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Podcast: Written In Melanin
Episode: Bonus Episode w/ Joya Goffney | YA Romance, Trad publishing, and Confessions
Description: Today, I am here with Joya Goffney. She is an author from New Waverly, a small town in East Texas. In high school, she challenged herself with to-do lists full of risk-taking items like ‘hug a random boy’ and ‘eat a cricket,’ which later became the inspiration behind her debut novel, Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry. With a passion for Black social psychology, she moved out of the countryside to attend the University of Texas in Austin, where she still resides.And today, she's joining me on the podcast to discuss romance, traditional publishing, and her latest b...