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April 14, 2010
April 13, 2010
April is National Child Abuse Awareness Month
My friend and fellow author Stacey Patton, herself a victim of child abuse, which she writes quite candidly about in her memoir: That Mean Old Yesterday - asked that I share this very important essay with my readers:
"April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. During this time of heightened awareness I want to challenge black communities everywhere to change the conversation on how we discipline our children.
Though people are still talking about how the Oscar-nominated film Precious has t...
"April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. During this time of heightened awareness I want to challenge black communities everywhere to change the conversation on how we discipline our children.
Though people are still talking about how the Oscar-nominated film Precious has t...
April 8, 2010
Glorious Thursday!
Today I received a rejection letter for the my novel-in-progress:
"GATHERING OF WATERS is a very powerful novel; I remember the passion with which another editor brought it up at an editorial meeting. As beautifully written, lyrical and contemplative as it is, I don't have a vision for how to publish it. The market is making a come back from a slump the likes of which I had not previously witnessed but my sense is that with fewer and fewer print review options, a book gets the most attention w...
"GATHERING OF WATERS is a very powerful novel; I remember the passion with which another editor brought it up at an editorial meeting. As beautifully written, lyrical and contemplative as it is, I don't have a vision for how to publish it. The market is making a come back from a slump the likes of which I had not previously witnessed but my sense is that with fewer and fewer print review options, a book gets the most attention w...
April 7, 2010
April 5, 2010
Happy Gratitude Day!
I always say, we don't do anything - NOT ONE THING - in this life alone and so having said that I would like to take the next few weeks to thank those people who contributed to the success of Glorious.
Advanced praise from a fellow author is something we as published and soon to be published authors, always seek. It's not always an easy venture, but we try anyway.
I myself have only blurbed two or three titles during my entire professional writing career. And not because the books that were se...
Advanced praise from a fellow author is something we as published and soon to be published authors, always seek. It's not always an easy venture, but we try anyway.
I myself have only blurbed two or three titles during my entire professional writing career. And not because the books that were se...
April 2, 2010
Eyes Wide Open!
I was so glad to receive this email Melissa M who has a wonderful book blog entitled: Gerbera Daisy Diaries.
Melissa was kind of enough to read and review and introduce my novel SUGAR to her followers.
I shared with Melissa the demeaning and financially crippling practice of "Seg-Book-Gation".
For those of you who are new to this blog and to that word - Seg-Book-Gation is a coined term for the marginalization of books written by people of color.
Melissa is now paying very close attention to how...
Melissa was kind of enough to read and review and introduce my novel SUGAR to her followers.
I shared with Melissa the demeaning and financially crippling practice of "Seg-Book-Gation".
For those of you who are new to this blog and to that word - Seg-Book-Gation is a coined term for the marginalization of books written by people of color.
Melissa is now paying very close attention to how...
April 1, 2010
Free Books Galore!
Well here we are. April 1st...the day of fools. Nothing foolish about the book love I've been receiving over the past few weeks. And to offer my gratitude some book bloggers have agreed to give-a-way copies of my books. So please drop by their sites and show them some love and while you're visiting, go on ahead and become a follower and please enter to win!
Loves to Read For Fun is also giving away two autographed copies. Contest closes on April 9th.
Just One More Paragraph is giving away two a...
Loves to Read For Fun is also giving away two autographed copies. Contest closes on April 9th.
Just One More Paragraph is giving away two a...
March 31, 2010
March 29, 2010
March 26, 2010
Book Love is Color Blind!
Over the past seven months some of ya'll out there may have been sitting back reading my posts about "Seg-Book-Gation" and maybe shaking your heads and twirling your index fingers near your temples while declaring: "That Bernice McFadden has gone and lost her ever-loving mind."
True -- at times my posts may have seemed a bit "rant-ish" in nature - but sometimes you have to scream like a stark, raving lunatic, in order to get your point across.
And guess what? It's working!
For the most part, peo...
True -- at times my posts may have seemed a bit "rant-ish" in nature - but sometimes you have to scream like a stark, raving lunatic, in order to get your point across.
And guess what? It's working!
For the most part, peo...
