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Day 8 of #authorlifemonth my awesome moment. Soooo my awesome moment was a few weeks after #samepage dropped. We rarely ever get emails about books or wips so when I got this I was floored. Never underestimate how Much you can make a writers day with just an email saying how Much you loved a book😍 especially if you're not the type to leave reviews. #weneeddiverseromance #samepage #naija #authorlifemonth #authormonthlife #NARomance #ContemporaryRomance #bwwm #ku #kindleunlimited #InterracialLove #interracialromance #providence #portugueseboys #portugueseheroes

Day 5 of #authorlifemonth #authormonthlife comp covers!!! So the cover in the middle pretty much inspired the two on the side. Loved how the couple on the cover was split in the middle. @dos_twinjas said "THAT'S WHAT I WANT!!!" #interracialromance #contemporaryromance #eroticromance #naromance #comingofage #afrolatinx #afrolatina #afrocubana #bisexual #bwwm #gltomas #FTHS #Friendsthatstill

Day 4 of #authorlifemonth #authormonthlife created by the extraordinaire @missdahlelama my wips So I'm a little embarrassed that I have like 4, but in my defense, I work on wips with my writing partner @dos_twinjas so it'll never just be one wip cuz that's not how we roll😃 WIP 1: #NextChapter our sequel to #samepage, a NA contemporary romance WIP 2: #FTHS an erotic romance featuring an Afro Latina MC(y Cubana tambien) WIP 3: #Friendsthatstill , the sequel to #FTHS WIP 4: #Wanderthisworld ,our first attempt at NA erotic horror Such an exciting year of wips. What are yours???

Day 3 of #authorlifemonth #authormonthlife brought to you by the amazeballs @missdahlelama My last 5 star read. Whoa, so I haven't been reading lately but I definitely remember what my last 5 star read was. The Sista hood: on the Mic by E-fierce aka Elisha Miranda. So a little confession I read and review YA and friggin love it. The themes usually present in YA are themes I wish were present in NA and adult novels more often, my three favorite being cultural identity, racial identity and sexual identity. By our adult years it's like we're supposed to have it figured all out but In my unique case I don't. And this is one of books that I always bring up in my YA presentations when I publicly speak on books. Why I connected to it: 1.An Afro-Latina main character. ( I'm an Afro Latina of Cuban ancestry and this was the first time I read a girl in a book who was Latina, DARK SKINNED not mulata but negra como yo w/a big kinky Afro. I cried reading that because from the cover you can't tell the main character is black) 2.Characters that come from a lower socio-economic background. 3.Queer female characters of color, especially Black and Latina characters of color. (This is the kicker. This is also one of its kind for me because usually #lgbt books are never about black and Latinas. I wish more people knew about this book 😪) 4. Characters that reflected the Hip-Hop culture without being offensive, appropriating or stereotypical. The Sista Hood on the Mic follows Mariposa Colon aka MC Patria, an Afro-Puerto Rican girl from San Francisco, CA with a love for Hip Hop and making a name for herself but she needs a fly crew to do it! That is where The Sista Hood comes in. This was a book about a girl but most important it was about a girl who maybe likes girls. A girl who valued friendships with girls. This book is about empowerment between girls and I think it's sad that more people don't know about this book. The friendship between the girls is something I think is missing from YA. Everything always seems to be centered on getting a boyfriend and while Mariposa wanted to be with someone, her friends were more important. That's, like, a big high five for me!