Superheroes, wizards, teachers, troublemakers and ordinary girls — book lovers honored them all on Saturday in a spontaneous celebration via the hashtag #WomenInFiction.
The hashtag appeared to originate Saturday afternoon when Preeti Chhibber, a marketing manager for HarperCollins Children's Books, began tweeting about strong women writers and beloved women characters
"Cuz you know what's awesome?" she wrote on the microblogging site. "Reading about ladies who are real, actual people." Chhibber tweeted the hashtag soon thereafter and the twittersphere responded in kind. By 7 p.m. PDT on Saturday night, the hashtag was trending in the U.S. and Canada as bookworms honored the lady authors and heroines who inspire them. (Bonus for literature lovers: It also happened to be World Poetry Day.) Read more...
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