Romance Writers on How the Genre Empowers Women Romance authors reflect on how the genre empowers, represents, and includes. Featuring Chanel Cleeton, Kate Bateman, Shayla Black, Tamsen Parker, Sarina Bowen, and Milly Taiden. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auZ11dmEJ00 Debut Novels, Volume 2 | Six Picks Read it Forward editors Abbe and Emma share six more books from brand new authors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP6jiGmtQMU Melissa Dahl Presents THE OUTSIDERS | Last Minute Book Report After reading the book in 10 minutes, author Melissa Dahl (CRINGEWORTHY) gives a presentation on S. E. Hinton's THE OUTSIDERS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzg_Vqy2I6Q Tamora Pierce on How She Started Writing Female Heroes Author Tamora Pierce discusses the lack of female heroes in fantasy books when she was growing up, and the effect it had on her writing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGeCIpvTYjk Conspiracy Revealed: The Random House Home Video Logo The Random House Home Video division has been closed for almost 20 years, yet somehow its logo lives on. Take a deeper dive into the conspiracies surrounding this 80’s animation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awPyre2Lf2s&t

  People Try Books for the First Time [Parody]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpyrUpGeXU8&t&feature=youtu.be   Books Are Magic: Author Emma Straub’s New Bookstore | Signature Views Mini-Doc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOs0xqJrT-8&t&feature=youtu.be   Designing a Book Cover | Signature Views Mini-Doc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D5jvZbyA98&t&feature=youtu.be   The Case for Book-to-Film Adaptations | Signature Views Mini-Doc:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0az32iTWo68&feature=youtu.be   Elmo's Tricky Tongue Twisters #readalong | Brightly Storytime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP8NiBI-vD0&t&feature=youtu.be   Meet Elizabeth Bennet from PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen | kick-a** characters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FznQfyecEIs&t&feature=youtu.be   Norm Macdonald Convinces You to Buy His Book BASED ON A TRUE STORY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZrrfP1HrgM&t&feature=youtu.be   THE HANDMAID’S TALE: Margaret Atwood and Showrunner Bruce Miller (full panel) | BookCon 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFqJ8wqUpwk&t&feature=youtu.be  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IoR7O3P2wo The #ShareTheLaughter challenge invites social media users to share a video of themselves telling their best joke to their social pages, and challenge a few of their friends to tell a joke and continue the challenge. We encourage you to accept Elmo, Markus and Barbara’s challenge and share a joke using the hashtag #ShareTheLaughter, which has already garnered over 24 million impressions since the campaign was announced on August 16, National Tell-a-Joke Day. Penguin Random House Digital Video produced the Markus, Barbara and Elmo video.  Our digital video team also produces Brightly Storytime, the monthly picture book read-along video series, in which Ms. Linda reads some of Brightly’s favorite books.  In the newest episode, released this week, Elmo came in to co-host and help Ms. Linda warm up with a few tongue twisters before she read ELMO’S TRICKY TONGUE TWISTERS (Random House Children’s Books).  Watch the new Brightly Storytime video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP8NiBI-vD0

Last week The New York Times reported on this phenomenon, which has been compared to the Ice Bucket Challenge, the Harlem Shake and Planking, in the article Mannequin Challenge Is the New Viral Video Sensation You Probably Can’t Avoid: “Groups of people are gathering and freezing themselves in place, often in elaborate poses and scenarios, as one camera-toting person walks through the scene to zoom in on the details. As is often the case, teenagers are leading the way. Many of the videos are set to the song ‘Black Beatles’ by Rae Sremmurd, making it the unofficial anthem of the meme. The rap duo recorded its own version of the challenge at a recent concert.” More #MannequinChallenge videos are popping up everywhere, including on the Fox N.F.L. Sunday pregame show, college football’s S.E.C. Network and on Penguin Random House author Giada De Laurentiis’ Twitter feed as Family night dinner w/ a side of…. #mannequinchallenge.