Authorlifemonth - Blog Posts
😍 my goal this year is to review every book I read👍 I don't always but I really need to start😅 #reviews #booklover #bookblogger #authorsofinstagram #authorlifemonth #bookreview #bookstagram
Day 14: #authorlifemonth today's post is awesome! It's favorite one of your covers *cues fabulous entrance* So this one isn't out yet but my sis and I are working on it right now titled #itscomplicated Funny thing about this one is I went in with low expectations cuz I got idone for 10 bucks on fiverr😂😂😂 Turns out to be my absolute favorite out of all our other romance wip's. My sister and I are super lit irl so comedy finds its way in all of our work but I think this one will be a lol romantic comedy. Plus it's pink!!! I love pink!!! #bookstagram #booknerdigans #beautifulbookcovers #coverreveal #ambw #interracialromance #weneeddiverseromance #romanticcomedy #gltomas #InterracialLove #coverlove #ContemporaryRomance #vlogger #indielove #authorsofinstagram #indieauthor
Day 10 of #authorlifemonth favorite non author photo Okay so I totally feel bad for skipping yesterday but I couldn't come up a challenge overcome that my sister @dos_twinjas didn't already address. So this is my favorite picture of my hair after being natural for 6 months after a big chop in September 15'. This was the first time I ever wore my natural texture out after rocking braids nearly every month after I big chopped. I was so afraid that everyone would hate it and some of my family members still do but accepting my hair's natural texture has been a pivotal time for me. Being a black Latina we grow up thinking that beautiful hair is straight aka European hair and it took me 29 years to realize that's not the only type of hair that's amaZing! Just like #Beyonce said "I like my baby hair with baby hair and afros". That line has become my mantra 😂😂😂 In this picture you would think I've always Been confident about it which is why I love it so much. Sorry for the essay😍😎 P.S. my hair is even longer now and ten times bigger and more amazing! #naturalista #curlbox #4chair #naturalhair #Afro #afrohair #pajon #afrocubana #afrolatinx #blacklatina #blackgirlmagic #negra
Day 8 of #authorlifemonth my awesome moment. Soooo my awesome moment was a few weeks after #samepage dropped. We rarely ever get emails about books or wips so when I got this I was floored. Never underestimate how Much you can make a writers day with just an email saying how Much you loved a book😍 especially if you're not the type to leave reviews. #weneeddiverseromance #samepage #naija #authorlifemonth #authormonthlife #NARomance #ContemporaryRomance #bwwm #ku #kindleunlimited #InterracialLove #interracialromance #providence #portugueseboys #portugueseheroes
Part ll of #authorlifemonth created by that dope author you keep hearing about @missdahlelama I had two fan art posts and i almost wasn't going to but then i found these awesome photo apps and said wjat the hell? This post features the inspiration for our next messy romance #FTHS in th3 form of our main characters w/ actor Sterling Beaumon as #AsherRose and model Brittany Sky as #TheodoraKing #naturalista #afrocubana #afrolatinx #interracial #InterracialLove #weneeddiverseromance #interracialromance #bwwm #diversebooks #bookstagram #diverse #diversityjedi #booknerdigans #miami #blackgirlmagic #messyromance #naromance #bisexual #FTHS #Friendsthatstill #GLTomas #contemporaryromance #eroticromance
So today is Day 6 of the #authorlifemonth challenge 😊 I'll be doing two parts, so here's Part II It's supposed to highlight fanart/edit. I've found that with #NA vs #YA readers are less vocal when they read and like something. So people who've loved our #NA #romance #SamePage don't necessarily shout it out as opposed to #TheMarkOfNoba I've decided to make cool homemade fanart😇 The two ppl who inspired their looks were Travis Garland, a bomb ass singer I met and loved 😆 and Chime Edwards a hair vlogger I have hair envy over! So that's what inspired the art👍 #naturalista #naija #nigerian #interracial #bwwm #diversebooks #bookstagram #diverse #diversityjedi #diverseromance #booknerdigans #portugueseboys #blackgirlmagic #providence #messyromance
Day 5 of #authorlifemonth #authormonthlife comp covers!!! So the cover in the middle pretty much inspired the two on the side. Loved how the couple on the cover was split in the middle. @dos_twinjas said "THAT'S WHAT I WANT!!!" #interracialromance #contemporaryromance #eroticromance #naromance #comingofage #afrolatinx #afrolatina #afrocubana #bisexual #bwwm #gltomas #FTHS #Friendsthatstill
Day 4 of #authorlifemonth #authormonthlife created by the extraordinaire @missdahlelama my wips So I'm a little embarrassed that I have like 4, but in my defense, I work on wips with my writing partner @dos_twinjas so it'll never just be one wip cuz that's not how we roll😃 WIP 1: #NextChapter our sequel to #samepage, a NA contemporary romance WIP 2: #FTHS an erotic romance featuring an Afro Latina MC(y Cubana tambien) WIP 3: #Friendsthatstill , the sequel to #FTHS WIP 4: #Wanderthisworld ,our first attempt at NA erotic horror Such an exciting year of wips. What are yours???
Day 3 of #authorlifemonth #authormonthlife brought to you by the amazeballs @missdahlelama My last 5 star read. Whoa, so I haven't been reading lately but I definitely remember what my last 5 star read was. The Sista hood: on the Mic by E-fierce aka Elisha Miranda. So a little confession I read and review YA and friggin love it. The themes usually present in YA are themes I wish were present in NA and adult novels more often, my three favorite being cultural identity, racial identity and sexual identity. By our adult years it's like we're supposed to have it figured all out but In my unique case I don't. And this is one of books that I always bring up in my YA presentations when I publicly speak on books. Why I connected to it: 1.An Afro-Latina main character. ( I'm an Afro Latina of Cuban ancestry and this was the first time I read a girl in a book who was Latina, DARK SKINNED not mulata but negra como yo w/a big kinky Afro. I cried reading that because from the cover you can't tell the main character is black) 2.Characters that come from a lower socio-economic background. 3.Queer female characters of color, especially Black and Latina characters of color. (This is the kicker. This is also one of its kind for me because usually #lgbt books are never about black and Latinas. I wish more people knew about this book 😪) 4. Characters that reflected the Hip-Hop culture without being offensive, appropriating or stereotypical. The Sista Hood on the Mic follows Mariposa Colon aka MC Patria, an Afro-Puerto Rican girl from San Francisco, CA with a love for Hip Hop and making a name for herself but she needs a fly crew to do it! That is where The Sista Hood comes in. This was a book about a girl but most important it was about a girl who maybe likes girls. A girl who valued friendships with girls. This book is about empowerment between girls and I think it's sad that more people don't know about this book. The friendship between the girls is something I think is missing from YA. Everything always seems to be centered on getting a boyfriend and while Mariposa wanted to be with someone, her friends were more important. That's, like, a big high five for me!
Next up, Day 2 of #authorlifemonth Author photos!!! If you jump to my sister's account @dos_twinjas you will learn that our pen name #gltomas is actually a shared one, since we're a team of writers so work collectively on projects we thought, oh what the hell? Why not just combine our pen name. Since I'm the first born we battled on putting L first, but mutually decided that G.L. sounded better than L.G. Since its a cell phone brand😂😂😂 I basically just screenshot her post😂cuz I'm lazy like that. But love this picture since it was our first time on the West Coast. Plus it was months before we big chopped. I think we chould get another one with our beautiful natural hair, objections? Hehe Thanks to the lovely @missdahlelama for hosting this event. Everyday I look forward to Everyone's post. Lurking on the hash tag like a stalker!👤
Sooooo it's #authorlifemonth and I'm counting the days in February with hopefully a fresh post. Thanks to the lovely @missdahlelama for creating this challenge!!! Okay so confession, our first book was a YA fantasy called #themarkofnoba that was all types of fun but @dos_twinjas volunteered to show our YA stuff while I did the honors of highlighting the NA and adult books we have coming out. So I bring you #samepage , our debut NA contemporary romance that showcased a less than perfect story of two people perfect for each other with loads of obstacles In their way. Had fun setting up their first installment. Cant wait to finish this baby.