get ready for your close-up…

…because Amy Bodden Bowllan is asking folks to send her photos of their favorite book by an author of color.  If booksellers like Borders think there's no demand, let's prove them wrong and show just how much we enjoy books with diverse perspectives.  I just started Grace Lin's Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, and was thrilled to find a profile of Ms. Lin over at Color Online–check it out!

I was *not* thrilled to hear that Ellen Hopkins was disinvited from a teen lit festival in Texas; it...