D.C.'s Lupita Aquino (@Lupita.Reads) and Jamise Harper (@SpinesVines): How they use Instagram to successfully share and communicate their love for reading, creative writing, and authors of color. What they love most about using social media to connect with other readers. The impetus and mission of @LitonHSt -- their in-person and online bookclub with Solid State Books.
Book publicist and author Cameron Dezen Hammon discusses the work of a book publicist, which social media avenues to explore and which ones not to waste money on. She also shares the value of Bookstagrammers and what it's like working with a book publicist to market your book. Cameron believes good publicity is about finding what’s newsworthy about you and your book and amplifying that message. It’s about getting your book into the hands of reviewers, interviewers, and influencers who will share it with their networks. She also offers services in building your online presence, media coaching, and book launch event planning. Cameron Dezen Hammon’s writing has appeared in Ecotone, The Rumpus, The Literary Review, The Butter, Nylon, Them, The Houston Chronicle, and more. Her essay “Infirmary Music” was named a notable in The Best American Essays 2017. She’s contributed to several anthologies and is the co-founder of The Slant reading series, host of The Ish Podcast, and her debut book This Is My Body: A Memoir of Religious and Romantic Obsession is forthcoming from Lookout Books in October 2019.
A fun group discussion of all things books and bookstagram with our favorite bookish people! Anabel (@inthebookcorner), Meaghan (@book.hang.o.ver), Anthony (@thealchemyofbooks), Casey (@casebounder), Horace (@badandbookish). Be sure to check them out on Instagram as well as Anthony and Casey's amazing book sharing project @bookcarouselnyc See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Dans ce nouvel épisode du streetcast, j'aborde un sujet un peu différent : lire de la poésie et intégrer ce genre à nos pratiques de lectures connectées et modernes. Si l'idée d'un challenge de lecture autour de la poésie vous intéresse, n'hésitez pas à me contacter via mon blog http://lalucioleecarlate.com, ou sur les réseaux sociaux (@lucioleecarlate sur Twitter et Instagram, @LaLucioleEcarlate sur Facebook.) Je serais ravie d'organiser cela avec vous! Voici les références citées dans l'épisode : - Les poétesses d'Instagram : @adeline_duong, @lesmotsdefia, @orangelipsandwhitelilies, @rupikaur_ - Les chaînes YouTube citées : Antastesia, Tout est politique - Le poème lu : "Notre vie" de Paul Eluard
Dans cet épisode, je vous parle d'un roman qui a suscité un véritable engouement sur les réseaux sociaux (et en particulier Instagram) : Le Mur invisible de Marlen Haushofer, un roman autrichien paru en 1963, oeuvre surprenante et inclassable qui mêle fiction post-apocalyptique, nature writing, écofeminisme, survivalisme et introspection. Sortie de l'oubli cette année grâce à Diglee, c'est une très belle oeuvre qui mérite d'être connue! Rendez-vous sur mon blog http://lalucioleecarlate.com pour découvrir les autres épisodes de mon streetcast et trouver des ressources supplémentaires!
Listen to how early on Leah struggled to find the magic formula for writing, how a chance encounter at Muse and the Marketplace switched her book’s focus, and how she believes her most effective marketing efforts involve not fancy Facebook ads or BookBub offers but very personalized & cultivated relationships with influencers like Bookstagrammers. Leah's writing has been featured in The Huffington post, Eligible Magazine, Simply Woman, The International Doula, and The Key, among others. She was the 2017 Story Circle Network LifeWriting first place winner. Leah is the cofounder of the nonprofit, Doulas of Rhode Island, and she led the fundraising efforts to build a medical center in Uganda. The mother of three, DeCesare lives with her family in Rhode Island and is pursuing her Master of Fine Arts at The Newport MFA. To learn more about Leah, click here.
Instagram is the hottest multi-generational social media platform out there. Bex Gorsuch explains how writers can exploit it to boost their author business.
Join Jade and Chiara for episode 3 of Books and Booze as they go out of their comfort zone and dive into the world of contemporary! There’s some newly coined bookish lingo, viewers questions, Boozy Banter, and their frustrations with people being nasty to other Bookstagrammers. Wine enjoyed in this episode: Jade devoured a delicious glass (or 3...) of the Australian 2016 Saltram Pepperjack Shiraz from Barossa. Chiara enjoyed a stunning Italian Pinot Grigio called The Killer. Many thanks as always for tuning in. If you liked listening please be sure to rate, review and subscribe. Our Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/booksboozepod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BooksBoozePod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/642334099486535/ Thanks for listening! Books mentioned in this weeks podcast segment: - The Sea of Tranquility - Katija Millay - Too Late - Colleen Hoover - Tully - Paullina Simons - Looking for Alaska - John Green - Firefly Lane - Kristin Hannah - Outlander - Diana Gabaldon Boozy Banter segment: - Scrublands - Chris Hammer - The Butterfly Garden - Dot Hutchison - A Noise Downstairs - Linwood Barclay - Believe Me - JP Delaney - Like Father on Netflix - Elder Millennial (stand up comedian Iliza) on Netflix - Disjointed on Netflix
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