1) Ashley James did an absolutely beautiful job of putting this to bed and she deserves props

2) Black and Brown people have been saying this forever and it speaks *volumes* that a powerful white woman saying it gets their respect and this level of response online

It's paperback day✨

5 editors🫠 2 breakdowns 😭
1 book 📖

As Destiny’s Child once sang, I’m a SURVIVOR

After this promo round, I’m dedicating the 2nd half of the year to touching grass & getting laid because honestly I’m tired

Buy it and all that uk.bookshop.org/p/books/black-…

may many more happy years find you, aunt may🩷

📣 UK-based Black journalists/writers - I’m looking to commission some interviews for The Bookseller’s 2024 black issue. Deets are in this article (just imagine it says “2024” where you read “2023”): thebookseller.com/news/submissio…

They want you thinking this is new age shit. Only thing new is people realizing they can make money from clicks and views by getting you outraged over some shit you would not have cared about a decade or 2 ago and you fall for it everytime

We had a movie with a Black Cinderella and Filipino Prince Charming in the 90s. It had record viewership, was widely celebrated and won an Emmy. But in 2024 people will harass a Brown actress over a Rapunzel fancast. Not even an actual role. A fancast.

making this my header picture cos I'm tired lol

If you don’t rest, your body will force you to rest loooool

why is adulthood endless exhaustion

White men told us they travelled the world and ‘discovered’ places which were already inhabited, they killed the indigenous people, stole the wealth, renamed the islands, and called their actions ‘brave’.
It is actual INSANITY that they still teach this nonsense in schools.

So happy to be on the longlist for the RSL Ondaatje Prize, and in such great company too! Congratulations to my fellow longlistees ♥️4th Estate Books

JOB OPP!

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I don’t know about you but I’m taking note of all the people who made excuses for Israel killing 33,000 Palestinians in Gaza suddenly asking questions and saying it’s enough because three white British people died

Because they are disgusting racists. every last one

Well today we are discovering yet again that White Lives Matter

Soooo sick of my body keeping the score. Take a day aff

Do you have any idea how dehumanising this is?
40,000 Palestinian deaths - not a word. 7 international deaths - front pages of indignation
Do the math: 5,714 Palestinian lives for 1 white life.

This list is not exhaustive, but hopefully helpful & indicative.

Send a cover letter, short synopsis & the first three chapters for my attention to [email protected].

And thank you for indulging my whims - what a privilege to be a professional treasure-hunter.

Middle grade is tough at the moment, but anything that does any of the above, ideally with hook & humour, I’d love to see. The formally interesting too - Benjamin Zephaniah, Ursula LeGuin or David Almond-esque.

I don’t tend to rep picture books or young fiction.

…returning to nature & to ourselves.

I will always be drawn to international stories and settings - what is unfamiliar (& uncomfortable!) to a Western reader.

I don’t tend to rep high fantasy, but love magic & a speculative hook.

Every kind of love, please.