Archon 45

Posted on Saturday, 10th September, 2022
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I’ll be speaking on some panels at the Archon Convention in Collinsville, Illinois on September 30-October 2.

Challenged in Virginia

Posted on Sunday, 28th August, 2022

Moms for Liberty is challenging Almost Perfect in Virginia.

Banned (not challenged, banned) in Utah

Posted on Thursday, 4th August, 2022

Release Day!

Posted on Wednesday, 3rd August, 2022

Fan Mail

Posted on Tuesday, 26th July, 2022

“I just finished reading you book ALMOST PERFECT. Actually, I was shocked that you received an award for it. I am reading our entire School Library of books and I deemed this totally inappropriate for High School. I’d like to tell you why?

First of all, I consider it a “groomer” book. It tells all the details on WHY to start a hormone process early and its an informative book about becoming Trans gender. I don’t consider this condition something to be affirmed. WHY? Because I consider it Body dysphoria. At NO time did you even talk about getting therapy about this condition. Kids cannot process LONG term ramifications of this disease when their adults can’t event explain what is going on in their brains. The family of this son merely screamed and yelled and of course that wasn’t appropriate as well.

I have had several friends navigate this time in their children’s lives by LOVING and seriously helping their child navigate the hormones and serious questions of their condition! Each has successfully navigated to adulthood. I can’t imagine using LIFE changing harmful and and irreversible hormone treatment and ACT like this is NORMAL! Even at the end of this book he “changed back” to being a boy…WHAT did you accomplish? You seductively enticed another boy to get involved using alcohol. ONLY drugs and Alcohol in YOUR world? This is NOT normal.

I can only imagine what you are teaching your own children…and I hope you are NOT around kids today! I’m just sick the Teacher Unions have put our children in these situations and have tried to “normalize” this as a real behavior instead of treatments that satisfy their needs.

Would you affirm eating disorders? Or a child saying their were an animal? I will use everything in my power to fight against this evil! If someone after 21 wants to cut off body parts and use hormones then that’s their business…

But PLEASE stay FAR away from my children!

Thank you for listening….”

Skylark Books

Posted on Saturday, 25th June, 2022

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Had a wonderful time talking about MARLEY’S GHOST at Skylark Books in Columbia, MO. Thanks for the invitation!

Smithton, IL May 14th

Posted on Sunday, 24th April, 2022

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Unbound Book Festival, April 23

Posted on Sunday, 3rd April, 2022

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In view of the recent outcry surrounding a Tennessee school board’s decision to ban Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and the increasing prevalence of similar actions throughout the country (including Missouri), we really wanted to have a conversation about banned books this year. Is it ever appropriate to ban a book? Who is really being protected, and from what? Brian Katcher brings a unique double perspective to this issue. In addition to being an acclaimed author whose novel, Almost Perfect, was 81st on the American Library Association’s list of most banned and challenged books for 2010-2019, he is also a school librarian. He’ll be joined on the panel by Maia Kobabe and the Dean of MU Law School and First Amendment expert, Lyrissa Lidsky.

Marley’s Ghost

Posted on Tuesday, 8th March, 2022

MARLEY’S GHOST, to be published by Crossroad Press!

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And now, North Carolina

Posted on Tuesday, 15th February, 2022

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This woman in convinced that a North Carolina middle school has a secret copy of ALMOST PERFECT (as well as a much better book by David Levithan) and is shocked that that principal won’t let her turn the school upside down to look for it. Ironically, North Carolina is the one state that ever awarded me a state book award.