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My StokerCon 2025 Schedule

It's my favorite time of year…

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Signed Books!

Sistah Scifi Bookstore is offering signed copies of my collection!

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Highlights from the Bay Area Book Festival

I had a blast at this year's Bay Area Book Festival!

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Event: StokerCon 2025 BWiH Dealers’ Room Tables

I’m over the moon that I will be co-sponsoring the Black Women in Horror tables in the StokerCon 2025 Dealers’ Room!

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Event: StokerCon Panel - “Authentic Representation in Horror”

I will be on a StokerCon 2025 panel discussing whether it is okay for authors to pen works outside of their lived experience and if so how they do this.

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Event: Bay Area Book Festival

I'm so excited to be a part of the 11th annual Bay Area Book Festival this year!

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Workshop: The Art of the Query

If you are an aspiring or early career writer wondering how to get your work into the world, join me Saturday, May 3rd, 11AM - 1:30PM PT for my VIRTUAL workshop, "The Art of the Query."

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Publishers Marketplace Announcement

And here's the official deal announcement for my debut novel! That sound you hear is me squealing!

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Deal Announcement

My debut novel has found a home with Erewhon Books (Kensington Publishing) in a two-book deal.

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WATCH: Submission Secrets

If you have a manuscript and are wondering how to send it into the world, check out The Creative Tickle, hosted by Michele Berger.

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Starship Sankofa Event

I had a blast sharing my work as part of "Starship Sankofa: Ancestral Algorithms Conjuring Black Futures."

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Event: Starship Sankofa

Bay Area! Join me and an amazing lineup of fellow Afrofuturist creatives for "Starship Sankofa: Ancestral Algorithms Conjuring Black Futures."

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Watch: Shadows and Light panel

Watch the full video of my Shadows and Light panel at the San Francisco Public Library.

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What I’m Reading: The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

This text is everything a horror book should be.

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Interview: KTVU Fox 2

I had a blast on KTVU Fox 2!

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"The Honor Box" published

So excited that one of my stories is OUT NOW in horror anthology Error Code!

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Event: “Shadows and Light” at the San Francisco Public Library

Bay Area friends and family, please join me at the San Francisco Public Library on Sunday, January 19th for "Shadows and Light: Exploring Black Horror and Black Healing."

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“The See-through Lady” published

I’m delighted that my short story, “The See-through Lady,” is included in Portals, Gateways, and Doors, a new anthology from Farthest Star Publishing.

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Bookish Modesto Event

The best part of the Nightmarish event was the great turnout and getting to meet the wonderful folks in the Modesto literary community, some of whom came in costumes.

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What I'm Reading: The World Wasn't Ready for You by Justin C. Key

Every story in this collection is a winner.

Tamika Talks Terror