- put down the damn AI.

Across the Multiverse: Black Voices in Speculative Fiction @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @brittanyacts.bsky.social and @okosunreads.bsky.social in conversation with Darrell Stover + Q&A August 5 2025, 7-8pm EDT Online, free! Register here: www.wake.gov/events/acros... #SFF #SpecFic

ICYMI: I spent a year investigating a far-right organization who wants to takeover every library in the state of Louisiana. You should read about them below:

ICYMI, last week I got to chat with @brittanyacts.bsky.social on The Geeky Waffle about the Forge and Fracture saga! Go check out her series if you haven’t yet, then come back and listen to us geek out! thegeekywaffle.com/home/2025/5/...

Literally this is part of how they’re dismantling education from the inside. Please vote!!!

Andor is a story about how a thousand nameless and unremembered people will have to sacrifice everything so a gay kid who left his home in Space Idaho four days ago can close his eyes and Fuck It We Ball the most important shot in galactic history on the advice of a ghost

Today!!!

Rita Williams-Garcia's classic middle grade book is now a graphic novel!

See y'all soon 💜

❤️💐🎉 Happy Book Birthday to IRON TONGUE OF MIDNIGHT by @brittanyacts.bsky.social, who joined us earlier this month at our #kidlit Color of Children's Literature Conference!

This Must-Have Monday I have THIRTEEN new books to ft, incl 💀🌺the nicest necromancer's adventures continue with @csecooney.bsky.social ☠️🗡️a much snarkier necromancer goes home by @soundingline.bsky.social ⚔️ Elizabethan orisha, fae, and metal-magic from @brittanyacts.bsky.social

ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT to register for #Kweli25! 👀 Take a peek at the #Kweli25 #kidlit program schedule featuring John Jennings Traci N. Todd @brittanyacts.bsky.social @olugbemisolabooks.bsky.social @kelstarly.bsky.social +MORE SEE full schedule at link in our bio. 👆🏿👆🏾👆🏽👆🏼

💫 Not sure what to read next? This list of 55 exciting new YA books being published in April 2025 might be a great place to start! 💫 popgoesthereader.com/hot-off-the-... #BookSky #KidLit #YALit

Brittany N. Williams is an award-nominated actress and the award-nominated author of the YA historical fantasy trilogy The Forge & Fracture Saga. The electrifying conclusion to the “glorious” The Forge & Fracture Saga will be published on April 22, 2025 @brittanyacts.bsky.social #booksky #authors

Here are 25 sapphic books by Black authors out in 2025 to preorder now! lesbrary.com/black-sapphi...

Ready for *all the 2025 YA books ft. sweet romcoms, epic fantasy, atmospheric horror, intriguing mystery & more?? I've put together a list of 50+ Young Adult books releasing from January to June that you can't miss! 📘💖✨ 24hryabookblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/5...

The electrifying conclusion to the “glorious” (The New York Times) award-nominated historical fantasy trilogy, The Forge & Fracture Saga. Lauded by Locus Magazine as “vividly expressive, riotously queer, beautifully Black, and wildly creative.” @brittanyacts.bsky.social Out April 22, 2025 #booksky

The 27 reads that made my year from @brittanyacts.bsky.social #CeboCampbell @obeytheauthor.bsky.social #PedroAlmodovar #AnikaNoniRose #ElaineUCho #DulceSloan #TomiAdeyemi and @kennedyryan.bsky.social

UK Readers! It's almost Faerie time! Saint-Seducing Gold (The Forge & Fracture Saga, Book 2) hits shelves on your shores 2 January 2025 with this stunning new cover by Manzi Jackson & the art team at @faberbooks.bsky.social

Thanks for showing That Self-Same Metal some love! 🫶🏾

This is my legacy!

The winner of the 2024 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novel - Young Adult is: I FEED HER TO THE BEAST AND THE BEAST IS ME by Jamison Shea (Henry Holt & Co.) #Ignytes2024

Now til 10/30/24, new subscribers to @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social get a 15% off code for all products on the FIYAH shop! Subscribers keep issues affordable & ensure Black authors & artists get paid market rates. Please share with folks who love spec fic! Subscribe & a code will be sent via email.

You may only submit one ballot. Says so in the instructions. Yes we do validate emails. Please don't be annoying.

@brittanyacts.bsky.social congratulations!!!

Congratulations @older.bsky.social 🎉🎊👏🏾

WHEN I TELL Y'ALL I'M HYPE AF ABOUT THIS NOMINATION!!!!!!!!!!!

Weekly Question at 5AM StoryTalk: On the anniversary of Emmett Till's murder, author @brittanyacts.bsky.social asks, "What moment of tragedy would you heal with an imagined casual encounter?" Please stop by and join in this conversation.

Very excited to announce that the first episode of INKBOTTLE, a podcast on the creative life and parenting with me and my wife @brittanyacts.bsky.social , is now live wherever podcasts can be found. Links here: https://linktr.ee/inkbottlepod

Pro tip: all major social media companies do this. Twitter, ironically, was one of the only companies that ever pushed back against law enforcement demands for data/unmasking/etc. Now, well. Here we are.

Every single session is like this for me too. Sending literary prayers 🙏🏾

hi! i’m lauren, author of 9 middle grade books from harpercollins and penguin random house (pictured here with my most recents). i write—and mostly read—fantasy, mystery, horror, and sci-fi. middle grade forever ✌🏻! please stick around and talk books, writing, and engaging young readers with me! 🥰

I'm so excited to share that SHIFTER AND DREAMER, my debut YA fantasy novel, is forthcoming from Lee & Low's Tu Books imprint in 2025. Here's my first book meme! Please consider adding S&D to your TBR if you're on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180454355-shifter-and-dreamer

Whew, chile...that move was LAZY lazy...

Ah symmetry...

🎶Our power just went out on a 92° day & the house is heating up, baby🎶

I thought that every TV show was filmed live & commercial breaks were so the actors and crew could go to the bathroom

Black writers (comics, prose, poems, essays, biographies, etc) - mutual or not - if you see this, I would love if you respond to this with examples of or links to your work!

(officially) first professional brag on bluesky -- Kirkus liked SPIDER-MAN'S BAD CONNECTION! "Expertly-crafted"!!! Full review: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/preeti-chhibber/spider-mans-bad-connection/

A perfect summary of the enshitification of Twitter

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