My novels continue to be banned, challenged, or restricted at a steady pace.
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Since my March 2024 update, I’ve noticed there are fewer cases in which individual school districts are banning lists of specific books. Instead, more statewide laws are being passed that are so vague and overarching that they’re likely to lead school districts to ban hundreds or thousands of books at a time.
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Back in October, I wrote a detailed post on how the national wave of book banning has targeted my books. For a couple of months afterward, I posted updates on instagram, but since December I haven't had the chance to do any more updates ... until now. I've been keeping a list, folks, and it's not very nice.
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Every year I do an annual review post in which I look back on what I did professionally and look forward to what I hope to do in the year to come, and I tag them annual review on my blog. This means if you’re interested you can go back to see my annual reviews since the early 2010s.
I just re-read my annual review for 2022, in which I wrote: "I know that I won’t be able to finish a whole new book in 2023, but I do plan to get a good start on it.”
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Yesterday, I joined my publisher, Penguin Random House; the Iowa State Education Association; authors Laurie Halse Anderson, John Green, and Jodi Picoult; three Iowa educators; and an Iowa high school student and parent in filing a lawsuit against the state of Iowa and challenging Senate File 496, which was enacted in May 2023.
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As the holidays approach, I wanted to let you know that I’ve partnered with Belmont Books in Belmont, MA, to offer signed and personalized books for holiday gifts. (You can gift them to yourself, too! )
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