Will Packer, the groundbreaking producer behind the films “Girls Trip”, “Stomp the Yard” and many more, is hitting the road to promote his new book: Who Better Than You?: The Art of Healthy Arrogance & Dreaming Big! Catch him live on tour: February 17th: At the Strand Bookstore in Manhattan, in conversation with Sunny Hostin February 19th: At…
Award-winning producer and journalist Shirley Neal’s book, AfroCentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture, has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work By a Debut Author. In AfroCentric Style, Neal explores the Black community’s ongoing influence on the world of pop culture, enhanced by more than 100…
Serendipity Literary Agency CEO and AALA President Regina Brooks is one of five publishing professionals chosen by Publishers Weekly as a 2024 Notable. “Drawing on her first career working at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Regina Brooks is bringing the innovative spirit of an engineer to the publishing industry… Since joining the Association of American…
Moore Black Press, originally founded in 1997 by Detroit Poet Laureate jessica Care moore, has relaunched as an imprint of Amistad/HarperCollins, celebrating its first publication: Every Where Alien by poet Brad Walrond. Now co-run by moore and Regina Brooks of Serendipity Literary Agency, MBP is committed to publishing revolutionary works by leading and emerging Black…
Diane Richards, executive director of the Harlem Writers Guild, was celebrated with a cover feature in Publishers Weekly in honor of her new book Ella. The book, a novel based on the life of Ella Fitzgerald, also received a Publishers Weekly starred review and was chosen for the “Sarah Selects” book club by Amazon Books Editorial Director Sarah Gelman.
The New Brownies’ Book: A Love Letter to Black Families, compiled by Dr. Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer, is the 2024 NAACP Image Award winner in the “Outstanding Literary Work: Non-Fiction” category. Inspired by W. E. B. DuBois’ Brownies’ Book magazine from the 1920s, this collection of art and writing by more than 50 contributors…
Former president Barack Obama, A.K.A. “Skinny Santa”, surprised children at a Chicago school with a live holiday reading of Santa’s Gotta Go, a hilarious new picture book written by Serendipity Lit author Derrick Barnes and illustrated by Courtney Lovett! The event was covered by CBS, NBC, and MSNBC. Look for your own copy of Santa’s Gotta…
The New Brownies’ Book by Dr. Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer was recommended by Oprah Daily as a perfect 2023 holiday gift! This acclaimed anthology of Black creative work that “consoles, explains, entertains, and inspires” has also been featured in Essence, CNN, The New York Times, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, The Philadelphia Tribune, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.…
Shitty Craft Club by Sam Reece, with photography by Lizzie Darden, has been named one of Barnes & Noble’s best books of the year, in the “Best of Being Creative” category. This hilarious crafting/mindfulness book about rejecting perfectionism and doing what makes you happy, based on the author’s viral TikTok account, has also been spotlighted…
A new article in the New York Times spotlights both The Brownies Book– W.E.B Du Bois’s publication from the 1920s which sought to counter racial stereotypes and empower Black children with positive representation– and The New Brownies’ Book compiled by Serendipity Lit’s Dr. Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer. Like the original, The New Brownies’ Book: A…
