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Sheree Renée Thomas
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 05:16 pm: | 
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Dear Thumper & Thumper's Corner Discussion Board Members & Friends,
I hope you don't mind me sharing some happy news on this list. My second anthology, DARK MATTER: READING THE BONES from Warner Aspect was just released this week in bookstores everywhere! We had our first reading at B&N in NYC on Monday, and it was great. It was standing room only with 7 contributors reading from their work.
Please join us in Harlem on Tuesday, January 20 at 6 pm for a hot cup of chai and some great storytelling @ Hue-Man Bookstore & Café. Hue-Man is in the Magic Johnson theater complex, at 2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd. (btw 124th and 125th at 8th Ave.).
9 DARK MATTER contributors will read from their stories. They are:
ihsan bracy, reading from "ibo landing"
Kevin Brockenbrough, reading from "Cause Harlem Needs Heroes"
Carol Cooper, reading from her essay, "Celebrating the Alien: The Politics of Race and Species in the Juveniles of Andre Norton"
Andrea Hairston, reading from her novel, MINDSCAPE
Tyehimba Jess, reading from "Voodoo Vincent and the Astrostoriograms"
Jill Robinson, reading from "BLACKout"
Kiini Ibura Salaam, reading from "Desire"
Ibi Aanu Zoboi, reading from "Old Flesh Song"
Warner Aspect is also hosting a contest, a book giveaway--free copies of the first two volumes in the series. The deadline for entries is January 31. Details below.
Thanks and All Best,
Sheree R. Thomas, esmarth@verizon.net
Editor of DARK MATTER, the first black speculative fiction series
Enter to win a copy of both volumes of Dark Matter!
http://www.twbookmark.com/sciencefiction/contest.html
Mo' Better News:
DARK MATTER: READING THE BONES (Warner Books), the second volume of the groundbreaking black speculative fiction series is ON SALE NOW. Get your copy now at bookstores everywhere!
"Reading the Bones illustrates the strength and diversity in the field of speculative fiction and makes us hope that many more volumes in the Dark Matter series are yet to come." - Gavin J. Grant, BookPage, www.bookpage.com
"DARK MATTER is like the proverbial box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get, but it's going to be good!" -- Black Issues Book Review
Featuring works by Wanda Coleman, Samuel R. Delany, Jewelle Gomez, W. E. B. Du Bois, Tananarive Due, Charles Johnson, Nalo Hopkinson, Walter Mosley, Kalamu ya Salaam and many more new voices!
Vol. 1, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora was honored with the World Fantasy Award, the Gold Pen Award, and named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Washington Post Book World "Rave" Book of the Year.
http://authors.aalbc.com/sheree.htm
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Thumper
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 09:38 pm: |
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Hello Sheree,
It is so good to hear from you!! *big smile* Thanks for letting us know about the Dark Matter book contest! I know I'm looking forward to reading it.
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Sheree Renée Thomas
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 12, 2004 - 05:15 am: |
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Hi, Thumper, Happy New Year!! Hope you had a great holiday--curled up with any good books lately? (smile!)
All Best,
Sheree |
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