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In this episode you’ll hear
- an interview with Jason Low, publisher at Lee & Low Books
- a review by John Schu of the graphic novel, Lunch Lady and the Mutant Mathletes by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
- a Take5 Marketing Tip by Dianne de Las Casas: Twitter Engage
- my new Marketing Consultations service
- Reminding you about Operation Unfriend…But Like!
In the interview you’ll hear
- the learning process, even for a publisher
- how shy people can learn to market their books
- the imbalance of books published by people of color
- the imbalance between characters of color and caucasian ones
- a fab article by Suzanne Morgan Williams in the SCBWI bulletin (May/June 2012)
- New Voices award
- about Lee & Low’s acquisitions
Tu Books Spring 2012 - about Tu Publishing
- racism in picture books like Tikki Tikki Tembo
- It Jes Happened – a children’s biography on Bill Traylor, who started drawing at the age of eighty-five and became one of America’s most important outsider artists.
2 Comments
Melitsa @ Raising Playful Tots
Great conversation about publishing and people of colour. So many people don’t think it’s a big deal what colour the characters are in a book. My boys are so excited to see a person of colour in a book. Their smile says it all. It’s not until you see that you dream that you can be.
katie
Thank you, Melitsa. I agree, which is one reason I wanted to get Jason on the show. Thanks for commenting!