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Elle Thornton
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The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
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Exciting New Author: AALIYAH BILAL
It was such a pleasure today (10/28)to learn about a promising new author, Aaliyah Bilal, whose short story collection Temple Folk will be published in July. Appearing with her editor Yahdon Israel, senior editor with Simon & Schuster, and Eric Simonoff, literary agent and partner with WME during an Authors Guild webinar, Bilal spoke movingly of her writing process: I was especially impressed when
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“I'm too old to be ignorant as I am."
--Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.”
― The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
--Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.”
― The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
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“I'm too old to be ignorant as I am."
--Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.”
― The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
--Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.”
― The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
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