Oh my GOODNESS. That was a long and unintentional hiatus from the podcast after a long and intentional summer hiatus. Sorry! I moved my podcast to a different platform or host or whateveryoucallit so that I was not limited to a certain file size and could have greater reassurance that episodes would actually make it to the feed and stay there–this is still a sideline/hobby/love project for me, and I have verrrry little technical expertise. As you will hear in this episode.

There’s some new stuff going on. There’s theme music! There are transitions! There’s some monologuing by yours truly! Which means there was so much more editing, for better or worse. The app I used to use to always use to make sure the sound levels were nice and even doesn’t work with El Capitan! Woe. And the leveling function in my editing software was creating strange noises, so I apologize if Justine sounds loud and I sound quiet. That’s all my fault and I will work that out so future eps don’t have that problem. Also, my iTunes metadata is now a little messed up, and the description for the show in general is repeating as the episode description. At least that’s what it’s doing now.

Here endeth the disclaimers. Because the important thing is we have a new episode with Justine Larbalestier, author of many books for young adults in addition to her broader writing and editing c.v., including most recently, RAZORHURST, the recipient of starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, the BCCB.

In this episode we talked about how she got from academia to YA publishing, the pros and cons of the globalization of literature, ergonomics, diversity, and how her husband’s optimism helped her make the leap to full-time writing. And I give this big swearing warning in the intro and then Justine hardly swears at all! Disappointing. I think you’ll enjoy it nonetheless…

Sorry for this big old picture of the podcast’s icon–this is the only way to embed the file into the post if you are one of those people who likes to listen to it straight from the web site. You can also listen to (or download for offline listening) this and all episodes from TCL’s page at LibSyn.

Show Notes, And Lots of Them:

Justine’s web site & blog  |  Justine on Twitter

The Centre for Youth Literature and the Inky Awards

Enid Blyton, Dick Roughsey, Ellie Marney, Lili Wilkinson, Illimunae , Scott Westerfeld

M.E. Kerr, Patricia Highsmith, M.E. Kerr AND Patricia Highsmith

Malinda Lo episode of TCL  |  Diversity in YA

Cooperative Children’s Book Center 2014 statistics on multicultural literature

Children’s Book Council statistics on diversity in publishing industry

The Book Smugglers on cover whitewashing (this part of our conversation didn’t make it into the final cut, but this post covers it well)

Setting up an ergonomic workstation (opinions may vary)

The history of redlining (also Stuff You Missed in History Class did a 2-parter on this)

Theme music by Dave Connis. Thanks, Dave!