I had the pleasure of interviewing Joyce Carol Thomas in 2011, during my second year with The Brown Bookshelf, when I still quite green and didn’t know much about the publishing industry at all. But I knew Joyce Carol Thomas wrote the most phenomenal books. I knew because I had checked out several of them [ Read the full article… ]
The Brown Bookshelf is honored to highlight Judy Allen Dodson in a Throwback/Flash Forward segment of 28 Days Later. FLASHBACK Archivist. Librarian. Historian. With the publication of her debut novel, Escape from . . . Hurricane Katrina, Judy Allen Dodson added another title to her impressive list of credentials – children’s book author. In a [ Read the full article… ]
The Brown Bookshelf is honored to highlight Kekla Magoon in a Throwback/Flash Forward segment of 28 Days Later! THROWBACK Kekla Magoon had long been a student of the Civil Rights Movement. She devoured stories about that period and believed deeply in non-violence. What would she have done back then? Kekla didn’t have to wonder. She knew: She would have [ Read the full article… ]
The Brown Bookshelf is honored to highlight Lamar Giles in a Throwback/Flash Forward segment of 28 Days Later! THROWBACK Lamar Giles grew up in a small, riverfront city in Virginia called Hopewell. It is a diverse community known for its busy ports. Like most towns in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Hopewell is highly decorated [ Read the full article… ]
The Brown Bookshelf is honored to highlight Shadra Strickland in a Throwback/Flash Forward segment of 28 Days Later! THROWBACK The title of her blog says it all: LIVING THE DREAM. A dream born many years ago, when she was just a child. A dream nourished by a supportive mother. A dream guided through instruction at [ Read the full article… ]
I don’t think we’ve had any picture book folks yet, have we? Good thing we have Nadia up today. This post is from 2017. Since then, Nadia has added to the Malaika series, and has another picture book biography: A Likkle Miss Lou. While working with this talented author on her 28 Days Later spotlight, [ Read the full article… ]
For day 2, we’re highlighting Bajan author Shakirah Bourne, who blogged for us back in 2021. Fun fact, I met Shakirah on a maxi taxi in Trinidad a few years ago when the folks from Bocas Lit Fest brought me down for the annual Caribbean Literature Festival. We were on our way to a cocktail [ Read the full article… ]
It’s FEBRUARY! January was basically whiplash, right? Or is that just me? Things have been moving so quickly around here that we’re doing throwback posts this year for 28 Days Later instead of our usual new posts. And I have week 1. Yay me! For my 7 days I will be highlighting writers from the [ Read the full article… ]
