#blackfantasy

📚✨ Your preorder list is about to look real good.

Five books. Five reasons to pull up and secure your copy before they land.

👉🏾 The Divining Season by @gwendolynparadice — Native girls are disappearing in a small Texas town, and eleven-year-old Emily is speaking to her ancestors. Ancestral trauma, indigeneity, and the grief of womanhood woven into something that hits deep.

👉🏾 Legendborn (Collector's Edition) by @tracydeonn — The #1 NYT bestselling series gets the treatment it deserves. Faux leather hardcase, original artwork, never-before-seen bonus scenes. If you don't have it yet, this is the edition.

👉🏾 The Curse of Hester Gardens by @tamikadthompson — A haunted house story that's really about gun violence, faith, and a mother trying to save her sons. Think Jason Reynolds and Tananarive Due. It's that serious.

👉🏾 Year of the Mer by @ellethevillain — Forget the fairy tale. This is a dark epic fantasy retelling of The Little Mermaid centered on war, vengeance, and a princess reclaiming what's hers. Fans of The Priory of the Orange Tree, this one's for you.

👉🏾 Audiofuturism by @audio.futurism — Sound, speculation, and Black futures. Preorder this one.

✨ Happy Mother's Day ✨

🌲 Camp Cryptid Counselors 🌲 here's the first look at my NPCs for my patron-exclusive game! the game is set at a spooky summer camp for little monsters and explores the connections you make when you know you’re a bit different from other kids.

My name is Rita and I am an aspiring author and my goal for this year is to finally finish my draft for my first book in my Creation of Magic universe. Here are my aspirations/manifestations and a bit on how I will be achieving them.

Firstly, i want to track my progress, frustrations and everything I’ve been doing for this novel via social media. Tumblr is my first and best pick because it already has the audience I’m looking for. Hopefully, I’ll be able to expand to other platforms before I start promoting my book. If you stumble across my blog give me a follow to encourage this series! I am also a small artist as well and will occasionally create art for my characters, particular scenes, etc., for my series. Overall, I am very excited to use this platform to push my passion project and hopefully become the fantasy author I strive to see.

Secondly, I am a college student! Currently in my last semester in school and will be starting grad school soon so updates will be sporadic but I hope to follow through with them. Outside of my main series, I am also an experienced fan fiction author and I hope to get back into that hobby as well—or at least use the skills I learned there to apply it here.

I know this is a huge goal, most people don’t make it big in the writing industry and that especially so for minorities, people of color, and queer stories. However, I have seen so much success recently with this community that I would be distraught if I did not try to push myself towards something greater. I cannot wait to show you all what I have to offer and hopefully, you love them as much as I do.

See you soon!

#RitaBS

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