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Black Pearls Featured author Danette Majette
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Meet author Danette Majette on BAN Radio to discuss her new book, "Good Girl Gone Bad".
Her BP page: http://www.blackpearlsmagazine.com/danettemajette.htm
Showtime: Monday, April 6, 2009 at 8:00pm EST
Call in to Speak to Danette and host Ella Curry: 646-200-0402
Chat room: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/black-author-network
Good Girl Gone Bad (Contemporary Fiction)
by Danette Majette
Release date- April 8, 2009
ISBN 10 – 1934230669
ISBN 13 - 9781934230664
Most people think when you say, “I do,” all problems come to an end. When happily ever after seems impossible, three women transform from good girls to bad women. Just when they think they’ve made it out of the grimy streets to a more ideal lifestyle in the suburbs, their lavish lives turn sour. Unfortunately, for the sexy threesome they are all suddenly faced with financial hardships that land them between a rock and a hard place.
Danette Majette
District Heights, MD 20753
Email: dcmajette@gmail.com
Buy Books at: www.lifechangingbooks.net
Intimate Conversation Interview with Author Geletha Black
Lunch with Ella Series
Have You Ever Wanted to Choke a B!$@h?
If wanting her was wrong...he'd be wrong a thousand times over.
Jaden Graeham is a man who knows what he wants. And what he wants is Blu Evans.
He loves a challenge and life won’t be complete until he has her back in his bed, but when a troubling piece to his past comes back to take out revenge and unmask a dark secret, will Jaden be able to survive the greatest risk of all: watching the woman he loves walk away?
"My Book is Out" Series--Erotica, Family Secrets, Classism....Lies & Alibis
Authors Nanette M. Buchanan, Petula Caesar, Kim Shaw, Geletha and Dale Black, Victoria Wells, Debra Owsley, Ella Curry owner of EDC Creations, and guest caller NFL Pro-baller WR Jesse Holley discuss new book releases relating to healthy AA relationships, erotica, classism, the male romantic perspective, and the business side of literature.
Topics of discussion during our Black Authors Network Interview
What would a pro football players like to read? Fiction titles or non-fiction?
Do women really listen to men when they cry out?
Who trains young men on the role they play in relationships?
The authors and special guests answer these questions and many more! Listen in...
Do African Americans still dwell over the light-skinned, dark-skinned issue?
Why do African Americans shy away from mental illness discussions?
How does a writer get their articles in magazines and newspapers?
What is the difference in erotica and romance titles?
These questions and oh so many more are answered on our BAN interview, to find out what each of these authors had to say to the questions, click here.
Novel Writing: Five Secrets Of Success
by Steve Dempster
Have you ever wondered, as you sit at your keyboard, if there are any secrets to successful novel writing? Well there are - and here are five of them. Remember these secrets and your novel writing will improve overnight!
To call the points below ’secrets’ is perhaps to invest them with too great an air of mystery, yet it seems that so many words of advice are looked on as ’secrets’ nowadays that I thought ’what the heck? Go with the flow - call them secrets. Why not?’I’ll tell you why not. Because it isn’t fair. The ’secrets’ I’m about to tell you aren’t secrets at all - just good, solid advice that’s been proven on the writing mill time after time. So, when next you read some sales blurb offering to tell you ’secrets’ that will absolutely guarantee your success and turn you into an A-list writer - remember me. Remember these five points. Remember that the writer’s road is a hard and rocky one. And especially remember that that road is the best road ever made!
Point One: Adopt a professional attitude towards your work.
Does this seem obvious? Of course it does - and yet you would be amazed at how many people write ’when they can’ or ’when the mood takes them’. If you are one of these people, you need to change this mental attitude right now - and I do mean right now. Unless you are another Hemingway or Joyce you will not succeed with such an approach. Set aside a regular time to work - then stick to it. Period.
Point Two: Identify your target market.
Who will you write for? By this I mean what section of the reading public. A good thing to keep in mind is that you are more likely to be successful writing books on the subject your read yourself - romance or sci-fi for example - than forcing yourself to write in a genre unknown to you just because it seems to sell well.
Point Three: Self-belief.
This is one thing that - unfortunately - no-one can teach you, yet it is one of the most important things that any writer can possess. Indeed, without self-belief it is highly unlikely that you will ever really ’make it’ as a writer. Why? Simply because writing is a tough game and only the strong survive. A writer’s strength lies in mental, rather than physical, toughness but it’s toughness just the same. Cultivate this strength at every opportunity.
Point Four: Support.
I’ve said this before in other articles and make no apology for saying it here - having the support of your family is of huge importance. If they understand that you are treating this writing business seriously and that you need to have set times in which to work then this will be of immense help to you. If they then go the extra mile and root for you at all times, well, you’re halfway there!
Point Five: Rejection.
This is perhaps the most dreaded aspect of writing for many would-be authors - the awful ’pink slip’ of the rejection letter. What you must realise is that rejection is not a personal slight. Publishing is a business and all that rejection means is that your story or book doesn’t fit with what that editor wants at that moment. Many writers in fact have a ’rejection selection’ that they keep to one side and resubmit at regular intervals. After all, times change - and so do editors!
So - five short ’secrets’ that, if you keep them in mind and more importantly act upon them, will always help you along the way to being a published writer. No guarantees, though - anyone who offers you those is someone you really shouldn’t listen to!
© Coypright Steve Dempster
Steve Dempster writes articles for the web and works of fiction. If you would like to get the know-how a novelist needs to write professionally, take a look at this: http://www.howtobeawriter.co.uk/page11.html
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Currently reading : The Foreigner's Caress (Kimani Romance) By Kim Shaw Release date: By 01 March, 2008  |
Can you afford to be a bestselling author?
On our Books n’ Business segment, 20 authors, visitors, and community leaders discussed the business side of publishing and becoming a published author. Find out how to gain more exposure without going broke!
Stephanie L. Jones, a prior publicist to major publishing houses, gives valuable information about an author’s media campaign.
Monica Carter Tagore offers readers and authors insight in to stay focused on the prize. Monica also offers the listeners great business tips!
Debra Owsley, owner of Simply Said Reading Acces. discussed preparing for trade shows and conferences. COS Productions also discussed how book trailers can increase sells at literary events.
Wanda Childs, owner of Blessed 24:7, shares with readers how she was "Pushed into Her Purpose" of steping out on faith.
Jessica Tilles, author and Xpress Yourself Publishing owner, educates the listeners with insider secrets to publishing.
Click here to listen to the entire motivating, literary chat at BAN.
Recession proof your book promotions with COS productions, Stephanie L. Jones, Monica Carter Tagore, Ella Curry, author and publisher Jessica Tilles, Wanda Childs, Lynda Sanders, Wanda B. Campbell, Nefertari Imani Baraka, KL the writer, Laura Major, Dana Pittman, Mikasenoja, Leroy McKenzie, and special guest Niona Green.
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Currently reading : The Enemy Between My Legs By Stephanie L. Jones Release date: By 16 November, 2007  |
Can you afford to be a bestselling author?
On our Books n’ Business segment, 20 authors, visitors, and community leaders discussed the business side of publishing and becoming a published author. Find out how to gain more exposure without going broke!
Stephanie L. Jones, a prior publicist to major publishing houses, gives valuable information about an author’s media campaign.
Monica Carter Tagore offers readers and authors insight in to stay focused on the prize. Monica also offers the listeners great business tips!
Debra Owsley, owner of Simply Said Reading Acces. discussed preparing for trade shows and conferences. COS Productions also discussed how book trailers can increase sells at literary events.
Wanda Childs, owner of Blessed 24:7, shares with readers how she was "Pushed into Her Purpose" of steping out on faith.
Jessica Tilles, author and Xpress Yourself Publishing owner, educates the listeners with insider secrets to publishing.
Click here to listen to the entire motivating, literary chat at BAN.
Recession proof your book promotions with COS productions, Stephanie L. Jones, Monica Carter Tagore, Ella Curry, author and publisher Jessica Tilles, Wanda Childs, Lynda Sanders, Wanda B. Campbell, Nefertari Imani Baraka, KL the writer, Laura Major, Dana Pittman, Mikasenoja, Leroy McKenzie, and special guest Niona Green.
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Currently reading : The Enemy Between My Legs By Stephanie L. Jones Release date: By 16 November, 2007 |
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