Sunday Notices

For the last few days I've been asking you to spread the word about Sugar's quickly approaching tenth anniversary. But I won't be the only one celebrating a milestone in 2010 - Donna Hill, friend and fellow author will be celebrating her 20th anniversary in publishing!!!

*applauding*

Donna Hill writes under a variety of genres - romance, mystery and contemporary. She's a multi-talented, multi-faceted, hard working, author. If you don't know this phenomenal woman and writer, check her out.

Donna's newest release is:



Happy Birthday To:

Ntozake Shange
Terry McMillan
Chuck Berry

(it's a Libra thing!)


KEEP YOUR EYES ON YOUR RICHES: I had a conversation with a writer friend of mine who shared a very sad and disturbing story with me. This particular author published a novel back in the late 1990's. The publisher claims the novel is still in print and so will not revert the rights back to the author. The very first royalty statement the author received - back in the late 1990's - stated that the book printed and sold 10K. Subsequent statements quoted the EXACT SAME NUMBERS.

*scratching head*

If you're not getting what I'm saying here - let me just repeat this line:

THE BOOK IS STILL IN PRINT

Moving on...............



African-American Literature. From Wikipedia.

African American oral culture is rich in poetry, including spirituals, African American gospel music, blues and rap. This oral poetry also appears in the African American tradition of Christian sermons, which make use of deliberate repetition, cadence and alliteration. African American literature—especially written poetry, but also prose—has a strong tradition of incorporating all of these forms of oral poetry.[7]

However, while these characteristics and themes exist on many levels of African American literature, they are not the exclusive definition of the genre and do not exist within all works within the genre.


*Talk amongst yourselves -- I'll wait.*

Someone Else's Line:

The trouble with reading or watching a movie that has been adapted from a book - is that it can get you into trouble. I have been working on a new novel and I thought I had THE BEST opening line - but something in the back of mind kept moaning like Big Mama did when she was clutching her fists to her breasts, trying hard not to slap you into next Sunday. But I ignored the moaning - and kept on writing. Today I was all prepared to share the first line of my new novel and the groaning turned into a full fledged spiritual with Big Mama waving her hands in the air like flags and so I finally Googled the line and sure 'nuff - there it was:

"Every little thing just wants to be loved"

My line: "Every little thing wants to be loved, and towns are no exception."

Imagine my.....astonishment.

The first line is from the bestselling book, turned star-studded movie: The Secret Life of Bees.

Sometimes being a sponge has its hazards.

Bernice L. McFadden