Tracy Slater
@tracyslater.bsky.social
Nonfiction writer; B&N Discover Great New Writers Pick; New book: Together in Manzanar: The True story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp; Work in NYT, WashPo, WSJ + more; www.tracyslater.com
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Tracy Slater
@tracyslater.bsky.social
· Jul 14
Together in Manzanar: A True Story. Out now on Amazon: bit.ly/3IgLzql; Bookshop: bit.ly/4eJlVXi; B&N: bit.ly/4kyXehE; Chicago Review Press: bit.ly/44L3hty
@chireviewpress.bsky.social
@chireviewpress.bsky.social
Audiobook version launches today! If you can’t make it to our Toronto event this week (or even if you can), you can get a free copy of the audio version w/a trial subscription @ sites like Audible, B&N, etc, linked from main @tantoraudio.bsky.social site @ rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97.... 📚💙 🗃️
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Audiobook version launches today! If you can’t make it to our Toronto event this week (or even if you can), you can get a free copy of the audio version w/a trial subscription @ sites like Audible, B&N, etc, linked from main @tantoraudio.bsky.social site @ rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97.... 📚💙 🗃️
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A book launch; a discussion of histories spanning multiple cultures, continents, and generations; and kosher sushi. What's not to love? Wed., Nov 12, 7-9pm, Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina Avenue in downtown #Toronto. Pre-registration @ app.amilia.com/store/en/mil.... #booksky 🗃️
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A book launch; a discussion of histories spanning multiple cultures, continents, and generations; and kosher sushi. What's not to love? Wed., Nov 12, 7-9pm, Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina Avenue in downtown #Toronto. Pre-registration @ app.amilia.com/store/en/mil.... #booksky 🗃️
A book launch; a discussion of histories spanning multiple cultures, continents, and generations; and kosher sushi. What's not to love? Wed., Nov 12, 7-9pm, Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina Avenue in downtown #Toronto. Pre-registration @ app.amilia.com/store/en/mil.... #booksky 🗃️
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A book launch; a discussion of histories spanning multiple cultures, continents, and generations; and kosher sushi. What's not to love? Wed., Nov 12, 7-9pm, Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina Avenue in downtown #Toronto. Pre-registration @ app.amilia.com/store/en/mil.... #booksky 🗃️
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Nov 20 online: I'm hosting a reading/conversation with my friend Satsuki Ina — psychotherapist, filmmaker, activist, writer. She'll be reading from/talking about her book, The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment and Protest (published @heydaybooks.com).
Register here: t.ly/HT233
Register here: t.ly/HT233
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Nov 20 online: I'm hosting a reading/conversation with my friend Satsuki Ina — psychotherapist, filmmaker, activist, writer. She'll be reading from/talking about her book, The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment and Protest (published @heydaybooks.com).
Register here: t.ly/HT233
Register here: t.ly/HT233
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Looking for a little free literary help? Support for a new agent pitch? Happy to offer an explanation and sample of the pitch letter that earned me the incredible good luck of signing with my current agent, Amy Bishop-Wycisk. 💜 #writingcommunity #booksky
Hey, Issue 6 of Pitch Club (six months of Pitch Club?!). It's @tracyslater.bsky.social and her query to a literary agent that earned representation for Together in Manzanar.
Dig it.
welcometopitchclub.substack.com/p/so-you-bro...
Dig it.
welcometopitchclub.substack.com/p/so-you-bro...
So You Broke Up with Your Agent ... Now What?
Tracy Slater shares her agent pitch letter that earned her representation for "Together in Manzanar."
welcometopitchclub.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Looking for a little free literary help? Support for a new agent pitch? Happy to offer an explanation and sample of the pitch letter that earned me the incredible good luck of signing with my current agent, Amy Bishop-Wycisk. 💜 #writingcommunity #booksky
In my next life, I want to come back as @lisaborders.bsky.social so I can dress up for my book launches like she does for hers. See the list of all events for her new book Last Night at the Disco @ www.lisaborders.com/events/ ! #booksky
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
In my next life, I want to come back as @lisaborders.bsky.social so I can dress up for my book launches like she does for hers. See the list of all events for her new book Last Night at the Disco @ www.lisaborders.com/events/ ! #booksky
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#Toronto #book launch! Co-sponsored by the Miles Nadal JCC, Toronto Holocaust Museum, and the org Jewish&. Wed., November 12, 7-9pm. And yes, there will be KOSHER SUSHI! (I promise.) 💙📚 🗃️ Pre-registration requested: app.amilia.com/store/en/mil...
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
#Toronto #book launch! Co-sponsored by the Miles Nadal JCC, Toronto Holocaust Museum, and the org Jewish&. Wed., November 12, 7-9pm. And yes, there will be KOSHER SUSHI! (I promise.) 💙📚 🗃️ Pre-registration requested: app.amilia.com/store/en/mil...
#Toronto #book launch! Co-sponsored by the Miles Nadal JCC, Toronto Holocaust Museum, and the org Jewish&. Wed., November 12, 7-9pm. And yes, there will be KOSHER SUSHI! (I promise.) 💙📚 🗃️ Pre-registration requested: app.amilia.com/store/en/mil...
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
#Toronto #book launch! Co-sponsored by the Miles Nadal JCC, Toronto Holocaust Museum, and the org Jewish&. Wed., November 12, 7-9pm. And yes, there will be KOSHER SUSHI! (I promise.) 💙📚 🗃️ Pre-registration requested: app.amilia.com/store/en/mil...
Video from last week’s book event in Los Angeles with the incredible Holocaust Museum LA, held at the beautiful Barnes & Noble, The Grove, in which I got to be in conversation with @denshoproject.bsky.social's Jennifer Noji. Such an honor! 📚💙 🗃️ Watch now @ youtu.be/kEJRuqFfkqo?....
Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp
YouTube video by Holocaust Museum LA
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November 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Video from last week’s book event in Los Angeles with the incredible Holocaust Museum LA, held at the beautiful Barnes & Noble, The Grove, in which I got to be in conversation with @denshoproject.bsky.social's Jennifer Noji. Such an honor! 📚💙 🗃️ Watch now @ youtu.be/kEJRuqFfkqo?....
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Hey, Issue 6 of Pitch Club (six months of Pitch Club?!). It's @tracyslater.bsky.social and her query to a literary agent that earned representation for Together in Manzanar.
Dig it.
welcometopitchclub.substack.com/p/so-you-bro...
Dig it.
welcometopitchclub.substack.com/p/so-you-bro...
So You Broke Up with Your Agent ... Now What?
Tracy Slater shares her agent pitch letter that earned her representation for "Together in Manzanar."
welcometopitchclub.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Hey, Issue 6 of Pitch Club (six months of Pitch Club?!). It's @tracyslater.bsky.social and her query to a literary agent that earned representation for Together in Manzanar.
Dig it.
welcometopitchclub.substack.com/p/so-you-bro...
Dig it.
welcometopitchclub.substack.com/p/so-you-bro...
Looking for a little free literary help? Support for a new agent pitch? Happy to offer an explanation and sample of the pitch letter that earned me the incredible good luck of signing with my current agent, Amy Bishop-Wycisk. 💜 #writingcommunity #booksky
Hey, Issue 6 of Pitch Club (six months of Pitch Club?!). It's @tracyslater.bsky.social and her query to a literary agent that earned representation for Together in Manzanar.
Dig it.
welcometopitchclub.substack.com/p/so-you-bro...
Dig it.
welcometopitchclub.substack.com/p/so-you-bro...
So You Broke Up with Your Agent ... Now What?
Tracy Slater shares her agent pitch letter that earned her representation for "Together in Manzanar."
welcometopitchclub.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Looking for a little free literary help? Support for a new agent pitch? Happy to offer an explanation and sample of the pitch letter that earned me the incredible good luck of signing with my current agent, Amy Bishop-Wycisk. 💜 #writingcommunity #booksky
The real-world costs of OBBBA: "When Your Sister Qualifies for Medicaid, or the ‘PiA Process’ " open.substack.com/pub/writersf...
When Your Sister Qualifies for Medicaid, or the ‘PiA Process’
By Megan Sullivan
open.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The real-world costs of OBBBA: "When Your Sister Qualifies for Medicaid, or the ‘PiA Process’ " open.substack.com/pub/writersf...
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Here it is, my 246th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more in comments, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 246 (10/19/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, my 246th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more in comments, share as widely as possible, & ...
blackwhiteandread.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Here it is, my 246th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more in comments, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
Huge thanks to @americanstudier.bsky.social & @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social for spotlighting this recent episode of the podcast @draftingthepast.bsky.social, where I got to talk about writing a first book of narrative history. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
October 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Huge thanks to @americanstudier.bsky.social & @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social for spotlighting this recent episode of the podcast @draftingthepast.bsky.social, where I got to talk about writing a first book of narrative history. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
Online, free & open to the public. Pre-registration requested @ morristownjewishcenter.shulcloud.com/event/adult-...
October 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Online, free & open to the public. Pre-registration requested @ morristownjewishcenter.shulcloud.com/event/adult-...
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So fun to chat w/ @tracyslater.bsky.social about TOGETHER IN MANZANAR! Learn how she found her way to narrative history & how she stays with her characters as she tells their story. She also made me blush talking abt how podcasts are part of her writing community draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
October 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
So fun to chat w/ @tracyslater.bsky.social about TOGETHER IN MANZANAR! Learn how she found her way to narrative history & how she stays with her characters as she tells their story. She also made me blush talking abt how podcasts are part of her writing community draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
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Issue 1 of Pitch Club, the one that started it all, the phenomenon sweeping across the nation! Proof that the internet can, in fact, break.
Nick Davidson's Atavist Pitch for "The Balloon That Fell From the Sky"
In the first Pitch Club, Nick Davidson breaks down his pitch for The Atavist Magazine.
welcometopitchclub.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Issue 1 of Pitch Club, the one that started it all, the phenomenon sweeping across the nation! Proof that the internet can, in fact, break.
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I'm pretty sure I broke some basic "best practice" of podcasting by spending 5 minutes gushing about someone else's show (hey @brendanomeara.bsky.social), but it's my show, I do what I want.
And @tracyslater.bsky.social was so great! Listen now.
And @tracyslater.bsky.social was so great! Listen now.
So fun to chat w/ @tracyslater.bsky.social about TOGETHER IN MANZANAR! Learn how she found her way to narrative history & how she stays with her characters as she tells their story. She also made me blush talking abt how podcasts are part of her writing community draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
October 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I'm pretty sure I broke some basic "best practice" of podcasting by spending 5 minutes gushing about someone else's show (hey @brendanomeara.bsky.social), but it's my show, I do what I want.
And @tracyslater.bsky.social was so great! Listen now.
And @tracyslater.bsky.social was so great! Listen now.
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1/3: Double immense thanks to @npr.org for featuring Together in Manzanar a second time! This spotlight, alongside Julia Riew's latest, is especially meaningful given the topic of Riew’s book: the Japanese occupation of Korea. www.npr.org/2025/08/08/n...
August 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
1/3: Double immense thanks to @npr.org for featuring Together in Manzanar a second time! This spotlight, alongside Julia Riew's latest, is especially meaningful given the topic of Riew’s book: the Japanese occupation of Korea. www.npr.org/2025/08/08/n...
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An absolute thrill to get to talk to Sacha Pfeiffer on @npr.org's Morning Edition about the new book and some of the parallels between the history it reveals and the place we are today. #booksky #skystorians
www.npr.org/2025/07/22/n...
www.npr.org/2025/07/22/n...
New book 'Together in Manzanar' reveals life inside WWII Japanese detention camp
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Tracy Slater, author of "Together in Manzanar," which tells the true story of a family of mixed heritage sent to a Japanese internment camp during World War II.
www.npr.org
July 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
An absolute thrill to get to talk to Sacha Pfeiffer on @npr.org's Morning Edition about the new book and some of the parallels between the history it reveals and the place we are today. #booksky #skystorians
www.npr.org/2025/07/22/n...
www.npr.org/2025/07/22/n...
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Photos sent by a reader of Together in Manzanar, a lifelong friend of the Yonedas. She wrote me: "We shared many things ...[but] after reading your book, I am so sorry we never talked about that dark time during the war...I thank you for waking me up to an important part of American history" 🗃️ 📚💙
October 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Photos sent by a reader of Together in Manzanar, a lifelong friend of the Yonedas. She wrote me: "We shared many things ...[but] after reading your book, I am so sorry we never talked about that dark time during the war...I thank you for waking me up to an important part of American history" 🗃️ 📚💙
Photos sent by a reader of Together in Manzanar, a lifelong friend of the Yonedas. She wrote me: "We shared many things ...[but] after reading your book, I am so sorry we never talked about that dark time during the war...I thank you for waking me up to an important part of American history" 🗃️ 📚💙
October 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Photos sent by a reader of Together in Manzanar, a lifelong friend of the Yonedas. She wrote me: "We shared many things ...[but] after reading your book, I am so sorry we never talked about that dark time during the war...I thank you for waking me up to an important part of American history" 🗃️ 📚💙
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Here are the ones I made for my book and the company that printed them, which I can enthusiastically recommend.
October 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here are the ones I made for my book and the company that printed them, which I can enthusiastically recommend.
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The ones for the Girl Genius books are pretty, and I am increasingly tempted to plate the wrong books with my ones for some silly reason! Studio foglio offers them as KS extras.
October 9, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The ones for the Girl Genius books are pretty, and I am increasingly tempted to plate the wrong books with my ones for some silly reason! Studio foglio offers them as KS extras.
@jeffreyyamaguchi.bsky.social - I know you have a whole, excellent post on your substack about them, but I couldn't find examples of ones w/author signatures. Would love to see some if you or any of your clients want to share!
Any writers here who've used bookplates as a way to provide a signed copy of books, even if you're not there to sign them yourself? An event venue just asked me if I have them...and I don't. Would love to see other writers' versions if you're willing to post here! #writingcommunity #booksky
October 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
@jeffreyyamaguchi.bsky.social - I know you have a whole, excellent post on your substack about them, but I couldn't find examples of ones w/author signatures. Would love to see some if you or any of your clients want to share!