Riley Black 🦕 🏳️⚧️
Bronto-queen, big cat, best-selling and award-winning author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, When the Earth Was Green (available now!), and Tyrant Lizard Queen (coming soon). 🔞 she/they/it. Skreeonk. http://rileyblack.net
- The moment you meet another incredibly skilled creative person and you point at each other saying "I could never do what you do."
- “I’m still punk” I say as I put a face mask on because I’m going to be around other people.
- When I was growing up and had no one to hang out with, nothing else to do on weekends, whatever horror was running on tv was my companion. I’ve always been fond of schlocky Sunday afternoons ever since, and today I’m picking
- MOR 6625, “Chomper,” one of the smallest Tyrannosaurus rex known. Just look at the size of the orbit. Sharp, big eyes, probably fuzzy, so just a kitten really.
- Kink is care.
- It always makes me think of cooking. Preparation, intent, attention to detail, whether I’m making someone a melt or making them melt. There is always such a need for it, to keep learning to ask for and share what we really want.
- Ok I’m in. 🍿
- The book will be out in just over a month, June 10th!, so grab a pre-order if you want to have a dinosaur summer.
- My forthcoming Mesozoic crash course The Shortest History of Dinosaurs got some Publishers Weekly praise. “An entrancing primer. . . . Black has a knack for singling out the most surprising and engrossing findings of modern paleontology, bringing the ancient reptiles back to vivid life.”
- why are all books not dedicated to Strata?
- If I keep this pace she may very well get more than one.
