Yesterday, writer Miles Marshall Lewis revealed the cover of his third book ☛PROMISE THAT YOU WILL SING ABOUT ME: THE POWER AND POETRY OF KENDRICK LAMAR [pub: St. Martin’s Press] on Twitter. The Grammy Award-winning rapper won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in music for his album DAMN.
Happy Book Birthday President Barack Obama: A Promised Land 🥳
Happy Book Birthday Mr. President! 🥳 Our Forever President Barack Obama just released the “first volume of his presidential memoirs” ☛A PROMISED LAND [pub: Crown] today. How awesome that this memoir by the first Black president of the United States dropped less than two weeks after the first Black woman,
Watch HBO’s Trailer For Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between The World And Me
Let me get this bourbon, honey and lemon together for this soothing hot toddy I’m pairing with HBO’s adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ New York Times bestseller ☛BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME [pub: One World] airing and streaming (HBO Max) this Saturday,
Oprah Winfrey And Brad Pitt Adapting Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer For The Big Screen
New pages-to-screen alert! Oprah Winfrey and Brad Pitt are teaming up to adapt Ta-Nehisi Coates’ novel ☛THE WATER DANCER [pub: One World] into a film. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news yesterday. The Water Dancer was Oprah’s first selection for her Apple book club.
Blue Ivy Carter Narrates Matthew A. Cherry’s Children’s Book Hair Love
ICYMI author and film director, Matthew A. Cherry announced on Twitter earlier this week that Blue Ivy Carter, daughter of Beyoncé Knowles Carter and Shawn Jay-Z Carter, is narrating the audiobook version of his children’s book and Oscar Award-winning film short ☛HAIR LOVE [pub: Kokila].
TBR Tuesday: Punch Me Up To The Gods By Brian Broome
Scrolling through Instagram I stumbled upon one of Well Read Black Girl’s Live sessions—An Editorial Vision featuring Rakia Clark of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Nicole Counts of One World Books. Full disclosure: Rakia was the acquisition editor for my first novel ☛THE CHEATING CURVE [pub: Dafina/Kensington],
Confessions In B-Flat By Donna Hill
Violence was what this country was built on, but it could not be the way it survived.
Long time novelist Donna Hill’s latest book ☛CONFESSIONS IN B-FLAT [pub: Sideways/Entangled Publishing] is a beautiful and enjoyable Black Love story that sparks on a New York City-bound Greyhound bus in the tumultuous year of 1963,
