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Charish Reid
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Romance author 💋
American in Sweden 🇸🇪
She/her
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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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I'm going to try making oxtail stew tomorrow (never done it before), and all I've got is the oxtails, lol!

I don't have a Ninja or a pressure cooker, but I've got moxie!

WE'RE WINGING IT, BABY!
a person is holding a lighter in their hand and smiling
ALT: a person is holding a lighter in their hand and smiling
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November 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Authors chatting on Saturday!
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The Art of the HEA with Romance Author Charish Reid!
Golden Creatives Talk Livestreams this Saturday, November 1
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October 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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READ ME SLOW is officially out in the world! 🥹🖤💜

This story is flirty, filthy, funny, and full of heart. It’s about an author who writes steamy books… and the horror podcaster who’s secretly obsessed with her voice.

Of course he's going to help narrate her new book, lol!

shorturl.at/XoNpy
Image announcing the release of Read Me Slow by Charish Reid. “TODAY!” appears in bold at the top. Below it, a tablet displays the book cover: neon-lit recording studio setup with a microphone, soundboard, and headphones on a stand. The tagline reads: “One sound booth. Two voices. No boundaries.”
October 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Annotated READ ME SLOW sample:

Theo convinces Maya to go on a spooky date: a haunted walking tour of Chicago history and a screening of Halloween (1978) 😍
What's the point of scary movie dates?
Snuggling up close, lol!

Preorder-October 28
www.amazon.com/Read-Me-Slow...
Sample text from the romance novel READ ME SLOW: The house lights dimmed. The organ music cut. A single reel of vintage trailers rolled, bad grain, cheesy taglines, jump cuts galore. And then the screen went black. The first synth note of Halloween hit like a pulse. Theo whispered, “This was John Carpenter’s third film. He scored it himself in like three days.” Maya glanced at him, unimpressed. “You’re not gonna do this the whole time, are you?” “I’ll ration it.” Ten minutes later: “This was Jamie Lee Curtis’s first film. Her mom played the shower victim in Psycho.” She groaned, but she was smiling. “Okay, that’s actually a good one.” Twenty minutes in: “I don’t know if you noticed, but this was filmed in California, not Illinois. Also, they shot this in spring, so those leaves are fake.” “You are incorrigible,” she whispered. Sample text from the romance novel READ ME SLOW: But when he went quiet, she leaned a little closer. “You stop talking?” “I thought I’d give you a break.” “I didn’t say stop.” Theo’s heart knocked once, hard. He turned his head toward her, but she was already watching the screen again, her expression unreadable except for the slight curve of her mouth. Halfway through, during a jump scare, she grabbed his arm. Not dramatic, just a sudden, automatic squeeze. “Now, why is this bitch running upstairs?” she muttered under her breath. She didn’t let go. And Theo didn’t move.
October 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Wait, are we heisting?
I've got a book for that!
www.amazon.com/Jewel-Me-Twi...
Book cover image: a white man wearing a suit leans against one side holding a diamond. A Black woman wearing a green gown leans against the other side holding a necklace. Between them, the title JEWEL ME TWICE by Charish Reid
October 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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I enjoy looking at the Popular Highlights for my own books. You guys remind me that I'm a clever girl, lol!
Young Black man giving a surprised wide-mouthed expression
October 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Would you like a first-chapter sample before you pre-order READ ME SLOW?
It's available on my website right now!
charishreid.com/read-me-slow/

-May/December romance
-Brother's best friend
-Romance author/Horror podcaster
-Recording booth tension
-So much voice-kink

Release date: October 28
Read Me Slow
Preorder for: October 28, 2025 AMAZON B&N KOBO She writes fantasies. He turns fear into sound. Neither expected desire to be this loud. Maya Brooks writes romance for a living but she keeps her…
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October 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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🥹🥹❤️❤️!!
October 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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The forest god from @authordmniccoli.bsky.social's book UNTETHERING DARK might be the one for me!
October 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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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
charishreidauthor.bsky.social Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · Oct 1
🚨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
October 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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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
October 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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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
October 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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🚨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!

forms.gle/3r2d1aXJdNWG...
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
October 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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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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September 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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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.
September 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Bite into this free short, sweet friends-to-lovers romance

Available thru Amzn: amzn.to/3Mvm6ZH

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September 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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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.
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An empty public swimming pool at night. Overlaid text reads: The SGJ Horror Novella Competition remains open for submissions
September 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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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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September 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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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!"
September 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Meg thee Stallion looking down with pursed lips.
September 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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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.
September 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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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.
September 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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READ ME SLOW is a high-heat/low-angst novel about a romance author and the horror podcaster she accidentally hires to narrate her book.

She’s 45 and so stressed 😭
He’s 30 and her little brother’s best friend 🫣

📆Out October 28!

AMZ: shorturl.at/piegI
B&N: shorturl.at/aThXr
Image of a Black woman in an orange bikini leaning against the edge of a swimming pool, looking wistfully out over the water. The text reads: “She wishes she could be here… But instead—she’s holed up in her apartment, editing sex scenes, and trying not to think about the man who’s going to read them out loud. 😬😩 Image of a white man in a red flannel shirt and gray jeans, standing against a raw cement wall, hands casually at his sides, with a crooked smirk. The text reads: “He wishes he could keep it professional… But instead—he’s editing her moans, questioning his life choices, and trying not to fall for his best friend’s sister. 😬😩
September 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
Anthropic Authors’ Rights Class Action – Author Contact Page – Lieff Cabraser
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August 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM