The Lavender Con Book Fest takes place in DC July 25 & 26, 2026. It's a book fest for fans of LGBTQIA+ novels, stories, authors, & reader community.

I'm a participating author at this year's Lavender Con. I hope you'll join us in DC in July. 📚🌈

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#LGBTQBookSky #BookSky #LavenderCon

Minoritea Report: Beyonce's Best Album as Minoritea Report Celebrates 7 Years w/ a Live Episode! THANK YOU COMMUNITEA!!! Can you believe it? The Minoritea Report is turning 7! 🎉 Join Aunteas Kerel, Dawon, and Jerrell for a high-energy live anniversary episode filled with wigs, Ask Yo Aunteas, the...

Happy 7th Anniversary, @minoriteareport.bsky.social podcast!

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Love Is a Contact Sport by Frederick Smith | Bold Strokes Books The college poster boy and the college ball player. A secret love. The goodbye that never was. Until now.

I confirmed an indie bookstore for a launch day event. Details soon. 📚🎉

Love Is a Contact Sport, a Black, Queer, Second Chance, College Reunion, Contemporary MM Romance, out 6/16/26 on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social.

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#BookSky #BlackBookSky #Romancelandia

It was a hard game to watch. Hopeful for a series comeback.

Celebrating 1200 Episodes With Jamey Giddens | Daytime Confidential Podcast Daytime Confidential celebrates its 1200th episode and the kick off of its 20th season with the return of Jamey Giddens to the podcast for a visit.  Join Luke

I love @dcconfidential.bsky.social podcast. It helps me keep up with daytime tv. This episode features Jamey Giddens, a former show cohost, who has shifted into soap writing for Days, Ambitions, & Beyond The Gates.

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#DaytimeConfidential #BeyondTheGates #Days

Her CLUELESS crush is the only one who can hide SAYLOR from her mother and her millions of followers! Summer Official by Rebekah Weatherspoon Book cover: Summer Official by USA TODAY bestselling author Rebekah Weatherspoon A plus size brown skinned black girl carrying a skateboard and wearing crop black tshirt that says Queen of Hearts in white lettering and black jeans and black vans, walking hand in hand with a light skinned black girl with blond hair. She is wearing a white tank top, demon shorts, white ankle socks and green converse. She has a blue cast on one arm with doodles all over it. They are walking through an illustrated Venice beach. The Venice over head sign has been replaced with the book title Summer Official.

SUMMER OFFICIAL IS OUT NOW! 🛹🩵🍦
You can get signed copies and swag from Reparations Club and The Ripped Bodice!
rebekahweatherspoon....
#LesbianVisibilityWeek
#booksky
#YABookSky
#blackbooksky

Episodes | Bad Queers Podcast

My Monday listening. A new episode of 'Bad Queers' podcast is out. Always great conversation about topics related to Black Queer communities. 🫶🏾🎧🌈

www.badqueers.com/episodes/epi...

#BadQueers #BlackQueerSky #LGBTQSky #PodcastSky

Men committing violence against partners who want to leave them is unacceptable.

Men committing violence against partners who want custody of their kids is unacceptable.

Love Is a Contact Sport by Frederick Smith | Bold Strokes Books The college poster boy and the college ball player. A secret love. The goodbye that never was. Until now.

Love Is a Contact Sport, a Black, Queer, Second Chance, College Reunion, Contemporary MM Romance novel is out June 16, 2026 on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social.

I'd love to be on your podcast, IG Live, or TikTok Love to discuss.

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#Romancelandia #MMRomance

I've been on a few podcasts: bit.ly/FredOnPodcasts ... discussing writing, romance, Black & Queer life, etc.

I'd love to be on your show for my June 2026 novel Love is a Contact Sport, a Black, Queer, Second Chance, College Reunion, MM romance on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social. DM me. #Romancelandia

Babe in Library on Second Chance Recs You’ll Actually Love - We Read Smut: Bookish Conversations for Romance Readers Second Chance Romance usually gets a meh from me. I am a fool me once, shame on you type of reader, so reruns in romance rarely make my list. But today, Lisa from Babe in Library joins the podcast to ...

I love the second chance romance novel trope... in real life, too, if mutual, consensual, & growth/work done.

This 'We Read Smut' podcast episode explores the second chance romance trope with 'Babe In Library.'

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#Romancelandia #RomanceBookSky #WeReadSmut

Predicting Detroit Pistons and OKC Thunder in the 2026 NBA Finals. My guess. Two great teams. 🏀 #NBASky #BasketballSky #DetroitPistons #OklahomaCityThunder

It’s playoff time and Mayor Sheffield got the first shot in! 🏀

Wishing the Detroit Pistons the best as they take the court. The whole city is behind you!

I promised a friend who's moving out of town next week that I'd meet up for drag brunch and a little Sunday Funday today.

Staying home and relaxing sounds nice, though.

I'll push through, enjoy some San Francisco and Castro District festivities today. ☀️🌈💃🏾🕺🏾🪩 #SanFrancisco #CastroDistrict

Note, the onsite bookstores will have physical copies on hand... and I'll have a few, too, at Black Romance Book Fest. 📚💕 #brbf2026 #brbf #blackromancebookfest #romancelandia

Thank you!

Independent Bookstore Day! 📚💕

Join me at The Love Potion Library bookstore on Saturday, 4/25/26, 5-6pm.

284 Noe Street, San Francisco, CA, Castro District.

I’ll be signing some of my @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social novels.

www.thelovepotionlibrary.com

#Romancelandia #SanFrancisco #CastroDistrict

Frederick Smith, BRBF 2026 Preorder form for Frederick Smith who is attending BRBF 2026

If you're attending Black Romance Book Fest in May 2026, I'm keeping my Beventi preorders link up until end of day on Friday, 5/1/26.

If I'm a new-to-you author, I write contemporary MM romance featuring Black characters and set in California.

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Gay Poem - Ameer Drane Website for gay poem poetry book

New poetry collection on the way from Ameer Drane — Gay Poem.

I got to read an advance reader copy and enjoyed it a lot.

Follow Ameer’s IG (aedrane.poetry) and you’ll see him perform some of the poems.

www.gaypoem.com

#PoetrySky #BookSky #LGBTQBookSky

Frederick Smith standing in The Love Potion Library bookstore in San Francisco Castro District.

Exterior photo of The Love Potion Library bookstore in San Francisco Castro District.

Covers of Big Girl Blitz by Danielle Allen and Last First Kiss by Julian Winters.

Yesterday morning I stopped by the new ROMANCE bookstore in San Francisco’s Castro District, The Love Potion Library, 284 Noe Street (at Market), underneath/around corner from Lookout and Tacos El Tucán.

It’s a beautiful bookstore space.

www.thelovepotionlibrary.com

#Romancelandia #SanFrancisco

Babe in Library on Second Chance Recs You’ll Actually Love - We Read Smut: Bookish Conversations for Romance Readers Second Chance Romance usually gets a meh from me. I am a fool me once, shame on you type of reader, so reruns in romance rarely make my list. But today, Lisa from Babe in Library joins the podcast to ...

Second chance romance in real life or books is a topic! I’m glad to hear We Read Smut podcast discuss this.

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#Romancelandia #RomanceBookSky #BookSky #WeReadSmut

Salt & Pepper, book #5, (my 4th standalone) went LIVE last Thursday.

For fans of #BlackRomance, I hope you all enjoy Boom and Nia's story as much as I did writing them.

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If you're a fan of LGBTQIA+ books, or an aspiring author, the @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social Bookathon is for you.

Free and online, April 17-19, 2026, it features multiple author panels & readings.

Event info: bookathon.boldstrokesbooks.com/bookathon-ap...

#BookSky #LGBTQBookSky #Romancelandia

The Book Lovhers Fest: A virtual Black sapphic book festival Dive into The Book Lovhers Fest, a chill online hangout celebrating Black sapphic stories and authors!

If you’re a reader, fan, and supporter of Black Sapphic books and authors, you’ll love The Book Lovhers book fest, an online Black Sapphic Book Festival taking place September 19-20, 2026.
✍🏾📚🌈

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#SapphicBookSky #LGBTQBookSky #BookSky #Romancelandia #RomanceBookSky

You're welcome. The panels and readings are pretty good and helpful for readers and writers. I'll watch a few over the weekend.

If you're a fan of LGBTQIA+ books, or an aspiring author, the @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social Bookathon is for you.

Free and online, April 17-19, 2026, the weekend event features multiple author panels & readings.

Event info: bookathon.boldstrokesbooks.com/bookathon-ap...

#BookSky #LGBTQBookSky

Join us for Soulmate as a Verb - Kelsey Smoot with Edwin Bodney - Fabulosa Books - San Francisco, CA **Poems of tender knowledge, buoyant survival, and Black, trans embodiment.** The simple yet fraught experience of embodiment lies at the thrumming heart of Kelsey L. Smoot’s SOULMATE AS A VERB. Bodi...

Today.

Thursday, 4/16/26, 7pm, Fabulosa Books in San Francisco’s Castro District. 489 Castro St, San Francisco, CA 94114.

Kelsey Smoot's poetry reading & book signing event for Soulmate as a Verb.

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Love Is A Contact Sport by Frederick Smith (ARC Request Form and Events Planning Request) This request form is for an Advanced Reader Copy of LOVE IS A CONTACT SPORT, a Black, Queer, Second Chance, College Reunion, MM romance novel by Frederick Smith, releasing June 16, 2026 on Bold Stroke...

ARCs go out in a few weeks. Sign up: bit.ly/ARCSandEvents

Love Is A Contact Sport, a Black, Queer, Second Chance, College Reunion, Contemporary MM Romance novel is out June 16, 2026 on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social
✍🏾📚💕🌈🎓🏀 #Romancelandia #RomanceBookSky #MMRomance #BlackBookSky #BookSky

There’s a new ROMANCE bookstore opening in San Francisco’s Castro District soon… The Love Potion Library. 📚💕

www.thelovepotionlibrary.com

#Romancelandia #RomanceBookSky #SanFrancisco #CastroDistrict #BookSky