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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

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“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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XYP is Growing!
 

 Versatility was one of author S.B. REDD'S strengths during his fifteen-year career in print journalism. Although he worked primarily as a sports reporter, he also wrote capably on topics like religion and politics as a free-lance writer for a national magazine. Read More about S.B.!

  PATRICIA ANN BRIDEWELL was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. A love for reading and writing began in early childhood. Three years ago, she started attending writers’ workshops and creative writing classes, which influenced her decision to pursue the challenge of writing her first fiction novel, Reflections of a Quiet Storm. Read More about Patricia!

   ALLYSON DEESE, aka “Caramel Vixen,” is an author and a poet as well as a student majoring in Medical Office Administration. She resides in North Carolina.  Although only in her twenties, she has been writing poetry for most of her life and has now began penning her poetry into the pages of her fictional stories of multiple genres. Read More about Allyson!

  JOHN R. WILLIAMS-THE AUTHOR was born and raised on the Southside of Chicago, Illinois and is the eldest of three sons. A product of a single parent home, John discovered a deep appreciation for the arts at an early age through music, poetry and writing. As a child he was exposed to both the bitter and sweet parts of life growing up in the inner city. Read More about John!

  CHLOE R is a published author and poet.  Her short stories can be found in Erogenous Zone (Xpress Yourself Publishing), Mental Seductions (Diva Books Publishing) and Mocha Chocolate (Shanibooks, Inc.).  Read More about Chloe R!

   BABA EVANS MOORE is an award-winning author of While the Village Sleeps, The Pastor’s Letter, and Just A Picture in a Frame. As the recipient of the Falcon Edge Male Taskforce’s Men of the Millennium award, Baba is now blazing trails in family literacy. He is a strong advocate for parents to read a variety of books and to urge their children to read. Read More about Baba!

 LESSY'B was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She began writing in high school, where her English teacher encouraged her to go into Journalism because she wrote so well, but she had other career goals; well as you can see from her work, writing has still been her passion.  Read More about Lessy'B!

Born and raised in Sacramento, California, ROBIN RENEE ROBINSON moved to LA to pursue a career in front of the camera in the early ‘80s.  Although she had stars in her eyes, Robin was not one to waitress or to starve for that matter, so her nine-to-five’s included stints at ABC-TV, Lorimar Productions, Motown Productions, Eddie Murphy Productions, Wing Records, Ivory Way Productions (Keenen Wayans' production company) Sony Pictures Entertainment, and 20^th Century Fox Television.  Her duties were varied and included working in casting, creative affairs, marketing, post and pre production, and business affairs.  Read More about Robin!  Robin's debut novel, Chocolate Lemons and Peppermint Tears: The Bittersweet Life of Xena, will be released in Spring 2009!

  CHRIS BERMAN resides in Saint Augustine, Florida with his wife, Lareesa Polyakova and daughters Marina and Sabrina.  Chris has an extensive background in astronomy and is a spaceflight enthusiast; familiar with the space programs both here in America and in Russia.

Chris' debut novel, The Hive, will be released Winter 2009! Take a peek, and read an excerpt!

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5. A Life Beyond Limits: Overcoming Private Pain
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7. Pulpit Confessions
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9. Tonight I Give
   By Mia A. Moore

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11. For Every Love There Is A Reason
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13. All That Glitters
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15. Anything Goes
    By Jessica Tilles

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   By Jessica Tilles

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The saga continues... Consequences, the full novel, by Linda R. Herman

...Coming Winter 2009!

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Bare Necessities: Sensuous Tales of Passion
by Hazel Mills

Whether newly discovered or rekindled, there is no feeling in the world like pure passion coursing through our veins. It erupts at our core and allows us to be free and uninhibited.  Read More!

Price:        $12.95
On Sale:     4/01/2008
Format:     Trade Paperback

A Special Summer
by Victoria Wells

Price:        $15.00
On Sale:     3/04/2008
Format:     Trade Paperback

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The First Chronicle of Zayashariya: OUT OF NIGHT
by Violette L. Reid

Sorcery, slaughter, and struggle with self, Out of Night provides a spiritual twist that unites fantasy and science fiction with the battle with faith and the numinous world.

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Price:        $16.95
On Sale:     3/04/2008
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Xpress Yourself Publishing

An Extra Ordinary Affair
By Baba Evans Moore

Leaning over the rail of the wooden pier, contemplating suicide, Siobhan’s bad experiences with the men in her life flashed before her. First, her handsome “mama’s boy” caved in to his mother’s dislike for her, terminating their storybook marriage. Dejected by his rejection and pregnant, she fled a world of glamour as a successful model in New York and relocated to Atlanta. Read more!

All or Nothing
By Delorse A. Brown

After a night out on the town, in celebration of her 18^th birthday, Loni, once a mother figure to little sister Lou, slowly hits rock bottom and becomes a useless junky. The street life forces Loni to neglect her responsibilities as a caretaker and leads her to a street hustler named B-Style. Over time, she falls madly in love with B-Style and bears a son. Read more!

All That Glitters (Paperback)
by D.L. Sparks

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All That Glitters (Paperback)
by D.L. Sparks

ISBN-10: 0979975743
ISBN-13: 978-0979975745

If the wrong opportunity came along at the right time....what would you do?? Santee Mitchell seems to keep coming up short in life. At least that's how it seems in her mind. Growing up she constantly played second best to her older sister Sonya, and in adulthood, the patterned painfully continues.

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She's stuck with a two-timing, drug-dealing boyfriend, while her sister lucked up and hooked a professional ball player. Her money is always running short, when it ran at all. The last straw comes in the form of an eviction notice coupled with an ill-timed pregnancy. Determined to turn her luck around, as well as put some money in the bank, Santee turns to her friend Monique and is immediately hypnotized by the sparkle of her diamond encrusted world. But what she doesn't realize is that help from Monique comes with a price.

A price that not even Santee is willing to pay. Haunted by a fire that still burns for her ex and driven by a wanton lust for a trick turned savior, Santee's plan starts to unravel and it may be too late to right her wrongs when Monique turns up dead and she is fingered for the gruesome crime; revealing a secret that changes her forever and forcing her to look for answers in the one place she's tried to avoid - inside herself.

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