Tim Tim? Bwa Fik!

Yé Moun La ! Je suis de retour avec un épisode bilan de lecture 2025 avec mon amie Isabel. Nous discutons afrofuturisme, les particularités du storytelling des autrices "africaines", les stratégies de marketing gagnantes des autrices américaines de Black romance et des défis de représentation d'une identité noire. Voici les romans évoqués dans l'épisode : Granger - Drew Collins series Jordan Ifueko - The Maid and the Crocodile Kaylyn - Only For The Moment L.A Banks - The Vampire Huntress Legend series Nia “N.E” Davenport - Our Vicious Oaths ; The Blood Trials  N.K Jemisin - The Broken Earth trilogy / La Terre Fracturée (trilogie) Sara J Maas - A Court of Thrones and Roses series Reggie Duprée - Boudin, Barbecue, and Hoodoo series Dany Bébel-Gisler - Leonora Jenny Han - To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before Mayotte Capécia - Je suis Martiniquaise et La Négresse Blanche Judy Blume - Forever Tia Williams - Audre and Bash are just friends Leah T. Williams - Neither Out Far Nor in Deep + Sweet Like Sugar Cane Joanne C. Hillhouse - Musical Youth + Dancing Nude in the Moonlight M.K Jirha - Karukera, les légendes de Kaïa Sébastien Mathouraparsad - Le chant des fromagers Dr. Mariel Buqué - Break the cycle Stay tuned for more. #2TimBF *** ⁠⁠⁠timtimbwafik.com⁠⁠⁠ timtimbwafik@gmail.com IG: @⁠⁠⁠timtimbwafik⁠⁠⁠, @spaceflowerbae *** Music: Yenki Vou - Meemee Nelzy  (A/C: M.Nelzy/M. Nelzy)

Yé Moun La ! Check out the first interCaribbean "Tim Tim? Bwa Fik!" collaboration: "Let's romance the Caribbean in December". 5 Caribbean Christmas romances 5 Caribbean authors 4 Caribbean islands Maëlla K. (Guadeloupe), ⁠Sweet Chérie⁠ Callie Browning (Barbados), ⁠Island Christmas⁠ Karifunart (Martinique), ⁠Lanmou pou Nwèl⁠ (free) Rilzy Adams (Antigua & Barbuda), Home for Christmas (coming soon) Kimolisa Mings (Antigua & Barbuda), ⁠This Christmas Make sure to buy and share with people around you. All the links are in the description box.   Stay tuned for more. #2TimBF *** ⁠timtimbwafik.com⁠ timtimbwafik@gmail.com IG: @⁠timtimbwafik⁠ *** Music: Yenki Vou - Meemee Nelzy  (A/C: M.Nelzy/M. Nelzy)

Yé Moun La ! Check out the first interCaribbean "Tim Tim? Bwa Fik!" collaboration: "Let's romance the Caribbean in December". 5 Caribbean Christmas romances 5 Caribbean authors 4 Caribbean islands Maëlla K. (Guadeloupe), ⁠⁠Sweet Chérie⁠⁠ Callie Browning (Barbados), ⁠⁠Island Christmas⁠⁠ Karifunart (Martinique), ⁠⁠Lanmou pou Nwèl⁠⁠ (free) Rilzy Adams (Antigua & Barbuda), Home for Christmas (coming soon) Kimolisa Mings (Antigua & Barbuda), ⁠⁠This Christmas⁠ Make sure to buy and share with people around you. All the links are in the description box.   Stay tuned for more. #2TimBF *** ⁠⁠timtimbwafik.com⁠⁠ timtimbwafik@gmail.com IG: @⁠⁠timtimbwafik⁠⁠ *** Music: Yenki Vou - Meemee Nelzy  (A/C: M.Nelzy/M. Nelzy)

Yé Moun La ! Découvrez la première collaboration intercaribéenne de Tim Tim ? Bwa Fik ! : « Let's romance the Caribbean in December ». 5 romances caribéennes de Noël 5 autrices caribéennes 4 îles caribéennes Maëlla K. (Guadeloupe), ⁠Sweet Chérie⁠ Callie Browning (Barbade), ⁠Island Christmas⁠ Karifunart (Martinique), ⁠Lanmou pou Nwèl⁠ (gratuite) Rilzy Adams (Antigua & Barbuda), Home for Christmas (à venir) Kimolisa Mings (Antigua & Barbuda), ⁠This Christmas⁠ N’hésitez pas à acheter et à partager avec votre entourage. Tous les liens sont dans la barre de description.   Restez connectéEs. #2TimBF *** ⁠⁠timtimbwafik.com⁠⁠ timtimbwafik@gmail.com IG: @⁠⁠timtimbwafik⁠⁠ *** Music: Yenki Vou - Meemee Nelzy  (A/C: M.Nelzy/M. Nelzy)

Yé Moun La ! Découvrez la première collaboration intercaribéenne de Tim Tim ? Bwa Fik ! : « Let's romance the Caribbean in December ». 5 romances caribéennes de Noël 5 autrices caribéennes 4 îles caribéennes Maëlla K. (Guadeloupe), Sweet Chérie Callie Browning (Barbade), Island Christmas Karifunart (Martinique), Lanmou pou Nwèl (gratuite) Rilzy Adams (Antigua & Barbuda), Home for Christmas (à venir) Kimolisa Mings (Antigua & Barbuda), This Christmas N’hésitez pas à acheter et à partager avec votre entourage. Tous les liens sont dans la barre de description.   Restez connectéEs. #2TimBF *** ⁠timtimbwafik.com⁠ timtimbwafik@gmail.com IG: @⁠timtimbwafik⁠ *** Music: Yenki Vou - Meemee Nelzy  (A/C: M.Nelzy/M. Nelzy)

Yé Moun La ! Pour commencer 2024, je vous propose un épisode spécial qui s’intitule : autrice de romance noire ou autrice noire de romance? C’est un Space Twitter que j’ai enregistré le 26 novembre 2023 avec mon amie Isabel. Le but était d'énoncer quelques enjeux importants sur la romance noire en France :  comment définir l'autrice de romance noire l'absence de romance francophone 100% noire la recherche de reconnaissance auprès des maisons d'édition comment écrire de la romance caribéenne sans copier les États-Unis *** Eugenia O’Neal: ⁠vintage.caribbean ⁠ Joanne C. Hillhouse: ⁠jhohadli.wordpress.com⁠ Rilzy Adams: ⁠rilzywrites.com⁠ N.G Peltier: ⁠ngpeltier.com⁠ Callie Browning: ⁠calliebrowning.com⁠ Stay tuned for more. #2TimBF *** ⁠timtimbwafik.com⁠ timtimbwafik@gmail.com IG: @⁠timtimbwafik⁠ *** Music: Yenki Vou - Meemee Nelzy  (A/C: M.Nelzy/M. Nelzy)

Yé Moun La! Welcome to episode 12. Breanne McIvor is from Trinidad and Tobago. Her debut novel "The God of Good Looks" was released in 2023. “The God of Good Looks” is a healing journey. It’s about intimacy and about love. *** timtimbwafik.com timtimbwafik@gmail.com IG: @timtimbwafik *** Music: Yenki Vou - Meemee Nelzy  (A/C: M.Nelzy/M. Nelzy)

Yé Moun La ! I thought it would be interesting to look at what’s going on in the Black romance community in the United States. I invited author Tati Richardson from the Romance in Colour podcast. She just released her debut novel “The Build up”. She will give us her insight on the Black romance landscape in the US, the diversity her book brings to the Black romance narrative, and how being involved in a community is important. The last part of our discussion was about the cultural diversity behind the word Blackness. tatiannarichardson.com | @RichardWritesOn *** timtimbwafik.com timtimbwafik@gmail.com IG: @timtimbwafik *** Music: Yenki Vou - Meemee Nelzy  (A/C: M.Nelzy/M. Nelzy)

Yé Moun La ! Pour commencer 2023, je vous propose un épisode spécial qui s’intitule : Black romance, romance noire, regards croisés sur la littérature sentimentale. C’est un Space Twitter que j’ai enregistré le 28 janvier 2023 avec mon amie Isabel. Le but était d’énoncer clairement quelques enjeux importants sur la romance noire en France :  la définition de ce genre littéraire lucratif les différences de représentation de l’amour dans la Black romance états-unienne et dans la romance noire française les différents obstacles à la visibilité des histoires d’amour avec des personnages exclusivement noirs  l’autoédition et le numérique pour promouvoir ces histoires comme c’est le cas aux Etats-Unis et en Afrique.  *** Eugenia O’Neal: vintage.caribbean  Joanne C. Hillhouse: jhohadli.wordpress.com Rilzy Adams: rilzywrites.com N.G Peltier: ngpeltier.com Callie Browning: calliebrowning.com Stay tuned for more. #2TimBF *** timtimbwafik.com timtimbwafik@gmail.com IG: @timtimbwafik *** Music: Yenki Vou - Meemee Nelzy  (A/C: M.Nelzy/M. Nelzy)

Yé Moun La ! Pour célébrer le premier anniversaire de "Tim Tim? Bwa Fik!", j'ai réalisé une série spéciale de 4 épisodes pour faire une mise à jour sur les projets des invitées de la saison 1. Pour l'ultime volet, je vous propose le premier épisode en français qui est une discussion avec l'autrice guadeloupéenne Tessa Naime. Notre échange porte  sur la représentation de la masculinité et de la féminité, sur la finalité de la littérature caribéenne, sur notre rapport au monde de l’édition, sur notre volonté d’affirmer notre identité guadeloupéenne et sur Maryse Condé. Bonne écoute ! *** Eugenia O’Neal: vintage.caribbean  Joanne C. Hillhouse: jhohadli.wordpress.com Rilzy Adams: rilzywrites.com N.G Peltier: ngpeltier.com Callie Browning: calliebrowning.com Stay tuned for more. #2TimBF *** timtimbwafik.com timtimbwafik@gmail.com IG: @timtimbwafik *** Music: Yenki Vou - Meemee Nelzy  (A/C: M.Nelzy/M. Nelzy)

Yé Moun La ! Let's celebrate "Tim Tim? Bwa Fik!" first anniversary with a couple of updates with guests from season 1. Check out my discussion with Candi (@tennei), a fellow Caribbean romance reader I met on Twitter. She shares her perspective on the current state of Caribbean romance and its future. *** Eugenia O’Neal: vintage.caribbean  Joanne C. Hillhouse: jhohadli.wordpress.com Rilzy Adams: rilzywrites.com N.G Peltier: ngpeltier.com Callie Browning: calliebrowning.com Stay tuned for more. #2TimBF *** timtimbwafik.com timtimbwafik@gmail.com IG: @timtimbwafik *** Music: Yenki Vou - Meemee Nelzy  (A/C: M.Nelzy/M. Nelzy)

Yé Moun La ! Let's celebrate "Tim Tim? Bwa Fik!" first anniversary with a couple of updates with guests from season 1. Check out my discussion with Callie Browning (Barbados) who released "The Vanishing Girls" in 2021 and is working on "Beneath The Sunlit Sea". calliebrowning.com *** Eugenia O’Neal: vintage.caribbean  Joanne C. Hillhouse: jhohadli.wordpress.com Rilzy Adams: rilzywrites.com N.G Peltier: ngpeltier.com Stay tuned for more. #2TimBF *** timtimbwafik.com timtimbwafik@gmail.com IG: @timtimbwafik *** Music: Yenki Vou - Meemee Nelzy  (A/C: M.Nelzy/M. Nelzy)

Yé Moun La ! Let's celebrate "Tim Tim? Bwa Fik!" first anniversary with a couple of updates with guests from season 1. Check out my discussion with N.G Peltier (Trinidad & Tobago) who released "Don't Go Baking My Heart" in 2022. ngpeltier.com *** Eugenia O’Neal: vintage.caribbean  Joanne C. Hillhouse: jhohadli.wordpress.com Rilzy Adams: rilzywrites.com Stay tuned for more. #2TimBF *** timtimbwafik.com timtimbwafik@gmail.com IG: @timtimbwafik *** Music: Yenki Vou - Meemee Nelzy  (A/C: M.Nelzy/M. Nelzy)

Tim Tim? Bwa Fik! Welcome to episode 5. Part 2. Rilzy Adams is from Antigua and Barbuda. She’s the author of the “Love on the Rock” series. In this second segment, we talked about how important it is to write Caribbean characters practicing safe sex. Rilzy also explains why she chose to self-publish and has no plan to change her process to get her stories out there for now. Stay tuned for more. #2TimBF *** timtimbwafik.com timtimbwafik@gmail.com IG: @timtimbwafik *** Music: Yenki Vou - Meemee Nelzy  (A/C: M.Nelzy/M. Nelzy)

Tim Tim? Bwa Fik! Welcome to episode 5. Part 1. Today, we're in Antigua and Barbuda with award-winning author Rilzy Adams. In this first segment, we talk about how she started writing romance with Caribbean characters and the difference between her experience as an English-speaking Caribbean author and my French Caribbean experience. Stay tuned for more. #2TimBF *** timtimbwafik.com timtimbwafik@gmail.com IG: @timtimbwafik *** Music: Yenki Vou - Meemee Nelzy  (A/C: M.Nelzy/M. Nelzy)

Tim Tim? Bwa Fik! Welcome to episode 4. Part 2 This is part  of my  discussion with author Joanne C. Hillhouse from Antigua and Barbuda.  She's the author of 7 books in various genres including "Dancing Nude in  The Moonlight" and "Musical Youth". In this segment, we talk about the importance of writing from our Afrocaribbean woman's perspective and not from the white gaze perspective, of showing Blackness in a positive way and the impact of her books on her audience. Stay tuned for more. #2TimBF *** timtimbwafik.com timtimbwafik@gmail.com IG: @timtimbwafik *** Music: Yenki Vou - Meemee Nelzy  (A/C: M.Nelzy/M. Nelzy)

Tim Tim? Bwa Fik! Welcome to episode 4. This is part  of my discussion with author Joanne C. Hillhouse from Antigua and Barbuda. She's the author of 7 books in various genres including "Dancing Nude in The Moonlight" and "Musical Youth". In this first segment, we talk about how she was introduced to romance in her teens and how being from a colonized island still has an impact in the way we write love in the Caribbean. Stay tuned for more. #2TimBF *** timtimbwafik.com timtimbwafik@gmail.com IG: @timtimbwafik *** Music: Yenki Vou - Meemee Nelzy  (A/C: M.Nelzy/M. Nelzy)

Tim Tim? Bwa Fik! Welcome to episode 3. This is part 2 of my discussion with author Callie Browning from Barbados. We discuss her book “The Vanishing Girls” and how intentional she is about representing her culture in a multidimensional way. We also take a look at our definition of being a Caribbean indie author in this current economy and how she combines her creative mindset with a business mindset. Stay tuned for more. #2TimBF *** timtimbwafik.com timtimbwafik@gmail.com IG: @timtimbwafik *** Music: Yenki Vou - Meemee Nelzy  (A/C: M.Nelzy/M. Nelzy)

Tim Tim? Bwa Fik! Welcome to episode 3. This is part 1 of my discussion with author Callie Browning from Barbados. In this first part of our discussion, we talked about her approach to Caribbean literature growing up, why she doesn’t call herself a romance writer, her writing process to writing novels or short stories and what makes Caribbean romance unique. Stay tuned for more. #2TimBF *** timtimbwafik.com timtimbwafik@gmail.com IG: @timtimbwafik *** Music: Yenki Vou - Meemee Nelzy  (A/C: M.Nelzy/M. Nelzy)

Tim Tim? Bwa Fik! Welcome to episode 2. This is part 2 of my discussion with author N.G Peltier.  In this episode, you’ll hear her take on the discourse around Caribbean representation, queer representation and Caribbean men representation. We talked about the importance of solidarity among authors to build community power as well as her publishing journey. #2TimBF ngpeltier.com | @trinielf (IG) | @trinielf (Twitter) *** timtimbwafik.com timtimbwafik@gmail.com IG: @timtimbwafik *** Music: Yenki Vou - Meemee Nelzy  (A/C: M.Nelzy/M. Nelzy)