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I'm on my grown man. Everybody on here knows I write. A good percentage of people would support if I released a novel. Do you know way of posting of my book release without letting go of my anonymity? Some folks will clown, but I believe the overwhelming majority won't and will respect my hustleSHIT, you might want to reconsider that.
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How do you some of you come up with good names,because I have major problems with them?
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http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2010/08/30/finding-the-title-for-your-novel/
She is cute,smart,and creative the triple threat....
http://www.superheronation.com/2007/10/15/character-naming-superheroes-and-otherwise/How do you some of you come up with good names,because I have major problems with them?
http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2010/08/30/finding-the-title-for-your-novel/
She is cute,smart,and creative the triple threat....
Do you go to different book associations,expos,meetups, set up to be interviewed by bloggers etc...co-branding,building your brand as an author workshops....
No I haven't. I tried to find some in my area but haven't found anything. I need a writing mentor to tell the truth
Thanks,What's crazy,I got an idea what names I want to use for my detective book,but I want to work on my fantasy book now.
I'm currently working on the magic system,how I want the characters to use them and how to make them flawed,but just don't got a name for the characters and countries....
I heard great things about her "Inheritance Trilogy",I'm going to check it out.....
I'm going to use the amalgamation of various characters from black history.
Langston Garvey (Langston Hughes and Marcus Garvey)
Lena Miles (Lena Horne and Miles Davis)
At the end of which I will have a glossary and a short history of every name. Basically, I will put black history in my novel
7 Black Women Science Fiction Writers Everyone Should Know
http://www.bgol.us/forum/index.php?...rs-everyone-should-know.823434/#post-14921763
Fantasy Writer N.K. Jemisin Explains the Rise of Racism in Fandom
http://www.bgol.us/forum/index.php?...explains-the-rise-of-racism-in-fandom.799163/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...fantasy-science-fiction-writing-racism-sexism
Purple Rain - African re-make from 2015... anybody ever see it?
http://www.bgol.us/forum/index.php?...015-anybody-ever-see-it.895902/#post-16493201
http://www.bgol.us/forum/index.php?...rs-everyone-should-know.823434/#post-14921763
Fantasy Writer N.K. Jemisin Explains the Rise of Racism in Fandom
http://www.bgol.us/forum/index.php?...explains-the-rise-of-racism-in-fandom.799163/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...fantasy-science-fiction-writing-racism-sexism
Purple Rain - African re-make from 2015... anybody ever see it?
http://www.bgol.us/forum/index.php?...015-anybody-ever-see-it.895902/#post-16493201
The #BlackLivesMatter Movement Inspired a New Fantasy Novel by Author N.K Jemisin
The Black Lives Matter movement has infiltrated the mainstream, attracting many people to the cause and forcing the nation to have a real conversation about policing and police brutality.
The BLM has also inspired the arts (film, literature, and journalism) like the Civil Rights Movement did in the 1950s and 60s. Author N.K Jemisin’s new book is a prime example of a social movement influencing literature in modern times.
The Fifth Season is the first of The Broken Earth series of books written by Jemisin. It follows a group of sorcerers in a world that is plagued with uncontrollable and intense natural disasters. These sorcerers,known as orogenes, can control volcanoes and seismic activity but the people of the fantasy world have oppressed them out of fear because of the power they possess.
“This novel is, in a lot of ways, my processing the systemic racism that I live with, and see, and am trying to come to terms with,” Jemisin said in an interview with Wired.
The book also makes interesting points about respectability politics in regards to oppressed people.
“One of the ways in which the orogenes were kept in line was that they are told repeatedly that if you act right, if you are respectable enough, then you won’t be hurt,” says Jemisin. “And it’s a lie. It’s always a lie when you hear that kind of thing.”
Orgenes discover the hard way that assimilation has its limitations.
Jemisin is known for pushing the boundaries in the fantasy genre. Her books which include, The Killing Moon (2012) and The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010) among others, stars people of color. Some of the books are set in historically Black civilizations that goes counter to the European- inspired settings of most classic fantasy tales.
Jemisin’s drive for diversity has forced her publishers to embrace characters of color in the mainly white and male dominated world of fantasy. She also challenged many to think about why Black casts in fantasy would turn off the traditional fantasy reader. This new book does not shy away at looking at the real world with a critical eye and asking readers to be reflective and contemplative about racial issues.
The Fifth Season, which continues Jemisin’s dedication to racial diversity in fantasy, is currently available for purchase.
http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/09...nspired-new-fantasy-novel-author-n-k-jemisin/
The Black Lives Matter movement has infiltrated the mainstream, attracting many people to the cause and forcing the nation to have a real conversation about policing and police brutality.
The BLM has also inspired the arts (film, literature, and journalism) like the Civil Rights Movement did in the 1950s and 60s. Author N.K Jemisin’s new book is a prime example of a social movement influencing literature in modern times.
The Fifth Season is the first of The Broken Earth series of books written by Jemisin. It follows a group of sorcerers in a world that is plagued with uncontrollable and intense natural disasters. These sorcerers,known as orogenes, can control volcanoes and seismic activity but the people of the fantasy world have oppressed them out of fear because of the power they possess.
“This novel is, in a lot of ways, my processing the systemic racism that I live with, and see, and am trying to come to terms with,” Jemisin said in an interview with Wired.
The book also makes interesting points about respectability politics in regards to oppressed people.
“One of the ways in which the orogenes were kept in line was that they are told repeatedly that if you act right, if you are respectable enough, then you won’t be hurt,” says Jemisin. “And it’s a lie. It’s always a lie when you hear that kind of thing.”
Orgenes discover the hard way that assimilation has its limitations.
Jemisin is known for pushing the boundaries in the fantasy genre. Her books which include, The Killing Moon (2012) and The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010) among others, stars people of color. Some of the books are set in historically Black civilizations that goes counter to the European- inspired settings of most classic fantasy tales.
Jemisin’s drive for diversity has forced her publishers to embrace characters of color in the mainly white and male dominated world of fantasy. She also challenged many to think about why Black casts in fantasy would turn off the traditional fantasy reader. This new book does not shy away at looking at the real world with a critical eye and asking readers to be reflective and contemplative about racial issues.
The Fifth Season, which continues Jemisin’s dedication to racial diversity in fantasy, is currently available for purchase.
http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/09...nspired-new-fantasy-novel-author-n-k-jemisin/
What type of book are you writing?
I was planning to something similar to my detective book,I want to do,but I want to work on my fantasy book now.....
Backstories: Why Black Characters In Fantasy Need Them
A commenter with the supremely awesome nom de plume Rom, Spaceknight (I’m going to be Magnus, Robot Fighter in comment sections from here on) left an interesting question in the comments of my Dragon Age: Inquisitioning While Black post:
I think African flavored fantasy is cool, and I have no problem with it at all and enjoy it (Imaro rules, Spears of the Dawn is one of my favorite tabletop RPGs, etc) but one thing that’s kinda always bugged me is why can’t people in Medieval styled fantasy just be black without absolutely having to have some kind of backstory about how they’re from fantasy Kush or Mali or something?
First off, Rom, thanks for asking this question in a way that doesn’t offend, unlike the other guy who commented on that post. (Yep. I’m petty.) I’ll attempt to answer this question here to the best of my ability.
So, we want to unpack why characters who appear phenotypically similar to modern day members of the African Diaspora (i’ll stick to “black people” for the remainder of the post) are required to have back stories or character histories in Medieval-Styled fantasy. I think I can sum this up pretty tidily, but first, let’s talk about “Medieval styled fantasy”.
We hear the “Medieval Europe” excuse used by lots of fan-bigots to justify why people of color totally can’t exist in large numbers in most epic fantasy/sword and sorcery. Despite plenty of people knocking down this idea of Medieval Europe as a lily-white wonderland, fan-bigots like to stick to this excuse–even the authors of Medieval Europe styled works fall back on it. For the sake of clarity, let’s make a declarative: ALL of Medieval Europe was extremely diverse, and not just along racial or ethnic lines.
That said, we are talking about Fantasy fiction here. Let’s remember, there’s nothing stopping authors and creators from building a world full of dragons and castles, and filling it with folks who resemble Hmong people, or Mayans, or ancient Tartars.
Even though those particular ethnic groups weren’t addressed in the question, I’ll attempt to be inclusive of all groups that are routinely erased from Fantasy fiction in my answer (and I’ll stick with Fantasy in particular because the question asked about it).
First off, I believe that characters in Fantasy literature who happen to appear similar to black people deserve backstories, especially in “Medieval European” flavored white wonderlands. In fact, in these stories, backstories and character histories are ESPECIALLY necessary and valuable.
All too often, I read fantasy fiction with black characters that come seemingly out of nowhere. A prime example of this for me, from recent memory, is Yulwei from Joe Abercrombie’s First Law trilogy. Yulwei, a powerful mage, hails from that mystical place that so many black people in fantasy call home: THE SOUTH. It’s not on a map, so you can’t really find out where in ‘the south’ (also called “the southern lands”) he’s from. He has no family, no culture really that the reader is able to discern. He only exists to push the plot or a certain character forward when necessary, and then disappear. You can only barely call Yulwei a character, since he doesn’t really occupy any significant space in the novel outside of his Magical Negro duties.
This is the reason why we have to tell where black characters–and all characters, really–come from in fantasy fiction. Characters without back stories, homelands, and cultures are often disappointingly flat. And black people who read enough fantasy are all too aware of this character trope. Authors shove one or two black people into their work, give them a magical faraway homeland like The Summer Islands or Far Harad, and then never show the homeland or the people or any of the culture outside of those exotic outliers. For folks who are always the cultural and racial norm in these stories, that’s cool–people who look like them get titles and kingdoms. Readers who aren’t in the the group that’s often pandered to by these authors have to deal with characters who lack family, culture, and homeland. In book after book after book.
halberd to the gut will cause a soldier to bleed out, and will even go so far as to see how that halberd would fare against a character wearing a coat of chainmail. Why not put a similar amount of research into making a character a rounder, more believable version? Why not put a similar amount of research into Ghanaian, Maori, or Chinese Muslim culture to make sure that the bits and pieces that are pulled into a character are significant and true? All characters deserve to have their culture and homeland influence their character makeup, not just the white ones.
The bigger question is, why do so many people think that these flattened characters are acceptable? Rom, you said that the inclusion of back stories for African characters in Medieval Europe styled fantasy “bugs” you. I’d like for you to consider: why, exactly, does it bug you? Do you study precolonial African culture, and you’re sick of hearing about it day in and day out? Have you encountered loads of black characters with well fleshed out back stories and interesting cultures in the mega-popular works of epic fantasy? Because I sure haven’t. You said that you enjoyed Imaro; if a character who resembled someone of East Asian descent popped up in Nyumbani, wouldn’t you want to know a little bit about where that character came from, what their culture was like, and how that culture informed their skills, abilities, and personality? Or would you–would we–take a stereotypical stoic samurai themed warrior as normal for that group, and keep on reading?
The “why can’t they just be black without being…you know…black all over everything” smacks of “I’m not racist, I just don’t see color” line of thought. It erases the very real ways that these characters might be perceived by others in the book, and how they will be perceived by readers. I don’t know you, Rom, so I can’t say that you subscribe to that ideology. I’d like to think that you don’t. But I also really want you, and other folks who might read this and have a similar view, to think about why you feel the inclusion of history and culture of a group of people in a story bothers you the way it does, when none of you–none of us–have a problem reading about all the different father-ancestors of a fake Viking king.
https://afrofantasy.net/2015/06/01/black-characters-fantasy-backstories/
A commenter with the supremely awesome nom de plume Rom, Spaceknight (I’m going to be Magnus, Robot Fighter in comment sections from here on) left an interesting question in the comments of my Dragon Age: Inquisitioning While Black post:
I think African flavored fantasy is cool, and I have no problem with it at all and enjoy it (Imaro rules, Spears of the Dawn is one of my favorite tabletop RPGs, etc) but one thing that’s kinda always bugged me is why can’t people in Medieval styled fantasy just be black without absolutely having to have some kind of backstory about how they’re from fantasy Kush or Mali or something?
First off, Rom, thanks for asking this question in a way that doesn’t offend, unlike the other guy who commented on that post. (Yep. I’m petty.) I’ll attempt to answer this question here to the best of my ability.
So, we want to unpack why characters who appear phenotypically similar to modern day members of the African Diaspora (i’ll stick to “black people” for the remainder of the post) are required to have back stories or character histories in Medieval-Styled fantasy. I think I can sum this up pretty tidily, but first, let’s talk about “Medieval styled fantasy”.
We hear the “Medieval Europe” excuse used by lots of fan-bigots to justify why people of color totally can’t exist in large numbers in most epic fantasy/sword and sorcery. Despite plenty of people knocking down this idea of Medieval Europe as a lily-white wonderland, fan-bigots like to stick to this excuse–even the authors of Medieval Europe styled works fall back on it. For the sake of clarity, let’s make a declarative: ALL of Medieval Europe was extremely diverse, and not just along racial or ethnic lines.
That said, we are talking about Fantasy fiction here. Let’s remember, there’s nothing stopping authors and creators from building a world full of dragons and castles, and filling it with folks who resemble Hmong people, or Mayans, or ancient Tartars.
Even though those particular ethnic groups weren’t addressed in the question, I’ll attempt to be inclusive of all groups that are routinely erased from Fantasy fiction in my answer (and I’ll stick with Fantasy in particular because the question asked about it).
First off, I believe that characters in Fantasy literature who happen to appear similar to black people deserve backstories, especially in “Medieval European” flavored white wonderlands. In fact, in these stories, backstories and character histories are ESPECIALLY necessary and valuable.
All too often, I read fantasy fiction with black characters that come seemingly out of nowhere. A prime example of this for me, from recent memory, is Yulwei from Joe Abercrombie’s First Law trilogy. Yulwei, a powerful mage, hails from that mystical place that so many black people in fantasy call home: THE SOUTH. It’s not on a map, so you can’t really find out where in ‘the south’ (also called “the southern lands”) he’s from. He has no family, no culture really that the reader is able to discern. He only exists to push the plot or a certain character forward when necessary, and then disappear. You can only barely call Yulwei a character, since he doesn’t really occupy any significant space in the novel outside of his Magical Negro duties.
This is the reason why we have to tell where black characters–and all characters, really–come from in fantasy fiction. Characters without back stories, homelands, and cultures are often disappointingly flat. And black people who read enough fantasy are all too aware of this character trope. Authors shove one or two black people into their work, give them a magical faraway homeland like The Summer Islands or Far Harad, and then never show the homeland or the people or any of the culture outside of those exotic outliers. For folks who are always the cultural and racial norm in these stories, that’s cool–people who look like them get titles and kingdoms. Readers who aren’t in the the group that’s often pandered to by these authors have to deal with characters who lack family, culture, and homeland. In book after book after book.
halberd to the gut will cause a soldier to bleed out, and will even go so far as to see how that halberd would fare against a character wearing a coat of chainmail. Why not put a similar amount of research into making a character a rounder, more believable version? Why not put a similar amount of research into Ghanaian, Maori, or Chinese Muslim culture to make sure that the bits and pieces that are pulled into a character are significant and true? All characters deserve to have their culture and homeland influence their character makeup, not just the white ones.
The bigger question is, why do so many people think that these flattened characters are acceptable? Rom, you said that the inclusion of back stories for African characters in Medieval Europe styled fantasy “bugs” you. I’d like for you to consider: why, exactly, does it bug you? Do you study precolonial African culture, and you’re sick of hearing about it day in and day out? Have you encountered loads of black characters with well fleshed out back stories and interesting cultures in the mega-popular works of epic fantasy? Because I sure haven’t. You said that you enjoyed Imaro; if a character who resembled someone of East Asian descent popped up in Nyumbani, wouldn’t you want to know a little bit about where that character came from, what their culture was like, and how that culture informed their skills, abilities, and personality? Or would you–would we–take a stereotypical stoic samurai themed warrior as normal for that group, and keep on reading?
The “why can’t they just be black without being…you know…black all over everything” smacks of “I’m not racist, I just don’t see color” line of thought. It erases the very real ways that these characters might be perceived by others in the book, and how they will be perceived by readers. I don’t know you, Rom, so I can’t say that you subscribe to that ideology. I’d like to think that you don’t. But I also really want you, and other folks who might read this and have a similar view, to think about why you feel the inclusion of history and culture of a group of people in a story bothers you the way it does, when none of you–none of us–have a problem reading about all the different father-ancestors of a fake Viking king.
https://afrofantasy.net/2015/06/01/black-characters-fantasy-backstories/
I'm glad,she put her foot down,white people always doing something slick..
I'm working on far too many projects right now, but I can't get the thought out of my mind about the Kidnapping of Black people across the US and how it is likely related to the illegal organ harvesting ring I believe is going on beneath all of our noses.
I would like to write a novel about that. I love the realistic fiction drama that this now who could bring forward. Rich people believe waiting is for poor people. You have heard them say it on numerous occasions. Why do you think they would wait on a list when they need a heart, a kidney or any organ?
I have Laz Alonzo in mind as the lead detective Samuel Chappie (after Samuel L Gravely Jr., The first Black Navy Admiral, & Daniel "Chappie" James, the first Black Four Star General). I am going to try and make room for this because it could be great.
Good interview wil watch the 2nd one later.
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Held in Washington, DC and offering multi- genrewriter's workshops for writers of African descent.
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RIP to the sista in the video....
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You gotta love publishers saying they don't know how to market a black scifi or fantasy book.The reason why I say that,because in every interview I've seen countless black authors say the publisher has a hard time marketing their book.
You mean to tell me,black people isn't allow to write or enjoy scifi or fantasy books...lol
You mean to tell me,black people isn't allow to write or enjoy scifi or fantasy books...lol
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Top 7 Black-Owned Book Publishers That You Should Know About
Here are seven of the top Black-owned book publishers:
#1 - Amber Books: This Phoenix-based publishing company is the nation’s largest African-American publisher of self-help books and music biographies. The founder/CEO is Tony Rose, an NAACP Image Award Winner.
#2 - Black Classic Press: Founded in 1978, Black Classic Press is devoted to publishing obscure and significant works by and about people of African descent. They specialize in republishing works that are out of print and quite often out of memory.
#3 - Urban Ebooks: Launched in 2016, this publishing company publishes educational and empowering e-books for African American and other minority readers. All of their books are $3 or less and can be instantly downloaded to computers, tablets, and smart phones.
#4 - Third World Press: Third World Press provides quality literature that primarily focuses on issues, themes, and critique related to an African American public. Their mission is to make this literature accessible to as many individuals as possible including our targeted market of primarily African American readers.
#5 - Triple Crown Publications: This company is one of the first major publishers of urban fiction books. It's founder and CEO is best-selling author and world-renowned publisher Vickie Stringer.
#6 - Smiley Books: Founded by media pioneer Tavis Smiley in 2004 as a co-publishing venture with Hay House Inc., SmileyBooks is a general trade book publisher that specializes in quality nonfiction.
#7 - Life Changing Books: Established in 2003, this publishing company offers a variety of African American literature including contemporary fiction, women's fiction, urban/ street literature, and more. Azarel, the founder/CEO launched the company with her own self-published title
https://www.urbanebooks.com/blogs/n...ed-book-publishers-that-you-should-know-about
Here are seven of the top Black-owned book publishers:
#1 - Amber Books: This Phoenix-based publishing company is the nation’s largest African-American publisher of self-help books and music biographies. The founder/CEO is Tony Rose, an NAACP Image Award Winner.
#2 - Black Classic Press: Founded in 1978, Black Classic Press is devoted to publishing obscure and significant works by and about people of African descent. They specialize in republishing works that are out of print and quite often out of memory.
#3 - Urban Ebooks: Launched in 2016, this publishing company publishes educational and empowering e-books for African American and other minority readers. All of their books are $3 or less and can be instantly downloaded to computers, tablets, and smart phones.
#4 - Third World Press: Third World Press provides quality literature that primarily focuses on issues, themes, and critique related to an African American public. Their mission is to make this literature accessible to as many individuals as possible including our targeted market of primarily African American readers.
#5 - Triple Crown Publications: This company is one of the first major publishers of urban fiction books. It's founder and CEO is best-selling author and world-renowned publisher Vickie Stringer.
#6 - Smiley Books: Founded by media pioneer Tavis Smiley in 2004 as a co-publishing venture with Hay House Inc., SmileyBooks is a general trade book publisher that specializes in quality nonfiction.
#7 - Life Changing Books: Established in 2003, this publishing company offers a variety of African American literature including contemporary fiction, women's fiction, urban/ street literature, and more. Azarel, the founder/CEO launched the company with her own self-published title
https://www.urbanebooks.com/blogs/n...ed-book-publishers-that-you-should-know-about
bump
Funny thing, not all books these.publishers has to.be target as "black " also you have made a good point in general
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