And it is STUNNING. Much more beautiful and attractive than the previous cover, racial issues notwithstanding. OLD COVER NEW COVER Thank you Bloomsbury! Via Reading Extensively

  Last December, I found out that November was National Write a Novel Month (NaNoWriMo), also known as NaNo. I was a bit upset that I missed it that year, but marked it in my calendar for this year. Since November 1st, my life has been revolving around my laptop. This has been a task within [...]

It’s almost 3 a.m. here and I’m wide awake pondering over story ideas. I’m curious to know, do other black writers come up with great story ideas and then go “wait a minute, will a publishing company buy this?” “Will they give it chance?” “Will people read it?” “What will they categorize this as?” For me [...]

Monica Jackson is back! Rah rah! From her blog I began to read the feed to Blogging in Black and the post published this past Tuesday caught my eye: E-Publishing or Bust! Having followed the hoopla over the blogosphere in the wake of the RWA President basically poo-pooing e-publishing, I’ve began to look into e-publishing [...]