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My piece for @rainbowcrate’s January book box.
Devin Greenlee's Evergreen.
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New Young Adult Releases! (January 16th, 2024)
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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!
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New Standalones/First in a Series:
If I Promise You Wings by A.K. Small
So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole
Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa
A Place for Vanishing by Ann Fraistat
A Drop of Venom by Sajni Patel
Escaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinney
Evergreen by Devin Greenlee
Sun Don't Shine by Crissa-Jean Chappell
My Big, Fat Desi Wedding by Various
New Sequels:
Beasts of War (Beasts of Prey #3) by Ayana Gray
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Happy reading!
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Evergreen by Devin Greenlee (Author)
A deliciously dreamy urban fairytale about a dryad who risks immortality for love, from debut author Devin Greenlee All seventeen-year-old Quill wants is a break from the family business. Flowers, plants, the generations-old garden. What he wouldn’t give for a taste of the outside world. Normalcy. But his mom won’t let him out of the house, telling him he’s just not ready… All because he’s a dryad. Well, not just any dryad, but a male dryad―the first ever. And unlike everyone else in his family, he hasn’t a lick of magic. Just a shock of green hair, matching green eyes, and a growing frustration that there’s an entire world out there waiting to be discovered. Until the night when the outside world―specifically his new neighbor―discovers him. Liam Watson lives in a culture filled with electronics, mobile devices, and social media―where there is no magic or even the belief in it. And as much as Quill finds Liam irritating (he’s so cute it’s annoying), he can’t help himself. Now Quill’s getting a taste of the outside world and of Liam…and he wants more. But all is not well in this magical, urban garden, and someone―or something―is changing the very essence of it. And wherever Quill goes, the danger grows…
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jspinkmills · 3 months
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Adorable! A really nice fantasy romance with Secret Garden vibes and a great cast of characters!
My old b/w kindle REALLY doesn’t do the beautiful cover justice…
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wonkyreads · 4 months
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Evergreen by Devil Greenlee
2.5 magical blooms out of 5
Evergreen is only in the loosest sense a reimagining of The Secret Garden, which was the main point of interest for me personally going into it, but at this point I take most comps with a grain of salt anyway. (This book is also a lesson in not judging based solely off of covers because for some reason I went into this thinking it was sapphic??)
Honestly, though, Evergreen is an urban fantasy coming of age story that leans heavily into a romance between Quill, the first male druid and a bit of a Rapunzel character, and Liam, the boy next door. Quill is tasked with taking care of his family’s magical garden while he struggles to come to terms with the fact that he’s 17 and hasn’t shown any magical capabilities of his own.
Quill is stubborn and selfish, sarcastic and incredibly bitter, yet so fully naive at times. I tend to really enjoy unlikable narrators and he definitely fits the bill, though I can’t tell if it was intentional or not. For most of the book the fact that Quill was just a teenager who made stupid or silly decisions felt like a nice change, but there’s a point where you expect the main character to grow. With Quill that switch comes late and sudden when I’d have thoroughly enjoyed a slow build. Outside of that he was sometimes very inconsistent with his narration in a way that doesn’t feel intentional. Something about him stumbling his way through the human world was just so fun to read, though what he knew and didn’t know felt like this part of his character could have benefited from being a little more thought out.
There were also times when the information he was conveying was inconsistent as well. He’d wax poetic about how he knew every inch of the garden in one chapter, then the next introduce a room he’s never been allowed inside of, then the next reveal that he hardly ever strayed past the front of the garden actually, and a few chapters later complain that he’d walked every inch of it a hundred times over the years. That inconsistency existed in other areas of the writing too, creating plot holes and convenient excuses that were difficult to ignore. I found myself fact checking (tap water does have chlorine in it more often than not and like 90% of gummy worms aren’t vegan) and constantly flipping back and forth to make sure that I wasn’t actually crazy and that there were direct contradictions happening.
That said, getting to read a story based around a family of dryads was interesting and the fantasy elements built into the world were very soft and generally fun and easy to understand. I think the soft world building was the most developed part of the story and allowed for moments that genuinely shone in my opinion. It stayed consistent in ways the other parts of the writing just didn’t.
Honestly, this book just needed another round or two of edits and some more in-depth development. The idea is solid and there are parts that made me want to like the whole book far more than I did. For instance, the ‘big bad’ and the last quarter of the book? Imagining someone just walking into town and finding that situation? Fantastic creeping horror idea. It’s going to haunt me, genuinely. (I’m trying to avoid spoilers so bad, guys.)
There are scenes that shine and the bones to a really great story, but in the end there just wasn’t enough development. I think Greenlee could do some really cool things in the future, this debut was just a little too rushed. It would have benefited from some more eyes on it and another draft, but he’s an author I’ll be keeping an eye on for sure.
[I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Huge thanks to NetGalley and Entangled Publishing for this ARC.]
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oracleofmadness · 5 months
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I feel about half like and half dislike for this one. And some of that has to do with the marketing for this book being a reimagined Secret Garden. I simply could not really relate this story to the classic in any way besides the fact that, indeed, there is a secret garden in this tale.
Quil is a male dryad. He is one of a kind due to the fact that all other dryads have been female. His mom keeps him undercover and away from the outside world and it's humans by keeping him inside their apartment and often working in the beautiful magical garden. When he meets his neighbor, Liam, Quil begins to learn more about himself and the world he lives in.
My main issue in this was how I never felt like each separate variable really added up. It's definitely an odd read, and I do think many would enjoy this, but it just wasn't for me. It felt a little on the younger side of ya and used language that gets on my nerves. And, trust me, I use bad language.... for some reason, it just got on my nerves in this book. Maybe the less mature side to the writing and the story coupled with plenty of f-bombs just annoyed me.
However, I do really feel like many would enjoy this. These are just my personal thoughts.
Out January 16, 2024!
Thank you, Netgalley and Publisher, for this Arc!
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Queer Books Coming Out January 2024
🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!
❤️ Tentacle Wonderland by Reese Morrison 🧡 Cupid’s Revenge by Wibke Brueggemann 💛 Okay, Cupid by Mason Deaver 💚 Soren by Miranda Page & Lina Ganef 💙 Just Happy to Be Here by Naomi Kanakia 💜 Stars and Soil by Dax Murray ❤️ Deep Sounding Chaos by Adrian J. Smith & Neen Cohen 🧡 Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments by Hema Sukumar 💛 Evergreen by Devin Greenlee 💙 Matsdotter and Adrastus (Adventures in Levena #2) by Aelina Isaacs 💜 Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu Vol. 3 by Meng Xi Shi and Me Mimo 🌈 Destined by Jen Carter
❤️ Her Spell That Binds Me by Luna Oblonsky 🧡 Her Mechanic Bear Mate (Crescent Lake Bears #3) by Arizona Tape 💛 That Bitter Sting by Melissa Polk 💚 Bioluminescence by Toni Duarte 💙 Lucky Bounce by Cait Nary 💜 Don’t Want You Like A Best Friend by Emma R. Alban ❤️ Bachelorette Number Twelve by Jae 🧡 How to Share a Cat and Other Life Lessons by Evelyn Fenn 💛 A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing by Amy Allen 💙 Bound by Kate Hawthorne 💜 Moonbreak by Lise MacTague 🌈 Falling All In by Laina Villeneuve
❤️ Murder on Castaway Island by Alicia Gael 🧡 The Butler's Vessel by S. Rodman 💛 Tadek and the Princess by Alexandra Rowland 💚 Escaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinney 💙 Amid Our Lines by Zarah Detand 💜 Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa ❤️ A Doctor’s Touch by A.A. Fairview 🧡 So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole 💛 Never Be a Saint by Mark Runte 💙 Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook 💜 Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife by Eric Schlich 🌈 City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter
❤️ Enthralled by Her by Chelsea M. Cameron 🧡 Knight of Staria by Iris Foxglove 💛 The Storm Gathers by Maelan Holladay 💚 Stars of Chaos: Sha Po Lang Vol. 2 by Priest 💙 Fence: Redemption SC by C.S. Pacat and Johanna the Mad 💜 Dreamer by Kris Bryant ❤️ Not Just Friends by Jordan Meadows 🧡 Winter's Spell by Ursula Klein 💛 Two is a Pattern by Emily Waters 💙 All Things Beautiful by Alaina Erdell 💜 Curse of Souls by Niranjan 🌈 Voyage of the Damned by Frances White
❤️ The Principle of Moments by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson 🧡 Curse of the Dragon Shadow by Selina A. Fenech 💛 No Shelter But The Stars by Virginia Black 💚 Shards of Trust by Fox Beckman 💙 My Fair Brady by Brian D Kennedy 💜 The Summer Queen (The Buried and the Bound #2) by Rochelle Hassan ❤️ A Luminous Heart by Cailee Francis 🧡 To Cage a God (These Monstrous Gods #1) by Elizabeth May 💛 Out of Our League by Dahlia Adler and Jennifer Iacopelli 💙 Earth and Water by J.L. Gribble 💜 Rend Me, The Wayward Knight by Mary Vanalstine 🌈 Prince of Endless Tides by Ben Alderson
❤️ Sweet Wicked Thing by Jessie Walker 🧡 Ocean’s Blood by Thelma Mantey 💛 Breeze Spells and Bridegrooms by Sarah Wallace and S.O. Callahan 💚 A Reckless Oath by Kaylie Smith 💙 Fallen Thorns by Harvey Oliver Baxter 💜 Faded Moon by T.L. Morgan ❤️ Game On by Amy Aislin 🧡 The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers 💛 The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland 💙 Spark of Wrath by E.M. Lindsey 💜 Honeybloods by I.S. Belle 🌈 Love Me At My Worst by Adrian J. Smith
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Fantasy poll suggestions:
The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths and Magic by F.T. Lukens
Three Kings by Freydis Moon
How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager by D.N. Bryn
Evergreen by Devin Greenlee
Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao
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🕯️ ⇢ on a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you enjoy editing? why is that?
9/10
I really enjoy it, both to help others and myself. In school I was very much the person who would help others with their essays because I could critique but also point out what was done well (because both help!). Now when I write for myself I kind of just say stuff and then when I go back to edit, I can make it look pretty and remove whatever didn’t work. (I’m also very much my harshest critic so I don’t edit until the end - otherwise nothing ever gets written.)
📚 ⇢ what's the last thing you wrote down in your notes app? 
Evergreen by Devin Greenlee. It’s a The Secret Garden retelling coming out later this year and while I’m scared (because I’m picky about retellings) I’m also excited because The Secret Garden was one of my favorite books as a kid.
❄️ ⇢ what's your dream theme/plot for a fic, and who would write it best?
I have so many au ideas for avanine but it takes a lot of effort into writing an au and I don’t always have the bandwidth so my dream is to just have the aus in my head be done lol.
Unfortunately this is a case in which I would write it best (because I’m picky as hell) but for non-aus that are stuck in my head, my picks would be @murcielagatito and @juliandrws because they are both so talented at encapsulating avanine for all that they are :)
🏜️ ⇢ what's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?
Genuinely any and all, but I will say that getting comments about certain lines/sections that worked help a lot because not only does it help me improve my writing but then I can try to tailor works to my audience :)
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inkcurlsandknives · 2 months
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Hey Writeblr today’s Writing Question
Have you ever gotten to meet up with your online writing CPs/betas/friends irl? Would you like to?
Yesterday I got to hang with my agent sib Devin Greenlee (check out his queer Rapunzel retelling I'm obsessed with it). When traveling I always try to connect with writing friends, it's been super rewarding 💜
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What’s your favorite fairytale? 🧚‍♀️💙✨ . Cover Reveal + IntlGiveaway! Today we are super excited to help reveal the stunning cover of EVERGREEN by Devin Greenlee! 😍🌸 . Nature buries secrets—at least until they grow in this m/m coming of age fairy tale retelling (Rapunzel meets The Secret Garden), in which the powerless son of a dryad needs to find out who broke into their magical garden and stole a dangerous plant before it destroys the city – and the prime suspect is the cute new guy next door. (Doesn’t it sound amazing?! 😍🧚‍♀️) . Evergreen will be published on April 2nd, 2024 from Entangled Teen. Make sure to add it to your TBR! 🌸 . 🍂TOUR PRIZE: To celebrate, one reader will win a $25 USD Amzon Gift Card! . 🍂TO ENTER: - Like & leave a comment - Follow us, @entangledteen & @mtmctours . 🍂EXTRA ENTRIES: - Tag friends in different comments! - Share this post to your stories tagging entangledteen & mtmctours - Visit #EvergreenMTMC for more beautiful posts! . That’s it! Ends February 17th at 11:59 PM EST. Must be 16+ or have parental permission to enter. Winner announced on MTMC Tours' account. Not endorsed by/IG. . #fantasyreads #cosyvibes #whatiread #prettybooks #becauseofreading #booknerdigan #coffeeandbooks #toberead #booksbooksbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/Cof2gbNyOle/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Beta read over 45 books from November 2020 to April 2022 2 of them are not listed here.
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The black circle by Joseph van Buren
Gamer's guide to life by Elizabeth Henry 
A child solves a murder by alvin cataluna
LWYMMD  by karen joe
Broken but strong by waleed yaseen
The sacrifice game by emilia burnett
When greed kills  also known as eyes don't lie by Shana frost
Sydney's last night by Emily camp 
Blue
Spells and fur by Valerie evans
Merciless legacy by tikiri herath
The goo Terry usher
The last boy in America by Bob palmer
Where is my basket Robert norok
Galloway girl pat wallance 
Untitled book brandy woods snow
Defendant sparrow. naseem ahmed
Aftg also known as academy for the gifted Hudson warm 
As good as it gets  by taylor Turlington 
Duneites by El waring
Roy's big day by miya chisolm
Prince Carlos and the checkered pants by Jana krause
Revenge enterprises by jake wiklacz
Leah Thomas everything falls here
Merciless crimes by tikiri herath
Merciless games by tikiri herath
The anemone By Elliot crane
Brad Grogan
Poisoned in Provence   by cat Green
Untied by andersen/Devin Greenlee
death of the artist By Dmitry
The Garden by chip
A kiss on the beach by chip
Someone I used to know by Bethany tomerline prince
Hallow’s School for the dead  by Don Henry
Merciless lies by Takiri herath
Act 1 of That One Prayer by Harlyn
Helena By Edixon murillo
A foreverland wedding by Brittni Smyers Hill
American Dream By Anatole shukla
Loony Lynda Darcey by Connor Heumiller
Merciless past by tikiri herath
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Getting rid of the negative stereotypes—and biases—about aging
By Judith Graham, Kaiser Health News, November 4, 2017
What can be done about negative stereotypes that portray older adults as out of touch, useless, feeble, incompetent, pitiful and irrelevant?
With late-night TV comedy shows where supposedly clueless older people are the butt of jokes and with ads for anti-aging creams equating youth with beauty and wrinkles with decay, harsh and unflattering images shape assumptions about aging. Although people may hope for good health and happiness, they tend to believe that growing older involves deterioration and decline, according to reports from the Reframing Aging Initiative.
Dismal expectations can become self-fulfilling as people start experiencing changes associated with growing older--aching knees or problems with hearing, for instance. If a person has internalized negative stereotypes, his or her confidence may be eroded, stress responses activated, motivation diminished (“I’m old, and it’s too late to change things”) and sense of efficacy (“I can do that”) impaired.
Health often suffers as a result, according to studies showing that older adults who hold negative stereotypes tend to walk slowly, experience memory problems and recover less fully from a fall or fracture, among other ramifications. By contrast, seniors whose view of aging is primarily positive live 7.5 years longer than other seniors.
Can positive images of aging be enhanced and the effects of negative stereotypes reduced? At a recent meeting of the National Academies of Sciences’ Forum on Aging, Disability and Independence, experts embraced such steps and offered several suggestions for how they can be advanced:
* Become aware of implicit biases, which are automatic, unexamined thoughts. An example: The sight of an older person using a cane might trigger associations with dependency and incompetence.
Forum attendee Charlotte Yeh, chief medical officer for AARP Services, spoke of her experience after being struck by a car and undergoing a lengthy, painful rehabilitation. Limping and using a cane, she routinely found strangers treating her as if she were helpless.
“I would come home feeling terrible about myself,” she said. Decorating her cane with ribbons and flowers turned things around. “People were, like, ‘Oh, my God, that’s so cool,’” said Yeh, who noted that the decorations evoked the positivity associated with creativity instead of the negativity associated with disability.
Implicit biases can be difficult to discover because they coexist with thoughts that seem to clash with them. For example, someone may implicitly feel that “being old is terrible,” while explicitly that person may think, “We need to do more, as a society, to value older people.” Yet this kind of conflict may go unrecognized.
To identify implicit bias, pay attention to your automatic responses. If you find yourself flinching at the sight of wrinkles when you look in the bathroom mirror, for instance, acknowledge this reaction and then ask yourself, “Why is this upsetting?”
Use strategies to challenge biases. Patricia Devine, a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who studies ways to reduce racial prejudice, calls this “tuning in” to habits of mind that usually go unexamined.
Resolving to change these habits isn’t enough, she said at the NAS forum: “You need strategies.” Her research shows that these strategies are effective:
* Replace stereotypes. This entails becoming aware of and then altering responses informed by stereotypes. Instead of assuming a senior with a cane needs your help, for instance, you might ask, “Would you like assistance?”--a question that respects an individual’s autonomy.
* Embrace new images. This involves thinking about people who don’t fit the stereotype you’ve acknowledged. This could be a group of people (older athletes), a famous person (TV producer Norman Lear, now 95, who just sold a show on aging to NBC) or someone you know (a cherished older friend).
* Individualize it. The more we know about people, the less we’re likely to think of them as a group characterized by stereotypes. Delve into specifics. What unique challenges does an older person face? How does that person cope day-to-day?
* Switch perspectives. This involves imagining yourself as a member of the group you’ve been stereotyping. What would it be like if strangers patronized you and called you “sweetie” or “dear,” for example?
* Make contact. Interact with the people you’ve been stereotyping. Visit and talk with that friend who’s now living in a retirement community.
Becca Levy, a professor of epidemiology and psychology at Yale University, noted that 196 countries have committed to support the World Health Organization’s fledgling campaign to end discrimination against people because they are old. Bolstering positive images of aging and countering the effect of negative stereotypes need to be central parts of that endeavor, she remarked. It’s also something older adults can do, individually, by choosing to focus on what’s going well in their lives rather than on what’s going wrong.
* Claim a seat at the table. “Nothing about us without us” is a clarion call of disability activists, who have demanded that their right to participate fully in society be recognized and made possible by adequate accommodations such as wheelchair ramps. So far, however, seniors haven’t similarly insisted on inclusion, making it easier to overlook the ways in which they’re marginalized.
At the forum, Kathy Greenlee, vice president of aging and health policy at the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City and a former assistant secretary for aging in the Department of Health and Human Services, called for a new wave of advocacy by and for seniors, saying, “We need more older people talking publicly about themselves and their lives.”
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January 2024 Young Adult Releases
🦇 Good afternoon, my bookish bats. I hope you're bundled up with a fur baby, hot bev, and good book as you ward off this (lovely) chilly weather. No TBR is complete without a few young adult novels, and plenty were released in January! Here are a few YA releases to consider adding to your shelves.
January 2 ✨ A Fragile Enchantment - Allison Saft @allisonhsaft ✨ Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White - Amélie Wen Zhao @ameliewenzhao ✨ Just Happy to Be Here - Naomi Kanakia @rhkanakia ✨ If You Can't Take the Heat - Michael Ruhlman @ruhlman ✨ Stay With My Heart - Tashie Bhuiyan @tashiebhuiyan ✨ Cupid's Revenge - Wibke Brueggemann @wibkebrueggemann ✨ Ghost Roast - Shawnee Gibbs @shawnee.gibbs and Shawnelle Gibbs @nelletheelle ✨ Okay, Cupid - Mason Deaver @mason_deaver ✨ Sky's End - Marc J Gregson @mjg_write
January 9 ✨ Somewhere in the Deep - Tanvi Berwah @tanviberwah ✨ The Atlas of Us - Kristin Dwyer @kristindwyer ✨ The Lost Ones - Lauren DeStefano @laurendestefanoauthor ✨ Arya Khanna's Bollywood Moment - Arushi Avachat @arushi.24 ✨ Dungeons and Drama - Kristy Boyce @kristylboyce ✨ Shut Up, This Is Serious - Carolina Ixta @carolinaixta ✨ Lunar New Year Love Story - Gene Luen Yang @geneluenyang ✨ We're Never Getting Home - Tracy Badua @tracybaduawrites
January 16 ✨ A Drop of Venom - Sajni Patel @sajnipatelbooks ✨ Most Ardently - Gabe Cole Novoa @thegabecole ✨ If I Promise You Wings - A.K. Small @aksmallwords ✨ Evergreen - Devin Greenlee @Dev.L.Lee ✨ So Let Them Burn - Kamilah Cole @wordsiren ✨ Beasts of War - Ayana Gray @ayanagray_ ✨ Sun Don't Shine - Crissa-Jean Chappell @crissachappell ✨ Escaping Mr. Rochester - L.L. McKinney @ll_mckinney
January 23 ✨ Destroy the Day - Brigid Kemmerer @brigidkemmerer ✨ My Fair Brady - Brian D. Kennedy @bdkennedybooks ✨ The Invocations - Krystal Sutherland @km_sutherland ✨ Into the Sunken City - Dinesh Thiru @dineshmt ✨ You're Breaking My Heart - Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich @olugbemisolarhudayperkovich ✨ The Getaway List - Emma Lord @dilemmalord ✨ Out of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports - Dahlia Adler @missdahlelama & Jennifer Iacopelli @jennifercarolyn ✨ The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee - Ellen Oh @elloecho ✨ Not Dead Enough - Tyffany D. Neiheiser @writer_tyffany
January 30 ✨ Just Say Yes - Goldy Moldavsky @goldywrites ✨ Red - Annie Cardi @anniecardi ✨ A Reckless Oath - Kaylie Smith @kaylsmoon ✨ Poemhood Our Black Revival - Anthology ✨ Wander in the Dark - Jumata Emill @brownboywriting ✨ The Dark Fable - Katherine Harbour @katharbour77
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