Welcome to Listen Black, Today’s guest is Kimberly M Denesse, the author of Not All Women Wear Hot Pants, Some Carry Guns. Kimberly writes Fat Girl Friendly Fiction and Female Rage Fiction, so you know this is about to be an interesting conversation.

*Content WARNING* Rape and sexual assault is discussed briefly.

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IG: @fatgirlfreestyle

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On today’s episode, you’ll hear my interview with Chinelo Onwualu, the author of the short stories, Read Before Use, The Night Market, A Love Song for Herkinal, The Wish Box, and What the Dead Man Said.

Chinelo is a Nigerian writer and editor living in Toronto. She’s the nonfiction editor of Anathema (pron) Magazine, and co-founder of Omenana(pron), a magazine of African Speculative Fiction. Her writing has been featured in several anthologies and magazines, including Slate, Uncanny, and Strange Horizons. She’s been nominated for the British Science Fiction Awards, the Nommo Awards for African Speculative Fiction, and the Short Story Day Africa Award.

Twitter Contact: @chineloonwualu

www.chineloonwualu.com

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On today’s episode, you’ll hear my interview with A.D. Lumkile Thomason, the author of Permission to be Black: My journey with JayZ and Jesus.

Lumkile is a speaker, poet, and award-winning filmmaker. He has spoken around the nation and in places such as Sudan, South Africa, China, and Palestine. As an adjunct professor at Kilns College, he teaches on human rights, de-colonizing your faith, and filmmaking. A native of Detroit, A. D. has more than seventeen years of experience preaching and teaching the peace of Jesus in ethnically divided countries, cultures, and communities.

We discuss everything from being newly published to the revelations of therapy and trauma recognition.

IG Contact: @redrev

Permission to be Black: My journey with JayZ and Jesus: https://amzn.to/3M9A2Xl

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This episode features the author of the children’s book Black Boy Fly, Raheem Logan.

We discuss tackling the unfamiliar, pushing your limits, optimizing your intangibles, and pitfalls to avoid as a first time self-publisher.

Contact: https://linktr.ee/rlogan24

Black Boy Fly: https://amzn.to/3gR9HPm

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This episode features Shayna Small, a classically trained actor, singer, producer and educator based in New York. In addition to audiobooks, you can catch her on The New York Times app, Audm, or on Apple News.

CLIENTS

Penguin Random House, Macmillan, Hachette, Audible, Apple News, The New York Times, HarperCollins, Podium Audio, Live Oak Media, Graphic Audio, Blackstone, Recorded Books, Brilliance Audio, Dreamscape, and Simon & Schuster.

GENRES

Fiction, YA, Fantasy, Children, Romance, Editorial Non-Fiction

AWARDS

MULTIPLE AUDIOFILE EARPHONE AWARDS, SOVAS WINNER, AUDIE NOMINATION (RED AT THE BONE BY JACQUELINE WOODSON) AND AUDIE WINNER (THE OVERGROUND RAILROAD BY LESA CLINE-RANSOME), BOOKLIST’S 2020 VOICE OF CHOICE

Website: http://www.shaynasmall.com/voiceover

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This Listen Black Tuesday's (#lbt) episode goes over the post-production phase of creating an audiobook. We also listen to a snippet from Ego, Authority, Failure: Using Emotional Intelligence Like a Hostage Negotiator to Succeed as a Leader, by Derek Gaunt (@negoti8or).

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This episode features Monique D. Mensah, owner of Make Your Mark Publishing Solutions.

She helps indie authors:

📚Self-publish high-quality books

🏷Build their brands

🤑Make consistent book sales

Monique is your personal self-publishing assistant and owner of Make Your Mark Publishing Solutions, a self-publishing company dedicated to empowering indie authors with education, resources, services, and strategies to self-publish high-quality books, create Bestseller Brands, and get consistent book sales.

Monique is the three-time award-winning self-published author of five novels, with over 50,000 book sales.

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This Listen Black Tuesday's (#lbt) episode goes over the production phase of creating an audiobook. We also listen to a snippet from Permission to Be Black: My Journey with Jay-Z and Jesus, by A.D. Lümkilé Thomason

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