My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR has won the 2026 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction!! 💃🏿🇳🇬🇺🇸🤖 Sigh…wow. 🥹

I’m getting real sick of “monster” romances that are just contemps where the MMC is tall and hairy. If you don’t give me some otherworldly magical discovery and some complicated anatomy issues, you can show yourself the door. Also a lot of it carries the tone of “I dated a black guy once.”

I'm back again.... | life update & finding my way back to creativity youtu.be/KCGi_cp2JJM

For #BHM, I like to tweet a #Blackwoman author daily whose #romancebooks I enjoy. As I have been traveling the last week, I will start a couple of days late this year but it's definitely on the list. I will also post a thread on other apps. 🪷 📚 #romance #books #booksky #booktok #darkromance

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

📣 New Podcast! "BIGGER AND BLACKER" on @Spreaker #black #comedy #history

Folks: This is important. SHEAR—the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)—is tracking examples of the regime erasing history. More at the link below.

They’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas. For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare. www.startribune.com/walz-demands...

February Book Menu… I’m hoping this helps with my decision fatigue and leads to more reading. #booksky

Slow reading month, but mostly a good time. Most of the time I felt decision fatigue on what to read so I made myself a little menu in canva for next month #booksky

When self-employed software engineer Nick Benson put out the call for dashcams online, he thought he’d get maybe 10 people to donate. More than 500 have shown up on his front porch in suburban Minneapolis.

Made it 50% and I just can’t anymore. She’s trying way too hard. This will be really profound to a 22 year old somewhere though.

Listening to the audio of Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy and I don’t think it’s working for me. It feels off, subject matter aside, like she’s trying too hard. The throw away use of the r-word was certainly a choice.

Send. Help. So many ARCs, so little time.

The strongest start for my 2026 reading.

Slowly preparing myself to go back to work on Monday after about 10 days off. Today’s activity is getting a loaf of bread made for breakfast sandwiches. I was so good about not buying bread from the store (nothing against, this is just a low effort task for me) this summer but fell off in the fall.

Forever obsessed with Emily Austin. 53 pages into Is This A Cry For Help? (Out 1.13) and I’m so gripped. I always feel so see by her main characters. This passage in particular really got to me.

This is what I mean when I say anti-homeless policies are inherently undemocratic and will catch up to other people one way or another.

The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.

It is about this: because so many people do not give a shit about romance, shit gets tried in romance first. You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.

So I am going to say something about romance as a genre. A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>. This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.

I needed that.

A&M’s grit is something else. Kentucky started this set on a run and A&M has pulled themselves together and it’s now 19-17 and you’d have no idea the first 10 points of this game were so shaky.

I’ve never watched the Avatar movies…I know I know. Am I too late? Or should I watch the two old ones this weekend then head over to Cinemark next week to see the newest ones?

The thing I’ve learned about drinking as I get older is preparing for the hangover sooner. I’ve had so much water and have a big one by my bed for the dehydrated monster I’ll be tomorrow and I’ve got cafe bustelo set to auto brew in my coffee maker in the morning.

Wisconsin looks just as inevitable as they did against Texas. Good luck Kentucky, looks like you’re gonna need it 😬

Volleyball final four tonight looks so good. Set 1 between A&M and Pitt is already such a fight! #ncaavolleyball

Volleyball final four tonight looks so good. Set 1 between A&M and Pitt is already such a fight! #ncaavolleyball

So glad I caught the restock of these. #kobo

Changing my username from something bookish to just me everywhere has been so nice. I’ve been posting about all my interests rather than just books on the short form video spots and it’s been really nice. Knitting on Saturday? Hell yeah. College volleyball tournament content on Sunday? Let’s go.

My inability to finish a full length novel in December needs to be studied. I intentionally called back my reading in November to try to avoid this and it still happened. I have started three books, enjoyed all of them and cannot finish a single one. Send help pls 🥲

I’ve been on a similar journey this year and the release of that turmoil I didn’t realize was turmoil for so long has brought me so much peace. open.substack.com/pub/itsamber...

Every time I see Sophie Cunningham on my screen it feels like a hate crime.

This is such a random thought, but I’ve been experiencing a lot of prison programming lately and it makes me wonder what the admin side of the programs department looks like at San Quentin. I mean there’s Ear Hustle, the 26.2 to Life Doc, and I keep coming across more things.

I really have to stop forgetting this app exists 😂

Esther & Ella Stevens are back from injury and on the bench ahead of Gotham's clash against Shield Winners Kansas City 🙌 📸: gothamfc

From North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays

A Slow Weekend Reading Mate by Ali Hazelwood | Cozy Book Vlog & Book Unboxing youtu.be/6iHabLiONMc #booksky

My antidepressants are working so well that I’m dreaming again. It’s both good news and bad news because why did I dream that I had a very terrible and very public fight with my best friend?! I had to tell my nervous system that it is in fact no under attack and the fight wasn’t real all morning 🥲

Felt good to run this morning. #strava #runners

I’ve spent all day reading this and it’s incredible. Thank you @avonbooks.bsky.social for the gifted ARC. This might be my favorite romantasy I’ve read this year.

Don't miss out this A MAN FOR MRS CLAUS x COVERSNOB Collab! 🎄♥️ Order by October 15 and get: Illustrated hardcover edition, illustrated endpapers, three-sided digital sprayed edge, new interior formatting, signed bookplate and a bookmark! www.coversnob.com/sh...

I had already signed up for TBR Harvest but then I saw someone share about Trick or Treatathon and I got my join request in just under the deadline yesterday! #booksky #readathons

8 weeks later and my #stepbystepsweater is finally finished! Love Florence for this free pattern and YouTube video.

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

I watched The Residence all weekend and absolutely loved it. Something about Uzo Aduba reminded me of late 90s-early 00s Whoopi Goldberg and I’m not sure how to explain that further. I just got an immense sense of comfort and nostalgia in watching her in this show. Absolutely loved it.

Sad I didn’t love this one more, but I think I would revisit the author’s other works.

We are also tearing up seeing Lynn’s mom surprise her at Pepperdine University, where she will get inducted into their Hall of Fame later 🥹 🎥 IG/pepperdinewaves

I have had zero desire to read today and I find that a little annoying 😂 in other news I’m working on the second sleeve of my sweater and it’ll be done this weekend.

📣 New Podcast! "Morris Code" on @Spreaker #code #comedy #morse #sos