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Authors Paula T. Renfroe and Eric Jerome Dickey pictured above in Barbados at the 2010 Girlfriends Expo.
I can’t believe Eric Jerome Dickey passed away of cancer on Sunday, January 3, 2021. The New York Times bestselling author was only 59 years old.
Scrolling through Instagram I stumbled upon one of Well Read Black Girl’s Live sessions—An Editorial Vision featuring Rakia Clark of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Nicole Counts of One World Books. Full disclosure: Rakia was the acquisition editor for my first novel ☛THE CHEATING CURVE [pub: Dafina/Kensington],
Beloved father, son, mobilizer, entrepreneur and rapper, the late Nipsey Hussle‘s first biography ☛THE MARATHON DON’T STOP: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF NIPSEY HUSSLE [pub: Atria Books] is dropping March 24, 2020. The admittedly unauthorized book is written by respected hip-hop journalist Rob Kenner.
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],
Paula T. Renfroe is a writer and author with over 20 years of experience in publishing. She created the voice and vision of Juicy, the first celebrity lifestyle, hair and beauty magazine for African-American women where she served as the editor-in-chief from its inception in 2009 to its conclusion in 2015.
I didn’t know my being happy would piss so many people off. Did I not warn you? People hate happy women.
—The Idea Of You (The Movie)
The movie trailer for the adaptation of Robinne Lee‘s steamy read ☛THE IDEA OF YOU dropped yesterday.
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