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After turning Judy Blume’s classic novel into a critically acclaimed television series, Mara Brock Akil is debuting a book of her own. Brock, responsible for hit series like Forever, Being Mary Jane, and Girlfriends and more, is entering the fiction space with her debut novel, The Revelation of Dionne Daphne. “I wrote this novel with […]

Amy DuBois Barnett’s debut novel just recently dropped, and she’s already taking her talents to television. Formerly an editor-in-chief for Ebony magazine and Honey, as well as the deputy editor of Harper’s Bazaar, Barnett made history when she became the first Black woman to run a major mainstream magazine in the United States, Teen People. 

Ahead of the highly anticipated film adaptation of her 2018 novel Children of Blood and Bone, author Tomi Adeyemi is set to release her next book, a standalone novel titled The Siren, later this year. According to People, Henry Holt and Co., an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, announced the news on Tuesday and