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There are some amazing books coming out right now, and authors have been toiling for years to bring them to you.
Since you're probably not wearing pants right now, I've asked these authors to be vulnerable also, and share their favorite sentence deleted during the edit.
Since you're probably not wearing pants right now, I've asked these authors to be vulnerable also, and share their favorite sentence deleted during the edit.
From @NataliaSylv, we have RUNNING, a YA novel. https://bookshop.org/books/running-9780358124351/9780358124351
Favorite deleted sentence: "That's why I'm running away."
Favorite deleted sentence: "That's why I'm running away."
From @hahriehan, @lizcmckenna, and @mich_oyakawa, we have "Prisms of the People: Power and Organizing in 21st Century America."
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo68659118.html
Favorite deleted sentence: "Over a plate of chicken fingers, they wondered if people like them could have power in politics."
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo68659118.html
Favorite deleted sentence: "Over a plate of chicken fingers, they wondered if people like them could have power in politics."
Bonus points if you share with me/us a scan of a heavily edited manuscript page. Take us behind the scenes!
From @andydhorowitz comes "Katrina: A History, 1915-2015," which is not about some random lady but about a hurricane and a community. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674971714
Andy was brave enough to submit a photo showing "my amazing editor @ThomasLeBien keeping me from hedging any bets."
Andy was brave enough to submit a photo showing "my amazing editor @ThomasLeBien keeping me from hedging any bets."
From @Meeratsriram we have "A Gift for Amma," for kids 4 to 8. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781646860623
Meera spilled the tea on all the publishers who rejected her book or wanted to whitewash it -- until @BarefootBooks took it on.
The worst suggestion: Set it in America, not India. She didn't.
Meera spilled the tea on all the publishers who rejected her book or wanted to whitewash it -- until @BarefootBooks took it on.
The worst suggestion: Set it in America, not India. She didn't.
