pjcanningauthor.bsky.social
Children's author. 21% Monster series published by @Usborne. Agent: @kickbackbooks. He/him
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UK publishing is utterly failing to follow through on its 2020 promises to make publishing more inclusive, to champion Black writers and writers from all minoritised groups. But @storymix.bsky.social are always living up to their promises. #KidlitUK
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I agree there are many assumptions about genres boys read that are wrong. I just meant that if a boy likes certain subject matter, whether the protagonist is male or female won't matter. I just referenced to books with female protagonists that are acknowledged to have a significant boy readership.
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You only have to look at the success of books like The Hunger Games or Northern Lights to know that is far too simplistic. The subject matter and attitude of the main character is much more important.
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That's an interesting idea. The Doctor unravelling the origins of some huge danger to humanity by going further and further back in time. Each change in the past subtly changing the future threat, but not solving the problem, etc.
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That primary school budgets are so poor and the social media landscape is so fractured that an early career children's author can't build a profile and support themsleves the way they supposedly once could.
If they want to establish new talent, they have take responsibility for getting them noticed
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My kids hated this trope. It was quite challenging writing stories with both parents alive in the action genre, but it provides useful depth and motivation for main characters. I don't mind people using it, but if it's just because living parents are a plot inconvenience, that's not good enough.
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Not sure Valerie wanted to be found - is this really an allegory?
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I started my class on AI and publishing by getting students to use ChatGPT to name some authors who’d died in a certain year (and would therefore be coming out of copyright) and then check the answers. It was right less than half the time. I hope that opened a few eyes.
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It plays to the assumption that Black authors write 'Black books' as opposed to books anyone might be interested in reading about whatever an individual author wants to write about.
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Those post-BLM debuts failed as most debuts do. The UK pub industry seem oddly fatalistic about debut fails, but want reasons why that isn't lack of marketing. I suspect author backgrounds got blamed. That leads to truisms about the market that stop books being commissioned from similar authors.
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Case closed.
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Or he was holding hands pinky-finger-to-pinky-finger style like I did at primary school if the teacher told us to hold hands.
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Maybe he just had really big hands?
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I see it like one of those puzzles where you move squares to make a picture and always end up with a gap and a picture that makes no sense.
(Plus at least 40 books to slot in sideways over the top of the double depth books you managed to fit in.)
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Did the same thing this morning - practically identical wording...