Ok.... so you've completed your baby. You've edited until your little heart is content and now all you need is a for real deal author to apply their stamp... or comment of approval. How do you go about approaching them correctly? How much of the manu
Read more…My husband has turned me on to a serial that was originally published in black newspapers in the 1930's. George Schuyler had some wild and original ideas.My question relates to current lagging newspaper and magazine readership. Wouldn't it be great t
Read more…Okay, I don't know if having a book trailer helps sell a book in the grand scheme of things...but I like seeing them and I like posting them to my blog. Unfortunately, I'm a writer not an artist (although hubby is an artist) or a photographer. And I'
Read more…Just discovered a book by Juliet McKenna called Southern Fire. It's main protagonists is a black warrior. I was pleasantly surprised. I haven't read it but it seems pretty good. I tend to get nervous when I see black characters in novels by white aut
Read more…I just started reading this book by witley streber. He has a way of mixing fiction with the myth of truth. If you don't know by now in the year 2012 the myaan calendar ends and the earth poles are suppose to shift creating tidal waves-earth quakes. y
Read more…htp (peace)Doing some last minute stuff before the book becomes available.What sub-genre of fiction does your book fit in?Subject HeadingsMy upcoming novel, Retro-KM, would be considered - FIC03900- Visionary & MetaphysicalAnyone using this category?
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Read more…Our Black Bookstore List
Courtesy of Troy D. Johnson
The Last Black Owned Bookstores Open in the U.S.
Pyramid Art Books & Custom Framing – Little Rock, AR
Zahra’s Books and Things – Inglewood, CA
Eso Won Bookstore – Los Angeles, CA
Marcus Books (Oak
Anyone who knows me can tell you I'm about doing, not talking. So, I'm looking at us putting together a short story collection, slated for 2010. This will not be a labor of love; I will publish the book through MVmedia and I will pay each writer for
Read more…Hello all! The Sword and Soul movement has spread to the South! Meji Book One, my first novel, is on sale now at my website, www.mvmediaatl.com. The order page is functional; transactions are handled by Paypal. I have no limit on how many books you o
Read more…just finished Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist and was suitably impressed. He managed to interweave passing, civil rights, and black urban life into a mythical narrative about elevators!I'm curious - why isn't it considered SciFi?has anyone here r
Read more…Hello All,I met with my printer yesterday; Meji: Book One will be available as of May 12th. I will be adding a page with a link to paypal for online purchases. For those more timid there will also be a form to order by mail. If you haven't been to my
Read more…htp (peace)... based on the popular animated series that ran on Urban Entertainment about seven or eight years ago.http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/044653093X/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-linkFrom Publishers Weekly -When a supervillain wastes San Francisco in
Read more…Though mostly well known for his Easy Rawlins novels, Walter Mosley has also penned a few science fiction novels. I recently read Blue Light, a horror/fantasy/science fiction novel by Mr. Mosley. It ranks as one of the most imaginative stories I've r
Read more…These are the first two chapters of a science fiction novel I'm publishing in 2010. Let me know what you think.-1-He crouched in a shroud of darkness, comforted by the ceramic pulse rifle gripped in his hands and the shallow breathing of his platoon.
Read more…It's the first book in a trilogy published by Doubleday in 2007. Durham, an English professor in California; is a literary, historical novelist. This is his first outing into the realm of fantasy.I know it's not sci fi, but I sort of (wrongly) lump s
Read more…The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a novel written by Sam Greenlee and published in 1969 and the 1973 film of the same name. An explosive, award-winning novel in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a satire of the c
Ashford scowled but followed Miranda into the bedroom where they laid down, side by side, slipping off her robe and brushing the tips of fingers across her chin, down her shoulder, her arm, up again along her stomach and breasts before clutching her
You'll find Amnesty and The Book of Martha still on the site. I was unable to find Bloodchild there last night.
Read more…He could not die. Doro was a mind force who changed bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex -- or design. He roamed Earth, gathering the genetic Wild Seed: the tormented, mad thought-readers, seers, and witches. Some he helped. Some he destr
