It is important to think about MARKETING. It is important to think about this even before you go about looking for agents and editors because there are some agents who want to know how you plan to promote your work.

KENDRA NORMAN-BELLAMY is a national best-selling author and the founder of KNB Publications LLC. She is the organizer of Visions in Print, an Atlanta-based national organization for faith-based writers, and The Writer’s Hut, an online fellowship for African American Writers.

Key To My Heart is a heartfelt story about former lovers reuniting. You will find this story thought provoking as well as entertaining. If you have read my previous titles A Special Summer and When Love Comes Around you were introduced to Ava Peretti. In her story, Key To My Heart, sensitive topics such as family secrets, infidelity and an age-old saga.

She wondered how Brad stood being married to an airhead like Suzanne. During a boring halftime performance by an over-the-hill rock ’n’ roller they’d talked about the latest political happenings, and Suzanne had a look on her face that said she wished they’d change the subject.

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Lutishia Lovely is an actor, motivational speaker and former radio personality and talk show host. Her foray into the written word began as a child and turned professional when after pitching a stageplay idea to a writer friend, was given the life-changing suggestion to “write it yourself”.

Twenty-five women, including Bunny Debarge, Sharon Ewell Foster, Stanice Anderson, Claudia Mair Burney and Marilynn Griffith, tell their stories of coming full circle from tragedy to triumph. Each contributor keeps it holy, keeping it real in these raw, relevant tales of redemption and restoration. Think of it as Prozac for the Christian Woman’s Soul!

FEBRUARY 2010
Checkered Fences by Alma Hudson
Chocolate Goodies by Jacquelin Thomas

Cool Like That by Nikki Carter
Diary of a Mad First Lady by DiShan Washington
Dirtier Than Ever by Vickie Stringer

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
If You Were My Man by Francis Ray
In My Sister’s House by Donald Welch
In the Midst of It [...]

I rated Wench a 5, as it is the first historical fiction book I’ve read personally that delves into the hearts, minds and emotions of slave women. The stories I’ve read and things I’ve been taught do teach about the things read in Wench, so yes, I knew about them happening but this book allowed me to really go deep with the subject matter. It was painstakingly raw and full of emotion.

Roby is the NYT bestselling author of the acclaimed novels A Deep Dark Secret, The Best of Everything, One in a Million, Sin No More, Love and Lies, Changing Faces, The Best-Kept Secret, Too Much of a Good Thing, A Taste of Reality, It’s a Thin Line, Casting the First Stone, Here and Now, and Behind Closed Doors.