Win a FREE book from MahoganyBooks

Win a FREE book from MahoganyBooks, no strings attached. We have an overflow of books on our shelves and want you guys to reap the rewards. Complete the form below by November 30, 2009 to be eligible for the raffle. The winner will be contacted via email and will have the book shipped directly to [...]

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

  “The piano ain’t got no wrong notes!” So ranted Thelonious Sphere Monk, who proved his point every time he sat down at the keyboard. His angular melodies and dissonant harmonies shook the jazz world to its foundations, ushering in the birth of “bebop” and establishing Monk as one of America’s greatest composers. Yet throughout much [...]

Hurston/Wright Call for Submissions

The Annual Award for College Writers   The Hurston/Richard Wright Award™ for College Writers has been established by novelist Marita Golden to honor excellence in fiction writing by students of African descent enrolled full time as an undergraduate or graduate student in any college or university in the United States. The winners will be announced in April for [...]

A Novel in a Month?

After some gentle prodding, I decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write a full length novel (50,000 words) in thirty days without any editing. That translates into 1666 words a day. *Warning* Math calculations are drawing near. 1666 words a day, is nowhere close to what I would average in writing [...]

Great…I’m Competing with Jada Pinket-Smith

I am happily plugging away working on my book and I am starting to see my character’s life take shape. As I mentioned in my previous post my character Ana has become more than mere words on a page, but a living and breathing person and I am enjoying telling her story. I am even [...]