Interviews & Articles
You can learn more about my writing process and perspective on publishing by reading these online interviews and articles:
INTERVIEWS
Sometimes wishes do come true…
White Readers Meet Black Authors
ARTICLES
- “Something Like an Open Letter to the Children’s Publishing Industry” (Fledgling; 9/5/09)
- “Some Preliminary Thoughts on Race and Reviews” (Justine Larbalestier’s blog; 2/18/10)
- “Breaking Down Doors: My Self-Publishing Story” (Huffington Post; 2/23/10)
- “Demanding Diversity in Publishing” (Huffington Post; 2/26/10)
- “Decolonizing the Imagination” (Horn Book; March/April 2010)
- “Tackling Terrorism in Teen Lit” (Huffington Post; 3/10/10)
- “7 Tips for Self-Published Authors” (Huffington Post; 3/16/10)
- “‘Ain’t They Black’: Negotiating Blackness and Borders in Canadian Young Adult Literature” (Fledgling; 4/2/10)
- “Black Canadian children’s literature~the stats” (Fledgling; 4/5/10)
- “Numbers don’t lie—do they?” (Fledgling; 4/6/10)
- “Giving Up the Myth of Meritocracy” (The Rejectionist; 5/3/10)
- “Diversity in YA Lit” (The Book Smugglers; 7/31/10)
- “Framing the Past” (Her Circle e-zine; 8/25/10)
- “A Storied Past” (School Library Journal; 2/1/11)
- “sister/outsider” (Women Doing Literary Things; 3/22/11)
- “Unpacking the Past” (Hunger Mountain; 3/25/11)
- “Achieving Equity in Publishing” (Fledgling; 5/6/11)
- “The Ethical Author” (Fledgling; 6/3/11)
- “Reflecting Reality” (DIPNET blog; 6/7/11)
- “The Bottom of the Pot: Blackness and Be/longing in A Wish After Midnight” (Fledgling; 6/24/11)
- “Navigating the Great White North: Representing Blackness in Canadian Young Adult Literature” (The Centennial Reader; June 2011)
- “The Real Value of Free Books” (Behind the Book blog; 7/25/11)
- “Writing Children’s Books While Feminist and Black” (Ms. Magazine blog; 7/28/11)
