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Nikki Payne

@nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social

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Author of Pride and Protest and Sex, Lies and Sensibility! @Berkley 👇🏾Pre-order Princess and the P.I. https://a.co/d/eOwCzUS Anthropologist Writer Geriatric Millennial

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Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · Jan 17

🚨 PRINCESS AND THE PI COVER REVEAL TIME! 🚨Okay, I told artist Amacieforever I wanted a sexy noir detective vibe, but she heard, “Why not make them want to F#@$ the cover?”
I am not mad at it. 👏🏾
Thank you to my team at Berkley Romance 💕
#blackbooksky
#booksky
#blacksky
Preorder here👇🏾
bit.ly/41xv9RV

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Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · 1d

You know that's right

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Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · 2d

🚨New substack!
I asked one question on my book tour...❓"When was the first time your boobs were the drama?"
and y’all… the stories.😮‍💨
Duct tape. Bloody Boobs. Praise dances.
The Tea is, our boobs have been everybody’s business but ours.🍿 Free therapy in the comments.
open.substack.com/pub/payneful...

Tittie Tales

The secret anthropology of boobs, shame, and survival. Come get free therapy in the comments.

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Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · 20d

Wow! Thank you all so much! What did y'all do? This is truly amazing!

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 25d

THE PRINCESS AND THE P.I. by @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social is the hard-boiled, true-crime-savvy romance you need as the days get colder. Heavy on religious trauma, but also sometimes you have to go undercover as a couple in a sex club. You know, for justice. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752214...

The Princess and the P.I. by Nikki Payne: 9780593817360 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

An amateur online sleuth must enlist the help of a jaded PI to clear her name while taking down a shady tech start-up in this exhilarating romantic suspense novel. Fiona Addai is ready to set her pla...

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Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · 25d

For justice!!! Thank you so much for a gorgeous review 😭

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Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · 29d

Thank you so much

Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · 29d

My queen 🔥🔥🔥

Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · 29d

Right!!!

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Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · 29d

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Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · 29d

Thank you so much

Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · 29d

I have no words. This Kickstarter campaign has raised 👑a million dollars!!👑👑Thank you all so much for everything you have contributed to make the After The End Kickstarter a success 😲😲
Thank you Adriana Herrera and Ali Hazelwood for thinking big over empanadas

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Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · Sep 6

Forever!!

Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · Sep 6

Young Thug's phone calls were leaked and he is telling on everybody...
My new substack is live and I talk about the feminization of gossip and performative masculinity in hip hop.
WHO is actually putting on a show?
paynefultruth.substack.com/p/the-real-p...

The Real Performative Male Contest Is Happening in Hip Hop

Young Thug’s leaked jail calls reveal what soft-boy contests can’t: masculinity is always performed, and always policed.

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Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · Sep 3

I feel like this book has been a pre-order for 84 years
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Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · Aug 27

I mean...I'm very much a thug, But don't these book spines look so cute together?🥰🫣

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Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · Aug 25

Sinners and K-Pop Demon Hunters are the👏🏾 same👏🏾 damn🧵 movie. Not about vampires. Not about demons.
About the monster we all live with: Netflix Fight me, or read why →open.substack.com/pub/payneful...

Southern Gothic Honmoon:

In Sinners and K-Pop Demon Hunters, the scariest monster is assimilation

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Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · Aug 11

Some argument about treatment and expectations

Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · Aug 11

It was a movement spreading on social media

Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · Aug 11

Essence Fest bombed.
African braiding shops are getting boycotted.
Tyla sold 3.7K units after a Grammy.

Are African Americans beefing with Africans? And why Is interracial romance catching strays?

📖 The Anthropology of a Flop → paynefultruth.substack.com/p/tyla-flopp...

Tyla Flopped. The Black Diaspora Did Too.

How a Grammy winner’s crash-and-burn exposed our messiest Black love politics.

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Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚨SALE ALERT🚨
My book is just $1.99 now through August 3!
✨It’s Black Pride and Prejudice with Washington, D.C. as its beating heart.✨
Plus get to know Maurice from Princess and the PI before he ever picked up a badge or broke a heart.
tag a fellow Austen girlie for a buddy read🫱🏾‍🫲🏽
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Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · Jul 28

My heart oh my God. Thank you so much 😭😭

Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · Jul 28

❤️❤️

Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thank you so much for reading!

Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · Jul 28

What do "Good jeans" and All white Arkansas towns have to do with your TBR?
paynefultruth.substack.com/p/sidney-swe...

Sidney Sweeney and The White Utopia Fantasy in romance

You are undesirable...hope this helps

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Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social · Jul 24

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