{"id":454,"date":"2015-02-06T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=454"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:42:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:42:25","slug":"diversity-specfic-match-made-of-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"Diversity + SpecFic = Match Made of Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Blog note:<\/b> In light of the scary fact that no one has actually spoken to Harper Lee from HarperCollins in person&#8230; we&#8217;ve taken down our happy piece on her new novel. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2015\/02\/06\/harpercollins_botched_the_rollout_of_harper_lee_s_go_set_a_watchman_now.html\" target= _blank>Slate<\/a> has a lot to say about whether or not the project should go forward, and they put forward some interesting questions for the introverts in this treehouse. Personally, no matter how excited I was about a new book, I was torn about whether or not I wanted to read it&#8230; much like I didn&#8217;t <i>want<\/i> to know what happened after the last of the Potter adventures, I think part of me needs Scout to stay as she was in my brain&#8230; you know? Anyway, while I stand by my glee that holding onto work until the time is right for it is the right attitude, I am just not sure that&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening in Ms. Lee&#8217;s case.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uvf4Fjpc7tw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2015\/02\/science-fiction-authors-celebrate-black-history-month\/\" target= _blank>Hat tip, SF Signal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This Open Road media video echoes something I read recently at <a href=\"http:\/\/thebrownbookshelf.com\/2015\/01\/26\/the-importance-of-dreaming-why-diversity-matters-in-science-fiction-and-fantasy-by-c-taylor-butler\/\" target= _blank>The Brown Bookshelf<\/a>, on diversity in speculative fiction. Incidentally, if you guys aren&#8217;t popping by THE BROWN BOOKSHELF for <a href=\"http:\/\/thebrownbookshelf.com\/category\/28-days-later\/\" target= _blank>28 Days Later<\/a> this month, you&#8217;re missing out. Take some time this weekend to catch up!<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Jules celebrated the art of Christian Robinson and the lyric of Matt de la Pe\u00f1a in <a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3624\" target= _blank>LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET,<\/a> which is a MUST GET picture book for me this year, as it celebrates the extraordinary in the commonplace &#8211; the actual coolness of such a thing as public transportation.  NPR <a href=\" http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/02\/06\/383856887\/on-board-a-city-bus-a-little-boy-finds-the-route-to-gratitude\" target= _blank>is celebrating more picture books lately<\/a> and they, too, have a lot of nice things to say about this one. Most of us YA types are big fans of Matt de la Pe\u00f1a in any book, so don&#8217;t miss hearing about his picture book, too.  <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it&#8217;s Poetry Friday and if you pop over to my blog, you can see what the Seven Sisters are doing for this month&#8217;s poetry challenge!<\/p>\n<p>Happy weekend! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog note: In light of the scary fact that no one has actually spoken to Harper Lee from HarperCollins in person&#8230; we&#8217;ve taken down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,12,36,67],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ethnicity-and-ya-literature","tag-fantasy-sci-fi","tag-multicultural-fiction","tag-tsd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8401,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/8401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}