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The Love Dare

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Lois Reads Books

FCBG

Sadé Magazine

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Check 'Em Out Books

Book Shortie

Culture Fly: Abiola Bello on creating love stories in London

Mummy Matters Parenting and Lifestyle

 

Only For The Holidays

Publishers Weekly Holiday Gift Guide 2024 

The Guardian's Children's and Teens Roundup Best New Novels 2023

Vanilla Magazine 2023

Book Clubs In Schools: What To Read Now

Big Family Little Adventure

Massive Orange Book Christmas Gift Guide

The Incidental Parent Christmas Guide

Shropshire Mums Christmas Guide

Deep In Mummy Matters

Ghost Hack Christmas Guides

Matts Cafe Children's Christmas Guide

Joanna Victoria Christmas Gift Guide

Oddhog Christmas Gift Guide

Lous News Christmas Gift Guide

Two Hearts One Roof Christmas Gift Guide

Playdays and Runways Christmas Gift Guide

Family On The Go Christmas Gift Guide

United By Pop

Me, Him, the dog and a baby Christmas Gift Guide

Women Who Win At Life Christmas Gift Guide

Check 'Em Out Books

Yeah Lifestyle Christmas Gift Guide

We Are Black Journos

Waterstones Best Paperback Books of 2023

Waterstones Best Children's Books of October

Sadé Magazine

The Bookseller One To Watch

The Black Issue 2023 The Bookseller- Black Authors' Preview

 

 

Love In Winter Wonderland

Book Riot: New YA Books Out This Week

Women.com Best Christmas Rom-Com Book of the 2020s

The Voice: 25 must-read books published in 2023 by independent presses

WYPR: A 2023 gift guide for booklovers

Sweety High: The best novels set at christmastime

Teen Librarian Toolbox

The Honeypop: Six Books to hold onto the festive mood this holiday season

Book Riot: 42 New Winter Holiday Romances To Read Before 2023 Ends

Book Riot: Best Books to Gift

Reader's Digest: 22 Christmas Romance Books

The Children's Book Council

Southern California News Group: 25 must-read books

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Midwest Book Review 2023

The Bookworm Sez

Iowa City Public Library

Wayland Library

Farmington Community Library Rec YouTube

Massive Orange Book Christmas Gift Guide

Big Family Little Adventure

Deep In Mummy Matters

Ghost Hack Christmas Guides

Ronnie.com Winter Reads

Matts Cafe Children's Christmas Guide

Oddhog Christmas Gift Guide

Joanna Victoria Christmas Gift Guide

Lous News Christmas Gift Guide

Two Hearts One Roof Christmas Gift Guide

Playdays and Runways Christmas Gift Guide

Women Who Win At Life Christmas Gift Guide

Me, Him, the dog and a baby Christmas Gift Guide

Rich in Colour

The Nerd Daily

Book Riot Podcast

Book Riot New Releases

Publishers Launch (US trade)

Children's Book Council Hot of the Press

Arsema Thomas Interview with Netflix Nigeria: Favourite Nigerian author

New York Public Library Staff Pick

Black Ballad 

United By Pop

The Federation of Children's Book Groups

Book Riots Best New Romance Novels for November

The Guardian's Children's and Teens Roundup Best New Novels

The Contented Reader New Christmas Romance Books to Read in 2022

LoveReading4Kids To Children's Book 2022

United By Pop Cosy YA Rom-Com

Check 'Em Out Books

Little Blog of Library Treasures 

Featured in Libro.fm New and Bestselling Romance Books

The Bookseller One To Watch

Amazon's Editor's Choice for Black History Month 2022

Amazon billboard on Leicester Square

The Super Sunny Murder Club

Blackwell's Book of the Month

The Times: The Best Murder Mysteries for Pint-Sized Poirots

The Very Merry Murder Club

Waterstones November Children's Book of the Month

The Guardian

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The Scottish Book Trust

The Week Junior

National Literacy Trust

Waterstones Online Event

Seven Stories Event

The Bookseller One To Watch

Independent Book Reviews

Worlds Smallest Library

 

Emily Knight Series Blog Tour

The Contented Reader

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Taralynn Moore

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Confessions of a Book Worm

My Shelves Are Full

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The Book Dragon

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A Modern Day Fairytale

Tyto Forest

Better Read than Undead 

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Books all things paranormal and romance

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Momma Says: To Read or Not to Read

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For the Love of Books 4

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The Layaway Dragon

Interviews/ Reviews/ Panels

The Writers' Summit 2023: Diversity and Inclusion in Books - Have We Done Enough?

The Telegraph: Black British Business Winner 2023

Evening Standard: Black British Business Winner 2023

Yahoo News: Black British Business Winner 2023

South West Londoner: Black British Business Finalists 2023

StartUps Magazine: Black British Business Finalists 2023

Express: Black British Business Finalists 2023

Sphere: Black British Business Finalists 2023

BookBrunch: Black British Business Finalists 2023

The Telegraph: Black British Business Finalists 2023

Speakers for School X Book Clubs In Schools

My London

The London Book Fair 2022: The Tale of Three Start-ups

International Women's Day: Smashing Stereotypes and Glass Ceilings

The Bookseller: Representation in romance books

The Bookseller; YA debut 6 figure deal for Love In Winter Wonderland

BookBrunch: 6 figure pre-empt for Love In Winter Wonderland

The Bookseller: Farshore's A Very Merry Murder Club

We Are The City: Inspirational Woman

Secondary Book Chat: Emily Knight I am Becoming

The Voice UK

The British Blacklist: Emily Knight  I am...Becoming

We Are The City: What Black History Month Means to me

Epsom and St Helier NHS Panel: The Diverse Book Awards

Be Your Own Feature: 5 Tips for Running A Publishing House

BBC Children In Need: Auction

The British Blacklist: September must read list

#AtHomeYALC Teen Fantasy Panel 2020

The Single Supplement

Open Access Government: Black Lives Matter

Issue.com

Midnight Publishing

Kiddy Charts: Why Diversity Matters

Culture Whisper: Diversity in Children's Books and Publishing 

Writers Online

Yahoo

The Round Table Talk Show with Sharifah Hardie

LoveReading4Kids Weekly Staff Pick - Emily Knight I am & Emily Knight I am...Awakened

Booksbeyondthestory

LoveReading4Schools - Emily Knight I am

LoveReading4Schools - Emily Knight I am...Awakened

LoveReading4Kids - Emily Knight I am

LoveReading4Kids -  Emily Knight I am...Awakened

what's not at school book reviews

Inspired Selection - Girls Can Do Anything 2019 (Finding your tribe blog)

Girls Who Kick Butt - Girls Can Do Anything 2019

Inspired Selection - Girls Can Do Anything 2019

Maiden of the Pages Book Review (part of the EK Series blog tour)

JBronder Book Reviews (part of the EK Series blog tour)

Girls Can Do Anything 2019

Spread The Word

London's Big Read 2019 finalists press release

Emily Knight I am...Awakened finalist for London's Big Read 2019 

Emily Knight I am...Awakened CILIP'S Carnegie Award 2019 -nomination

SYP Autumn Conference. How to be a Slashie panel 

The Contented Reader Reviews

The Writers' Pod Interview

Story of Books LBF

Publishing Training Centre

The London Book Fair 2018: The Trailblazer Panel

The British Blacklist '18

Brizilelassbooks

Just Read It Reviews

Popthebutterfly Reviews

Patricia's Corner

What To Do With The Kids

The Dark Geisha Reviews

The British Blacklist

We Are The City, British Female Owned

StartUps 2017

Sir Richard Branson's scheme Virgin StartUP

Out The Box 

Fantasy Gazette

The Children's Book Review

ItzCarribean.com

Stressed Rachel

Madhouse Family Reviews

ThisChristmasThinkBooks

Ink and Lens: Diversity in Children's Books

Fantastic Reads

The London Book Fair

Goodreads.com

Charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com

Fashion Abecedaire

WES Blog

Sarah Smiles/ Lifestyle and Beauty Blog

Booktrade

Awards

The Black British Business Awards Winner - Rising Star 2023

Junior Library Guild: Gold Standard

Readers Choice Awards Winner 2023

Shortlisted for The Diverse Book Awards 2022

The People's Book Prize Winner - Best Publishing House 2020

The People's Book Prize Finalist - Best Children's Book 2020

London's Big Read 2019 winner

Yoto Carnegie nomination 2019

Trailblazer Awards 2018 Winner

Finalist for The Great British Entrepreneur Awards 2016

Nivea Bring it 30 - longlist

Literary Festivals 

YALC 2020, 2023

Camp YA 2023

Stoke Newington Literary Festival 2017 - Kids Festival

Events I've chaired

Waterstones Piccadilly: YA Feminists Unite with Holly Bourne and Sara Barnard

Waterstones In Conversation with A.M. Dassu, Stuart Lawrence and Sharna Jackson

National Literacy Trust: In conversation with Serlina Boyd

National Literacy Trust: In Conversation with B.B. Alston and Clare Weze

Waterstones In Conversation with Marissa Meyer, Soman Chainani and Stephanie Garber

Wigtown YA; the Diverse Book Awards event with Sue Cheung

The London Book Fair: Q&A with Yomi Adegoke

The London Book Fair: The Writer's Summit - Your Book, Your Choice with Curtis Brown, HarperCollins, IngramSpark and Practical Inspiration Publishing

Girls Can Do Anything

Magazines/ Newspapers

Female First Magazine: How I spent my Lockdown

Mslexia: Issue 87

Melan Magazine: 9 brilliant and imaginative children's books from Black authors

Hackney Gazette

QX Magazine

Esquire

BookBrunch: Walker Books #AtHomeYALC

The Guardian

Closer Magazine book giveaway

Hackney Gazette

The Bookseller: Black Voices Matter

BookBrunch: Black Lives Matter

The I Paper

About Time Magazine #MondayMotivation

BookBrunch 

London Post

Cosmopolitan Magazine 

The London Magazine

The War Cry

Your Local Guardian

Surrey comet.co.uk

Female First Magazine Feature

The Mirror

Love Sunday Magazine 

The Bookseller

Female First Magazine

The Burnley Express

Rotherham Advertiser

Movies

AllStars The Movie

TV 

HackneyViralTV

London Live 2018

BBC The One Show

BBC The Apprentice

Nickelodeon

Radio/ Podcast Interviews

BBC Merseyside 

Glastonbury FM

North Manchester FM

The Edit Podcast

Slumbering Sloth Book Nook

The Authors Podcast Interview 

Take Five 2017

Self-Publishing Journeys

Colourful Radio

BBC 1XTRA Interview, Right Track, London Olympics 2012

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Jericho Book Prize

The Diverse Book Awards

The little BIG Book Comp

Page Turner Awards

BookBrunch The Selfies

The London Book Fair Trailblazer Awards 2023

Guest speaker at writing retreats

Arvon

Committee

World Book Day UK Strategic Advisory Group

BookBrunch 2019

Mentorship

Society of Young Publishers 2018 Mentor

Black Girls Writers

 

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