Who’s a Maggie Finalist?

I am!
So there I was, at the seafood counter at my local Publix, getting a chunk of salmon skinned. (I’ve tried to do it before and it wasn’t pretty, much like the gross-out when I attempted to cut up a whole chicken for the first–and last–time.) My cell phone rings.
“Hi, Seressia, it’s Pam [...]

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Promo venues

Over on Blogging in Black, I posted about different promotional venues for writers of color. As I said there:

I’ve just realized belatedly that E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillian and Tyler Perry didn’t hit best sellerdom by going to RWA or RT. Not that I’m giving either of those up, but I go [...]

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Signing during National Black Arts Festival

The National Black Arts Festival kicks off tomorrow for a week full of music, drama, art, and literature. I’ll be signing at Medu Bookstore on Saturday 2-4 PM with Kimani author Lisa Harrison Jackson. If you’re in Atlanta, please stop by and say hi!
Here’s a flyer of all the signings happening [...]

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Dream of Shadows available for preorder!

Dream of Shadows is now available for preorder on Amazon
Amazon is offering Dream of Shadows for $8.76, twenty percent off the regular cover price. Amazon is also showing that DoS will be available on August 17. I don’t think that’s accurate, but hey–order it anyway!
Dream of Shadows is my first full length [...]

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Controversy Over Tintin in the Congo

From Publisher’s Weekly

In September, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers will publish the popular colonial era children’s graphic novel Tintin in the Congo for the first time in the U.S., despite a controversy that erupted in the U.K. yesterday around the book’s racist content that resulted in bookstores moving it out of the children’s section [...]

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It Just Got Worse

Samhain will be unrecognized. From what I understand, EC will be as well.
From Angela James, Executive Editor of Samhain:
Yes, Samhain will lose recognition after conference. It doesn’t change anything for our business or with the deal with Kensington, nor our IPS print program. We’ll still pay royalties on time and do business as usual [...]

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RWA Changes, Pt 2

Okay, there’s very little good in this post today. let’s just get right to it, shall we?
Some of your favorite publishers are now Vanity presses, according to RWA.
Here’s RWA’s new definition of vanity and subsidy presses:

The Board updated the definition of Subsidy Publisher or Vanity Publisher to: “any publisher that publishes books in [...]

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RWA Changes, Pt 1

Romance Writers of America announced their decisions regarding several major categories of importance to its membership today. If you are a member, log in, then click on the board decisions link. Among the changes were:

Publisher eligibility

Published Author Network (PAN) and PRO (career-focused unpublished writers) eligibility

Rita and Golden Heart contest categories.

There’s so [...]

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Deadlines

“A deadline’s an unnerving thing.”- Marchette Chute, author and poet, NY Times, 1953
I have deadlines all over the place. In the day job, which is also writing based. In this pseudo part time career of mine. The milk, and the eggs that went bad in June but are still in the fridge. [...]

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Columnists Think Romance is Porn and Women are Stupid

Today I saw this brilliant piece in my hometown newspaper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Woman to Woman: Harm in Reading Romance Novels?
Apparently it was a slow news day or these women have run out of ideas, because, though they are supposed to offer differing views, they seemed to agree that romance novels are porn. Case in [...]

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