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.@HachetteKids has acquired YA romantasy debut A Divine and Deadly Vow by Cairo Aibangbee in a pre-empt 👇

Will your pitch be our valentine?💌 📅Save the date! On 12th February we want to fall head-over-heels for the love story of our dreams! Use #pitchWME between 10am and 5pm to submit (you'll receive a comment from @WMEBooksUK if your pitch is selected). Rules in the comments!🏹

Christmas is in 10 days and work has not slowed down???

David Oyelowo's mother lived in one bedroom in Lagos with 5 people. Dreamed of her Mercedes for decades. Got a brain aneurysm the day they moved into their Hollywood home. She prayed Selma into existence. Never saw him become MLK. This is timeline grief, when success arrives after the witness leaves.

An exploration of love, loss, and the spaces we call home. Here’s an excerpt from This Motherless Land by Nikki May. #TheNigeriaPrize2025 #Africanliterature #VoicesThatMatter #NPL2025 #Africanwriters #Audioexcerpts

@DamilolaLizzie @penguinrandom Happy US pub day, Lizzie!!🥳🥳

The Re-Write is out in the US today! 🥳So excited for readers across the pond to dive into this second-chance, summer romance. Huge thanks to my amazing US team @penguinrandom 💛 Buy your copy here bit.ly/45b3iIE

This is happening and I’m shook

After #weareladyparts aired, I wanted something for #blackalt girls + younger me, so I did that with amazing illustrator, Flo Wooley. This graphic novel is for all the Black Alt girls 👩🏿‍🎤🖤🙂‍↕️ BLACK DOLLS is OUT NOW. Black girls 🤝🏿 pop-punk band = win Clash of the Bands?

@NikkiOMay @anteksiler Haha!!🤣

@DBalWrites @anteksiler Abula on me o!

The most prestigious literary prize in Africa with a $100,000 cash award, the Nigeria Prize for Literature announced its 11-title longlist - and I’M ON IT! 🙌🏽 The Nigeria Prize for Literature Announces its 2025 Longlist For Prose Fiction afrocritik.com/the-nigeria-pr… via @anteksiler

@NikkiOMay Happy 60th!🥳🎉 Hope you had a blast!!

60 bday holiday is over I’ve milked it much as I can I need to move on But it’s hard…

Happy belated publication day to this heartwarming love story! I loved it the first time I read it and can’t wait to dive back in.

I will read anything and everything by Lizzie Blackburn. And yes, I am biased lol. Preorder link 👇🏾

@DamilolaLizzie Seeing the final version out in the world is such a joy—huge congrats, Lizzie! 🥳 Can’t wait to see it in bookstores!!🎉🎊

Copies of The Re-Write are here!🙌🏾🥳 🎉 I won’t lie—I opened the box before filming because I just couldn’t wait. Still, holding a novel I’ve written feels insaaane. The feeling will never get old🥰 Pre-order: bit.ly/4gsujuL #TheReWrite #booktwt

@NikkiOMay You truly created a masterpiece! I’m so glad I got to meet you through it and work with you thereafter💕

3 years ago today. Sometimes feels like longer, sometimes like yesterday. Deep in third lockdown , my debut novel #wahala was published. It’s been a roller coaster of ups and downs, obvs I’m good at social media and only share the ups 😜

@RachelWithAn_E @SheffLibraries @HachetteKids Congratulations love!!🥳 Super proud of you!!🙌🏾🙌🏾

The Boy in the Smoke won in its category at the Sheffield Children’s Book Awards 😅🏆🥳 Thank God, thank you to all the children who voted and the amazing team who organised it all!

@NikkiOMay Woohoo!! Congrats!🎉🎊🍾

Do not pinch me! Living the dream and I dont want to wake up! 💜❤️💜I’M A JENNA PICK 💜💜💜 today.com/video/read-wit…

@sanahmedd Sounds AH-mazing!😍

If you like The Summer I Turned Pretty or Icebreaker, this spicy sports romcom is just what you need to add to your TBR! 🌶️🏈☀️ #Playmaker