Emilia A. Ottoo

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Created this book club-focused document to send with pitches to group readers and book media brands. Inspired by the positive experience of my first book club selection by the Ladies of Hip-Hop organization who digitally gather on Substack.

Creative short of acceptance speech and social media promotion of winning the 2025 NYC Big Book Award in Arts & Entertainment. Created entirely by me (in a rough few hours!) with Adobe creative Tools.

Takeaways & inspiration for the creative, entrepreneur or ideator experiencing the repressive feels of "tone it down, tuck it back, and wait your turn." Ideas don't change lives or win awards stuck in your head. Get that idea out of your mind + into this world!

Much gratitude Gabby & Ted Olczak + the Independent Press Awards for recognizing my book as the 2025 standout in Arts & Entertainment.

Grammy Awards® voting season approaches and I'm excited for my first self-directed "For Your Consideration" campaign! FYC graphic designed by me with Adobe creative tools. How can you help? Visibility helps us get seen by more Grammy® voters, so sharing and word of mouth helps greatly!

My creative nonfiction "Y’all (Not) Gon’ Make Me Lose My Mind" is now an immersive listening experience available on a growing list of audiobook platforms including Audible & Apple Books. Also upon request at your local library.*

I've joined the media & research service ranks of Fox Archives: a growing hub of breaking news content, local to global stories, and "100 years of archive" from the Fox Movietone News library, one of the earliest & longest running newsreels in history.

Much gratitude to FEMI Magazine for covering our Twitch live virtual "Street Lit House Party" event celebrating healing, Hip-Hop, community wellness + the release of my audiobook and upcoming workbook companions.

If you feel like you've been pouring out a lot & nothing's been happening, I invite you to pause.

Recap of my first Twitch live stream with Wahida Clark Productions as part of the "Street Lit House Party" series celebrating literature and classic Hip-Hop. This series has been featured by Black Enterprise and The Hip-Hop Museum and includes architects of Hip-Hop culture such as Grandmaster Caz and Easy Mo Bee.

Me: I have no more social media platforms in me.

Also me: I've joined Twitch and I'm loving it here!

Catch me on selected live streams starting with my publisher Wahida Clark's "Street Lit House Party" in partnership with The Hip-Hop Museum building on the power of music, books & real talk.

We won!!! Many thanks to all contributors, listeners & viewers of "Like It's '93" by EMMA LEE M.C. & Roccwell ft. Masta Ace which has been recognized as one of the best rap songs in North America by the 2025 InterContinental Music Awards. Enjoy the acclaimed music video here which I also produced & edited.

Gratitude to the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship + President & CEO Dr. J.D. LaRock for kicking off Season 5 talking about creativity, my Hip-Hop & mental health book, and how a $25 business changed my life.

Dusting off my digital crates to give my 24-hour content a space to archive in peace! Starting with creative ideation, direction, video editing, photo editing, and graphic design for social first creative marketing, inspiration and audience engagement of the 9:16 aspect ratio (1080 x 1920) of Facebook and Instagram stories °