Hey Bookish Boo! What are your favorite love songs? If you're read any of my books you know I love a playlist. Sometimes a song will inspire a whole scene, sometimes I scroll endlessly through music looking for the right song that goes with a particular moment. For Heartbeat, "Creep" by Radiohead became the theme song for the villain of the story, if Griffin appeared in a scene that scene was annotated with a cover of "Creep" that fit the mood. With Fingertips I heard Beyonce's song...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hey Bookish Boo! I've been busy with my training for my husband's home dialysis and in between machine beeps and manuals I saw a post on social media from a romance reader that wished romance novels didn't always have happy endings. And not the smutty kind.😜 She said "because life doesn't always have a happy ending." *Terreece slides into frame dragging a large, ceremonial soap box up a large hill. Climbs on top, clears throat.* "ROMANCE NOVELS MUST HAVE A HAPPY ENDING OR THEY ARE NOT ROMANCE...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Hey Bookish Boo! This has been a week and I debated whether to bring any of that into the newsletter this week, but ultimately I am an advocate, a Black woman and a journalist. All of that comes with me to my work, to the books you love. So are book political? Is there room in the bookish space online for politics? In short. Yes. Let me explain briefly before you roll your eyes and scroll down to the freebie romance books. Every time you pick up a book that centers women, women's pleasure,...
6 months ago • 2 min read
Hey Bookish Boo! I missed you. It's been a minute in a half since we last connected, but I am so glad to see you! Let's see... what happened that I didn't get a chance to tell you... I got to hang out with one of my favorite authors - Tiffany Patterson THE Tiffany Patterson, creator of the Townsends of Williamsport and the Black Burlesque series! She invited me, ME, little ol' me to do a TikTok live where we talked about books, the book community, and our writing habits etc. It was AWESOME! I...
almost 2 years ago • 4 min read
Hey Bookish Boo! It's been a week since Chaser dropped and I want to thank you all for your support. The book is doing great, the feedback has been awesome and the reviews are coming in. Which reminds me, if you haven't left a review for Chaser, please consider doing so soon. Traditionally when you hit 50 reviews, Amazon puts some respect on your name and supports your book more with their system. I'm at 32 reviews now so we are almost there! I've gotten some rad social media posts talking...
about 2 years ago • 4 min read
Bookish Boo Look! It's a book baby! And it's so pretty! Surprise I changed the cover! Ok enough exclamations. As you can see I'm excited. Very, very excited. The cover change was the result of why choose mentality. Not not that why choose. Months ago I sent out an email asking readers what they liked more, the straight bourbon cover or the cover with a Shayla inspo. It was a 50/50 split so... why choose? I like all of the above - and so does Shayla. Wait until you get to that chapter. Whoo!...
about 2 years ago • 1 min read
Hey Bookish Boo! Chaser releases this week (Thursday) and you made me cry. And I am so grateful. See, last year when I released Heartbeat I had no idea whether anyone would dig the book as much as I did. I wasn't sure anyone would join my newsletter or give a darn about what I was doing on social media. I also worried if I could finish a second book. Sometimes when the first book is successful you get bogged down by what you think about others' expectation for the next book. The reality is,...
about 2 years ago • 2 min read
Hey Bookish Boo! One week until the release of Chaser! I'm so excited for you to read the story of Shayla and Xavier and their journey to love. You know I love a giveaway so how's this one? I'm giving away three signed copies of Chaser and all you have to do to enter is send me a screenshot of your pre-order of Chaser. It doesn't matter if it's a paperback or ebook and it doesn't matter if you pre-ordered weeks ago. Reply to this email with your screenshot and you're in the running. I'm also...
about 2 years ago • 1 min read
Hey Bookish Boo! I'm opening up my list again for Advance Review Copy (ARC) Readers for Chaser! To be an ARC Reader you simply need to sign up, read Chaser and write a review of it on your favorite platform for books within 10 days of its release i.e. Amazon, BookBub, or GoodReads. If you use social media, it always helps an author to post what you're reading and your thoughts. ARC readers help spread the word about new books via reviews and word of mouth. If you happen to have a bookstagram,...
about 2 years ago • 3 min read