If you’re an author reading this, you may have already been affected by soft censorship. Book Riot regularly reports on censorship, as does School Library Journal. Well, first I want to tell you that it’s extremely important to track what’s happening with book challenges and soft censorship around the country – and don’t assume that it couldn’t be happening where you live. So what does all that even look like, teaching and author-ing and librarian-ing, two-plus years into a pandemic, with a world and country in tumult on multiple fronts, with book challenges, particularly challenges targeting LGBTQ+ books, dramatically increasing? (And yes, I do have a title on the infamous Texas Republican lawmaker’s list.) I’m still working forty hours a week as a librarian. When I was invited to contribute a post about what it’s like to be an author and a librarian, I remembered I’d talked about it when I was interviewed at Cynsations about my book The Rules for Hearts (Penguin, 2007), quite some time back.Ī few years after that, I wrote a short piece on a related topic: “ Nobody’s A Full-Time Anything.” And a while after that, I began teaching writing, too – first in one-off sessions, then in longer workshops, and for the last few years as a faculty member in the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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