(she/her) ✨️ non-fiction/fantasy reader, creator of https://teapawt.org/t.co/oV3n0MKxlL ✨️
Hertfordshire, England
Joined May 2018
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Black women who can cornrow their own hair are the real last air benders. Truly the pentacle of existence.
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This is Banned Books Week and I’m marking it by reading excerpts from banned books. Today: Beloved by Toni Morrison.
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BiFuriousAthon might be over but here are some other readathons you can support this Blacktober/Halloween/Black History Month!
@BlackBritAthon
@blacksffathon
@BlackOAthon
@AceReadathon
@HPocusReadathon
@PopCReadathon
Tag any I missed in the comments! 🖤🍁(1/2)
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My last read for this week is Everfair by Nisi Shawl, a Black, speculative, steampunk novel that reimagines the colonial history of the DRC. Perfect to end off BiFuriousAthon and kickstart Black History Month 🙌🏾
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Things publishing professionals have told me “don’t sell.”
-scifi
-clifi
-political fic
-trans romance
-neopronouns
-indie press books
Guess what scifi clifi polemic, feat. a trans LI who uses neopronouns, out with an indie press, just became a USA TODAY BESTSELLER?!? 🖕😘
ALT Photo credit by cover artist Ganzeer, a picture of the front and back covers of THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE by Sim Kern, side by side on a wooden table, showing punks smashing drones and electric guitars on a neon red background.
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Today on the blog I have an interview with author @BreeMcIvor whose novel The God of Good Looks is one of my 2023 top faves. You won't wanna miss it!
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one thing about me is i’ll always love an angry love confession. when they’re just hurling angry words at each other and one of them demands “WHY” and the other finally breaks down and yells “BECAUSE I LOVE YOU” then there’s a painfully tense and heated silence—
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HONEY&SPICE PAPERBACK LAUNCH DAY! As always thank you thank you to my reader& I am so excited for this little novel of mine to make a community with new audiences! 🍯🌶✨️ So grateful! Here we are on Atlantic Road,Brixton 🫶🏾 order now!Or run to the shops! geni.us/HSPAPERBACK
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THERE'S NO WAY I'D DIE FIRST by @lspringerwrites , if you like
🎈 classic horror with a contemporary twist
🎈 murderous clowns (not your mother's pennywise)
🎈 a black final girl
OUT 9/5/23
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Pennrae is back facing new challenges and changes in Magic Corrupts, Magic Conquers.
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Amita Suman on the ‘SIX OF CROWS’ spin-off scripts: “I'll say I have read them and I cried, and it's probably one of the best scripts I've been sent for a series. We all really, really, really, really want to do it.”
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IM TIRED OF BLACK WRITERS BEING ASKED ABOUT REPRESENTATION I SWEAR WE KNOW HOW TO TALK ABOUT OTHER STUFF IN INTERVIEWS
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BLACK AUTHORS!
Please submit your book to the Melanin Library. It's a free resource to advertise your books. You can be self, indie, or trad published. You just need to be Black ✌🏾
melaninlibrary.com/library
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Together, we read >7,800 trans books and raised >$234,000 for trans rights!
At least 2 trans authors who had book releases around the readathon saw their books hit bestseller lists. And many, many trans authors reported their best week of sales since their book releases. 2/
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On this #TransDayOfVisibility I have some happy news:
Over the past week, 2,659 content creators from 43 countries participated in the #TransRightsReadathon. We read & made content about trans books, fundraising for >250 different trans-supporting funds & individuals.🧵
