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Talking with Lesley Gist-Etheridge.

Claudia Mair Burney - Claudia is her first name, but she goes by Mair . . . and "Mair" rhymes with "fire." (She tries to keep her last name fairly uncomplicated.) Mair is the author of the popular Ragamuffin Diva blog — her personal journal exploring the challenges of broken believers. That blog led to Mair being discovered, and allowed her to contract the Amanda Bell Brown mystery series: Death, Deceit, and Some Smooth Jazz, Murder, Mayhem, and a Fine Man, and Saints, Suspicions, and a Ticking Clock.

Her work has also appeared in Discipleship Journal and The Handmaiden, and her young adult series, The Exorsistah, about a teenaged exorcist, released the summer of 2008 with Pocket Books. Mair wants her fiction to feature the best of her blog: humor, unblinking honesty, and the courage to allow God's strength to be made perfect in one's personal weakness.

Valjeanne Jeffers is a science fiction writer and the author of IMMORTAL, the first of a three part series. IMMORTAL is now available at www.lulu.com. IMMORTAL II: The Time of Legend will be released in December.

Phyllis Zimbler Miller - Mrs Lieutenant

Our Sunday Chat with author Stanice Anderson

Our Friday Night Chat Author Monica Marie Jones has 3 books she has authored.-

www.monicamariejones.com

Our Thursday Night CHat with Literary Insiders -

Author/Publisher Wahida Clark & Marketing Guru/Author Phyllis Miller

Our Wednesday night chat w/Authors Derek Vitatoe Milton Davis -www.mvmediaatl.com

Our Nightly Tuesday night chat with Carleen Brice founder of National Buy a Book by a Black Author Month, Carleen Brice says; "What if every one of us bought a book by a black author and gave it to a white friend? So I'm naming December National Buy a Book by a Black Author and Give it to Somebody Not Black Month.

It might not be easy to actually get them to read it. Beverly mentioned that her friends were a little scared of the Ebonics they expected to find. But that's why your favorite African American authors really, really need your help. You, who they know and trust, can explain to white friends, neighbors, coworkers, classmates that there are books without Ebonics, and that books by black authors are much like any other book." It should be very good night with chitchat

Married Strangers is Dwan Abram's Upcoming Release

Dwan Abrams is the bestselling author of Married Strangers, Divorcing the Devil (nominated for the 2008 African American Literary Awards Show), Only True Love Waits (winner of the 2007 Pen of the Writer POWER Award), The Scream Within and Favor (a short story appearing in The Midnight Clear anthology). She hosted The Dwan Abrams Experience Radio Show on AM 1260 WTJH in metro Atlanta. She is also a journalist, freelance editor and professional speaker. Her articles have appeared in Images of Us and Nesting Solo magazine, and she has served as fashion editor for FIERCE411.com. Additionally, she’s the founder, publisher and editorial director of Nevaeh Publishing, LLC a small press independent publishing house. She was inducted in the 2006 “Who’s Who” in Black Atlanta under the Entrepreneurs section. Visit Dwan at www.dwanabrams.com.

Anthorrorgy Marc Abbott new book.