Maggie Tokuda-Hall Talks Writing and Staircases

In addition to hosting the hilarious podcast with Red Scott, Failure to Adapt, Maggie Tokuda-Hall is an author of all types of books. She joins Julie in this episode to share about the experience of writing her first novel, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, its upcoming sequel, and her most recent picture book, Love in the Library. Maggie talks very frankly about her commitment to education around the real-life events in Love in the Library, and she shares a key piece of writerly wisdom earned when writing her novel: a perfectly built staircase that goes nowhere is useless. She also asks Julie one of her favorite Ask a Librarian questions yet: what do you think about the ALA’s recent commitment to total neutrality when it comes to books that simply aren’t true?

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