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Last day at the LA Times festival of books. Pop on by to the USC campus to chat, get a book and support my nonprofit Live, Write Workshop.

Last day at the LA Times festival of books. Pop on by to the USC campus to chat, get a book and support my nonprofit Live, Write Workshop.

AfroWeirdness & the Urban Superhero @comicconla

Always fun to moderate a panel with some of the most talented folks in the business.

@v_is_for
@johnjenningsart
@hardest_working_man_in_comics
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#afroweirdnessandtheurbansuperhero #afroweird #superhero #comiccon #lacc #losangeles #comics #art #popculture #fandom #cosplay #convention #games #rpg #lacomiccon #2025 #fantasy #sff #science #fiction #black #speculative #art

AfroWeirdness & the Urban Superhero @comicconla

Always fun to moderate a panel with some of the most talented folks in the business.

@v_is_for
@johnjenningsart
@hardest_working_man_in_comics
@hannibaltabu
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#afroweirdnessandtheurbansuperhero #afroweird #superhero #comiccon #lacc #losangeles #comics #art #popculture #fandom #cosplay #convention #games #rpg #lacomiccon #2025 #fantasy #sff #science #fiction #black #speculative #art

Un messaggio che arriva a un cellulare spento. Una voce che risponde dall’assenza.
Coral sa che il fratello non tornerà più, ma continuare a scrivere al suo posto è l’unico modo per non precipitare nel vuoto.

In Morire a Long Beach di Venita Blackburn, il dolore diventa esperimento, il lutto si intreccia alla fantascienza, e i legami continuano a pulsare anche dopo la fine.

👉 Link in bio per entrare in questo romanzo che ferisce e incanta.

Un messaggio che arriva a un cellulare spento. Una voce che risponde dall’assenza.
Coral sa che il fratello non tornerà più, ma continuare a scrivere al suo posto è l’unico modo per non precipitare nel vuoto.

In Morire a Long Beach di Venita Blackburn, il dolore diventa esperimento, il lutto si intreccia alla fantascienza, e i legami continuano a pulsare anche dopo la fine.

👉 Link in bio per entrare in questo romanzo che ferisce e incanta.

🎉 GIVEAWAY: Win a copy of DEAD IN LONG BEACH CALIFORNIA 🎉

by @v_is_for

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1️⃣ Like this post 💙
2️⃣ Tag a friend (each tag = 1 entry)
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Giveaway ends Sunday, 07/27/2025 at 11:59pm PT. Winners will be announced every Monday in our newsletter ✉️. No purchase necessary. U.S. only. See official rules in our link in bio.

📚 DEAD IN LONG BEACH CALIFORNIA - Goodreads Synopsis 📚

Coral is the first person to discover her brother Jay’s dead body in the wake of his suicide. There’s no note, only a drably furnished bachelor pad in Long Beach, California, and a cell phone with a handful of numbers in it. Coral pockets the phone. And then she starts responding to texts as her dead brother.

Over the course of one week, Coral, the successful yet lonely author of a hit dystopian novel, Wildfire , becomes increasingly untethered from reality. Blindsided by grief and operating with reckless determination, she doubles ―and triples―down on posing as her brother, risking not only her own sanity but her relationship with her precocious niece, Khadijah. As Coral’s swirl of lies slowly closes in on her, the quirky and mysterious alien world of Wildfire becomes enmeshed in her own reality, in the process pushing long-buried memories, traumas, and secrets dangerously into the present.

A form-shifting and soul-crunching chronicle of grief and crisis, Venita Blackburn’s debut novel, Dead in Long Beach, California , is a fleet-footed marvel of self-discovery and storytelling that explores the depths of humankind’s capacity for harm and healing. With the daring, often hilarious imagination that made her an acclaimed short-fiction innovator, Blackburn crafts a layered, page-turning reckoning with what it means to be alive, dead, and somewhere in between.

(Mystery, Thriller)

#SendMeABook

Registration link in bio!

If you’re in or near San Francisco this weekend, come on by and say hi. I’ll be talking about California, being an author and living at the end of the world. Warning: I’m very candid 😌

If you’re in or near San Francisco this weekend, come on by and say hi. I’ll be talking about California, being an author and living at the end of the world. Warning: I’m very candid 😌

If you’re in or near San Francisco this weekend, come on by and say hi. I’ll be talking about California, being an author and living at the end of the world. Warning: I’m very candid 😌

World’s Best Short-Short Story contest deadline coming soon, Dec. 15th! Tell me your wildest tale in 500 words or less. Hint, I love a lifetime story or a multi-generation story or a multi-civilization story, especially if it’s only half a page. Good luck all! https://www.southeastreview.org/writing-contests

If you're in Palm Springs next weekend, come on down!

I’ll be speaking at noon and hanging out at my booth for a little while after. Come say hi!

Chatting live tonight. Be warned! I’m very candid. 😌 Ask questions you really want answered.

I’m chatting with Alta journal 7/25 about Dead in LBC as their July book club selection 💜 link in bio to register. Alsoooooo Special guest in the chat is@alt_myriam_gurba666 🤩 Alsoooooooooooo happy Octavia Butler day to all. Photo: Dustin Snipes

I’m chatting with Alta journal 7/25 about Dead in LBC as their July book club selection 💜 link in bio to register. Alsoooooo Special guest in the chat is@alt_myriam_gurba666 🤩 Alsoooooooooooo happy Octavia Butler day to all. Photo: Dustin Snipes

I’m chatting with Alta journal 7/25 about Dead in LBC as their July book club selection 💜 link in bio to register. Alsoooooo Special guest in the chat is@alt_myriam_gurba666 🤩 Alsoooooooooooo happy Octavia Butler day to all. Photo: Dustin Snipes

Omg update time! I got married this spring ☺️. It was at the Fresno courthouse because that’s how we are. Thank you to all my people for sharing love and space with me! Love ya @hedacheliAnd to everyone everywhere as we move through this dark age, remember to hold onto light when you find it. Happy pride y’all 🌈 Oh, and a bunch of kittens were born under my house. If you want one, let me know 😭 I’ll drive them almost anywhere in the continental US for to find a loving home where no one like me is allergic😭😭😭.

Omg update time! I got married this spring ☺️. It was at the Fresno courthouse because that’s how we are. Thank you to all my people for sharing love and space with me! Love ya @hedacheliAnd to everyone everywhere as we move through this dark age, remember to hold onto light when you find it. Happy pride y’all 🌈 Oh, and a bunch of kittens were born under my house. If you want one, let me know 😭 I’ll drive them almost anywhere in the continental US for to find a loving home where no one like me is allergic😭😭😭.

Omg update time! I got married this spring ☺️. It was at the Fresno courthouse because that’s how we are. Thank you to all my people for sharing love and space with me! Love ya @hedacheliAnd to everyone everywhere as we move through this dark age, remember to hold onto light when you find it. Happy pride y’all 🌈 Oh, and a bunch of kittens were born under my house. If you want one, let me know 😭 I’ll drive them almost anywhere in the continental US for to find a loving home where no one like me is allergic😭😭😭.

Omg update time! I got married this spring ☺️. It was at the Fresno courthouse because that’s how we are. Thank you to all my people for sharing love and space with me! Love ya @hedacheliAnd to everyone everywhere as we move through this dark age, remember to hold onto light when you find it. Happy pride y’all 🌈 Oh, and a bunch of kittens were born under my house. If you want one, let me know 😭 I’ll drive them almost anywhere in the continental US for to find a loving home where no one like me is allergic😭😭😭.

Omg update time! I got married this spring ☺️. It was at the Fresno courthouse because that’s how we are. Thank you to all my people for sharing love and space with me! Love ya @hedacheliAnd to everyone everywhere as we move through this dark age, remember to hold onto light when you find it. Happy pride y’all 🌈 Oh, and a bunch of kittens were born under my house. If you want one, let me know 😭 I’ll drive them almost anywhere in the continental US for to find a loving home where no one like me is allergic😭😭😭.

Omg update time! I got married this spring ☺️. It was at the Fresno courthouse because that’s how we are. Thank you to all my people for sharing love and space with me! Love ya @hedacheliAnd to everyone everywhere as we move through this dark age, remember to hold onto light when you find it. Happy pride y’all 🌈 Oh, and a bunch of kittens were born under my house. If you want one, let me know 😭 I’ll drive them almost anywhere in the continental US for to find a loving home where no one like me is allergic😭😭😭.

Omg update time! I got married this spring ☺️. It was at the Fresno courthouse because that’s how we are. Thank you to all my people for sharing love and space with me! Love ya @hedacheliAnd to everyone everywhere as we move through this dark age, remember to hold onto light when you find it. Happy pride y’all 🌈 Oh, and a bunch of kittens were born under my house. If you want one, let me know 😭 I’ll drive them almost anywhere in the continental US for to find a loving home where no one like me is allergic😭😭😭.

Omg update time! I got married this spring ☺️. It was at the Fresno courthouse because that’s how we are. Thank you to all my people for sharing love and space with me! Love ya @hedacheliAnd to everyone everywhere as we move through this dark age, remember to hold onto light when you find it. Happy pride y’all 🌈 Oh, and a bunch of kittens were born under my house. If you want one, let me know 😭 I’ll drive them almost anywhere in the continental US for to find a loving home where no one like me is allergic😭😭😭.