Sankofa Literary Society Bookclub

Books Change Lives—Christian Fiction-Our Experiences

2008-11-03T16:15:03Z

Books Change Lives—Christian Fiction/Young Adults/Our Experiences

1. Somewhat Saved by Pat G'Orge-Walker

2. My Son’s Wife by Shelia E. Lipsey

3. Sunny’s Adventures (Children) by Leketha Marie Johnson

4. Mistaken Innocence & the Urban Aristocrat by Tina Magee

5. Beacon Hills High (Teens) By Mo'Nique, Sherri McGee McCovey

6. Brothers & Sisters (Children Poems) by Eloise Greenfield

7. Doo-Wop Pop (Children) by Roni Schotter

8. Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken (Children) by Kate DiCamillo

9. Soon and Very Soon by Sherryle Kiser Jackson

10. Battle Of Jericho by Kendra Norman-Bellamy

11. Dance into Destiny by Sherri Lewis

12. Joseph (Children/YA) by Shelia P. Moses

13. Can I Get a Witness? by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

14. Talk To Me by Pat Simmons
15. Scratches by Frankie Nicole

16. Conflict and Discovery by Julius Kane

17. Stay Strong: Simple Life Lessons for Teens by Terrie Williams

18. Sisters Helping Sisters: The Wheeler Avenue by Madeleine Wright

19. Ms. Thang by Sonia Hayes

20. Herstory: Black Female Rites of Passage by Mary C. Lewis

21. Teenage Bluez: A Collection of Urban Stories by Life Changing Books

22. Something on the Inside by T.N. Williams

23. Always Sisters: Becoming the Princess You... by Cece Winans

24. Being One - No One is like No Other by Isabis Inside

25. Shades of Darkness by George Brummell

26. Expectations by Toni V. Lee

27. Profiles in Black: Phat Facts for Teens by Marvin A. McMickle

28. Married Strangers by Dwan Abrams

29. A Man’s Worth by Nikita Lynette Nichols

30. Changing Faces by Marlo Chapman

31. Fallen Angel by Diane Martin

32. If Memory Serves by Vanessa Davis Griggs

33. My Father's House by Dijorn Moss

34. Up Pops The Devil by Angela Benson

35. Stand The Storm: A Novel by Breena Clarke

36. The Last Ten Percent by Michelle McKinney Hammond

37. Fields Of Fire by Linda Hudson-Smith

38. The Twelfth Window, by Jennifer M. Norwood

39. Song of the Siren by Avah LaReaux

40. Since You Went Away From Me by Tifany Jones

41. The Secrets Within Tifany Jones

42. The Diva's Diary-Original Poetic Thought Notes by TaKasha Francis

43. Sweet Caroline by Rachel Hauck

44. Blue Heart Blessed by Susan Meissner

45. The Shack by William P. Young

46. Living Consequences by Brittney Holmes

47. Falling for Lies by Barbara Joe-Williams

48. Happily Ever Now by Nicole Rouse

49. He's Saved...But Is He For Real? by Kimberley Brooks

50. Everybody in the Church Ain't Saved by Patti Trafton

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Happy Holidays from Ella Curry

2008-11-01T13:14:07Z

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Happy Holidays!

EDC Creations, The Sankofa Literary Society and The Black Authors Network announced the launch of their 2008-2009 Give the Gift of Knowledge Campaign, bringing readers and authors together to help improve literacy. In 2004, during the Christmas holidays, Ella Curry, the founder of EDC Creations, reached out to women's groups and literary organizations to help promote early literacy by giving new books to children from low income homes. Today, the "Give the Gift of Knowledge Campaign," seeks to expand even further by giving the Gift of Knowledge daily!

Based on the “each one teach one model” our goal is to help people introduce reading and new books to their family and friends. Instead of giving expensive gifts that don't shape lives----let's “Give the Gift of Knowledge” and help to strengthen our future generations!

Each year thousands of people — educators, concerned parents, community leaders, authors, poets and publishers — devote their time and resources to presenting the reader with great books! However, too many outstanding books do not get the attention and reader support that they deserve. It is our mission to connect readers with these hidden gems and bring them books that will change their lives.

Each week EDC Creations will sponsor bookclub chats, live readings from authors, podcast presentations, seminars, community relations discussions, and radio shows that deliver the best our writers have to offer. All we ask is that the readers of the world spread the word. Please share this email with 10 people in your network.

EDC Creations has a new eMagazine that we would like you to check out. This holiday season Give the Gift of Knowledge. Send a love one a book that could change their lives! Enter the special magazine by clicking here.

Give the Gift of Knowledge. Want to make a difference in someone else's life this holiday season? Donate an a book to a child, senior or your co-workers for the holidays. EDC Creations has brought the best in today's literature in our new magazine. Explore new book releases, audio book previews and written interviews with bookclubs and community leaders by following our EDC Creations eMagazine Blog. Enter our magazine blog by clicking here.

EDC Creations 2009 Literary Weekends
It is our mission to help new authors gain exposure for their books. In the New Year, we will host weekly workshops and live readings in DC area hotels. Each session will be videotaped by Botts & Associates, there will be a theme for most genres and refreshments will be served. Please follow our blog closely to find out all the details. If you are an author or bookclub in the Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, and East Coast area, reach out to us to be included in these weekly presentations.

Holiday Book Promotions

For the month of November only, EDC Creations is offering full promotions on the main EDC Creations site and the new EDC eMagazine for $75.00. That's right, you can advertise on either site, on the page you select for $75.00.

However, there will only be 5 books showcased on the frontpages, these are based on first come, first served basis. We are offering our eblast services for $75.00 as well. All EDC Creations advertisements are $75.00 for November.
Email Ella to get started promoting your book today: elladcurry@edc-creations.com

Every Author Needs a Website--A Control Center
MySpace is a good social network for promoting your books. It is not like having your own control center, a virtual office if you will, authors need websites. If you want to appear industry savvy and to be taken seriously in your efforts, you need a place to represent you and your books in style! EDC Creations is offering free consulations on this subject.

In order to help new authors represent themselves in the best light, EDC Creations will now offer starter websites for $399.00, complete with the bells and whistles. Contact Ella today to start your new year off right! We will only create 5 sites per month. If you would like a new website before the new year arrives, email Ella today.

The Black Authors Network Talk Show is looking for authors and poets to read Christmas, Kwanzaa and holiday material on the radio show. If you would like to write a short story or poem to be read on air, please email Ella Curry, the producer at: elladcurry@edc-creations.com. Each night in December 2008, we will host a speaker reading their work live! This is a community celebration, you are all welcome to create something special and give it as a gift to the world. We would also like to host children reading their poems too!

Black Authors Network Talk Show
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Meet us at: 8pm-10pm EST Mon., Wed., and Friday nights
Authors dial-in number: (646) 200-0402

Chat live with the guests in our chat room during the show
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Warmest regards,

Ella Curry, President/CEO EDC Creations
Black Author Network Radio-Founder
Sankofa Literary Society-Founder
A Good Book-Marketing Director
Xpress Yourself Publishing-Publicist
WoMEN-NPower (DC Chapter) Member
EDC Creations is on The Black Men in America blog!

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Women Risktakers: It's Your Destiny

2008-10-31T11:57:15Z

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Woman on the Front Lines

(November 2008, Charisma)

by Janet Sebastian

Patricia Bailey-Jones had led mission trips to nearly 100 nations the year she read an article about Angola-a country in southern Africa that just ended a bloody, 27-year civil war in 2002. "That article gripped me," she says. "In it a father took his [5-year-old] daughter to a hotel and offered her room to room for sex to foreign businessmen. The spirit of God stood up on my inside, and I was compelled to do something."

That compulsion has since led her to Angola three times. On her most recent trip last spring, she distributed laptops and materials donated by U.S. churches and businesses to build better bathrooms at the largest school in Angola's capital, Luanda. "We love you, and these laptops represent people in America who love you," Bailey-Jones told students at Vida Abondante (Abundant Life) School, which is run by area pastors and educates more than 5,000 students in the poverty-stricken suburb of Boa Vista; the name, ironically, means beautiful view.

"You have to believe in your future and your prosperity," she continued. "Your pastors and teachers believe Jesus has a plan for your lives. Where you are right now is not where you will always be. God has a perfect plan for your lives and we, along with other Christians and companies in America, are investing in your lives through the new bathrooms and computers."

For the founder of Master's Touch Ministries International based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Angola is just one of dozens of places around the world in need of the gospel. Through the last 27 years, Bailey-Jones has ministered in more than 120 countries despite dangerous conditions or the nations' hostility to Christianity. "God showed me a while ago that anything of worth involves risk," she says.

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Women Risktakers: It's Your Destiny... Reach Higher, Stand Stronger, Go Further (Life Purpose)

by Patricia D. Bailey (Harrison House)

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Are Our Children Safe? Part I by Keith Lee Johnson

2008-10-31T11:41:56Z

EDC Creations presents a Parental Wake up Call

Wake up Parents, Female pedophilia is on the rise!

Are Our Children Safe? Part I by Keith Lee Johnson
http://edcmagazine.blogspot.com/2008/10/are-our-children-safe-part-i-by-keith.html

Are Our Children Safe? Part 2
http://edcmagazine.blogspot.com/2008/10/are-our-children-safe-part-2.html

Are Our Children Safe? Part 3
http://edcmagazine.blogspot.com/2008/10/are-our-children-safe-part-3.html

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Poem: THE DEFINITION OF A REAL WOMAN

2008-10-31T11:01:10Z

EDC Creations Presents

THE DEFINITION OF A REAL WOMAN

A real woman is true to herself.
She holds her head up high.
She doesn't waddle in pity;
or sit back and cry.

A real woman is a survivor.
She can stand on her own feet.
With God by her side,
she can't be beat.

A real woman has courage;
she has spunk and grace.
Even when she is down,
she has a smile upon her face.

A real woman will make it.
A real woman will excel.
She will keep on striving,
whether she wins or fails.

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Poem: A REAL WOMAN

2008-10-31T10:59:06Z

A REAL WOMAN

I am a woman of substance. I walk with pride.
I have a style of my own. My elegance comes from inside.

I hold my head high; not ashamed of my past.
I am a real woman; a real woman at last.

No one knows the pain I've been through.
No one knows how I've suffered too.

I am a real woman. I can survive this race.
I can keep it together, and keep a smile on my face.

A real woman; strong and wise.
I ignore the jealousy; I ignore the lies.

I'm real and very true from the heart.
I'll let you know this from the start.

Surviving the worst, and taking care of my needs.
I am a real woman; a real woman indeed.

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Parker Publishing has gone GREEN

2008-10-31T10:56:24Z

Parkerpublishing

News Release

In today's economic uncertainties of high gas prices, growing paper prices and higher shipping cost. Parker Publishing llc is going GREEN. In an effort to accommodate tightened budgets, in addition to our print editions, we are now offering Parker Publishing LLC books in electronic PDF and Kindle formats for our customers.

Other formats (MobiPocket and Microsoft Reader) are available on request.

We are committed to our customers and their needs.

Visit Parker Publising today in order to check all the new releases: http://www.parker-publishing.com

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STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART by Bertha Davis

2008-10-31T10:47:45Z

STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART COMING DECEMBER 2008

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Bertha Davis returns with one of the most poignant, compelling and substantial poetry works and symbolically entitled, Straight From The Heart. She has won critical acclaim for her novel, Growing Up In Mississippi and returns with poetry to unleash her spiritual words of wisdom too important for readers to miss.

The poem that will stir your soul is The Tree of Death, which takes the reader through the storms of brutality, racism, and murder of black people during post civil war in people’s retaliation of Black Slaves freedom to painful lynching’s. While many historians would like to hide these crimes that still exist socially and politically, is too important to not remind people of black people’s struggles with only the past 200 years.

Bertha remains true to her spiritual journey as a writer who is here to make her mark in history. She has a story to tell, words of wisdom to share, and deepened reflections of struggle. Bertha Davis continues to excel as a YOUnity Guild 5 Star Award Recipient by penning outstanding books each year.

Her reign is miraculous, her words incredible, and her poetry is remarkable. A TRUE RENISSANCE WOMAN OF POETRY & GIFT OF STORY is Reborn. This time Bertha holds the reign as a Queen of Spiritual Poetry.

No. of Pages: 77

ISBN 0-7414-5065-8

Price: $9.95

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[Straight From The Maverick] It's Still the Economy, Stupid!

2008-09-30T11:51:42Z

I'm sure there will be people who support John McCain that say that he did a fine job representing himself in tonight's presidential debate in Oxford, Mississippi, against Barack Obama. The same thing will also be said by those who support Obama.

I think what tonight's debate did was firmly establish the distinct contrast in the two of them: McCain has a very narrow and near-sighted approach to dealing with this nation's problems both domestically and abroad; Obama is willing to have a much wider perspective on dealing with the same problems that confront us, making emphasis that the problems of this world requires a 21st century solution to 21st century problems.

For that reason, Obama may have kept his challenge from his Democratic Party convention speech that if McCain wants to talk about who has the disposition and judgment to serve as commander in chief of this country, that would be a debate he's ready to have.

Point well taken, point well served. The question is whether the rest of the country saw the same thing that I did?

I will not get into many specifics on the topics that were discussed, but one thing that I did notice throughout the debate was that McCain never looked in Obama's direction when making any points or rebuttals the entire 90 minutes.

By his actions, Obama did take the debate as he needed to by not only making eye contact with the moderator, Jim Lehrer, but also looking in McCain's direction when articulating his points. The fact that McCain would not look his rival's direction was an obvious sign to me that he's intimidated by Obama. If this country is to elect a new leader, it needs somebody who is willing to confront his rivals and enemies.

It was clearly obvious that McCain tried to paint Obama by being inexperienced and naïve when it comes to all facets of being a leader, particularly on foreign policy. He advocated experience meant something. He freely dropped names of political leaders abroad and the cities. He reached back into his vast knowledge of history of specific world affairs.

The one thing, however, that bothered me was the fact he held fast that Iraq is linchpin to dealing with many of the problems in the Middle East, this country's fight against Osama bin Laden and his Al-Queda operatives in Afghanistan, even when it has long since been proven that the Iraq was never the place that harbored weapons of mass destruction, and it never should have been the focal point of this country's military efforts for much of this decade.

Obama managed to hold ground by making assertions about judgment and proper strategy for entering into the military situations the United States is now fighting. He noted this country's spent $600 billion over in Iraq and what has it produced? That more than 4,000 Americans are dead. That more than 30,000 soldiers have been wounded. A world standing that is not the same as it was a decade ago. Bin Laden's yet caught. Al-Queda has re-tooled itself. And this country is now dealing with its own economic issues. The only thing that he didn't mention was this country operating in a $500 billion deficit; he did mention that this country is probably indebted to China by borrowing at least $600 billion and soon approaching $1 trillion.

I think because of the immediacy of media news cycles we'll probably forget about this debate in a matter of days. I think what remains on the minds of people across this country is the economy.

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Posted By Sam B. Redd to Straight From The Maverick at 9/26/2008 11:10:00 PM

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XYP INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING HOUSE OF THE YEAR

2008-09-30T11:50:01Z

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Xpress Yourself Publishing, LLC

P.O. Box 1615

Upper Marlboro , Maryland 20773

Contact: Erica Hart, Public Relations

Phone: (301) 390-3645

E-mail: Erica.Hart@xpressyourselfpublishing.org

Web Site: www.XpressYourselfPublishing.org

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND-BASED BUSINESS RECEIVES

“INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING HOUSE OF THE YEAR” AWARD

Upper Marlboro, Maryland, September 26, 2008 — Xpress Yourself Publishing, LLC received the Independent Publishing House of the Year Award from the African American Literary Awards Show, the most comprehensive awards show ever to recognize, honor, celebrate and promote the outstanding achievements and contributions of the publishing, arts and entertainment industries. The ceremony was held at the HarlemStage Gatehouse in Harlem , New York on September 25, 2008.

Xpress Yourself Publishing is an English-language publisher headquartered in Upper Marlboro, Maryland . The house of ESSENCE® national best-selling authors Bill Holmes, author of One Love and Kenda Bell, author of For Every Love There Is A Reason was founded in 2001 by Jessica Tilles, who launched the company as a self-publishing venture, publishing her national best-selling titles: Anything Goes, In My Sisters' Corner, Apple Tree, Sweet Revenge, Fatal Desire, Unfinished Business, Erogenous Zone: A Sexual Voyage. Xpress Yourself Publishing publishes 10 to 15 titles per year.

“Xpress Yourself Publishing continues to mold the literary careers of 35 talented authors, which includes two ESSENCE® Best Sellers, award-winning authors, several award nominees, and a finalist for the 2008 NAACP Image Award nomination in the Best Debut Novel category,” said Jessica Tilles, CEO and Publisher. “I sincerely wish to thank the Xpress Yourself Publishing authors, for without them, this award would not have been possible. One person cannot build a publishing house alone. It takes a team, and I do indeed have a great team!”

Company Overview:

Today, Xpress Yourself Publishing, with 40 titles in print, is a broad-based publisher dedicated to publishing thought-provoking literature and commercial fiction, business books, mystery, romance, erotica, spiritual, and contemporary. In fiscal year 2007, Xpress Yourself Publishing had ESSENCE® Best Sellers including One Love by Bill Holmes and For Every Love There Is A Reason by Kenda Bell, and D.L. Sparks, author of All That Glitters, made the master list for to be nominated for the 2008 NAACP Image Awards. The 2007 Alternative Soul Award was awarded to Bill Holmes, author of One Love and ESSENCE best-selling author.

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