Archive for December, 2007
Survey Comments: Dee Stewart
Today, on the last day of 2007, I’m featuring Dee Stewart’s survey comments. The last for in my series on race in mainline Christian publishing. It’s been an interesting month with this quasi-controversial series. But I’ll get into that later.
Dee is the owner of Christian Fiction Blog. Her blog posts regular Christian publishing news, movie [...]
Survey Comments: Author Claudia Mair Burney
Today, I have the Claudia Mair Burney, the last of CBA author comments for this series on race in CBA publishing. She’s the author of The Amanda Bell Brown Mysteries, Howard/Simon & Schuster. Murder, Mayhem, and Fine Man coming again in February 2008. Death, Deceit, and Some Smooth Jazz coming in April of 2008. And [...]
Separate and Unequal
Here’s my response to the discussion started by Dave Long’s December 21 interview.
If you’ll bear with me for just a little bit, I need to get a little academic. There’s a little teacher in me ;-) Please don’t skip to the end and see what I say there before you read the academic parts. I [...]
The Morning After
Three kings from the Orient far had come with gold and frankincense and myrrh. Scores of dazed shepherds had come running from the hills, following a star. There were angelic hosts. And animals galore. And legend tells us that there was even a drummer boy thatnight.
They had all followed the star and found a [...]
Interview with Dave Long
Please pardon the interruption, folks, but we’ve got a minor change in the lineup. I will feature Marilynn Griffith’s survey comments next week. Today we have an interview with Dave Long.
Dave Long is a fiction acquisitions editor at Bethany House Publishers and a 2002 Christy Award winner for Ezekiel’s Shadow.
Here’s my interview with him:
LH: [...]
Survey Comments: Part V
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Your comments have been great. I really appreciate your points of view. Here are a few more.
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topanga says:
I learn about most new Christian Fiction on blogs or through book sellers (amazon.com, black expressions, etc).Although I support African American Christian fiction because I can relate to the stories and because [...]
Survey Comments: Part IV
More survey comments today. Here we go:
Sally Apokedek says:
I’ve never paid any attention to AA Christian fiction at all. Never looked for it, never thought about whether I’d like it or not.
I will say this, though. I bought a couple of books on the recommendation of a black friend. They were YA books written by [...]
Survey Comments: Part III
Today we have more comments from the Fiction Readers Survey (see the right sidebar for details). The responses from the survey have been quite interesting.
Here are some from earlier this month:
Mark says:
I wasn’t sure how to answer some of these questions, since I don’t really seek out African-American Christian fiction by itself. I’m more [...]
Interview with Cynthia Ballenger
Cynthia Ballenger is the Acquisitions Manager for Lift Every Voice, a division arm of Moody Publishers where we publish books for/by African Americans. As the acquisitions editor she makes contract agreements for authors, designers, editors, illustrators, etc. on behalf of the partnership of Moody Publishers and the Institute for Black Family Development.
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Survey Comments: Author Pat Simmons
Today we have Pat Simmons’s survey comments on 17seeds. Pat is nosy by nature. She’s known for making friends where ever she goes.
She praises God for the inspiration to write, and the “village people” for helping her get the job done. Her novels include Guilty of Love (September 2007) and Talk To Me (November 2008).
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Here [...]
Interview with Cecelia Dowdy
Today we have an interview with Cecelia Dowdy. Cecelia is a world traveler who has been an avid reader for as long as she can remember. When she first read Christian fiction, she felt called to write for the genre.
She loves to read, write, and bake desserts in her spare time. She also loves spending [...]
Blue-eyed Black
LOVE THE SKIN YOU’RE INMy five-year-old son drew a picture of himself the other day. He talks quietly to himself while he draws. It’s a cute little habit. I guess I do the same thing so I didn’t mind it one bit. Just gave him a piece of paper and some crayons and let him [...]
Interview with Sharon Ewell Foster: Part 2
Abraham’s Well, a novel by Sharon Ewell Foster, is a ‘is the rare historical novel that both entertains and educates.’ [Publisher's Weekly]
Today we have the second and last part of Ms. Foster’s interview. Here’s the first part.
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LLH: I’ve been told that AA (African American) Christian fiction is ’so different.’ Someone even told me that since [...]
Interview with Sharon Ewell Foster: Part 1
Sharon Ewell Foster is a double-RITA finalist and the author of seven multicultural novels. Her first, Passing by Samaria, won the Christy Award for best first novel. Her latest, Abraham’s Well, a historical novel that earned her her third starred review, won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Inspirational Fiction. [...]
Survey Comments: Part II
This is what Lisa Nuchell shared, “Until I started writing, I didn’t hear much about African-American Christian fiction. Most A-A fiction is categorized as A-A or mainstream fiction. I had a hard time finding A-A Christian authors on the web. I still get excited when I discover that a particular Christian author is African-American.”
Read more [...]
Dreaming in Color
IN LIVING COLOR
Do you dream in color? Or do you only think you do? Do you really dream in black and white and the memory of that Technicolor pony in a red sports car is just that — only a memory. Evaporated like an ice cube on a warm plate.
Many mornings, as I lie in [...]
Survey Comments: Author, Tia McCollors
National bestselling author Tia McCollors secured her spot in the publishing industry with the release of her debut novel and the Essence bestseller, A Heart of Devotion, followed by her second release, Zora’s Cry. She continues to pen inspirational works and is also writing a series of children’s early reader chapter books targeted towards girls, [...]
Kissing, Killing, and Cussing
SEX, LIES, AND SOME OTHER STUFF
Why do people buy novels? That’s what I’ve been wondering for quite a while. More to the point, why do people of color buy books? Is it because there’s a ‘colored’ face on the cover? Is it because the main character is not Caucasian?
Since I’m black and I write, people [...]
Do black folk read enough?
The following paragraphs are from Angela, the blackromancereader’s blog, where I found myself a few days ago while searching for why black’s don’t read. I know what you’re thinking, ‘Linda sure does some crazy Web searches.’ That’s just how I think about (too much maybe). This is what Angela was thinking …
“African-American imprints were borne [...]
Reading While Black
IT’S ALL GINGER’S FAULT
I read and I’m black. That didn’t seem like such a strange thing until I hit high school and realized that I read more than most blacks I knew. I read YA novels, Popular Mechanics, biographies, classic medieval tomes, newspapers. I read while walking, while knitting, during slow moments in Health class. [...]
