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Advice on Exploring Erotica in Your Writing
MediaBistro's Morning Media Menu had a conversation with author Jamie Brenner about advice for writers looking to explore this newly crowded genre. An excerpt from Brenner: My first erotic novel came out two years ago. The landscape feels completely different. There is not just the hope to reach a mainstream audience with erotic novel, but the expectation that success is reaching everyone, not just the genre readers. Fifty Shades of Grey really raised the bar for that. At the same time, working…See More
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How to Self-Publish & Market Your Own Book: A Simple Guide for Aspiring Writers
by Mack E. Smith (Author), Sara Freeman Smith (Author)
ISBN-10: 0966232887
ISBN-13: 978-0966232882
Book Description
This book provides easy yet effective tools used in publishing and marketing books successfully. The authors, Mack E. Smith and Sara Freeman Smith, include their personal experiences in publishing their books. The book list many resources in the appendix, such as production timelines, printers, trade associations, etc. It explains how to: get free advertising, avoid common publishing mistakes, prepare a marketing plan, complete important registrations, select a book printer, and much more.
How to Self-Publish and Market Your Own Book includes sample forms, pricing information, and budget worksheets. The book also includes a special section of tips and resources for minority and women writers. Every aspiring writer can understand this simple guide.
Life's Spices from Seasoned Sistahs: A Collection of Life Stories from Mature Women of Color by Vicki L. Ward (Editor)
ISBN-10: 0975516205
ISBN-13: 978-0975516201
Book Description
"Life's Spices From Seasoned Sistahs" A Collection of Life Stories From Mature Women of Color These are true stories and poems from the voices of women of color. These "seasoned sistahs" hail from all across the United States and also include a sistah living in India. They boldly share the defining events in their lives. They tell of relationships, parenting, family, self esteem, mothers, forgiveness, death, and finding a spiritual path. They describe how they walked these journeys in their lives.
This first volume of stories and poetry is for younger women just experiencing life, and for mature sistahs alike. As these "seasoned sistahs" share their lives they enable others to learn from, and gain support through their trials, and triumphs. When you share their stories, you learn the importance of knowing there is similarity of life's experiences for all women everywhere. The book also contains an extensive state by state resource guide for women, which includes many US territories.
About the Author
Vicki Ward, writes poetry, fiction and non-fiction. She has written for Roots Magazine reporting on the Bay Area entertainerment scene through artist interviews, and CD, and stage play reviews. She is editor, and publisher of Life's Spices From Seasoned Sistahs" A Collection of Life's Stories from Mature Women of Color, Nubian Images Publishing.
My Reflections Up Close and Personal
by Bella Donna - Gail Langford
ISBN-10: 061518409X
ISBN-13: 978-0615184098
Book Description
The Book is a book of poems. I had never written a poem before until my son was killed. It helps with the pain when you lose someone. Not to just grieve inside to get by. But put it on paper to remember their faces and not just there resting places. Dedicated to my Son my Family and those who have lost a loved one especially the parents who have lost a child.
Snake Walkers
by J. Everett Prewitt (Author)
ISBN-10: 0976192705
ISBN-13: 978-0976192701
Book Description
Traumatized as a child after witnessing a hanging, Anthony Andrews, the first black reporter at the Arkansas Sun, seeks to solve the mysterious abandonment of a small town and the disappearance of fourteen white men.
This book deals with confrontation, but it also deals with growth and transformation. We are all products of our environment and based on the sum total of our experiences, we approach situations differently. As those experiences change, our approaches are subject to change. We look at circumstances in a new light, and hopefully, we grow.
Snake Walkers is a story about a young black man who was traumatized in his youth, and is later faced with a series of situations that at one point become life threatening. Although he isn't prepared for them, with the help of those he meets along the way, he adapts and becomes a different person in the end.
Small Press Review, July-August 2005, Kaye Bache-Snyder
(Prewitt) develops complex characters and a fascinating mystery with historical roots. It is an engaging novel with insights to ponder.
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