Daniel Renjenko

An Afrofuturist putting Blackness into SF and Fantasy with an unhealthy obsession of dragons and mermaids.

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@jamarperry Can’t wait to read it! I love that art!

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@HerringAli Are queries currently out with you still under consideration? Or could one send another project they think might be a good fit?

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@clinton_darius @jamarperry I may try to self pub MG under a different Pen at some point once I get more experience. If it can bring even one Black family together to read and make a young Black girl, and especially a young Black boy feel reflected and seen in that book, then it honestly feels worth it.

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@jamarperry Look forward to reading it like all the others!

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@HerringAli I’ll check that out! And thanks for letting me know!

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@HerringAli I’ve done villain pov twice so far. One in a older fantasy romance project and the other an upcoming Jim Crow superhero novel. I never try to redeem my villains, especially the racist one. I do show their reasoning, but its always about showing the mc overcoming them in the end.

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@Sarah_Nicolas I always imagine my books in my head as a movie! And I’ll even build scenes using different music I listen to. A lot of times I’ll take inspiration from actual movies too. My idea of having sea dragon riding mermaids in my latest book came from the whale riders in Black Panther.

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@HerringAli Pretty much why I wrote Mask of Ivory which is how I imagine America would look after 40 years of republican maga dominated culture and policies lol. I only like writing dystopian if the characters can escape to a better place though. Love the quests for mythical paradise lands.

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@LyndallCave @Sarah_Nicolas In an upcoming book I have this year some Black kids find an artifact under a former slave plantation that literally gives them dark powers. Their eyes turn jet-black whenever they use it. But if white people touch it, the power corrupts them, and their eyes go all milky. white.

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@Sarah_Nicolas The whole ‘dark’ thing people do all the time in fiction is my similar pet-peeve! Evil dark lord, corrupt dark/black magic. Why are they evil? Cause they’re dark, obviously! It drives me up the wall. Never had a villain called the evil light lord or who uses corrupt white magic.

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@Sarah_Nicolas I had an unhealthy obsession with his books growing up. Especially the book How I Learned To Fly. I was so angry that I couldn’t fly XD but finally found a way to make it happen in my own book at least.

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18yo tech-wiz Ayala loves:
🌏Her all-Black world
🐆Her Leopard sister
👧🏿Her city girl crush Nanya of the Lion tribe
But Nanya's tribal elder is against their union
The answer:
🔪Pass her tribe’s brutal coming-of-age trial
💍 Marry her anyway
#MoodPitch #LGBT #YA #R #SF #BVM

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@authormorganw Thank you so much!

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When the tribal elder/mother of her major crush demands they separate, 18yo Ayala must declare her womanhood and right to marry by passing her tribe's trial—facing giant synthetic beasts and the horrible past of her ancient African ancestors. #MoodPitch #LGBT #YA #R #SF #BVM

[Daniel Renjenko @DRenjenko]

18yo tech-wiz Ayala loves:
🌏Her all-Black world
🐆Her Leopard sister
👧🏿Her city girl crush Nanya of the Lion tribe
But Nanya's tribal elder is against their union
The answer:
🔪Pass her tribe’s brutal coming-of-age trial
💍 Marry her anyway
#MoodPitch #LGBT #YA #R #SF #BVM

[Daniel Renjenko @DRenjenko]

@TiaMoeller Thank you!

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@Sarah_Nicolas Hope you like my take on SF romance! And cuddly but also nagging mind-reading Leopard sisters!

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@jamarperry Congrats again!

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@jamarperry @bloomsburykids Congrats! It’s been good so far!