Fight Evil. Read Books.

It's National Library Week! In addition to showing some love and appreciation for your local library and the fine folks that work there, make sure you're keeping up with all the funding cuts threatening to make libraries a quaint memory from a bygone era and the bullshit book bans aiming to sanitize and whitewash the human experience and keep kids ignorant. Yeah, I am looking at you St. Francis, MN and U.S. Naval Academy!

The same people that bulldozed Dixie Chicks CDs 22 years ago are still around, except now they sit on school boards or work for the government. They're the ones upset about a middle school teacher letting her students know that everyone is welcome. They're emboldened enough to ignore students, teachers, superintendents and the Constitution itself to impose their worldview and crush imagination, free speech, and critical thinking. Peanuts creator Charles Schultz once remarked that, "It is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call American Virtues, who lack faith in our country."

If you needed any indication on how much our country has descended into an authoritarian nightmare, here is Betsy DeVos, Trump's first Secretary of Education praising DEI:

2/8/2017

Here are five ways you can fight book bans and support authors. Pass it on to friends and family!

Thanks again for your support in reading and sharing my book. Talk to you soon.

-Scott