Kamala Harris did all this in seven weeks. That’s under 50 days. You should want the person who manages this much in such a short amount of time to be POTUS.

"I also know not to say what I wanna say because no one wants to be the first person to dream a big dream like that." ✨Exodus Oktavia Brownlow✨ in BOOTH—Submissions Now Open! booth.butler.edu/2024/09/06/the…

📢📢Our inaugural issue is now LIVE...IVE...IVE! 📢📢Hope you enjoy the issue as much as we enjoyed putting it together! Now go, read!! Much love from Lakshmi (luck-shme), Melissa Llanes Brownlee & Mixed Bag 💜💜💜 literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/blog

🛼 COVER REVEAL! 🪩 I’m thrilled to share the cover for my debut YA novel, UNDER THE NEON LIGHTS, out 6/3/25 with @penguinteen! UTNL follows 16-year-old Jaelyn who skates her way to a first love, self-worth, & the meaning of community. Preorder here: bit.ly/UnderNeonLight…

We’re getting MARRIED 😭💍🌈💞 like what do you mean I’m engaged!!! I’m so happy!!!

SUB CALL 🚨 Saturday, Sept 14 @ 12pm EST hi pals it's Kirsti MacKenzie - red team, blue team idgaf you're all invited to compete in 🔥 HELL'S FICTION 🔥 details below, link will be shared day of

“…and I hear my flight is ready to board and I think for one minute, do I really need a vacation, before unplugging my electronics, stuffing them back into my bag, my mind already escaping to black sand beaches, clear waters and passionfruit beer, my body on autopilot.” 😍♥️🛩️

bell hooks said, “When people used to ask me, ‘How do you write so many books?’ I would answer with a bad joke: ‘because I don’t have a life.’ I started to interrogate that joke and I saw that I had an unbalanced life...there were whole other parts of life I needed to cultivate.”

Hurricane Francine had our lights out for a few hours this morning and it was so nice. Gave me the time to do my hair and sleep in a little bit. 🥰

At a point in my writing career and journey that rejections don’t really bother me anymore but every blue moon I get a gut punch one and just—🥲🥺! ‘Just gonna give it a couple of hours. 🙈

Finally getting around to watching Romeo & Juliet (with 90’s Leo!) and it’s so good. The contrasts of the “modern” clothes and settings with Shakespeare language is *chefs kiss*! And funny, too, how much more understandable it is when it’s being acted out. Harold Perrineau is 🔥!

The Mississippi Book Festival is today and I’m missing out… 🥲

The one & only

I’m tryna see if this is worth all the cultural hype…

I got 2 rejections today so I gotta send two new subs out to balance the energy. 🤗✨🔮

I'm reading a wonderful story, beautifully written, thought provoking "One thing that worries me... is wondering if he’ll be able to bend in the ways needed of him.... I mean the most important bending of all, with his mind." - Exodus Oktavia Brownlow pinged by Melissa Ostrom

“Thriller Thickums” (🤭) has been having a truly stunning run on the socials. 🥹Thank you all so very much for spending time with this piece. I mean it when I say that it means the absolute WORLD to me. 🥰🩰♥️🎶🐺 You Can Read My Piece Here, BB— booth.butler.edu/2024/09/06/the…

“hummingbird: summoning its mate or snatching tiny bugs from the air; its tongue like lightning, its plump body soft on the branch, its wings stretching before rowing their way…This is the morning for the human…” Christy Tending🏳️‍🌈🏴🍉 x Literary Namjooning | Subs Closed! 😍 literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/a-…

A new SLP x September Issue! 😍💚✨🍁

“We fished that day, roasted a small bass over the fire. The night was a tablecloth of stars.” Jared x Literary Namjooning | Subs Closed! 🌌✨ literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/th…