Keep me posted on the latest book releases, signings, conferences and conversations.

Book Releases

Jason Reynolds Pens Romance Novel: Twenty-Four Seconds From Now. . .

I wanted to show that, specifically in this particular case, lil’ Black boys are tender and kind and they’re sweethearts. Like I think we get adultified very quickly. Young Black men and young Black ladies, young Black girls…People don’t realize that we’re not as full as machismo that everybody thinks.

George M. Johnson’s Flamboyants Out Today! Happy Book Birthday! 🥳

There were people before you who were just like you, and had many of those same issues and struggles and crises… And they paved the way for you so that you wouldn’t have to go through those many same things.

—George M. Johnson on People.com

New York Times bestselling author of the memoir-manifesto,

Book Review: The Secret Keeper of Main Street by Trisha R. Thomas

WELCOME TO MENDOL, POPULATION 18,206 a sign read at the forgettable entrance off Highway 98. That was before a swollen body was found floating on top of the Red River’s thick sludge. Now there was one less person. If the state prosecutor asked for the death penalty in the case of alleged murderer Elsa Grimes,

Jay Ellis Posts The Cover Of His Memoir: Did Everyone Have An Imaginary Friend (Or Just Me)? Adventures In Boyhood

ICYMI, yesterday handsome HBO Insecure star and now author, Jay Ellis posted the cover of his memoir ☛DID EVERYONE HAVE AN IMAGINARY FRIEND (OR JUST ME)? ADVENTURES IN BOYHOOD [pub: One World] on Instagram.  I’m intrigued.  Like how does his childhood made-up friend “morph into adult consciousness?”

BLK MKT Vintage by Jannah and Kiyanna Handy Available for Pre-Order

Super excited about the release of ☛BLK MKT VINTAGE: RECLAIMING OBJECTS AND CURIOSITIES THAT TELL BLACK  STORIES [Black Dog & Leventhal of Hachette Book Group] by Jannah and Kiyanna Handy on sale October 15, 2024. Proud Brooklynite and Oscar-winning filmmaker Spike Lee penned the forward of their highly-anticipated hardcover.

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