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Bye...for a little while........

I'm going to be taking a break from blogging for a bit. Got some things I need to work out. I'd like this space to remain a source of information, fun..and POSITIVITY...so In order for it to remain that that way I need to take a step back and take some time to get my head together.





Bernice L. McFadden

Coming up Roses...I turn 44....

Last Saturday I turned 44 years old. I celebrated this new milestone with a birthday party which was attended by close friends and family. There was plenty of love, laughter and warmth. My heart is still full with the memories.

I'm grateful to be here during this time, living this life and having you with me has only enriched the experience.

Thank you!






Bernice L. McFadden

Awwww....sookie..sookie...announcements..

I have not had the best of months..but I'm glad that I have the ability to live vicarously through those who are realizing their dreams, being blessed with honors and touched by hollywood angels.

Friend of this blog, fellow author and gardening guru, Carleen Brice announced last week that the lifetime movie version of her book - Orange Mint and Honey - aka- Sins of a Mother will star none other than the bodacious, charming and talented Jill Scott!

Fellow Libra, author Nina Foxx has a new projec...

California Dreaming...

Last night *correction* Very early this morning I finally dragged my very tired self into my house and plopped down on my couch - where I remained until my mother telephoned me at 7:30AM.

I had spent three electrifying days with some of the brightest names working in African-American fiction today.

The California Book Summit was a dream come true for Sigrid Williams who in one year and basically single handily, put together a the event, which was the first of it's kind for African American wri...

Life is a basket and then you die....

Publishing comes to a grinding halt during the last sweltering weeks of summer. The powers that be take the month of August off - leaving us authors twiddling our thumbs until the day after Labor Day when editors and agents schlep back into the office, right their glasses on the bridges of their noses, and begin to make their way through the hundreds of emails that most probably include book proposals from authors like myself.

In the meantime I pass the time by distracting myself with all so...

Brooklyn Loves Michael Jackson - YES WE DO!

This past Saturday on what would have been MJ's 51st birthday, thousands of people gathered in Prospect Park to pay tribute to the King of Pop!

Brooklyn's own Spike Lee hosted the event and he declared that it was going on rain or shine. That morning the sky was gray and the day damp, but it didnt matter to me - a hurricane couldnt have kept me from being there.

My daughter and I arrived around 1PM and joined the stream of people that snaked its way towards Nederland field.

As we made our way thr

Just like old times......a photo essay

Liz and I have been friends for 21 years. When we first met she had two young daughters and I had a three month old baby girl. We've weathered a lot of storms together. Back in 1990 when we were both unemployed, and really down on our luck, someone sent her a check for $20 dollars and she shared half of the money with me.

Yeah, we're friends like that.

But life since then has improved ten fold! She's now a funky-cool - 46 year "young" grandmother with a passion for nature, travel, art and all thin

She ain't heavy - she's an author..

We black folk have long been accused of behaving like crabs in a barrel - preferring to climb all over one another in order to reach the top of the mountain, this rather than bend our backs and offer it as a step...up.

Well I'm proud to be a part of a community of "steps" and not crabs.

Steps?

Yeah, authors who hold one another up during the good times and the not so good times. Authors who celebrate each others achievements as if they were our own.

Sidebar: When my friend and fellow author, Donna H

Literally, Literary..

Last night I watched, with great interest I might add, the documentary FORBIDDEN LIES which is about the "alleged" hoax that author, Norma Khouri played on the literary world.

The documentary is nearly two hours long and I have to say that in those two hours I swung between belief and disbelief so many times that by the close of the show I was so emotionally undone that I was panting.

If you didn't see it, please find the time to do so, as SHOWTIME will be airing it numerous times over the next f

Readers are family too

Technology has made it easy for everyone to share their intimate and not so intimate life details with the world.

Last year I invited the readers of this blog to follow me as I began my journey to find a home for my novel Glorious. Personally, I thought it was going to be a quick, and painless trip; but it did not work out that way. I posted my rejection letters and recorded my emotional up's and down's as well as my full-fledged break down when I announced that I DID NOT WANT TO DO THIS ANYMORE