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From Cape Town with Love: Now showing on an iPad near you! (Or an iPhone...or your computer...)

    
       One glance at our new novel, From Cape Town with Love (Atria Books), will tell you that it wants to be a movie.  The title is a riff of the James Bond movie From Russia with Love.  The cover looks like a movie poster, and the book has its own iMix soundtrack.

         That was the idea behind the Tennyson Hardwick series the three of us envisioned:  me, my husband, Steven Barnes, and actor Blair Underwood.  We want to give readers good books, and we want to see those books on the...

Tennyson Hardwick: Now showing on an iPad near you! (Or an iPhone...or your computer...)

    
       One glance at our new novel, From Cape Town with Love (Atria Books), will tell you that it wants to be a movie.  The title is a riff of the James Bond movie From Russia with Love.  The cover looks like a movie poster, and the book has its own iMix soundtrack.

         That was the idea behind the Tennyson Hardwick series the three of us envisioned:  me, my husband, Steven Barnes, and actor Blair Underwood.  We want to give readers good books, and we want to see those books on the...

From Cape Town with Love: Launch week! Blair Underwood on "Today"

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This week marks the hardcover publication of From Cape Town with Love (Atria Books) and a Vook video e-book edition with exciting video clips dramatized directly from the book's pages by Blair Underwood and other familiar faces, inluding a memorable appearance by Kellita Smith ("The Bernie Mac Show").   


From Cape Town with Love is a collaboration between me and my husband, Steven Barnes, and actor Blair Underwood. &nbsp...

Hollywood, meet Tennyson Hardwick... (NEW VIDEO TRAILER!)

          I first met Blair Underwood years ago through his efforts to mount a film version of a novel I sent him when I was a new writer.  My husband, Steven Barnes, and I have been collaborating on fiction and screenplays for a dozen years. 
    In 2007, the Tennyson Hardwick series was born as an answer to the lessons we have learned in Hollywood—Blair as an actor, storyteller, director and producer, and Steve and I as writers.  We wanted to create high-quality fiction with a cinematic...

Hollywood, meet Tennyson Hardwick (NEW VIDEO TRAILER!)

          I first met Blair Underwood years ago through his efforts to mount a film version of a novel I sent him when I was a new writer.  My husband, Steven Barnes, and I have been collaborating on fiction and screenplays for a dozen years. 
    In 2007, the Tennyson Hardwick series was born as an answer to the lessons we have learned in Hollywood—Blair as an actor, storyteller, director and producer, and Steve and I as writers.  We wanted to create high-quality fiction with a cinematic...

EXCLUSIVE book excerpt: FROM CAPE TOWN WITH LOVE (May 18, 2010/Atria)

I can't believe it, but in May we'll be publishing our third novel in our Tennyson Hardwick mystery series, From Cape Town with Love. These are the books I'm co-authoring with my husband, Steven Barnes , in partnership with actor Blair Underwood .
This book literally begins where 2008's NAACP Image Award-winning In the Night of the Heat left off, so there's plenty of time to catch up...but all of these books are written so that first-time readers can follow them too!
Before we post the excerpt, ...

Apps & the Art of Relaxation

A few months ago, my sister Lydia gifted me with an iPhone. While I'm not thrilled with the cost of keeping it up and running, my relationship with my iPhone has become so strong that I often joke that it is unwholesome. I literally sleep with my iPhone under my pillow at night.
Why? Originally, it was to feed my bedtime audio book habit, but I can use my old iPod classic for that. Instead, I've grown more and more dependent on my iPhone apps to relax me and help me sleep. During a recent...

Celebrating our friend E. Lynn Harris

CAPTION: Posing with E. Lynn Harris and my mother, Patricia Stephens Due, at Books & Books in Miami.

OK…send prayers up. I'm off to my meeting with one of Hollywood's most powerful ladies. Got the suit on and the new scent I purchased yesterday and I'm ready for my close up.
--E. Lynn Harris's last Facebook update to 3,800 friends and readers,
posted the day he died


When I think of E. Lynn Harris, who died on July 23, this is the moment I remember: I'm walking in a sea of humanity in...

My Father's Oral History Mystery: Lyles Station and the 1857 "Round House Battle"

CAPTIONS: [Left:] Black schoolchildren at the school at Lyles Station, circa late-1800s. (My great-grandmother may be one of the darker girls on the right.) SOURCE: Lyles Station Historic Preservation Society.
[Right:] Me posing at age 11: "My Own Roots"
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By 1977, Alex Haley's Roots had swept the nation—and suddenly I was interested in knowing my family history. Had there been a Kunta Kinte in my family's past? A Kizzy?
As a parent now, I can only imagine how happy my father was...

MAY APPEARANCES IN L.A. & MIAMI—YES, MIAMI! (with Edwidge Danticat)

In May, I have three appearances in Southern California—and I'll be appearing with Edwidge Danticat in Miami May 21!!! I am not officially on book tour, but it feels that way!
LOS ANGELES—MAY 9 (Saturday) and MAY 17 (Sunday):
I'm honored to be a part of a group show at the Pounder-Koné Art Space, where my novel Blood Colony will be featured in "Cooperative." The show runs May 7-31. I will attend the opening reception from 6 to 9 p.m. May 9 (Saturday), and I will return to read from Blood...