Alyssa Cole

Mayor Johnson is cooking

The goal here is to eliminate trans people's ability to exist in public.

But note that it will also have the impact of being able to police anyone whose gender presentation does not match what they believe it is, because how do you even know someone is trans?

When I reported local news in Brooklyn, one of the clearest obstacles to any truly progressive or helpful action for everyday New Yorkers was the IDC. At every given opportunity, they demolished hope for consequential change.

All of the penicillin in use worldwide comes from a strain of mold that was growing on a cantaloupe bought at a grocery store in Peoria, Illinois in 1942.

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Je n'ai pas les mots.

Et c'est dans ce contexte qu'on va offrir la mort sur un plateau.

"L'effort" ultime pour ne pas coûter à la société.

I recently had a similar conversation was was telling them about our experience with the even what is nominally private media but owned by politicians. It poisons your politics so quickly and so completely.

Just a heads up that in addition to fake accounts popping up across social media, someone is now using a fake email (alyssacole717@gmail.com) to mass email other writers with the intent to scam them. Please be aware that THIS IS NOT ME!! 😩
Thank you to everyone who has made me aware of this.

Image shows two Black women writers laughing and chatting in bright pink outfits on stage at the Open Book Festival in Cape Town

Image shows a Black woman storyteller in a t-shirt and peach coloured trousers, kneeling and animatedly reading a kids book to kids and parents at The Book Lounge (the beloved indie bookstore that runs Open Book Festival)

Image shows a young Black woman with a natural afro and glasses in a black top and black and white geometric print pinafore, smiling and talking into a microphone in the audience at the Open Book Festival. Out of focus behind her on the left is a young Black man with a lanyard and a film camera. On the right, an older White woman with a red scarf is laughing in delight.

My favourite book festival in all the world, Open Book in Cape Town, has fallen foul of funding shortages. If you love African lit, and want to support a vital and electric and critically important festival that highlights African writers, please donate here: booklounge.co.za/product/open...

Thank you!

Let It Shine - Alyssa Cole

Just thinking about violence and resistance in @alyssacolelit.bsky.social’s exquisite novella Let it Shine, where a Black preacher’s daughter and a Jewish boxer join forces during the Civil Rights Era: alyssacole.com/let-it-shine/ #romancelandia #booksky

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Screenshot of Publishers Marketplace deal memo: NAACP Image Award and New York Times bestselling author Alyssa Cole’s new thriller IT TAKES A VILLAGE, set in the same world as WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING, where a new employee discovers that the nonprofit organization she works for is hiding nefarious intentions, to Erika Tsang at Forge, for publication in Fall 2026, by Lucienne Diver at the Knight Agency on behalf of the author and Temple Hill Publishing (World).

Book news!! Another thriller is heading your way in 2026! It Takes A Village is set in the wider world of When No One Is Watching, so get ready for another deep dive into corporate conspiracy and the everyday people fighting against them!!

Thank you!! ❤️

2025 Birthday Book Bundle. Neon 80s graphics surround the cover for XENI, HARBOR, A MAN FOR MRS CLAUS and A WALK IN THE PARK on a white background. These are my favorite books with Black heroines/Black couples. This is a pick what you pay bundle. You can pay $0 or you can pay $500. You pick!

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When one of your favorite people who wrote one of your favorite books last year wins a NAACP Award for Outstanding Literary Work!

Congrats @alyssacolelit.bsky.social and One of Us Knows!

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Thank you, Kellye!!! 🥺🥰❤️

The Happily Ever After Society hardcover coffee table book. The cover has vibrant flowers on a black background.

Brilliant photographer Chandra Wicke is kickstarting her amazing project The Happily Ever After Society, which will feature interviews and photographs with some of your favorite authors as well as photo essays of scenes from your favorite romance novels!
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Drafted and deleted around five posts on how I'd appreciate it if society could collectively stop acting like memos now supersede laws. Found it hard to simultaneously express that legal fundamentals have historically only been reliable for sociopolitically dominant segments of a population anyway.

This is really good

Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized (Gift Article) A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

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Birthday Book Bundle #2: firsts in series, with Fit, So Sweet, Haven, and Rafe

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My jaw hit the floor here.

for as long as I've been covering politics the chattering classes have demanded that Democrats lead on bipartisanship and it turns out that—as I've always suspected!—it's the exact quality that voters do not want in their politicians

Romance for Los Angeles to aid those impacted by the LA County Wildfires. Jan 19- Feb 5, 2025 100% of the Proceeds to California Community Fire Relief fund. Auction items include signed books from Brittany Roth Cindy Kehagiaras Emi Hilton Eva Leigh Jillian Graves Katelyn Brehm Rebekah Weatherspoon Ruby Dixon Smitten Bookstore

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