https://www.thisthingofoursbook.com/contacts daily 0.75 2025-01-12 https://www.thisthingofoursbook.com/newsletter daily 0.75 2025-02-06 https://www.thisthingofoursbook.com/purchase daily 0.75 2025-02-06 https://www.thisthingofoursbook.com/home daily 1.0 2025-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66f6a8880e90ce4e8b67202d/f47d6cad-9f84-48b3-ac70-3da9953788fd/Screenshot+2025-01-08+at+2.53.54%E2%80%AFPM.png Home - It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66f6a8880e90ce4e8b67202d/d7be37a7-788d-4354-bf1d-a75e012c9201/DSC00425.jpg Home - About Frederick Frederick Joseph is a Yonkers, NY raised two-time New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. His books include a poetry collection, We Alive, Beloved, two books of nonfiction, Patriarchy Blues, and The Black Friend, a collaboration, Better Than We Found It, and a children’s book, The Courage to Dream, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Joseph’s books have been named an Amazon Editors’ Pick, notable by the International Literacy Association, Best Children’s Book of the Year by Bank Street College, a Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choice selection, nominated for the In The Margins award, Booklist Editors’ Choice, a Notable Trade Book for Young People by the National Council for Social Studies, a Dogwood Title by the Missouri Associations of School Librarians, as well as longlisted for the Green Earth Book Award, and more. He has written for The Boston Globe, Essence, Huffington Post, AdWeek, and Cosmopolitan, and won both the Letter Review Poetry prize and a Letter Review Essay prize. His most recent writing on politics and culture can be found on his Substack. Joseph’s writing and philanthropic work go hand-in-hand, and he has been recognized for community investment by Forbes 30 Under 30, the Comic-Con Humanitarian of the Year award, The Root100 list of Most Influential African Americans, and was most recently honored with the 2023 Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Vanguard Award, as well as the 2024 Allyship Award at Lincoln Center’s Black Girl Magic Ball. He has been a featured speaker at the UN HeForShe Summit, and has worked with fortune 500 companies and presidential candidates on their DEI efforts. He lives with his wife Porsche and dog Stokely in New York City.. https://www.thisthingofoursbook.com/discussion-guide daily 0.75 2026-03-23