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Before I forget!

This is a giveaway for one copy of Paradox Space, book one!

To enter, reblog this post. Just once, please! More than one reblog will disqualify you. That’s all you need! However, be aware:

This is a USA-ONLY GIVEAWAY. I would like to do another giveaway for international readers, but right now, this is just for the US.

This is a PERSONAL ENDEAVOR. Although I work for What Pumpkin, this giveaway is not affiliated with or endorsed by WP. I will be sending out one of my own comp copies, packaging and shipping myself, out of pocket. So if something goes wrong, take it up with me, not WP!

This giveaway begins today, June 17, 2015. It ends next week, June 24, 2015. When it ends, I will post the winner here and ask that they send me a message through tumblr telling me what their email address is as well as an email address with their mailing address. Because this is a giveaway for a physical item, that means you’ll have to give me a physical address to which I can send the book.

You don’t have to be following me to win, but it will be easier to find out that you win if you follow me, and I don’t post much. Your call.

If you want me to sign or sketch in your book I’m more than happy to do so (but it’s completely optional!). I don’t know about Andrew, please don’t ask!

If you have any questions send me an ask through tumblr! Good luck everyone!

snakefashion

GUYS

I THOUGHT WE WEREN’T GOING TO GO CRAZY THIS HIATUS

GUYS NO WE PROMISED

GUYS

IT HAS BEEN TWO DAYS

TWO

FUCKING

DAYS

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quick doodle I did for homestuck. one of the predictions for caliborn’s masterpiece.

i should do these quick doodles more often…

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quick doodle I did for homestuck. one of the predictions for caliborn’s masterpiece.

i should do these quick doodles more often…

thecodinglove

Hiding a bug right before a demo

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prince of time for someone on the stream!

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prince of time for someone on the stream!

The song of Finals. Homestuck: Pertinent in all planes of existence at all moments in time.

#homestuck #bandcamp #finals #3am #MdnightCrew #problemsleuth #hussie

rcmclachlan

I didn’t see this on my dash at all yesterday or the day before, which made me sad, so I’m posting about it now.

That handsome young man right there? That’s Kwasi Enin, a high school student who was accepted to all eight Ivy League schools. Not one or two, but ALL OF THEM.

The 17-year-old violist and aspiring physician applied to all eight [Ivy League schools], from Brown to Yale.

The responses began rolling in over the past few months, and by late last week when he opened an e-mail from Harvard, he found he’d been accepted to every one. School district officials provided scanned copies of acceptance letters from all eight Monday. Yale confirmed that it was holding a spot for Enin. (x)

Kwasi is 11th in a class of 647 at William Floyd in New York, meaning he’s in the top 2% of his class. He scored 2,250 out of 2,400 points on the SAT. And by the time this kid graduates, he’ll have taken 11 AP courses. He’s also a musician who sings in his school’s a capella group and volunteers in his local hospital’s radiation department.

I just wanted to highlight this kid and his amazing achievements. He’s the kind of future our world needs.

garyoldman

#arrested development #tv show

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Attanya: #WeNeedDiverseBooks because I love science fiction and fantasy books, but I’m tired of authors treating dragons and robots and magic as more plausible than black and brown characters

Jennifer: #WeNeedDiverseBooks because… when I was 13 a white girl told me it was selfishthat all of the protagonists in my stories were Latina because she “just can’t relate to nonwhite characters.” She made me feel guilty for writing about people like me.

Aiesha: #WeNeedDiverseBooks because…Black Girls are more than sidekicks or “sassy, ghetto friend”

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Facts and Figures About Race/Ethnicity in YA and Children’s Lit:

88% of the books on the 2013 Publisher’s Weekly YA Bestsellers were about white protagonists

93% of the authors on the 2013 Publisher’s Weekly YA Bestsellers were white authors

85% of the books on the 2014 Young Adult Library Services Association’s Best Fiction for Young Adults list were about white protagonists

90% of the authors on the 2014 Young Adult Library Services Association’s Best Fiction for Young Adults list were white authors

91% of the authors on the 2013 New York Times’s Bestseller Lists for YA and Children’s Lit were white authors.

According to the 2012 Cooperative Children’s Book Center, only 3.3% of books were about African-American protagonists; only 2.1% were about Asian and Pacific Islander protagonists; only 1.5% were about Latinx protagonists; and only 0.6% were about Native American protagonists. That means over 90% of children’s books surveyed were about white protagonists.

#WENEEDDIVERSEBOOKS

Posting this a little late, but followers please take the time out to check out this post explaining the #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign and more events to come over the next few days!