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Book Creators Take Over Elle Magazine, Bookum, and Everything in Between!
Lupita Aquino, Will Packer, Imani Perry
Kyle Colley
January 28, 2025
Happy Pub Day!
Listen… when community shows up, it shows out!
Here's a live reaction from our team this weekend:
Or something close.
It's still the first page for us, so thank you to all the new faces who joined Bookum!
Make sure to check out our latest Creators Talk Podcast with the fantastic Lupita Aquino. We discussed the Read Latiné Lit Challenge, building community, and book criticism 📚
Our Chapters:
📚 Will Packer - Who Better Than You
📺 Creators Take Over Elle Magazine
📖 New Book by Imani Perry
This Week On Bookum:
At Bookum, we let the good times roll!
And by good times, we mean more Book Club announcements.
Without further ado… [cue drums] Who Better Than You by Will Packer will be the Bookum Book Club pick for February/March!
And to make things better… (last ellipsis, I promise 😆) THEE Will Packer will be joining our book club to discuss his book with us!
For those unfamiliar, Will Packer is the movie producer behind hits like Ride Along, Girls Trip, Stomp the Yard, Think Like a Man, and many more!
Synopsis:
"Whether you’re just starting or ready to make a major move, Who Better Than You? is a wildly entertaining roadmap to being successful in an unpredictable world, featuring behind-the-scenes Hollywood lessons, empowering guidance, and indispensable encouragement.
From Stomp the Yard to Ride Along to Girls Trip and many more, Will Packer’s films have collectively grossed more than $1 billion at the box office, with ten opening at number one! To outsiders, the unabashed confidence that has driven him since his college days—when he was trying to sell a micro-budget indie film—may look like arrogance. To Packer, that’s just what it took to make it on his terms."
The book comes out Feb. 17, but you can pre-order it today!
Pre-order here.
The date for March will be announced soon.
This Week in The Book World:
From Onyx Storm midnight releases to Elle Magazine, book content creators are everywhere.
In an article that is sure to be talked about for months to come, staff culture writer Lauren Puckett-Pope assembled an Avengers-style team of creators to answer an array of topics in the book space.
Photo from Elle Article
From their thoughts on the state of BookTok, Publishing, and genres remixes the article investigates the question: Can Influencers Predict the Next Big Thing in Books? (Gotta appreciate a fellow detective! 🕵️)
As you know, we love a creator meet-up, and these 21 creators (some of which have been guest on the Creators Talk Podcast) brought perspective and some exciting predictions.
Check out the full article below, courtesy of Elle: Here.
Also, we want to hear from you: what are your predictions for the book world in 2025? Let us know!
This Week in Publishing:
Take us home, Satchmo.
Playwright and author Imani Perry is back with a highly anticipated book: Black in Blues – A Book in Conversation with themes from Louis Armstrong's Song "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue."
Summary:
"Perry traces both blue and Blackness from their earliest roots to their many embodiments in contemporary culture, drawing deeply from her own life as well as art and history."
Make sure to add this book to your TBR list on Bookum!
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Happy Reading!
See you next week!
Footnotes (Aka other articles we are reading and Bookum content):
The Oscar Nominations Are Out—7 of 10 of the Best Picture Nominations Are Adaptations - https://bookriot.com/the-oscar-nominations-are-out-7-of-10-of-the-best-picture-nominations-are-adaptations/
Join us Thursday at 2 PM EST on the Bookum Podcast with Randy Winston, The Creative Director of Fiction @ The Black List
The Bare Bookery Book Club is Discussing Queenie on Thursday at 6:30 PM
Creator WithCindy on “Why I Will Personally fight Neil Gaiman, or: The problem with turning authors into heroes” - https://youtu.be/CPUdFpYlB8Q?si=ekwpIsSeIAwtlLtf
