The Lit Library

Welcome back to The Lit Library! May the spirit of literacy bloom in your life! Your favorite literary baddies are back and somewhat rested after taking BRBF26 by storm! The ladies are filled with joy and sit down for a casual chat about one of Black Romance’s biggest book events of the year! Welcome to The Lit Library, where the books are Black, the discussions are bold, and this week’s lesson wi...

Welcome back to The Lit Library! May the spirit of literacy bloom in your life! Your favorite literary baddies are back and ready to talk books! That’s right–we are bringing you Tati Richardson’s second book in the boss chick series, Struck Speechless. This romantic comedy centers around Jackie Miles, sports agent to the stars and Antonio Steel, retired NFL player turned sports agent. Jackie and A...

Welcome back to The Lit Library! April showers bring highly anticipated releases! Your favorite literary baddies are back with a special guest! That’s right–we have another amazing guest. THEE Natasha Bishop stops by to discuss her upcoming release, The Art of Love You. As we wait for April 14th, we ask Natasha to introduce readers to Dani and Micah and their game of tug-o-war. This is a beautiful...

Welcome back to The Lit Library! Your favorite literary baddies are ready to get back to our #BOTM routine and this month we’re discussing We Don’t Talk About Carol. The debut novel from Kristen L. Berry. Imagine finding out one day you had an aunt who went “missing” and nobody bothered to look for her. And when you did go digging you were always met with resistance and lies. That’s what happens w...

Welcome back to The Lit Library! Our Legendary February hits its final stop on the #RoadtoBRBF26. This week we are joined by the brilliant Frederick Smith.  Your favorite literary baddies are so excited to chat with Frederick as he is one of the emerging queer voices in Black Romance. Frederick drops knowledge on sharpening your pen. The legends who inspire him and reading outside of your genre. W...

Welcome back to The Lit Library! Our Legendary February hits its final stop on the #RoadtoBRBF26. This week we are joined by yet another Black Romance Legend, Brenda Jackson.  Your favorite literary baddies are excited and in awe to have the opportunity to sit down with Miss Brenda Jackson who has penned over 150 novels. She is the first Black Romance author to be a NY Times and USA Today Best Sel...

Welcome back to The Lit Library! Our Legendary February series continues as we keep on down the #RoadtoBRBF26 journey. This week we are joined by yet another Black Romance pioneer and legend, Donna Hill.  Your favorite literary baddies are honored and in awe to have the opportunity to sit down with Miss Donna who has maintained 35 years of longevity in the literary world. Not only does she share k...

Welcome back to The Lit Library! This episode kicks off our Legendary February series as part of our #RoadtoBRBF26 . Who better to usher in the series than THEE legend herself, Miss Beverly Jenkins.  Your favorite literary baddies are honored and in awe to have the opportunity to sit down with Miss Beverly and talk all things Black Romance! We discuss Miss Beverly’s first published book, Night Son...

Welcome back to The Lit Library! This episode we’re back and ready to discuss our #BOTM–Waiting To Exhale. Your favorite literary baddies sit down and examine the Terry McMillan classic with a 30+ perspective. We slide down memory lane as we talk Savannah, Gloria, Robin and Bernadine. This book and the movie certainly hits different when you’re in a more mature phase of your womanhood. Welcome to...

Welcome back to The Lit Library! As we continue on our road to #BRBF26, we welcome the incomparable Nicole Falls, author of over 50 published novels, Nicole is a trailblazing voice in Black Romance. Your favorite literary baddies sit down with Nicole to talk about her passion and purpose as an author. She drops some gems for new pens in the space, and we take time to give Nicole the flowers she de...

Welcome back to The Lit Library! Grab a seat and some water as we turn the temperature alllll the way up as we welcome the incomparable Aria “Big Unk” Daze, a rising force in modern Black erotica whose pen knows exactly where to press, tease, and linger. Your favorite literary baddies sit down with Aria to talk craft, kink, character obsession, and the delicious nonlinear magic of writing desire t...

Things are getting dangerously delicious in The Lit Library this month. We cracked open Our Vicious Oaths expecting a little magic, a little mayhem… and instead got a whole buffet of backstabbing besties, morally flexible hotties, ancient curses with no respect for personal boundaries, and enough jaw-dropping plot twists to make us question our own life choices. Join us as we dive headfirst into N...

This week in The Lit Library’s road to #BRBF26, the ladies welcome the incomparable Tia Love, author of the wildly addictive Bible Study. We’re diving deep into the pages where devotion meets temptation, faith meets flesh, and the sanctuary gets just a little… steamy. Tia takes us behind the altar and into the writing process, sharing how she crafted a story that blends Black church culture, famil...

Grand Rising Kings and Queens, settle in as we light some nag champa and dive into this episode headfirst. Shawndra, Jaleesa, DH Renfroe, and Dr. Diamond strolled into the addictive, tension-packed world of Tiffany D. Jackson’s The Scammer . Join us as we unpack Jackson’s razor-sharp character work, twisty plot turns, and the unsettling gray areas between survival, manipulation, and truth. We expl...

Grab your pumpkin spice latte, or something a little stronger, because this episode of The Lit Library is straight out of your nightmares (in the best way). Jaleesa, Diamond, Shawndra, and Fancy crack open Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory, a chilling, brilliant, and deeply human story that’ll make you think twice about creaky floorboards and Southern “reform” schools. 👻 We’re talking ghosts, gene...

Welcome back book baes! Weeee are back with another amazing author as we continue our limited series, The Road to #BRBF26, where we sit down with some of your favorite authors  headed to #BRBF26! This month, we have the extremely talented, Kami Holt author of Search My Soul, Intercept My Heart, and so many more amazing book. Today she pops in to discuss when she fell in love with black romance rea...

Welcome back book baes! Weeee are kicking off our limited series, The Road to #BRBF26, where we sit down with some of our favorite featured authors you can expect to see at #BRBF26! First up, we have the extremely talented hybrid baddie, Tati Richardson aka T.M. Richardson, author of Losing Sight and The Secrets Series! We discuss everything from the tropes we could spend the week in, to big Nadin...

Welcome back book baes! On this episode of The Lit Library, we crack open ReShonda Tate’s dazzling historical fiction novel, The Queen of Sugar Hill. Set against the glittering backdrop of 1940s and 50s Atlanta, this historical fiction reimagines the life of Hattie McDaniel—the first Black woman to win an Academy Award—and places her at the center of a story filled with ambition, glamour, heartbre...

We have a very special episode today , our Podiversary! It's been one whole year of reviewing book and shooting the shit as friends who love to read, and it's only right we bring it back to where it all began for our BOTM, Danielle Allen and The Curve series. We started episode one with Curvy Girl Summer and we're celebrating year one with Nina and Russ as we dive into, Plus Size Playe...

We have a very special episode today as we welcome our first guest to The Lit Library and New Pen On The Block! Author extraordinaire and pen maven, DL White  drops it to talk about books, writing, and drops some gems of wisdom on new pens, C.M. Barnes and DH Renfroe! The ladies get together to pick DL’s brilliant mind and her next release, Missing Persons.  Panel  DL White - 🔗 https://www.booksb...

We have a very special episode today as we introduce our very 1st New Pen On The Block author, and resident book baddie, DH Renfroe. The ladies get together to not only talk about her debut release, Creative Differences as well as pick her brain as a new author, her creative process, and what’s next for the newest pen on the block! Panel  Shawndra - @Elle_Monique (X) | @Poppin_Pages (Tik Tok) | @P...

Y’all missed us? Good, we missed y’all too! Welcome back to The Lit Library! The ladies are together again to re-cap the beauty that was the inaugural Black Romance Book Fest. Your resident book baddies gush over the love, light, support, and black ass good time they had at the event. Tune in and get your coins ready for 2026! Panel  Shawndra - @Elle_Monique (X) | @Poppin_Pages (Tik Tok) | @Poppin...

Welcome to a very special episode of The Lit Library! You might notice our resident menace missing from this episode, but that’s for a reason. Today we are discussing the debut novel, ENIGMA from our resident book baddie Candice aka C.M. Barnes. We get very familiar with Caleb, Layanna, Ahmir, Dana, and Ajaih in this why choose urban erotica! It gets filthy, but press play anyways and hear what yo...

Happy Friday and welcome back to The Lit Library! Join us for a start of the weekend book dive in as Shawndra, Fancy, and Bri discuss Wahala the debut novel from author Nikki May. We meet Ronke, Boo, and Simi, a close knit group of friends navigating life as they try to chase their dreams. Things take an unexpected turn when they befriend Isobel, where they quickly learn three’s company but four’s...

Welcome back to The Lit Library! Settle in with us as we get into this special episode to discuss the final book of T.M. Richardson’s The Secrets Series, The Opportunity. We meet Nadine and her judgemental ways in The Oath, and we tolerate her in The Offer, but we finally learn her story in The Opportunity. Shawndra, Fancy, and Candice sit down to talk about the unique spin Tati puts on her story...