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Author, P. Allen Jones Rhymes, Views & News Talk Radio is ALL NEW on Sunday, October 27, 2013 @ 5:30pm EST featuring author P. Allen Jones !  P. Allen Jones will discuss her book I Only Cry at Night .  Call in to join the discussion at (646) 716-9474.  Listen to past and archived shows hosted by DuEwa Frazier .

Word count matters when it comes to having your writing published.   With the exception of poetry, if your preparing to submit to an agent or editor they'll want to know what your proposed or actual word count is.  As you're writing it's good to keep this in mind.  Knowing that you may have to revise your work many times over anyway, don't assume that because you've written a 500-page novel with a gazillion words that none of it will be cut.  This doesn't mean that some books aren't the exception to the rule (ie. Harry Potter ).  But if your novel or memoir doesn't call for all of those extra words, it's best to revise and save all of your various versions. Writing forever into infinity with no goal in mind can put you in a precarious position when it comes to submitting your work.  If you don't take the time to edit your work down to meet the acceptable word count range, it could be more work for an agent or editor who would rather consider ...

The 2011 Fall/Winter issue of Kweli Journal is now here! Edited by Laura Pegram,Radhiyah Ayobami, Naomi Extra, Luivette Resto, Ivelisse Rodriguez, Gena Lue Tsing, and Nicole Vasquez the issue features stunning poetry, nonfiction, and fiction by emerging and established writers. The issue also features a conversation with Angie Cruz and a moving photo essay by Haitham Abdulmajed. Check out poetry by DuEwa Frazier ( "What Light Looks Like" for Pearl Cleage ), Santee Frazier, Gloria Amescua, Phillipp W. Aurwand, Shokry Eldaly II, MEH, Cynthia Oka, and more!!

When you reminisce over hip hop, where do your thoughts take you? Do you think about the night you went to the roller rink with your friends and you heard NWA's "Express Yourself" pumping loud from the DJ booth, inspiring you to dance to the 70's beats in the song? Or maybe you think about the times you chilled out at the park in your car, with your boyfriend or girlfriend when L.L. Cool J.'s "I Need Love" played on the radio? If you're like me, you may reminisce about your college days: the parties in the student union, the walks with your friends across the bridge to the nearby store, the sorority and fraternity step shows. All of these memories have hip hop wrapped around them. We lived, loved and laughed, riding on the beats of songs by old school and new school hip hop artists. Within the pages of The Message: 100 Life Lessons From Hip Hop's Greatest Songs , author Felicia Pride shares similar memories with us and invokes our hip hop laced ...