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Charish Reid

@charishreidauthor.bsky.social

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Romance author 💋 American in Sweden 🇸🇪 She/her Rep'd by @litagentsaritza.bsky.social My books: https://linktr.ee/charishreidauthor

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Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · Nov 9

Hello, new followers!
I'm Charish Reid, and I'm an American romance author living in Sweden.
I love talking about:
• Literature
• Films
• History
• Politics
• Pop Culture
• Rhetoric
All from the lens of a Black Renaissance woman.

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Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 6d

The forest god from @authordmniccoli.bsky.social's book UNTETHERING DARK might be the one for me!

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Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you all for coming through!!
The google form is closed for ARC requests, but don't fear—READ ME SLOW comes out Oct 28!

Preorder here:
AMZ: shorturl.at/iuZ05
B&N: shorturl.at/sDyDh
KOBO: shorturl.at/iBnD3

Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 8d

🚨ARC Readers Wanted!🚨
READ ME SLOW is ready for early readers!

🎧 Forbidden crush
🎙️ Audio booth tension
💗 Low angst, high heat

LIMITED ARC spots via BookFunnel. Sign up below if you're down to read & review!

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Notice for "Seeking ARC Readers!"
A list of tropes for the romance novel: READ ME SLOW, plus cover:
-Romance author & Horror Podcaster
-May/December & Brother's best friend
-Voice-kink & Secret Relationship

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Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 8d

I'm sat!!

Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 8d

Fear isn’t always the enemy.
Sometimes it’s the thrill.
The edge.
The thing that makes your pulse race when someone whispers,
“I want you close.”

📖 ARC sign-ups for READ ME SLOW are open now
forms.gle/WFZx8…

"You want me scared?"

He held her gaze.
"I want you close."

A gray-scale photo of a man wrapping his arms around a woman. Arms and grasp are the focus of image

Post seeking ARC readers for novel READ ME SLOW by Charish Reid

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Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 8d

These are the White Girls who get me ready for Spooky Season:

A collage of White women that embody spooky season/horror/witchy living:
-Laurie Strode from Halloween
-Sandra Bullock & Nicole Kidman from Practical Magic
-Florence from Florence and the Machine looking like a witchy priestess
-Jennifer Love Hewitt from I know what you did last summer
-Neve Campbell from Scream

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Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 8d

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21d

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)

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Talia Hibbert @taliahibbert.bsky.social · 22d

I read Kick at the Darkness by Suleikha Snyder. It's a zombie apocalypse novella, yet so emotionally intense, and the central couple has such history and a complex romantic journey, and the HEA is so fulfilling despite the bleak world... HOW?! I love reading skillful romance. This genre is hard.

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Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 22d

Hell, I hope so!
But that's not how she described her cash flow early on when she was sobbing and pity-marketing for preorders. Before her sales blew up, she called herself a poor college student who was trying to make her dreams come true, lol!

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Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 22d

Oop!

a woman is sticking her tongue out while wearing a bravo logo

Alt: Candace from Real Housewives of Potomac is open-mouthed shocked by some tea

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Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 22d

I mean, she can be there for 90 days, but after that she's going to need an actual income that will prove she can stay there 😬
Maybe she has a Nomad Visa?

Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 23d

I saw that! Asking for 70k in investments, right?
Whew...

Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 23d

Oh, this is delicious. I've been quietly following this Boss Girl train wreck for awhile, and every new update is more wild than the last, lol!
Also, Finland is hella expensive, so good luck with the visa and salary conditions?

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Author Kimolisa Mings @kimolisamings.bsky.social · 24d

Bite into this free short, sweet friends-to-lovers romance

Available thru Amzn: amzn.to/3Mvm6ZH

#booksky #blackbooksky #blackskybooks #BookRecommendations #freeread #booklover #shortstory #lovereading #mustread #readingcommunity #freeebook #blackromance #RomanceReaders #Caribbeansky

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Subito Press @subitopress.bsky.social · 24d

The Stephen Graham Jones Horror Novella Competition remains open. Send us your poolside catastrophes. Send us your techno-feudalist end-game nihilism revenge strories. Send us your sad graves.
@sgj.bsky.social

An empty public swimming pool at night. Overlaid text reads: The SGJ Horror Novella Competition remains open for submissions

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Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 25d

I don't think so, lol. I looked at his latest Instagram post and he's tanned but not bee-stung 🤣

Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 25d

🤣🤣🤣

Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 25d

Feels like AI, based on the fingers?

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 26d

This just arrived at my door! 🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾

cc: @authorwinifred.blacksky.app @cindyphanauthor.com

Silk and Foxglove: A BIPOC Erotic Eco-Horror Anthology|Paperback

In the anthology Silk and Foxglove: An Erotic Eco-Horror anthology, our thirteen authors explore the space where horror, the erotic, and nature meet. In these tales of uncontrolled, unknowable, and vi...

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Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 29d

As a former educator from the US (adjunct instructor at a small uni), who was targeted by Turning Point USA...

Elderly Black woman in a wheelchair speaking to a news reporter: " I'm supposed to feel sorry for that bitch? I don't!"

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Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 29d

Meg thee Stallion looking down with pursed lips.

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Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 29d

YAAYY!!!

a little girl is making a funny face and saying `` let 's gooooo '' .

Alt: a little girl is making a funny face and saying `` let 's gooooo '' .

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Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 29d

Tropes for READ ME SLOW—October 28th
shorturl.at/g8d3l

🎧 May/December
🎙 Romance author
🎧 Horror podcaster
🎙 Only one mic
🎧 Brother’s best friend
🎙 We'll do "everything but"
🎧 Voice kink
🎙 Secret relationship
🎧 He falls first
🎙 No 3rd act breakup

Book cover of READ ME SLOW over a gray scale image of a man reading a book.
The book cover is a pair of headphones and control panel cast in pink/purple light. Tropes are in pink lettering with white white arrows pointing to the words.

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Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · Sep 9

Nia Òla said on tiktok: "Covid is our time's lead paint," and I can't get this out of my head.

Generations after us (if we can ever get this bus back on the road) are going to be so confused by our behavior.

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Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · Sep 8

🥰🥰🥰

a cat is laying on a bed with the word soon written on it

ALT: a cat is laying on a bed with the word soon written on it

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