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From Books to Film
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Newsletter Date 4/15 Volume 1, Issue 3
It’s every author’s
dream to see their
thoughts come to life. For
Urban Fiction authors it
doesn’t happen that
often. Trying to make
marks in the literary
industry alone is a task
for African American
authors. Award winning
authors and bestselling
authors are titles given to
AA authors by AA award
shows, literary groups;
such as book clubs
and Blogtalk Radio
personalities.
Minority authors
crown each other in
support of popular
reads.
T h e A f r i c a n
American/Latin literary
communities have join
forces to shine light on
Urban Fiction. Rap star
phenomenon 50 Cents
s a w a p r o f i t a b l e
investment and started G
-UNIT BOOKS. It has been
the house of many
popular authors; Kwan
(Blow), K. Elliot (The S k i -
Mask Way), Nikki Turner (Death
Before Dishonor), Relentless
Aaron (Derelict), Noire (Baby
Brother), and Mark Anthony
(Harlem Heat) just to name a
few. But after a few years of
publishing the light dimmed but
these authors still excelled.
Writer Kwan went on to put out
over a dozen more 5 Star
reads……….
WHERE READERS GET THE JUICE...
URBAN GRAPEVINE MAGAZINE
INSIDE MAY/JUNE’S ISSUU
It will take more than a few air-
brushed t-shirts reading R.I.P and
we miss you. These prayer vigils,
walks and more groups like
Y.A.N.A to reach the souls of the
young men that promote the vio-
lence because they seem to not
understand the severity of taking
a life…...
WE ARE EVERY
WOMAN!
By: Felisha Bradshaw
Versatile, stylish, and diverse are
women of color. It doesn’t matter if
you are African American, Cuban,
Dominican, Latina, African, Jamaican,
Haitian; Caribbean, you name it. Be-
ing of color gives you the natural
beauty of queens………..
WE HAVE A LINK ON THE WEB:
WWW.LETSTALKURBAN.COM
Rodney Bradshaw has come up with the
ultimate way to share the gospel; shar-
ing the good news in
every form; through
teachings preaching
and reaching. The
gospel music industry
has been a way to
reach out to our
youth through lyrics.
What a great idea to
build a network for
the word. ……...
Dear Love Letter,
My question is about keeping a marriage
strong. My husband I were married on
2/14/12. Now that we are married I
would like to know how to keep the mar-
riage fresh. We are still in the fresh stage
but eventually I feel that will wear
off……………
Sincerely, Newlywed