Happy New Year, y’all! We hope you had a fantastic holiday and a wonderful start to your 2020.
‘Cause RWA certainly didn’t!
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We can’t believe it, dear readers, but we’ve made it through another year of reading, podcasting and doing both while black. The twitter dramas! The plagiarism scandals! The nacho cheese!
We take a look back and reflect on all the books read

Winter is coming. That means it’s time for us to dive into the world of fantasy ( … er, or into fantasy worlds).
This episode, we read N.K. Jemisin’s 2010 debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. Mollie wasn’t kidding when she

Hey, readers! In this month’s episode we discuss the perilous world of shopping for diverse children’s books. We’re overwhelmed by how much there is to consider with presenting children with authentic representation of people of color:

The kids are back in school and we revisit a childhood favorite: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor. And, whew, boy! Ms. Taylor aimed to teach the kids the truth about racism and she went above in beyond to do so. This book had lynch mobs, r

We try to talk Booktube and get distracted by our general distrust of social media. Inspired by the HuffPost piece titled “Where Are All the Black Booktubers?,” we decided to investigate the question ourselves.
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Happy August, readers! This month, we wanted a light beach read to help us make it through these remaining dog days of summer. Instead, we got a wild And Then There Were None-inspired murder fest where a man gets boiled alive in a hot tub. Fun.
We read T

Happy July! It’s a chattier chat than usual as we dig into some book news from around Twitter and the business pages.

Angie Thomas kicks off Twitter controversy by … asking not to be tagged in reviews?
Microsoft shut down its ebook service,

This is the last time we talk about this book and this author. That’s a promise.
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We’re celebrating the little guys (well, gals, tbh) this episode as we discuss your favorite indie authors.
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