Friends!
I hope spring is giving everyone the rest and rejuvenation that is so desperately needed after the trash fire that was 2020. We’re not out the woods yet by any stretch of the imagination, but i’ve been noticing some faint traces of slowly kind of getting better on the wind recently, and i hope y’all have too.
I apologize for the radio silence: i’ve been hard at work readying things for the next batch of publications and time has gotten away from me. All i can say for now is there are some truly, truly amazing books coming in 2021/2022 and as always, more detailed announcements are on the way.
I also apologize for not keeping up with a continued call of support for Black/minority-owned businesses. It has been so unbelievably difficult for me to retain things these days and i know that a lot of important things have dropped from my attention, specifically rallying to spotlight Black/minority-owned business.
This is an admittedly small step towards rectifying my lapse in attention, but here is a list of over one hundred Black-owned businesses. They all deserve our support and patronage. Let 2021 be the year we learn to consistently put our attention and financial support where our mouths are.
And thank you, Natalie, for sending along this fairly comprehensive breakdown of the Black Lives Matter movement and why the work it’s doing is so critical.
–mz