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USA TODAY Bestseller • 2023 Lambda Literary Award Winner & Fellow • THE MACABRE ( @harpervoyagerus , 2025) • WME Repped Screenwriter • Film/TV: Mary Pender, WME
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A profane secret, 150 years in the making.
A collection of cursed paintings, spanning six continents.
And one prophetic painter at the center of it all.
THE MACABRE is showing exclusive through
@HarperVoyagerUS
, Summer 2025. We can’t wait for it to sink its teeth in you.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t cabaret supposed to be unsettling? And isn’t his character supposed to represented the grimy underbelly of authenticity? And isn’t the puppet movements supposed to show how the nazi’s puppeteered ppl in the 30s? Isn’t this the point?
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Since so many people seem to just forget in the white feminism outrage of Barbie...
America Ferrera, Danielle Brooks, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Lily Gladstone, i'm so so proud of you and so excited to see you all thrive.
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this is THEATRE the GAY should have won and the GAY won.
gay is in.
gay is hot.
gay is dancing through life.
Joe Jonas reveals he and brother Nick Jonas auditioned for the same role in Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of ‘WICKED’ but both ended up losing the role.
“We said, 'Go in there and kill it 'cause it’s gotta be one of us. It has to be one of us.' That being said, never got that call…”
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i haven't seen the timeline this aligned about one thing in a long time.
we're so back.
The new ‘Hunger Games’ novel titled ‘Sunrise On The Reaping’ is set on the morning of the 50th game’s reaping.
It is the year Haymitch Abernathy won.
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“My son can’t be gay. He’s obsessed with women.”
The women:
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My heart goes out to every Blue voter in a sea of red, who has fought to create a world you are proud to live in, but keep on getting shot down by not only your red neighbors who view you as lesser than, but fellow blues who deem you the butt of their jokes.
You deserve better
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this changed the trajectory of my writing career for the next 10 years, yall aren't ready.
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Every dog falls under 1 of 4 categories, this is scientifically proven and tested by me:
1. DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN
2. ELEGANT LADY
3. LOVABLE GREMLIN
4. BABY
Disagree? I dare you to prove me wrong with dog pictures. You won’t do it 👀
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My boyfriend and I are recovering from a night of wedding fun times and he has me watching friends.
I’m sorry yall you all were wrong. This show is great. I cannot trust the mass bashing of tv anymore cuz yall are wrong.
I love this show. It’s just so simple & chill & good.
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I'm sorry yall you cannot tell me the Paris 2024 Olympic symbol is a flame (which supposedly it is) and not a bad ass Parisian woman with a SEVERE AND EPIC BOB, about to ruin a man's whole life. This is a LIE.
This is Mademoiselle Adrienne Blanchet. I'll accept nothing less.
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In the beginning of 2020, I whispered, "queer Black men deserve happily ever afters". 2 years later, that whisper is a book & you can buy it TODAY!
I like to say "I root for everyone queer and Black". Thank you for rooting for & supporting me.
BUY LINKS:
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Billy Eichner, in talking about his new rom-com BOYS, said, "a gay rom com cannot & should not play to the same rules as a straight rom com nor is it meant to appeal to everyone" and some of you need to read that sentence over and over again until you can recite it in your sleep.
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LOUIS’ CONFESSIONAL SCENE IN EPISODE 1
ART. MY LORD.
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oh lestat. yeah i'd kill for him. sorry.
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Make no mistake, people use libraries for more than books.
They use it to apply for jobs.
For a safe space during the cold.
To act as daycare when they have work.
To fill out paperwork like to vote or get aid.
THIS is censorship and systematic genocide. Slowly but surely.
Missouri Republicans have voted to defund all public libraries. It is an apparent extortion attempt to try to force libraries to remove books that include LGBTQ characters or racial justice themes. (per
@HeartlandSignal
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Like isn’t this all the point of this musical or am I thinking too much into it?
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Even if Babel does promote violence instead of unity? So what? Pocs deserve rage too, not just the white forks who lose their kingdoms, fall in love with a rogue, use a dagger and discover they come from a secret line of witches
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I hope Kiera Knightley knows, and I don’t mean this lightly, how Elizabeth Swann as a character, specifically becoming Pirate Lord of the South China Sea and Pirate King irrevocably changed by brain chemistry and the trajectory of my writing, life and sexuality forever.
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And this is what it means to use your platform. Not gonna name names but…yeah.
Paramore's Hayley Williams tells fans they’re “dead to her” if they vote for Ron DeSantis:
“I’ll be happy to tell you I’m very fucking comfortable talking politics. If you vote for Ron DeSantis, you’re fucking dead to me. Is that comfortable enough for anyone?”
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"Don't take criticism from someone you wouldn't take advice from."
This single line has CHANGED my life, i stg.
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1. LB is a guarentee success. Yes, this money could have been used on newer authors, but she WILL earn this back.
2. Publishing is a business. Businesses prefer safety.
3. Tentpole authors have ALWAYS been the reasons publishers CAN support other authors.
4. Yall aren't LB.
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More queer m/m books written by queer men please. I’m begging. Please.
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I‘ll admit I was wrong; MY POLICEMAN is a gay tragedy, but still enjoyed it deeply.
However. I’m ashamed and saddened to be in an audience where any amount of gay love, intimacy or romance is met with laughs. Like my ppl being happy is a joke. It hurts.
#TIFF22
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As someone who is trying to start screenwriting I talked with my film agent about this last week.
It also unofficially blacklists you from joining writer rooms too. Don’t do it. Wait till the strike is over. Support your fellow writers.
PSA: The WGA strike may mean that novelists & authors get approached for screenwriting. While this may seem like a perfect opportunity, please note that the WGA does strongly enforces its right to prevent non-members who have engaged in scabbing from ever becoming members.
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Today, after 8 long yrs, my ode to syfy, gay & Black boys, love & grief debuts.
I’m never proud of myself but today? I’m really proud.
I hope you love YESTERDAY IS HISTORY as much as me! Thanks for joining me on this trek.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Buy it now:
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The display was called “Black Voices in YA” and the diversity and selection Black Teens now have? Look at all these choices!
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i too have absolutely made texas or florida or the south jokes in the past. But then you realize people are fighting, and losing, every year.
it takes more courage and more representation of democratic values to fight for what's right when everyone says you're wrong.
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And Greta? Fantasia? We will avenge you one day I stg.
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Love Simon, God’s Own Country, Brokeback Mountain, Moonlight, Call Me By Your Name, But I’m A Cheerleader, Carol, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Saving Face, Blue Is the Warmest Color, The Handmaiden, The Hours, 'My Beautiful Laundrette, Milk, A Single Man, Pride, must I go on?
#SecretsOfDumbledore
was absolutely charming
& probably the first mainstream LGBT romance Hollywood has made.
#JudeLaw
was fantastic
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Your Black friends are stressed right now. No matter the verdict, please do not demand more of us in this moment.
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there is no better analogy for the story of barbie than the comments.
If it failed, it would have been Greta's fault and how women don't deserve movies targeted to them.
If it succeeded, its only b/c its an iconic ip, not Greta's vision.
There is no winning for women here.
It could take years to process the financial success of
#Barbie
. We are witnessing history in real time. This film is tracking to make a billion dollars- literally, a billion dollars. It’s the largest box office opening from a film directed by a woman in the history of
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Y’all sleeping on Hailee Steinfeld, that’s all I’m saying:
- Nominated for an Oscar at 14
- Successful music career
- Leading a top Netflix series
- Part of the biggest franchise in the world and gonna be a bigger player in phase 4
- and a BELLA
An icon, truly.
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So, my debut comes out in 3 days.
As a queer black author, who writes books for queer black kids, first week sales are paramount to me continuing to do the work I love.
Your preorder (or a RT!) would mean the world. And if you have already; thank you!
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Dear Black authors. I have tried to reach out to you privately regarding copyright infringement for having a Black main character, but have received no response. Please take your tweet down.
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Today, my third novel, SURVIVE THE DOME, debuts.
If a story about 3 PoC teens who team up to take down a militarized police force that puts an impenetrable dome around Baltimore sounds like your thing, click the link below!
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Just a friendly reminder:
You should NOT be quitting your job when you get 1 six figure book deal unless your cost of living is VERY LOW.
100k is really 60-70 k after taxes spread over 2-3 years.
Please set yourself up for success!
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I’m tired of you all defending racist actions with CC.
It’s abhorrent. You all have gone of tirade to break down women of color for far less but when a white woman does it , it’s suddenly, “BUT WHAT ABOUT THE CONTRACT PRECEDENT?” Or “HER MENTAL HEALTH THOUGH.”
Bsffrrn
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I’m screaming. HOLLERING.
Hollywood Blvd, Saturday, 11:22 AM:
ANTI-VAXX PROTESTER: Do you see all of these homeless people around. Are they dead in the street with COVID? Hell no. Why?
HOMELESS PERSON (walking by): Because I’m vaccinated you dumb fuck.
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Honest question, excluding book bans from this which is absolutely a factor, how much of this is writers refusing to adjust their writing, topics, stories and genres to what teens actually want versus what you think they want?
Teens ebb and flow interest, and we should adapt 1/2
With young adult fiction the only major category posting a decline, unit sales of print books increased 4.2% in the week ended Mar. 11, 2023, over the comparable week in 2022, at outlets that report to Circana BookScan.
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Writing is political.
Creativity is political.
Art is political.
What you choose to include is political.
But more importantly, what you choose to exclude is political.
Do you ever include politics in your writing, and is it appropriate to do so?
Personally, I keep it out of my novels. Interested in what everyone else thinks.
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Excluding BABEL and
@XiranJayZhao
from the Hugo’s, some of the most influential works and artists of our time, changing the narrative and using their platforms for good, is purely batshit insane.
Isn’t SFF built on the ideas of critiquing the world at large? Like wtf.
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Making a fake page from a book, not clarifying that its parody in the original, that results in it getting review bombed which could effect the authors sales?
Sounds like a possible law suit to me.
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How did we go from “kissing ppl without asking first is bad” but “objectifying real life people to the point they are uncomfortable enough to speak out is okay because we contribute to their franchise ” is okay?
It’s giving “I paid you so shut up and be okay with this.”
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Not to bring this back up but I don’t know how much it hurts and breaks to see people saying “I don’t trust queer men to write queer stories” or “queer men don’t write good queer stories.”
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Lol she blocked me.
Writers,
@InscripLiterary
is an agency I would NOT ADVISE you query & should be ashamed. You all deserve to not feel scared or silenced when you have questions. This is ICKY.
I’m more than in the mood to fight, I’m a Scorpio and depressed. I have time.
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@arkhamlibrarian
Just because teens read it doesn’t make it ya. Teens should be able to read anything they want absolutely but that doesn’t it make it ya. This isn’t a hard concept.
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Yall
Sell your books to whoever will buy them.
Selling a book means you can write more books. You might get writing credit which puts you in WGA, which gives you insurance. And maybe executive producer credit which is more money.
Which means more writing time.
Dear writers,
Please never ever let Netflix make an adaptation of your books!
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"Objectifies men, targets white people."
Okay, so i'm buying 3 tickets now, cool.
#JoyRide
is embarrassing. Incredibly unpleasant. Like most modern adult "comedies" it's raunchy simply to be raunchy, forgetting there has to be humor attached, and there's none of that. Objectifies men, targets white people. All shock value, "look at me" attitude.
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I promise you, if I said “I looked up at to see where the voice was coming from and saw a man with skin the color of lumpless mashed potatoes” y’all would understand how degrading DESCRIBING BLACK PEOPLE WITH FOOD IS.
The cancelling of writers who use phrases like ‘chocolate-coloured skin’ will only spiral if we appease the purity zealotsm | ✍️ Lionel Shriver
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Won a lambda.
Hit the USATODAY bestsellers list.
Sold a secret project of my dreams.
Got a life changing job.
Began to conquer my flight fear.
31 wasn’t too bad a year if I do say so myself.
Here’s to 32!
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Books aren’t gendered but we absolutely still need to have have more mirrors for post middle school boys to see themselves because if not then the pipeline to Alex Jones is a slip and slide and I will die on this hill
We need more boy centric post MG books. Boys need them.
Pals, are we ready to have the 'there is nothing out there for teen boy readers' discussion yet? Because the more I hear 'I can't find anything I like' from them during my school visits, the more I grow convinced publishing has forgotten about the post-Middle Grade boys.
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@matthewcondello
i think that's valid but i also think that's the point! also as someone said, it being up close when you would usually see it 40 feet away doesn't help.
lemme be clear i don't like Eddie though so...drag him sis
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The real OGs remember
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An apology has 4 parts
1 - what I did wrong.
2 - why it was wrong.
13- what I’m doing to fix it.
4 - a direct or indirect apology to those hurt.
This isn’t it
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other people have said it, but i'm pretty sure this whole author thing is money, blue check bait, * we should stop engaging.
some data!
the general rate is 1 dollar per 100K impressions.
one of her top tweets has 725K views. Just using that we've paid her 7 bucks.
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Oh nooooo. The humane treatment of peopleeeeee what has the world come toooooo whatever shall we doooooo
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Y’all still haven’t learned that we just can’t cut off red states because some of the most vulnerable, who have been fighting the good fight, live in these states?
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This is probably not a hot take, esp for people who read the books (I didn't) but the Tyrells were really the smartest most cunning characters and killing them really feels like lazy writing after setting up these people who obviously would win and you don't want them to.
We never talk about how Margaery was the best player of the game of thrones
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Did we ever confront the fact that author belongs to a church that actively hates lgbtq people? Cuz I don’t remember us dealing with that and it feels like we are just glossing over that?
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For a small fee, I will go to your enemy’s book launch and say, “not a question, but a statement: i love the attempt you made here.”
For a small fee, I will go to your enemy’s writing workshop and say, “this feels like it wants to be two poems”
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Some of you might be tired of hearing this but I hit the USA TODAY bestsellers list and I know I’m one of few Black and queer authors to do it (idk how many but I know it’s far less common than white authors)! And I’ll always have that. I did that. I did it.
BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOU’RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
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Quick reminder: blanket saying you won’t read books by ken is well and good until you remember doing so deeply effects authors of color, transmasc authors and lgbtq authors.
Just…remember this. Please? We aren’t all privilege cis white men writing about divorces.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but being able to select a TASER over a GUN should be the absolute basic requirement to be a C O P
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Idk how to explain to white people what its like being Black in publishing and now I'm just going to send them this trailer.
I also want to take every white publisher and rent out a theatre and just stare at them whilst they watch this movie.
BEHOLD! The trailer for American Fiction,
@cordjefferson
’s brilliant first feature. I’m insanely proud that our company T-Street was involved in this, I love this movie so much.
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“He has Jewish grandchildren” is the same as “I have black friends so I cannot be racist.”
#VPDebate
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🌲The forest taketh far more than it giveth & it prefers payment in blood.🌲
I’m so stoked to share that my dark academia thriller, THE FOREST DEMANDS ITS DUE, will be coming out by
@quilltreebooks
/
@HarperCollinsCh
Fall 2023!
I promise, it’s pretty spooky & pretty great.
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I have an honest to god question and I'd LOVE to hear from Indigenous people.
Do...acknowledgements we are on stolen land...do anything?
Like, so many orgs say them...and then what? We go about our day? Like? It feels so performative? Am I wrong?
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Being paid in a quarter model is a death sentence.
Quarter on signing
Quarter on delivery
Quarter on pub
Quarter 6-12 months after pub.
This means even with a 100k deal, that’s 75-60k after taxes & agent cut. Split over 3 years (let’s be optimistic)
That’s 25-20k/yr
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Sometimes dreams do really come true.
I didn’t think seeing my queer Black, syfy romance in hardcover would hit me so hard but 🤷🏿!
YESTERDAY IS HISTORY debuts Feb 2 & your preorder would mean the world.
Thank you for being on this journey with me. ❤️❤️
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we really dont talk enough anymore about how a bad agent is worse than no agent.
and yes, the good agents are becoming harder and harder to find and more swamped, and i truly am sorry for new authors, but i repeat: a bad agent is worse than no agent. waiting is better.
Well, I wasn't going to be petty... but since she decided to send a nasty e-mail... now I guess I have to put her on blast.
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if simply seeing a palestinian flag makes you feel unsafe then you are racist. hope that helps!
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@Karnythia
their country was being so loud about metal count, per capita metal count, gold count, baby i don't think it matters if this is your best.
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Not to tag the author cuz I’m a bit of a Stan and nervous but I have never been as excited for a book as I am knowing THE BONE HOUSES is waiting for me when I get home.
I love stand alone fantasy so so much. It’s accessible it’s beautiful and this story is just. So me & so good.
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I should be able to see lovr without it being a joke. tender scenes that if they were MxF would have gotten awws, got laughs. Snide belly laughs.
What does this teach gay youth? If even conventionally hot white men are laughed at?
Seeing gay love matters. We aren’t a sideshow.
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Sorry but
#RedWhiteAndRoyalBlue
is good and enjoyable and yes there are problems but name a perfect rom com it doesn’t exist this is good mindless fun and hopefully if it makes one gay kid feel better about themselves; then that’s a win in my book no matter my feelings.
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just gonna say it cuz i know a lot of people are feeling it.
its super triggering and shameful how when marginalized authors make one mistake ppl jump to "i always knew they were bad" or "they deserve to never do x again" or the many versions of vitriol thrown at us.
yet 1/2
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There is a sax player playing “ding dong the witch is dead” in Brooklyn and we have no choice but to laugh and cry cuz the evil has been VANQUISHED.
#BidenHarris2020
credit goes to:
@astriph
and
@talyaafisch
for recording this!
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This seems like a good day to dump without anyone noticing how I’m not writing anymore rom coms with berkley and canceled my next book contract because the reception I got from white often female readers was truly awful & ruined me.
Maybe I’ll come back to the genre. Who knows
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Hey. Doom scrolling won’t help you right now. It will only make things worse. You deserve peace.
Do what you need to do to stay safe and sane. The fight will be here tomorrow. We will get through this scary time, one way or another. I promise.
I love you. Say it back.
❤️❤️❤️
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Listen, i didn't hit the NYT but i knew that was a crap shoot (and honestly, is so hard to get seen by queer BIPOC authors).
But the USA TODAY? being placed in the top 38% of books sold last week? For a queer black book about generational trauma, homophobia and power? Is a win.
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I'm So Not Over You earned out within 1 year of publication.
Thank you every single person who took a chance on this book, on me, on a queer black rom com that talks about class and race & doesn't shy away from the tough parts of gayness
I...am speechless and so honored. Truly.
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It has taken me 9 years to admit this and accept this as gospel truth.
WAIT FOR IT is the best song in HAMILTON.
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Y’all would never police a white woman like you do a Black woman just trying to do right by her family. You all are so damn annoying, I’m so fed up with white women, always going back to “well I…”
Go back to talking about how you are the daughter of witches or something.
My 15 year old niece told me she likes reading Tessa Bailey and I nearly fainted…
Y’all. Please send age appropriate romance suggestions. I’m going to preorder Thalia’s and Rebekah’s YA romances. I don’t care if there is sex in it, it needs to be age-respectful sex. LORDT!
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🚨 BOOK NEWS! 🚨
I’m SO stoked to say my 2nd YA, ALL KINGDOMS MUST FALL, a story starring a Black queer boy & POC teens who stand up against advanced-tech exoskeleton armored police officers, an impenetrable dome & corrupt officials, will be published by
@sourcebooksfire
'22!
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