Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles

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. Follow me here & on substack linktr.ee/srmilesauthor

We read several novels a year when I was in high school and college but I was never taught to annotate and can’t get into it now? Is this a new thing in ELA education or just a misstep in SC schools? #booksky #teachersky #edusky

I need a book recommendations for our faculty book club for November. #booksky We need: 🍂 family sagas 🍂road trips 🍂food centered narratives, especially soul food 🍂 football 🏈 narratives 🍂Native American authored takes (feel good)

Got an egalley I'm super excited about from LJ's Day of Dialogue. Joy works in the Unrequited Love Department of Cupid & Associates, where she catalogs secret longings and unanswered letters from people around the world. tinyurl.com/4s4hbp2p Go Pre-order!

🗼The cover for my Summer 2027 book was just revealed by @simonteen.bsky.social Check it out & share! Croissants, kissing and rivalry oh my! #booksky #edusky simonteen.com/book/french-...

Looking 👀 for something spooky for kids to read before #halloween? I wrote a hoodoo-inspired, ghost filled, adventure packed mystery for middle grade (5-9th) series you can order now. #booksky www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-fall-o...

We are reading 📖 MY SISTER THE SERIAL KILLER for the faculty book club. Nigerian friends and family, please tell me about “house girls”. Is it staff that live there? Is it 24 hrs a day? What’s the class difference?

Huge thank you!!! We got our Care Cart stocked to make it through winter. It was like Christmas, but with pads! Thank you: Melissa T. @kalynnbayron @sunnydaejones and tons of anonymous friends!

I got these cutey toot candy boxes for a scavenger hunt in the library today #tlsky

"For three decades, Georgia and other states collectively underfunded their historically Black land-grant universities by roughly $13 billion, according to a 2023 federal analysis." www.ajc.com/education/20...

Put this on your calendar #booksky for November, especially if you're into queer romance and fantasy. www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve... #atlantasky #atlsky

Our school Care Cart is getting low on pads for girls. Accidents happen AND some kids food assistance doesn't cover pads and diapers. Here is our Amazon Link if you can help! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

“People with power, rarely concede power. If they’re truly savvy, they work hard to make you believe you don’t need power or power is too dangerous to wield for yourself.” shannamilesauthor.substack.com/p/monster-ma...

The book you should be buying this week. #booksky www.barnesandnoble.com/w/violet-goe...

Reminder! I wrote a Black speculative middle grade series featuring soft Black boys an incorrigible Black girls who use their Hoodoo magic to defeat evil. You can stuff them in your Boo 👻 baskets this season. linktr.ee/srmilesautho...

It stems from a profound lack of background information. For thirty years schools have pulled back on full novels, cancelled magazine subscriptions and struck newspaper orders from the budget. They've closed libraries and cut book reports in favor of excerpts.

Black authored books to buy this week Mazywood shorturl.at/ik4fb Happy Snacking shorturl.at/3LGkU Birth of a Culture shorturl.at/G5l8Y The W: A history of the WNBA shorturl.at/HwAeZ All Hours shorturl.at/Gb6la

Here's a booklist with a few podcasts and articles mixed in to help you think critically about Nikole Hannah Jones' article "In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?" Gift links to both the 2016 and 2026 articles are included. #booksky shannamilesauthor.substack.com/p/a-booklist...

What are you reading this week? #booksky bookshop.org/p/books/orig...

While you're thinking about disadvantaged children and their access to higher education and a better future please consider purchasing an SAT Prep book for some of my high school kids! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

I want to see the data on whether those awful YouTube ads actually move the needle.

A booklist for after you're done reading "In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?" #booklist #booksky

#DVPit is the reason I'm agented today! Participate!!

Substack you should try: leighstein.substack.com/p/3-producti...

I stock deodorant and other hygiene essentials in the library for students. If you have a few coins, donations are doubled today for the project. www.donorschoose.org/project/hygi...

Movies 🎥 I’d like to show in the media center Little women (old & remake) Charlie&the chocolate factory (old&remake) The Witches (old&remake) Coraline Harry Potter Fantastic Mr. Fox Coco Pride & Prejudice (2005) Persuasion(2022)

September is Library Card Sign Up Month. Kids in areas where public libraries are being challenged can get online library cards through booksunbanned.com #booksky #librarysky

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the Pilates is spiking your cortisol.

Your reminder that the midterms are coming, and your votes should include considering pro-library candidates. Ask them their views. Ask them about funding. Ask them about protecting democratic institutions.

What are we reading this week? #booksky #blackbooksky I love this memoir and it gave me a glimpse into what it is like to grow up Rastafari. The parallels to Mormonism were striking.

They would rather be racist than live.

If it’s all good why do you need to hide the watermark?

The Trump administration is seeking to CLOSE the National Archives in California and Chicago. Why? @jamellebouie.net @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/e...

Gary is in a Blackout and data centers in the state get a sales break. They negotiated NO SALES TAX on the electricity they use. I wonder if that's a factor? www.wthr.com/article/news...

Book bans are segregation Scooby snacks. They allow people with no political power to feel power over their neighbors. They allow conservative politicians to say they're 'successful' while they fail at every other meaningful government action. bookriot.com/utah-bans-pu...

The Library of Congress will take over the Washington Convention Center for the National Book Festival this Saturday, with events featuring Cynthia Erivo, Martin Scorsese and Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman. Here’s what to know before you go:

NEW: As teachers and families head back to school, AFT is urging people to shop at retailers other than Target for school supplies. Target refused to condemn unlawful ICE activity and failed to respond to good faith outreach efforts. Find local stores that respect labor rights at ShopSmart.AFT.org.

Big thanks to all of my supporters who have been helping me #clearthelist Today I was able to give out vocabulary cards to the kids who joined the SAT study group and give them a little sweet treat. We still need snacks for the book club and SAT study books if you have a few coins to help.

New this week!! #booksky “In 1994, Rose disappeared into the Alabama prison system, framed by authorities. Beyond the prison walls, Rose infiltrates a global network of exploitation, corrupt officials, & corporate interests, built on blackmail & erasure.” www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-price-...

You guys are awesome! I got stickers & bookmarks and snacks for book club today and I'm so grateful. I'm still hoping to get enough SAT books to giveaway to our Seniors. I'd thank you all personally, but there were no gift slips in the box! #clearthelist #backtoschool www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

You can download How Gen Z Discover and Consume Books free from Cambridge University Press through August 6. This is pretty pertinent reading given all the talk from that Atlantic article heralding the end of the age of reading. bookriot.com/listen/the-l...

Thank you so much to my school supply angel! I've already gotten some books and menstrual products. The most used items are deodorant, but I'd love to giveaway school agendas and SAT prep books. If you're looking to help #clearthelist here it is: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Juliana Nzita Jarard Jackson Trey Reed Kendrick Johnson Tonea Miller This administration is asleep at every wheel and in some cases intentionally steering government offices in the wrong direction. There are lynchings happening at an alarming rate.

Chile, Pa was a mess. Dragged his entire family to the wilderness because of a flier. #littlehouse

Sula is a sociopath. She's often upheld as a feminist icon, but Sula is twisted and it was generations of neglect and poverty and unrealized dreams that turned her into a monster. shannamilesauthor.substack.com/p/sula-the-s...

Chronic illness really will do a number on you. Sometimes you forget it’s there if it’s something that flares. Now you’re wondering if you made it up. And one thing about getting older is realizing that so many doctors are just not curious.