Nick Courage

Nick Courage

@nickcourage.bsky.social

Children’s book author, partner at Courage Literary agency, co-founder of Littsburgh, four leaf clover finder 🍀✌🏽 nickcourage.com | courageliterary.com

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Nick Courage
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It’s Banned Books Week, and I wrote a long - and long-delayed - post on about my experience having a book banned (something I’ve been trying to keep quiet since the banning, for reasons I get into in the post): nickcourage.substack.com/p/a-very-per...

nickcourage.substack.comA very personal banned books week email...It’s Banned Books Week, and I wrote a long post on Threads about my experience having a book banned (something I’ve been trying to keep quiet since the banning, for reasons I get into below).

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Oisín McGann
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We should treat genAI in publishing the way you’d treat a vampire trying to enter your home. You never give it permission to enter. It doesn’t matter if it‘s polite or makes generous offers or it’s *only* going to take the ones *you* don’t care about. It’s here for your blood. Don’t let it in.

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Nick Courage
@nickcourage.bsky.social

at the dealership getting our oil change and two raspy old men are preaching about sin and salvation in the waiting room and I guess that’s normal now? but I truly, truly, truly thought Subarus were non-denominational

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Publishers Weekly
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At BookCon, held April 18–19 at Javits Center in New York City, author Rachel Ekstrom Courage made a splash—literally—with copies of the first book in her Golden Girls Cozy Mystery series, Murder by Cheesecake, and the forthcoming second installment, Death on the Lanai (both Hyperion Avenue).

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Cabel Sasser
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this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

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Roxane Gay
@roxanegay.bsky.social

One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...

therumpus.submittable.comThe Rumpus - El AlborotoEl Alboroto es una nueva sección en español que forma parte de The Rumpus. La revista busca publicar voces innovadoras y textos que quizás no encajan en publicaciones más tradicionales. Nos interesa e...

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Shannon Hale
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Replying to @shannonhale.bsky.social

Authors receive a percentage of the cover price. Cover prices and %s are higher in books for adults than children. You have to sell more copies (32x in this case) to equal the income, which is why most kid lit book creators supplement income with paid school visits (or used to, they're drying up)

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl
@sketchesbyboze.bsky.social

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.