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2Leaf Press is finally live . . .
Published on 2012-01-28 11:42:41
I’ve been wanting to do 2Leaf Press for over ten years, and now, I’ve finally announced it! Papo is going to be our first author, and check it out, we’re doing a bilingual edition of his work, which is really exciting! What’s even more exciting is that we’re getting interns from Hunter College (NYC) to [...]
Promoting phati’tude
Published on 2011-12-13 15:44:21
Now that things are winding down, and I am no longer crushed with producing phati’tude Literary Magazine (our next deadline is January 6 for the Latino issue). I am trying to catch-up with the usual stuff: filing, combing through and answering emails, bookkeeping and interviewing interns. I think, rather I know that a lot of [...]
Stayin on track, turning over a new leaf
Published on 2011-11-20 00:32:10
These last two months have been harrowing, what with publishing issues on top of each other. I’m now down to the final wire, back-tracking and doing major clean up (answering emails, updating Facebook and LinkedIn, promoting the magazines, catching up with bookkeeping and filing, creating a marketing campaign, fundraising, etc.) I haven’t been able to [...]
I’m in danger of losing my mind . . .
Published on 2011-09-24 01:18:46
I’m really trying to keep it all together, the summer started out very promising, but when the service provider for the websites threatened to kill our websites or pay out more money (from $99 per year to $200 per month, I think we can call this blackmail!) and then the crashing of the summer issue [...]
Look what I’m reading on Kindle!
Published on 2011-08-25 00:17:04
I am reading quite a bit on my Kindle. I am actually buying hardcover books that I wouldn’t normally buy, for a fraction of the cost. Here is what I’ve read in the past month: The Thirty-first of March: An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson’s Final Days in Office Horace Busby Never heard of this [...]
I Gotta Kindle, I Gotta Kindle!
Published on 2011-07-11 23:37:28
I finally broke down and bought it. It came ready to go, with my name already on it, my account totally hooked up to it and everything. I was never anti-reading tablets, just . . . well cautious. I mean, I am a woman that pwns several thousand books, I love books. I love shopping [...]
Amtrak is the way to go
Published on 2011-04-11 23:39:20
Well, I am taking as trip to Georgia to visit some friends. Ain’t got a pot to piss in, but I need to hit the road. When I contacted the arilines for a roundtrip ticket to Atalnta, they wanted my first born almost $800! And then, of course, the drudgery yougotta go through to catch [...]
Launching the first African American Festival
Published on 2011-02-27 22:55:27
Well, we finally launched phati’tude Literary Magazine’s first African American Festival on February 26 at the Langston Hughes Library. Attendance was not as great as I would have liked it (which would mean thousands of people banging on the door), but it went rather well. Veronica Caciedo and Vanessa Viera were on hand to videotape [...]
Look what I’m reading . . .
Published on 2010-08-22 17:28:44
I Am Not a Cop!: A Novel by Richard Belzer Really enjoying this book. Belzer writes in his voice, you can actually hear him talking as you read it. I am reading it slowly, as a way to unwind before I go to bed, and I have to tell you, it’s a great way to [...]
Hello world! Here I go again!
Published on 2010-02-16 23:49:46
I’m scratching my head, thinking, “why the hell am I doing this”? I have four websites to attend to, numerous social networking accounts, I’m a member of a number of blog groups, I’m having such a hard time keeping up with the writing, whhhaaaatttt! am I doing? Well, I had opened a dot mac account [...]