The Art of Storytelling: Summer Writing Workshops & Character Sketching

WOW!  Women on Writing is offering summer workshops for writers looking to earn more income and/or hone their craft. WOW! offers tons of information, including advice, tips, blogs and other tools to help aspiring and current women writers, editors, agents and publishers. From WOW!: How the courses work:All of the courses operate online—whether through email, website, [...]

Follow Us on Twitta!

We’re officially on the Twitter bandwagon. Follow me, Plenary Publishing and our newly signed authors as we twit our way to our 2010 list. Plenary Publishing Tieffa Harper Cheri Paris Edwards Brian Rhinehardt LaTonya Jones

The Way You Make Me Feel: RIP Michael Jackson

A week ago, I was on a Michael Jackson high, and I posted an MJ video from his Off The Wall days. The news of his death today caught me off guard, and despite his legal troubles – and the media’s dubbing of the title “Wacko Jacko” - he will always be an icon for those of [...]

Worth Reading: Don’t Hold Obama To Race Agenda

A couple of weeks ago, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of politics and African-American studies at Princeton, commented on the crisis of the black public intellectual in the age of Obama. And she put it down. In her piece, Harris-Lacewell takes to task what she calls the “soul patrol,” the group of black, male intellectuals (Tavis Smiley, Dr. Cornell West, [...]

Plenary Video of the Day

I’m feeling particularly good this morning, and I decided to post a video of the day. I haven’t done that in a minute, and I’m going back to the Michael Jackson that we all used to love. Everytime I hear “Off The Wall,” it gets me moving. People say they miss Biggie and Pac, but I really [...]

What Takes You Guys So Long?? Dang.

This month has been crazy busy for us. We’re wearing all kinds of hats right now: baseball caps, church hats, pageboy caps, etc., as we move closer to publishing our frontlist. Now that we’ve selected our authors for 2010, we’re in the midst of the early stages of editing, continuing to read initial submissions, pouring through full manuscripts, [...]

The Morning Papers

  Over the weekend, the Times covered Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas,’ and Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor’s, stark views on race: Judge Sotomayor celebrates being Latina, calling it a reason for her success; Justice Thomas bristles at attempts to define him by race and says he has succeeded despite the obstacles it posed. Being a [...]

Plenary Publishing Signs Authors for 2010 Launch

If you’re following us on Twitta (and you should) we announced this morning that we signed three authors for release in 2010: Cheri Paris Edwards: “In My Father’s House” (June 2010) Brian Rhinehardt: “The Closest Thing To Heaven” (August 2010) Latonya Jones: “Southern Discomfort” (November 2010)  We’re negotiating with one more author for September 2010, and with the release [...]

Under The Radar News Coverage: Lawrence Allen

  A few months ago, I posted about the tragic shooting of Lawrence Allen by an off-duty Philadelphia police officer. Sadly, Mr. Allen passed away three months after the shooting. In February 2009,  Dafney Tales of the Philadelphia Inquirer reported the following: For nearly three months, Lawrence Allen fought an uphill battle to stay alive after an off-duty police [...]

BEA Recap – Pt. II

This morning’s news coverage provides great coverage of BEA and the challenges facing the publishing industry. Washington Post: At Publisher’s Convention, Is the Writing on The Wall? “I think the publishing industry will have to change, but it’s still a viable industry . . . Whereas bookselling — nah. In 20 years, there won’t be bookstores. [...]

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