Keep me posted on the latest book releases, signings, conferences and conversations.
Celebrated fashion designer Aurora James just dropped her memoir ☛WILDFLOWER [pub: Crown Publishing] today. I caught the founder of the luxury brand Brother Vellies discussing her book with Robin Roberts on Good Morning America earlier today.
We still had our three babies—Deja, Kassim and this place Grits. When we realized those were the only things holding us together, we knew it would be better to dissolve our marriage than to go on as what we had become. Well, I knew.
— Yasmen in Chapter 1
Major congratulations to author Vanessa Walters on GMA selecting her debut novel ☛THE NIGERWIFE [pub: Atria/Simon & Schuster] as their May book club pick. Oh, and while we’re raising our champagne flutes, keep ’em up high as we toast to this London native securing an HBO deal back in August for the story’s adaptation into a drama series before the first copy even landed on bookshelves.
The most amazing thing happened whilst scrolling through Instagram today, author Imani Perry revealed the gorgeous cover of her next book ☛SING A BLACK GIRL’S SONG: THE UNPUBLISHED WORKS OF NTOZAKE SHANGE [pub: Legacy Lit/Hachette] releasing on September 12, 2023. I’m pre-ordering it.
Kiley Reid, author of the New York Times bestseller ☛SUCH A FUN AGE, just shared the cover of her next novel ☛COME & GET IT [pub: G.P. Putnam’s Sons] on Instagram earlier today. Come & Get It drops early next year on January 9th and by the looks of things is a future book club selection of actress and avid reader Reese Witherspoon.
I wish I could remember which bookstagrammer first put me on to Liv Little’s debut novel ☛ROSEWATER [pub: Get Lifted Books]. I can’t. Forgive me. Grateful nonetheless to add this “sensuous, urgent, and pulsating” queer love story to my immediate TBR list.
Break out the bubbly ’cause Kennedy Ryan’s second-chance romance novel ☛BEFORE I LET GO [pub: Forever/Grand Central Publishing] is in development at Peacock with some major heavy hitters involved. According to Deadline, Malcolm Lee (The Best Man: The Final Chapters,
Nothing in this book is known to be true. It’s a reflection on what I’ve noticed. Not facts, so much as thoughts. Some ideas may resonate. Others may not. A few may awaken an inner knowing you forgot you had. Use what’s helpful. Let go of the rest.
Like what’s the point of me knowing a private eye?
I need dirt…
No, you need a new boyfriend.
—Private Investigator, Trevor ‘Finn’ Finnegan and Legal Assistant, Kimber/Chapter 2
Full disclosure: I just finished reading Aaron Philip Clark’s latest novel ☛BLUE LIKE ME [pub: Thomas &
When I read this book, something happened inside me… I thought, ‘Wow! What a wonder. What an incredible life that you have manifested for yourself.’
—Oprah Winfrey on Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event
Viola Davis and Oprah Winfrey courtesy of Netflix
As if Emmy,
