BOOKS: Authors get your {{BUZZ}} on!

I just came across a new resource - AuthorBuzz, which could give a new author quite a return on their investment in promoting their book. Every author needs an arsenal of marketing weapons. The competition is steep, this may help you make through the book marketing jungle! LOL

What is AuthorBuzz?
AuthorBuzz is a marketing service that puts authors directly in touch with readers, reading groups, booksellers and librarians, allowing them to offer excerpts, phone chats or visits with reading groups, material for newsletters, info about contests and freebies, mentions of new reviews — anything and everything authors want to buzz directly to the people who buy, read and sell their books.

And for authors, illustrators and publishers of children’s and teen books, see KidsBuzz.

NEWS: Cast your votes for the 2010 African American Literary Awards Show!

It was a great honor when my book Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees was nominated in the poetry category for the 2007 AALAS awards! Well it's time for another round of voting for the outstanding books which have been nominated this year. I voted for my favorites, and a few of the authors who are nominated are in my network which is great! The authors I voted for include: Victoria Christopher Murray, Jerry Craft, and of course the beloved Sonia Sanchez! See below to cast your votes!
The African American Literary Awards Show
is an entertainment event production and marketing company with a focus on writers and authors. AALAS produces an annual Literary Awards show to recognize, honor, celebrate and promote the outstanding achievements and contributions that African-American authors and writers make to the publishing, arts and entertainment industries.

The 6th Annual African American Literary Awards Show will salute Dr. Cornell West, Terrie Williams, Hill Harper and Sonia Sanchez.

The AALAS Awards is the first of its kind. It is the most comprehensive awards show ever to recognize, honor, celebrate and promote the outstanding achievements and contributions that authors and writers make to the publishing, arts and entertainment industries


Click here to vote for 2010 Nominees!

History of African American Literary Awards Show

The African American Literary Award show is the brainchild of Yvette Hayward, president of Y. Hayward, Inc., a public relations company that has been a powerful resource in the literary field for over a decade.