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Women’s History Month: 10 Bad-Ass Sci-Fi Women

Published on March 7, 2018 in Fiction by BookTrib

It’s Women’s History Month and we are looking forward to all the events and books that celebrate the impact that women have on the world. In addition to bringing you the latest pop culture news and reviews where women are the focus, this month, we are also going to share with you some of the best BookTrib articles of the past that celebrate women and diversity. Today, we feature this piece from June 23rd, 2014 about 10 of the best, most bad-ass women from sci-fi. Who is the most badass of them all? The BookTrib Nerd Squad recently took a break from making the universe safer for nerdkind to reply to an article by Kieran Shea at the Huffington Post where he curated a…

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#ReadingBlackout: 28 Books by Black Women for Black History Month

Published on February 7, 2018 in Fiction by Bookish

BookTrib is partnering with Bookish to bring you more great content. This February, in honor of Black History Month, readers are participating in #readingblackout, a movement started by BookTuber Denise D. Cooper that encourages readers to exclusively pick up books by black authors. The Bookish team couldn’t resist joining in, and since we can’t get enough of books written by talented women, we put together a recommendation list featuring 28 books (one for each day of February) written by black women. You’re sure to find a few familiar covers on this list, but we hope you also find some new reads for your TBR pile. We’d love to hear about the books you’re reading for #readingblackout. Tell us about them in the comments! We were so taken with Here…

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‘Are You Sleeping?’ Wake Up for This Writer’s Bone Podcast

Published on January 8, 2018 in Podcasts by Daniel Ford

Kathleen Barber, author of Are You Sleeping, talks to Daniel Ford about always being a storyteller, how the podcast Serial helped inspire her debut, and why writers must always make time for writing. To learn more about Kathleen Barber, visit her official website, like her Facebook page, or follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Want to be a published writer? Enter our writing contest, where you could become a BookTrib Contributor! Deadline for submissions is January 31, 2018. Be a BookTrib Ambassador! Sign up NOW for our weekly newsletter.

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