Keep me posted on the latest book releases, signings, conferences and conversations.
Wayétu Moore is busy and booked for the next couple of months! The debut author’s highly-anticipated novel ☛SHE WOULD BE KING [pub: Graywolf Press] drops next Tuesday, September 11th. Plus, the One Moore Book founder is going on a nationwide tour. Catch the Howard alum September 12th in conversation with Yahdon Israel at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in New York City.
Don’t you just love a great anthology? I cannot wait to dive into Jennifer N. Baker‘s ☛EVERYDAY PEOPLE: THE COLOR OF LIFE — A SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY [pub: Atria Books]. New Yorkers can check her out at Astoria Bookshop on September 10th and Greenlight Bookstore October 1st.
Happiest of Pub Days to Bernice L. McFadden! The Brooklyn native’s 10th book [under the name her mama gave her], ☛PRAISE SONG FOR THE BUTTERFLIES [pub: Akashic Books] drops today. McFadden has written five additional novels under the pseudonym Geneva Holliday.
Summer’s not quite over. Plus, so many people, including Barack Obama, go on vacay in August. Love, love, love that my Forever President shared his favorite reads. So much so, I did a lil’ digging and found out what other famous folk read this summer. Here’s a recap:
President Barack Obama’s Summer Selections:
☛EDUCATED By Tara Westover
Per Random House:
Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom.
Sanaa Lathan stars in the Netflix adaption of Trisha R. Thomas‘ ☛NAPPILY EVER AFTER (pub: Crown) debuting September 21st and I’m already planning my watch party!
I see the movie makers changed the main character’s name from Venus to Violet and can’t wait to discover what evolves and what stays from the original novel published in 2000.
Happiest of Pub Days to author Michael Arceneaux on the release of his book ☛I CAN’T DATE JESUS: LOVE, SEX, FAMILY, RACE, AND OTHER REASONS I’VE PUT MY FAITH IN BEYONCÉ [pub: Atria Books]!
Per Simon & Schuster:
In the style of New York Times bestsellers You Can’t Touch My Hair,
Fantastic news! Oprah Winfrey is making my favorite novel of 2018 ☛AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE by Tayari Jones into a movie. I cannot wait to see Celestial, Roy and Andre come to life. Here’s the thing, Oprah tweeted the announcement back in February.
I met Ntozake Shange in 2010 at the annual National Book Club Conference in Atlanta. I felt like the luckiest debut novelist. Not only had Curtis Bunn, the founder of NBCC, asked me to sit on a panel, but he’d invited me to sign and sell my first novel ☛THE CHEATING CURVE [pub: Dafina Books],
ICYMI: Actress and now author Retta is having a fantastic year! The comedian’s first book ☛SO CLOSE TO BEING THE SH*T, Y’ALL DON’T EVEN KNOW [pub: St. Martin’s Press] dropped a couple of weeks ago on May 29th. I’m only on the fourth chapter—with only 12 more,
2018 marks two decades since the release of the Grammy-Award winning classic, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. I was working at The Source magazine at the time and remember the zealous editorial debates on whether Lauryn actually deserved the elusive five-mic rating. The main issue was that she hadn’t rapped on every song.
