shannongibney.bsky.social
Author of The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be; We Miss You, GF; Where We Come From (co-author) + others. Printz Honor, Carter G. Woodson + 3 MN Book Awards.
Also: Adoptee, Blerd, Mama, Prof, Runner, Traveler, waiting for the world to end in ‘25.
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You are my rep, and I thank you for your voice and your work. 🙏🏾
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F’n right. ☠️☠️☠️
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Let’s rock this! 🙌🏽🙌🏽✨
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Thank you, my dear friend and collaborator! 💕💕💕
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So disgusting.
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Yuuummm
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And thanks to my daughter, for helping me read “her” book! ✨✨✨
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Thanks to my @minneapoliscollege.bsky.social students for showing up in support! ✊🏽
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@uminnpress.bsky.social
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😆😆😆
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I feel it’s important to consistently and prematurely disabuse them of the pervasive but ultimately futile view that human happiness should be predicated on likes and dislikes…😆
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In person.
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Congratulations!🙌🏽
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I admittedly don’t know anything about where the costs of audiobooks go, but when I did mine with Penguin I felt fairly compensated. It wasn’t a ton of money, but felt fair. If that’s what audiobook readers are getting, they absolutely SHOULD BE, because that was WORK. 😳
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nonsense and cultural/racial violence. The editor understood, and they got rid of the AI audio ARCs for the book. The publisher said it was to make the book more accessible, but I actually think they were throwing a bunch of darts on the wall to see what hit. This missed bigtime. 🧵4 (last)
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or technology. 🤷🏽♀️ In fact, my co-editor (another woman of color) and I said that we didn’t want any of the anthology stories read by AI for ARCs after this. 🫥 I had never heard of audio ARCs before, and neither had anyone I trust in the industry, and I didn’t see the point, especially with this 🧵3
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instances of the word in the story. ☠️☠️☠️ My editor initially agreed with this assessment. After reflection and talking with my co-editor, I said this felt like “writing while Black,” that I was simply writing how Black teens talk, and that I absolutely did not want me story read by this company 🧵2