Jasmine Smith

Hi Christina! My YA contemporary fantasy novel, Death Card, releases in summer 2026 with Putnam/PRH! It’s about a teen witch fated to die at the hands of her crush. It’s got witches, demons, tarot, and it’s sapphic! (PM announcement says 2025, but it was moved)

Companies and individuals are making an active choice to hop on the AI bandwagon, but they’re not being held at gunpoint.

They are choosing to do the wrong thing.

I just listened to a man ask me “What’s the alternative?” when I asked him to justify the negative environmental impacts of AI.

The alternative is to not use it. We don’t have to destroy our planet, decimate the job market, and lose our critical thinking skills.

The senators who voted to confirm RFK have no souls. Our lives are worth nothing to them.

My future mother-in-law called me today in tears over Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s confirmations. She said “That man is going to kill my son.” My beloved fiancé who is an organ transplant recipient and who relies on herd immunity for diseases he can’t be vaccinated for.

Death Card Jasmine Smith's debut DEATH CARD, a Black and queer con…

Death Card is a YA fantasy that will be released in Summer 2026! It’s available to add on Goodreads!
www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

Mikaela Broussard is grappling with her impending ascension as Witch Queen and a mysterious illness that’s plagued her coven when Joelle walks into her grandfather’s magic shop and asks for a tarot reading. The vision that Mikaela receives will set them both on a path they never saw coming…

A digital image of Two girls standing in a clearing. One is a darker skinned Black girl with long box braids holding a tarot card, The Star. The other is a taller biracial girl with blonde curly hair holding an ornate dagger. The girls stand in a clearing beneath a full moon.

“She will destroy me, and I’ll let her.”

I’m thrilled to share this character art I commissioned of two of Death Card’s characters, Mikaela and Joelle. The wonderful artist is @ cenaye___ on IG! She did a fabulous job bringing the girls to life!

I think I tuned into the Super Bowl pre kick show late, but I LOVE how unapologetically Black it is!

I couldn’t care less about the game itself. I’m here for the music!

Someone I know just posted a giveaway on her story with a cutesy MAGA sweatshirt and a gun case 🤮 what reality are these people living in?

fry from futurama is holding a bunch of money in his hand ALT: fry from futurama is holding a bunch of money in his hand

Every time I tell myself that I’m going to save money by banning myself from buying books, the Barnes & Noble preorder sale comes along to ruin all my plans

I’ve made my morning phone calls to my Senators. Have you?

Don’t forget that if you have phone anxiety you can always call early in the morning or later at night to leave a voicemail. If the inbox is full, send an email! We need to raise hell!

Author's photo and a screenshot of a Publisher's Weekly deal announcement over a black and white photo of a moth. Header text reads 'MOTHSBLOOD, fall 2026' "Kenli Manning at Bloomsbury US preempted North American rights to Lynn D. Jung's debut novel, Mothsblood, about "an ambitious alchemist who must uncover the dark secrets of her university," from Laura Crockett at TriadaUS Literary Agency."

A Publisher's Marketplace deal announcement over a dark academia moodboard. Category: Fiction: Debut MOTHSBLOOD by Lynn D. Jung Imprint: Bloomsbury "Lynn D. Jung's MOTHSBLOOD, set in modern-day Paris, following an ambitious alchemist who must uncover the dark secrets of her university when the murder of an immortal professor forces her to confront the mysterious past she's trying to escape, pitched for fans of THE STARLESS SEA and NINTH HOUSE, to Kenli Manning at Bloomsbury, in a pre-empt, for publication in fall 2026, by Laura Crockett at TriadaUS Literary Agency (NA)." Film/TV: uwe@triadaus.com Foreign/Translation: foreign@triadaus.com

🍂 my debut novel, a dark academia adult fantasy about a truly messy woman & alchemy & immortality & BUGS, is out fall 2026 from bloomsbury us!

Okay, I want to say it again for anyone who needs to hear it right now:

Yes, calling is better for getting in touch with your reps. But right now? DO IT HOWEVER YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE.

I'm really concerned that the emphasis on calling right now is stopping people from getting in touch.

While searching through LinkedIn learning for a course to view for professional development, I stumbled across three courses about writing with AI 💀

I want to scream

Romance Books to Celebrate Black History Month 2025 Celebrate Black History Month with Bookshop.org’s curated recommendations by Black authors.

Bookshop.org is offering 20% off this collection of romances by black authors with code BHM25. We've talked about quite a few of them on the show, and two were Best of 2024 picks.

the cover of Out of Step, Into You beside a blog spot titles 25 Black Sapphic Books Out in 2025 to Preorder Now

Here are 25 sapphic books by Black authors out in 2025 to preorder now! lesbrary.com/black-sapphi...

I called and emailed my (useless) senators because even if they don’t care about their constituents, we should still demand to be heard. Set aside some time today to make one phone call or write one email. Choose a topic that gets you fired up the most. Make them listen to us.

Same! It’s a massive disappointment

So, serious question: Where do we shop now? I already pray for Amazon’s downfall daily, but are there good alternatives for Target and Walmart?

I hate that these corporations are emboldened to do this because they know we don’t have many alternatives 😤

Jasmine wearing a red KN95 mask while holding a large Valentine’s Day card

Jasmine wearing a pink KN95 mask while holding an engraved dog tag at Petco

As a reminder, an easy way to resist is to wear a mask. More importantly, it will protect you and others. By masking regularly, you’ll help normalize it and reduce stigma. And as you can see, you can look hella cute while doing it!

Stay safe and stylish, y’all!

Throughout it all, I’m going to continue creating art. The stories I write are the kind they’d want to ban, but they’re also the ones I would want to read. We should never let them take that from us.

It’s hard to keep from feeling powerless. I know I’m only a drop in the ocean, but there are millions of other Americans who are fighting back in their own ways and together, we can form a wave.

The only way I can stave off despair is by doing what I can. Controlling what I can control. For me, that has meant downloading and printing important resources, buying physical books and DVDs, stocking up on goods like masks, and resharing information on social media.

If you voted for that man or support his policies, unfollow me. My books are not for you. I hope you get what you deserve.

To everyone else, we’ll light a path forward through the dark.

This is the cowardice of The New York Times. Legacy media is failing.

Make sure you use your library cards. Check out books by Black authors, indigenous authors, queer authors and other marginalized communities.

Also, ask your local library to buy more titles by marginalized folks. We often buy those requests.

Use Libby! A lot!

#booktok #booksky

56 Small Tasks to Be Proactive Against Book Censorship in 2025 and Beyond: Book Censorship News, January 3, 2025 Choose one task each week of 2025 for a year full of anti-book censorship activism and advocacy.

Not everyone can run or sit on a board.

Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools!

Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...

Never Say You Can't Survive WINNER OF THE 2022 HUGO AWARD FOR BEST RELATED WORKFrom Charlie Jane Anders, the award-winning author of novels such as All the Birds in the Sky and The City...

Back in 2020-2021, I wrote a book about how to survive scary hard times by writing your own stories and getting lost in the imaginary worlds you create.

So this feels like good timing: Never Say You Can't Survive is just $2.99 in ebook formats for just one day.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

TikTok is still dead to me and will remain so. It was obviously a stunt to make the orange man look good. I won’t fall for it and neither should you