Shade
@shadyfiles.bsky.social
Author of GODDESS CROWN. Book blog @ http://Coffeebookshelves.com. Korean drama addict. Rep'd by Joanna Moult at Skylark lit.
It’s my book birthday! 🎉 A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES, Book 2 of The Invoker Trilogy, is out in the UK today! Thank you to everyone who has joined me on this journey! Get ready for battles, ancestor magic, and big revelations! See below for links to the Goldsboro and Illumicrate exclusion editions!
Spent so much time on Kevin Smith’s View Askew website in the 90s/noughties. Love that they never redesigned. Responsive design was prob a note on some developer’s notebook in that era. Sometimes I visit and just mosey around…
HARD KNOCKS by me (Ruby Lang) has hockey and is written by someone who's Asian Canadian (and has an Asian Canadian FMC) rubylangwrites.com/practice-per...
Olivia Waite@oliviawaite.com · 9mo agoEveryone’s been doing hockey romance recs — and good thing! — but I’d like to also take a moment and point out that there’s a ton of great Asian-Canadian contemporary romance writing happening right now too!
Some of the picks from my Black Book Gift Guide - grown folk edition. coffeebookshelves.com/2025/12/15/b... #blacksky #blackbooksky #writingcommunity #booksky
Can’t leave the adults out of the book gift convo. I have conjured up a list of 28 fantastic books by Black authors that you can gift to your loved ones. #blacksky #blackbooksky #writingcommunity #booksky coffeebookshelves.com/2025/12/15/b...
Black Book Gift Guide – adults
Here are 28 suggestions to help you choose the ideal book whether for your sister, dad, best friend or neighbour.
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Some of the YA picks from my Black Book Gift Guide for kids. Full list of 22 book recs on: coffeebookshelves.com/2025/12/13/b... #blacksky #blackbooksky #writingcommunity #booksky
Some of the picks from my Black Book Gift Guide for kids. coffeebookshelves.com/2025/12/13/b... #blacksky #blackbooksky #writingcommunity #booksky
Still sorting out your holiday gifts? I have children’s book recs to make your life easier! 22 books by Black authors for the kids in your life. coffeebookshelves.com/2025/12/13/b... #blacksky #blackbooksky #writingcommunity #booksky #christmasgifts
Black Book Gift Guide – Children
Books make great gifts. I think it’s particularly important to buy Black books for the children in our lives because they deserve to see children who look like them playing the lead role in stories…
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They were high school sweethearts, and now they’re snowbound in an unheated motel room with only one bed... Read Greg & Tasha's story, A Second Chance Road Trip for Christmas, in ebook, paperback, or audio! Character art by Celia Moscote jackielaubooks.com/books/a-seco...
For two years, our team of journalists in Gaza illuminated what Israel sought to keep hidden, while enduring the very displacement, starvation, and loss that they reported on. This is the genocide through their eyes: An illustrated timeline. www.972mag.com/the-genocide...
The genocide through their eyes: An illustrated timeline - +972 Magazine
For two years, our team of journalists in Gaza illuminated what Israel sought to keep hidden, while enduring the very displacement, starvation, and loss that they reported on. This is what they saw.
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One week ago, Firstborn of the Sun was released into the world 🧡☀️🧡🥹🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Happiest of book birthdays to @justmarvewrites.bsky.social with the release of epic fantasy novel FIRSTBORN OF THE SUN! I am so glad this wonderful book, which is steeped in Yoruba culture, exists! And just look at this gorgeous @goldsborobooks.bsky.social special edition! 🤩
I’m so pleased to be part of this year’s *Wild Writers Literary Festival*. I’m looking forward to discussing romantasy with Nicki Pau Preto and @jmfrey.bsky.social. Join us for a lively discussion on Saturday 8 Nov, 1:30pm - 2:50pm. wildwriters.ca/product/othe... @thenewquarterly.bsky.social
FIRSTBORN OF THE SUN is out October 23rd! I can’t wait! Preorder now!
Marve with an 'E'@justmarvewrites.bsky.social · 12mo agoYou'll be hearing MY voice in MY book along with two very incredible women! It's giving dream come true. I love me a book but I live for words I hear and dream about as I close my eyes. FOTS comes to life in an entirely magical way and I cannot wait for you to listen ☀️🧡
⭐ Stargaze with Mackids ⭐ Winner of the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award, KWAME CRASHES THE UNDERWORLD is a stunning middle grade fantasy about a boy hurled into the Ghanaian underworld to help his grandmother save humanity! The paperback is out now 📚 bit.ly/3KfOMai #edusky #award #books
Did a throwback to Sonali Dev’s fab Bollywood series! A Bollywood Affair and The Bollywood Bride are my go-to, comfort reads. -Strong, relatable heroines -hot, emotionally coherent MLs -huge families -beautiful clothes -delicious food Review @ coffeebookshelves.com. #booksky #skyreader #SonaliDev
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In Gaza, we know why Israel wants to herd us all into one camp – our lives are bargaining chips | Nour Abo Aisha
We’ve fled the attacks again and again. Now Israel plans to force us into the ruins of Rafah in order to increase pressure on Hamas, says Gaza-based writer Nour Abo Aisha
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"Every single human in your world knows the tale of Éshu, the rogue god who stormed into the palace of the gods one evening and murdered them all with dark magic. The stories differ [...] every version of this story paints me as the villain. They are not right, of course." ✍🏻 @oluwasigma.bsky.social
A Dish Best Served Cold, Or, an Excerpt From the Cookbook Of the Gods - Lightspeed Magazine
The first thing you have to know is that I did not kill the gods. Now, I’m sure you must have heard differently from your parents when they tell you bedtime stories, your priests who tell you their se...
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Here's what I know: a reader compared my recent release to At First Spite by @oliviawrites.bsky.social! My head is so big I can't stand up! The Inscrutable Mr. Yang is available at all digital retailers and some library services like Hoopla www.books2read.com/MrYang if you want to see for yourself!
The CUTEST cover! 😍
J. K. Lambo@jklambo.bsky.social · last yr.July 4th and 5th marked 5 years for this Black indie author! 🎊 If you’d like to support me, snag a copy of my pastry chef friends-to-lovers novella, Culinary Confessions, for 99 cents, until tomorrow night 🍪 ⬇️ amzn.to/3f6BzkE #BlackBookSky #BookSky #PromoSky #Romancelandia #WritingCommunity 💙 📚 👀
Oooh! Exciting!
Shakeira_C@shakeirac.bsky.social · last yr.If you love YA fantasy especially Black YA fantasy based on West African Legends then Birth of a Dynasty is the book for you!!! It drops on July 29th and I’m so excited for more ppl to read it because I absolutely loved this book! #booksky #blackbooksky #skyreader
Countering the propaganda of Far RIght History Traducers (FRIGHT) is time consuming. But FRIGHT relies on a finite stock of distorted, cherry-picked sources. One hopes that corrections, once written, can be deployed upon each repetition. alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-wes...
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What's your comfort show?
a man is carrying a woman on his back with the words ' a ' on the bottom right corner
Alt: a man is carrying a woman on his back - snippet from C drama: The First Frost
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SincerelyLCohen@sincerelylcohen.bsky.social · last yr.What’s Your Comfort Show? Hidden Love and Amidst a Snowstorm of Love. Considering all the kdramas I watch my answer to this fascinates me.
Bethany and Jacob agree to practice date each other after a series of romantic mishaps. While pretending to date they discover friendship and a partner they can be their authentic selves with. #HerGoodSide #Rebekah Weatherspoon #books #booksky Watch the full review!
Video Review: Her Good Side by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Bethany has been rejected by both boys she invited to homecoming, and Jacob has been dumped by two of the hottest girls in school. All this and the fall semester has barely begun!
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I once wrote a novel outline where Captain Ri does his filial duty and marries the woman his parents have chosen. “…years will pass and Seo Dan will grow disillusioned and despondent because he’ll never warm up to her, never love her, never be more than polite and compliant.“
There’s a few tickets left for EAT THE BOOKS, so if you have been thinking about it, don’t wait. Buy your tickets TODAY and be part of this on-of-a-kind festival. fold2025.vfairs.com #FOLD2025
