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The trailer for The Ephemera Collector is here. 🎬📚 This book began as a question: What happens when memory itself is under threat? When archives become battlegrounds? When the past, present, and future collide inside one curator’s mind? Set between smoke-hazed 2035 Los Angeles and a distant future reckoning, The Ephemera Collector follows Xandria Brown as she fights to protect a radical archive while navigating AI health systems, climate crisis, and the fragile preservation of Black history. 🤖🌍📜 The trailer offers a glimpse into that layered world, archives, artifacts, fragments of memory, and futures still unfolding. If the story speaks to you, you can purchase signed copies at @sistahscifi at www.sistahscifi.com and support an indie bookstore devoted to Black speculative fiction. 🖤 #TheEphemeraCollector #Afrofuturism #SpeculativeFiction #BlackFutures #BookTrailer #SupportIndieBookstores #SistahScifi

Honored to join the OneHaas Podcast to share my journey as an African American trans artist-activist and Haas alum. 🌈✨ From serving on community boards and the SF Transgender Civil Rights Implementation Task Force to leading nonprofit arts orgs, I’ve learned that private decisions, like transitioning, can have public consequences. It’s about authenticity, responsibility, and the work we do for our communities. 💼🎨✊🏾 Listen to the full conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZj59rpzRwI 🎧 You can request The Ephemera Collector from your favorite #library, order from @sistahscifi or @bookshop_org! #TransVoices #LGBTQIA #ArtistActivist #HaasAlumni #EquityAndJustice #Library

Signed paperback copies of The Ephemera Collector are available at Sistah Scifi. 🚀📚 Teleporting from the @OctaviaEButler Landing on Mars (thank you, @NASA) to smoke-hazed 2035 Los Angeles, The Ephemera Collector is a speculative, experimental novel that moves through archives, AI, climate crisis, and Black memory with both feet in the past and eyes on the future. 🌍✨ I’m thrilled that signed paperbacks, published by @LiverightBooks are available through @SistahScifi. Supporting an indie bookstore devoted to Black speculative fiction while getting a signed copy? That’s alignment. Can we all say ashe!? If you’ve been meaning to step into Xandria’s world, @TheHuntingtonLibrary archives, the Diwata Collection, the long shadow of history, this is your moment. Secure your signed paperback from Sistah Scifi or check it out from your #locallibrary, and let’s keep building futures that remember where they came from. 🖤 #TheEphemeraCollector #Afrofuturism #BlackFutures #SpeculativeFiction #SignedBooks #SupportIndieBookstores #OctaviaEButler #SistahScifi #Library #Libraries

Music is memory. Music is archive. 🎶✨ I made an official Spotify playlist for The Ephemera Collector, the songs that live in Xandria’s world, the streets, the archives, and the future. From jazz to Afrofuturist soundscapes, it’s the soundtrack to a story about memory, survival, and Black futures. 🌊📚 The playlist includes music from artists like @sonsofkemet, @robertglasper, @nicholasbritell, @cinematic_orchestra, and @javiersantiagomusic, sonic architects who understand atmosphere, tension, lineage, and lift.🔥 🎧 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6t9mmCIv7awys3AoDj8G7H?si=8fb51b997c8744f0&nd=1&dlsi=f71c2c322d2042f7 If you’re curious, you can preorder The Ephemera Collector from your favorite #library, local bookstore, or via @bookshop_org. Let’s keep the archives alive. 🖤 #TheEphemeraCollector #Afrofuturism #BlackFutures #SpotifyPlaylist #SpeculativeFiction #SupportIndieBookstores #LibraryLove

“By any means necessary. Freedom, justice, equality.” “You good?” he asked, eyes deep brown and sparkling. She knew it. At first sight, their future was bright. – From The Ephemera Collector by Stacy Nathaniel Jackson Grateful to @literaryhub for sharing this excerpt from The Ephemera Collector. The archive isn’t only institutions and artifacts, it’s street corners, fashion choices, political doubt, and the exact moment two lives tilt toward each other. Read the full excerpt: https://lithub.com/the-ephemera-collector/ You can request The Ephemera Collector from your favorite #library, preorder from your local bookstore – signed copies available from @SistahScifi, or grab a copy via @bookshop_org. 🖤📚 #TheEphemeraCollector #Afrofuturism #BlackFutures #LiteraryHub #SupportIndieBookstores #LibraryLove

💫 I’m grateful for this thoughtful review of The Ephemera Collector in @locusmagazine by @gabino_iglesias. To have the novel recognized as part of the ongoing conversation around Afrofuturism and placed in lineage with writers who’ve shaped how we imagine Black futures means a great deal to me. The review speaks to the dual architecture of the book: the intimate fragility of memory and health, alongside the sweep of history, archive, and speculative possibility. Xandria’s fight to preserve collective memory in 2035 Los Angeles is deeply personal to me. Black history is not abstract. It is lived, held, and protected, sometimes under lockdown. Thank you to Locus for engaging the work so seriously and generously. 📕 If you’re curious, you can request The Ephemera Collector from your favorite #library, preorder from your local bookstore – signed copies available from @SistahScifi, or grab a copy via @bookshop_org. Independent bookstores and libraries keep stories like this alive. Let’s make sure they thrive. #TheEphemeraCollector #Afrofuturism #BlackFutures #LocusMagazine #SpeculativeFiction #SupportIndieBookstores #LibraryLove

🎙️✨ This excerpt is from my reading at the Radar Reading Series. Radar has long championed bold, experimental, genre-defying work, so it meant a great deal to share space there and read from The Ephemera Collector. There’s something powerful about hearing archival fragments, memory slippages, and future histories spoken aloud, letting the language move through the air instead of just living on the page. Thank you to @sfpubliclibrary and to everyone who showed up and listened deeply. Community is part of the archive, too. 🎥 Watch the full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzlvhsTsecE You can request The Ephemera Collector from your favorite #library, preorder from your local bookstore, or @bookshop_org! #TheEphemeraCollector #RadarReadingSeries #Afrofuturism #LiteraryReading #BlackFutures #SpeculativeFiction #StacyNathanielJackson #Library

📚✨ Here are five books that share similar themes to The Ephemera Collector: • The Memory Librarian by @janellemonae – preservation of memory and culture • The People's Library by @thewordslinger – librarians and AI • An Unkindness of Ghosts by @rivers.solomon – neurodivergent main character • Rosewater by Tade Thompson – dystopian futures where knowledge history is a source of liberation • Afrofuturism: The History of Black Futures by @kstrait35 – Afrofuturism and history These books explore archives, memory, Black futures, Afrofuturism, and the radical preservation of culture, conversations I’m honored to be part of. If you’re curious, you can support these books in one of three ways: 📚 Request it at your #library 📖 Purchase at your local independent bookstore 🛒 Order it via @bookshop_org Let’s keep these worlds and these conversations alive. #TheEphemeraCollector #Afrofuturism #BlackArchives #SpeculativeFiction #IndieBookstores #LibraryLove #BlackFutures #StacyNathanielJackson

📚✨ I’m deeply grateful for this beautiful, generous review of The Ephemera Collector in @ancillaryreview. Jeremy Brett @archiv_boy, a librarian and curator of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Research Collection at Texas A&M, reads the novel through a true archival lens, engaging with ephemera, collective memory, disability, AI, and the enduring urgency of preserving vulnerable histories. He writes about the book as functioning like an archival collection itself, heterogeneous, layered, built from fragments that together form a life. As someone who believes deeply in the radical power of archives, that recognition means a great deal. You can read the full review here: https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/21/the-fragments-that-make-a-life/ If The Ephemera Collector speaks to you, I’d love your support: 📚 Request it from your favorite #library 📖 Preorder the paperback from your local independent bookstore 🛒 Or order via @bookshop_org Libraries and indie bookstores keep bold, complex stories in circulation. Thank you for helping this one travel. #TheEphemeraCollector #AncillaryReviewOfBooks #Afrofuturism #BlackArchives #LibraryLove #IndieBookstores #SpeculativeFiction #StacyNathanielJackson