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Harlem Book Fair Panel Discussions
Venue: Harlem Hospital Auditorium
505 Malcolm X Blvd. at West 135th Street
NOTE: All participants subject to change. Check website for updates.
Panel discussions are free but require on-site registration for seating.
No on-line registration allowed. |
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1h. We Drive the Market: What Women Want Now
Location: Harlem Hospital Auditorium
Time: 12:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Moderator: Troy Johnson, Founder AALBC.com
Panelists: Gloria Mallette (What's Done in the Dark), Linda Dominique Grosvenor (Fever), Maryann Reid (Marry Your Baby Daddy), Mary B Morrison (When Someone Loves You Back), Black Artemis (Burn), Kim McLarin (Jump at the Sun), DuEwa M. Frazier (Stardust Tracks on a Road)
From urban sex tales that sizzle to poetry that jumps off of the page, seven authors discuss how books by African American women drive the publishing market. The authors will discuss their diversity of themes; how readers create a consistent support base for authors; how the authors stay personally connected to their readers; and the issues and themes which women readers most want to read about whether for “fact or fantasy.” Additionally, they will discuss the publishing and marketing challenges currently faced by women writers.
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2h. What’s Love Got To Do With It?: Making Relationships Work
Venue: Harlem Hospital Auditorium
Time: 2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Moderators: Angelo Hunt, Roy Frank, Marc Collins (The Flow, an internet-based live forum)
Panelists: Audrey B. Chapman (Getting Good Loving: Seven ways to Find Love and Make It Last), LaJoyce Brookshire (Faith Under Fire: Betrayed by a Thing Called Love) Denene Milner (The Vow), Joel McIver (The Price of Forever), Renee Flagler (Miss-Guided), Kayla Perrin (The Sweet Spot)
A frank discussion on how individuals end up with the same person though a different individual with the same relationship outcomes. Statistics bear proof that the roadmaps we follow are not taking us where we say we want to go. How do we begin to get beyond the baggage and fantasies that get in the way of sustaining healthy relationships?
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3h. Urban Fiction: Creative License or Stuck on Stupid?
Location: Harlem Hospital Auditorium
Time: 3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Moderator: Glenda Howard, Senior Editor, Sepia Books
Panelist: Carl Weber (So You Call Yourself a Man), Burrel Wilks (Tattoos on My Soul: From the Ghetto to the Top of the World), Solomon Jones (C.R.E.A.M.), Queen Pen (Blossom: A Novel), Danielle Santiago (Grinding)
Call it what you want, urban fiction currently drives the market. While pundits debate its value to the reader, hundreds of thousands of dollars are being made and its' authors debate where to bank. But what price this largesse? Are we being 'real' or being really pimped, or both? Are we dummying down the market or meeting the market as it really is? Is it creative writing or have we met our Homer Simpson?
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