You're never wasting your time as long as you learn from every single thing you do, whether you feel like those attempts are successful or not.

Tomi Adeyemi

Categorized in : You Feel Long Time

I had a lot of different reasons for writing the book, but at its core was the desire to write for black teenage girls growing up reading books they were absent from. That was my experience as a child. 'Children of Blood and Bone' is a chance to address that. To say you are seen.

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In my perfect world, we'd have one black girl fantasy book every month. We need them, and we need fantasy stories about black boys as well.

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You need a community to succeed. In the back of every book is an acknowledgments page full of all the people it took to get that writer to the book you're holding.

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With the Internet, there are so many ways to connect with other writers who will be some of your best friends and best sources of support for your entire life.

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I am a firm believer that the craziest stories that have been told and are being told are in anime. They have character arcs that go over, like, 400 episodes, like a 400-episode character arc.

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