Colin Channer Interviewed by Robert Fleming

Ever the personable salesman, Channer is currently working his way through a very busy schedule of readings and media appearances touting his latest, charming fan and critic alike. An assistant professor of English and the coordinator of the B.A. creative writing program at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York. He took time out to speak with AALBC.com about his newest anthology, the Caribbean literature, the black reading public, love, urban fiction, and the art of writing.
 

Crystal Lacey Winslow - Author & Publisher - AALBC.com Video Interview

Melodrama Publishing™ was founded in 2001 with Crystal Lacey Winslow at the helm as author and publisher. In her futuristic view, Crystal Lacey Winslow had aspirations of owning the largest, independent publishing company and franchising Melodrama Books & Things™ in adjacent communities nationally as well as internationally. Melodrama Publishing™ along with Melodrama Books & Things™ and the Winslow Shim Literary Agency plans to streamline all corporations in an effort to facilitate literacy in our communities.
 

Tammy Merkison - Author of Miami Reign - AALBC.com Video Interview

Miami Reign is Tammy’s debut novel and the first in a series of realistic fictitious books. She poses the question to readers, “What would you do for love, how about unconditional love”?

A local model and actress, Tammy has appeared in numerous hair and fashion shows in and around the Central Florida area in addition to television and radio commercials.
 

Relentless Aaron on ABC World News Now

“My work is not just a hot song or a hit movie that is here today and gone tomorrow. It’s a richly textured template of who we are today, yesterday and tomorrow,” offers Relentless. In the tradition of great urban authors Claude Brown, Iceberg Slim, and Donald Goines, Relentless Aaron is here.

For some reason, it often takes an expatriate to make a seminal contribution to a culture. Such is the case with Kola Boof, whose heartbreaking and brutally-honest autobiography, Diary of a Lost Girl, might be the most brilliant deconstruction of the plight of present-day African-Americans yet written.

Journaling: A First Step to Publication - An Article by Desiree Day
http://www.aalbc.com/reviews/journaling.htm

Once people find out I am a writer, invariably their first question is, "How did you become a writer?"

Dwight Fryer
http://authors.aalbc.com/dwight_fryer.htm

Fryer is the author of The Legend of Quito Road; an excellent book.  However, Thumper tells it best:: "I just finished The Legend of Quito Road, the debut novel by Dwight Fryer. The book is off the chain! The novel takes place in the 1930s a small southern town named Lucy which has generations of secrets that come to a head with illegitimate babies, adultery, backstabbing and money grabbing people. All of this centers around the descendants of Gilliam Hale, a former free, black runaway slave who knew how to make good whiskey. It's an excellent novel with a beautiful cover. By all means check it out."

Claude McKay

Festus Claudius McKay was born in Clarendon in 1890 to Thomas and Hannah McKay, farmers. The youngest of eleven children he would go on to become one of the leading figures of the 1920s American cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance.

Clarence Nero
http://authors.aalbc.com/clarence_nero.htm

Clarence Nero, hailed as “one of our most promising young authors,” by Maya Angelou, is a native of New Orleans’s lower Ninth Ward that was demolished by Hurricane Katrina.

In a recent review of his new novel, Three Sides To Every Story, Publishers Weekly, says that “Nero deploys three deftly drawn narrators to tell a wrenching story of desire and survival.” 

Carol Denise Mitchell
http://authors.aalbc.com/carol.htm

Mitchell is the author of a comprehensive handbook which gives you up-to-date information on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; ADEA, Age Discrimination Law, ADA, Americans with Disability Act & more.

Discover vital information regarding your workers compensation benefits & rights. Get 100% protection against the highly, legally insulated employer, with “Your Rights” by your side. With this specialized handbook, you are ahead of the game at work in more ways than you can imagine!

Abrahams Well by Sharon Ewell Foster

A young woman and her family struggle to hold on to their dreams through decades of heartbreaking separations, forced relocation, escapes, and eventually, the Civil War. They belong to people who are themselves despised, whose land and rights are stolen.

As Armentia's son grows, she points to a well on the land their Cherokee master owns. "It seems hard to believe now, but someday we'll have our own land. Land with a well just like this one. And when we get our well, we will call it--Abraham's Well." Here is a story of courage, hope, and destiny that will not be denied.

Cruising by Desiree Day
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At first all they have in common is yoga class. Then Blair, Lauren, Madison, and LaShawn start having dinner and drinks every week, and soon they're as close as sisters. Or so they say. But each woman has a scandalous secret.

Redheaded beauty Blair thinks her husband's sleeping around. People-pleasing Lauren's marriage has become a no-sex zone. Sex-crazed Madison's father has dropped a bomb that seriously rocks her foundation. And innocent LaShawn, an engaged kindergarten teacher, is planning her dream wedding but fantasizing about a student's dad.

When the girls finally get real with each other, they decide to go on a two-week Caribbean cruise. The ship is full of single men. The object is 100 percent sexy fun. And everything that happens on the ship stays on the ship.

Dictionary of African Names by author Bunmi Adebayo
http://www.cushcity.com/books/1420847945.htm

CUSHCITY.COM, the world's largest online retailer of African-American products and the most highly trafficked African-American e-commerce site in cyberspace, proudly announces the release of a new dictionary by author Bunmi Adebayo: In Era of DNA Tracing to African Origins, New Dictionary May Help Ascertain Roots.

This book publishes thousands of African names, their ethnic and country of origin, and English phonetic pronunciation. The book is for those interested in African names and general readers seeking more knowledge about African culture or willing to recapture African heritage through name. It is a thorough exposure of African names and meanings. It encourages and stimulates people of both African and non-African descent into feeling comfortable about taking on such names.  The book features mores than 2600 African names.
 

Extra Marital Affairs by Relentless Aaron
http://aalbc.com/authors/relentless.htm

When Mason and Adena Fickle find their new sex partner, Loween, dead in their bed just hours after the threesome’s hot and raunchy escapade, they discover the woman was neither who nor what she’d said she was. The ménage à trois should have been nothing special. After all, the Fickles have already tried it all. But Loween’s death brings an unexpected visitor and the streets to their doorstep, and soon things get out of hand.

DONNA HILL HEADLINES HARLEM BOOK FAIR ON LONG ISLAND
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Saturday, September 30th, noon to 6:00 p.m.

This community event is designed to promote literacy and literary endeavors on Long Island. It is also an opportunity for authors to encourage our youth and dialogue with the community. Nationally acclaimed author, Donna Hill, will be among the many noted African American and Hispanic authors available for book signing.

The 4th Annual Harlem Book Fair on Long Island will be held on Saturday, September 30, 2006, at Kennedy Park, 335 Greenwich Street, in Hempstead, New York. Housed in a huge tent on the park grounds, the book fair will be a “rain or shine” family event. The book fair will open at noon on Saturday and will close at 6:00 p.m.
 

UP SOUTH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL

September 29, 30 and October 1, 2006

Co-presented by Up South, Inc. and Aaron Davis Hall, Inc./Harlem Stage - 135th Street & Convent Avenue

Join us for three days and nights celebrating world culture. Native American, Latino American, Asian American, African American, writers, artists, and thinkers presenting their best from the page on the stage. Our event will be the first program held at the newly renovated Aaron Davis Hall, Inc./HARLEM STAGE, located on City College Campus, 135th Street and Convent Avenue in New York City. Confirmed guests include... Guillermo Arriaga, Olu Dara, Ruby Dee, Toure, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Leela James, Greg Tate & Burnt Sugar. More guests to be announced!
 

BOSTON'S THIRD ANNUAL BOOK BAZAAR
http://www.kindleeyesbooks.com/bookbazaar.html

October 21, 2006 12-7pm, Roxbury Center for Arts at Hibernian Hall, Roxbury, MA 02119

Boston MA October 21, 2006, Attention avid book readers and book lovers come meet all of your favorite authors in one place. This year, Boston will be having its third Book Bazaar supporting African American traditionally published, self-published and small press authors at The Roxbury Center for Arts at Hibernian Hall 182-186 Dudley Street Roxbury, MA 02119 from 12-7pm. The event is sponsored by Kindle Eyes Books and Ebony Expressions Book club with the drive to increase African American Literacy and support self-published and small press authors.