The Author Electa Rome Parks currently resides outside Atlanta, Georgia. After successfully self-publishing her debut novel, The Ties That Bind, New American Library, a division of Penguin Group, bought the rights. Electa signed a three-book deal with New American Library. All three books were immediately chosen as Black Expressions Book Club main selections and embraced […]
Bernice L. McFadden is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, including the classic Sugar and Nowhere Is a Place, which was a Washington Post best fiction title for 2006. She is a two-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of two fiction honors from the Black Caucus of the American Library […]
In the beginning, there was an image,and it was good. On day one, the image stirred you,wrestled with your psyche, and evokedemotions that had lain dormant. Youcarried that image, like a babypic in a wallet, pulling it out to showothers as you smiled – the proud parent. On day two, like a journalist, questionsflowed from […]
Recently, a fan of CLG Entertainment and The Write Life for You articles I write contacted me. The fan, a writer, asked, “How do you know if you have the talent to pursue writing? Words have always had a powerful pull on me, but I don’t know if I can actually write … Do you […]
One of the biggest things writers moan about, at least to me they do, is the synopsis. They absolutely hate to write it. How am I supposed to take my 90,000-word manuscript and condense it to a few mere pages? With a lot of rewriting and revising, that’s how. To read my latest The Write […]
Have you gotten a taste of that eastcoast flavor?—Well, maybe that’s because you haven’t met the teens from the Boogie Down Bronx yet! Meet Lauren, Rosalyn, Kevin, Trinny, and the rest of the teens at Latimar High. The Boogie Down Clique Series The Kids at Latimar High Going to Lewis Latimar High used to be […]
The Writer Anjuelle Floyd is the author of Keeper of Secrets…Translations of an Incident, a collection of interconnected short stories, and a novel, The House, due for publication in Fall 2009. A wife of twenty-seven years, mother of three, she is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in mother-daughter relations and dream work.Anjuelle graduated […]