Retha Powers
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I can't believe this is real. I've been writing nearly my whole life but I never thought I'd really be an author. But now it's happening! I have a book deal. I'm so grateful! I feel so lucky I get to work with Chelcee and @gelrdrgz and publish with Ballantine. What a dream✨️
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NY friends, where can I buy origami paper uptown or on Upper West Side?
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NPR Best Book of the Year, MY MONTICELLO by @jocelynjohnson is now available in paperback! 🎉
Get your copy now: ow.ly/9WsG50KZNr5
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Join the One City, One Read conversation! Sat, May 14 at 12pm the Urban Life Experience Book Club will be reflecting on Parable of the Sower & My Monticello at Wilson. On Wed, May 25 at 6:30pm Kulturally LIT will be facilitating a conversation on Parable of the Sower at Stetson.
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Don’t miss @jocelynjohnson in person at Charlottesville’s @NDBookshop discussing her new release, MY MONTICELLO! Happening tonight at 7pm ET! ow.ly/PTNS50GlEPa
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Closing the loop on this. A rave review for @jocelynjohnson's My Monticello in @nytimesbooks: nytimes.com/2021/10/04/boo…
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We are SO excited that @AppleBooks chose MY MONTICELLO by @jocelynjohnson as one of the #BestBooksOfOctober! ❤️Check it out here: apple.co/bestbooks
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Meet @jocelynjohnson on her tour for MY MONTICELLO! She'll be virtually stopping by @LeftBankBooks, @FountainBkstore, @chariscircle, @PoliticsProse, @warwicksbooks, @Loyaltybooks, @Center4Fiction, and more! For full details, visit ow.ly/QfT550GjGYE ✨
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LeVar Burton & Aja Naomi King To Narrate Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s ‘My Monticello’ Audiobook From Macmillan Audio & Henry Holt deadline.com/2021/09/levar-… via @Deadline
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#DearMissMetropolitan is OUT NOW via @HenryHolt - purchase your copy from your favorite bookseller at carolynferrell.com 💜
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"It’s an endurance test. I admired it while longing for it to end." @Dwight Garner on Carolyn Ferrell's harrowing new novel, "Dear Miss Metropolitan." nyti.ms/3hC3nuP
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Can’t wait to join Carolyn Ferrell @ these events for her amazing Dear Miss Metropolitan!
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My first book, ‘Misfits: A Personal Manifesto’, is out in September with @eburypublishing @penguinUKbooks 🇬🇧🇦🇺 / @HenryHolt @MacmillanUSA 🇺🇸🇨🇦
smarturl.it/misfitsbk 😃🙏🏿
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DEAR MISS METROPOLITAN by Carolyn Ferrell via @HenryHolt, about 3 girls abducted by Boss Man, the monster who holds them captive in a dilapidated house in Queens. So good!
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Dedicated churchgoer, 82, has dressed up in her Sunday best for 52 weeks of VIRTUAL church services - and says she didn't want to 'get into the habit of just slouching around'
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I’m grateful to guest-editor @edyong209 for choosing my experimental essay “This is How We Live Now,” for inclusion in this year’s _Best American Science and Nature Writing_, and to @dwallacewells for originally editing it in @NYMag / @TheCut.
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