#maggie tokuda-hall

[dduane]

…This is BEYOND infuriating.

Tl;dr: Scholastic offers to license an AANHPI* author’s book as part of a collection “Amplifying AANHPI Narratives”… but only if she removes the word “racism” from the foreword of a book describing it, or else they won’t pick the book up.

…Scholastic is very much the 900-pound gorilla in the YA-literature room, and Maggie Tokuda-Hall—having politely but forcefully declined (her letter to Scholastic is in her blog post)—is understandably terrified about what may now happen to her career. But I’ll tell you, this situation leaves me intent on running straight out and buying her book. And I very much hope this ugly stance blows up, big, in Scholastic’s corporate face.

*Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander

#AANHPI #racism #censorship #Scholastic #Love in the Library #Maggie Tokuda-Hall

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🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ Trans Books To Read If You Love "Our Flag Means Death" 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️

Can't get enough of Our Flag Means Death? Read some trans pirate books!

On Mar León de la Rosa's sixteenth birthday, el Diablo comes calling. Mar is a transmasculine nonbinary teen pirate hiding a magical ability to manipulate fire and ice. But their magic isn't enough to reverse a wicked bargain made by their father, and now el Diablo has come to collect his payment: the soul of Mar's father and the entire crew of their ship. When Mar is miraculously rescued by the sole remaining pirate crew in the Caribbean, el Diablo returns to give them a choice: give up their soul to save their father by the harvest moon, or never see him again. The task is impossible - Mar refuses to make a bargain, and there's no way their magic is a match for el Diablo. Then Mar finds the most unlikely allies: Bas, an infuriatingly arrogant and handsome pirate - and the captain's son; and Dami, a gender-fluid demonio whose motives are never quite clear. For the first time in their life, Mar may have the courage to use their magic. It could be their only redemption - or it could mean certain death.

(The audiobook for "The Wicked Bargain" is narrated by Vico Ortiz!)

In a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic, a desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial lady find a connection on the high seas. Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl takes on the identity of Florian the man to earn the respect and protection of the crew. For Flora, former starving urchin, the brutal life of a pirate is about survival: don’t trust, don’t stick out, and don’t feel. But on this voyage, Flora is drawn to the Lady Evelyn Hasegawa, who is headed to an arranged marriage she dreads. Flora doesn’t expect to be taken under Evelyn’s wing, and Evelyn doesn’t expect to find such a deep bond with the pirate Florian. Neither expects to fall in love. Soon the unlikely pair set in motion a wild escape that will free a captured mermaid (coveted for her blood) and involve the mysterious Pirate Supreme, an opportunistic witch, double agents, and the all-encompassing Sea herself. Deftly entwining swashbuckling action and quiet magic, Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s inventive debut novel conjures a diverse cast of characters seeking mastery over their fates while searching for answers to big questions about identity, power, and love.

The Lost Boys say that Peter Pan went back to England because of Wendy Darling, but Wendy is just an old life he left behind. Neverland is his real home. So when Peter returns to it after ten years in the real world, he's surprised to find a Neverland that no longer seems to need him. The only person who truly missed Peter is Captain James Hook, who is delighted to have his old rival back. But when a new war ignites between the Lost Boys and Hook's pirates, the ensuing bloodshed becomes all too real - and Peter's rivalry with Hook starts to blur into something far more complicated, sensual, and deadly.

In the Christian Republic, homosexual people are given two choices—a camp to "fix" them, or exile to the distant islands populated by lesbians and gay men. Sixteen-year-old Jason chooses exile and expects a hardscrabble life but instead finds a thriving, supportive community. While exploring his identity as a transgender boy he also discovers adventure: kraken attacks, naval battles, a flying island built by asexual people, and a daring escape involving glow-in-the-dark paint. He also has a desperate crush on Sky, a spirited buccaneer girl, but fear keeps him from expressing his feelings. When Jason and his companions discover the Republicans are planning a war of extermination, they rally the people of the Rainbow Islands to fight back. Shy, bookish Jason will have to find his inner courage or everything and everyone he loves will be lost forever.

Book titles:

The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Peter Darling by Austin Chant

Rainbow Islands by Devin Harnois

#the wicked bargain #gabe cole novoa #the mermaid the witch and the sea #maggie tokuda-hall #peter darling #austin chant #rainbow islands #devin harnois #nonbinary #bigender #transmasc #trans books #trans book of the day #queer books #pirate books #bookblr #booklr #our flag means death #ofmd #vico ortiz

[charliejaneanders]

Over drinks and in the DMs, writers of marginalized communities swap our horror stories. Our books will be rounded up for listicles promoting Pride Month or Black History Month or AANHPI Heritage Month, our identities the focal point rather than our work. And how disheartening, to know that we will always be limited this way. Our marketing budgets are smaller, we know this. We’re less likely to be sent on tour. We know this. We are less likely to have advanced reader copies, an essential promotional tool, made for distribution to booksellers and reviewers. We know this. And we know full well that our invitation to the stage is conditional.

You have to read this piece RIGHT NOW. It's important and urgent and utterly amazing and infuriating.

#quotes #politics #publishing #racism #japanese internment #love in the library #maggie tokuda-hall #writing #books

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Books for Fans of Our Flag Means Death

In Deeper Waters by F.T. Lukens (YA) The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (YA) The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa (YA, audiobook narrated by Vico Ortiz) A Pirate’s Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne Peter Darling by Austin Chant Bonus: Coming in June and July 2024, respectively, check out Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland and Peregrine Seas by R.C. Ballad

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#A Pirate&039;s Life for Tea #Alexandra Rowland #Austin Chant #F.T. Lukens #Gabe Cole Novoa #Maggie Tokuda-Hall #Our Flag Means Death #Peregrine Seas #Peter Darling #Pirates #Rebecca Thorne #Running Close to the Wind #The Wicked Bargain

[a-ramblinrose]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge || December 14 || Wanted To Love But Didn’t: The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

#the mermaid the witch and the sea #maggie tokuda-hall #justonemorepage #jompbpc #book photo challenge #book photography #books #Not Out of Void But Out of Chaos #bpc catch up

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Siren The Song and the Spy

sequel to The Mermaid The Witch and The Sea following many new & background characters

allies from across the seas are coming together to fight against the empire once and for all

two siblings from a community who’ve held back colonisation until now, and the rich girl who washes up on their shore after a shipwreck, a pirate spy in the capital, and various others

and the Sea and her daughters, the mermaids, and creatures who want to fight back

#The Siren The Song and the Spy #the mermaid the witch and the sea #maggie tokuda-hall #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #i enjoyed this a lot!! more than book 1 tbh #i enjoyed book 1 but wasn't obsessed w it for whatever reason. also my memory of it is pretty hazy #but ahh!!! good characters #TWO aroace MCs :) #aroace books #florian & evelyn only have a couple short chapters between them; so maybe not great for fans of them #(but also honestly i'd prefer that to like. they're mcs but bad things happen to them) #it maybe… simplifies revolution and overturning the empire a bit? #but I guess most of the characters are just joining right when it’s about to pop off. #and also it does have the fairytale vibes that makes that work (I saw a review that said ‘deau ex oceania’ haha)

[exmakina]

Day 18 - Evelyn Hasegawa from The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Thanks to @cellamare for the suggestion!

#evelyn hasegawa #maggie tokuda-hall #the mermaid the witch and the sea #2023 AAPI Heritage Month #AAPIHM #m'art #digital

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

#squad #maggie tokuda-hall #harper collins #green willow books #graphic novel #graphic novels #poll

[ninsiana0]

#book tumblr #readers on tumblr #readers of tumblr #i read books #except when I'm in a reading slump #read more #I'm trying #book #books #read #reader #AO3 #Rocket Raccoon #Mercy Thompson #Patricia Briggs #Anne Rice #vampire chronicles #Redwall #brian jacques #the singing hills cycle #Nghi Vo #Emma Newman #The Split World #the mermaid the witch and the sea #Maggie Tokuda-Hall #T. Kingfisher #anne carson #the autobiography of red #Women's Prize #enter ghost

[gwydionmisha]

#Censorship #Japanese Internment Camps #Love in the Library #Maggie Tokuda-Hall #Books

[gabibookworm]

This cover’s just been revealed for this YA mermaid anthology! It collects 14 stories by diverse authors with stories such as a Vietnamese mermaid caught between two worlds, a boy pining for the merboy who saved him, and a siren who falls for Poseidon’s son. It comes out September 26, 2023 so be sure to preorder or request it at your local library!

#mermaid #booklr #books #ya books #ya fantasy #mermaid books #Darcie Little Badger #Kalynn Bayron #Preeti Chhibber #Zoraida Córdova #Natalie C. Parker #lgbtq books #Rebecca Coffindaffer #Julie C. Dao #Maggie Tokuda-Hall #Adriana Herrera #June Hur #Katherine Locke #Kerri Maniscalco #Julie Murphy #Gretchen Schreiber #Julian Winters

[dduane]

Scholastic is not exactly covering itself with glory over this. :/

(ETA: Scholastic has apologized on its website and is asking to "start this conversation over." As they damn well should.)

#Maggie Tokuda-Hall #Scholastic #Love in the Library

[transbookoftheday]

The Siren, the Song, and the Spy by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

SPOILERS FOR "THE MERMAID, THE WITCH, AND THE SEA"!

In this second vibrant fantasy from Maggie Tokuda-Hall, companion to her best-selling debut, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, a diverse resistance force fights to topple an empire in a story about freedom, identity, and decolonization.

By sinking a fleet of Imperial Warships, the Pirate Supreme and their resistance fighters have struck a massive blow against the Emperor. Now allies from across the empire are readying themselves, hoping against hope to bring about the end of the conquerors’ rule and the rebirth of the Sea. But trust and truth are hard to come by in this complex world of mermaids, spies, warriors, and aristocrats. Who will Genevieve—lavishly dressed but washed up, half-dead, on the Wariuta island shore—turn out to be? Is warrior Koa’s kindness toward her admirable, or is his sister Kaia’s sharp suspicion wiser? And back in the capital, will pirate-spy Alfie really betray the Imperials who have shown him affection, especially when a duplicitous senator reveals xe would like nothing better?

Meanwhile, the Sea is losing more and more of herself as her daughters continue to be brutally hunted, and the Empire continues to expand through profits made from their blood. The threads of time, a web of schemes, shifting loyalties, and blossoming identities converge in Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s remarkable companion to The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, as unlikely young allies work to forge a new and better world.

#the siren the song and the spy #maggie tokuda-hall #nonbinary #bigender #trans book of the day #trans books #queer books #bookblr #booklr

[kenyatta]

Recently, I got an email with an offer from Scholastic’s Educational Division to license Love in the Library for an AANHPI narratives collection, I was thrilled. If you’ve been in kids’ books for more than ten minutes then you are aware of the staggering reach of Scholastic. And since I’m not published by Scholastic this seemed like  a thrilling opportunity. But as soon as I cleared the opening paragraph, my heart sank.  I’ve been really proud of Love in the Library’s successes. Yas Imamura’s illustrations are incredible. My publicist, Jamie Tan, of Candlewick did her job with sensitivity and respect. Our editor, Karen Lotz, helped shape the book into its best form while never demanding the story be told in a way she deemed might be more palatable. There were starred reviews, Best of 2022 lists, personal letters from people whose families had been incarcerated to whom this story means so much.  It is also true that I wish it sold more copies than it has. It’s a story I believe in, deeply, and a story that I think merits exposure– something Scholastic uniquely offers. And Scholastic wanted to license the book! But only with a change to the author’s note. My offer was contingent upon it. Without even looking I knew what it was going to be. It was going to be the paragraph that inspires 1 star reviews from angry patriots, the one that sends them to my inbox with words unfit to repeat here or anywhere. And sure enough that was exactly what they wanted to remove.  But not only that: the word RACISM would be removed from the author’s note altogether.  They wanted to take this book and repackage it so that it was just a simple love story. Nothing more. Not anything that might offend those book banners in what they called this “politically sensitive” moment. The irony of curating a collection tentatively titled Rising Voices: Amplifying AANHPI Narratives with one hand while demanding that I strangle my own voice with the other was, to me, the perfect encapsulation of what publishing, our dubious white ally, does so often to marginalized creators. They want the credibility of our identities, want to market our biographies. They want to sell our suffering, smoothed down and made palatable to the white readers they prioritize. To assuage white guilt with stories that promise to make them better people, while never threatening them, not even with discomfort. They have no investment in our voices. Always, our voices are  the first sacrifice at the altar of marketability.  And excuse my language, but absolutely the fuck not.

Scholastic, and a Faustian Bargain — Pretty Ok Maggie

#maggie tokuda-hall #books #banned books #scholastic press

[lgbtqreads]

Happy International Asexuality Day 2023!

Happy International Asexuality Day! Today we’re celebrating books with main characters all along the ace spectrum, so check out these titles and find your perfect next read! As usual, all links are affiliate and earn a percentage of income for the site, so please use them if you can! Please note this roundup only features titles that were not previously featured [with covers] in past…

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#Ace-Spec #Ann Zhao #Anna Zabo #Asexual #Asexuality #Dear Wendy #Emma K. Ohland #Here Goes Nothing #Jax Meyer #Just Lizzie #Karen Wilfrid #Love Letters for Joy #Maggie Tokuda-Hall #Racquel Marie #Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture #Rising from Ash #Sherronda J. Brown #Wren Martin Ruins it All #You Don&039;t Have a Shot

[a-ramblinrose]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge || June 21 || Hello, Summer:  Summer = Outside Reading!!!

#The Mermaid the Witch and the Sea #Maggie Tokuda-Hall #justonemorepage #jompbpc #book photo challenge #book photography #books #Not Out of Void But Out of Chaos #bpc catch up