Talia Basma

Contemporary Author of Diverse Romance 📚✍🏽
Finding the words to diversify romance
Creating community no matter where

[Talia Basma @TaliiBee]

My #ownvoices #wip is about Safiyyah who refuses to move across the ocean and restart her life after finally getting to do what she does best—engineering. Instead of following old traditions, she makes a deal to marry an old childhood friend, no love required...
ft. #moodboard

[Talia Basma @TaliiBee]

Romance novels are important because their lesson is to not settle for less than the amazing partner you deserve. No one is perfect, but when your partner dismisses you or your concerns, it's a sign to move on.

Ditch the undeserving man and pick up a book instead 😗

[Talia Basma @TaliiBee]

I knew Saf and Aayan had to have a great meet-cute and while I loved my original meet cute, after rounds of editing that one became their second-run in. When you read their meet-cute, you will look at grocery stores a little different … thats all I'm gonna say on that.

[Talia Basma @TaliiBee]

I know Amazon is convenient but TRULY try your best to avoid Amazon as both an author and a reader. Change won't happen if we keep supporting Amazon 💫
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#bookish #bookworm #bookishthoughts #booktok #reader #kindlegirlie #koboreader #ereader #audiobooks #supportindiebookstores

[Talia Basma @TaliiBee]

I know Amazon is convenient but TRULY try your best to avoid Amazon as both an author and a reader. Change won't happen if we keep supporting Amazon 💫
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#bookish #bookworm #bookishthoughts #booktok #reader #kindlegirlie #koboreader #ereader #audiobooks #supportindiebookstores

[Talia Basma @TaliiBee]

Just a silly lil thought, but it's true I wrote kissing scenes and while my characters won't kill unless married, I was always so ~modest~ in my writing.
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#taliabasma #loveunwritten #muslimauthor #muslimlove #muslimjoy #contemporary #romance #romancereader

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

Are you kidding me? So a dolphin draws international condemnation but people starving to death don’t?

[Talia Basma @TaliiBee]

@steffideee oooh this is so cozy i love it

[Talia Basma @TaliiBee]

@bookgirlie hmm for me ana huang. i LOVED her marketing and bought the whole twisted series without reading them until i had all of them. i was so disappointed in the writing. but she isnt the only author like that nowdays lol

[おはよ!まいぶらざー @OhayoMybrother]

The victims included a five-year-old girl, a woman waiting for a bus, and a high school student on her way home from school… Four incidents in one year.

[Talia Basma @TaliiBee]

@abby4thepeople i literally cant seem to download it lol

[Talia Basma @TaliiBee]

You missed runs in a place that took food out of their packaging CAREFULLY to replace it with SAND so the starving people of Gaza not only feel the physical pains of no food but the psychological weight of joy to feed their families to instant despair at SAND.

[Talia Basma @TaliiBee]

Over a year into genocide and people still feel COMFY posting ish like this??? This is reason 264946294783926 rich people shouldn’t exist, they think morals do not apply to them because their money keeps them “safe”.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Great to be back in Tel Aviv. I missed this run.

[gbemisoke @Gbemisoke]

Screenshots. If this helps only one person, I'll be satisfied. You're welcome ❤️

[Talia Basma @TaliiBee]

@RivaBoyd39563 hellllo

[Talia Basma @TaliiBee]

@kcfetchwrites Actively querying my contemporary romance :)

[Talia Basma @TaliiBee]

This has been on my mind since I read it used for "mecca of fashion" recently and with everything happening in the UK (and the way people are bullying Arabs & Muslims in the US) it just highlights how passive y'all really are about understanding and respecting Islam

[Talia Basma @TaliiBee]

Can we stop using "mecca" for places that are Not Mecca? It honestly annoys the heck outta me.

[Talia Basma @TaliiBee]

@CambridgeWords, Oxford Dictionary, & @Dictionarycom at least mention both definitions but only @Dictionarycom seems the most accessible and direct

[Talia Basma @TaliiBee]

@noreenmughees LOVE this! just added Mis-Arrangement of Sana Saeed to my cart and can't wait to see more of your work <3