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		<title>The Author Press Kit by Yolanda M. Johnson-Bryant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Author Press Kit by Yolanda M. Johnson-Bryant
Marketing is very importing to an author, so it goes without saying that every author should have a professional press kit in their possession. Obtaining and building a press kit is not that difficult, but can range anywhere from low priced to high priced. If you are on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/articles-workshops/the-author-press-kit/</link>
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		<title>Introducing Poet &amp; Author Marc Lacy (Author Showcase)</title>
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Huntsville’s own Marc Lacy, a graduate of Alabama A&#38;M University is a nationally renown, award winning poet/author and spoken word artist.  He has performed all of over the country at many national literary events and spoken word venues.  Marc is a contributing writer to RADAR and The Grove Magazines.  He is also a writer for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/spotlights/author-showcase-spotlights/poet-author-marc-lacy/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-14</title>
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LIT NEWS: Kenneth Dover, a Scholar of Ancient Greek Literature, Dies at 89 http://ow.ly/16NtUY #
LIT NEWS: Box Seats: Mark Twain, Baseball Fan, Had an Eye for a Short-Stop http://ow.ly/16NovW #
LIT NEWS: Box Seats: Stephen Crane, Author of ‘Red Badge’ Loved Baseball  More Than Studying http://ow.ly/16NovZ #
LIT NEWS: Book Review &#124; &#39;Black Hearts: One Platoon’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/blog/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-03-14/</link>
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		<title>Protected: Free E-Book Downloads for E-Book Reading Challenge (You Must Register First)</title>
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		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/book-browse/what-we-read/reading-challenges/free-e-book-downloads-for-reading-challenge/</link>
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		<title>African-American E-Books &amp; E-Book Reading Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 Week, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/whats-new/rawsistaz-news/african-american-e-book-reading-challenge/</link>
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		<title>E-Book Resources</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we continue celebrating Read an E-Book Week, we wanted to share a list of resources for those interested in e-books.  This list is by no way inclusive, but just a bit to get you started in regards to electronic publishing.
E-Book Store @ ebookweek.com &#8211; official site of Read An E-Book Week
African-American Electronic Literary Network [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/in-the-know/literary-resources/e-book-resources/</link>
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		<title>3rd Annual Afr&#8217;Am Fest Literary Award Program (May 21-23)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of SEVAA&#8217;s literacy campaign, &#8220;Reading is a Family Affair,&#8221; launched in 2008, the organization seeks to recognize and support outstanding contributions in the literary arena by African-Americans. Nominations are currently being accepted for its 3rd Annual Afr&#8217;Am Fest Literary Awards (AFLA) Program. The program is mainly aimed at small press and self-published authors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/in-the-know/lit-events/3rd-annual-afram-fest-literary-award-program-may-21-23/</link>
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		<title>Black Book Chat with Niobia Bryant (Book: Heated)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four Genres&#8230;Three Publishers&#8230;One Writer.  Yep, FOUR genres.  LOL. Today we&#8217;re chatting with Niobia Bryant about her book, Heated.  It was our main Book of the Month selection for February 2010.  Please feel free to jump in!!  Hopefully we&#8217;ll also get an inside look into her other books, the various genres she writes in and what&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/blog/black-book-talks/black-book-chat-with-niobia-bryant/</link>
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		<title>Wifey 4 Life (Book Spotlight)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wifey 4 Life by Kiki Swinson
ISBN: 1934157619
PUB DATE: MARCH 10
SYNOPSIS 
Kira’s quiet life in the islands is interrupted when she’s called back to Virginia to attend her cousin Nikki’s funeral. Reluctantly, Kira plans a short, incognito trip to do just that. However, her plans are derailed when news of her arrival spreads.
Now there’s a bounty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/spotlights/book-spotlights/wifey-4-life/</link>
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		<title>And the Truth Shall Set You Free by Rosiland Crossland (Book Trailer)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And the Truth Shall Set You Free by Rosiland Crossland
And the Truth Shall Set You Free is a fiction novelette, and it reminds us that sin is expensive. It is about the sinful engagements of four adults.  One of  the adults is a well-known Chicago star ball player. Their sinful engagements seem fun; but, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/blog/book-trailers/and-the-truth-shall-set-you-free/</link>
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		<title>Wretched Saints by Marc Lacy and Assuanta Howard (Book Spotlight)</title>
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Poet/Author Marc Lacy and Assuanta Fay Howard Release a Jarring Collection of Fiction Short Stories&#8230;Wretched Saints
Contact:
AVO Publishing
P.O. Box  2250
Huntsville, AL 35804
(256) 721-1600
avo@hiwaay.net
http://www.avopublishing.com
Wretched Saints &#8211; When the Righteous Path Leads to Hell&#8217;s Doorstep 
ISBN &#8211; 978-0-9749712-3-0
What are Best-selling Authors Saying About Wretched Saints?
“Powerful, gripping, and eye-opening! Walk into the pages of the Wretches Saints and immerse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/spotlights/book-spotlights/wretched-saints-by-marc-lacy-and-assuanta-howard/</link>
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		<title>Her Husband Made Her Do Him (Book Spotlight)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Suicide or an affair?

When stunning, conservative, 24 year old, black law student, Katlynne LaSalle discovers that her husband is cheating she nearly flunks out of law school, and begins to have suicidal thoughts. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/spotlights/book-spotlights/her-husband-made-her-do-him/</link>
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		<title>Weepin&#8217; Willa: A Collection of Short Stories (Book Spotlight)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a journey of life-altering surgeries, a few romantic disappointments and the death of a caring mother.  The latter tragic event pervades each line of these pages of autobiographical elements written from the heart--a heart that forgives life without realizing it needs to forgive itself first.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/spotlights/book-spotlights/weepin-willa-a-collection-of-short-stories/</link>
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		<title>Take Off the Mask Blog Tour with Sonya Visor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who I’ve Become is NOT who I AM is Sonya Visor’s first non-fiction book. Her passion is to minister to the people who hide behind masks. Sonya’s calling is to break and destroy the yokes of bondage, releasing the power of God into the lives of others by the preached Word and prayers of deliverance. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/blog/blog-tours/take-off-the-mask-blog-with-sonya-visor/</link>
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		<title>Black Book Chat with Brenda Jackson (Book: Wrapped in Pleasure)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we will be chatting with Brenda Jackson about her book Wrapped in Pleasure,  one of our February BOM Selections.
WRAPPED IN PLEASURE by Brenda Jackson
Mass Market Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Kimani Press, January 1, 2010
ISBN-10: 0373831773
ISBN-13: 978-0373831777
Two Westmoreland novels—one classic and one new—from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Brenda Jackson
&#8220;Delaney&#8217;s Desert Sheikh&#8221;
A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/blog/black-book-talks/black-book-chat-with-brenda-jackson/</link>
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		<title>Learn How to Create, Publish &amp; Market E-Books (March 25)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[E-Books are the wave of the future.  Are you ready for the digital revolution??  In 2010, you can take your literary project to Web 2.0 and explode your platform to a new level.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/in-the-know/lit-events/learn-how-to-create-publish-market-e-books/</link>
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		<title>Meet Rita Y. Toews &#8211; Founder of Read an E-Book Week (March 7-13, 2010)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those following along on Twitter, please use hashtag #ebookweek for REBW 2010.

History &#8211; Read an E-Book Week (REBW) was first registered with Chase&#8217;s Calendar of Events in 2004 by founder, Rita Y. Toews.   	   By having the week officially recognized, e-book  	   authors and publishers acquired a certain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/in-the-know/lit-events/read-an-e-book-week-founder-rita-y-towes/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07</title>
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LIT NEWS: Straightening the Record &#8211; Dorothy Jane Mills at  home in Naples, Fla. Baseball researchers had honored o&#8230; http://ow.ly/16JJf0 #
LIT NEWS: ‘Mad as a Hatter’: The History of a Simile &#8211; Pity Lewis Carroll’s poor Hatter. Why not “mad as a shoemake&#8230; http://ow.ly/16JJf3 #
LIT NEWS: Sunday Routine &#124; Rebecca Stead: Pen Down, Brain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/blog/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-03-07/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
LIT NEWS: Straightening the Record &#8211; Dorothy Jane Mills at  home in Naples, Fla. Baseball researchers had honored o&#8230; http://ow.ly/16JJf0 #
LIT NEWS: ‘Mad as a Hatter’: The History of a Simile &#8211; Pity Lewis Carroll’s poor Hatter. Why not “mad as a shoemake&#8230; http://ow.ly/16JJf3 #
LIT NEWS: Sunday Routine &#124; Rebecca Stead: Pen Down, Brain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/blog/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-03-07/</link>
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		<title>The #1 Reason Your Book Marketing Efforts Fail on Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month I asked a question on my Facebook profile: If you could give up one social media platform– Twitter or Facebook– what would it be? Most respondents chose Facebook, because they didn’t get it. Although the results weren’t shocking, they were problematic. Many of those responders were authors… African-American authors.  But in this “Relationships [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/articles-workshops/the-1-reason-your-book-marketing-efforts-fail-on-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Email for RAWSISTAZ is down (resolved)</title>
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Greetings all!
Just a quick announcement that we&#8217;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&#8217;ve emailed us, please give us a few days to catch up to everything and if you haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/whats-new/rawsistaz-news/email-for-rawsistaz-is-down/</link>
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		<title>My Mother’s Child Blog Tour with Dwan Abrams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dwan Abrams is a full-time novelist, freelance editor, and publisher. She’s the best-selling author of My Mother’s Child (the sequel to Divorcing the Devil), Married Strangers, Divorcing the Devil, Only True Love Waits, and The Scream Within. She’s the founder, publisher, and editorial director of Nevaeh Publishing, LLC a small press independent publishing house.  She’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/blog/blog-tours/my-mothers-child-blog-tour-with-dwan-abrams/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28</title>
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LIT NEWS: The Free-Appropriation Writer &#8211; Copying passages from another author used to be an unforgivable sin. But &#8230; http://ow.ly/16G8Vk #
LIT NEWS: The Day the Music Died &#8211; An epic novel of rock ‘n’ roll, from its glory years to the guttering and sputte&#8230; http://ow.ly/16FT5R #
LIT NEWS: Gilbert Sorrentino’s Last Novel &#8211; Gilbert Sorrentino http://ow.ly/16FT5U [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/blog/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-28/</link>
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		<title>Heard It All Before by Michele Grant (Book Review)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reviewed: Feb 28, 2010
Heard It All Before by Michele Grant
Dafina Books, January 2010
320 Pages, Paperback, $14.00
ISBN: 0758242190
Genre: Street Fiction
RAW Rating: 4.0 (out of 5)
After successful suburbanite, Jewellen Capwell and her ex-fiance went their separate ways two years ago, she couldn&#8217;t wait to get back into the dating scene.  However, she quickly learns dating can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/book-reviews/trr-favorites/heard-it-all-before-by-michele-grant/</link>
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		<title>Self-Publishing Symposium 2010 (March 7th)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Self-Publishing Symposium 2010 will be held March 7th, 2010 at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York). Attend to take advantage of what this important business event can do for your publishing company. Whether you’re a self-published author, small/independent press or writer considering self-publishing, you won’t want to miss this opportunity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rawsistaz.com/in-the-know/lit-events/self-publishing-symposium-2010/</link>
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