next steps

As I mentioned before, when you're agitating for change you've got to walk with suggestions.  So we made our list; we now know that about 50 MG/YA novels by black authors were published in the US this year.  Here's what I'd like you to do NEXT:

READ THESE BOOKS!  I had a lot of help putting together this list and there were many titles I'd never heard of, which is precisely the problem:  publishers don't put much marketing money behind books by writers of color.  So now that we know about...