Hello! My name is Sam, and I'm a huge fan of your books. I'm also doing an article for school newspaper on diversity in books, and I would love to have a quote from you in the piece. Why do you believe diversity in books is so important? Thank you!
Read MoreFor the past few years, I’ve read hundreds of reviews for Diversity in YA. I read them to determine whether a young adult book has a main character who is of color, LGBTQ, and/or disabled, and thus is appropriate to include on DiYA. Sometimes the book’s cover copy reveals this, but often it does not — or it deliberately obscures it — and then I have to read reviews to figure it out.
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