After listening to Elizabeth Acevedo’s voice so many times through Libby, it was a pleasure to hear 15 minutes of a live conversation with Kevin King. In a world competing for our attention, we are already doing something radical just by spending time reading and sharing books, said Acevedo. As an aspiring author myself, I loved King’s question about her process of writing for young adults while “in the trenches” as an educator. She tries to keep a good ear around teens, listening rather than jumping in (as our first instinct may be). “Miss, I didn’t like your book that much. If I had written it, it would have been way funnier!”, she heard once. “Aha,” she replied, mimicking taking pen and paper to write it down. “What would you have said?” These quotes are from memory, not verbatim. I wish I had captured exact quotes, because this interview was…
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