Tag: books
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International Book Giving Day
February 14 isn’t just about chocolates and roses — it’s also about stories finding new homes.Today marks International Book Giving Day, a quietly powerful celebration built on a simple idea: books are meant to be shared. How International Book Giving Day Began International Book Giving Day was founded in 2012 as a grassroots effort to…
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World Read Aloud Day On February 4
When Stories Had Voices Before They Had Pages Before books were objects you could shelve, stories were events. They happened in breath and rhythm, around fires and tables, in fields at dusk and rooms lit by a single flame. World Read Aloud Day isn’t just a celebration of literacy—it’s a quiet nod to the oldest…
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National Escape Day
Today, January 30, is National Escape Day, which sounds at first like a novelty holiday invented by someone who wanted permission to take a long lunch and quietly disappear. But the longer I sit with it, the more I realize this day explains everything about why I write books, build worlds, and occasionally invent entire…
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Book Publisher’s Day
How Small Publishers Actually Make Books Happen If you imagine publishing as a velvet-roped world of martinis and mysterious phone calls, small publishers would like a word. They usually wear socks that don’t match, drink coffee that’s gone cold, and argue lovingly over commas—because someone really cares about your book. On Book Publisher’s Day, celebrated…
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Happy Poetry Break Day
(Yes, that’s official. I just checked with the Muse. She nodded.) Some days are for productivity.Some days are for inboxes.And some days—quietly, rebelliously—are for poetry. Poetry Break Day on January 13 is the pause button you’re allowed to press without explaining yourself. It’s the moment you stop trying to be useful and let language be…
A Heep of Words: Books by Alexandra Heep, Helena Parx, Lexa Drane 