Keep me posted on the latest book releases, signings, conferences and conversations.
The New York Times bestselling novel ☛DRUNK ON LOVE [pub: Berkley] by Jasmine Guillory is getting adapted into a drama series on Peacock by a powerhouse team of Black excellence including the romance author herself as co-executive producer. Deadline announced yesterday that Malcolm D.
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?”
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.
Last weekend, I attended my third Blk Book Swap at Brooklyn’s popular and Black-owned, plant-based restaurant Aunts et Uncles, and baby, a time was had! That’s me (in the pink, obvi) pictured above with Blk Book Swap founder and hostess with the mostest,
On the first day of spring, when the city is quiet and still, little Yaya takes the A train down to New York City’s southern shores with her mama and aunties to greet Mama Ocean and celebrate the arrival of a new season through a ritual of letting go of the past and embracing the new.
I’m reading it…, there was a loving intention there for women and for women in hip-hop.
—April Walker on February 1, 2024
Ladies Of Hip-Hop Journalism
From left to right: Taiia Smart Young,
And are we going to have to play twenty questions and end up late for our facials, or are you going to give it up easily to me this morning just like you did last night…? …I wanna know just how high that vanilla cone stacked up after a lifetime of chocolate.
Candice Carty-Williams’ hit debut novel ☛QUEENIE [pub: Gallery/Scout Press] is not only being adapted into an eight-part series in the U.K., but the story of a Jamaican Brit whose career. relationships and mental health are all spiraling will also stream in the U.S.
Catch “pleasure doula” Sara Elise, the author of ☛A RECIPE FOR MORE: INGREDIENTS FOR A LIFE OF ABUNDANCE AND EASE [pub: HarperCollins] in virtual conversation with Well-Read Black Girl for Mental Health Awareness Month on Instagram Live this Friday, May 19th at 1 p.m.
I think it was important to show what happens behind the scenes, and how Black women in this industry who don’t fit the white, straight, thin ideal are being treated. I think people just see it as this very glamorous job, and in some ways it is,
