Score by Kennedy Ryan | Special Preorder Offer

To celebrate Score, Kennedy Ryan and Forever are partnering with Black-owned bookstores for a special preorder campaign.

Order from one of the bookstore partners below to receive exclusive preorder goodies to be announced (hint: there will be artwork!).

All goodies will come directly from the bookstore and ship with your paperback when it releases on May 19, 2026. Please place orders by 5/19.

Thank you for joining us in supporting Black-owned bookstores!

Bookstore Partners

44th & 3rd Bookseller, Atlanta, GA // [purchase link]

Baldwin & Co Bookstore, New Orleans, LA// [purchase link]

Black Garnet Books, Saint Paul, MN // [purchase link]

Black Pearl Bookstore, Austin, TX // [purchase link]

Black Worldschoolers, Indianapolis, IN // [purchase link]

Bliss Books & Wine, Kansas City, MO// [purchase link]

Cafe Con Libros, Brooklyn, NY // [purchase link]

Call & Response Books, Chicago, IL // [purchase link]

Kindred Stories, Houston, TX// [purchase link]

Literature & Libations, Portsmouth, VA // [purchase link]

Loc’d and Lit, Bronx, NY // [purchase link]

Loyalty Bookstores, Washington, DC // [purchase link]

Mahogany Books, Oxon Hill, MD // [purchase link]

Reparations Club, Los Angeles, CA // [purchase link]

Resist Booksellers, Petersburg, VA // [purchase link]

The Bottom, Knoxville, TN // [purchase link]

The Lit Twis’t, Phoenix, AZ // [purchase link]

Tuma’s Books, New York, NY // [purchase link] 

Turning Page, Goose Creek, SC // [purchase link]