In this episode, we talk with Lee Wind, who is a celebrated author and the Director of Education and Book Marketing Programs for the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), who we know through our company Booky Call.THOUGHT #1 - The Messenger Matters (So, Our Story Matters)THOUGHT #2 - It Would Be Too Easy to Say that I Feel Invisible. Instead, I Feel Painfully Visible, and Entirely Ignored (David Levithan)CONNECT:

Website: LeeWind.org

Website: IBPA-Online.org

Book: Queer As A Five-Dollar Bill 

Book: No Way, They Were Gay?: Hidden Lives and Secret Loves (Queer History Project)

Book: Red and Green and Blue and White

Instagram: I am Lee Wind

Twitter: Lee Wind 

LinkedIn: Lee Wind

YouTube: Lee Wind 

RESOURCE MENTIONS:

Indie Publishers - IBPA-Online.org 

Publishers Weekly Indie Success Story - Lee Wind - PublishersWeekly.com 

IBPA Member Press - Zest Books - LernerBooks.Pages.Salesfusion.com

Chicago Public Library - “Best Informational Books for Older Readers of 2021” - ChiPub.BiblioCommons.com 

Junior Library Guild Gold Standard - JuniorLibraryGuild.com

Sydney Taylor Book Award - JewishLibraries.org 

Marshall McLuhan - MarshallMcLuhan.com

Mary Todd - PapersofAbrahamLincoln.org

Papers of Abraham Lincoln Digital Library - Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F. Speed, 5 October 1842-1 - PapersofAbrahamLincoln.org

Joshua F. Speed - PapersofAbrahamLincoln.org

Fanny Speed - PapersofAbrahamLincoln.0rg 

Mount Rushmore National Memorial - MtRushmoreNationalMemorial.com 

Five Dollar Bill - USCurrency.gov 

Mohandas Gandhi - Thought.co 

Hermann Kallenbach - JewishVirtualLibrary.org 

Letters to Hermann Kallenbach - MKGhandi.org

Eleanor Roosevelt - FDRLibrary.org 

“Empty Without You: The Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok” - Eleanor Roosevelt - InkMarksOnEmptyDreams.com 

Lorena Hitchcock - NYCLGBTSites.org

‎We’wha, a Lhamana (Zuni Two Spirit) - WomensHistory.org

Cisgender - Transhub.org

Third Gender - HRW.org

#OwnVoices: Diversity in Children's and Young Adult Books - LibGuides.OCLS.Info

Pay-To-Play - TheBusinessProfessor.com

Publishers Marketing Association (PMA) - IBPA-Online.org

Publishers Weekly - PublishersWeekly.com 

Sappho of Lesbos - WorldHistory.org

"Fragment 16" - Sappho - LiteratureEssays.com 

Anactoria (or Anaktoria) - En.Wikipedia.org

1st Amendment - Constitution.Congress.gov

"Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On" - Rashida Jones - Netflix.com 

Florida Bill HB 1557 - NBCNews.com 

Bayard Rustin - KingInstitute,Stanford.edu

Bayard Rustin - Advocate.com 

‘Individual Freedom’ bill – “Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (W.O.K.E.) Act” - EdWeek.org

Clean Air Act - EPA.gov

David Levithan - DavidLevithan.com 

Non-binary - LGBT.Foundation

Sawyer Bennett - SawyerBennett.com 

"The Family Book" - Todd Parr - PublishersWeekly.com 

Anti-Human Trafficking - "Not For Sale" - NotForSaleCampaign.org

Voice of the Voiceless - VoiceoftheVoiceless.info

Ty Bennett - TyBennett.com

LEE WIND'S BIO:As the director of education and programs (book marketing programs) for the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Lee loves empowering indie publishers to have their voices heard. As an author, he published the crowd-funded young adult novel “Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill” celebrated by Publishers Weekly as an Indie Success Story, and has two books published by IBPA member indie presses; the middle grade nonfiction “No Way, They Were Gay? Hidden Lives and Secret Loves” (Lerner), a Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books Winner and a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection; and the picture book “Red and Green and Blue and White” (Levine Querido) which received five starred trade reviews, was called "beautiful" by the New York Times, and was honored as a Sydney Taylor Award Notable Picture Book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices