Shelf Life November Roundup
Everything That Was Unfit to Print in November 2020
Welcome to your November monthly roundup from Shelf Life. Just dropping some newsletter metrics, past-month highlights, and upcoming-month events of interest on you. This feature will appear in the newsletter archive on the first of each month (or thereabouts) but will not deliver to your inbox (housekeeping posts will never be emailed).
November Highlights
Little known fact, there’s a Shelf Life survey on the homepage to get your thoughts and opinions on Shelf Life: What you like and want to see more of; what you don’t like and want less of. If you have a few extra minutes this month, do me a solid and fill it out.
The audience’s favorite November article was Part I of my Guide to Writing Respectfully, which makes me really happy. I hope you liked the series, I am really proud of it. Did you know you can access the whole guide in one easy ready-reference page? Now you know.
October had 9 natural Shelf Life publication dates, and November had 8 but I artificially bumped you up to 9 Shelf Lifes (Shelf Lives?) by posting an extra one. December has 10 publication dates in it so get ready for the biggest Shelf Life month yet.
December News and Events
Sabaa Tahir’s new book, A Sky Beyond the Storm, launches December 1. A lot of my friends are really excited for the conclusion to this blockbuster quadrilogy. If you didn’t catch Tahir at the National Book Festival back in September, the video is still available.
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, by Ijeoma Oluo, also launches December 1 and that’s a must-read based on the title alone.
Holly Black and Leigh Bardugo will be talking about Black’s new book, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories, on December 4 at 7PM Eastern time. No tickets or registration needed, just go to this link at the appointed time.
Sabaa Tahir will be discussing A Sky Beyond the Storm with Tochi Onyebuchi at DC landmark Politics and Prose on December 7. Tickets to the virtual event are very reasonable and there’s an option to purchase a signed copy with your admission.
RE:Written is hosting a December 9 virtual writing workshop on Battling Writer's Block. If you struggle with writer’s block, or any of the other obstacles that keep you from writing, this is for you. I will be going because I definitely have that problem.
You might be able to see the new Dune adaptation in a movie theater on December 18? But I can’t say for sure that’s going to happen? And even if it does I strongly suggest that you don’t do that.
Pretty much everybody’s holidays fall during the month of December, so I wish you Happy Holidays this month. Shelf Life will be publishing on the 24th and 31st, just like any other Thursday. No rest for the wicked.