weneeddiversebooks
minoritiesinpublishing
Yesterday morning the @nationalbook Award for Young People’s Literature longlist was posted and SO happy to see these nominees including guest Kacen Callender for King and the Dragon Flies!!!
Look at all of the diverse books nominated on this list!! We love to see it. 🔥🔥🔥
neil-gaiman
aslongasitsfiction asked:
My book group and I would love to read the style of your books for our Halloween-themed reading assignment next month. However, we are committed to only reading books by POC Women this year - any suggestions???
How cool. Well, let’s suggest a few:
Nnedi Okorafor is wonderful. Her book Who Fears Death is stunning.
Nalo Hopkinson is one of my favourite authors. Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, Skin Folk (short stories), The Salt Roads and other remarkable books are out there waiting for you. (Nalo was also a huge support for me when I wrote Anansi Boys, reading it, guiding, and working with me on the Caribbean dialogue.)
N.K. Jemisen is a powerful and brilliant author. Her new novel, The City We Became, is a glorious fantasy about the personifications of cities, and Lovecraftian abominations with Lovecraftian tendencies.
That’s a start. There are many other excellent writers out there waiting for you, like Octavia Butler and Tananarive Due. Go and explore.
sweetlittlevampire
I just want to reach out and touch your cheeks
Map your face with my fingertips
Catalogue each and every spot in the drawer of my mind labelled “Favourite Places”
Then wrap myself up into the warmth of your arms
While your heartbeat sings me a lullaby.
sweetlittlevampire
Roof repairs are finally done and paid off.
…only that we barely have something left to pay our bills this month now. Even I had to dip deep into my savings to contribute.
I guess the upside is that we didn’t need to get a loan, and therefore have no debts left to pay off, but still.
colinarcartperson
I almost forgot to posts today’s yeehawgust! and after I had so much fun looking at pictures of desert owls for this! So sorry!
sweetlittlevampire
Oh hi there! 👋
Finally the temperature dropped enough for me to wear my Chocolate Frog sweater…the most comfortable piece of clothing I own, hands down. And what can I say? I felt cute, so selfie it was…despite my way too reflective glasses. XD
yourfavouritedoll
Added another thousand words to my novel.The first draft’s almost halfway done now!
sweetlittlevampire
It has been ages since I drew traditionally, but I thought I’d doodle something floral to break in my new notebook. 🌼❤
sweetlittlevampire
New love of my life!
It doesn’t show up on camera, but it has iridescent details. I’m going to use it to collect poems, quotes, and lyrics that are meaningful to me.
