It's The End Of An Era

Hello Friends, I know that, like me, many of you have spent the past week on the verge of a mental breakdown, trying to decide if screaming or crying ...Show more

It's The End Of An Era

Hello Friends,

I know that, like me, many of you have spent the past week on the verge of a mental breakdown, trying to decide if screaming or crying would make you feel better, saving your Tiktok videos and trying to move your community to other sites. It's been rough.

Tiktok was my largest platform.Tiktok was my favorite app for book recommendations. Tiktok was the place I felt most connected.

But I am reminded today that community doesn't end because an app disappears. All of us are together here to yap about our love for books! All of us are here because we want to continue to uplift and promote marginalized voices in publishing and losing Tiktok doesn't mean the work stops, it just means it gets harder.

WE ARE PUBLISHING A BOOK. Granted, we haven't found it yet- but it is happening! We get to work together to publish Indigenous stories. Our work is necessary.

Here is what you can do today to help:

  • Follow me on Instagram, share one of my posts about Native books to your stoeis and ask your followers to follow me.I want to make sure I can get our first book in front of as mny people s possible and I think this is going to be the best option. Bookstagram

  • Subscribe to me on Youtube. I am really going to be focusing on building out my Youtube this year. Right now, all I have is some of my Tiktok videos uploaded to shorts, but I've been wanting to film longer content! What kind of content would you like to see from me here? subscribe to my YouTube

  • Join the Boozhoo Books Community Discord! Both my Women in Horror Book Club (currently reading The Good House by Tananarive Due) and Indigenous Book Club (currently reading The Unfinished by Cheryl Isaacs) are now hosted in Discord. We yap about books, other forms of media, current events, do readathons and share cat photos! What's better than making new book friends Join the Community Discord

I heard that Tiktok will be shut down at 530pm PST/830pm EST. I will be scrolling and crying and laughing until then. I might even pop into a Tiktok Live with Michael Laborn from Left Unread Books for old times sake. (Should we start doing topic focused lives together on IG or Youtube? Which platorm and why? And what are some topics you'd. love to hear us chat about)

Monday is a holiday, so Quiet Time Book Club is likely canceled. Maybe we can arrange a different day if follks are interested. (Join the Discord!)

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Naomi

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Jan 18

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