Filling the diversity gap in children's literature one book at a time with positive, self-esteem boosting books for black children!
Atlanta, GA
Joined September 2013
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🙌🏾 I'm in Black Enterprise! Thanks @blackenterprise for the feature highlighting my episode on Shaq's show "The Game Plan" on TNT!
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So excited to have been selected to speak at Amazon’s summit to uplift Black, Latinx, and Native American students and professionals of all backgrounds and experience levels. #amazonrepresents Register here: amazonrepresents.com/
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Get those votes in! Help send #AGTWildcard @BowtieComedy to the live shows by retweeting NOW! ✔️
I'm super excited to join @Amazon_Policy for a free Amazon Small Business Academy virtual town hall
to discuss the importance of empowering Black-owned small businesses. Register here:
register.gotowebinar.com/reg…
Now that we’ve all been inspired by Amanda Gorman to write a little poetry, what better subject than our FOREVER first lady’s totally LAID look today! Here’s my ode to Michelle Obama on this 59th Inauguration Day ❤️
Thanks @Forbes @MeiMeiFox for highlighting me in your list of 15 black-owned businesses to check out on Juneteeth! ❤️🤗 forbes.com/sites/meimeifox/2…
𝐈 𝗪𝐎𝐍!! I’m super excited to share that I won the 2019 Digital Book World Medal for Leadership in Diversity 🏅and I captured it all on camera, plus my “offstage commentary” once I got back to my hotel room 😂. Swipe… instagram.com/p/B2VK8bnFk3Y/… – at Nashville, TN
One year ago today, Amazon flew a film crew to my house to feature me in a video on their website about my books. A whole video about me on Amazon.com! 😮 The goal was to show the actual business owners who create so… instagram.com/p/B1Z2KG_FLlC/…
When I found out Ingram Spark had a podcast I was like 👀, I sure hope they bring me on as a guest one day. And then they did! 🙌🏽 The coolest part is that they invited me on to not only talk about my career as an… instagram.com/p/By6CTpzFI7c/…
I made it to Forbes!! 😆
I’m so honored to be featured in this article as one of three women who have found self-publishing success. There aren’t enough people who look like me in this industry so I hope that this… instagram.com/p/BxgG5T4hwT_/…
This makes my heart smile ❤️
Today in the library: tiny kindergartener picked up a copy of Big Hair, Don't Care by @CSwainBates, pointed to the girl on the cover, then herself. Said w/ such delight: "Look, her skin matches my skin!"
Imagine NOT seeing yourself in books.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks #MirrorsWindows
Fresh off of my international book tour, I will be teaching at the World Natural Hair Show in Atlanta, an event attended by over 30,000 black women! I will be teaching not one,… instagram.com/cswainbates/p/… – at College Park, GA
I’ve been quiet for the past few weeks and it’s because I’m on an international book tour ✈️! I’m hopping from continent to continent with Paris 🇫🇷 , Cairo 🐪 , and West Africa… instagram.com/cswainbates/p/… – at Accra, Ghana
🥰 If only y’all knew how many times I have watched this video 🤣! It makes my heart smile every time! Another happy reader ❤️ #Repost omg_and_mommy
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Thank you for the wonderful book!!!… instagram.com/p/Bt0qUeRlNSU/…
How amazing is this?! 😍 I love seeing my book “Big Hair, Don’t Care” used for these fabulous Black History Month doors! This year they focused on famous African-American women and I’m… instagram.com/p/Bttb87BlUCV/…
Why a Wrote a Black Children's Book With a Single Mother - My Story: youtu.be/XOYFA1TbYsQ?a via @YouTube
My Small Business Was Featured by Amazon!: youtu.be/_nny69hOHas?a via @YouTube
Crystal Swain-Bates retweeted
“What’s most important is when I have kids coming to me and saying, ‘Mommy, the author looks like me.”
Learn about how @CSwainBates’s took a non-traditional route to publish her children’s books. bit.ly/2Cqo9ZS
🙌🏽 I’m on the @amazon blog today! Thanks for the love, I’m so thankful for @AmazonKDP , the platform has truly changed my life! blog.aboutamazon.com/books-a… – at Atlanta, GA
