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I applaud you all for following your dreams. Even though making it in the writing business can be tough! Whether you're a new writer just starting out, or a veteran author, gaining exposure for your books is no easy feat!
To become a bestselling author it takes just the right media platform to embrace your message and your literature while maintaining the integrity of your stories.
The Black Authors Network wants to be the Internet's #1 radio show for authors, poets, spoken word artists, writers, and publishing professional.
Our extensive network through EDC Creations and the Sankofa Literary Society cares about helping you impact lives, world wide, while building your personal brand in the process. We can help promote your books or business, if you are seeking a broader influence, maximum exposure for your new book, increased exposure on the Internet and truly want to take your business or book to the next level--we are the people to see!
For community leaders and motivational speakers, perhaps your heart's desire is not to promote a book nor a business, but a movement. If your spiritual mission is simply to touch the lives and concouisness others with your unique testimony, life experiences, or life enhancing message of hope, renewed faith, and deliverance--we warmly welcome you!
Here at the Black Authors Network and EDC Creations, we give African Americans the freedom to be heard. Our mission is to improve literacy in our community and to help improve relationships, all relationships in the African American community globally! If you're not a part of the movement, don't let another day go by without joining us.
Listed below are all the details for the Black Authors Network Radio show. We invite you to join us 3 times a week as a listener or as a special guest. Spread the word to your network, BAN wants to unite our people and bring the PRIDE into our communities through a collective union.
Black Authors Network Radio show
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Meet us at: 8pm-10pm EST | Mon., Wed., and Friday nights
Christian/Motivational Themes and Christian Fiction on Monday Nights Only
Authors dial-in number: (646) 200-0402
Chat live with the guests in our chat room during the show.
Tune in 3 times a week for the most stimulating conversation on the planet.
Come join our round-table discussions each week as we tackle a number of topics relevant our community. Each week, the Black Authors Network Show interviews special guest authors, community leaders, educators, and experts from various fields in publishing, who want to make a difference in the lives of Americans.
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A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
Things People Say and Do at Book Signings
Saturday was a Killer Career book signing at Barnes and Noble in Schaumburg. I just love the way they do their posters, by the way. Very professional looking.
It was 70 degrees outside, which is an unusual temperature for November. Needless to say, not everyone wanted to waste such a beautiful day by pending it inside a book shop.
The usual assortment of customers did come by, some asking me questions about how long it took to write my book, how I got started, and how many books I'd written.
Some said they'd never heard of me. I've heard that one before. (g)
What was surprising is that three children, not at the same time or with the same party, asked for my autograph - two on the back of bookmarks, one on a slip of paper. That usually doesn't happen. Maybe it's the economy. I don't know if their parents put them up to it, or if they thought of it themselves.
One person asked about my book and then said she doesn't buy from Barnes and Noble, but online instead. Since she was in the store, I can only assume she was scouting there for books first. I don't know.
Oh, yes, a variation on the restroom question was, "Where are the dictionaries?"
Another took the time to show me some missing pages in one of the magazines.
What about you? What questions have people asked you at book signings? Anything that stood out at a book signing you'd like to share?
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