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🚀 Boost Your Book Launch with Social Media 101

Join Sistah Scifi founder, Isis Asare, for a 90-minute virtual session on crafting a high-impact social media strategy to fuel preorders for speculative fiction—sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and magical realism.

Looking for social media services? Check our Sistah Scifi Social Media Services for Speculative Fiction Authors!

📅 Date & Time: Tuesday, Sept 9 | 5 PM PST 💻 Location: Online . Detail in bio @SistahScifi under events

🔗Read more in the latest Sistah Scifi newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/sistahscifi/0707newsletter-18077393

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🎧 Audiobook of the Week: The Royal Trials (Last Gate of the Emperor #2) 🎧

By @KwameMbalia & @PrinceJoelMakonnen..

The fate of the kingdom is calling… and Yared is answering.

After uncovering secrets about his family’s legacy, Yared is thrust into an intergalactic battle for truth, power, and justice. In this thrilling sequel, he must prove himself in the Royal Trials—a dangerous competition filled with ancient tech, unexpected alliances, and enemies who never fight fair.

Perfect for fans of Black Panther and Star Wars, this Afrofuturistic adventure is brimming with heart, humor, and high-stakes heroism.

🎧 Listen now on @librofm

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📚✨ On August 20th, we honored the life, legacy, and radical imagination of Octavia E. Butler through Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler with the brilliant Susana M. Morris at #SistahScifiWineDownWednesday. In conversation with Kendra R. Parker, we reflected on Butler’s journey, her unwavering commitment to storytelling, and the ways her vision continues to shape Black speculative futures.

🎥 Watch the highlights here and catch the full conversation on our YouTube page: https://youtu.be/SjAONpN08ZQ

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📚✨ On August 20th, we honored the life, legacy, and radical imagination of Octavia E. Butler through Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler with the brilliant Susana M. Morris at #SistahScifiWineDownWednesday. In conversation with Kendra R. Parker, we reflected on Butler’s journey, her unwavering commitment to storytelling, and the ways her vision continues to shape Black speculative futures.

🎥 Watch the highlights here and catch the full conversation on our YouTube page: https://youtu.be/SjAONpN08ZQ

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📅 Upcoming Sistah Scifi Events – Mark Your Calendars!

✨ Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday with @SusanaMMorris 📖 Positive Obsession 🗓 August 20 Join Susana in conversation with @KendraRParker (Understanding @OctaviaEButler) for an evening of insight, discussion, and inspiration.

✨ Fulfillment Parties 🗓 August 22 & 23 Be one of seven magical beings helping Sistah Scifi spread the power of Black and Indigenous speculative fiction. Pack orders, share energy, and keep our book vending machines stocked with the latest titles!

✨ Sistah Scifi Book Club 🗓 August 23 Discuss Black diasporan culture, speculative fiction, and the intersection of sci-fi and politics via Zoom or in-person.

✨Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday with @MosesOseUtomi 📖 The Memory of the Ogisi 🗓 August 27 Join us as Moses Ose Utomi dives deep into The Memory of the Ogisi, a sweeping tale of legacy, destiny, and resistance set in the Forever Desert.

✨ Fulfillment Parties 🗓 August 29 & 30 Your energy helps power the movement! Join us to pack orders, add personalized thank-you notes, and support Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machines.

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📚✨ Congratulations to Two Trailblazers! ✨📚

We’re thrilled to celebrate two incredible Indigenous speculative fiction authors honored at the 2025 Hugo Awards as part of @SeattleWorldCon:

🌟 @rebeccaroanhorse Awarded the Hugo for Best Series for her brilliant Between Earth and Sky saga — an epic blend of pre-Columbian mythology, political intrigue, and cosmic wonder.

Explore Rebecca’s books here: https://sistahscifi.com/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage&q=Rebecca+Roanhorse

🌟 @dr.littlebadger Winner of the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book for Sheine Lende — a moving, supernatural tale set in the same universe as her beloved novel Elatsoe.

Explore Darcie’s books here: https://sistahscifi.com/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage&q=Darcie+Little+Badger

Both authors continue to expand the horizons of speculative fiction — weaving Indigenous storytelling traditions into bold, imaginative futures.

@LevineQuerido @SagaPress

💬 Join us in celebrating these visionary writers.

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🚀✨ It’s Pub Day! ✨🚀

Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of @OctaviaEButler by @SusanaMorris is here!

📖 A magnificent cultural biography, this book charts the life of one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time—firmly placing her alongside the historical and social movements that shaped her groundbreaking work.

As the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in science fiction, Butler was a visionary who imagined futures where Black women stand at the center—tough, flawed, brilliant, and deeply human.

From the Civil Rights Movement to queer liberation, from Reaganomics to climate chaos, this book reveals how Butler’s life and the turbulent times she lived in fueled her cautionary tales about fascism, greed, gender violence, and the fate of our planet—while offering radical visions for survival, transformation, and hope.

📚 Available now at www.sistahscifi.com or your #locallibrary.

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✨ Celebrating Black Speculative Brilliance ✨

Earlier this summer, we had the absolute honor of uplifting visionary voices in Black speculative fiction: 🌟 Award-winning sci-fi icon @nnediokorafor 🌟 USA Today bestselling author @KemiAshingGiwa 🌟 Rising star and captivating storyteller @AidaNdiaye

Together, they expanded our imaginations, challenged our realities, and reminded us that Black futures are limitless.

🖤 Thank you to everyone who joined us in community and celebration!

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🎬📚 @LaurenceFishburne is producing — and potentially starring in — the film adaptation of Sky Full of Elephants by the brilliant @CeboCampbell.

Even more exciting — Laurence Fishburne and Cebo Campbell are collaborating on writing the screenplay, already hard at work bringing these incredible stories and unforgettable characters to life.

🌌🧠 Sky Full of Elephants blends surreal imagery, deep ancestral memory, and a story of resilience across generations. Seeing it unfold on screen will be nothing short of cosmic.

Whether you read it for the lyrical prose, the layered symbolism, or the unforgettable protagonist—you’ll want to experience this reimagining in full cinematic glory.

🎥 Stay tuned for casting updates, premiere dates, and more behind-the-scenes magic.

📚 Haven’t read it yet? Grab your copy now at https://sistahscifi.com/products/sky-full-of-elephants-a-novel?_pos=1&_sid=29bc650bf&_ss=r

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Audiobook of the Week: Sheine Lende by @DarcieLittleBadger ✨

Before Elatsoe, there was Shane. Shane and her mother—accompanied by a loyal pack of ghost dogs—specialize in finding missing persons. But when her own mother vanishes after a strange encounter with a fairy ring, Shane must journey across time, worlds, and memory to bring her back. 🌾

Part mystery, part myth, and full of heart, Sheine Lende is a haunting, unforgettable prequel that dives into the ancestral roots of the world Darcie Little Badger first introduced in Elatsoe. 📚 Ghost dogs. Shifting timelines. Indigenous futurism.

What more could you want? @librofm @recordedbooks

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🖤✨ Pre-order Spotlight: Psychopomp & Circumstance by @edenroycebooks ✨🖤

From Shirley Jackson and Nebula Award finalist author @edenroycebooks comes a haunting adult debut set in the richly imagined shadows of the post-Reconstruction South.

📚 Psychopomp & Circumstance is a Southern Gothic historical fantasy that follows Phee St. Margaret — a woman born into privilege, but aching to choose her own path. When her estranged Aunt Cleo dies, Phee defies her controlling mother and takes on the honored role of pomp, charged with planning the funeral.

But Horizon, SC is not what it seems. And Aunt Cleo’s home hides mirrors that whisper, shadows that move, and secrets that defy death itself...

🪞✨ Perfect for fans of ghost stories, Gothic mystery, and Black Southern lore.

📖 Pre-order your signed copy now: 🔗 sistahscifi.com/products/preorder-signed-psychopomp-circumstance-by-eden-royce

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✨ An amazing summer camp for teen writers! ✍🏾

📅 Aug 18–22: Free Worldbuilding Camp for BIPOC teens at yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives Collective

Dive into sci-fi, fantasy, horror & more!

🔗Read more in the latest Sistah Scifi newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/sistahscifi/0707newsletter-18076703

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🚀🌍 Happy World Science Fiction Day! 🌍🚀

Today, we celebrate the genre that dares to ask What if? — and gives us the imagination to dream beyond boundaries, binaries, and even the stars. 💫

From Octavia E. Butler to Rivers Solomon, and countless visionaries across time and space, Black and marginalized voices have shaped sci-fi into something expansive, radical, and deeply human.

Here are some books you must start reading today:

📖 Parable of the Talents by @OctaviaEButler 📖 Model Home by @RiversSolomon 📖 The Sentence by @LouiseErdrich 📖 Beyond the Glittering World by @Dr.DarcieLittleBadger

Whether you’re time-traveling, dimension-hopping, or decoding alien messages — sci-fi helps us reimagine liberation, justice, and joy.

Grab a new read from your local bookstore or library and keep dreaming big. The future is ours to write.

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🎉 Happy Birthday to @BeSteadwell! 🎉

Author of Chocolate Chip City — a bold, tender, and joyfully queer story that proves Black love is a revolutionary act. 🖤🍫

Known for her genre-defying music and now her powerful storytelling, Be Steadwell continues to build worlds where queer Black characters take center stage — falling in love, healing, messing up, and thriving.

Whether she’s singing from the heart or writing stories that make you feel seen, Be's artistry is rooted in radical softness, truth, and liberation.

Here’s to Be — for giving us lyrics that linger, stories that affirm, and love that resonates across mediums. 💜✨

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📚✨ Happy National Book Lovers Day! ✨📚

Today we celebrate the stories that shaped us, saved us, and sparked something sacred within us.

Whether you’re… 🌀 Escaping into faraway galaxies, 🪶 Rooted in ancestral memory, 🧬 Wrestling with what it means to be human, 🪞 Or finding your reflection in pages once thought too rare— there’s a book for you at Sistah Scifi.

Here are some of our favorite bestselling titles:

🔮 Parable of the Sower by @octaviaebutler 🔥 Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler 🌑 My Soul to Keep by @tananarivedue ✨ The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by @tananarivedue 💫 Remote Control by @nnediokorafor 🖤 The Gilda Stories by @jewellegomez

You can purchase these books at www.sistahscifi.com or at your #locallibrary.

Let’s continue to uplift Black women in sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and all things speculative.

Tag us with what you’re reading today! 🖤

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📚 Author Spotlight: @TananariveDue 📚

Master of Black horror. Legend in speculative fiction. Keeper of ancestral memory. 🖤✨

Tananarive Due is a powerhouse whose work explores the intersections of race, horror, spirituality, and survival — blending the supernatural with deeply human truths. Whether she’s writing about immortals, haunted legacies, or systemic injustice, her stories always stay with you.

Here are some must-read books from her literary universe:

📖 The Horizon Experiment Vol. 1 – A bold new sci-fi vision of time, trauma, and power. 📖 My Soul to Keep – A chilling modern classic about immortality, love, and sacrifice. 📖 The Living Blood – Sequel to My Soul to Keep, diving deeper into the immortal African bloodline. 📖 Blood Colony – A secret society, a miracle cure, and a war to protect it all. 📖 My Soul to Take – The epic conclusion to the African Immortals series. 📖 The Keeper – A young girl, a haunted home, and a deadly legacy. 📖 The Reformatory – A gripping tale of injustice, ghosts, and the fight to reclaim stolen lives. 📖 The Wishing Pool and Other Stories – A powerful short story collection spanning horror, futurism, and ancestral memory.

💬 Whether you're new to her work or revisiting old favorites, Tananarive Due never misses. She is required reading for lovers of horror, speculative fiction, and radical Black imagination.

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The West Oakland Library Book Club is diving into Ring Shout by @pdjeliclark

Monsters, resistance, and magical realism meet Jim Crow in this brilliant novella that remixes history with horror. 🌀🗡️

If you’re in the Bay, swing by the next session, or grab a copy and read along with us.

Shout-out to @torbooks for publishing this powerful tale.

Sistah Scifi will be at #Seattle2025worldcon & #Books&BART.

🔗Read more in the latest Sistah Scifi newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/sistahscifi/0707newsletter-18076488