Hot Fun in the Summertime!
By APOOO • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: APOOO Features, Hot Fun in the Summertime •
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Sister Souljah, Donald Goines, Erick Gray, Terri Woods–what do these authors have in common?
Welcome to August and Hot Fun in the Summertime at APOOO! As you might have noticed, APOOO is on a roll with themes this year. (We’ve done a literary theme for every month except March; next year we’ll include March). This month we will feature and profile authors who write in the urban/street fiction genre. We hope to get to know them better by interviewing them and getting answers to questions regarding their childhood summers. If there are any authors that you would like to see profiled, let me know. In the meantime, sit back and check out what APOOO members have to say about what “Hot Fun in the Summertime” means to them.
Family vacations spent enjoying things like the beach, old fashion everyone brings a dish cookout in a park. For those family’s that do it, a family reunion, children running through the sprinklers. Most of all BBQ. I love to eat bbq food. Yum.–Jennifer C.
Going to the Keys for at least a week and splashing around, eating lots of stone crab, conch and drinking 
mojitos…angelia
Backyard party with family and friends, listening to smooth jazz, eating light refreshing foods and sippin’ on cool exhilarating drinks.–Sharon
Sex on the beachand backyard bbq’s…QQ.–Darnetta 
Visit to Dairy Queen
Sand n surf
Lemonade n iced tea
Hot bods or hot babes
Have bikini will travel
D.S. White
Sitting on the deck of a cruise shipAnd, of course, many of us remember that if were not kept busy during the summertime, idle minds became the devil’s workshop. By the time August rolled around, we were plenty bored and looking for anything to do…and getting in trouble even seemed like fun. If we lived in an urban/inner city community, sometimes that fun turned to violence, drugs, unprotected sex, melees’, all out wilding all under the gist of Hot Fun in the Summertime! But, if the elders caught wind of what we were doing, they beat behinds and took names later! LOL. Anywho, stick with us during the month of August as we stroll down memory lane and learn more about some of today’s hottest street/urban fiction authors.
DISCUSSION QUESTION
What does “Hot Fun in the Summertime” mean to you?
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I went to HS with author Erick S. Gray. He’s a down to earth person.
I would like to here what goes on in the mind of Antoine Inch Thomas, author of Flower’s Bed. I truly enjoyed that book as did others I let borrow my copy for a quick, dramatic read.
Being with my children, family time, pool time, park time, silly time, just more time to reconnect with them!
So far this summer I have been laying low and focusing on work…
ok so I had some fun(WINK WINK) with a Stella Got Her Groove Back moment, but it has been mostly work, LOL!!!
Also celebrated my b-day last month with friends and reunited with some friends who were living out of state and the country.
And will you be featuring Meta Smith? Her latest, Whip Appeal, is not out until Aug. 19, but I met and interviewed her – and discovered she lives 20 minutes from me – and she gave me a copy and it was very good!
And the story of how she got her first contract is incredible(went online, googled an answer for how to get a publishing deal, met her agent online and then got a deal with Warner Books within six weeks…resulting in her debut, The Rolexx Club) and she is a really beautiful and intelligent(Spelman grad) woman.
Summetime makes me think of summer lovin. My fond memories that include the summer time are when I was a student in high school. I was never bored because I was in a long-term relationship with a guy. I remember the movies, the walks in the park, kissing outside in the dark, and more. Last but not least you can’t forget the summer festivals.
Kortney–hear hear for the summer loving and the summer festivals.
Oh and childhood summers…
road trips to either Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri. having the whole back seat to myself with my crossword puzzle books and resting on the car floor is the box with the chicken, fruit, cookies, pop and Kool-aid, pound cake and other goodies for snacking.
Getting ready for the road trips days before with mama washing my hair in the kitchen sink – my hair was long and plenty thick then – then sending me across the street to our neighbor’s youngest and teenage daughter to do cornrows so mama would not have to worry about my hair for those two weeks in the south. chick did it for $10 and we’d be in the basement with the record player going and the television blasting.
had a street full of kids to play games of tag, hide and seek, cops and robbers, etc. to run off the junk food we ate all day long(that’s what these kids need to do today to fight obesity…rip and run all damn day, lol!!!
summer cookouts and festivals, family reunions, going to the drive-in…I could go on and on…
Lisa–yes we ripped and ran during the summer…although I was heavy until I got to the 9th grade and had to take it off to wear the fly outfits …hehe. Did someone say drive-in…hehe.
I need to contact Meta Smith to see if she wants to be featured at APOOO this month.
Onika–HEY GURRRLLLLLLLLLLLL! Glad I could help you stroll down memory lane. xoxo
wow…of late I’ve been writing about experiences from my childhood and this blog sends me deeper into the memory banks. My summers were always fun. We’d either travel to the New York, or just spend summers at cousins’ homes…we’d alternate. When I lived in NY permanently, we’d spend summers in Maryland with my aunt and I loved it to the point where I’m considering moving there at this moment.
Yas, thanks for adding more to my days of reminiscing.
*hugs to you*
Hi Yaz,
Reading everyone else’s made me think of the time growing up and all the neighbors are were on there back porches watching the us play dodgeball and baseball in the back yard. I kinda wish I could go back to the good ole daz. But for the past summers I have been attending Unity Day in Philadelphia. Hanging at Penn’s Landing with my girls and grandson…..just chillin and watching the waves. And of course had to eat eat and eat more. Very relaxing. Anyway I could go on and on….
Hey Frances…its so nice to see and hear that you’re starting new memories with your girls and grandson. Thanks for sharing.