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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Trailer Park Tuesday: Michelle Obama at the DNC
Today's Trailer Park Tuesday spotlight is not a trailer, but Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention. Comments are open today without moderation. Please remember CFB will not tolerate profanity, or any dialogue that is unbecoming, and definitely no personal attacks. I will share my comments about the speech throughout the day.
Dee
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Monday, August 25, 2008
CFB News: CFB Takes over Blog Talk Radio, the DNC, & Hope
CFB News for the Week of August 25, 2008
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Monday: The Master's Artist Blog (TMA:)
And the Great Summer Novel of 2008 Is...
Yesterday I was talking to a bookseller friend of mine about books, particularly on the part of the Great Summer Novel. I had picked a few at CFB and I fell in like with a few of them. But this one...this one turns summer afternoons into moments of Selah and gives me a clearer vision for the stories my soul wants me to write. This novel, of course is Uwem Akpan's "Say You're One of Them."
Blog Talk Radio
Abundant Life Solutions and The Black Author's Network
Every Monday night at 8pm EST You will find me either on the radio or in the chat room talking Christian Fiction Blog and book marketing promotion at Ella Curry's Black Author's Network BTR Show.
Around 9pm I will hop on over to my buddies Gregory and Brian's Abundant Life Solutions Hour. I am in the chat room hoping to land a question about something. Their topics are so smart.
All Week
Covering the Democratic National Convention
All week you can find me at Hope for Women Magazine's Online Community covering the Democratic National Convention. My new friend, Jana la Sorte press manager for the DNC is providing me the faith based coverage of the DNC. Follow me on Twitter or head to the site to stay informed. Tonight we discuss Michelle Obama's keynote speech.
I will be blogging about the Faith and Fiction Retreat all week at Savvy Sista. I will have audioblogs I taped while at the conference and will be talking about the books, the pajama parties, beautiful Destin, Florida, interviews and tips for bookclubs and authors who are plannning to attend book conferences. So check me out there, too.
This week on CFB
Just because I will be everywhere, doesn't mean I won't be here. This week I will be setting up a new contest. interviewing authors, posting Christian Fiction News, The Trailer Park Tuesday, featuring some guest bloggers, uterrz, sharing some new books on my review table. This week I am reviewing Pat Simmon's Talk to Me for Romantic Times Magazine, And Darlene Laney's He Made a Woman for Good Girl Book Club Magazine.
The Christian Fiction Network
Don't forget to join the The Christian Fiction Network. I think we are about 60 strong. That is 60 Christian authors strong. Sharon Ewell Foster, Marilynn Griffith, Stacy Hawkins Adams,Marita Teague, Pam Perry, Linda Beed, Maurice Gray, Christa Allan and the list goes on and on. Don't miss out on the chance to connect and share with your peers.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Weekend Chat: Biden as VP, Olynpics, OPen
So now that CNN's Don King has let the cat out the bag we now know that Senator Biden is the Obama's VP pick.
This weekend The comment box is open for discussion what do you think about Obama's pick, waiting all day yesterday for a text message, the Olympics, whatever. I took off the codes so that more people can comment in real time without all the security hangups. I hope spammers will not take advantage of the situation.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Friday FictionFest: Tyler Perry, Obama, Faith and Fiction Retreat
Wednesday Readup for the week ending August 20, 2008
I have been busy with new things and old things and blogging. I have quite a bit of info for this week's read-up. Enjoy. If you don't have time to read. Click the icon below to listen to this post.
Tyler Perry on ET Watch Here
Tyler talks about his mother, Oprah, Senator Barack Obama and his new movie, which looks so great, The House that Preys. Watch now.
Faith and Fiction Retreat recap
Patricia, Ty and Rhonda have written faith and fiction recaps. Next week I will be sharing my notes, pics, and audio interview at Savvy Sistah blog and will host all the authors from the retreat to a live broadcast chat on Blog Talk Radio's Ella Curry's Black Authors Network Show so subscribe to CFB or follow us on twitter to get those details. You don't want to miss talking with Tiffany Warren, Reshonda Tate Billingsley, Victoria Christopher Murray, Michelle Andrea Bowen, Sherri Lewis, Dwan Abrams, Kendra Norman Bellamy, Bonnie Hopkins, Mikesenoja, Ty Moody, Rhonda McKnight, Patricia Woodside and who else and a bag of chips. This will be fun. Mine are available in audio at Utterz. I will create a squeeze/sneeze page to house it all this weekend. Pics are below for you to enjoy.
ACFW-VIP still Cracking Essence Magazine's Bestseller's List
Woohoo! ACFW Visions in Print founder, Kendra Norman Bellamy sprawls on the September 08 Essence Magazine Bestseller's list with two novels: (4)One Prayer Away and (6) A Love so Strong
Fifth Annual Pen to Paper Literary Symposium
Enjoy live music, clean comedy, massages, desserts and authors from across the nation! Learn what it takes to write, publish and promote your book! Find out how to break into the music industry from national recording artists! Understand what it takes to succeed in arts and entertainment at the Fifth Annual Pen to Paper Literary Symposium!
Read more, click here
Also starting next week I will be covering the Democratic National Convention for Hope for Women Magazine. Follow me on twitter to get up to the minute info on the Obama Race to the White House.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Guestblog: The Secret for Going Solo (Freelance Writing)
"THE WRITING LIFE
The Secret of Going Solo
More and more writers striking out on their own for an array of compelling reasons.The Secret of Going Solo
• Some have no choice: they have been downsized, laid off, reorganized, or even fired,.
• Others are “following their bliss,” either by taking the plunge with little forethought and less money or by having stashed away just enough to take a calculated risk for as long as their savings hold out.
• Some brave souls dive in with no other source of income, no prospects on the horizon, and only idealism to keep them afloat.
• Those who are less gutsy, or perhaps more pragmatic, keep their jobs and cautiously stick a toe in the water, writing on the side to see how it feels and if it might some day actually pay the rent.
• A limited number think it through, plan, and get all their ducks in a row, before they launch.
• But, by far, the vast majority of would-be freelancers leap first and contemplate later.
I have been a freelancer on and off for 40 years and working at it full time for almost half that time. Here is what I know about "going solo.
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It's growth promoting, satisfying, and irresistibly freeing. But it's also a tough way to make a living. The market is built on shifting sands. Whatever is hot one day, is ice cold (read, gone) the next. Clients dry up, staff up, or are bought out. Editors move on. Skills so painstakingly acquired become obsolete.
The name of the game is change. You must continue to adapt, learn, audition, and reinvent yourself. If you don't, you become as outdated and unmarketable as your self-correcting Selectric.
Nothing stays the same. The economy, technology, and the business world are changing every moment. You can't afford to be left behind. Read the signs; anticipate market needs, and prepare to meet them. That's the secret of going solo.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Trailer Park Tuesday: Book of Lies
This week's Trailer Park Tuesday is Brad Meltzer's The Book of Lies
From Publishers Weekly
Bestseller Meltzer (The Book of Fate) deserves credit for an audacious conceit—wedding the biblical fratricide of Abel by his brother Cain with the unsolved 1932 homicide of the father of Jerry Siegel, the creator of iconic comic book hero Superman—but the results are less than convincing. A highly tenuous link between the two murders revolves around the mysterious weapon Cain (the world's greatest villain) used to kill his brother. One of numerous theories is that the weapon was a divine book containing the secrets of immortality. After coming to the aid of a shooting victim, Calvin Harper, a homeless volunteer working in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., soon finds himself hopelessly caught up in a life-and-death quest for the ancient artifact that includes the obligatory secret societies, Nazi conspiracies, enigmatic villains and cryptographic riddles à la The Da Vinci Code. A glut of two-dimensional characters and a plot riddled with coincidences don't help. (Sept.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Bestseller Meltzer (The Book of Fate) deserves credit for an audacious conceit—wedding the biblical fratricide of Abel by his brother Cain with the unsolved 1932 homicide of the father of Jerry Siegel, the creator of iconic comic book hero Superman—but the results are less than convincing. A highly tenuous link between the two murders revolves around the mysterious weapon Cain (the world's greatest villain) used to kill his brother. One of numerous theories is that the weapon was a divine book containing the secrets of immortality. After coming to the aid of a shooting victim, Calvin Harper, a homeless volunteer working in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., soon finds himself hopelessly caught up in a life-and-death quest for the ancient artifact that includes the obligatory secret societies, Nazi conspiracies, enigmatic villains and cryptographic riddles à la The Da Vinci Code. A glut of two-dimensional characters and a plot riddled with coincidences don't help. (Sept.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Wildcard: God Gave us Heaven
It is time to play a Wild Card! Every now and then, a book that I have chosen to read is going to pop up as a FIRST Wild Card Tour. Get dealt into the game! (Just click the button!) Wild Card Tours feature an author and his/her book's FIRST chapter!
You never know when I might play a wild card on you!
Today's Wild Card author is:
and his/her book:
WaterBrook Press (August 19, 2008)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Lisa Tawn Bergren is the award-winning author of nearly thirty titles, totaling more than one million books in print. She writes in a broad range of genres, from adult fiction to devotional. God Gave Us Heaven is Lisa’s fourth children’s book, following in the tradition of the best-selling God Gave Us You. She makes her home in Colorado, with her husband, Tim, and their children, Olivia, Emma, and Jack.Visit the author's website.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR:
Laura J. Bryant studied painting, printmaking, and sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She has illustrated numerous award-winning children’s books, including God Gave Us You, Smudge Bunny, and If You Were My Baby. Laura lives in Asheville, North Carolina.Visit the illustrator's website.
Poduct Details:
List Price: $10.99
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Hardcover: 40 pages
Publisher: WaterBrook Press (August 19, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400074460
ISBN-13: 978-1400074464
AND NOW...THE FIRST TWO PAGES:
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