From: Debbie Reese <dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:54:16 -0600

Hi all,

Thanks, Cheryl, for encouraging people who live amongst, or work with a Native community, to encourage them to try their hand at writing. The writers on CCBC know it is hard work and that rejection is par for the course. Share those rejection stories.

I met Eric at the Native American Literary Symposium (NALS) where we were both invited to give talks. That was 2008 (http://english2.mnsu.edu/griffin/indexo8.htm).

NALS is a great place to learn a lot, quickly. It is coming up, end of March, and is at the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Minneapolis. Eric is giving a keynote again, this year. Louise Erdrich will be there, too. http://www.mnsu.edu/nativelit/index.html

There are Native and non-Native scholars giving papers. If you go, you'll learn so much about Native writers and Native writing.

Recognition from NALS, and from Native communities, is the best one can hope for. Eric's book was selected as the August Book of the Month by Native America Calling. You can listen to the archive of the show: http://www.nativeamericacalling.com/nac_past.shtml

When you listen to it, you'll hear callers singing its praises. It touches many of us, in important ways, but as CCBC subscribers have indicated, it touches non-Native readers, too. It got a great write-up in the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/if-i-ever-get-out-of-here-by-eric-gansworth/2013/09/03/305d9370-118c-11e3-bdf6-e4fc677d94a1_story.html

And the Los Angeles Times: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/08/entertainment/la-ca-jc-eric-gansworth-20130811

Look on your copy. It has blurbs from Cynthia Leitich Smith, Francisco X. Stork, and Laurie Halse Anderson.

Debbie




__________________________________________________________ Debbie Reese, PhD Tribally enrolled: Nambe Pueblo

Email: dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com

Website: American Indians in Children's Literature
_at_ http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.net

Now: Studying for MLIS at San Jose State University Then: Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies, University of Illinois

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