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- Ebony Farashuu, a Tulsa, Oklahoma native is a spoken word poet and award-winning author. Her latest novel, SLOW BURN, is available at all bookstores! In 2003, she received Honorable mention in the Self Published Author Awards Poetry Book of the Year for her debut book: Butterfly Kisses: Poetry for the Many Faces of Love. She is the Co-host of The Corner Bookstore, an hour-long segment on Tulsa radio station 1340 The Groove. She is an active member of the Tulsa chapter of Sisters Sippin' Tea, an international African American literary group. Ebony is also a Contributing/Staff Writer for The GRITS.com Reading and Book Promotion Community. Her interviews with best-selling authors such as Omar Tyree, Karen E. Quinones Miller, and J.D. Mason have appeared on TheGRITS.com and in The Philadelphia New Observer.
Ebony recently won the Shades Of Romance Magazine’s Readers Choice Awards 2008 in the following categories, Best Multi-Cultural Fiction Book, for her novel, SLOW BURN, Best Multi-Cultural Fiction Author of 2008 and Best New Multi-Cultural Fiction Author of 2008.
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I was recently honored by SORMAG MAGAZINE's READERS CHOICE AWARDS 2008
Ebony Farashuu's Blog
Ebony Farashuu and Zaria Garrison Launch EKG Online Literary Magazine!
EKG Online Literary Magazine is a free online magazine published for the purpose of entertaining and enlightening all members of the literary community including, but not limited to, readers, writers, aspiring and established authors, reviewers, agents and publishers.
Our premiere issue features JD Mason on the cover. Future issues will feature Virginia Deberry & Donna Grant, Travis Hunter, Victoria Christopher Murry, Kendra Norman-Bellamy and William Frederick Cooper. We will showcase a va… Continue
Our premiere issue features JD Mason on the cover. Future issues will feature Virginia Deberry & Donna Grant, Travis Hunter, Victoria Christopher Murry, Kendra Norman-Bellamy and William Frederick Cooper. We will showcase a va… Continue
Posted on July 5, 2008 at 7:07pm —
CALL FOR REVIEWERS!
E.K.G. Online Literary magazine is a new online magazine that will be launching our premiere issue on June 1 2008. This magazine will feature author interviews, book reviews, articles and all things relevant to readers and writers.
We are currently in search of reviewers who are avid readers and or writers interested in writing reviews for publication on our site and amazon.com.
Reviewers will not be paid a salary but books will be supplied and become the property of the reviewers. You will als… Continue
We are currently in search of reviewers who are avid readers and or writers interested in writing reviews for publication on our site and amazon.com.
Reviewers will not be paid a salary but books will be supplied and become the property of the reviewers. You will als… Continue
Posted on May 24, 2008 at 11:01am —
Read Chapter 1 of SLOW BURN, The Award Winning Novel by Ebony Farashuu
Chapter 1
Ayzha Nicole Darwin
I loved him too hard. Mind…body…soul…heart…lungs…I exhaled with every breath he took. I’m choking on that love…that hard, unyielding love…that blood in my tears kind of love. The kind of love that slowly eats away at you, until there is nothing left but a rotting carcass with a fist-sized stone where a beating heart once lived. Love is for fools; and I’m a fool in love with the way things used to be. I’m in love with the way he used to hold my hand for no reason o… Continue
Ayzha Nicole Darwin
I loved him too hard. Mind…body…soul…heart…lungs…I exhaled with every breath he took. I’m choking on that love…that hard, unyielding love…that blood in my tears kind of love. The kind of love that slowly eats away at you, until there is nothing left but a rotting carcass with a fist-sized stone where a beating heart once lived. Love is for fools; and I’m a fool in love with the way things used to be. I’m in love with the way he used to hold my hand for no reason o… Continue
Posted on April 22, 2008 at 5:12pm —
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Hello Ebony,
Nice to meet you. Do you have poetry related to jazz or music? My upcoming book will feature my jazz paintings with related poetry.....thought I'd check to see what you have in that genre.
Thanks for your time.
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