#Authors

ASAPbio

ASAPbio_

Thanks for starting this conversation, @RalserLab. In our view open feedback is a major benefit of preprints; it's not only helpful for authors but also important for readers looking for

Seanan McGuire

seananmcguire

A question I get asked a lot:Why is it so important to boost and uplift and specifically support black authors, POC authors, and trans authors? If they wrote good books,

Robin Bradford ⚾️🍹🎼📚

Tuphlos

I have 20 minutes before a meeting, so let me have a mini rant for a bit. I'm just now getting around to LJ's Materials Survey results. Listen. I try

Anita Sarkeesian

anitasarkeesian

Would like some very good female authored sci-fi/genre book recommendations please. My fav authors are @rkirstein, @charliejane, @ClaireNorth42, @KameronHurley, and @nkjemisin. Recommend accordingly! I read so much fiction in 2020

🎊 Pine (they) 🎊

Madeline_Pine

We need to talk about how the very-white writing industry expects diverse authors to explain every cultural term in their books. THREAD The industry wants anything slightly diverse to be

JD

desaijay99

Thread Incoming:A lot of times, ppl are shocked by others writing essays on characters, feeling that there can't be that much to say about them and that the authors did

Isaiah Turnbull

isaiah_turnbull

For @chrishorn. How I review an article. 1. Read it front to back (skim methods). Review the citations in the intro. If you don’t know the article, pull them and

☂️ Cindy Baldwin ☂️

beingcindy

Conference and book festival organizers who want to support diverse books and authors: please, please don't leave disability out of your conversations. Invite disabled authors, spotlight disabled books, and create

K-Fai Steele

kfaisteele

This Centering Black Creators conversation is a must watch; it’s one of the only honest conversations I’ve seen about understanding how white supremacy is manifest (and The Problem) in children’s

Liana Brooks

LianaBrooks

The only person you hurt when pirating books is the author.Big corporations can get new authors.Amazon will find other workers to exploit. But authors publish books because the have rent

Rae D. Magdon #BLM #PrideWasARiot

RaeDMagdon

Not to be a jerk, but some of y'all should pick up a book instead of reading fanfic exclusively. I've written 350+ fics. Love the accessibility, the focus on character

rebecca mix

mixbecca

book bloggers do an insane amount of work for this community & they do it for free. authors are incredibly lucky to have their support but we also need to.

chronic 🍞

cynaragee

It would be nice if when people talked about publishing they differentiated between multinationals and small presses. I worry it disrespects and erases small press published authors to suggest the

Kathryn Goodenough

kmgoodenough

Some of you might be interested in what an exec editor's job involves. So here's the history of the paper I'm working on right now. It was submitted in Nov

ashia monet 🌙🕯

AshiaMonet

Gonna be real here: I struggle to listen to most publishing advice because it is so often aimed at a cishet, white, Western, middle to upper middle class audience and

Cheyenne Campbell 🧜🏼‍♀️

chylu

I’ve noticed a discouraging trend lately with the publishing industry’s push for diversity in submissions, based on some recent #amquerying interactions and discussions w/other writers. I’m 100% behind the push

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