Advice on how to promote a book without selling your soul.
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As someone who first fell in love with nonfiction as a middle schooler by reading nearly every historical biography on the shelf of my hometown library, I’m thrilled to be introducing LIVE LAUGH LOVE at this year’s American Library Association. ❤️
A step-by-step guide to getting your work out into the world
Here are our #ALAac26 adult author events! Booth 2925. #ewgc @libraryreads.bsky.social @pkuper.bsky.social @kkdumez.bsky.social @bonniejo.bsky.social @liveright.bsky.social @wwnorton.com drive.google.com/file/d/18W9E...
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Ken Harbaugh reports from a Ukrainian orphanage where children spend every sunny day sheltering underground from Russian drones. When the alert goes off, this is what it sounds like.
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🗓️ June 18 at 12 PM ET, join experts @kkdumez.bsky.social, Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, and @robertpjones.bsky.social for the release of a new survey exploring Americans’ views on national identity, politics, religion, democracy, and cultural change. Register now: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Church & State 250 is about how faith shaped America - and how America reshaped faith. @kkdumez.bsky.social is one of 17 experts we talked with to better understand the role religion has played in American history.
The first episode airs on June 30th.
Learn more : www.faithfulpolitics.us/cas250
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If you think a quote from a suffragist in 1889 is too “woke feminist ideology” or that Black people as soldiers or immigrants as patriots are such offensive ideas they must be erased from the public memory, your problem isn’t “woke”- it’s just other people existing in history & having rights 🗃️
For more on this, be on the lookout for @kkdumez.bsky.social new book coming out in Sept
You can pre-order it now
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Here are the quotes Trump's NPS is trying to erase at the Bunker Hill Monument. Congress must not fund Trump's campaign of censorship.
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The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
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Peale is also in a long tradition of American “New Thought” the influence of which extends from Scientology to Prosperity Gospel to the Secret to New Age. Americans of many political and religious walks of life love to believe in “manifesting”
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How do we make sense of Trump's seemingly nonsensical comments on Iran?
I'd say: look to Trump's reverence for The Power of Positive Thinking and its author, Norman Vincent Peale.
Peale, you see, argues that if you believe hard enough that something will happen, you can will it into being. 1/🧵
