Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles
@srmilesauthor.bsky.social
Writer. Librarian. Rep'd by the extraordinary @johnmcusick at
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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
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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
October 24, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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)
We need:
🍂 family sagas
🍂road trips
🍂food centered narratives, especially soul food
🍂 football 🏈 narratives
🍂Native American authored takes (feel good)
October 24, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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)
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.
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Go Pre-order!
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!
October 22, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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!
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
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simonteen.com/book/french-...
October 21, 2026 at 4:15 PM
🗼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-...
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...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-fall-o...
October 14, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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...
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?
Is it staff that live there? Is it 24 hrs a day? What’s the class difference?
October 13, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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?
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!
Thank you:
Melissa T.
@kalynnbayron
@sunnydaejones
and tons of anonymous friends!
October 9, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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!
Thank you:
Melissa T.
@kalynnbayron
@sunnydaejones
and tons of anonymous friends!
"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...
www.ajc.com/education/20...
Georgia could owe HBCU $603 million. A team of lawyers intends to collect.
A group is suing the state of Missouri, saying it has underfunded Lincoln University, which could pave the way for more money to other HBCUs, including Fort Valley State.
www.ajc.com
October 8, 2026 at 1:53 PM
"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...
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
www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve... #atlantasky #atlsky
AUTHOR EVENT | Terry J. Benton Walker | THE DRAKON KING
Terry J. Benton Walker shares new adult romantasy THE DRAKON KING
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October 6, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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
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/...
Here is our Amazon Link if you can help!
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
October 6, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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/...
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...
shannamilesauthor.substack.com/p/monster-ma...
Monster Making, Nolan Wells and the Fear of Black Advancement
Horror is as horror does
shannamilesauthor.substack.com
October 6, 2026 at 1:12 PM
“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...
shannamilesauthor.substack.com/p/monster-ma...
October 5, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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.
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October 1, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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...
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.
context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context.
I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
September 28, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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
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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
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
September 23, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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
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...
Gift links to both the 2016 and 2026 articles are included. #booksky
shannamilesauthor.substack.com/p/a-booklist...
September 23, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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...
Gift links to both the 2016 and 2026 articles are included. #booksky
shannamilesauthor.substack.com/p/a-booklist...
September 22, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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/...
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
September 22, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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/...
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
I want to see the data on whether those awful YouTube ads actually move the needle.
Top Democrats across the country are privately warning that they do not have enough cash in the November midterms to capitalize on what could be their party’s best political environment in over a decade and are at serious risk of leaving winnable seats on the table. https://cnn.it/4yaApZc
September 21, 2026 at 6:48 PM
I want to see the data on whether those awful YouTube ads actually move the needle.
#DVPit is the reason I'm agented today! Participate!!
#PreDV Day 1 starts now! Use today to practice your pitches before #DVPit on 9/30!
Feel free to offer advice to your fellow #DVpit hopefuls and make some connections & friends!
As always have fun and be respectful!
Go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info
Feel free to offer advice to your fellow #DVpit hopefuls and make some connections & friends!
As always have fun and be respectful!
Go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info
September 21, 2026 at 4:35 PM
#DVPit is the reason I'm agented today! Participate!!
Middle class and Upper class Black parents often have to ask the question, do I risk psychological scars from existing as Black child in a segregated space or do I risk academic neglect? #publicschools #parentingsky
shannamilesauthor.substack.com/p/black-pare...
shannamilesauthor.substack.com/p/black-pare...
Black Parents get two choices: Academic Scars or Psychological Ones
Tutoring is cheaper than therapy
shannamilesauthor.substack.com
September 21, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Middle class and Upper class Black parents often have to ask the question, do I risk psychological scars from existing as Black child in a segregated space or do I risk academic neglect? #publicschools #parentingsky
shannamilesauthor.substack.com/p/black-pare...
shannamilesauthor.substack.com/p/black-pare...
Substack you should try: leighstein.substack.com/p/3-producti...
3 productivity habits that help me write books
I started reading books, and listening to podcasts, about time management and productivity when I was organizing two feminist writing conferences a year, and making so little money that I could have q...
leighstein.substack.com
September 18, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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...
www.donorschoose.org/project/hygi...
Hygiene Help for High School, a project from Ms. Miles
Help me give my students hygeine essentials to help them maintain their dignity at school. High school is hard enough without worrying about whether you stink after gym practice or even if you'...
www.donorschoose.org
September 9, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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...
www.donorschoose.org/project/hygi...