Five more days 😌 submit your magical love story by June 18

ICYMI: DVpit, a pitch event for marginalized creators from historically underrepresented communities, is coming back on Bluesky on October 8th, 2025!📚❤️ See the quoted post for just a sample of the agents and editors excited to participate! Polish up those manuscripts this summer! #writersky #booksky

Right now — The call from the Madleen crew, share EVERYWHERE and demand safe passage for the crew and the critical humanitarian aid they are carrying #Madleen #FreedomFlotilla #AllEyesOnMadleen

I want filmmakers to be their own franchises. I don't want SINNERS 2. I want the next Ryan Coogler movie.

Fruit doesn’t come before flowers, nor flowers before leaves, leaves before branches, branches before roots, roots before seeds. Keep going.

Marginalized creators! Polish up those manuscripts, #DVPit returns October 2025 on bluesky with over 40 participating agents and editors! #booksky #writersky

Been keeping my lips shut about this one for a while. Super excited to be a part of THESE KINDRED HEARTS with some really really talented folks. I’m writing the “I will burn it all down for you” supernatural boyfriend this Buffy teen always wanted 😂

I’m SO excited to finally announce this amazing project, THESE KINDRED HEARTS, a YA romantasy anthology featuring stories by incredibly talented BIPOC authors. Because what’s more magical than young love? Coming Spring ‘26 from Zando/Sweet July Books!

finally get to unveil our latest book box for our indie bookstore Jay’s House!!! With a signed copy of Oathbound, a deluxe edition of Nightweaver, gourmet popcorn, tea, chocolate, locally-owned coffee, a necklace, an art print and stickers ❤️✨ Jayshousebooks.com

Bookplate anyone?! If you’ve preordered SAL, I’d love to send you a matching bookplate 🥰 Fill out the form at: bit.ly/SALVACIONpreorders I might have additional swag, but for sure you’ll receive a bookplate and some bookish stickers. And I’ll also be announcing partnerships with Indie’s soon!

not even gon hold you, that Super Bowl performance refilled my well

Kendrick Lamar's Superbowl performance is why funding arts and humanities matters. We have Kendrick because his teacher introduced him to poetry and writing.

Found out that TWENTY emails is considered a lot to politicians on an issue. TWENTY. As in, they call that getting slammed. So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind. TWENTY is a lot.

Happy Black History Month

Kendrick has inspired me to be a better hater

every day I await the alien invasion

This 3-post thread is based on a series of AOC Instagram stories she posted tonight, explaining the importance and value of calling your House Representative and Senators, EVEN/ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE REPUBLICANS. Please watch and share.

Re-upping this. We need experts in media literacy & stewards of the freedom to read now more than ever.

Now more than ever.

Folks, we CANNOT memory hole the Hitler salute When we talk about Nazis, it’s not a figure of speech We are talking about an actual Nazi

LETS GOOO

😱Cover Reveal! 😱 LOST ON DOLL ISLAND Out August 26th! Available now for pre-order! (link here and in bio) 🔗: bit.ly/LostOnDollIs... Cover art by: @oriolvidal.bsky.social

I regularly think (obsess) about Qimir & Osha.

I won’t say it is a tome (short of 400 pages), but she is haunting and rising this year

I’m latching onto anything remotely positive.

You’ve been wanting to divest from #Amazon, but you are an avid e-book reader. #Booksky #blackbooksky I have a solution for you ! Bookshop has just added e-books so that you can support independent bookstores by purchasing e-books from them and reading it in their app. bookshop.org/ebooks

Listen, listen, listen, this is the book I shove into people's hands who have come back to reading with Fourth Wing and are looking for something with similar vibes. This duet is IMMACULATE. Ikenna has never done a single thing wrong in her life, and I stand by that.

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

I have been reminding myself that in my DNA is the legacy and lineage of people who have fought back, resisted, thrived and survived under the most untenable of white supremacist conditions. I am writing this to remind you too.

• Get a library card • Use your library card • Support indie booksellers • Read banned books • Read diverse authors • Resist • Repeat #booksky #resist

This is a great piece. "As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."

Some people might need these this week.

Deep breath, America. We can do this.

For all the flak George Lucas gets for his writing, pretty hard to deny the "so this is how liberty dies" line is an unfortunately spot on banger.

Forever and ever and ever

XO KITTY IS BACK. IM ABOJT TO BE SO UNHINGED.

got a fresh manicure and the first pages of something special ✨💅🏽

I’m planning to give away one of my gorgeous arcs to newsletter subscribers later this month—open internationally! If you’d like the chance to get an early copy of BEHOOVED, may I humbly suggest you subscribe? Marinastevenson.substack.com

Aaron Pierre that’s mufasaaaaaaaa 🗣️

I named our store Jay’s House after my brother, who would’ve turned 40 years old today. I think he would be proud of what we’ve created.

Is an AI art filter on Pinterest too much to ask 😭

In my humble opinion, OUR VICIOUS OATHS should be on everybody’s most anticipated reads of 2025 list because a Black shadow daddy fae king + a Black fae princess + enemies-to-lovers + morally gray MCs + heavy spice + a thrilling fantasy plots =🔥🔥🔥

me at 1am rereading my own notes and coming across a villain backstory that I forgot I came up with

Looking for published or unpublished Black historical writers. Must be able to write between the periods of 1600 and 1899. #Blacksky #Booksky #Authorsky

THIS. I combat this by making an Accomplishment Board. It’s just like a vision board but instead of containing the aesthetic of my future goals, it’s visual proof of all the things I have done in my life. 100/10 would recommend

Please share widely 🙏🏼 I am taking item donations (literally anything from the publishing community or readers) for the next #KidLit4Ceasefire fundraiser to run Jan 15th through 31st. I am at about 100 items, trying to get to at least 500. airtable.com/appgMC1CTRup...

I’m working on one of my favorite projects EVER, this illustrated middle grade book which has had my heart for all of 2024 and here’s a sneak peek 👀

The best thing you can do for an author is to request their book from your library. The library will usually get it for you! The author will get an immediate sale, and libraries will know there is a demand for their future books! Just google your library name plus "book request" or walk in and ask