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And the winners for IT’S LIT! Literary Awards are…
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Calling ALL BLACK AUTHORS! Drop your website, goodreads, or amazon page! 👇🏾
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It’s officially Romance Awareness Month! What are your favorite BLACK romance books? Drop them below! 💕
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Good morning to the Black writers and authors. We hope your creativity flows strong today. Muahhhhh, more books.
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When people say they can't find Black authors or Black romance books...😏
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Authors/Writers let's check in: How are you feeling going into this week?
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Calling all graphic designers who design book covers and marketing materials. We are going to go through the list and add people to our designer directory.
Plug your folks here.✨
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What are some couples from
#BlackTVShows
that never should have been a thing (or you hated together)?
We'll start.
Joan and William from Girlfriends should have neverrrrr happened!
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AI CAN’T WRITE AAVE.
We need writers.
We need authors.
We need show runners.
We need journalists.
We need words from PEOPLE.
We stand with WGA. ✊🏾
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Authors,
What’s a show or film that has top tier story telling?
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Black Girls Who Write check-in.
How are y’all feeling? Are you writing? Are you finding it hard to write with everything going on? Talk to us.💜
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We know so many of us have been glued to TikTok watching 'Who TF Did I Marry?' so we gotta ask...
What are some Black books written by Black authors that you've read that had plot twists like ReesaTeesa story?
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And the nominees are for the IT’S LIT! Literary Awards! ….
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The Super Bowl is around the corner.
What football books by Black Authors do you love?
Authors, if you have a sports romance that has a Football player as the MC, send that over!
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What's a writing tip you wanna share with a fellow writer?
We'll go first: Don't worry about the next writer, find what works for you and lean into that.
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What Black male actors would you like to see in a Rom-Com? We will go first…
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What's a book you love with SIBLINGS? These can be books with siblings who love each other down or siblings who are messy and dating their sibling ex... we want them all.
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When you’re reading Black romance, what Black men do you picture in your mind? We will go first. (Comment with GIPHS only!)
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You're gonna wanna bookmark this thread of affirmations for authors: Beyoncé edition.
Then pick a favorite from each set in the thread and don't forget to RT for fellow authors to get their affirmations.
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Authors & Bookies, what do you need help with in 2023? We are about to start doing a series to help you with your social media, marketing, and overall writer needs via Twitter Spaces, TikTok, or IG live starting next month!
Comment what you need help with! Be SPECIFIC! 👏🏾
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Whew! Ya’ll have to see
@TheColorPurple
! It was excellent! The cinematography and direction by
@BlitzAmbassador
is chef’s kiss!
Thank you to everyone who came out and wore their purple! 💜
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Maturing is forgiving yourself for that first fanfiction or Wattpad story you wrote.
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Awards Szn is BACK!
Give your favorite authors the flowers they deserve by nominating them for the Black Girls Who Write awards.
Nominate:
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“To truly be a visionary, we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.”
bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins) you will be missed, for you have not only inspired multitude generations. 🕊
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Are y'all saying y'all heathens? Cause we only got like 3 book recs.
Easter is coming up and we want to know where are all the Black Authors with some good wholesome Christian books or books that include Pastors as the main characters. 👀
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Do we have any Black Authors who have written books about Black nurses?
#blackgirlswhowrite
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Coming in HOT! The Creative Connection Retreat is our annual 3-day hybrid event for Black women writers, independent authors, and creative entrepreneurs. It's going down this October 14—16, 2022 in Los Angeles, California🌴!
Get your tickets NOW! 😎
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Authors who are looking for legal services in regards to piracy, please contact Nikki
@NTesq
| nikki.thompsonesq
@gmail
.com and can draft cease and desist letters.
Please let her know you were sent by Black Girls Who Write.
Authors, please check this site to make sure your books aren’t on there. If so, you need to send a cease and desist letter immediately.
This is why it’s so important to get your books registered with the U.S. Copyright Office.
This is not okay or fair to authors.
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BIG B and the B stands for Black.
Black Authors.
Black Books.
Black Everything. 🖤
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Authors,
These social platforms can be here today and gone tomorrow. Make sure you are backing up your newsletter or creating one.
Build a community outside of social media: discord, slack, Patreon, something.
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READERS: Drop a book you've read this year - by a Black Author - that someone should add to the top of their TBR list. For razzle dazzle, add the genre of the book as well!
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What Gorilla Zoe said back in the day
🎶All the girls jockin' beat steady knockin
middle of the stage got the whole club rockin...'
🗣️Man she said she wanna hood 🥷🏾...
And we want the BOOKS. The urban books with the hood men, the street boos... all the grit! Drop them!
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More content.
More tips.
More events.
Bigger opportunities in 2023!✨
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Calling all Black professional graphic designers who design book covers, brand design, and/or marketing materials, specifically for authors & creatives.
We will go vet this list before adding people to our website.
Please no DMs.
Drop your portfolio or website link here.✨
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Authors/Writers we have a serious question:
What does happiness look like for you as an author/writer?
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We don't know about y'all but we're ready to go on vacation and find our next boo. And of course we need a book (or 5) to read for inspiration!
READERS/AUTHORS: So where are the books by Black authors where people meet (or go) on vacation?
Give them to us!
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We told you that our Creative Connection Retreat wasn’t your ordinary author event…
It was THEE author-bookchella.
It was the homecoming for the soul.
See you in 2024! We are headed East for the next retreat! 💜
#blackgirlswhowrite
#creativeconnectionretreat
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Authors, drop the link below if you have a book featuring a Billionaire or Filthy Rich FMC or MMC
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Authors who have been building their own fictional worlds, what advice would you give to fellow authors/writers who want to do the same?
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Authors, it’s a marathon. Not a sprint.
Do not try to do everything at one time.
Sometimes things need time to marinate.
Sometimes you may need help.
Sometimes you need to focus on one thing.
Stop rushing the process to success.
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Happy Authors Day to all of our Black Authors. We have a few things up our sleeves to celebrate and honor you. 💜
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It’s awards szn!!!
It’s LIT! Literary Awards is back!
(We upgraded the name.)
Go vote for your fave today! We have 20+ categories now OPEN! Nominations are open until January 17!
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In 2022, we are going to help more Black indie authors realize their true buying power and potential. You have the potential to be an influencer beyond selling books and your own merch.
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Happy birthday to talented poet and writer, Nikki Giovanni! 💕
“You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.” ― Nikki Giovanni
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Today we celebrate the birthday of writer, poet, and activist, Alice Walker. In 1982, she became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Price for Fiction for her novel, The Color Purple. 💜
#BlackHistoryMonth
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It's
#NationalPoetryMonth
and what better way to get into the vibes then with Darius from Love Jones front and center.
So tell us, what is your favorite Black love movie that highlights poetry and why is it Love Jones?
#blackgirlswhowrite
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The way Black Women go up for White women authors is the same energy we want to see from Black Women in regards to going up for Black Women Indie authors.
We said what we said.
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The results are in! Congratulations to all the winners!
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The nominations are in! Voting is now open until 1/24!
🗳
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So we thought about it, authors, professional headshots 📸 are a must. So, we have partnered with
@CreateHERStock
and are doing free headshots at our author retreat in February! 💜
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Authors, please check this site to make sure your books aren’t on there. If so, you need to send a cease and desist letter immediately.
This is why it’s so important to get your books registered with the U.S. Copyright Office.
This is not okay or fair to authors.
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✨ NEWS ALERT ✨
The anticipated film adaptation of
@tomi_adeyemi
’s novel Children of Blood and Bone will be directed by
@GPBmadeit
!
Y’all, this story is in good hands!
#blackgirlswhowrite
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You can only satisfy yourself. Don't worry about the readers, write the story as you envisioned it and as you wish to tell it.
Someone in publishing be real with me, should I take out the sex scenes in my romance novels now that readers seem to hate them so much. Like would that be a jump scare?
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If you have little ones in your life, check out these recent releases. 🤗💕
#childrensbooks
Shady Baby by
@itsgabrielleu
&
@DwyaneWade
Why Not You? By
@ciara
&
@DangeRussWilson
Always with You, Always with Me by
@KELLYROWLAND
(currently on pre-order for release on 4/26/22)
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Today we celebrate Lorraine Hansberry. She was born on this day in 1930 and went on to become the first African American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her legacy and contribution to the arts will live on forever. 💕
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Hey Authorbaes! It’s that time! Drop your book links of books you released from September 22-December 21, 2020 for our fall release uploads! ✨ Drop below! 👇🏾 📚
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It’s y’all not nominating y’all faves enough for us!
These awards are important to the Black Author Indie community because they aren’t celebrated. We allow the people to nominate to keep things fair.
Nominate today!
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.
@DanaiGurira
signs major deal to create, write, produce and develop projects at ABC Studios:
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More Black Books by Black Authors hitting the screen? Sign us up!🎥
@TomiAdeyemi
’s Children of Blood and Bone trilogy has landed a film rights deal with Paramount Pictures to adapt into an action fantasy film
Tomi will adapt the movie, pen the script, and executive produce. ✨
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It's March & we're readyyyy for the 29th!
#IYKYK
, so our question for readers and authors is ...
🗣 Where the Black Romance Country Books at? And we mean the ones written by Black authors featuring two Black characters!!! Give us the Black cowboys and cowgirls!
Drop your recs.
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Give us the chaotic book recs with book baes like this.
AND GO.
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We would like to announce that we are putting the It’s LIT! Literary Awards on pause and will resume at a later date. Black Girls Who Write is shutting down temporarily until further notice.
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Black Girls Who Write, check your email for a holiday surprise. 🥰
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Now who doesn’t love a good game of BINGO?
Now listen, you do NOT have to rush through this. You have ALL year. But have fun with it!
Use the hashtags:
#blackgirlswhowrite
+
#bgwwbingo
so we can see what you mark off!
First person to get bingo for the year wins a prize! 😎
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Happy Sunday! March is Women’s History Month. It’s our time (again). 💁🏾♀️💕
#WomensHistoryMonth
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Happy birthday to
@KELLYROWLAND
&
@4everBrandy
! 🎈 🎉 In honor of these two beauties’ birthdays, drop your favorite albums and songs of theirs. We love music inspo! 💕
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We are happy to announce that we are giving away a General Admission weekend pass to
@mzalexhouse
’s The House Party in Atlanta!
If you’re an ATL local and want to attend the full weekend, drop a 💙 below and we will announce the winner on Sunday!
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We have seen a lot of people call marketing in the indie literary industry, “promo” which has a different meaning.
So we are going to breaking things down.
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LOVE IS IN THE AIR ...Channeling the nostalgia of 80/90s TV romance! Round 1 of our battle of fictional couples. Who was your all time fav?
Vote & then comment or quote with your fav couple gif!
Dwayne & Whitley
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Martin & Gina
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Max & Kyle
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Ced & Lovita
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We just want to read and write Black a** stories and rap all the lyrics to “Knuck if You Buck”. Dassit.
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We want to see more black stories in film. So why not link authors and the people who make it all happen?
🎫:
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Aight y’all! We got the 2021 BGWW AWARD NOMINEES! 🏆
It’s a lot so bare with us! You can vote here:
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Authors, when or if you send out ARCS, please make sure you watermark your work and send readers, bloggers, or whoever some type of contract to protect yourself.
#blackgirlswhowrite
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Hey author baes! If you have a black romance holiday (Christmas or New Years) book that has been published already, drop the title or the link! We are submitting some books to an editor for a magazine. 💜
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There are too many talented black authors and black books for Hollywood to keep pushing out re-boots. We want new and fresh content!
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It’s finally here! The Perfect Find is coming to Netflix this Friday and we are inviting the community to join us in a virtual watch party! 🎉
You can join us on Twitter or the Netflix Watch Party (Google Chrome Extension).
We will post the watch party link on Friday!
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