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Honey, grab your bookshelves. You have made your voice known. Over 2,500 responses were received. Now, we are going to find out which nominees received the most votes. A few of your favorite authors, reviewers, and readers are going to stop by to give us their favorite book picks of 2020. Are you ready? Get ready to laugh and have fun!

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Honey, Colette Harrell is the truth. She is coming to put the fire under your feet and your belly. We have endured enough weeping. Now, it is HARVEST TIME! A motivational speaker, she specializes in customer and human service workshops on state and national levels. She is co-founder of COJACK Productions, a Christian entertainment company. As an active member of her church, she serves in several ministries and businesses.

Brenda Jackson, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of over 100 novels and novellas, was born in Jacksonville, Florida. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Jacksonville University. She married her high school sweetheart, Gerald, and they have two sons, Gerald Jr. and Brandon, ages thirty-six and thirty-four, respectively. She is an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Her professional writing career began in 1995 with the release of her first book, Tonight and Forever. Since then she has written over 100 titles, which includes a made-for-television movie by BET, One Special Moment as well as the movie, Truly Everlasting. She was a 2012 NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Fiction for her book, A Silken Thread; and was named Romance Writers of America's Nora Robert's Lifetime Achievement Award recipient for 2012.

William P. Young (Paul) was born a Canadian and along with three younger siblings was raised among a stone-age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of what was New Guinea (West Papua). The family returned to Canada where his father pastored a number of churches for various denominations. By the time he entered Canadian Bible College, Paul had attended a dozen schools. He completed his undergraduate degree in religion at Warner Pacific College in Portland, Oregon

Nationally acclaimed best-selling author, award-winning filmmaker, and producer, transformational speaker, and success coach Cheryl Polote-Williamson is a global leader who has successfully ushered 435 men and women into co-authorship. Williamson is the CEO and Founder of Williamson Media Group, LLC, and Cheryl Polote Williamson, LLC, where her knowledge, expertise, and resources connect others to their purpose. She has received multiple national and international media features and mentions, and several awards for her leadership capabilities to include: selection as one of Dallas Top 25 women and the honor as one of the Female Success Factor Award recipients for 2016, the 2017 and 2018 Indie Author Literary Trailblazer Award, Global Smashers Award, Who's Who in Black Dallas Publishing, and Indie Author Legacy Award in 2017 and 2018, Who's Who in Black Dallas Publishing in 2017, and a 2018 African-American Literary Award. Williamson is a highly sought-after speaker, influencer, and business leader who is also Founder and CEO of Soul Reborn, a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization for under-served women, baring the name and spirit of her multi-layered Soul Series. A member of the Forbes Coaches Council, Odyssey Media Group, and Christian Women in Media, Williamson tours nationally, motivating varied audiences to release negative strongholds, walk in power, and thrive in purpose.

New York Times Bestselling Author & Speaker, Kimberla Lawson Roby, has published 28 books which include her faith-based, nonfiction title, THE WOMAN GOD CREATED YOU TO BE: Finding Success Through Faith—Spiritually, Personally, and Professionally, as well as her novels, such as BETTER LATE THAN NEVER, SIN OF A WOMAN, A SINFUL CALLING, BEST FRIENDS FOREVER, THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL, A CHRISTMAS PRAYER, THE PRODIGAL SON, THE PERFECT MARRIAGE, THE REVEREND’S WIFE, BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PRAY FOR, SIN NO MORE, CASTING THE FIRST STONE, and her debut title, BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, which was originally self-published through her own company, Lenox Press. She has sold nearly 3 million copies of her books, and they have frequented numerous bestseller lists, including The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Essence, Upscale, Black Christian News, AALBC.com, Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, Wal-Mart, The Dallas Morning News, The Austin Chronicle and many others.

Over the years, Kimberla has spoken to thousands of women at conferences, churches, expos, workshops, luncheons, libraries, colleges, universities and bookstores. She shares her own personal journey straight from her heart and has a strong passion for helping women become all that God created them to be.

Kimberla is a professional member of the National Speakers Association (NSA), she is the 2013 NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction, the recipient of the 2017 SOAR Radio Trailblazer of Honor award, the 2017 Southwest Florida Reading Festival Distinguished Author Award, the 2017 AAMBC Christian Fiction Author of the Year award and the 2014 AAMBC Female Author of the Year award, the 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2013 African-American Literary Awards Show (New York, NY) Female Author of the Year award, the Blackboard Fiction Book of the Year Award in 2001 for CASTING THE FIRST STONE, and in 2001, Kimberla was inducted into the Rock Valley College Alumni Hall of Fame (Rockford, IL).

Anissa Short is a native of Memphis, Tennessee and a current resident of Fayetteville, North Carolina. As an image consultant, business coach and advocate for the home-based entrepreneur, she is gifted to serve in various capacities as #TheWorkFromHomeCEO. Her current endeavors include workshop facilitator, contributing writer for a local publication, podcast and internet radio host, as well as representing in a leadership role within the Direct Sales Industry. As a home-based entrepreneur since 1999, Anissa has built an organization that includes a client base and team that spans several states. Since 2014, she has written articles that not only spotlight other entrepreneurs but serve as an inspiration to anyone pursuing entrepreneurship. In 2019, she began serving as a radio talk show host of ARRAYdio, an internet-based radio magazine show that showcases business, charities, artists, events and the economic development of her local area. In addition, she is an international best-selling author. Prior to her current endeavors, Anissa worked in the fields of Customer Service, Banking and Finance and approximately twelve years with the Federal Government. She has also served as a Board Member of two non-profit organizations. Her educational background includes a Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degree in the areas of Business and Administration. Anissa has been happily married to Alphonso Short since 1998, and in her spare time enjoys reading and visits to the beach

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