17 Feb: Brittney Morris

Brittney Morris is a best-selling author, NAACP image award nominee, and an Ignite Award finalist. She has a degree in Economics from Boston University where she also founded the Boston University Creative Writing Group. Her first book, Slay, was brought to publishing throught the Twitter pitch event, #PitMad. Achieving recognition there testifies to her ability to use her words.

Website:  https://www.authorbrittneymorris.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/brittneymmorris/
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BOOKS

This Book Might Be About Zinnia (Simon and Schuster, July 2025)
Two moments in time. Two very different girls. One story that connects them both. Zinnia searches for her birth mother w/clues from a bestselling novel. Tuesday uncovers dangerous secrets about her past, her crush, & her own mother’s story.

Life is Strange: Heatwaves (Titan Books, 2024)
An official spin-off to Life is Strange: True Colors. Alex and Steph are trapped in a small town’s climate disaster. Alex’s powers are tested against a dying hope for a sustainable future. But when Alex uses her powers to amplify a senator’s fear of climate crisis, emotions spiral wildly out of control.

The Jump (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
The Jump follows a group of Seattle teens who enter a city-wide cryptology contest run by a mysterious entity called The Order, which will offer the winners high-tech resources that the teens plan on using to stop the placement of an oil refinery in their neighborhood.

The Cost of Knowing (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
Dear Martin meets They Both Die at the End in this gripping, evocative novel about Alex, a Black teen who has the power to see into the future, whose life turns upside down when he foresees his younger brother Isaiah’s imminent death. Sensitive topics include: racism, anxiety, depression, poverty, anti-Black violence, self-harm, parental & sibling death, and mentions of: slavery and police brutality.

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales Wings of Fury (Titan Books, 2020)
In this exclusive adventure leading directly into the game itself, a mix-up with the law leaves Miles questioning everything. When Vulture and his accomplice Starling unleash experimental tech on Marvel’s New York, Miles must come to terms with what it means to be Spider-Man and decide what kind of hero he wants to be.
Slay (Simon and Schuster; 2019) Ready Player One meets The Hate U Give in this dynamite debut novel that follows a fierce teen game developer as she battles a real-life troll intent on ruining the Black Panther-inspired video game she created and the safe community it represents for Black gamers.

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