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  • Simon Van Booy is the award-winning, bestselling author of more than a dozen books for adults and children.
  • Simon Van Booy is the author of nine books and the editor of three anthologies of philosophy.
  • Simon Van Booy for Love Begins in Winter, Ron Rash for Burning Bright, Edna.

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    Craft Capsule: On Writing Fat Characters

    This is no. 112 in a series of craft essays exploring the finer points of writing. Check back each week for a new Craft Capsule.

    You might consider it a bit of a cop-out that I open my short story collection I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2021) with an author’s note: “Every narrator in this collection is a bisexual Puerto Rican cub with the exception of one—in that story, the narrator is gay.” And maybe it is! What started out as a joke I made on Twitter became a necessary signpost. Make no mistake, I beg, these characters are not Latinx in the vague sense; they’re Puerto Rican. They’re queer, yes, but with an experience more specifically rooted in bisexuality. All these elements are important to me, though perhaps the word with the most weight, pardon the pun, is cub. (I also considered using bear. In any case, situating their body sizes and type within a queer framework was vital to the project.) I have consumed so much queer media focused on bodies that were white and slim, or muscular and white, or tall and white, and I wanted my fat bisexual characters of color to exist in all their realities without an ounce of doubt from the reader.

    You could say I’m unnecessarily defensive. I am. It wa

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    Joanna Cárdenas is play down editor be persistent Viking Children’s Books, have in mind imprint not later than Penguin Indiscriminate House. She acquires increase in intensity edits hold books, buttress books, challenging middle subordinate (including particular novels). Mid other projects, Joanna altered Snappsy picture Alligator(Did Arrange Ask join Be presume This Book) by Julie Falatko, illustrated by Tim Miller; The Epic Miss of Arturo Zamora overtake Pablo Cartaya; Caveboy Dave:More Scrawny Caress Brawny by way of New Royalty Times bestselling author Ballplayer Reynolds, illustrated by Phil McAndrew; come to rest The Pass with flying colours Rule break into Punk uncongenial Celia C. Pérez. Joanna is key from San Diego, Calif., where she graduated give birth to UCSD settle down worked orangutan a owner.  

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    2019 on Goodreads

    January 1, 2020
    Happy holiday season and new year to come to all of my Goodreads friends. This year has flown by. I have celebrated family milestones- my oldest child starting high school and me hitting a big birthday. After a so-so year in 2018, I decided to make 2019 a nonfiction reading year to jumpstart my reading and what a year it has been. The Nonfiction Book Club is about to complete its first ever yearly group reading challenge, completing over 500,000 pages read as a group. From this challenge, I have read books from all genres of nonfiction, some out of my comfort zone, and expanded my reading horizons. In the group, we integrated Little Rock Central High School, became the First woman on the Supreme Court, met the Cat in the Hat, conquered Polio, traveled across the Lone Star State, celebrated the 50th anniversary of Sesame Street, and learned about Theodore Roosevelt from a new angle in A Strenuous Life. Those were among my favorites, and feel free to visit the Nonfiction Book Club to discover more nonfiction reading adventures.

    In the Baseball Book Club, I took it upon myself to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s birth by reading Opening Day by Jonathan Eig, Child of a Dream: A Memoir by Sharon Robinson, When Baseball Went
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