Authors & Audiences - #11 - Laurel Goodluck, picture book author, faces the A&A Q&A

#11 - Laurel Goodluck, picture book author, faces the A&A Q&A

11/25/22 • 14 min

Laurel Goodluck is a debut author who writes picture books with modern Native American themes that reflect Native children’s cultural experiences and everyday life, showing Native children that they have a perspective that is unique and powerful.
To find out more about Laurel, visit her website, or follow her on Instagram.
To buy Laurel's debut picture book, FOREVER COUSINS , please consider buying it from her favorite indie bookstore, Red Planet Books & Comics in Albuquerque. Or, please buy it from any independent bookstore near you.
Laurel also mentioned:
Esther Averill's early reader, The Fire Cat
Darcy Littlebadger's A SNAKE FELL TO EARTH
Her son Forrest's movie, HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE
Octavia Butler's book PARABLE OF THE SOWER

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#10 - Laurel Goodluck, debut picture book author talks about celebrating her Native American heritage, and about only doing the social media she enjoys

Laurel Goodluck writes picture books with modern Native American themes that reflect Native children’s cultural experiences and everyday life, showing Native children that they have a perspective that is unique and powerful. Laurel comes from an intertribal background of Mandan and Hidatsa from the prairies of North Dakota, and Tsimshian from a rainforest in Alaska and now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In October, Laurel’s first picture book, Forever Cousins, which was illustrated by Jonathan Nelson, was published by Charlesbridge. Her second picture book, Rock Your Mocs, which is illustrated by Madelyn Goodnight, will be published by the Heartdrum imprint of HarperCollins in Fall 2023, and her third, Too Much, which will be illustrated by Bridget George, is slated for Spring 2024 from Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, as well as her contribution to Chelsea Clinton's She Persisted series.
To find out more about Laurel, visit her website, or follow her on Instagram.
To buy Laurel's debut picture book, FOREVER COUSINS , please consider buying it from her favorite indie bookstore, Red Planet Books & Comics in Albuquerque. Or, please buy it from any independent bookstore near you.
Laurel also mentioned her mentor, Traci Sorell and her illustrator, Jonathan Nelson.

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#12 Cathy Berner from Blue Willow Bookshop shares the lowdown on book launches

Cathy Berner qualified as a school librarian up in the frozen north, but very quickly found her way to Texas, where she's been a bookseller at Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston for the last 18 years. She's Children/Teen Coordinator and the Event Coordinator, and is the curator of three book festivals in Texas: the Bookworm Festival for picture book readers, TweensRead for middle grade readers, and Teen Book Con for YA readers.
In this episode, Cathy talks with Caroline about book launches from a bookseller's perspective, about what to do to help a bookseller (and as importantly, what NOT to do!) and she also shares the science behind her highly efficient signing lines.
You can follow Cathy on Instagram and on Twitter, and to check out Blue Willow, you can visit and buy lots of books on the website at Blue WillowBookshop.com, and you can follow the store on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and of course, if you want some really good fun, follow the store on Tiktok. Even better, if you're ever in Houston, why not drop by to see this beautiful little store for yourself?
Cathy recommended two great books:
Dirtbag, Massachusetts by Isaac Fitzgerald
Odder by Katherine Applegate
She also suggested we follow two of her favorites booksellers on social media:
The Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas
Nicole Brinkley, bookseller at Oblong Books, and podcaster at the Misshelved Podcast