Congratulations to the following winners of the “Write that Book” contest:
In order to receive your free copy of “Telling the Tale”, please e-mail Angela your mailing address. Select HERE for Angela’s e-mail address.
The book will go in the mail this week and I’ll follow-up with details of the tele-seminar via e-mail next week.
Congratualations again!
For the upcoming week, our special guests are librarians and booksellers from around the country, maybe even the world.
Librarians and Booksellers, I’m sponoring a “Write that Book” contest to thank you for your support of the upcoming trade paperback release of my novel, The Amen Sisters (select link for excerpt and reviews). To enter, please add a comment to this post with the name of your library or bookstore. No need to register in order to comment.
Five lucky librarians and five lucky booksellers will win a “Write that Book” prize package that they can use themselves or share with their patrons. The package includes a seat in my writing tele-seminar (held on November 1, 2007) and a copy of my writing book, Telling the Tale: The African American Fiction Writers Guide.
Now, some of you may be thinking, “I’m not African American.” It doesn’t matter, as you know publishers use titles as marketing hooks, and this title is a good example. To assure you, here is a review of “Telling the Tale” from the Internet Writers Journal along with an Amazon.com reader comment.
Writers Writer - The Internet Writing Journal (visit the site for the full review)
[Angela Benson’s] writing advice is constructive and sincere; writers would be well-advised to follow her advice and practice their craft by completing the exercises in the book. Benson knows her stuff, and her wonderful reference book for African-American fiction writers would be equally useful to writers of any ethnicity.
Amazon reader, 4 stars (see Amazon for other reader comments)
This was a great book to use as a writing guide for aspiring writers. It was an easy read with simple steps to accomplish the major goal of writing a novel. I am a true testament that completing the exercises are helpful. After following the guidelines in the book, I completed my first novel. I’m now a published author, and I credit my success to this book!
For you regular visitors to AngelaBenson.com who are not librarians or booksellers, you’re welcome to join in the fun (and the contest) by sharing stories about the library or bookstore in your life. Two winners will be selected from those entries and both will receive one seat in the seminar and one copy of the book. All you have to do is post a comment with your story. Registration is not required to comment.
All winners will be announced on Monday, September 24.
You have to watch this show! Now I’m only on my first episode but I can tell this one is a winner!
It’s a family drama playing on ABC Family. The central characters are an African-American family. You’ll have to check your cable guide for channel number and day. You can find out more about the show here: http://a51.abcfamily.go.com/shows/lincolnheights/
Here’s how the show is described in wikipedia:
Lincoln Heights is an American drama television series about a cop’s family who moves back to his old neighborhood of Lincoln Heights to start a new life and to help his old neighborhood. It’s a dangerous place to raise a family, and through the many trials the family goes through they soon learn that settling in is not as easy as it seems. While the dad struggles to cope with everyday life as a street cop, the kids try to fit in at their new schools and with their new neighbors.
I like that wikipedia doesn’t mention the AA factor; maybe it shows that it doesn’t matter.
Check out the show and let me know what you think. The second season starts here in about eight minutes. I guess I’ll have to go to the itunes store and download the first season. You get the pilot episode for free and the others are $1.99.
I’m so excited! I can’t believe I missed an entire season!
