Frederick Smith, Ed.D.

🚨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
the new Cemetery Boys paperback is a @barnesandnoble Book Club Pick for August!!

it’s got:
📝 a heartfelt anniversary letter
👻 a bonus scene that made me emotional
🔮 a sneak peek of Espíritu (aka the long-awaited chaos sequel)!

It's August and even though Fall is walking around the corner next month, there's nothing more delightful than a cozy read filled with sunshine and magic. ✨️💛💜🧡 Let me know if you've visited Freya Grove this summer or if you're waiting until Fall to read these witchy books! 🥰😃

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It’s on me that I booked a 7am flight back to San Francisco. Let me get up and started.

Today’s Bookstore Romance Day. And I’m very excited to be part of Grand Gesture Bookstore’s Bookstore Romance Day events in Portland, OR.

Shout out a favorite romance author, book, or bookstore! Better yet, visit or order from an indy bookstore today! 📚💕 #BookstoreRomanceDay #RomanceBookSky

[Image: rolling waves with book covers overlaid] August Releases Out Now! The best sapphic summer reads * AN EXTRAORDINARY PASSION by Kit Meredith * HEART'S APPRAISAL by Jo Hemmingwood * THAT'S AMORE by Georgia Beers * THE UNEXPECTED HEIRESS by Cassidy Crane * THROUGH SKY AND STARS by Tessa Croft * UNCOMPLICATE IT by Kel McCord * VANGUARD by Gun Brooke

EIGHT new sapphic romances for your reading pleasure ahead of general release! Exclusively at boldstrokesbooks.com in ebook and paperback (and That's Amore in audiobook!) before wide release on August 12.😍

The book cover of One and Done by Frederick Smith features two professionally dressed Black men walking along a shore and gazing into each other’s eyes with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background

It’s Bookstore Romance Day! A day to celebrate & support romance novels, authors, & bookstores! 📚💕

It’s a day to pick up One and Done, a Black, Queer, Higher Ed, Bay Area romance novel on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social : www.boldstrokesbooks.com/books/one-an...

#BookstoreRomanceDay #RomanceBookSky

An inspiring and familiar story. Our voices remain necessary.

When you’re going to visit a city, but not asking to stay with anyone you know who lives there, do you give people a courtesy heads up that you’ll be in their area?

Or, like everything, it depends?

#TravelSky #VacationSky

I’m very excited to be part of Grand Gesture Books & their Bookstore Romance Day events on Saturday, 8/9/25 in Portland, OR. Check out the schedule, repost and share with others, & if you’re in the area, stop by! 📚💕 #BookstoreRomanceDay #GrandGestureBooks #PortlandOregon #BookSky #RomanceBookSky

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DBM Ep 70 Communtity, Culture, Books & Black Motherhood w/ Alliah Agostini - black mama magic SUBSCRIBE WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR POD FIX: APPLE PODCAST|SPOTIFY|SOUNDCLOUD|PANDORA|YouTube   Dear Mama, What if I told you “real gs move in silence […]

Another great @demblackmamas.bsky.social podcast episode. The show features children's book author Alliah Agostini on creativity, controlling the narrative, and advice for starting writing and publishing.

demblackmamas.com/dbm-ep-70-co...

#DemBlackMamas #BookSky #BlackBookSky #PodcastSky

Grand gesture Books Bookstore Romance Day announcement, with names of authors participating in the events on Saturday, 8/9/25 in Portland, Oregon.

Grand Gesture Books Bookstore Romance Day Panel. BIPOC Romance Roundtable. Saturday, 8/9/25, 3 pm, Central Library in Portland. Featuring authors Aiden Thomas, Mica Kennedy, Celestine Martin, Frederick Smith, and AB Daniels Annachi.

Join us Saturday, 8/9/25 at Grand Gesture Book Bookstore Romance Day events! 📚💕

Events at Central Library in Portland, OR or Grand Gesture Books.

I’ll be at all panels & signing books, too!

Come through & support Grand Gesture Books!

#BookstoreRomanceDay #BookSky #Portland #GrandGestureBooks

Grand gesture Books Bookstore Romance Day announcement, with names of authors participating in the events on Saturday, 8/9/25 in Portland, Oregon.

Grand Gesture Books Bookstore Romance Day Panel. Fantasy and Paranormal Writers Unite. Saturday, 8/9/25, 11 am, Central Library in Portland. Featuring authors Aiden Thomas, Kristin Cast, Celestine Martin, Erin Mainord, and Claire Golden.

Grand Gesture Books Bookstore Romance Day Panel. Romance and Queer Identity. Saturday, 8/9/25, 1 pm, Central Library in Portland. Featuring authors Nellie Wilson, Erin Connor, Aiden Pierce, Sarah Estes, Timothy Janovsky, AB Daniels Annachi, Amy Spalding, Karelia and Fay Stetz Waters, and Frederick Smith.

Hi friends.

I’ll be in-person at Grand Gesture Books Bookstore Romance Day events this weekend… Saturday, 8/9/25 in Portland, OR.

I’m on…

🌈 💕Queer Identity and Romance at 1pm Pacific

✍🏾💕 BIPOC Romance Roundtable at 3pm Pacific

Other great panels at 11am and 5pm.

#BookstoreRomanceDay #BookSky

From poverty to Ph.D.: Veronica Alvarez’s journey in arts education The executive director of Create CA is a passionate advocate for arts education, driven by her own experiences of poverty and immigration, and committed to ensuring that all students have equal access...

From the recent Ed Source. A profile on my Loyola Marymount University doctoral program classmate, Dr. Veronica Alvarez, sharing her story on the importance of arts, books, and education as a key to social mobility. Very inspiring story!

edsource.org/2025/arts-in...

#HigherEdSky #EducationSky

Bad Queers x Hung Up Podcast: Reclaiming OUR time! - Bad Queers This week, we had the pleasure of guesting on Hung Up Podcast with host Eric Cole.We unpacked what it means to reclaim culture as Black queer folks — from how we show up in mainstream media to how we ...

This was fun. The hosts of Bad Queers & Hung Up podcasts together on one episode. Talking all things Black & Queer life. 🙌🏾🌈🎧

badqueerspod.buzzsprout.com/1039153/epis...

#BlackSky #QueerSky #LGBTQSky #BlackQueerSky #PodcastSky

Finished! And I now need adult relaxation time… Taco Tuesday… or an hour of happy somewhere after work! ✍🏾🎓 #HigherEdSky #HigherEducation #HigherEd

Join us on IG Live today!
Tuesday, 8/5/25
5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern

black_boysread & me fsmith827
✍🏾📚🌈💕

Picture of the white chair on the Montgomery, Alabama riverfront in front of the Harriott riverboat.

An anniversary.
8.05.23.
Montgomery, Alabama.

#MontgomeryAlabama #MontgomeryRiverfront

Ok. Need to focus enough to finish up these seven performance evaluations I have to turn in today.

✍🏾🎓 #HigherEdSky #HigherEducation #HigherEd

TEXT: COWBOY CARTER x COWBOYS OF CALIFORNIA A Cowboy to Remember - II MOST WANTED If the Boot Fits - LEVII'S JEANS A Thorn in the Saddle - BODYGUARD SAY YA! BOOKS ON A CREAM BACKGROUND: Cowboys of California trilogy by rebekah weatherspoon. A Cowboy to Remember, If The Boot Fits and A Thorn in the Saddle. All feature Black men in cowboy hats with farms in the background. Jesse seems to be everyone's favorite.

Need a sexy cowboy romance to keep you company while we wait for the concert movie? Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Beauty & The Beast, with a contemporary cowboy twist!

🌵 ebook: amzn.to/4cYLaUd / www.kobo.com/us/en/s...
🌵 print: www.therippedbodice....
#blacksky #booksky #romancesky

Photo of Frederick Smith with a cover of the book One and Done. Text includes Black Book Bash dates October 3-5, 2025.

I’ll be one of the authors at Black Book Bash October 3 - 5, 2025 in Jacksonville, Florida.

150+ Black authors. Excited to be in community with readers, authors, narrators, & more! I hope to see you there.

Registration: iamcaseyrkelley.com/pages/b3-hom...

#BlackBookBash #BlackBookSky

Home BRBF is the largest Black book event focusing on Black romance books. This book convention is like no other! Join this vibrant community today.

Get your coins & alarms together for the 2026 Black Romance Book Fest tickets… on sale Friday, 8/15/25, 9am Eastern / 6am Pacific. Please get on their mailing list!

blackromancebookfest.com

Event takes place May 2026 in Atlanta. ✍🏾📚💕

#BlackRomanceBookFest #BRBF2026 #BlackBookSky #RomanceBookSky

Flyer with photos of Jay Guillory of Black_boys read, author Frederick Smith, and the cover of the book One and Done. The flier has information about an Instagram Live event Jay and Fred are doing on Tuesday, 8/5/25, at 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern.

I’m doing an Instagram Live with Jay of Black_BoysRead this week.

Tuesday, 8/5/25
5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern
Instagram (Fsmith827 & Black_boysread).

Join as we discuss my latest, One and Done, a Black, Queer, Higher Ed, Bay Area romance on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social. ✍🏾📚🌈💕 #BookSky #BlackBookSky

Y’all asked and we answered.

I’m adding a Dallas stop for the Bones at the Crossroads Book Tour! @whosebooks

I’ll be there August 9th and in convo with @black_boysread
Come through! Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Come on out!
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Breaking the Podcast Timing Rules - BOOK RIOT Jess and Trisha talk about a TON of adaptations (or possible adaptations) and then get into the books they’re excited about for the second half of 2025.

Another great When in Romance podcast episode. This episode, the hosts @jessisreading.bsky.social & @trishahaleybrown.bsky.social discuss romance novel adaptations for tv & film, plus romance novels they're looking forward to for rest of 2025.

bookriot.com/listen/break...

#BookSky #RomanceBookSky

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act. The beginning of true democracy in America. A offering to this country paid for by the work, dedication and lives of ordinary Black people.

We’ve always had to fight. Are you prepared to fight to protect our rights?

During its run, I was on the Big Gay Fiction podcast a few times. Always great conversations about the latest and greatest in gay fiction. I searched the archives for the shows where I was a guest. They’re linked here / below. Enjoy! 📚🌈🎧

jeffandwill.com/biggayfictio...

#BigGayFiction #LGBTQBookSky

What the world saw on the campaign trail was only part of the story.

My new book is a behind-the-scenes look at my experience leading the shortest presidential campaign in modern history.

107 Days is out on September 23. I can't wait for you to read it: kamalaharris.link/107DaysBook

Congratulations to all the finalists for the 2025 @lambdaliterary.org Awards... recognizing LGBTQIA+ books published in 2024. 📚🌈 #BookSky #LGBTQBookSky #LambdaLiteraryAwards