It’s Cold.

Winter is not my favorite time of year, and strangely, I feel like the little robin in the picture above. Cold, and wondering how much longer, Lord? But as the Northeast cleans up after its third(!) snowstorm, it looks like it’s going to be a long season.  Which means…more time to write!  And blog! And market! And be [...]

Single Ladies: Put Your Hands Down?

(“Something New” movie still, www.flixster.com) Dr. Boyce Watkins posted an interesting article over at theGrio about single black women and our relationship struggles. Some of Dr. Watkins’ key points: relationship struggles aren’t limited to black people; black women are chasing the wrong men; and we’re part of the problem too: I’ve noticed that there are many women who spend all their [...]

Plenary Video Of The Day: Geico’s Pothole Commercial

I should be writing and editing at the moment, but I distract myself very, very easily. I can be knee deep in something, grinding away, and random things will just pop into my head and cause me to go on a wild Google search. Like this Geico commercial. You’ve probably seen it a  million times, but [...]

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, [...]

Best Laid Plans

Still haven’t left the hotel yet, so I’m taking the time to add that we’re I’m also posting pics from BEA this weekend. But since we haven’t actually left our rooms, the best I can do at the moment is offer a view from my room.

The Plenary Review 2.0

The past few months have been incredible – and insane. We have a new president, the world economy is in turmoil and OJ Simpson was just sentenced for the Brown/Goldman murders – 13 years later.   As for Plenary Publishing, we’re knee deep in submissions. Knee deep. But we’re actively reviewing the over 5,000 submissions that we’ve received to [...]

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