AUGUST LANE is one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Romances of 2025! ✨😭

Now sure how long this will last, but the August Lane ebook is currently on sale for 5.99 across all platforms.

So @reginablackwrites.bsky.social’s new one is a masterpiece: August Lane has an absent country legend mother and an ex who stole her song and abandoned her for superstardom. Now both mom and ex are in town for a concert, but only one of them wants to make amends. Top romance of this year so far.

WHAT?! AUGUST LANE IS IN THE NY TIMES AND IT'S THE BEST BOOK SHE'S READ ALL YEAR. 😭 Huge thank you to @oliviawaite.com. No words for the joy this brought me today.

AUGUST LANE IS A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!! 😭 Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who has read, listened, boosted, and recommended this book. I see all of you, and I really appreciate the way you showed up for August and Luke’s love story.

✨ TODAY IS THE DAY! ✨ AUGUST LANE is officially out in the world! Thank you to every Black country music pioneer who paved the way, every reader who has been waiting for this story, and everyone who has ever felt like they didn’t belong. This one’s for you. 🤠✨ Grab your copy now!

✨THE SONGS OF AUGUST LANE✨ Preorder August Lane and receive a digital companion with original lyrics, songwriting notes, and Black country music history that inspired the story. BONUS: Order from wordsworthbooks in Little Rock and receive a limited-edition art print! 🔗s in bio. 🤠

I know this is a radical statement, but nothing makes me more excited to draft a book than finishing a detailed outline.

Emotional reactions I want to have while writing/reading certain romance tropes: Second chance → Destroy me or it didn’t happen. Enemies to Lovers → I need to laugh out loud at least twice. Friends to Lovers → I want to release the breath I didn’t know I was holding. Forbidden Love → Make me sweat.

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I am living for this #CowboyCarter moment. The earth shook when she showed up at the 2022 Grammys in that cowboy hat. The establishment has been told. The CMAs have found out. 🤠

Reading the news this morning was physically painful. Is anyone else walking around feeling like the world is shrinking and someone's stealing all the air?

Romance auction to rebuild Altadena! I’m donating all 3 SKYLAND paperbacks (Can’t Get Enough will be an ARC) signed/personalized AND both SKYLAND booksleeves! TY for organizing @readherbookbox 🫶🏽 readher.betterworld.org/auctions/rom...

AUGUST LANE is up on NetGalley. Time to block every website that mentions my name.

Was a Black country star, now I'm broke. Got offered dream gig in hometown but I'd have to face my first love (31F) - whose song I stole & claimed as mine. Never gave her credit/royalties. She hates me (deserved) but I still love her. WIBTA for going back?

Doing some research for *science. If you're a writer, what POV do you typically use? Readers, which one do you read? Feel free to explain why in the comments (no bashing other's favorites though: we all love what we love)

This is the pivot we've all been waiting for. It's funny. It's (extremely) hot. It's action-packed. Preorder it now.

I overhauled my newsletter because I read a book about digital minimalism. The funny thing is that I've spent more time with devices, not less, since reading it. But now, when I'm on my phone, iPad, or computer, I do more things that matter to me. I'm writing more! 🎉 It's an incredible feeling.

I enjoy creating fictional towns because settings are my least favorite things to write about. If I can develop them like I do my characters, they're more interesting to me. (And yes, I know actual cities can be characters, but they're not MY characters 😌)

Two truths and a lie: 1. I'm an identical twin. 2. My husband is an identical twin. 3. My mother is an identical twin.

I've perfected the art of the soft transition into my workday. On the way into the building, I put in Air Pods and continued listening to the song was playing during my commute to wean myself off the comfort of my car and discourage people from talking to me before I had a coffee mug in my hand.

She makes me wish I still wrote fic

2024 really cancelled Big Bird. This year has been a decade long.

Going into 2025, I’m going need footnotes and at least three primary sources to believe anything posted on the internet.

Finding these on my doorstep was the best surprise yesterday 🥹 it’s starting to feel real

Love this poem. “show me someone not full of herself and i’ll show you a hungry person”

My version of being a plotter is as follows: 1. Develop a pitch, character sheets, and detailed outline. 2. Feel smug and excited. 3. Draft Chapter 1 with characters you've never met doing things you had no idea would happen. 4. Sob 5. Revise step 1 and repeat until the draft is finished.

Planning on making hot cocoa with the family this weekend. Anyone have a favorite recipe? Bonus points for adult (🥃🍸🍾🥂) versions.

The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie. An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough. So finish the thing.

Someone asked me to discuss the research I did for AUGUST LANE today, and y'all are going to be sick of me by the time this book comes out.

If this was anyone else, I would have written a sternly worded letter.

Billboard names Beyoncé as Greatest Pop Star of the Century, “based on her full 25 years of influence, evolution and impact.”

One of the best writing habits I've ever developed is developing and workshopping the logline and pitch for a book before I commit to writing it.

I’m too old to watch 3 hour movies in a theater.

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⭐ She just wants revenge on her cheating husband.

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I’ve never trussed anything before. The bird won 😭

📞 #blackbooksky black owned indie bookstore, resist booksellers, launched their black friday sale online early. starting at midnight EST. everything is 20% off 👀 black indie books, black fantasy books, black romance books, candles, etc they also ship FAST, like 2-3 days ✨ resistbooksellers.com

I never knew that making a roux for my mac and cheese was such a controversial choice.

What movie made you ugly cry? 😭 (I will never watch this again.)

Hey y’all! Here’s a big mega list of 160+ Black Owned Bookstores all over the U.S. + a few other countries as well! U can filter it by state. I posted about this on the clock app today, but figured I’d share here too! aalbc.com/bookstores/l... Happy Reading! 📚💙 #Booksky #BlackBookSky #BlackSky

You cannot make America healthy again while cutting WIC and SNAP.

I just realized I never watched My Wife and Kids

Carmen Maria Machado said, "We deserve to have our wrongdoing represented as much as our heroism because when we refuse wrongdoing as a possibility for a group of people, we refuse their humanity" and I think about that every time I sit down to write about another flawed, messy Black woman.

It’s true that this book is a great actual resource, ESPECIALLY at this moment. I am so grateful for it. *But also*, I promise you that in general, a lot of you will find it’s written in exactly the tone of voice in which you want to be spoken to right now. bookshop.org/p/books/you-...

Does the popularity of Cross mean more of you are going to watch Underground on Hulu? Because I need more people to be mad about that cancelation with.

Y'all, discoverability is harder than ever. With Twitter all but gone and publishing being --in a mood-- your favorite authors are floundering. We don't know how to reach our fans or find new readers. Telling someone about a book you love is a really big deal. That's the #1 reason people buy books!

If there is a single second buffering during Beyonce's halftime performance, I'm canceling Netflix.

Pre-Orders are going kinda slow for Losing Sight🫤. Yall… my pre-orders are super important to getting my book on shelves and in stores, esp B&N and Indies. Please go there first to preorder!! Links tr.ee/LgP0R_9rzQ