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Developing fiction and nonfiction authors. Est. 2014. A division of artist discovery platform @pipelinemediagp. #PipelineAuthors

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Final deadline: midnight (PT).

Authors, learn more on bookpipeline.com. by @bookpipeline

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Final deadline: Thursday. ✍️

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#authors #amwriting #amquerying #writercommunity by @bookpipeline

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…anyone? 👀 ✍️

bookpipeline.com/contest/adaptation-contest by @bookpipeline

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Writers:

The FINAL deadline is a week away—seeking stories for film/TV adaptation. Learn more and submit your published novel, comic book, or short story on bookpipeline.com. by @bookpipeline

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New Event WEDNESDAY:

You've written a script, now what do you do?

Timothy Cooper has the answers.

Link in comments. by @bookpipeline

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NOW STREAMING - an archive of over 200 events intended to help make sense of the ever-changing landscape in the arts.

Explore Symposium:

symposium.pipelineartists.com by @bookpipeline

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Two mothers. Two innocent sons killed by police.

One unlikely friendship that gave Narene Crosby and Sheila Albers the strength to take on a justice system designed to protect its own.

My book, Stolen Sons, is their story. Coming March 2027 from Plainspoken Books, @kansas_press.

In 2013, Narene, a Black mother in Kansas City, lost her twenty-four-year-old son, Ryan Stokes, when a police officer shot and killed him over a false accusation. Five years later and fifteen miles away, police responding to a welfare check shot and killed Sheila’s seventeen-year-old son, John Albers, in Overland Park, Kansas.

Separated by race and circumstance, the two mothers discovered a shared truth: when police kill, the battle has only begun. Within hours of each shooting, two different police departments followed a similar script. They first blamed the victims. Then they blamed the mothers.

I told part of their story in The Guardian in August 2021. But I couldn’t let it go.

Over the last five years, I followed the police investigations and court cases, examined hard-to-find records, and interviewed witnesses, attorneys, journalists, judges, police and legal experts, and family members. I had to get beyond the headlines and behind the scenes of two devastating cases, from crime scenes and interrogation rooms to city halls, federal courtrooms, and the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Police violence told half the story. Narene and Sheila—and the friendship they forged through unimaginable loss—formed its heart. Their bond gave them the strength to keep fighting for their sons and, eventually, for other families like theirs.

Winner of @bookpipeline 2024 National Unpublished Book Contest for Nonfiction.

Preorder now on Amazon: Link in bio or scan the QR code in the third image.

#StolenSons #JohnAlbers #RyanStokes #MothersForJustice #PoliceAccountability #UPKansas taken in Greater Boston area by @bookpipeline

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Another Book Pipeline finalist out in the wild… @neenaphan’a The Lonely Fox—a stunning picture book—just released last week! And yes, we’re partial to it because it’s about a fox. 🦊 ✍️

#PictureBook by @bookpipeline

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For the film and TV writers…

Deadline Wednesday for “First Look”. Learn more on scriptpipeline.com. taken in Los Angeles, California by @bookpipeline

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👀 for the writers: this Wednesday! symposium.pipelineartists.com by @bookpipeline

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25 days ago

*taps the sign* - late deadline TODAY: bookpipeline.com

#amwriting #amquerying by @bookpipeline

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Late deadline for both Unpublished (for material across 10 genre categories) and Adaptation (published books and short stories): Tuesday @ midnight PT. Learn more on bookpipeline.com. 🦊 ✍️

#author #authors #amwriting by @bookpipeline

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