Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney At the start of Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry, Quinn (the protagonist) is afraid of so many things in her life. She keeps her emotions under a tight leash, writing lists of her dreams and fears in her journal rather than facing...
Black Love + Music = June is Black Music Month, to celebrate we took a deep dive into Black romance novels that incorporated music into their stories. Writers incorporate music in their books to demonstrate a mood, add flavor to a story, and in these cases, music was...
Book Baes In Black Romance Sistah Girls, give me a Black romance novel with book with a book bae to remember and you have made this book worms day. Now don’t be fooled, finding a good book bae that will carry you until you meet your new book bae is no easy...
Sistah Girls, now I don’t know about you all, but for some reason, these last couple of weeks have been nothing short of exhausting for ya girl. I’m talking about the kind of exhaustion that makes my 9 to 5 feel like a 12 to 12. And despite the characters of my WIP...
Sistah Girls, can I sing to you? 🎶 Let’s talk about books baby! Let’s talk about fantasy. Let’s talk about all three books of the Third Street Conjure Boys series 🎶 Thank you, thank you! Okay, now that I have taken care of that to-do, let me tell y’all about a book...
Sistah Girls it’s May, and I can hear the graduation march in the air. Ending high school and starting that transition into adulthood is a turbulent period and makes a great setting for a coming-of-age novel. It’s been a few years since my own high school graduation...
For women of color to continue the conversations that we have in the nail salon, beauty parlor, church, and during our lunch breaks at work. This is a place where you can kick off your shoes and get comfortable.