Last Call for Free Books for Reading Challenge

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**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 [...]

Site Issues…

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My apologies to anyone trying to access the site today as it has gone down twice. Unfortunately, this has impacted both the workshop and blog tour we have going on for today, but it was beyond the control of the RAWSISTAZ staff. Our host is aware of the situation and is working to resolve things.

African-American E-Books & E-Book Reading Challenge

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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)

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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

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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)

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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

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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: [...]

Authors Guild launches WhoMovedMyBuyButton.com

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Today, the Authors Guild launched WhoMovedMyButton.com, a beta site for authors to track their books on Amazon and if the “Buy Now” button are accessible.  There’s a quick registration process and then you simply enter the ISBN for the books you want monitored. If there is a change in status, you’ll get an email alert.  [...]

Diversity in Reading 2010 (Our Monthly Themes)

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We will announce our first set of Book of the Month (BOM) selections for the first quarter shortly, but below you will find our reading themes for 2010.  If you’re an author or have a client with a book which falls under one of our themes, definitely email us so we can share the information [...]

Upcoming Black Book Chats & Final Week of Holiday Reading Challenge

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Happy New Year! We’ve made it to the last week of our Holiday Reading Challenge and have had a wonderful time with our guest authors.  While it may be too late to claim one of the prizes for most active participant, it’s not too late to join in the fun.  We will also do a [...]