How lovely! I also love Joanne clothes 🌟

Thank you!

‘Temi’ is a fictional character, but ‘guest stars’ appear, like Sarah Parker Remond the only known Black woman to sign the register for women's rights in 1866 & Alice Kinloch. Both these Black women have all made a difference at a time when women’s voices were muted.
I hope you enjoy it!

#newbook

It was also important for me to highlight the contributions of women of African descent who have mostly been erased from history.

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#blacksky #newbook #booksky💙📚

I was deliberate about relying less on the 'slave' or 'maid' narrative and instead place the focus on a resilient, resourceful and wealthy Victorian woman who just happens to be Black.
#blackhistory

Well, it's out of my hands now and hopefully in yours (tomorrow). Please buy my book so I can pay bills. And if you do buy it and don't like it - don't tell me! 😩 I am a writer and I am fragile!

The uncorrected book proofs are in. It's a book (almost) and it's a lovely Chrismassy red. Happy.
But now people get to review my book and say what they think of something so personal to me; a representation of my creative output... 😩😩

Cue self doubt, tiredness, general fedupness and wanting to scream into the abyss when yet another well meaning person asks; 'When's the book coming out?'

Weeks of procrastination and 'research' later- I start to tap stuff into the computer. Then type again and again and again until the edit monster almost consumes me and I decide I NEVER WANT TO SEE THIS MANUSCRIPT AGAIN. 😩