The Black Book Chats will now start at noon (EST) instead of 10AM EST, unless otherwise noted and will end around 8PM EST. They are held via the comments section in blog format and you DO NOT have to sit there all day waiting on messages. If you want to attend the chat, just go [...]
Chat Schedule This Week (Apr 19th)
Chat Schedule for E-Book Reading Challenge

Our E-Book Reading Challenge is well under way and we are having a wonderful time with our featured authors! If you haven’t joined in, it is not too late to participate. We posted this schedule with the last call for the free e-book downloads, but some didn’t receive it. So, once again, the chat schedule [...]
Last Call for Free Books for Reading Challenge

**If you’ve already registered, CLICK HERE to download the two new books. We extended the download time for an extra week for those having problems accessing the files, but this is the absolute last call to download books we’re reading during our E-Book Reading Challenge. If you miss the free download, you will have to [...]
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African-American E-Books & E-Book Reading Challenge

Happy Read An E-Book Week! We kicked things off with an interview with the founder of Read An E-Book Week, Rita Y. Toews earlier in the week, celebrated e-books on the Michigan Writers Network Show last night, and have been hearing from members regarding all the great finds around the internet. For Read An E-Book [...]
Email for RAWSISTAZ is down (resolved)

Greetings all! Just a quick announcement that we’re having technical difficulties with our email, so it has been down since Tuesday afternoon. We hope to have it back up by tomorrow mid-day, Monday at the latest. So, if you’ve emailed us, please give us a few days to catch up to everything and if you [...]
Read an E-Book Week (March 7-13) & Kick-off of E-Book Reading Challenge

Read an E-Book Week educates and informs the public about the pleasures and advantages of reading electronically. Authors, publishers, vendors, the media and readers world-wide are welcome to join in the effort. We encourage you to promote electronic reading with any event. These could include: public readings, library displays, reading challenges, school visits, newspaper and [...]
Sins of the Mother Chat & After Party (Thurs, Feb 25th)
For those who caught the premiere of Sins of the Mother on Lifetime Movie Network last night, starring Jill Scott and based on Carleen Brice’s novel Orange Mint and Honey, you’re in for a treat! Carleen will be joining us on Thursday, here via the blog to share thoughts on the movie, the book, and [...]
Winners of the Holiday Reading Challenge

Okay, okay! It’s taken me a month to recuperate from all the reading and chatting from our Holiday Reading Challenge, held November 24th – January 12th, but I did not forget about our winners. Thank you all for participating!! So finally after 2441 comments in the various chats & 22,644 page views our winners are: [...]





