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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This is my annual reminder that Love Be Damned, my debut novel (that just had its first birthday omg 🎉), is available on every platform! (But it’s cheaper if you order through my website. Link in bio 🤫)

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I just wanted to put it out there that i’d love for my books to be included in more library collections 😅 every time it happens i get so emotional 🥹 Like yay, my book about a Black girl fighting a demon can be seen by more people!

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Psst… my birthday is coming up next week, and in case anyone was wondering what to get me, i can recommend an incredible YA book about a girl who saves her sister from a demon 👀 if you buy a copy or read it through KU, that’d be a great gift 😅 (But you didn’t hear it from me 🤫)

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Psst… my birthday is coming up next week, and in case anyone was wondering what to get me, i can recommend an incredible YA book about a girl who saves her sister from a demon 👀 if yoj buy a copy or read it through KU, that’d be a great gift 😅 (But you didn’t hear it from me 🤫)

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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 16/09/2025

LMAOOOOO

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/08/2025

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “This is truly a war with no limits,” our columnist Lydia Polgreen writes of the war in Gaza, “and soon there may be no journalists left to document its horror.”

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Opinion | Israel Says It Killed a Hamas Commander. It Killed a Pulitzer-Winning Journalist.

The killing of Anas al-Sharif marks an ominous new phase of the war in Gaza.

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 30/07/2025

The National Park Service has been hit hard by President Trump’s government reorganization. To see how the parks are faring amid the turmoil, The Post visited four just before peak summer season — and talked to travelers about what, if anything, they’ve noticed.

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In beloved national parks, summer crowds throng despite budget cuts

We visited four of the country’s “crown jewels” and found deep concern for the park system’s future among Americans of all political persuasions.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

‘1984’ is upon us If you think cutting $1 trillion from medicaid won’t cost people insurance and make things more expensive you don’t understand how things work

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Chris Smalls, the leader of the Amazon union workers movement, is putting his life on the line for Gaza. He's been illegally kidnapped and detained by IDF forces alongside all other members of the Handala. FREE THEM NOW!!!

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teachnin4thgrade.bsky.social @teachnin4thgrade.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

@janicessmith.bsky.social Hey, I will be teaching 4th grade Math & Science for the 1st time. I'll have 2 classes with 56 plus kids in a Title 1 school. We go back in 2 weeks. Even a share helps. I've added reward & snack items. Thank you!❤️ www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

If any indie bookstores are interested in stocking my YA romantasy about a teen fashion designer fighting a demon, i’m definitely interested in working with you! I don’t have returns enabled on Ingram, but there may be a way to work something out 🤞🏾

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Two months ago, Love Be Damned was officially released into the world, and I couldn’t be more grateful for everyone who picked up a copy of it and shared this book! Recently I officially broke one hundred copies sold, which was more than I ever would have thought I could sell! ❤️🎉🥳

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I’m at 94/100!! The ebook is currently on sale rn through Kindle, too, for 50% off today! If you don’t want to support the ‘Zon (I get it) then consider supporting a local bookshop through Bookshop’s website: bookshop.org/a/112688/979...

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Check out Love Be Damned - <p><em>Teen fashionista Ayana always believed she'd go to hell and back for her sister, Sabrina, but she never thought it would be so literal. After a family dinner where Sa...

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

We can still save the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Here's a practical guide to what to do right now to save not just the agency's funding but its future all together. Part of this is messaging on reauthorizing the Museum and Library Services Act. bookriot.com/we-can-still...

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We Can Still Save the Institute for Museum and Library Services

Act now to help save the Institute for Museum and Library Services and ensure the well-being of public libraries nationwide.

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Today through July 11th is my first Kindle Countdown deal for Love Be Damned! You can get the ebook for a discounted price today, with varying discounts until the 11th! (Or you can read it for free on KU now!) Link in my bio!

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Psst! My ebook is going on sale tomorrow on KDP, in case anyone wanted to know 😉

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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

This is not a humble brag i promise! But i blew past my optimistic goal of 40 books sold before my book came out, and so now i have a new goal of 100 books sold before the end of the summer!🙏🏾

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It’s Juneteenth! Celebrate a Black author today and consider buying my book! Available everywhere ❤️

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Love Be Damned has been out for a month, and I have sold about 84 copies to date! I’m so thankful and blessed 😭🥹

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 05/06/2025

Guys i know this is a first for many of you ... watching to equally evil pieces of trash ruin each others lives ... when two bad people fight no need to pick a side... i hope both of them have an awful time

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Shoutout to the one person in Australia that bought by book. You’re lovely, mate❤️

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Love Be Damned has been out for a few weeks now, and to celebrate I’m giving away an annotated copy of the book! If you’re interested, all you have to do is subscribe to my newsletter (link in bio)! (US only)

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Why the FUCK would I pay actual human currency for what is essentially a text-to-speech kindle book? Why the FUCK would I ever want that?? THATS NOT THE POINT OF AN AUDIOBOOK.

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Dr. Jon Paul (They/Them/Tired) @doctorjonpaul.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I hope the man I saw earlier this morning singing “Coming Clean” by Hillary Duff at the top of his lungs in his car had a great day.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

If you don't enjoy writing, maybe being a writer isn't for you. That's okay! Most people are not writers. People become writers because they like to write. Otherwise they do other things with their time. AI will never solve the fact that you do not like to write.

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Librarians!! Do any of you want to stock my book? It’s a YA Black romantasy that i’ve been told is hilarious… it’s available through Ingram now! ❤️

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julie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

absolutely this.

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Still amused by the Netgalley review of my book that said “it was a little too YA” because… it is a YA?? The review was fine, but that did make me laugh 😂

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Mackenzie @mlynmarrbooks.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

SPRINTED to the door when I heard the delivery person because it’s FINALLY here and it’s BEAUTIFUL!!!! 💕💕💕 If you don’t have a copy of @brianawrites.bsky.social’s brilliant book yet, this is your sign to go get one!

Physical copy of Briana Garrett’s novel, Love Be Damned

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 19/05/2025

In this op-ed, politics editor Lex McMenamin explains why using AI to search "how to be sustainable" could be accomplishing the opposite.

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ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs?

One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

i dont want to be a killjoy but we desperately need to make it socially unacceptable to talk about asking chatgpt things in regular conversation

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Running out of creative ways to say buy my book, and so i’m just gonna say that my book is funny and pretty and Black, so you should buy it if you like those things 😅

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Sola 🌙 Comms Open 💖 @starrysola.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Book cover illustration I did for the lovely @brianawrites.bsky.social for her book Love Be Damned that’s available now!! My first book cover and I’m super proud of it! Such a learning experience but I enjoyed every minute of it!

A book cover Illustration for Briana Garrett’s new book Love Be Damned that’s available now! This piece features her main character Ayana, in a beautiful gown with many sequins, holding a dagger while being shrouded by a mysterious being behind her. Flanking her on the sides are the other characters of the book Sabrina, Carter, Damian and Nova inside shards of mirrors. Purples and blues are the main hues featured!

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Zaya J. is writing a Black romance novel! @zayaj.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Happy Release Day!! Congratulations! 🥳🎉 #blackbooksky #bvm #booksky

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Dr. Smith ⌛️ @darkchokola.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Congratulations 🍾🎊

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mrmitl.bsky.social @mrmitl.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Authors support other authors 🙌

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Mackenzie @mlynmarrbooks.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

🎉 IT’S TODAY!!!! Happy book birthday, @brianawrites.bsky.social!

Purple graphic with balloons that reads “happy release day!” over a book cover of Briana Garrett’s debut novel, Love Be Damned

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

TODAY IS THE DAY!! LOVE BE DAMNED IS OFFICIALLY RELEASED, AVAILABLE WHEREVER BOOKS ARE SOLD!! ❤️🫶🏾😈😇

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Tomorrow Love Be Damned goes out into the worlds for readers to enjoy. I can’t wait for you guys to meet Ayana and her friends ❤️🫶🏾

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

After watching @kenniejd.bsky.social’s video today, i’m more convinced than ever that my book is important for young black girls. It’s about sisterhood, relationships, and learning to love yourself ❤️

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

My preorder numbers keep growing and I can’t thank you guys enough for supporting my debut! ❤️🫶🏾🥰

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

So far my book has all five stars on Netgalley, and I’m so glad that it’s connecting with people the way i wanted it to! Love Be Damned comes out in 5 days and I can’t wait!

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Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I can’t believe my book comes out in 6 days!!! Omg 😭❤️

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