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LAOC is proud to sponsor the next installment of @aalitagents DEI Committee's "In Conversation" series, Reaching Readers: Black Bookstore Owners in Conversation. The panel will be hosted on Zoom 7/11 at 1pm EST. Publishing professionals can register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

@jenissamichelle How did I miss that you are in Brooklyn? We should connect!

Today's my two year anniversary living in Brooklyn 🥹 So proud at how far I've come, the mistakes I've made, and the lessons I've learned along the way. Damn.

A pi-prime is a prime number made up of the initial digits of the decimal expansion of π. We know the first 4... 3, 31, 314159, 31415926535897932384626433832795028841 and the 5th, a 'probable prime', is 16208 digits long, and took 4½ months to compute... Happy #PiDay

Doesn't really matter whether this film is recognized by the Motion Picture Academy at tonight's #Oscars2024 #Oscars : It should be recognized by our people. Take half an hour and watch this concrete example of Africana Governance and Ways of Knowing: youtu.be/1amOPUn49aM?si…

@AfricanaCarr @USPS So proud of my client Charly Palmer the artist for this beautiful stamp. He's also on of the editors for THE New Brownies Book. 💫

Thanks ⁦@USPS⁩ . #ConstanceBakerMotley #BlackHeritageStamp

@kwamealexander @littlebrown Congratulations! So excited to read this ❤️❤️

A New Literary Prize Taps a Jury Living Behind Bars nytimes.com/2023/12/04/boo…

Super excited to see this new award twitter.com/yalereview/sta…

Mayor Evans delivers 25,000th free book sent by the Rochester Imagination Library 13wham.com/news/local/may…

@EditorALB @SourcebooksFire @Sourcebooks @EditorALB I'm so thrilled for ! Seems you have the magic eye! Keep up the incredible work!

So thrilled to launch this title today! The First Magazine for Black Children Is Revisited, Its Message Still Resonant nytimes.com/2023/10/09/boo…

On #InternationalLiteracyDay let’s remind everyone about the importance of reading and education. Education is a human right. #BanFascistsNotBooks #FreedomToRead #ReadingOpensTheWorld

So excited to share this beautiful and important book. Thank you @PublishersWkly for a wonderful review publishersweekly.com/9781797216829

@rakiathegreat Lately Ive been asking my authors to expect that editors want to live whole lives and to spend time with friends and family on the weekend. I ask them to think about how long it might take them to read a 300 page book. Btw, what are you averaging? You know I'm a numbers gal.

@rakiathegreat I like to help my authors understand the full ecosystem. I think everyone in the publishing business has had to add at least 3 or 4 more duties. I think everyone needs to exercise more patience.

Literary agents: serious, good faith query. Do you think your authors really, truly, 100% understand what their editors' jobs are? Like, all of the job, I mean. In instances where it's clear that an author doesn't understand, how do you handle it?

@rakiathegreat Well i find that engaged editors are thinking early on in the process about how they will help with pr and mktg. They are tapping into their network and laying the foundation. Creating buzz. Thinking about positioning. Being an in house salesperson for the book and author

This will be my 22nd national book award. This is going to be fun!