...But Make It Books
You Can Be a Boss and Still Have Love | Cute, Meet, Love with Sedona Rose
Join Niccara as she welcomes Sedona Rose, indie romance author and booktuber celebrating Black love on every page, to the pod! We talk about her small-town rom-com Cute, Meet, Love , Kataleah asking h...
Black Women Taught Us: Love Letters, Liberation, and the Courage to Tell the Truth with Dr. Jenn Jackson
Join Niccara as she sits down with the Dr. Jen Jackson - award-winning political science professor at Syracuse University, Teen Vogue columnist, and author of Black Women Taught Us - for a conversatio...
MINISODE: Faith, Diaspora & the Romance You Didn't Know You Needed ft. Unoma Nwankwor
Join Niccara as she welcomes Unoma Nwankwor, author of faith-filled Black romance with African spice, to the pod! We talk about her Rental Bae series, writing love stories rooted in diaspora identity ...
Bonus Episode: Was the Fuss Worth It: A Conversation with Phil on Double Dutch Fuss
Join Niccara as she welcomes author, filmmaker, and storyteller Phill to the pod for a conversation that starts with a little boy in Newark who just wanted to jump Double Dutch, and ends up somewhere ...
The Stories We Tell Ourselves: A Conversation with Leslie Gray Streeter on Family & Other Calamities
Join Niccara as she welcomes Baltimore-born columnist, author, and truth teller Leslie Gray Streeter to the pod! We talk about her debut novel Family & Other Calamities — a sharp, funny, and deeply hu...
What We Pass Down: A Conversation with Nikesha Elise Williams on Seven Daughters of Dupree
Join Niccara as she welcomes award-winning author, journalist, and two-time Emmy Award-winning television producer Nikesha Elise Williams to the pod! We talk about her sweeping debut with Simon & Schu...
The Concessions We Make: A She Well Read x But Make It Books Collab
Join Niccara as she links up with Lana and Samra of She Well Read for a conversation that starts with a book and ends up saying everything. We dig into Amy DuBois Barnett's If I Ruled the World — a 90...
We Built Different: A Refined & Ratchet x But Make It Books Collab
Season 3 is officially HERE, and we are opening the doors with the collab you didn't know you needed. Join Niccara as she welcomes the dynamic duo behind Refined & Ratchet — Charlee and Nisha — to the...
We Are Coming Back for Season 3
She's back. We're back. And this season? We are not playing around. Welcome to Season 3 of ...But Make It Books — the podcast that makes reading cool, celebrates diverse voices, and brings the culture...
Hypervisible and Invisible: Paula Chase on The Heights and Who Gets to Be Human
Join Niccara as she welcomes Paula Chase, co-founder of The Brown Bookshelf and author of the Heights series, to the pod! We talk about her novel The Balancing Act , the power of reclaiming language a...