Posts Tagged ‘fiction’
Hiatus
I’ve come to the realization that it is time for a break.
As I sit writing this blog, I’m a little sad and relieved. Sad that I will not be blogging for the next few months. And relieved that I won’t be blogging for the next few months.
Don’t worry, I will be writing. Once a writer [...]
Reconciling Faith & Race Poll: Part 4
Question 4:
The end of the year is good for looking back and looking forward. We’ve done our share of looking back. Now it’s time for looking forward.
In 2009, how are you going to read differently, racially and culturally speaking?
Thanks for participating this year. May God continue to guide us into new territory, widening and deepening [...]
Reconciling Faith & Race Poll: Part 3
How does it make you feel when you read a novel (secular or sacred) that makes a strong display of race, ethnicity, and culture?
For example:
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson)
Black Boy (Richard Wright)
Zora and Nicky (Claudia Burney)
Spirit of Sweetgrass (Nicole Seitz)
Reconciling Faith & Race Poll: Part 1
Week 1 Question:
How many books by authors of color did you read this year?
Just the numbers please, folks. If you feel so led, you may indicate your race or ethnicity.
If you read widely (secular and sacred; fiction and nonfiction), please include those details with the numbers. Thanks.
December Faith & Race Series
Well it’s that time of year again, time for 17Seeds.com to take a look at Christian fiction through the lens of race. Why am I doing this? Find out here and here.
Each week I’ll be posting a question about faith and race in fiction. Weigh in with your take.
In the meantime visit author Carleen Brice’s [...]
“Passing By Samaria”
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When the discovery of a schoolmate’s lynched body puts her own life in jeopardy, Alena is sent by her parents from her beloved Mississippi home. With thousands of other African-Americans, Alena begins making her way north to the Promised Land of turn-of-the-century Chicago. On the way she meets two men who [...]
“Choose Me”
Xenia Ruiz explores topics of racial profiling, gun violence, and celibacy in her debut novel. It is a sensual romance between Eva, a Latina single mom, and Adam, and African American author/poet.
The two meet and unexpectantly fall in love. Their greatest challenge is resisting the temptations that follow. Ms. Ruiz’s writing is courageous and it [...]
“Loving Cee Cee Johnson”
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In Loving Cee Cee Johnson, Carla Celine Johnson’s assignment forces her to return to her hometown of Pettigrew, North Carolina against her wishes. A successful TV reporter, Cee Cee has lied to the public about her background because of pain and shame. There is no way she wants to go [...]
Shameless Plug: Loving Cee Cee Johnson
My Aussie friend Rel posted this about my second novel, Loving Cee Cee Johnson. It’s due out in September.
http://relzreviewz.blogspot.com/…
Thanks, Rel.
Blood Done Sign My Name
Dr. Tim Tyson’s celebrated and award-winning book, Blood Done Sign My Name, will be coming to the big screen in 2009. The book, Tyson’s autobiography written in 2004, tells the story of “1970 murder of Henry Marrow, a black man, by a local white man Robert Teel and his sons, prompted by Marrow’s alleged suggestive [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
