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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Last night I finished the Forge & Fracture saga by @brittanyacts.bsky.social Good fun YA-- fae, Orisha, Shakespeare, diverse representation, fun queer throuples-- what is there not to love? If this is what you are in the mood for, then this is exactly the thing. #booksky 💙📚

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Sketchbook ✍🏼

Drawing of a pirate woman pointing a pistol

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Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 07/10/2025

- put down the damn AI.

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

ICYMI: I spent a year investigating a far-right organization who wants to takeover every library in the state of Louisiana. You should read about them below:

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Literally this is part of how they’re dismantling education from the inside. Please vote!!!

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michael busuttil @mbusuttil.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Andor is a story about how a thousand nameless and unremembered people will have to sacrifice everything so a gay kid who left his home in Space Idaho four days ago can close his eyes and Fuck It We Ball the most important shot in galactic history on the advice of a ghost

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New Story Community Books @newstorybooks.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Rita Williams-Garcia's classic middle grade book is now a graphic novel!

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Kweli Journal @kwelijournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

❤️💐🎉 Happy Book Birthday to IRON TONGUE OF MIDNIGHT by @brittanyacts.bsky.social, who joined us earlier this month at our #kidlit Color of Children's Literature Conference!

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🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌 @raenbowpunk.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

This Must-Have Monday I have THIRTEEN new books to ft, incl 💀🌺the nicest necromancer's adventures continue with @csecooney.bsky.social ☠️🗡️a much snarkier necromancer goes home by @soundingline.bsky.social ⚔️ Elizabethan orisha, fae, and metal-magic from @brittanyacts.bsky.social

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Must-Have Monday #233 - Every Book a Doorway

Cursed carousels, touchy time-travel, and two very different kinds of necromancer!

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Kweli Journal @kwelijournal.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT to register for #Kweli25! 👀 Take a peek at the #Kweli25 #kidlit program schedule featuring John Jennings Traci N. Todd @brittanyacts.bsky.social @olugbemisolabooks.bsky.social @kelstarly.bsky.social +MORE SEE full schedule at link in our bio. 👆🏿👆🏾👆🏽👆🏼

Program announcement for Kweli25 featuring photo of participating artist John Jennings. TEXT: Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference
MASTERCLASS GRAPHIC NOVEL
FULL-COLOR COMICS!: CREATING DIVERSE
GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR KIDS
WITH JOHN JENNINGS
Illustrator of Parable of the Talents: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia Butler
Friday, April 4th | 1:00pm-4:00pm
Register at kwelijournal.org | #Kweli25

Program announcement for Kweli25 featuring photo of participating artist Traci N. Todd. TEXT: Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference
MASTERCLASS NONFICTION
WRITING NONFICTION FOR CHILDREN THROUGH A SOCIAL JUSTICE LENS
WITH TRACI N. TODD
Author of Make A Pretty Sound: A Story of Ella Jenkins and Nina: A Story of Nina Simone
Friday, April 4th | 1:00pm-4:00pm
Register at kwelijournal.org | #Kweli25

Program announcement for Kweli25 featuring photos of participating artists John Jennings and Brittany N. Williams. TEXT: Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference
A. PUBLISHING, COMMUNITY, & CULTURE TRACK AFROFUTURISM
Featuring: John Jennings; moderated by Brittany N. Williams
Saturday, April 5th 9:15am - 10:15am
Register at kwelijournal.org | #Kweli25

Program announcement for Kweli25 featuring photos of participating artists Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Kelly Starling Lyons TEXT: Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference
B. NOVELS / MEMOIR TRACK (YA & MG)
ON CRAFT (INTERMEDIATE LEVEL)
PAGES TO STAGES:
ADAPTATION & TRANSFORMATION
Featuring: Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich & Kelly Starling Lyons
Saturday, April 5th | 9:15am - 10:15am
Register at kwelijournal.org | #Kweli25

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Jen @popgoesthereader.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

💫 Not sure what to read next? This list of 55 exciting new YA books being published in April 2025 might be a great place to start! 💫 popgoesthereader.com/hot-off-the-... #BookSky #KidLit #YALit

A compilation of book covers of ten young adult books being published in April 2025 including Two Truths and A Lionel, Nahia, All The Noise At Once, The Corruption of Hollis Brown, The Summer I Remembered Everything, The Family I'm In, Voice of the Ocean, Deadstream, Murder Between Friends and Boys With Sharp Teeth

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Quotes By Her @quotesbyher.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Brittany N. Williams is an award-nominated actress and the award-nominated author of the YA historical fantasy trilogy The Forge & Fracture Saga. The electrifying conclusion to the “glorious” The Forge & Fracture Saga will be published on April 22, 2025 @brittanyacts.bsky.social #booksky #authors

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The Lesbrary @lesbrary.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Here are 25 sapphic books by Black authors out in 2025 to preorder now! lesbrary.com/black-sapphi...

the cover of Out of Step, Into You beside a blog spot titles 25 Black Sapphic Books Out in 2025 to Preorder Now

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24hr.YABookBlog @24hryabookblog.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Ready for *all the 2025 YA books ft. sweet romcoms, epic fantasy, atmospheric horror, intriguing mystery & more?? I've put together a list of 50+ Young Adult books releasing from January to June that you can't miss! 📘💖✨ 24hryabookblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/5...

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Quotes By Her @quotesbyher.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The electrifying conclusion to the “glorious” (The New York Times) award-nominated historical fantasy trilogy, The Forge & Fracture Saga. Lauded by Locus Magazine as “vividly expressive, riotously queer, beautifully Black, and wildly creative.” @brittanyacts.bsky.social Out April 22, 2025 #booksky

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Brittany N. Williams @brittanyacts.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

UK Readers! It's almost Faerie time! Saint-Seducing Gold (The Forge & Fracture Saga, Book 2) hits shelves on your shores 2 January 2025 with this stunning new cover by Manzi Jackson & the art team at @faberbooks.bsky.social

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Brittany N. Williams @brittanyacts.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Thanks for showing That Self-Same Metal some love! 🫶🏾

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

The winner of the 2024 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novel - Young Adult is: I FEED HER TO THE BEAST AND THE BEAST IS ME by Jamison Shea (Henry Holt & Co.) #Ignytes2024

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Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Now til 10/30/24, new subscribers to @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social get a 15% off code for all products on the FIYAH shop! Subscribers keep issues affordable & ensure Black authors & artists get paid market rates. Please share with folks who love spec fic! Subscribe & a code will be sent via email.

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

You may only submit one ballot. Says so in the instructions. Yes we do validate emails. Please don't be annoying.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

@brittanyacts.bsky.social congratulations!!!

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Brittany N. Williams @brittanyacts.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

WHEN I TELL Y'ALL I'M HYPE AF ABOUT THIS NOMINATION!!!!!!!!!!!

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Cole Haddon @colehaddon.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

Weekly Question at 5AM StoryTalk: On the anniversary of Emmett Till's murder, author @brittanyacts.bsky.social asks, "What moment of tragedy would you heal with an imagined casual encounter?" Please stop by and join in this conversation.

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Weekly Question: On the anniversary of Emmett Till's murder, author Brittany N. Williams asks, 'What...

Earlier this year, Brittany N. Williams, author of THAT SELF-SAME METAL, introduced me to a stunning poem by Eve L. Ewing about Emmett Till (194…

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

Very excited to announce that the first episode of INKBOTTLE, a podcast on the creative life and parenting with me and my wife @brittanyacts.bsky.social , is now live wherever podcasts can be found. Links here: linktr.ee/inkbottlepod

A stylized bottle of ink with a baby bottle nipple for a lid and the word INKBOTTLE

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Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 10/07/2023

Pro tip: all major social media companies do this. Twitter, ironically, was one of the only companies that ever pushed back against law enforcement demands for data/unmasking/etc. Now, well. Here we are.

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Brittany N. Williams @brittanyacts.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

Every single session is like this for me too. Sending literary prayers 🙏🏾

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Lauren Magaziner @laurenmagaziner.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

hi! i’m lauren, author of 9 middle grade books from harpercollins and penguin random house (pictured here with my most recents). i write—and mostly read—fantasy, mystery, horror, and sci-fi. middle grade forever ✌🏻! please stick around and talk books, writing, and engaging young readers with me! 🥰

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 06/07/2023

I'm so excited to share that SHIFTER AND DREAMER, my debut YA fantasy novel, is forthcoming from Lee & Low's Tu Books imprint in 2025. Here's my first book meme! Please consider adding S&D to your TBR if you're on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/1804543…

SHIFTER AND DREAMER has:
✅two protagonists, dual POVs
✅not besties, not enemies
✅they have other friends & LIs
✅separate lives & goals
✅but their magic works best together
✅they come to understand & rely on each other
❌enemies to lovers
✅cosmically connected frenemies

OP:
pitch your book as a series of things (tropes, setting, characters, rep) you'll find in it ✅, and some other things you won't find in it ❌
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Brittany N. Williams @brittanyacts.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

Whew, chile...that move was LAZY lazy...

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Brittany N. Williams @brittanyacts.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

🎶Our power just went out on a 92° day & the house is heating up, baby🎶

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Brittany N. Williams @brittanyacts.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

I thought that every TV show was filmed live & commercial breaks were so the actors and crew could go to the bathroom

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🎃🧛🏾Vita Ahhhh-yala👻🙀 @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 22/06/2023

Black writers (comics, prose, poems, essays, biographies, etc) - mutual or not - if you see this, I would love if you respond to this with examples of or links to your work!

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

(officially) first professional brag on bluesky -- Kirkus liked SPIDER-MAN'S BAD CONNECTION! "Expertly-crafted"!!! Full review: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/…

SPIDER-MAN'S BAD CONNECTION
From the Spider-Man’s Social Dilemma series , Vol. 2
BY PREETI CHHIBBER ‧ RELEASE DATE: SEPT. 5, 2023

An expertly crafted middle volume featuring a comfy crew of mostly familiar characters.

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

A perfect summary of the enshitification of Twitter

Prioritising blue tick content has broken all of these. Most Twitter users barely tweet and don’t care about followers – a “heavy user” tweets on average less than three times a week. So if someone is posting regularly enough to be willing to pay $8 a month for a blue tick, but has not built up a sizeable following organically, this is a very strong signal that the posts they are producing are no good.

It is exactly that content that Twitter’s new model relies on promoting – and those newly-minted blue ticks are quickly learning that there is no magic behind the checkmarks. New followers are not magically heading their way. The problem wasn’t a biased liberal algorithm, it was that their tweets are no good.

That means lots of blue ticks stop paying – but everyone else is forced to read the low-quality content that the remaining blue ticks produce. This is what is powering the enshittification of Twitter.

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