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My book haul from last weekend’s Black Book Bash in Jacksonville, Florida.

Includes books by @danielleallen.bsky.social, @itsladarrion.bsky.social, @ravynnkamia.bsky.social, and more.

A great book event and weekend! ✍🏾📚💕

#BlackBookBash #BlackBookBash2025 #BookSky #BlackBookSky
Photo of books purchased at Black Book Bash in Jacksonville.
October 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
fsmith827.bsky.social
It’s always hard waking up and preparing for “the real world” after attending book events like Black Book Bash for a long weekend.

But here we go. Back to life. Back to reality. Back to the day job. I hope your adjustment back is going well! 📚🙏🏾 #BlackBookBash #BlackBookBash2025
October 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
fsmith827.bsky.social
Shout out to @iamcaseyrkelley.bsky.social and the Black Book Bash team for an amazing book event in Jacksonville, FL, October 3-5, 2025.

It was indeed a literary family reunion and celebration of Black books in all genres. A few photos.

✍🏾📚💕 #BlackBookBash #BlackBookBash2025 #BookSky #BlackBookSky
Photo of Frederick Smith posing next to a colorful sign that looks like a stack of books with the words “Black Book Bash, Our Stories Our Terms, Love Jones & Situationships, Real Life Real Talk, Black To The Future, Coming In Hot and Coming Of Age, and Don’t Go In There!” Frederick Smith posing with a group of women holding up books by the author — Busy Ain’t the Half of Ot, One and Done, and Play it Forward. Frederick Smith and a reader holding up books Busy Ain’t the Half of It and One and Done. Frederick Smith (One and Done) and Kaia Alderson (A League of Her Own), authors, holding up their books.
October 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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The Black, Queer, & In Love panel at the Black Book Bash in Jacksonville, FL. Sunday, 10/5/25. ✍🏾📚🌈

L to R:
Me, Frederick Smith, One and Done;

Panel moderator Damian Jackson;

Clarence Haynes (@clarenceahaynes.bsky.social), The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery

#BlackBookBash #BookSky #BlackBookSky
The Black, Queer, and In Love panel at Black Book Bash in Jacksonville, Fl, Sunday, 10/5/25. Featuring Frederick Smith, Damian Jackson, and Clarence A. Haynes.
October 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
zinrock.bsky.social
best comment about my book being sold out at #BlackBookBash:

"saw the last one go! almost broke up a friendship! lol"

LMFAO
October 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
askdelta8.bsky.social
Me missing Day 3 of #BlackBookBash to fly back to reality

#Blacksky
#BlackBookSky
#BlackSpeculativeFictionMonth
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October 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
fsmith827.bsky.social
Loving this keynote address at Black Book Bash.

Author Danielle Allen (@danielleallen.bsky.social)
being interviewed by @taliacadet.bsky.social.

Informative and inspiring.

✍🏾📚💕 #BlackBookBash #BlackBookSky #Romancelandia
Talia Cadet interviewing author Danielle Allen on stage at the Black Book Bash in Jacksonville, Florida.
October 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
fsmith827.bsky.social
If you’re at Black Book Bash this weekend, I invite you to stop by the panel I’m on with Clarence Haynes & DJ Reads Books.

Black, Queer, & In Love
Sunday, 10/5/25, 9-9:45 am
Room: City Terrace 6

Discussing Black Queer Love in fiction. ✍🏾📚💕🌈

#BlackBookBash #Jacksonville #BookSky #BlackBookSky
October 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
askdelta8.bsky.social
Had an EXCELLENT time socializing, vibing, and talking about #SpeculativeFiction at #BlackBookBash this weekend
Cover of book AMERICAN GHOUL by Michelle McGill-Vargas Photo of Authors Michelle McGill-Vargas, Esme Addison, Falencia Jean-Francois, and book influencer Lo
October 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
zinrock.bsky.social
and my book has sold out!!

#BlackBookBash
October 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
fsmith827.bsky.social
If you’re at Black Book Bash, connect with my world of Black MM Romance novels. I’ll be in the signing space afternoons.

My latest, One and Done, is a Black, Queer, Higher Ed, Bay Area romance on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social

www.boldstrokesbooks.com/books/freder...

#BlackBookBash #BookSky
Book covers of Frederick Smith novels: One and Done, Busy Ain’t the Half of It, In Case You Forgot, and Play It Forward.
October 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Love Over 40 panel with AAC Arthur / Lacey Baker & Jacinta Howard

#blackbookbash day2 🥳

#Blackbooksky
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October 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
fsmith827.bsky.social
When author friends meet up at Black Book Bash in Jacksonville, Florida… ✍🏾📚💕 @rasheed.bsky.social, @farrahrochon.bsky.social, and me, Frederick Smith.

#BlackBookBash #Jacksonville #BlackBookSky #BookSky
Photo of authors Rasheed Newson, Farrah Rochon, and Frederick Smith at Black Book Bash in Jacksonville, FL.
October 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Panel with @kellyekell.bsky.social and @wandamowrites.bsky.social at #blackbookbash Jax. My heart is full!!
Two women sit side by side in a conference room. The woman on the left, wearing a green jumpsuit and a lanyard that reads “Talent,” gestures with her hands while speaking, holding a paper cutout on a stick. The woman on the right, wearing a black dress with silver jewelry, listens attentively with a thoughtful expression, holding a card in her lap. A small black speaker and other items sit on a chair beside them. Behind them, tall beige curtains cover the windows.
October 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Do I read Romantasy? No. Did I need to find and hug @rachelhowzell.bsky.social ? Absolutely! Today is my fan girl day at #blackbookbash. Ima just be running around meeting authors. I’m in heaven.
Two women sit in a conference room during what appears to be a casual discussion or panel. The woman on the left, dressed in black, holds a Starbucks cup and looks thoughtful. The woman on the right, dressed in a striped sweater and light pink pants, is smiling warmly. Both wear lanyards with badges. Empty chairs are arranged around them, and the background features long beige curtains with a small window letting in natural light.
October 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
fsmith827.bsky.social
Got my table ready to meet & greet readers at Black Book Bash in Jacksonville, FL., this weekend.

And a cheat sheet about my MM romance titles on sale by the onsite bookstore (One and Done) or me (my backlist).

See you soon! ✍🏾📚💕🌈

iamcaseyrkelley.com/pages/b3-home

#BlackBookBash #Jacksonville
Frederick Smith author table with banners, table signs, book descriptions, and more at Black Book Bash in Jacksonville, FL. A quick guide to Frederick Smith’s books for black Book Bash table signing time ONE AND DONE Black, Queer, Higher Ed, Bay Area, Meet Cute /Meet Disaster at a Beyoncé themed drag brunch. Men in their 40s BUSY AIN’T THE HALF OF IT LA's #1 news anchor is a... Single dad, Having a Bi-awakening. Raising savvy teens. And falls for their hot principal. IN CASE YOU FORGOT Two newly-single Black guys (one 30; one 40) navigating love and loss start anew in West Hollywood, of all places. PLAY IT FORWARD A Celebrity/Normie Romance. The NBA player courts the community activist running a LGBTQ Youth Center in South LA. An image projected on the wall says “Welcome Readers to Black Book Bash. A Literary Family Reunion.”
October 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
zinrock.bsky.social
just met Rachel Howzell Hall and Kellye Garrett and I'm *amped* for this!!

#BlackBookBash
October 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
fsmith827.bsky.social
Landed in Jacksonville now after a turbulent and bumpy descent into the airport. Thinking it’s the tropical storm winds in the vicinity.

Anyway. On the way to the hotel and check in for Black Book Bash. ✍🏾📚

iamcaseyrkelley.com/pages/b3-home

#BlackBookBash #Jacksonville #BlackBookSky #BookSky
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October 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Publix Pulls Out of Black Book Bash A Week Before Event #news #publix #BlackBookBash
{Between The Lines} Publix Sponsorship Dispute Clouds ‘Black Book Bash’ Event
The organizers of the Black Book Bash, a Black authors event scheduled for this weekend in Jacksonville, say Publix pulled out as a sponsor at the last minute. In a viral video, organizer Casey Kelly claimed Publix’s withdrawal forced organizers to use their own money to keep the event going. Publix, however, disputes this. A company communications director told…
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October 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
zinrock.bsky.social
well on my way to #BlackBookBash!!
October 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
knightauthor.bsky.social
Join me and author Kim Johnson at #blackbookbash in Jacksonville Sat. at 9 am. We’re talking YA historical fiction.
October 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
kellyekell.bsky.social
Yay! #BlackBookBash is this weekend. I'll be taking part in the Don't Go In There! crime fiction track talking all things suspense with the @wandamowrites.bsky.social & Sierra Tribble on Friday at 11.

If you're in the Jacksonville area, definitely consider coming: iamcaseyrkelley.com/pages/b3-home
September 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Damn Publix #BlackBookBash #Jacksonville #Florida #BoycottPublix
September 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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September 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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This is diabolical! Publix should be ashamed of themselves!
#blacksky #blackbookbash
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Publix offered to be the exclusive sponsor of the black book bash in Jacksonville. On Monday they rescinded that offer. Y’all, if that ain’t sabotage, i don’t know what is. You can support the Black Book Bash here iamcaseyrkelley.com/products/sup...
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September 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM