 Evening with author Attica Locke
Listen to the Interview NowAttica Locke discusses Black Water Rising with the Go on Girl President, Lynda Johnson and EDC Creations President, Ella Curry. Attica Locke is a novelist and a screenwriter who has written scripts for Paramount, Warner Bros, Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, HBO Films and more. A graduate of Northwestern University, she was a fellow at the Sundance Institute's Feature Filmmaker's Lab. Black Water Rising, her first novel, was nominated for a 2010 Edgar Award and a 2010 NAACP Image Award. She is currently at work on her second book.
Black Water Rising is a murder mystery that takes place in Houston, Texas, in 1981. It follows the character, Jay Porter, a low rent criminal defense attorney who was heavily involved in the civil rights movement in the late '60s and early '70s and now finds himself trying to transition from the political activism of his youth into the Reagan '80s - a time when the whole country and black people in particular had shifted our focus from political progress to economic progress. At the beginning of the book, Jay saves a woman from drowning and soon gets caught up in a mystery involving this woman and some of the biggest power brokers in the city. And along the way he has to come to terms with the demons of his past: the guns, his FBI file, the trial that nearly destroyed him.
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 Evening with Jacqueline E. Luckett
and Dolen Perkins Valdez
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After leaving the corporate world, Jacqueline Luckett took a creative writing class on a dare, from herself, and began writing short stories and poetry and never looked back.
Searching for Tina Turner is the story of Lena Harrison Spencer, a woman on the verge of change, whose journey is inspired by Tina Turner's strength. There is no physical abuse in Lena's life, but there is the longing to follow a dream. Lena loves her life, her husband Randall-successful, attentive, but distant-and their two children-Kendrick, the oldest, trying to nip a drug habit in the bud, and Camille, seventeen and disgusted by her mother's overbearing behavior.
Wench: A Novel by Dolen Perkins-Valdez. In her debut, Perkins-Valdez eloquently plunges into a dark period of American history, chronicling the lives of four slave women-Lizzie, Reenie, Sweet and Mawu-who are their masters' mistresses. The women meet when their owners vacation at the same summer resort in Ohio. There, they see free blacks for the first time and hear rumors of abolition, sparking their own desires to be free. For everyone but Lizzie, that is, who believes she is really in love with her master, and he with her. An extended flashback in the middle of the novel delves into Lizzie's life and vividly explores the complicated psychological dynamic between master and slave. Jumping back to the final summer in Ohio, the women all have a decision to make-will they run? Heart-wrenching, intriguing, original and suspenseful, this novel showcases Perkins-Valdez's ability to bring the unfortunate past to life.
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 Evening with author Sonya Visor
Meet author Sonya Visor, author of Who I've Become Is NOT Who I Am and founder of TruU Ministries. Who are you when nobody's looking? It's time to take off what hides who you truly are...the mask!
Are you tired of going around family, friends and church folk with a frozen smile and a broken heart? Unmask your true identity and learn your real name as pastor's wife and playwright Sonya Visor cuts to the heart with dynamic testimony of sexual molestation at a young age.
BEING SILENT GAVE POWER to the hands that touched her life. Can hands meant to protect you also have the power to crush your identity? YES! But when we stop allowing a mask of shame to hold us captive with CLOSED mouths, WE CAN let Jesus be real in our lives.
Discover who you have become and embrace who you really are in a book that goes past the pews and what other's think about you - to bring glory to God by being transparent and transformed. It's time to take off your mask and let the true you show up!
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 Evening with Stacy Hawkins Adams
Join Ella Curry and Stacy Hawkins Adams as they discuss the The Jubilant Soul Series. Stacy Hawkins Adams is a nationally-published, award-winning author and speaker. Her contemporary women's fiction novels are filled with social themes and spiritual quests that take readers on journeys into their own souls.
She holds a degree in journalism and served as a newspaper reporter for more than a decade before turning her full attention to penning books, speaking professionally and writing freelance articles. She is currently writing her sixth novel and her first nonfiction book, an inspirational title that will encourage women in their faith. She lives in a suburb of Richmond, Virginia with her husband and two young children.
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Evening with Go On Girl! Book Club
and Literary Leaders
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Join Ella Curry and the members of Go On Girl! Book Club as they meet authors Carleen Brice (Orange Mint & Honey), Ravi Howard (Like Trees Walking), Attica Locke (Black Water Rising), Kwei Quartey (Wife of the Gods), Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa (Daughters of the Stone) and Jewell Parker Rhodes (Yellow Moon) on the Black Authors Network.
The group will discuss their 19 year history, 2010 reading list, upcoming author awards in Alabama and 20th Anniversary event in 2011. Go On Girl! Book Club is one of the largest national reading groups in the U.S. for black women. The organization was founded in 1991 in New York City by Lynda M. Johnson, Monique Greenwood and Tracy Mitchell. Today the organization has 31 chapters in 13 states including New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington, Illinois, Virginia, Indiana, South Carolina, Texas, Alabama, North Carolina and Washington, D.C.
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