More APOOO Book Notes… Web site for fictional characters is a marketing ploy too far says Linda Jones…CLICK HERE to read article and share your thoughts with APOOO.  After reading the article, I was like…’hmmm…I should care because.’ Free Books Anyone?  Authors/publishers are giving away e-books of novels to get readers to tap into the [...]

Top Novelist feels pressure to dumb down–Wow and I though that only African American authors were encouraged to write novels with thinly veiled storylines warped by gratuitous sex, violence, drugs, prostitutes and street life…oh wait…it’s still just a black thang.  Margaret Drabble’s publishers haven’t asked her to dumb down…yet…and there in lies the rub…many African [...]