Thanks everyone for the love yesterday! My books are available in hardcover, paperback, kindle, and audiobooks! Please go support if you can! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/G3W/b... #booksky

And to think the industry told me a magical HBCU story with a Black teen boy lead wasn’t “marketable”. Hmmph. 🫣 Want a signed copy? malikbooks.com/shop-1/ols/p... #booksky

The official special paperback edition of Bones at the Crossroads is finally here! Check out your local bookstore and grab copy! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738995... #booksky

Prepare for the final showdown between Malik and the woman’s he calls mama in Ashes at the Altar, where bloodlines, betrayal, and legacy all collide. 09.15.26 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739009...

“Who needs enemies when you got a mama like mine.” - Malik Baron Prepare for the final showdown between Malik and the woman he calls mama in Ashes at the Altar, where bloodlines, betrayal, and legacy all collide. In bookstores 09.15.2026 #booksky

My new play Coco Queens coming to LA Fall 2026. Donate to our campaign to make this a reality! Every dollar and cent goes toward paying our Black actresses equitably, marketing, and crew. givebutter.com/bring-coco-q...

Creating art takes funding and resources and we are raising funds to pay these beautiful Black actresses an equitable wage, production costs, and marketing. Please help us bring my play to the LA stages! givebutter.com/bring-coco-q...

Came home to a big ass box outside my door and boom. The paperbacks to my follow up are finally here. I feel like a big kid today. Bones at the Crossroads special edition paperbacks hits stores June 2nd!

Seeing your play come to life is something magical. Activate: Black boy joy.

And that’s on Mama Aya

I’ve been praying every day for it. But I’m throwing it back out there… I’m manifesting Blood at the Root TV show. So here’s the casting for Malik and Alexis. Jalyn Hall and Lovie Simone. If you haven’t already go listen to the audiobook narrated and performed by Actor Jalyn Hall.

All in all. What a journey that has been telling a story about magic, Blackness, and Black boyhood in all of its glory and frustrations.

From the little short film that could to bestselling book series. ☺️

Yessssss to indie bookstores!!!

Imagine seeing something like this on your TV screens every week. Big budget. 12 episodes. 5 seasons. Spin-offs. Cast meet and greets. Fresh talent. We fighting.

That Black boy shinin’ like new money. Ashes at the Altar. 9.15.26.

A new world. New characters. New magic. Same old enemies. I’m very intentional with laying down easter eggs— so to get a foreshadow of what’s to come outside of the BATR trilogy, please preorder Ashes at the Altar. You may catch a title in there. 🫣🫣🫣 🔗 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739009...

When you accidentally announce a new book series! 🫣🫣🫣 Ha. Nothing’s official yet. I will say is that I’ve been cooking. And it’s a new world. New magic. New characters. Same enemies. But…first. Preorder ASHES AT THE ALTAR, the propulsive finale in the BLOOD AT THE ROOT trilogy.

Again. Lemme stop cussing my trainer out.

One day my plays will be here. Just watch.

I signed some copies at the Union Sq Barnes and Noble ! Go grab them! Sadly they sold out of Bones at the Crossroads! Y’all go grab em

I also never set out to write Malik Baron as “palatable” for no one. He’s a Black boy that was abandoned and hurt and yet still has the capacity to love. But also I wanted to give him the space to be angry and vulnerable. Because often times boys like him don’t have that luxury

With my books, I’m very intentional on everything. The book cover, to the characters, the world and the plot. Writing about a Black boy in YA fantasy—he’s always going to be held to a higher standard than his yt counterparts. Malik Baron is one of those characters that will forever stay with me.

If you support new plays, and want to help us bring a new play to the LA stages. Please donate. Idc if it’s $1. We need all the money we can get. givebutter.com/bring-coco-q...

Instead of telling Black creatives, “Just send your stuff to Tyler Perry. Donate to their campaigns. Here’s mine. $1, $5, $10 goes a long way. givebutter.com/bring-coco-q...

Will Mama Aya make an appearance in the final installment of the Blood at the Root trilogy? Preorder Ashes at the Altar 📒 to find out. 🔗 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739009... In stores 9.15.2026.

If you support new plays, and want to help us bring a new play to the LA stages. Please donate. Idc if it’s $1. We need all the money we can get. givebutter.com/bring-coco-q...

Welp, I’ve now FINALLY finished Bones at the Crossroads—wow @itsladarrion.bsky.social You really did that ! Up next…soooo excited to finally get into @jaymarjackson.bsky.social ‘s Celestial Elements ☺️🤗 Cannot wait!!!

Help us bring COCO QUEENS to the LA stages. All proceeds go towards paying our actresses equitably, venue rental and rehearsal space and marketing. Support Black theatre. Support new plays. givebutter.com/bring-coco-q...

Take me back to Friday night Disney Channel Original Movies, a fresh pot of spaghetti cooked by Mama, $1 snack wraps and sweet teas from McDonald’s, hanging out in the Walmart parking lots till 2am, and downloading songs on iPods from Limewire. Please. Adulting is truly the 12th circle of hell.

In a perfect world, we’d have so many Black romcoms, Black YA TV shows with 22 episodes, Black fantasy, a Collective watch like how we did with HTGAWM. I miss the old era of TV so much.

About Sunday night! The live reading of play COCO QUEENS SOLD OUT and was a huge success. I can’t wait to bring this fully to life to the LA stages this Fall. Thank you to @photosbyjamaal for capturing us. On stage. Living and breathing. That camera is blessed brotha

Ashes at the Altar 📒 9.15.2026 Preorder now. 🔗 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739009... #booksky

For every “why don’t you send your stuff to Tyler Perry” you gotta donate to my campaign. Sorry. I didn’t make up the rules. givebutter.com/bring-coco-q...

If you’re in the Los Angeles area and you wanna support a brand new play, please come out and support a live reading of COCO QUEENS. Tonight 6:30 PM. www.eventbrite.com/e/coco-queen... 📸: @photosbyjamaal.bsky.social

“Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone’s disbelief.” - August Wilson I’m coming for the gold. No more waiting. No more asking for permission. You tell me “no”. I tell myself “Yes”. COCO QUEENS coming to LA Fall 2026. 📸: @photosbyjamaal.bsky.social

Shout out to all my fellow TV scribes grappling with depletion over the bleak state of everything. It's rough even getting the motivation to tap in for writing fellowship applications because winners the last few years aren't getting staffed when there's little to no shows to staff them on.

I’ve been in the lab. Cooking. We fighting. If you haven’t gotten your copies of Blood at the Root, Bones at the Crossroads, and Ashes at the Altar. Please do. Continue to show up for this series because we want the adaptation as well. More soon.

Season 2 of Haintland begins April 9. This season we’re headed to Belle Terre, Louisiana to a summer house that never forgets. Join us: Haintland.Substack.com

Even if you can’t make it to my plays, I am putting up funds to help bring it to life. No more waiting on theaters to give me a “yes”. I AM THE YES. If anyone can help make it happen, please. We need your help. Here’s the link givebutter.com/bring-coco-q...

“But you’re forgetting one thing in that equation, Malik.” … “You’re still a kid too” 😭😭😭 @itsladarrion.bsky.social: The way this part touched my heart - it healed something in me 🫶🏾

A war is coming to Caiman University. Will Malik be able to protect the ones he love from an evil force he calls “Mama”? ASHES AT THE ALTAR In stores 9.15.2026 Preorder your copy now! Avail in Hardcover, Audiobook, and Kindle. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739009...

“Black boys like me don’t have happy endings.” Ashes at the Altar hits stores 9/15/26. Preorder now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739009...

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Inspiration

This TV and film industry will have you out here looking crazy. But God:

Finally relaxing with a book this week! Started this sequel to "Blood At the Root" today and am enjoying it quite a lot so far. @itsladarrion.bsky.social is already releasing the third in this series so I am a little behind! 😅 #BlackJoy #Magic #BlackHero #BookSky

I’m ready to announce this TV show, but until tennn I’m still manifesting this casting of Malik and Dominqiue

At a hidden magical HBCU a teen boy must confront evil spirits, family secrets and tested loyalties. In this haunting finale to the New York Times bestselling Blood at the Root trilogy, bloodlines, betrayal, and legacy collide in a battle that may cost everything. Out 9.15

I be walking past this like, “my nigga… I really wrote and published two books.” For a kid like me from small town Helena, AL… I never thought that was possible. But Gawd. Grateful