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Literary Leaders Roundtable - Hot button issues discussed |
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Between Me & You - The debate section |
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First Timers - Literary virgins reveal all about penning their first book |
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Spotlight - A writer and their body of work discussed and explored |
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LITERARY LEADERS
Lit Leaders regular roundtables discuss hot button issues in the world of publishing; from the word on the increasing power of book clubs, to asking whether the rising number of publishing imprints means there's a literary apartheid being created, to exploring the leading ladies of literature. Who are the Literary Leaders?
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Meet Off The Page's Literary Leaders |
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 Linda Duggins Director Multi-Cultural Publicity, Hachette Book Group USA |
 Renee Flagler Author and Director of Aspicomm Media, Inc |
 Rosalind McLymont Author and Editor-in-chief of The Network Journal |
LITERARY LEADERS ROUNDTABLE - THE RISE OF THE BOOK CLUB
| The Lit Leaders debate the rise and power of the mighty book club. From the celebrity book clubs of Oprah and queen of media Wendy Williams to men and women in cafes and bookstores across America, the Lit Leaders talk book clubs. | |
 Oprah Winfrey |
 Wendy Williams |
LITERARY LEADERS ROUNDTABLE - LITERATURE'S LEADING LADIES
| Who are your leading ladies of literature? In our roundtable on Literature's Leading Ladies, our Lit Leader's choices? | |
 Toni Morrison |
 Terry McMillan |
LITERARY LEADERS ROUNDTABLE - LITERARY COVER UP!
| Do you judge a book by its cover? We explore what ends up on a book cover, whether you'd buy it and why it matters so much. Special guest GILDA SQUIRE, former Publicity Director of Amistad weighs in with expert knowledge | ||
 Unexpected Interruptions by Trice Hickman |
 Gilda Squire talks book covers Click Play Button Listen to This Conversation |
 sex.lies.murder.fame. by Lolita Files |
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BETWEEN ME AND YOU
This is our debate segment where two or more people go head to head about an issue. Off The Page asks the tough questions, challenges, questions and always seeks the answers. Previous debates include: 'Between The Sheets: The Rise and Rise of Erotica on The Page'; 'God On The Page: How Christian Fiction has taken the world of publishing by storm'; 'What's Happened to the Literary Activists?' Gangster Literature or Literary Literature: Which Would You Choose? And Why Should you Have To? and 'Essence Literary Awards: What's the 411?'
BETWEEN ME AND YOU - GANGSTER LIT. VS CHRISTIAN FICTION!
Debate guests include urban lit best selling author K'wan; author and commentator Herb Boyd; erotica anthology editor Samiya Bashir; poet and spoken word artist Mo Beasley; lawyer and book reviewer Kathryn Stanley, Essence Senior Editor Books and Arts, Patrik Henry Bass; New York Times best-selling author Tavis Smiley; Princeton professor, academic, scholar and author Dr Cornel West.
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BETWEEN ME AND YOU - ESSENCE AWARDS, EROTICA!
 Patrik Henry Bass defends Essence first Literary Awards |
 Mo Beasley gets between the sheets (the literary sheets) in our erotica debate Click Play Button Listen to This Conversation |
BETWEEN ME AND YOU - SAYING GOODBYE TO A SEVEN FIGURE BOOK DEAL!
New York Times best-selling author Tavis Smiley takes the
literary world by the teeth as he saunters away from a seven
figure deal in a mainstream publishing house and launches his
own imprint Smiley Books. One of the authors is Princeton
professor, academic, scholar, author and public intellectual Dr
Cornel West, author of 'Race Matters'. Smiley and West engage in
thoughtful, passionate Off The Page debate. They discuss the
business of integrity versus the business of economics, taking
editorial control, who really effectively markets black books
and striking out in a bid for literary self-determination.
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FIRST TIMERS
Off The Page highlights the Literary virgins - the first time writers from both the self-publishing world and the mainstream publishing world that have lost their literary virginity and lived to tell their tale. We ask about their process, the lessons learned, why they felt the urge to write and where we can get their book. Previous first timers include Stacey Patton author of That Mean Old Yesterday; Randy Kearse author of 'Changin' Your Game Plan'; Hayden Horsham author of The Power of My Pen; Min Jin Lee author of Free Food For Millionaires.
First Timers features mainstream published
authors, self-published authors and a range of genres including
memoir, fiction, and non-fiction. From the airwaves to the web screen,
watch as Esther Armah talks childhood, surviving
war, landing in fashion, managing modeling and the
politics of black beauty with Sudanese refugee
turned supermodel, Alek Wek on her first book ALEK.
FIRST TIMER - SUDANESE REFUGEE TURNED SUPERMODEL TURNED AUTHOR
 Alek Wek Click to Watch Part1 |
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 Alek Wek Click to Watch Part 2 |
FIRST TIMERS - ABUSE, PRISON, POWER, PEN
 Hayden Horsham The Power of My Pen |
 Stacey Patton That Mean Old Yesterday |
 Randy Kearse Changin' Your Game Plan |
 Stacey Patton
reveals the pain from an abusive adoptive mother and
a passive silent father and compares her childhood
to that suffered by slave children on the
plantations in her debut memoir 'That Mean Old
Yesterday'.
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 Off The Page, Min Jin Lee Off The Page specializes in communities of color, this Korean author tells more |
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SPOTLIGHT
Spotlight focuses on one specific author and the themes and issues raised via a body of their work.
SPOTLIGHT - VIXEN, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, GOLD DIGGING EROTICA
Karrine Steffans, New York Times Bestselling author who gives a revealing and in depth interview about the legacy of using sex to earn her living and the cost she paid.
Allison Hobbs, best-selling Erotica author, who shared her story of how she couldn't get published because her work was dubbed too racy, but through that challenge became part of the Erotica genre and is now a six times best selling author
Hobbs talks stepping outside of the box, the
challenges of creating characters readers respond to and the
pressure to keep up that best-selling status in the explosive
world of erotica.
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 Karrine Steffans |
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 Allison Hobbs |
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Off The Page Tune In; Every Week; WBAI 99.5FM www.wbai.org |
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CREATIVE MEDIA BY CENTRIC PRODUCTIONS
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Centric does a range of creative literary
media projects fusing the internet, film and drama. With these
tools, a global audience gets to meet authors, get a taste of
their work using this virtual literary world created by Centric
Productions. In partnership with
http://totalblacktv.com/home/index.php
Click on the links below, and check out the trailers, watch the filmed events, discussions and creative media projects:
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 Book Trailer! Watch Middle Ground, the trailer. Drama, Diaspora, Passion, all encapsulated in the power of film. |
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YOUR TRAILER, YOUR FILMED DRAMATIZED READING
Are you an author? A publicist? Want to know more about creative literary media projects using drama, film and new media? Want a dramatized reading for your book, want a trailer that you can upload? Want to know how much it would cost? Email: info@centricproductions.co.uk
Centric Productions
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