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Tonight's Show Theme: Are You Chosen

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Our bro host tonight is Deontee Gordon.

Deontée Gordon is an online marketing strategist and serial entrepreneur who launched his first business, a mobile content portal, in 2003.He went on to found Deon Gordon Consulting, a marketing firm catering to entrepreneurs and small business owners looking to grow their ventures through online marketing.His blog, http://www.deontee.com is home to a collection of news, tips, information, and advice about marketing, social media, and business related issues.

He currently resides in Birmingham, where he can usually be found with a plate of medium-rare steaks and a laptop nearby.

Show Format

1.Intro

2. Top Topics(Hot Topics) Below for you to look through

Add Commericial

3. Special Guest is author, Patricia Haley,
Patricia Haley, national bestselling author of Nobody's Perfect, Blind Faith, Baby Blues, and No Regrets is a trailblazer in the mainstream faith-based fiction genre. She self-published her debut novel, Nobody's Perfect, in 1998 and immediately sold nearly 20,000 copies in an industry where selling 5,000 copies is highly regarded. Her faith-based novel was the first of its kind to repeatedly make numerous national best sellers list, including #1 on the Essence (African-American) bestselling list. Patricia's other published titles are Still Waters (2005), Blind Faith (2003), No Regrets (2002), and a short story based on Sarah and Abraham called Baby Blues. for the Midnight Clear Anthology. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie September 2006 and now Chosen.
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Dee

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1.Real Housewives’ Sheree dismisses divorce appeal

Former Atlanta Falcon Bob Whitfield has squandered his fortune and failed to pay child support for his two children for 15 months, his ex-wife’s lawyer said Monday.

For this reason, Sheree Whitfield, a star of the TV reality show “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” dismissed her appeal of the couple’s divorce case that sought alimony from the former football star, her lawyer, Michael Weinstock, said. Source: http://www.accessatlanta.com/entertainment/content/entertainment/stories/2009/01/12/sheree_housewives_divorce.html

Question: Are the Atlanta Housewives for real? Or do they represent more of us than we want to admit?

2. Homosexuality in the News
The first openly gay priest ordained by a major Christian denomination will deliver the invocation at the kickoff inauguration event Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial. Source: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/12/openly-gay-bishop-to-deliver-first-inauguration-event-invocation/

Oprah Show: Is Being Gay a Gift?

Rick Warren and the Inaugriation (gay protests)

Question: Will Gay/LB take center stage over inaugration?

3.Neenah Pickett's 52-Week Plan to Find a Husband
A 42 year old single woman has decided that she is going to find a husband witrh the help of the online community. Essence featured her site. Source:http://www.essence.com/relationships/advice/articles/neenahpickett52weekstofindmyhusband

Question: Should Women Be looking for a man at all?

3. Bishop Jakes Not Easily Broken How was the Movie?

TD Jakes New Novel turned Movie "Not Easily Broken" starring Morris Chestnutt and Taraji P. Henson. Will it be better than the book? Sony gave TD Jakes a 3 movie deal. Is this a new trend? How influential is TD Jakes?
Sourcelink: http://christianfiction.blogspot.com/2008/11/weekend-chat-should-novels-become.html


3. Chicago Blizzard

4. Oscar Grants death in Oakland/Oakland Riots

5. MLK Day and The Obama Inauguration (msp)

6. Morris Brown Fights for Survival.
Source:http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2009/01/12/morris_brown.html
Question: Are Black Churches shurking stewardship over HBCUs or is the economy to blame?

7. American Idol is back tonight. Right now. Does anyone care?

Dee & Marina Reports: Let it Shine in 09

December Sun courtesy of Flickr

8:00 -8:45 PM

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Let it Shine in 09 Theme for Tonight

Our bro host tonight is
Ron Hudson Author, blogger, radio talk show host, CM.NLP and Strategic Influence and Persuasion Trainer Listen-in to his BlogTalkRadio show Immediate Influence that airs on Monday nights at 6:30pm PST, 8:30pm CST, 9:30pm EST: www.immediateinfluence.com

Show Format

1.Intro

2. Top Topics(Hot Topics) Below to look through. The list is tentative. You know how we do.

Commercial/Drop

3. Special Guest: Author/Playwright Tiffany Warren is the author of a new Christian novel The Bishop's Daughter (January 09, Hachette Book Group.) Tiffany L Warren is also the bestselling author of "What a Sista Should Do", "Farther than I Meant to Go, and "Longer than I Meant to Stay". Tiffany also writes young adult fiction under the pen name Nikki Carter. Her first young adult novel "Step to This" will be released in March, 2009. She is also the founder of the Faith in Fiction Retreat, which is slated for July 2009 in Orlando, FL. She will in Atlanta this weekend.


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1. Tyler Perry's Meet the Brown's the sitcom airs tomorrow on TBS. Will this show be better received by progressives? Why does Tyler have so much groundswell? Influence? Your thoughts
Source Link: http://christianfiction.blogspot.com/2008/12/trailer-park-tuesday-tyler-perrys-meet.html

2. TD Jakes New Novel turned Movie "Not Easily Broken" starring Morris Chestnutt and Taraji P. Henson. Will it be better than the book? Sony gave TD Jakes a 3 movie deal. Is this a new trend? How influential is TD Jakes?
Sourcelink: http://christianfiction.blogspot.com/2008/11/weekend-chat-should-novels-become.html

3. Let it Shine in 09 what could that mean? Source Linkg: http://www.utterli.com/u/utt/u-ODEwMzk2Nw#utt-ODEwMzk2Nw

4. Obama Inauguration and The Economy. The inaugural committee for President-elect Barack Obama just announced there will be a "Neighborhood Inaugural Ball" at the Washington Convention Center on January 20. Tickets will be available for free or at an affordable price, according to USA Today. Obama's inauguration committee claims it is the first official inaugural ball of its kind featuring interactive components like webcasting and text messaging, to link neighborhoods across the country with the new president.Is it fair to ask him not to celebrate with a ball?
Sourcelink: http://www.essence.com/news_entertainment/news/articles/budgetballprezelectinviteseveryonetohistoricevent/

5. The Macbrook Wheel
What do you think? Will Steve Jobs Influence change the way we use our fingers?
Sourcelink: http://christianfiction.blogspot.com/2009/01/trailer-park-tuesday-macbook-wheel.html

6. Roland Burris Theatrics on Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON – Roland Burris tried to take President-elect Barack Obama's Illinois Senate seat Tuesday but failed in a scripted piece of political theater staged just before the opening of the 111th Congress. "Mr. Burris is not in possession of the necessary credentials from the state of Illinois," declared Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.

Burris, 71, earlier confirmed that Secretary of the Senate Nancy Erickson had informed him in a private meeting that his credentials lacked a required signature and his state's seal.

He said he had been advised that "I would not be accepted, and I will not be seated, and I will not be permitted on the floor." He spoke to a crowd of reporters who had followed him across the street for a news conference in a cold and steady rain outside the Capitol.
Sourcelink: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090106/ap_on_go_co/senate_burri s

Dee & Marina Reports:

Dee & Marina Reports
December 16, 2008

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Show Discussion

Tune into tonight at 7PM EST/8 PM EST as gapals Dee Stewart, Marina Woods and Guest Bro-host, L. Martin Johnson Pratt talk about these 3 main topics:

1. Illinois Govenor Rod Blagojevich Scandal vs Senator Jesse Jackson, Jr.'s Innocence Plea Question: Have you ever been accused of something you knew you didn't do? How does your faith help you through the longsuffering?Update: Kackson was an informant for the US Attorney's Office regarding Blagojevich.
2. Critically acclaimed author, Carleen Brice discusses Orange Mint & Honey and National Buy a Book by a Black Author and Give it to Somebody not Black Month "What if every one of us bought a book by a black author and gave it to a white friend? So I'm naming December National Buy a Book by a Black Author and Give it to Somebody Not Black Month.The most viral campaign on the internet. Question: What books would you buy and give?
3. Other topics for discussion may include:

• Pastor stepping down for infidelity. When did church scandal become entertainment news?
• Prez. Bush's Shoe Attack
• Pastor Kenneth Copeland's Jet Taxed. Is that fair?
• The Gingerbread Man: Why would rather women have a Gingerbread man than be alone during the holidays?
• Tyler Perry victory lawsuit victory. HE stated in his email he laid off 150 employees, in order to attend the trial in Marshall Texas? Why? Did Oprah lay off people when she went to Texas for the beef lawsuit?
  
• Did not SNL go too far spoofing New Jersey Governor David Paterson ( who is blind) When does spoofing cross the line?
• Homosexuality in Black Churches: Why are pews now fabulous?
• Congrats Claudia Burney for making the Best Books 2008 list from Library Journal for Wounded.
  
  

Discuss Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's New Acquisitions Changes Tonight

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the publisher of authors including Philip Roth, Jonathan Safran Foer, Günter Grass and J. R. R. Tolkien, has temporarily suspended acquisitions of new manuscripts, a company spokesman said Monday...He added, “Every new manuscript that comes in is going to be subjected to a higher degree of scrutiny and consideration than has previously been the case.”

He said he could not be specific about what criteria would govern decisions about what manuscripts to buy, but said that editors would have to prove to an acquisitions committee that the book showed concrete evidence of “market interest.”

(Read Full Article Here)

Moreover, last week I mentioned that some bookstores aren't taking new book orders at the top of 09 to stay solvent.

So how do authors adjust and prepare for these changes?

I'll be discussing these developments with Marina Woods in more detail tonight and what they may mean for authors (both newbies and midlisters) on The Dee and Marina Reports Show Tonight. You're welcome to call in and add to the conversation. Or email me questions to address during the show. The Show airs tonight at 8 -8:45 pm. with a fifteen minute Real Talk After Show. Visit the show and chat at www.blogtalkradio.com/deegospel The call in # is (646) 649-1066.

Dee Stewart

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