Black Books, Authors, Book Reviews, Events & More
Today we’re chatting with national best-selling and award-winning author Gwynne Forster who has written eight novels of general fiction, thirty-two romance novels, and six novellas. Wow! Join the chat to find out more about this prolific author and her new book, When the Sun Goes Down. 3 participants will receive a free copy of the [...]
Butterfly Rising is an inspirational story of redemption and friendship as readers follow two women whose lives are changed forever as they embark on an unlikely spiritual journey; also slated for release as a feature film.
Do you remember your favorites of years past? Well we’ve tracked ours over the years and for 2002, the RAWSISTAZ Favorites are below. It’s great to look back and see these, but kinda sad that some of these authors are no longer on the literary scene. Favorite Authors: Karen E. Quinones Miller Bernice McFadden Zane [...]
As mentioned earlier in the week, we are going to not only share information about RAWSISTAZ and what’s going on in the literary world, but we want to give our fans yet another opportunity to be in the Spotlight, so the Fan Page Five is born. It will be mostly random, but will introduce you [...]
Does anyone remember Black Men Reading (BMR), our male section of the RAWSISTAZ site? Well, we had a group of male reviewers who shared their thoughts on books with brief book reviews & blurbs and we also did a line-up we called He Say, She Say. This was a friendly comparison of what our team [...]
How do you know a book is good? One indicator is how the characters make you feel. You will love or hate them with so much passion, others will have to remind you that they’re NOT real. LOL! Remember those characters who we talked about as if they were real folks? Today we’re looking back through our [...]
As we continue our 30 Day Celebration, we will be taking a stroll down Literary Lane and sharing many things about RAWSISTAZ, our members, authors & literary trivia. Does anyone know what the first reading selection for our online book club was? :::::drumroll please:::: Our complete reading lists for 2000 and 2001 are below. 2000 [...]
Hey all and thanks SO MUCH for joining us for our month-long anniversary celebration. 10 Years and counting!! Our site was down this morning, so we’re a bit delayed kicking things off, but we are here and ready to go!! Our actual anniversary is on the 16th, and yes, we’re celebrating 10 years of our [...]
RAWSISTAZ is up for Book Club of the Year in the African-American Literary Awards Show and I will admit, it’s pretty cool to be nominated for an award by a group of your peers, members and others for the very thing you have a passion for doing. But, is it necessary? No? Not really. Earlier [...]
We’re excited to welcome Angelia Vernon Menchan and Dera R. Williams for our Black Book Chat today. They will be sharing more information about their recently released book Mother Wit: Stories of Mothers and Daughters, how they came up with the idea and more! If you haven’t purchased a copy, be sure to do so [...]
