Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles
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Hola 👋 TikTok refugees and #booksky newbies!
I write ✍️ books with whimsy and wonder, witches and time travel.
I’m also your favorite Book Pimp, pushing diverse authors and 5 ⭐️ reads across all genres.
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I write ✍️ books with whimsy and wonder, witches and time travel.
I’m also your favorite Book Pimp, pushing diverse authors and 5 ⭐️ reads across all genres.
Follow me here & on substack
linktr.ee/srmilesauthor
What are your tips for getting into the spirit?
I’m not feeling it. The state of the country and the world has sapped the joy from it.
I don’t want to trim this tree
Make cocoa
Or even buy gifts
I’m not feeling it. The state of the country and the world has sapped the joy from it.
I don’t want to trim this tree
Make cocoa
Or even buy gifts
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 AM
What are your tips for getting into the spirit?
I’m not feeling it. The state of the country and the world has sapped the joy from it.
I don’t want to trim this tree
Make cocoa
Or even buy gifts
I’m not feeling it. The state of the country and the world has sapped the joy from it.
I don’t want to trim this tree
Make cocoa
Or even buy gifts
5 things to do this Thanksgiving Week for self-care & sanity
1. Bring a book on Thanksgiving. Gives you something to talk about & a means of escape
2. Get to the grocery store today.
3. Wear a mask if you've got a sniffle
4. Make a playlist
5. Drop your old decor at Goodwill
1. Bring a book on Thanksgiving. Gives you something to talk about & a means of escape
2. Get to the grocery store today.
3. Wear a mask if you've got a sniffle
4. Make a playlist
5. Drop your old decor at Goodwill
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
5 things to do this Thanksgiving Week for self-care & sanity
1. Bring a book on Thanksgiving. Gives you something to talk about & a means of escape
2. Get to the grocery store today.
3. Wear a mask if you've got a sniffle
4. Make a playlist
5. Drop your old decor at Goodwill
1. Bring a book on Thanksgiving. Gives you something to talk about & a means of escape
2. Get to the grocery store today.
3. Wear a mask if you've got a sniffle
4. Make a playlist
5. Drop your old decor at Goodwill
I'm lost without you
And there's no letting go
So let me be the first to say
I'm lost without you
… So don't ever go
Go away
'said don't ever go away
And there's no letting go
So let me be the first to say
I'm lost without you
… So don't ever go
Go away
'said don't ever go away
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I'm lost without you
And there's no letting go
So let me be the first to say
I'm lost without you
… So don't ever go
Go away
'said don't ever go away
And there's no letting go
So let me be the first to say
I'm lost without you
… So don't ever go
Go away
'said don't ever go away
Literary Dads who don’t get enough smoke:
Mr. Bennett (Pride & Prejudice). Sweet and lazy. Your only job is to get these girls an education and you failed.
Walter Lee (A Raisin the the Sun): I guarantee you he eventually lost the family home. He learned nothing in the ordeal.
Mr. Bennett (Pride & Prejudice). Sweet and lazy. Your only job is to get these girls an education and you failed.
Walter Lee (A Raisin the the Sun): I guarantee you he eventually lost the family home. He learned nothing in the ordeal.
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Literary Dads who don’t get enough smoke:
Mr. Bennett (Pride & Prejudice). Sweet and lazy. Your only job is to get these girls an education and you failed.
Walter Lee (A Raisin the the Sun): I guarantee you he eventually lost the family home. He learned nothing in the ordeal.
Mr. Bennett (Pride & Prejudice). Sweet and lazy. Your only job is to get these girls an education and you failed.
Walter Lee (A Raisin the the Sun): I guarantee you he eventually lost the family home. He learned nothing in the ordeal.
The world hasn’t been right since the muppets stopped doing interviews on late night television
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The world hasn’t been right since the muppets stopped doing interviews on late night television
Are horse 🐎 girls still a thing?
Horse posters are conspicuously absent at the school book fair.
Horse posters are conspicuously absent at the school book fair.
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Are horse 🐎 girls still a thing?
Horse posters are conspicuously absent at the school book fair.
Horse posters are conspicuously absent at the school book fair.
Reposted by Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles
Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆
🎅🏻ALERT
#WICKED by Gregory Maguire is NOT suitable for kids. We're talking bestiality, dark imagery, assault (of all kinds), etc.
However you CAN get into Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige. It's a Wizard of Oz retelling written for teens.
Get it wherever you like to buy books
tinyurl.com/mwrwt3j5
#WICKED by Gregory Maguire is NOT suitable for kids. We're talking bestiality, dark imagery, assault (of all kinds), etc.
However you CAN get into Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige. It's a Wizard of Oz retelling written for teens.
Get it wherever you like to buy books
tinyurl.com/mwrwt3j5
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🎅🏻ALERT
#WICKED by Gregory Maguire is NOT suitable for kids. We're talking bestiality, dark imagery, assault (of all kinds), etc.
However you CAN get into Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige. It's a Wizard of Oz retelling written for teens.
Get it wherever you like to buy books
tinyurl.com/mwrwt3j5
#WICKED by Gregory Maguire is NOT suitable for kids. We're talking bestiality, dark imagery, assault (of all kinds), etc.
However you CAN get into Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige. It's a Wizard of Oz retelling written for teens.
Get it wherever you like to buy books
tinyurl.com/mwrwt3j5
Well, if you’re gonna be a piggy, be a Miss Piggy. Loud, proud and fly!
November 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Well, if you’re gonna be a piggy, be a Miss Piggy. Loud, proud and fly!
Every day I'm talking to a kid and they're saying:
"I don't want to go to college."
and every day I have to reply
"College may not be for everybody, but you, personally, need to go to college."
The CIA, the Devil, and Kris Jenner stay busy.
"I don't want to go to college."
and every day I have to reply
"College may not be for everybody, but you, personally, need to go to college."
The CIA, the Devil, and Kris Jenner stay busy.
November 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Every day I'm talking to a kid and they're saying:
"I don't want to go to college."
and every day I have to reply
"College may not be for everybody, but you, personally, need to go to college."
The CIA, the Devil, and Kris Jenner stay busy.
"I don't want to go to college."
and every day I have to reply
"College may not be for everybody, but you, personally, need to go to college."
The CIA, the Devil, and Kris Jenner stay busy.
MAGA really doesn’t have even a cursory knowledge of Black people. Nikki Minaj as UN representative? Winsom Earl-Sears?
November 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
MAGA really doesn’t have even a cursory knowledge of Black people. Nikki Minaj as UN representative? Winsom Earl-Sears?
Reposted by Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles
Brendan Carr, the head of the FCC, has “a knack for pulling the strings of power in ways that escape public scrutiny,” Gilad Edelman reports. Carr's goal isn’t to tell networks what to air and whom to fire—it’s to get to the point where he doesn’t have to. theatln.tc/khgmAqeL
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Brendan Carr, the head of the FCC, has “a knack for pulling the strings of power in ways that escape public scrutiny,” Gilad Edelman reports. Carr's goal isn’t to tell networks what to air and whom to fire—it’s to get to the point where he doesn’t have to. theatln.tc/khgmAqeL
We need to remove medicine from the 'good student' acceptable list (others being law and engineering).
We've got too many super studiers in rooms where 1/2 the job is compassion.
We've got too many super studiers in rooms where 1/2 the job is compassion.
November 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
We need to remove medicine from the 'good student' acceptable list (others being law and engineering).
We've got too many super studiers in rooms where 1/2 the job is compassion.
We've got too many super studiers in rooms where 1/2 the job is compassion.
Bad takes from artists are going to increase ten fold.
US History on its own is bereft of the contributions of Black people. Now imagine someone getting straight C's, or worse, in school from K-12.
Remember that anti-Critical Race Theory laws were passed.
Remember that they closed school libraries.
US History on its own is bereft of the contributions of Black people. Now imagine someone getting straight C's, or worse, in school from K-12.
Remember that anti-Critical Race Theory laws were passed.
Remember that they closed school libraries.
November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Bad takes from artists are going to increase ten fold.
US History on its own is bereft of the contributions of Black people. Now imagine someone getting straight C's, or worse, in school from K-12.
Remember that anti-Critical Race Theory laws were passed.
Remember that they closed school libraries.
US History on its own is bereft of the contributions of Black people. Now imagine someone getting straight C's, or worse, in school from K-12.
Remember that anti-Critical Race Theory laws were passed.
Remember that they closed school libraries.
No one tells you that one day, around 40, your body will start to ache & the doc, who you barely like bc no one since your pediatrician has been genuinely nice, will shrug his shoulders & tell you to exercise. But how can you exercise when your body hurts? And then they’ll prescribe antidepressants
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
No one tells you that one day, around 40, your body will start to ache & the doc, who you barely like bc no one since your pediatrician has been genuinely nice, will shrug his shoulders & tell you to exercise. But how can you exercise when your body hurts? And then they’ll prescribe antidepressants
Reposted by Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles
My YA baby, AUDRE & BASH ARE JUST FRIENDS, was nominated for the @goodreads Choice Awards - Favorite Young Adult Fiction. If you were tickled by Audre and Bash’s coming-of-age romance — consider voting! 🙏🏾 www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The 1st chapter of my middle grade series starts w/ an exorcism of a dead boy who fell off a jungle gym.
An earlier draft began at church w/ my boy exorcist freeing a pastor who’s been trapped in the old sanctuary.
We don’t talk enough about the harsh edits.
open.substack.com/pub/shannami...
An earlier draft began at church w/ my boy exorcist freeing a pastor who’s been trapped in the old sanctuary.
We don’t talk enough about the harsh edits.
open.substack.com/pub/shannami...
The Scenes that Don't Make It
Killing Your Darlings so the Best Writing Thrives
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The 1st chapter of my middle grade series starts w/ an exorcism of a dead boy who fell off a jungle gym.
An earlier draft began at church w/ my boy exorcist freeing a pastor who’s been trapped in the old sanctuary.
We don’t talk enough about the harsh edits.
open.substack.com/pub/shannami...
An earlier draft began at church w/ my boy exorcist freeing a pastor who’s been trapped in the old sanctuary.
We don’t talk enough about the harsh edits.
open.substack.com/pub/shannami...
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
5 tips for self care and survival for this week.
1. Give those coats 🧥 to Goodwill before it gets too cold.
2. Soak some beans 🫘. Find a good red beans and rice recipe.
3. Find and angel tree saangeltree.org
4. Change your air filter
5. Solidify those Thanksgiving plans
1. Give those coats 🧥 to Goodwill before it gets too cold.
2. Soak some beans 🫘. Find a good red beans and rice recipe.
3. Find and angel tree saangeltree.org
4. Change your air filter
5. Solidify those Thanksgiving plans
Angel Tree
saangeltree.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
5 tips for self care and survival for this week.
1. Give those coats 🧥 to Goodwill before it gets too cold.
2. Soak some beans 🫘. Find a good red beans and rice recipe.
3. Find and angel tree saangeltree.org
4. Change your air filter
5. Solidify those Thanksgiving plans
1. Give those coats 🧥 to Goodwill before it gets too cold.
2. Soak some beans 🫘. Find a good red beans and rice recipe.
3. Find and angel tree saangeltree.org
4. Change your air filter
5. Solidify those Thanksgiving plans
Ocean's 8 is a lovely watch in the wake of the Louvre heist.
November 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Ocean's 8 is a lovely watch in the wake of the Louvre heist.
Reposted by Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles
It's TODAY!
Join me and dozens of amazing authors/illustrators at the Newton Children’s Book Festival today (Sun.), from 11:00am—3:00 pm at The New Art Center!
newtonchildrensbookfest.com
Join me and dozens of amazing authors/illustrators at the Newton Children’s Book Festival today (Sun.), from 11:00am—3:00 pm at The New Art Center!
newtonchildrensbookfest.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
It's TODAY!
Join me and dozens of amazing authors/illustrators at the Newton Children’s Book Festival today (Sun.), from 11:00am—3:00 pm at The New Art Center!
newtonchildrensbookfest.com
Join me and dozens of amazing authors/illustrators at the Newton Children’s Book Festival today (Sun.), from 11:00am—3:00 pm at The New Art Center!
newtonchildrensbookfest.com
Viktor Frankenstein is a terrible father.
Of course he can’t say but one word, you chain him in the basement.
You don’t read to him.
I didn’t see one baby book. Not a single storytime scene.
Of course he can’t say but one word, you chain him in the basement.
You don’t read to him.
I didn’t see one baby book. Not a single storytime scene.
November 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Viktor Frankenstein is a terrible father.
Of course he can’t say but one word, you chain him in the basement.
You don’t read to him.
I didn’t see one baby book. Not a single storytime scene.
Of course he can’t say but one word, you chain him in the basement.
You don’t read to him.
I didn’t see one baby book. Not a single storytime scene.
They still don’t understand WHY they voted for him. They think he tricked them. We’re going to be here awhile.
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 AM
They still don’t understand WHY they voted for him. They think he tricked them. We’re going to be here awhile.
Goodreads gets it’s fair share of ire in the book community. There are no guardrails against one star bombing and too often Black authors get ignored when it comes to recognition and awards, but today we’re going to highlight those who ARE being recognized. #booksky
open.substack.com/pub/shannami...
open.substack.com/pub/shannami...
5 Books nominated for Goodreads Awards to Read before 2026
And a few more to add to your TBR
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Goodreads gets it’s fair share of ire in the book community. There are no guardrails against one star bombing and too often Black authors get ignored when it comes to recognition and awards, but today we’re going to highlight those who ARE being recognized. #booksky
open.substack.com/pub/shannami...
open.substack.com/pub/shannami...
Black authors to support in the Goodreads awards👇🏾
#booksky #blackbooksky #goodreads
Link to Buy from the list and support a Black Indie Bookstore, Brave and Kind in Decatur, GA
bookshop.org/wishlists/5c...
#booksky #blackbooksky #goodreads
Link to Buy from the list and support a Black Indie Bookstore, Brave and Kind in Decatur, GA
bookshop.org/wishlists/5c...
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Black authors to support in the Goodreads awards👇🏾
#booksky #blackbooksky #goodreads
Link to Buy from the list and support a Black Indie Bookstore, Brave and Kind in Decatur, GA
bookshop.org/wishlists/5c...
#booksky #blackbooksky #goodreads
Link to Buy from the list and support a Black Indie Bookstore, Brave and Kind in Decatur, GA
bookshop.org/wishlists/5c...