Diving back into this Black mermaids novel to cut half the book and enhance the other half. Again & again, this story reveals so many layers, shows me that it contains multitudes that even I haven't fully uncovered. I'm grateful to carry this story, to give life to my ancestors' wildest dreams. #BVM

We been here for years (1828).

The 10est of 10s. 🖤🖤🖤

Jamaica and Haiti on my mind, in my prayers...

POV: The new singer of the Reading Rainbow theme song and the new host of Reading Rainbow meet for the first time in Canada 🥹📚🌈 Video Description: Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨ youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared

After 25 years with American Ballet Theatre, Misty Copeland is hanging up her pointe shoes. The first Black female principal dancer in ABT history takes her final bow — but says she's "never saying never." Misty arrives at the America Ballet Theatre’s Fall Gala this evening! 🩰❤️😍

Join the 4th annual 10,000-Word Challenge, led by novelist Mary Adkins. Thousands have finished their drafts by participating in this (free) sprint. Will you join us? [Sponsored] lithub.thebookincubator.com

Just watched this for the first time tonight to kick off spooky szn with the hubs, and y'all were not lying about how brilliant this movie is. Will be thinking about this for YEARS 🤌🏾🙌🏾

Well, the rabbit's out of the PM bag! I have a lot of thoughts on what it means at last to be fulfilling the dream I've nurtured since I was 7 years old, but for right now I'm afraid all I have for you is the mental image of me flapping in a circle while I shout, I'M GOING TO BE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!!

My HIGHER MAGIC playlist is up with Fresh Fiction. I have a much longer playlist, but these six songs were very important and different stages of writing.

I'm seeing AI images in some really unnecessary places (any place) like in an article by a hair salon...about hair salons...why don't you just...use actual pictures...from your actual hair salon???? The ease we were promised was a lie because the way some of these ppl overcomplicate everything.

IT IS TIME www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHAI...

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Happy 1st BOOK BIRTHDAY, @courtney-floyd.com ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️💜💙💜💙💜💙 #HigherMagic is HERE!!! 💫💫💫💫💫

Finished my current book just in time to start reading my agent sibling @courtney-floyd.com's debut tomorrow!!! I'm beyond ready for HIGHER MAGIC!!!!! ✨️✨️✨️💜💙💜💙💜💙💫💫💫

Please reach out to local orgs who may have groundwork laid for this! You could volunteer until you're able to learn what you need to maintain your own ... then pass that knowledge onto someone else Also the library gives you free seeds!!! Get your library card!!!

Journalism and teaching are some of the most valuable yet thankless jobs in our society. I want to thank everyone who wakes up in the morning excited to teach others or inform their fellow humans for terrible pay.

You have 1 of 2 free articles remaining this month. Girl??? I've literally never heard of this site before this moment.

No crumbs 🍴

Our new, rebranded website is live. 🚀 🤓: and, look at that -- it's federated blackskyweb.xyz/.well-known/...

(Year of the Mer is now on NetGalley. Go get 'em, kids)

Reading #107Days and the woosah ain't woosahing enough for me 😩🤬

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

Re-reading pieces of your manuscript because your agent is still reading it, so you can still pretend it's perfect 🤌🏾

"We are at risk of losing one of our most precious freedoms: the freedom to write." In a new op-ed in The Los Angeles Times, PEN America's Summer Lopez warns the assault on free speech in the United States has "entered an alarming new phase." Read more: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Reminder that September is National library card month, so you should totally go get a library card! Yes, they have books, but many also have dvds, cds, video games, game systems, hot spots, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, park passes, museum passes, and more! Maybe it's time for a visit!

This second book could've been an epilogue 🤦🏾‍♀️

reading a book about china. apparently the government there has sent federal forces into cities, taken shares of major private enterprises, slapped tariffs on industries, and pressured media outlets to fire people they politically disagreed with. didn’t know this.

I'm committing to posting on my website...again. posting this at the oddest hour on a Thursday so I can't back out. www.jarikatucker.com/the-tea/owne...

Speaking of politics, did y'all know President Fitgerald Grant was Republican??? I must've blinked and missed it back then because Shonda pulled a FAST one on me 😩

I'm not getting involved, nor do I care. ---a motto

My author copies came today. I shared a very chaotic unboxing video on IG, if you want to witness me forget how book jackets work in a very joyful way. www.instagram.com/reel/DOJsMTd...

Fibroids impact 80% of women yet only 0.03% of our research dollars go to studying it. I sat down with women’s health providers at Frederick Health to discuss how my U-FIGHT Act will fight for fibroid research, and how we can ensure access to women’s health care in Western MD.

Ffffiiiinnnnaaaalllllyyyyyyy sent my agent proof of life aka my revised manuscript. 🎉🎉 girl, pass the wine 🍷 🍾

Trombone Shorty releases new album from New Orleans, a tribute to the city's soul, marking the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

I am actually emotionally unable to handle the reality of more atrocities against children. No clue why our government is so cool with it.

My husband is fully in his dad era. He's is up at 12 am reading me his most-liked Google reviews.

I'm not even getting my blood pressure up about the New Orleans Saints this season...or next. It's still Who Dat... but also I know what it is and it ain't us ⚜️🖤⚜️

The good news is that it's Thursday....the bad news is that it's Thursday 🙄🫠

Time to bust out the Canva board again 👀👀👀

It is incredible the amount of pain a human heart can carry while still being kind, still showing up, and still trying. 🌿🌿🌿

ADHD is me having an amazing idea...remembering 12 hours later...saying let me write this down before I forget...getting distracted by a literal squirrel...googling nefarious squirrels...remembering the idea during my midnight bathroom break & working on it for the next 4 hours at the crack of dawn

Is there such a thing as pre-burnout? Or just like several cycles and levels of burnout... if so, is the last level to crashout?? Asking for a friend. The friend is me.

Literally hiding from my kids so I can finish editing my book... that's totally fine, right??

I love that #writing makes you an unlicensed expert in a few subjects at a time. The research, fact-checking, beta reading, quality-reading, corrections, editing, revisions...all of it enriches the story but also you.

Jsut looking at the Liquid Death Deathberry Inferno can makes me cough now. I've been Pavlov'd by some ghost pepper foolishness...ghoulishness 😒😷🫠

ICYMI I'm giving away an eARC of HIGHER MAGIC & some digital swag to celebrate #DisabilityPrideMonth. To Enter: 1. Subscribe to my newsletter (buttondown.com/wallowinginink) & 2. Follow me by 11:59 p.m. on July 27th! Share this post for a bonus entry! @htpbooks.bsky.social @htphive.bsky.social

This was the most perfect thing that I've seen in a minute. Reminded me a lot of Turning Red, especially the popcorn eyes and the turning part. 👩🏾‍🍳💋