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In debt. They started off incredibly well. They published grants memoirs, enormous success, and huckleberry finn. And twain expected to pay himself fat royalties. He wound up receiving no royalties. This is their final list of titles, and i dont know if you can see from there, but any publisher thats going to go out with stories from the rabbis [laughter] is probably going to be in a little trouble. [laughter] so headlines, and it was deeply humiliating, headlines in the newspaper said mark twain fails. I mean, it was brutal. Failure of mark twain, failure of humanist. And hes humorist. And hes this literary superstar, deeply embarrassed, and he gets two main advisers. One of the wealthiest men in america, the righthand man to john k. Rockefeller, standard oil. His nickname was hell hound, and this robberbaron wants to play hardball with the creditors. He wants to offer ten cents on the dollar. Twains other adviser is his wife, libby. She has absolutely no business experience. She writ
What is the button you are wearing . The universe book. What does that mean . It means we want the Publishing Industry to have books that actively reflect the children of america. Is there an Organization Behind that . Yes, there is. What is . It a nonprofit and we are working on about six programs in order to get at the issue from im all about creating an industry or recreating an industry that values the fact that books are mirrors, so we have to sort of be able to see ourselves, understand our identity, and books are windows to be able to see outside of ourselves and to become more empathetic and really understand what humanity means. Youre a young adult author, and when you visit with students and you visit with a book group, what do you hear from them . Guest i hear that children are much more advanced than we are as adults [laughter] like the kids get it. They understand that, you know, they are of value, that they are worthy to each other and not because of labels or not because
Books that reflect the children of american. We are looking to hit librarians, book sellers, publishers, editors, we want to create more diversity so that ever child can see themselves in the stories. They are very much clamoring for more and more help so we try to get the funding. As the author of 21 books several awards, are you part of this program . I am not a part of the organization officially but i am all about creating an industry that values the fact that books are mirrors that we can see ourselves and to see outside of ourselves to really understand right community means. You are young adults author and when you visit students what do you hear . I hear children are much more advanced than we are as adults and kids get it and understand they are of value and worthy to each other and not because of labels or you look like this. They are human and they get it avicenna yearold she and her friends that they live and breed and laugh in we as adults are responsible as we continue th