Maryland Next Week
on Oct 11, 2009 in Literary Forestville Brunch book clubs Just a quick post to let you know that we will be the featured guests at the Reading Diva's Annual Literary Brunch next Saturday, October 17, 2009. Brunch will be served at 11:00 a.m. and the speakers and discussion panel will begin at 1:00 p.m. This...

E. Lynn Harris Day Friday Sept. 25, 2009
on Sep 22, 2009 in E.Lynn Harris bestseller books NY Times MAMA DEAREST, E. Lynn Harris's last work is on sale today! Buy your copy now. We want to get him to Number 1 on the NY Times bestseller list--a spot he did not reach in life.E. Lynn Harris Day ScheduleCheck For Your City; And Tell FriendsThe E. Lynn...

Uptown Cover
on Sep 18, 2009 in new novel books writing book cover A few weeks ago we told you we had approved the cover for Uptown--and that we LOVED it--and many of you said...."Well?"--wondering where it was. We wanted to wait, since the cover for WDKY changed before pub. But now we are 99.9% certain this is the...

A Momumental Birthday!
on Aug 24, 2009 in Frank Lloyd Wright Pere Lachais Tours Forest Lawn cemetery From Virginia:Question: “Hey Mom! What do you want for your birthday?”Answer: “A trip to the cemetery.”Real question and real answer, asked and responded to in anticipation of celebrating Mom’s 86th birthday.I can hear you now—“What kin...

Hot. Hot! HOT!!
on Aug 20, 2009 in heat wave air conditioning summer heat From Donna Hot, Hot, HOT!!! The air conditioner in my car died. Just died, unceremoniously. One minute I was cool, singing along with Mary J. Blige (“Too strong for too long, and I can’t be without you, baby). Next moment there’s oven air blo...

What We Did on Our Summer Vacation
on Aug 18, 2009 in african american AALAS Awards Harlem Upown reading We hope you all are staying cool and having some hot fun this summertime. We’ve been under the radar for a bit, but definitely not idle. Usually you write your, “How I Spent My Summer Vacation,” essay when you get back to school,...

California Book Club Summit
on Aug 13, 2009 in book sellers conference California Book Club Summit book sales Bay Area oakland authors book clubs San Ramon CA Marcus Books Next month we will be participating in the very first EVER, California Book Club Summit (http://thecaliforniabookclubsummit.com) and we are totally jazzed and excited. The Summit organizers do a great job of keeping us tantalized about the conference...

Where should we go in 2010?
on Jul 16, 2009 in Houston Minneapolis BOOK TOUR Tulsa Milwaukee Dallas Boston Uptown hasn't been turned in a week and already we are talking with our publicist about the Book Tour for Spring 2010. We've been thinking about cities we haven't been to ever, or in long time. We were last in Boston in 2000! And have never been to M...

A Tale of Two Fathers
on Jun 19, 2009 in Fathers Dads Medical Corps Army Bronx Father's Day A Tale of Two Fathers...it was the best of times...it was the worst of times...In the course of more than twenty five years of friendship (and writing seven books together), we have discussed pretty much every subject under the sun at least a dozen t...

Candid Camera Photo of the Day #32
on Jun 17, 2009OK. We've been slacking again--but only about posting pics here. We still haven't finished the new book so we're working hard. In the meantime this is one of our very very favorite photographs-- "Lean on Me" is what we call it and it was taken for He...