Update in the Love in the Library fiasco - Scholastic apologies and offers to talk about how they can help promote/publish the book

Scholastic wanted to license her children's book — if she cut a part about 'racism'

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/15/1169848627/scholastic-childrens-book-racism

#LoveInTheLibrary #Scholastic #MaggieTokudaHall

Amplification or Suppression? Author Maggie Tokuda-Hall Calls Out Edits Proposed by Scholastic

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/91982-amplification-or-suppression-author-maggie-tokuda-hall-calls-out-edits-proposed-by-scholastic.html

#Publishing #MaggieTokudaHall #LoveInTheLibrary

"They want to sell our suffering, smoothed down and made palatable to the white readers they prioritize. To assuage white guilt with stories that promise to make them better people, while never threatening them, not even with discomfort.

They have no investment in our voices. Always, our voices are the first sacrifice at the altar of marketability.

And excuse my language, but absolutely the fuck not.”

👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

https://www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2023/4/11/scholastic-and-a-faustian-bargain

#Scholastic #Racism #MaggieTokudaHall

Do you like F/F queer romances, pirates, mermaids, and anti-colonialism ? I recommend The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

"In a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic, a desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial lady find a connection on the high seas. Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl takes on the identity of Florian the man to earn the respect and protection of the crew. For Flora, former starving urchin, the brutal life of a pirate is about survival: don’t trust, don’t stick out, and don’t feel. But on this voyage, Flora is drawn to the Lady Evelyn Hasegawa, who is headed to an arranged marriage she dreads. Flora doesn’t expect to be taken under Evelyn’s wing, and Evelyn doesn’t expect to find such a deep bond with the pirate Florian. Neither expects to fall in love.

Soon the unlikely pair set in motion a wild escape that will free a captured mermaid (coveted for her blood) and involve the mysterious Pirate Supreme, an opportunistic witch, double agents, and the all-encompassing Sea herself. Deftly entwining swashbuckling action and quiet magic, Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s inventive debut novel conjures a diverse cast of characters seeking mastery over their fates while searching for answers to big questions about identity, power, and love."

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XH155T5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_o01

#LGBT
#Books
#Pirates
#Mermaids
#AntiColonialism
#OFMD
#MaggieTokudaHall