Week Four Day One-Five: Favorite Web Television Channels of 2015 + amazing #YA adventure books #giveaway

So as promised, we're bringing our 4th week of favorites! 

Week Three Day One-Five: Favorite #Hashtags of 2015 + amazing #YA adventure books #giveaway

 So we totally disappeared last week! The preparation of our book release got us side tracked just a wee bit, but we still wanted to introduce what we would've chosen if our week's wouldn't have gotten off track! They're too good not to share, so today I'll share what we would've chosen from Week 3, and tomorrow I'll share what we would've chosen for this week, which is 4!

Week Two Day Five Book Boos: I Hunt Killers's Jasper Dent @barrylyga+ amazing #YA adventure books #giveaway

Okay so I know what you're thinking...Anyone who read this book knows the kind of guy Jasper Dent was and knows he had some pretty dark thoughts. I mean the guy fantasizes about hurting women, a talent he picked up from Dear Old Dad.(I never get tired of saying that!) Now that doesn't exactly make Jasper topping anyone's Top Ten Crush alert but I have to explain why it is I loved "Baby Billy Dent" so damn much!

Jasper had mommy issues. Jasper had flaws, Jasper had demons that he was battling everyday. He knew that without interpersonal relationships he would be forced to live alone with the voices inside his head telling him to do bad things that would send him over the deep end.

Week Two Day Four Book Boos: The Boy in the Black Suit's Matthew @JasonReynolds83 + amazing #YA adventure books #giveaway

So I haven't had a free minute to post our 4th choice in Book Boos, but since it's just before midnight my time(EST) I figure, it cant hurt to post it before the day ends!

Our next Book Boo comes from one of the first reviews I gave this year(Guinevere). It's been bugging me all the time after that #WeNeedDiverseBooks tweet BookRiot highlighted about Black boys.

Made us wonder whether we were doing enough to highlight more Black boys in books, and not just boys of color as a whole.

Highlighting all boys of color is important, but in an era where #BlackLivesMatter is still a concept that is not widely accepted, it's important to have, share, highlight, and make sure positive images of Black boys and girls make it through =)

Our Day Four Book Boo is "Matthew" from "The Boy in the Black Suit".(My fan-casting is totally my fantasy btw! XD )

Week Two Day Three Book Boos: Magic Academy's Raj @MagicAcademy_ E.R. Ross Author Interview + amazing #YA adventure books #giveaway

So we were on Twitter a few weeks back when we got approached by this awesome author. For a while now, we hadn't been taking review queries, to keep the commitments we've made with other requests, as well as fit in time for our own reads, but the synopsis intrigued us ^_^

One of the points that stood out was that it was a Fantasy book about magic with a Black girl at it's center.

Wha????

Magic Academy's Lace

Week Two Day Two: Book Boos: Cover Reveal + Sterling and Tetra from The Mark of Noba + amazing #YA adventure books #giveaway

Today is the cover reveal for The Mark of Noba by GL Tomas. This cover reveal is organized by Lola's Blog Tours.

Week Two Day One: Book Boos: Yasmin from The Beast of Callaire @luxguardians + amazing #YA adventure books #giveaway

So we've finally reached the week I've been waiting for in our favorites. Do you ever just read a book just to see if you'll connect to the relationship between the characters?

First Week Twinja Favorites Month Wrap-up: #Stonewall , #BlerdBookChat, and the start of Week 2!

What a week!

We were able to highlight 5 awesome book covers(including one that is in our awesome giveaway)plus bring attention to a worthy cause!

Causes Worth Fighting For: The Future Fire Fundraiser @thefuturefire @BleedingChrome

 So we have some bonus guests this month. We've learned a lot about The Future Fire in the past, as Kathryn Allan, co-editor of The Future Fire, has graced us with her presence last year with the awesome anthology "Accessing The Future", which highlights Science Fiction that's not only feminist, but inclusive.

Week One Day Five Favorite Covers: Bad II The Bone by @AntonMarks + amazing #YA adventure books #giveaway

If Misty Knight and Colleen Wing had alter egos, they might be something like this book cover!

Week One Day Four Favorite Covers: Team Human by @sarahreesbrenna @JustineLavaworm + amazing #YA adventure books #giveaway

Just going to be friggin' honest. What really draws us to this cover? That it's unmistakeably got a girl of color on the cover IN THE MIDDLE(where most folks eyes divert)and looking super awesome!

Week One Day Three Favorite Covers: @KNRwrites Niko/Monster + amazing #YA adventure books #giveaway

So we couldn't decide whether we wanted to go with Niko, Book One in Kayti Nika Raet's Outsider Chronicles, or Monster, Book Four in the same series.

Week One Day Two Favorite Covers: @StevendosSantos Dagger Cover Reveal and Interview + amazing YA adventure books giveaway

We're Day Two of our Favorite Covers Week, and we're so delighted to be highlighting a new release!

Week One Day One Favorite Covers: Coal @constanceburris + #YA #awesome #bookgiveaway

 

*Cracks knuckles* Ahhh so where were we? Ah yes, It it our first day of our beloved #Favoritecovers week. 

Our favorites are coming!

 Today marks Day One of our Week One: Favorite Covers

Twinja Book Reviews Favorite's Month is back!

It's that time again!

Read our first chapter of "The Mark Of Noba" on Wattpad!

So we jumped on the bandwagon and joined Wattpad! 

It's an awesome social network for writers to gain audiences for their work. It's truly for everyone. Four authors that I follow and read myself are up there(to name a few Justina Ireland, Marissa Meyer, Heather Heffner and Red Harvey).

We're still in the middle of editing our first work under GL Tomas. But we wanted to start sharing our unedited work. 

Also take in mind, the cover up there, is an untouched, unedited, definitely not going to be the cover, cover of the book. Before we found our artist soul mate Alice Bessoni(which if your nosy, you can find it snooping around) =) We commissioned covers, not sure of what we wanted.

But an awesome cover pays for itself, and our actual cover is FREAKING AWESOME!

We'll be revealing an unedited chapter a week for Act I of "The Mark of Noba."

"The Mark of Noba" follows the exploits of Sterling Wayfairer, who finds out he is spiritually linked to Sai Liber-Tetraphirmaportacheeq(Don't worry, he can never pronounce it either!) aka Tetra.

They share a connection known as a "Bond" which results in them sharing each other's soul, and enables them to manipulate elements, known as "riding."

If you didn't get a chance to gander at them a few weeks/months back, when we featured them during our Twinja Book Reviews Favorites Month, and at any random given time that we felt like it...Here is how we picture Sterling and Tetra!

Follow the link below!

Beyond Black and Ability: Twinja Book Reviews Top Ten List of Black Main Characters with Disabilities in Speculative Fiction #BSFM

So we're revealing some pretty cool lists of novels(which will include full length, novellas, short stories in anthologies, and the like) and the more we immerse ourselves in diversity, the more we actually learn about it.

Just with this blog alone, we've learned just how important intersectionality is, so like our list featuring books with Black Queer main characters in spec fic, this one is especially important.

Disability is often the MOST neglected marginalization. Too many people are afraid of addressing disability, and it's often why many attempts at inclusion end up problematic.

Characters with disabilities are especially important to children. Children of color dont often have proper representation, so imagine being a child of color AND having a disability.

Winner of our favorites month!

So it's the 2nd of September, and we got caught up with yesterday being Labor Day, and fishing through the comments, to select two winners!

Ashfa and S.

Winners will be contacted through email or comments shortly!

Week Four of OUR Favorites, Day Five:Favorite Authors- Octavia Butler + Ellen Oh's Prophecy/Warrior & Sarwat Chadda's The Savage Fortress/The City of Death giveaway!

So we've officially reached the last day of our event. It's so sad to see we are on the very last day of showing the book blogosphere community all of our favorite works of art that highlight diversity.

We've showed some awesome book covers, highlighted some great digital artists who always manage to draw and paint diversely. We've even showcased some of our favorite book bloggers!

Our last week we highlighted authors. Some of our favorites included newbie to our list Sarwat Chadda, long time favorites such as Emlyn Chand, Barry Lyga, and most of all Ellen Oh.

But there's just one more author who's made a great impact in our lives, and I dont think authors of color, particularly ones who write in the SF/F, Horror or Speculative Fiction genres, would be anywhere with her.

Our last and final favorite:

Octavia Butler