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Portia Elan's avatar

Always so grateful for the library love, and the emphasis on building community!

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Jeffrey Yamaguchi's avatar

Thank you Portia, for this comment, and for your excellent insights on how authors should approach library programming with their potential library events.

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Haili Blassingame's avatar

This is so goood! And THANK YOU for the extremely kind shout out!! It made my day!!

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Jeffrey Yamaguchi's avatar

Thank you Haili, and happy to share your wonderful book deal news, very excited for you — congratulations again!

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Richard Donnelly's avatar

This is great. Any info on this major and influential market is essential

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Jeffrey Yamaguchi's avatar

Thank you very much, Richard.

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Elizabeth Rynecki's avatar

I'm a bit of a library nerd (I went to all the Oakland Public Library branches this summer... and wrote a post about it). In Oakland there are libraries in old houses and malls, libraries with a tool lending program, museums, and historical artifacts. I love libraries!

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Jeffrey Yamaguchi's avatar

Thank you Elizabeth — very cool to hear about your visits to all the Oakland Public Library branches — going to seek out that post. What a great adventure, and a fantastic way to take in and experience all that libraries have to offer in your community.

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Erika Dreifus's avatar

Such helpful information--thank you! And thank you also for the generous shout-out to my Substack!

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Jeffrey Yamaguchi's avatar

Thank you Erika, and very happy to share all the resources and opportunities you publish — all of it is so helpful and energizing for writers.

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