This episode of PubTalk Live features Guest Co-Host Supriya Kelkar and Special Guest Stacy Whitman, who is the publisher, founder, and editor at Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books.

Supriya Kelkar

www.supriyakelkar.com 

Twitter: @supriyakelkar_

Instagram: @supriya.kelkar

Stacy Whitman

http://www.stacylwhitman.com/

https://twitter.com/stacylwhitman

https://twitter.com/tubooks

Instagram: @leeandlow and @norroway

Your Host, Sarah Nicolas:

www.sarahnicolas.com

@sarah_nicolas on Twitter

@presidentSarah on Instagram

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-News-

Norton Juster has passed away: https://www.npr.org/2021/03/09/975214782/phantom-tollbooth-author-norton-juster-dies-at-91 

The new Covid relief package includes funding for libraries and cultural organizations: 

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=3151 https://bookriot.com/covid-relief-for-libraries/ 

The Scribd Audio imprint officially launched: diggs-and-lena-waithe-lend-their-voices-to-scribds-audiobook-version-of-black-imagination-301242826.html">https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/daveed-diggs-and-lena-waithe-lend-their-voices-to-scribds-audiobook-version-of-black-imagination-301242826.html 

Maryland law about licensing to libraries: maryland-legislature-passes-law-supporting-library-access-to-digital-content.html">https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/85785-maryland-legislature-passes-law-supporting-library-access-to-digital-content.html 

Literati launching a new YA subscription box: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=3139 

The Ripped Bodice's 2020 State of Racial Diversity in Romance Publishing Study: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/state-racial-diversity-romance-publishing-report