Soul of Man Blog Tour Featuring Maurice M. Gray, Jr. – Letting Patience Have Its Way
The process of publishing has been hotly debated for as long as there has been publishing houses. With the variety of avenues that can now be traveled toward publication that debate has become much more scrutinized by readers and reviewers. For Maurice Gray the focus upon editing has become more than a conversation to engage in; it has become a passion that he gladly shares with others.
When approached with the possibility of working on a project his focus is not affordability, it is on what the author is willing to put into the process in order to learn the proper and sellable form of writing. He has done so in order to dispel the myth that an editor’s job is to make the manuscript publish worthy. To a large degree it is, but Maurice understands and impresses upon the prospective client that this cannot happen without their input and them learning the steps of editing.
Thank God for the New Year
Thank God for the New Year
by Cheryl Lacey Donovan
Well, it’s that time of year again. Everyone is making resolutions and setting goals for the new year. But as Christians this is a time of reflection. I time to renew our spirit and renew our faith in God. It’s an opportinity to remind ourselves of the fact that even though we may have failed and even though we may not have achieved all the goals we set on last year. God still loves and cares for us. Because we know and love God, we can be assured that we don’t have to live in guilt and condemnation. We can freely release our past and move into our future.
African-American Market Comes of Age
Angie Kiesling of Publishers Weekly writes an encouraging article.
A rising crop of new authors
Within religion publishing, it’s hard to miss the surge in growth over the last several years of the African-American market. Industry professionals of all stripes-agents, authors, editors, PR gurus-will tell you the market demand is there, the desire to reach the market is there, and strong sales records of heavy-hitting backlist authors and new literary voices promise to keep demand high. But if ever a market required targeting the right way or finding the heart and soul of its people and communities, it’s this one.
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Is This the End of Street Lit?
For the record, I never called my work “street literature” and I never will. When I began to publish ground breaking contemporary novels with Flyy Girl in 1993, and Capital City in 1994, I called them “urban classics.” They were “urban” because they dealt with people of color in the inner-city or “urban” population areas. They were “classics” because I considered myself one of the first to start the work of a new era. But now, after sixteen years and sixteen novels in the African-American adult urban fiction game, I feel like the man who created the monster Frankenstein.
Omar Tyree sounds off in his article, “An Urban “Street Lit” Retirement.”
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