My brother who passed away when I was 13. If you could spend the day with anybody who has ever lived on this Earth, who would it be?.The story was about farm animals… that’s all I can tell you, lol, because I don’t remember the plot, I just remember really enjoying it and wanting to write more. It was probably less than ten pages, but I remember being really proud of it. The memory sticks out in my head is being nine-years-old and creating this pop-up book out of construction paper. When did you realize you wanted to be a writer?.I’m really into stuff like “Sailor Moon” and “Madoka Magica,” so the idea of making my own group of magical girls was really exciting, then I decided to add to the idea: create a series of girls that reflected who I was - black, queer, and magical. After that, her and a friend said that maybe they could become something, and during a roadtrip to a convention in Utah, we ended up bouncing back ideas to make a book series - complete with full colored illustrations where I’d partner with different artists and run a crowdfunding campaign to get everything going. I showed my partner and she told me to sketch more girls. I was supposed to be working on something else, but my muses told me to sit and sketch a purple haired girl with cosmic hair. What inspired you to write magnifiqueNOIR?.Galactic Purple, that was her name, and soon, Bree was joining her on a magical adventure full of transformations and after school battles to defend a city like most other cities.Īnd soon, others would join them, and each one would be magical in their own way… give or take a few bumps on the acid covered ground.” – But there her heroine stood, plus sized and wonderful, rocking a dazzling amount of purple and defeating monsters with galactic sparkles.

Monsters who can destroy sidewalks by vomiting acid onto the ground, and an elite group of black, queer, magical girls who work to put those monsters in their place.īree Danvers would’ve compared it to a video game, maybe a cartoon or comic book, except black girls are rarely the heroines of the story.

Before we get started, let’s learn a little bit more about the book, and trust me it sounds amazing! Today I’m interviewing Briana Lawrence, author of I Am Magical, the first book in the magnifiqueNoir series, which will provide major representation for many minority groups. *All pictures excluding the cover were stolen from the official magnifiqueNoir website.*

Keeping the Cookies by Briana Lawrence