Okay, enough writing community (or book twitter. Are we still calling it that?). Back to final pass before moving on to printing and publishing my book! THE GIFTED SOCIETY will be out next month!

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🤸🏿‍♀️THE NEWS IS OUT! 🤸🏿‍♀️ My publisher is partnering up with two Black-owned indie bookstores. We've got an East coast partner (@Loyaltybooks) & a West coast partner (Sistah Scifi | Bookstore). If you'd to preorder a signed copy & character cards (Xy 🌙), go HERE: linktr.ee/bethanybaptiste

Over the last few months, WNDB has been in conversation with Ayanna Pressley's office about the alarming rise of book bans across the nation. That's why we stand in solidarity with the Books Save Lives Act that Congresswoman Pressley introduced last week to combat censorship.

Learn more about the Books Save Lives Act, aimed at addressing book bans and censorship:

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the way this ripples across industries. in trad pub in particular, Black authors have to fight for their worth and stories. just because some Black folk win doesn't mean the industry's showing progress. stop giving trad pub claps on the back. they still haven't put the work in.

It’s called Liberation Station in Raleigh NC. The address is 208 Fayetteville St. Suite 201.

2024 is going to be an amazing year for middle grade fiction! 🥰🥳 #MG #MGlit

⚡️ COVER REVEAL ⚡️ the day has finally arrived. I'm thrilled to share the cover of ROAD TO RUIN, my debut science fantasy out from Saga Press on 5/14/24! preorder now!! S&S: bit.ly/preorder-rtr Amazon: bit.ly/rtr-amazon B&N: bit.ly/rtr-bn

A few days ago we passed 2 million user signups! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has tried the product so far! ❤️ We’re improving StoryGraph every single day, based on all of your wonderful feedback. The rest of this year and Q1 of 2024 is shaping up to be exciting. 😁

In the 2019 Diversity Baseline Survey results, 2% of editors were Latine. In this year’s PW Salary Survey, 6% of all respondents across the industry were Latine. We are out here, so hire and support us! Currently, all of us editors that Sandra mentioned are freelancing.

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It's officially 2024 which means THE 7-10 SPLIT is out this year!🌈 For my lovers of: -Sapphic romance👩🏾‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏾 -Small towns🏠 -Second chances 💞 -Bowling rivalries🎳 Coming May 21, 2024 from Afterglow Books (Harlequin Books)

✨COVER REVEAL✨ black vampires meets dark academia in IMMORTAL DARK where students study a philosophy to inherit powerful vampires. a girl hellbent on finding her sister will stop at nothing to kill the accused vampire—even live with him first preorder: linktr.ee/tigestgirma

Due to an unprecedented number of new signups, we've had to take the app offline in order to upgrade our servers. We're very sorry for the downtime! You'll be able to backdate your reading progress to maintain your streaks/January Pages Challenge once we're back online!

Hello and happy New Year! Stuti Telidevara and I are looking for new great projects in 2024. Here are just a few of the things on our #mswl for the year ahead. A thread...

📚✨200+ books by Black authors releasing in 2024* (breakdown by genre + age group in thread) *for a goodreads list - link in my bio.

✨ cover & title reveal ✨ WHEN THE SKY IS DEEPEST BLUE is now MIDNIGHTS WITH YOU! Thank you to Dana Lédl & Marci Senders for the cover of my dreams, and to rebecca kuss & Amy Bishop-Wycisk for making all of this possible 💜