Bernice L. McFadden's Blog, page 23
July 14, 2010
July 12, 2010
My Name is Butterfly - Coming Soon To A Kindle Near You
In the tradition of The Kite Runner and Breath, Eyes, Memory - My Name Is Butterfly, is a contemporary story that offers an educational, eye opening account about the practice of ritual servitude in West Africa – in this case, Ghana.
The Wikipedia entry describes Ritual Servitude as: "A practice inGhana, Togo, and Benin where traditional religious shrines take human beings, usually young virgin girls in payment for services, or in religious atonement for alleged misdeeds of a family member –a...
July 1, 2010
Conversations: Terry McMillan and Bernice L. McFadden
The Harlem Book Fair was founded in 1999 by QBR/The Black Book Review as a community event and forum for African American readers to discover, experience, and celebrate African American history and culture through books.The success of that first book fair began what has become a weeklong event and the country's largest community gathering of African American readers and book lovers. It has evolved into a national brand that is expanding into new markets each year. The Harlem Book Fair now dra...
June 30, 2010
Wordless Wednesday (ok..not really)
My Mom and my daughter in 1988.
This picture fascinates me because I am now at the same age (44) as my mother was when this photo was taken and I am not a wife, or the mother of four children and the grandmother of one. I am the mother of one child and the author of 12 books. In many aspects my mother and I are very different - and in many other aspects, we are very much the same....
Bernice L. McFadden
June 26, 2010
The Immortal History of Textual Colonialism
That was the original title of the op-ed piece which I wrote some months back and pitched to The Washington Post which was gracious enough to publish it in yesterdays issue as well as in The Herald Sun under their chosen title:
Black Writers in the Ghetto of the Publishing Industry's Making
Now, I knew exactly what I was opening myself up to as Author Carleen Brice had pioneered this particular frontier with her December 2008 essay Reading Too Much Into Race
I remember sitting here at my comput...
Black Writers in the Ghetto of the Publishing Industry's Making
Now, I knew exactly what I was opening myself up to as Author Carleen Brice had pioneered this particular frontier with her December 2008 essay Reading Too Much Into Race
I remember sitting here at my comput...
June 21, 2010
June 12, 2010
Authors Beware..
There is a scam going on that uses "legitimate conferences" and the offer of paid travel, lodging and a generous speaking fees to lure authors. For about 24 hours I was going to the UK in August, even though I was surprised that a Catholic organization would reach out to me -- a non-practicing Catholic. I ignored the very first gut feeling (is this for real?) I experienced when I first read the email. Luckily though I did some research and saved myself the humiliation and anger of being scamm...
June 3, 2010
Interview with National Bestselling Author: Joshilyn Jackson
As you know, I am all about "each one, help one" - this is what makes the world go 'round and this is something that is needed in the writing community. A few months back I reached out to Joshilyn and she happily obliged and now I am very happily returning the favor. Her latest novel: Backseat Saints will be released on June 8th, but already she has received 19 glowing reviews on Amazon.com!
Can you talk a little about the significance of your title and how you came up with it?
Backseat Saints ...
Can you talk a little about the significance of your title and how you came up with it?
Backseat Saints ...
May 26, 2010
One Book, One Harlem
The HARLEM BOOK FAIR & HUE-MAN BOOKSTORE present:
ONE BOOK, ONE HARLEM
Debut selection: GLORIOUS by Bernice L. McFadden
In the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance catapulted Harlem's artistic achievements onto
the global literary stage. In 1999, the annual Harlem Book Fair emerged to show the
world that the tradition of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston is alive and
kicking. In 2002, Hue-Man Bookstore moved into Harlem to further establish the
neighborhood as a major hub of 21st-century...
ONE BOOK, ONE HARLEM
Debut selection: GLORIOUS by Bernice L. McFadden
In the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance catapulted Harlem's artistic achievements onto
the global literary stage. In 1999, the annual Harlem Book Fair emerged to show the
world that the tradition of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston is alive and
kicking. In 2002, Hue-Man Bookstore moved into Harlem to further establish the
neighborhood as a major hub of 21st-century...
May 25, 2010
A fulfilling, enlightening and joyful week!
The past week was wonderful. At two events I shared the spotlight with two men that I have admired for many years. I was reunited with a former schoolmate and met a woman who found an important piece of information critical to my genealogy research. But the highlight of my week was watching my daughter walk across the stage to receive her college degree. Life is good.
Publisher, Johnny Temple (Akashic Books), Writer, Director Melvin Van Peebles and Me at the Center for Fiction.
Me and...
Publisher, Johnny Temple (Akashic Books), Writer, Director Melvin Van Peebles and Me at the Center for Fiction.
Me and...
