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Nikki Payne
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Author of Pride and Protest and Sex, Lies and Sensibility! @Berkley

👇🏾Pre-order Princess and the P.I.
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Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · Jan 17
🚨 PRINCESS AND THE PI COVER REVEAL TIME! 🚨Okay, I told artist Amacieforever I wanted a sexy noir detective vibe, but she heard, “Why not make them want to F#@$ the cover?”
I am not mad at it. 👏🏾
Thank you to my team at Berkley Romance 💕
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Preorder here👇🏾
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I just want to talk about the way Ken Follett can give us in-depth medieval minutia about the technicalities of bridge building and also slay me with an absolutely breathless Romance. I mean tension, stakes, hot scenes what can't the man do? 😭 #bookthreads
November 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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🚨New substack!
I asked one question on my book tour...❓"When was the first time your boobs were the drama?"
and y’all… the stories.😮‍💨
Duct tape. Bloody Boobs. Praise dances.
The Tea is, our boobs have been everybody’s business but ours.🍿 Free therapy in the comments.
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Tittie Tales
The secret anthropology of boobs, shame, and survival. Come get free therapy in the comments.
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October 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Wow! Thank you all so much! What did y'all do? This is truly amazing!
September 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Reposted by Nikki Payne
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THE PRINCESS AND THE P.I. by @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social is the hard-boiled, true-crime-savvy romance you need as the days get colder. Heavy on religious trauma, but also sometimes you have to go undercover as a couple in a sex club. You know, for justice. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752214...
The Princess and the P.I. by Nikki Payne: 9780593817360 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An amateur online sleuth must enlist the help of a jaded PI to clear her name while taking down a shady tech start-up in this exhilarating romantic suspense novel. Fiona Addai is ready to set her pla...
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September 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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I have no words. This Kickstarter campaign has raised 👑a million dollars!!👑👑Thank you all so much for everything you have contributed to make the After The End Kickstarter a success 😲😲
Thank you Adriana Herrera and Ali Hazelwood for thinking big over empanadas
September 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Young Thug's phone calls were leaked and he is telling on everybody...
My new substack is live and I talk about the feminization of gossip and performative masculinity in hip hop.
WHO is actually putting on a show?
paynefultruth.substack.com/p/the-real-p...
The Real Performative Male Contest Is Happening in Hip Hop
Young Thug’s leaked jail calls reveal what soft-boy contests can’t: masculinity is always performed, and always policed.
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September 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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I feel like this book has been a pre-order for 84 years
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September 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I mean...I'm very much a thug, But don't these book spines look so cute together?🥰🫣
August 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Sinners and K-Pop Demon Hunters are the👏🏾 same👏🏾 damn🧵 movie. Not about vampires. Not about demons.
About the monster we all live with: Netflix Fight me, or read why → open.substack.com/pub/payneful...
Southern Gothic Honmoon:
In Sinners and K-Pop Demon Hunters, the scariest monster is assimilation
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August 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Essence Fest bombed.
African braiding shops are getting boycotted.
Tyla sold 3.7K units after a Grammy.

Are African Americans beefing with Africans? And why Is interracial romance catching strays?

📖 The Anthropology of a Flop → paynefultruth.substack.com/p/tyla-flopp...
Tyla Flopped. The Black Diaspora Did Too.
How a Grammy winner’s crash-and-burn exposed our messiest Black love politics.
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August 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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🚨SALE ALERT🚨
My book is just $1.99 now through August 3!
✨It’s Black Pride and Prejudice with Washington, D.C. as its beating heart.✨
Plus get to know Maurice from Princess and the PI before he ever picked up a badge or broke a heart.
tag a fellow Austen girlie for a buddy read🫱🏾‍🫲🏽
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July 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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What do "Good jeans" and All white Arkansas towns have to do with your TBR?
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Sidney Sweeney and The White Utopia Fantasy in romance
You are undesirable...hope this helps
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July 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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THE USUAL SUSPECTS ARE COMING TO YOUR CITY

📚 THE PRINCESS AND THE PI @berkleyromance Will be out September 16th and she's a bit of a genre shift. Will you ride with me?
I'm hitting the road with the DOPEST lineup. Come see about me friends!
July 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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You could pre-order my book and save me from a life of crime.
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The Princess and the P.I.|Paperback
An amateur online sleuth must enlist the help of a jaded PI to clear her name while taking down a shady tech start-up in this exhilarating romantic suspense novel.Fiona Addai is ready to set her plan ...
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July 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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I wrote a post about the Black subversive and creating counter hedgemonic spaces within capitalist structure...so you know a fun post👏🏾👏🏾
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Beyoncé, in DC, July 4th
A Subversive Playbook for Creatives
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July 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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AI romance in the substack this month. Come fight me in the comments

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June 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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We got to talk about these boobs
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Annie's Bosom
How 'Sinners' Subverts the Mammy Trope
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May 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Oh y'all bout to feel this one...
Get the Goodreads Galley today. www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
May 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Princess and the PI Is available for request at #netgally
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This one’s for the Veronica Mars girlies, the Castle fiends, and the sickos who watch SVU mostly for Elliot and Olivia to kiss already!
Request it.
Pre-order it.
Ask your library if they plan to hold it!
The Princess and the P.I.
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April 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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God forbid a girl love an asshole...
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Momma Don't Like Your Man... You in Danger Girl
When It’s You and Your Boo Against the World—and Your Family’s the World
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April 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Elon Musk is an incel, corny, built like a deep breath, and has 14 children.
I'mma just sit that right here. 🤔 Today's newsletter: Why our Mr. Darcy fantasy is rooted in scarcity and hoarding Mammoth meat.
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10,000 Pounds a year: Why We Still Swoon Over Rich Partners
Wealth kink is real...
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March 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Can't wait for you all to meet Fiona 💖💖 bit.ly/41xv9RV
March 5, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Reposted by Nikki Payne
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Wish I could give this more than 5 stars! I absolutely loved this modern retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice! It's LOL hilarious with great slow burn tension 🥵 and the sweetest ending! @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social @berkleyromance.bsky.social #prideandprotest #romancebooks #nikkipayne
The image is a colorful book review graphic for the novel "Pride and Protest" by Nikki Payne. The background features vibrant pink and purple flowers. The text "Book Review" is written in orange at the top. Surrounding the book cover are various descriptive phrases in purple text with orange arrows pointing to the book: "LOL hilarious," "Multi POV," "Enemies to Lovers," "Slow burn," "Spicy" with three chili pepper icons, and "Pride & Prejudice Retelling." At the bottom left of the image, there is a logo of a heart with a book and the social handle '@HEARTSANDTHRILLERS' and a five-star rating. The book cover itself is orange with black and purple floral designs and the title "Pride and Protest" in white text. The author's name, Nikki Payne, is at the top in white text. This image features a quote in orange text on a white background with purple flowers at the top and bottom. The quote reads: 'She wanted to be a student with someone for the rest of her life. Everyone she met was so in love with their own thinking. It wasn't too much to ask for a thoughtful, measured, kind man who could also lay pipe.' The social handle @HEARTSANDTHRILLERS is in the middle of the graphic. In the bottom right corner, there is a book cover for 'Pride and Protest' by Nikki Payne. The book cover is orange with purple flowers and a silhouette of a person. There is also a logo of a heart with a book and the social handle '@HEARTSANDTHRILLERS' at the bottom left corner. This image features a quote in orange text on a white background with purple flowers at the top and bottom. The quote reads: 'Something frayed inside her. Because suddenly she could see why people threw themselves into the arms of lovers, despite the wreckage it would cause. She understood how so many things could fall away in someone’s arms.' The social handle @HEARTSANDTHRILLERS is in the middle of the graphic. In the bottom right corner, there is a book cover for 'Pride and Protest' by Nikki Payne. The book cover is orange with purple flowers and a silhouette of a person. There is also a logo of a heart with a book and the social handle '@HEARTSANDTHRILLERS' at the bottom left corner. This image features a quote in orange text on a white background with purple flowers at the top and bottom. The quote reads: 'There are two types of people in the world. He suddenly understood it so perfectly now. Those that give themselves over to a moment, and those who are too inside their own heads to really experience anything. He had been the latter for far too long.' The social handle @HEARTSANDTHRILLERS is in the middle of the graphic. In the bottom right corner, there is a book cover for 'Pride and Protest' by Nikki Payne. The book cover is orange with purple flowers and a silhouette of a person. There is also a logo of a heart with a book and the social handle '@HEARTSANDTHRILLERS' at the bottom left corner.
February 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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🚨New post is live! Get into why they make your blood boil but you're still staring at their junk
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Yaay! it's almost Valentine's day! Let's Stab!
Why Enemies-to-lovers is God Tier evolutionary trickery
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February 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Be good to your future self!
#booksky#blacksky
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February 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM