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2020 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards are Now Open

"Jenkins Group is proud to announce the opening and first call for entries into the 2020 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards."

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The Raven Book Store

by Jim Barnes / December 2019

“For our part, we try to level things by being really good at what we do, and really loud. So we use our platform to try to teach people what’s at stake as Amazon increases its influence and market share."

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From the Tech Desk

by Craig Manning / December 2019

''With so many forms of entertainment and so many distractions in today’s world, it’s sometimes hard to imagine young kids picking up books and falling in love with reading in the way that past generations did. Exciting, colorful AR book experiences like Desdemona’s Dreams could be the antidote."

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Want to Be a Better Writer? Read

by J. Michael Dolan

"From the age of eight I’d read as if my life depended on it, and the older I got the more selective I grew. With few exceptions I kept to the best authors, meaning those who wrote with an eye to fashioning stories that stood a reasonable chance of sticking around long after they themselves were no more."

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5 Ways to Overcome Writer's Wait

by Ellen Notbohm

"Sometimes we writers wait like dogs. But it isn’t the waiting itself that’s a bad thing, it’s the forlorn connotations and the self-sabotaging language we apply that get in the way of being constructive about our waiting. As writers, what’s more familiar to us than revision?"

Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed

by Jim Barnes, January 2020

"The working class jobs that had lured African Americans to northern cities were headed back to the anti-labor Sunbelt and overseas, leaving people trapped in inner-city ghettos to find their own ways to climb the economic ladder -- legal or not."

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Welcome to 2020

by Nina L. Diamond / January 2020

"Now, I wanted to see what had changed -- specifically, if anything had improved -- since then. I found that nothing had changed, except for the things that were not only still crap, but had gotten even worse over this last decade."