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@beverleykendall.com
Adult contemporary, historical & new adult romance author. I write, therefore I am
ONE IN A MILLION - 3/18/2025
Repped by Kevan Lyon at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency
ONE IN A MILLION - 3/18/2025
Repped by Kevan Lyon at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency
Pinned
One In a Million
www.beverleykendall.com
My romance novel ONE IN A MILLION is out today. 🥳 🎊 🥂
✯ IVF mix-up 🤯😬🤰🏻
✯ Grumpy 😠 /Sunshine ☀️
✯ Co-parenting adventures 🧑🧒🧒 👶🏼 🧑🏽🍼🍼
✯ Co-parenting w/benefits 👩🏽❤️💋👨🏻 🛌 ❤️🔥
✯ Hollywood 🎬 🎤 🎥 👸🏽
✯ Token series (2nd book) 📚
✯ Female entrepreneur 💰👩🏽💼
#Romancelandia #Booksky
www.beverleykendall.com/books/one-in...
✯ IVF mix-up 🤯😬🤰🏻
✯ Grumpy 😠 /Sunshine ☀️
✯ Co-parenting adventures 🧑🧒🧒 👶🏼 🧑🏽🍼🍼
✯ Co-parenting w/benefits 👩🏽❤️💋👨🏻 🛌 ❤️🔥
✯ Hollywood 🎬 🎤 🎥 👸🏽
✯ Token series (2nd book) 📚
✯ Female entrepreneur 💰👩🏽💼
#Romancelandia #Booksky
www.beverleykendall.com/books/one-in...
Don't tell me I can't work on 3 TOTALLY DIFFERENT WIPs at once.
I can and am.
#AmWriting #AmEditing #Authorsky #Booksky #Romancelandia
I can and am.
#AmWriting #AmEditing #Authorsky #Booksky #Romancelandia
December 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Don't tell me I can't work on 3 TOTALLY DIFFERENT WIPs at once.
I can and am.
#AmWriting #AmEditing #Authorsky #Booksky #Romancelandia
I can and am.
#AmWriting #AmEditing #Authorsky #Booksky #Romancelandia
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📣 New Podcast! "From Hellscape to Angel Wings – 2026, Come Get Me." on @Spreaker #ascent #backlash #black #butler #creative #dei #diversity #era #feminine #fiction #historical #industry #leadership #octavia #pirates #power #publishing #resilience #women #writers
From Hellscape to Angel Wings – 2026, Come Get Me.
From DEI Hellscape to Angel Wings – 2026, Come Get Me, bestselling author Vanessa Riley reflects on a year of contradiction, triumph, and reckoning. From speaking before 800 scholars at the Jane Austen Society Conference to navigating publishing chaos, stolen books, and cultural erasure, 2025 tested both faith and resolve. This essay explores the cost of visibility, the lie of “historical fantasy” when Black presence is undeniable, and the power of choosing ambition, danger, and self-determination. As Riley closes her thirty-first book and steps boldly into the new year, she claims ASCENT—a declaration of earned growth, unstoppable momentum, and leadership forged in chaos. This episode is a call to rise, to endure, and to tell the stories no one expected—but desperately need.
Key Words:
ASCENT, Black women writers, publishing industry, DEI backlash, historical fiction, Black women pirates, Regency era diversity, creative resilience, feminine power, leadership in chaos, storytelling as resistance, Octavia Butler legacy, Harriet Tubman leadership, faith and craft, author life essay, literary activism, writing through adversity, women choosing ambition
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December 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
📣 New Podcast! "From Hellscape to Angel Wings – 2026, Come Get Me." on @Spreaker #ascent #backlash #black #butler #creative #dei #diversity #era #feminine #fiction #historical #industry #leadership #octavia #pirates #power #publishing #resilience #women #writers
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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December 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)
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Politico claims Republicans are defying Trump on mail voting. While they’ll use any method to back their own voters, it’s a mistake to think the party isn’t aligned with the president’s push to restrict it — if anything, they are driving the effort.
Republicans Are Fully on Board with Trump's Attack on Mail Voting. But the Beltway Press Won't Say it
Read more here...
www.democracydocket.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Politico claims Republicans are defying Trump on mail voting. While they’ll use any method to back their own voters, it’s a mistake to think the party isn’t aligned with the president’s push to restrict it — if anything, they are driving the effort.
TikTok now mostly showing posts from 1 - 3 months ago is why it won’t be that hard to give up.
December 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
TikTok now mostly showing posts from 1 - 3 months ago is why it won’t be that hard to give up.
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December 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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How did two well-respected New York art galleries sell more than $80 million in fake art–and why almost no one ever was punished?
This mystery and more from our friends at @revealnews.org:
This mystery and more from our friends at @revealnews.org:
Fancy galleries, fake art
How two well-respected New York art galleries sold more than $80 million in fake art—and why almost no one ever was punished.
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December 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
How did two well-respected New York art galleries sell more than $80 million in fake art–and why almost no one ever was punished?
This mystery and more from our friends at @revealnews.org:
This mystery and more from our friends at @revealnews.org:
It’s 71° here in GA. 🥵
December 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s 71° here in GA. 🥵
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Folks: Your vote is a chess move. It's not falling in love. Please stop looking for the candidate who "inspires" you if the fundamentals aren't there, the experience isn't there, the clean social media/body art isn't there. Just. Stop. Making. The. Same. Mistake.
December 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Folks: Your vote is a chess move. It's not falling in love. Please stop looking for the candidate who "inspires" you if the fundamentals aren't there, the experience isn't there, the clean social media/body art isn't there. Just. Stop. Making. The. Same. Mistake.
I was today years old old when I learned the correct pronunciation of
SOTTO VOCE (sot-oh voh-chai)
SOTTO VOCE (sot-oh voh-chai)
December 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I was today years old old when I learned the correct pronunciation of
SOTTO VOCE (sot-oh voh-chai)
SOTTO VOCE (sot-oh voh-chai)
2026 is all about focusing on writing and significantly reducing my social media use.
December 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
2026 is all about focusing on writing and significantly reducing my social media use.
Soooo, it’s Musk we have to thank? 😏
December 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Soooo, it’s Musk we have to thank? 😏
It goes beyond cruelty.
It's unadulterated SADISM.
It's unadulterated SADISM.
December 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It goes beyond cruelty.
It's unadulterated SADISM.
It's unadulterated SADISM.
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Just spent an hour chatting with romance authors Joanna Shupe & Adriana Herrera about what makes Heated Rivalry a great ROMANCE adaptation.
www.youtube.com/live/hwikyrR...
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A Romance Break Down of Heated Rivalry
YouTube video by Joanna Shupe
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December 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Just spent an hour chatting with romance authors Joanna Shupe & Adriana Herrera about what makes Heated Rivalry a great ROMANCE adaptation.
www.youtube.com/live/hwikyrR...
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The idea that white supremacists care about Black Christians, much less Black Christians in Nigeria, is a joke.
And we’re all in on the joke, you know.
And we’re all in on the joke, you know.
December 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The idea that white supremacists care about Black Christians, much less Black Christians in Nigeria, is a joke.
And we’re all in on the joke, you know.
And we’re all in on the joke, you know.
December 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
December 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I see that Bridgerton is doing Cinderella this go around.
December 26, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I see that Bridgerton is doing Cinderella this go around.
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“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”
To my credit, I hated him long before Lake Michigan.
December 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
To my credit, I hated him long before Lake Michigan.
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ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington