Oh wow! I'm glad they're still running them!
Oh wow! I'm glad they're still running them!
- put down the damn AI.
Across the Multiverse: Black Voices in Speculative Fiction
@pdjeliclark.bsky.social
@brittanyacts.bsky.social
and @okosunreads.bsky.social
in conversation with Darrell Stover + Q&A
August 5 2025, 7-8pm EDT
Online, free!
Register here: www.wake.gov/events/acros...
#SFF #SpecFic
ICYMI:
I spent a year investigating a far-right organization who wants to takeover every library in the state of Louisiana.
You should read about them below:
ICYMI, last week I got to chat with @brittanyacts.bsky.social on The Geeky Waffle about the Forge and Fracture saga!
Go check out her series if you havenβt yet, then come back and listen to us geek out!
thegeekywaffle.com/home/2025/5/...
Literally this is part of how theyβre dismantling education from the inside. Please vote!!!
Andor is a story about how a thousand nameless and unremembered people will have to sacrifice everything so a gay kid who left his home in Space Idaho four days ago can close his eyes and Fuck It We Ball the most important shot in galactic history on the advice of a ghost
Today!!!
Rita Williams-Garcia's classic middle grade book is now a graphic novel!
See y'all soon π
β€οΈππ Happy Book Birthday to IRON TONGUE OF MIDNIGHT by @brittanyacts.bsky.social, who joined us earlier this month at our #kidlit Color of Children's Literature Conference!
This Must-Have Monday I have THIRTEEN new books to ft, incl
ππΊthe nicest necromancer's adventures continue with @csecooney.bsky.social
β οΈπ‘οΈa much snarkier necromancer goes home by @soundingline.bsky.social
βοΈ Elizabethan orisha, fae, and metal-magic from @brittanyacts.bsky.social
Program announcement for Kweli25 featuring photo of participating artist John Jennings. TEXT: Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference MASTERCLASS GRAPHIC NOVEL FULL-COLOR COMICS!: CREATING DIVERSE GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR KIDS WITH JOHN JENNINGS Illustrator of Parable of the Talents: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia Butler Friday, April 4th | 1:00pm-4:00pm Register at kwelijournal.org | #Kweli25
Program announcement for Kweli25 featuring photo of participating artist Traci N. Todd. TEXT: Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference MASTERCLASS NONFICTION WRITING NONFICTION FOR CHILDREN THROUGH A SOCIAL JUSTICE LENS WITH TRACI N. TODD Author of Make A Pretty Sound: A Story of Ella Jenkins and Nina: A Story of Nina Simone Friday, April 4th | 1:00pm-4:00pm Register at kwelijournal.org | #Kweli25
Program announcement for Kweli25 featuring photos of participating artists John Jennings and Brittany N. Williams. TEXT: Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference A. PUBLISHING, COMMUNITY, & CULTURE TRACK AFROFUTURISM Featuring: John Jennings; moderated by Brittany N. Williams Saturday, April 5th 9:15am - 10:15am Register at kwelijournal.org | #Kweli25
Program announcement for Kweli25 featuring photos of participating artists Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Kelly Starling Lyons TEXT: Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference B. NOVELS / MEMOIR TRACK (YA & MG) ON CRAFT (INTERMEDIATE LEVEL) PAGES TO STAGES: ADAPTATION & TRANSFORMATION Featuring: Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich & Kelly Starling Lyons Saturday, April 5th | 9:15am - 10:15am Register at kwelijournal.org | #Kweli25
ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT to register for #Kweli25!
π Take a peek at the #Kweli25 #kidlit program schedule featuring
John Jennings
Traci N. Todd
@brittanyacts.bsky.social
@olugbemisolabooks.bsky.social
@kelstarly.bsky.social
+MORE
SEE full schedule at link in our bio. ππΏππΎππ½ππΌ
A compilation of book covers of ten young adult books being published in April 2025 including Two Truths and A Lionel, Nahia, All The Noise At Once, The Corruption of Hollis Brown, The Summer I Remembered Everything, The Family I'm In, Voice of the Ocean, Deadstream, Murder Between Friends and Boys With Sharp Teeth
π« Not sure what to read next? This list of 55 exciting new YA books being published in April 2025 might be a great place to start! π«
popgoesthereader.com/hot-off-the-... #BookSky #KidLit #YALit
Brittany N. Williams is an award-nominated actress and the award-nominated author of the YA historical fantasy trilogy The Forge & Fracture Saga.
The electrifying conclusion to the βgloriousβ The Forge & Fracture Saga will be published on April 22, 2025
@brittanyacts.bsky.social
#booksky #authors
the cover of Out of Step, Into You beside a blog spot titles 25 Black Sapphic Books Out in 2025 to Preorder Now
Here are 25 sapphic books by Black authors out in 2025 to preorder now! lesbrary.com/black-sapphi...
Ready for *all the 2025 YA books ft. sweet romcoms, epic fantasy, atmospheric horror, intriguing mystery & more?? I've put together a list of 50+ Young Adult books releasing from January to June that you can't miss! ππβ¨
24hryabookblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/5...
The electrifying conclusion to the βgloriousβ (The New York Times) award-nominated historical fantasy trilogy, The Forge & Fracture Saga. Lauded by Locus Magazine as βvividly expressive, riotously queer, beautifully Black, and wildly creative.β @brittanyacts.bsky.social
Out April 22, 2025
#booksky
The 27 reads that made my year from @brittanyacts.bsky.social #CeboCampbell @obeytheauthor.bsky.social #PedroAlmodovar #AnikaNoniRose #ElaineUCho #DulceSloan #TomiAdeyemi and @kennedyryan.bsky.social
UK Readers! It's almost Faerie time!
Saint-Seducing Gold (The Forge & Fracture Saga, Book 2) hits shelves on your shores 2 January 2025 with this stunning new cover by Manzi Jackson & the art team at @faberbooks.bsky.social
Thanks for showing That Self-Same Metal some love! π«ΆπΎ
This is my legacy!
Graphic slide with a close-up watermelon background with the above text and an image of its book cover where the face of a Black girl looks out from a liquid pool in front of the shadow of a skull overhead
The winner of the 2024 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novel - Young Adult is:
I FEED HER TO THE BEAST AND THE BEAST IS ME by Jamison Shea (Henry Holt & Co.)
#Ignytes2024
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