Posted on January 12, 2010 by Tieffa Harper
The Twitterati/Internet/blogsphere’s been buzzing for the past few weeks over the news that Tavis Smiley’s SmileyBooks is set to publish R. Kelly’s memoirs next year. By my estimation, the reaction is on point. So much so, that I scrapped plans to blog in-depth about it because others have made my points, like:
What About Our Daughters
Womanist Musings
Bol over at XXLmag.com (Piss [...]
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Posted on January 6, 2010 by Tieffa Harper
I’m back in the Philadelphia area, battling a cold and trying to wrap my arms around everything that’s on my plate. My holiday was great – I spent two weeks in Charleston incognito because my plan was to get ahead of everything that’s coming up. But, of course, things don’t always go as planned. I received [...]
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Posted on December 24, 2009 by Tieffa Harper
I received word this morning that Brian Rhinehardt, one of our authors, passed away last night. The news is unexpected and tragic, and my mind is reeling over the loss of a writer that I was looking forward to publishing and traveling with in the new year.
Brian first queried my company in August 2008 about The [...]
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Posted on December 15, 2009 by Tieffa Harper
When we sent out our 2008 press release announcing the call for submissions, we never expected to get the response that we did: thousands of submissions from talented writers all over the country – and a few international places. It was so overwhelming (in a good way, of course) that we’re still finishing up our review of submissions [...]
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Posted on November 30, 2009 by Tieffa Harper
As you’ve noticed, I’ve been on hiatus. Don’t you hate when your favorite TV shows do that? Just go away without explanation (damn you, “V“! You worked your way into my heart with your corny self and now I have to wait for the next episode??)
In the past six months, I’ve been knee deep in a major trial [...]
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Posted on June 29, 2009 by Tieffa Harper
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, chat room, [...]
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Posted on June 17, 2009 by Tieffa Harper
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, shaping [...]
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Posted on June 3, 2009 by Tieffa Harper
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 of my own work, [...]
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Posted on June 1, 2009 by Tieffa Harper
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. Science fiction [...]
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