💫 jackson 💫

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Author. Founder: Black Girl Writers https://linktr.ee/jackpbrown

A young boy looking out at a city landscape in from a tall building in London
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Black writers face tougher challenges maintaining their career if their debut garners soft sales. These mantras veteran authors give to newer ones, of ‘not worrying’ if a debut book doesn’t take off because ‘most people don’t become bestsellers until their seventh, eighth, ninth book!’ are unhelpful to the Black authors who get dropped by their publishers after the first book – of a series!
Pov: you wrote an urban fantasy which reimagines the grime reaper as a polite, tea-drinking supernatural assassin from central Africa who meets a West Indian empath in London and they team up to solve magical crimes whilst also maintaining the secrecy of London's hidden underground city.
What if someone wrote an urban fantasy about the Grim Reaper but he's actually an African assassin born with a killing curse who is hired to kill the toffs and aristocrats in London, and he has the power to destroy thousands of people in an instant, and only a West Indian empath can help him control his emotions?
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