Shade Tree Shelter houses over 300 women and children in the Las Vegas, Nevada area.
What: Collecting Pajamas and Signing Books
When: Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m.
Where: ReJAVAnate Coffee Lounge, 3301 E. Flamingo Rd., Las Vegas, NV
(Near Pecos, in the Food 4 Less Parking Lot)
Why: To provide abused and homeless women with clean and comfortable bedtime clothing because sometimes they arrive at The Shade Tree without them.
If you would like to donate pajamas and or send promotional materials please forward items to
3627 Prairie Orchid
North Las Vegas, NV 89081
For more information regarding this press release, please contact Ni'cola Mitchell, Author, at 702.366.4316 (cell) or email at nicola@nicolacmitchell.com .
Shade Tree Shelter believes...
That no one should ever have to endure a state of homelessness, existing in fear for personal safety and without the means to meet even the most basic of human needs - food and shelter.
That every human being, regardless of social status, has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
That all homeless children are victims because they lack choice and mobility.
That homelessness is a community problem that impacts everyone.
That everyone can be a part of the solution.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Intimate Conversation with Pamela Samuels Young
Pamela Samuels Young is the Essence bestselling author of the legal thrillers: Murder on the Down Low, In Firm Pursuit, Every Reasonable Doubt and the newly released Buying Time. The former journalist and Compton native is the fiction writing expert for BizyMoms.com and is on the Board of Directors of the Southern California Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. Pamela served as legal consultant to the Showtime television series Soul Food. She is a frequent speaker on the topics of writing and self-empowerment.
Website:
http://www.pamelasamuels-young.com/
Email address:
author@pamelasamuelsyoung.com
• Where are you from? What is your favorite book?
I grew up in Compton, California, which gave me a very grounded perspective on life. When I mention my hometown, people automatically assume that I dodged bullets on the way to school every day. But it was nothing like that. I had two strong, hard-working parents, who still live in Compton today. The foundation they laid – faith in God, hard work and education – is responsible for who I am and what I have achieved.
I'm an avid reader who enjoys reading both commercial and literary fiction. I enjoy a broad spectrum of writers, so it's impossible for me to pick a favorite book. But if there's one book that impacted me more than any other, it would have to be Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land. I can still remember stumbling across a copy of the book at my aunt's house when I was about twelve. It was the first book I remember reading that had African-American characters and I was thrilled to be reading about people who looked like me. It was also a very gritty and graphic coming of age story. I promptly "borrowed" the book without asking for permission for fear that my aunt would think I was too young to be reading such a sexually graphic book. After that, I developed an insatiable appetite for African-American fiction. That led me to James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison and many, many other great writers.
• How did you feel when you saw your first book on the shelf?
I still have a very vivid memory of seeing Every Reasonable Doubt on the shelf at the Barnes and Noble near my home in February 2006. I went to the store on the book's scheduled release date, not really expecting to find it. My stepson and I searched the shelves but couldn't find it. I was about to leave, but decided to, ask for it at the reception desk. To my delight, the clerk found it and led us to the book. I just stood there staring at it. So much blood, sweat and tears led me to this point. My stepson took out his cell phone and snapped a picture of me holding the book. And just as I started to started to tear up, he promptly warned me not to embarrass him by crying in the store.
• What is your process for creating a novel? Do the characters speak to you?
I will spend any where from a few weeks to as long as three months outlining a book before I sit down to write. I also mull over my story a lot. I'm thinking about it in the shower, while I'm standing in line at the grocery story, during my 45-minute commute to work. I can almost see each chapter as if it were a scene in a movie. Only after I have a completed outline do I start writing. And when I write, I go from page one to the last page without doing much editing. For me, it's psychologically motivating to complete that first draft, even if it's so bad I'd never dare show it to anyone. Once I have a finished first draft, then the real writing starts. I revise, and revise and revise some more. That process can last six months or more.
• How do you spend your free time?
Free time? What's that? Writing is how I spend my free time and I love every minute of it. I still work part-time as a lawyer and when I'm not at work, I'm usually someplace writing – be it at home, the library or the nearest Starbucks. Sometimes I write early in the morning before work, other times I'm up until one or two in the morning typing away on my laptop. My most productive writing time is when I can get away from home and lock myself in my timeshare in Palm Desert for a weekend. When I'm in that environment, the writing is non-stop. When I'm writing, I'm happy.
• Share with us your latest news and book releases.
I’m extremely excited about the upcoming release of my fourth legal thriller and first stand-alone novel, Buying Time, which goes on sale November 1st. In Buying Time, Waverly Sloan is a down-on-his-luck lawyer who comes to the aid of terminally ill people in desperate need of cash. Waverly finds investors eager to advance his dying clients thousands of dollars—including a hefty broker's fee for himself—in exchange for rights to their life insurance policies. Once the clients take their last breath, the investors reap a hefty return on their investment. When Waverly's clients start dying sooner than they should, both Waverly, and a high-powered lawyer who’s bucking to become the next U.S. Attorney General, are unwittingly drawn into a perilous web of greed, blackmail and murder.
You can read excerpts from all my books at my website:
http://www.pamelasamuels-young.com/
To schedule a visit with Pamela, email her at author@pamelasamuelsyoung.com
Buying Time by Pamela Samuels Young
ISBN-10: 098156271X
ISBN-13: 978-0981562711
Pick up a Copy Today at Amazon
http://tinyurl.com/buyingtimeamazon
Pick up a Copy Today at Barnes and Noble
http://tinyurl.com/buyingtimebnonline
Bookclubs, select one of Pamela’s novels for your book club meeting and she will join you in person, via webcam or via speaker phone. Read more book excerpts here: http://www.pamelasamuels-young.com/books/index.html
Buying Time by Pamela Samuels Young
ISBN-10: 098156271X
ISBN-13: 978-0981562711
Pick up a Copy Today at Amazon
http://tinyurl.com/buyingtimeamazon
Pick up a Copy Today at Barnes and Noble
http://tinyurl.com/buyingtimebnonline
Bookclubs, select one of Pamela’s novels for your book club meeting and she will join you in person, via webcam or via speaker phone.
Read more book excerpts here:
http://www.pamelasamuels-young.com/books/index.html
Website:
http://www.pamelasamuels-young.com/
Email address:
author@pamelasamuelsyoung.com
• Where are you from? What is your favorite book?
I grew up in Compton, California, which gave me a very grounded perspective on life. When I mention my hometown, people automatically assume that I dodged bullets on the way to school every day. But it was nothing like that. I had two strong, hard-working parents, who still live in Compton today. The foundation they laid – faith in God, hard work and education – is responsible for who I am and what I have achieved.
I'm an avid reader who enjoys reading both commercial and literary fiction. I enjoy a broad spectrum of writers, so it's impossible for me to pick a favorite book. But if there's one book that impacted me more than any other, it would have to be Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land. I can still remember stumbling across a copy of the book at my aunt's house when I was about twelve. It was the first book I remember reading that had African-American characters and I was thrilled to be reading about people who looked like me. It was also a very gritty and graphic coming of age story. I promptly "borrowed" the book without asking for permission for fear that my aunt would think I was too young to be reading such a sexually graphic book. After that, I developed an insatiable appetite for African-American fiction. That led me to James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison and many, many other great writers.
• How did you feel when you saw your first book on the shelf?
I still have a very vivid memory of seeing Every Reasonable Doubt on the shelf at the Barnes and Noble near my home in February 2006. I went to the store on the book's scheduled release date, not really expecting to find it. My stepson and I searched the shelves but couldn't find it. I was about to leave, but decided to, ask for it at the reception desk. To my delight, the clerk found it and led us to the book. I just stood there staring at it. So much blood, sweat and tears led me to this point. My stepson took out his cell phone and snapped a picture of me holding the book. And just as I started to started to tear up, he promptly warned me not to embarrass him by crying in the store.
• What is your process for creating a novel? Do the characters speak to you?
I will spend any where from a few weeks to as long as three months outlining a book before I sit down to write. I also mull over my story a lot. I'm thinking about it in the shower, while I'm standing in line at the grocery story, during my 45-minute commute to work. I can almost see each chapter as if it were a scene in a movie. Only after I have a completed outline do I start writing. And when I write, I go from page one to the last page without doing much editing. For me, it's psychologically motivating to complete that first draft, even if it's so bad I'd never dare show it to anyone. Once I have a finished first draft, then the real writing starts. I revise, and revise and revise some more. That process can last six months or more.
• How do you spend your free time?
Free time? What's that? Writing is how I spend my free time and I love every minute of it. I still work part-time as a lawyer and when I'm not at work, I'm usually someplace writing – be it at home, the library or the nearest Starbucks. Sometimes I write early in the morning before work, other times I'm up until one or two in the morning typing away on my laptop. My most productive writing time is when I can get away from home and lock myself in my timeshare in Palm Desert for a weekend. When I'm in that environment, the writing is non-stop. When I'm writing, I'm happy.
• Share with us your latest news and book releases.
I’m extremely excited about the upcoming release of my fourth legal thriller and first stand-alone novel, Buying Time, which goes on sale November 1st. In Buying Time, Waverly Sloan is a down-on-his-luck lawyer who comes to the aid of terminally ill people in desperate need of cash. Waverly finds investors eager to advance his dying clients thousands of dollars—including a hefty broker's fee for himself—in exchange for rights to their life insurance policies. Once the clients take their last breath, the investors reap a hefty return on their investment. When Waverly's clients start dying sooner than they should, both Waverly, and a high-powered lawyer who’s bucking to become the next U.S. Attorney General, are unwittingly drawn into a perilous web of greed, blackmail and murder.
You can read excerpts from all my books at my website:
http://www.pamelasamuels-young.com/
To schedule a visit with Pamela, email her at author@pamelasamuelsyoung.com
Buying Time by Pamela Samuels Young
ISBN-10: 098156271X
ISBN-13: 978-0981562711
Pick up a Copy Today at Amazon
http://tinyurl.com/buyingtimeamazon
Pick up a Copy Today at Barnes and Noble
http://tinyurl.com/buyingtimebnonline
Bookclubs, select one of Pamela’s novels for your book club meeting and she will join you in person, via webcam or via speaker phone. Read more book excerpts here: http://www.pamelasamuels-young.com/books/index.html
Buying Time by Pamela Samuels YoungISBN-10: 098156271X
ISBN-13: 978-0981562711
Pick up a Copy Today at Amazon
http://tinyurl.com/buyingtimeamazon
Pick up a Copy Today at Barnes and Noble
http://tinyurl.com/buyingtimebnonline
Bookclubs, select one of Pamela’s novels for your book club meeting and she will join you in person, via webcam or via speaker phone.
Read more book excerpts here:
http://www.pamelasamuels-young.com/books/index.html
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Thrifted, Not Re-Gifted?
Thrifted, Not Re-Gifted? By Sherryle Kiser Jackson
A funny thing happen to me at the thrift store. As I was scanning the bookshelves for the latest literary cast-offs my daughter cried out to me after unearthing a slightly worn copy of my debut novel, Soon and Very Soon-with a signature, no less. I haven't done many of these. This gave me pause. I was insulted. I felt the way I did when I found my favorite cassette tape of all time, New Edition's NE Heartbreak album in the bargain bin at Sam Goody record store. Surely, it was a mistake. The owner must have been like those clueless sad-sacks who give away one-of-a-kind artwork only to find it out its worth later on the Antique's Roadshow.
I made my daughter take me to the exact same spot where she found it. I examine the void it left on the shelf between an outdated volume of the Childcraft encyclopedia and another book as if it would give me some clue as to who could have given my baby away. I want to know this person's identity more than anything. See, my book only came out seven months ago, and we were in my neighborhood. I was sure I could crack the case. That's only a twenty-five to thirty mile radius to cover. Not exactly a case for Scotland Yard. I narrow the field of known residents that I had told about the book or sold the book to. Just when I think I have a list compiled, I think how ridiculous this whole thing is. How do you tactfully ask someone, did you happen to pitch my book out with your argyle sweater and Hammer pants? Was there no one you could personally give the book to? Ever hear of paperback swap, for goodness sake.
There had to be a logical explanation. The writer in me had me sit down at the kiddy desk set they were selling for just $7 to ponder a few possible ones. Maybe this person had a husband like mine who constantly threatens, "Don't bring another book in this house." But of course this person couldn't resist my realistic tale about two pastors that marry and combine their churches. So she took the risk and discarded the evidence immediately after the last page. Yeah, that's it.
Just when I thought I could rest a bit after a major signing at my sorority's convention at the end of this month. Yeah, maybe I'll do the Baltimore Book Festival in September, then the Capitol Book Festival. I've got a sequel to write. I can't possibly create and promote simultaneously. Soon and Very Soon will do alright. Wrong. I got a few more calls to make, connections to follow-up on and weekends to book with signings.
"Look mommy, you've got that book."
That's my six year old who has gotten good at reading the spin of books. She gets caught up on the last syllable of Terri McMillan's last name as she spots the hardback copy of A Day Late and a Dollar Short. I do own that book. I stood in line for hours while pregnant to get it signed at the crowded-to-overflowing Karibu books in the Bowie Town Center (Don't get me started. That's a whole nother lament). I would have loved to get it for $2.10. Just thirty more cents than my book was going for at the Waldorf Thrift Store.
God has a sense of humor. Just as I was about to grab my book up and discreetly pay for it at the counter like it was the last scandal sheet written about me left on the newsstand, I realized I've gotten some real good books here. I wasn't thinking, poor Audre Lorde when I picked her book of poems up and added it to my library. I've found, read and treasured, Grisham, Jakes, Gaines, and Steele.
I could take it home, wipe the red colored pencil price tag off with a bay wipe and add it to the other books packed to go to Florida-for sale for $15 a pop. Generic signature could easily be personalized on the spot. Dead wrong-maybe, maybe not. ( I put this is print so I wouldn't be tempted to do that)
I left the copy of Soon and Very Soon on the shelf next to the outdated volume of the Childcraft encyclopedia and the other book. God has plans for that book right there. My goal was that it would be widely read and that it would be a blessing to the reader. I couldn't think of a better place for that goal to be accomplished.
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ABOUT SHERRYLE
Sherryle Kiser Jackson is the author of Soon and Very Soon and the soon to be released novel, The Manual (October 2009), which is dedicated to her only living aunt, Janette. Her passion is to one day preserve the graceful elegance of her nine aunts and their churching traditions in a Black Memorabilia collection called Church Lady Ways. THE MANUAL: 304 PAGES/ ISBN: 1601629354/ OCT. 2009/ URBAN CHRISTIAN
Sherryle Jackson describes her novels as too real to be preachy, Biblically based, and out-the-Christian-box. She has also branded herself as a book club’s best friend, making sure to be accessible to book club’s either in person or by phone conferencing during her 2009 book tour schedule. To schedule speaking engagements, book signings, online/telephone conference contact Author, Sherryle Jackson at http://www.sherrylejackson.com/ or email: sherrylek@aol.com
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http://www.blackpearlsmagazine.com/sherrylejackson.htm
Sherryle Kiser Jackson author of The Manual
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Saturday, September 5, 2009
Give the Gift of Knowledge
Authors on Tour with EDC Creations
Pamela Samuels Young Crime Thriller; Legal Suspense
http://www.blackpearlsmagazine.com/pamelasyoung.htm
ISBN-10: 0981562701
ISBN-13: 978-0981562704
Pat G'Orge Walker Christian Fiction; Faith-based
http://www.blackpearlsmagazine.com/patwalker.htm
ISBN-10: 0758235402
ISBN-13: 978-0758235404
Azarel Comtemporary Fiction with Urban flava
http://www.blackpearlsmagazine.com/azarellcb.htm
ISBN-13: 9781934230671
Monique Mensah Dramatic Fiction
http://www.blackpearlsmagazine.com/moniquemensah.htm
ISBN-13: 9780578023489
(self-pub)
Martha A. Taylor Historical Fiction; Multi-cultural Romance
http://www.blackpearlsmagazine.com/marthataylor.htm
ISBN-10: 1432734717
ISBN-13: 978-1432734718
(self-pub)
Sherryle K. Jackson Christian Fiction
http://www.blackpearlsmagazine.com/sherrylejackson.htm
ISBN-10: 1601629354
ISBN-13: 978-1601629357
Melesia Betts Memoir life and times of Lesbian/Bi-sexual Woman
http://www.blackpearlsmagazine.com/meleisabetts.htm
ISBN-13: 9780615290508
(self-pub)
Pamela Samuels Young Crime Thriller; Legal Suspense
http://www.blackpearlsmagazine.com/pamelasyoung.htm
ISBN-10: 0981562701
ISBN-13: 978-0981562704
Pat G'Orge Walker Christian Fiction; Faith-based
http://www.blackpearlsmagazine.com/patwalker.htm
ISBN-10: 0758235402
ISBN-13: 978-0758235404
Azarel Comtemporary Fiction with Urban flava
http://www.blackpearlsmagazine.com/azarellcb.htm
ISBN-13: 9781934230671
Monique Mensah Dramatic Fiction
http://www.blackpearlsmagazine.com/moniquemensah.htm
ISBN-13: 9780578023489
(self-pub)
Martha A. Taylor Historical Fiction; Multi-cultural Romance
http://www.blackpearlsmagazine.com/marthataylor.htm
ISBN-10: 1432734717
ISBN-13: 978-1432734718
(self-pub)
Sherryle K. Jackson Christian Fiction
http://www.blackpearlsmagazine.com/sherrylejackson.htm
ISBN-10: 1601629354
ISBN-13: 978-1601629357
Melesia Betts Memoir life and times of Lesbian/Bi-sexual Woman
http://www.blackpearlsmagazine.com/meleisabetts.htm
ISBN-13: 9780615290508
(self-pub)
Monday, August 24, 2009
Ni'cola Mitchell - Over & Over Again
Check out Ms. Ni'cola Mitchell
DATE: Tuesday, August 25, 2009
TIME: 8:00pm ET
CALL INTO THE SHOW LIVE: (646) 595-4022
Striving to establish a new flair to the term contemporary fiction, Ni'cola Mitchell entered the literary scene with one main objective: To Stimulate Your Mind, Once Word at a Time. Through her independent publishing company NCM Publishing; Ni'cola published her debut novel entitled OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Much of her work revolves around situations that are a compulsive desire to see women over come challenges. Her next novel THE APPETIZER, when your not his main course will be released February 2010.
Ni'cola Mitchell is originally from Kingston, Jamaica. Currently she resides in North Las Vegas, Nevada with her two daughters, Destani and Diamond. She holds a Bachelors degree of Science in Business Management and is currently pursuing a Masters of Business Administration in HealthCare Management. When Ni'cola isn't writing, she loves to spend time with her family and volunteer as a mentor for youth activities.
Visit Ni'cola Mitchell at her MySpace site: http://www.myspace.com/mzsexyaintdaword
You can also visit her on her official website: http://www.nicolacmitchell.com/
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
AAMBC WINNERS Announced
Authors Supporting Authors was announced the winner of the Blogger of the Year Award by AAMBC, a book club founded by Tamika Newhouse. Thank you for everyone's support and contribution. Visit AAMBC: http://www.aambookclub.com
Here are some additional winners as well:
Romance Author of the Year: Victoria Wells
Erotica Author of the Year: Hazel Mills
Debut Author of the Year: Linda R. Herman
Blogger of the Year: Author Supporting Authors
Publisher of the Year: Elissa Gabrielle
Erotica Author of the Year: Hazel Mills
Debut Author of the Year: Linda R. Herman
Blogger of the Year: Author Supporting Authors
Publisher of the Year: Elissa Gabrielle
Congratulations Everyone!!!
Make sure you stop by these authors websites by clicking on the above names. Leave them a message on their guestbook, or if you haven't already support them by purchasing their books.
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