The website that promotes books written by or about African-Americans.

 

 

What is Book-Remarks.com?

Book-Remarks.com is ranked among the top 15 web sites that promote literary works which may reflect the African-American culture. In addition to posting the latest info regarding new releases by mainstream as well as self-published writers, we also conduct random book giveaways, and provide readers with book previews, book reviews, postings about upcoming literary events, a list of anticipated releases for the current year and beyond, and press releases regarding events, awards, and other related web content.

Criteria for books to be posted or reviewed may be found on this link Getting On Book-Remarks.

Contact Cydney Rax, Web Page Manager, for more information.

 



 

THE HOT SPOT

 

 

Tribute to Michael Jackson

 

  

   From the time I was a child I've been a major fan of the Jackson 5, the Jacksons, and the late great Michael Jackson. His remarkable 40-plus years in the recording business gave me lots of fun times.

  I loved his voice,  his music, and especially his exciting, incredible dance moves.    Who would have thought that the music and books we've taken for granted are now items that millions of people

  desperately want to own. I am still in a state of shock over his death. It's been like a bad nightmare.

  Nevertheless, it's been a true pleasure to listen to his music, and watch his videos. He'll never be forgotten. Here are some favorites (many of which are in my personal collection).

   Michael Jackson 25th Anniversary of Thriller  The Best of Michael Jackson Anthology (A must-have for true MJ fans)  The Jacksons Live (great energy)
   Off the Wall Special Edition (Extra Tracks)  HIStory Past Present & Future Book I  Soulsation by Jackson 5 (collector's item)
   Dangerous (One of my favs. Great music & lyrics)  The Jacksons Victory Album (I love Randy Jackson's One More Chance)  Moon Walk by Michael Jackson (his only autobiography. His life in his own words.)
   Invincible (Excellent CD. Don't know why critics didn't like it)  The Jacksons Triumph Album (The Jacksons' greatest album)  Michael Jackson: The Magic & the Madness by J. Randy Taraborrelli
   LaToya : Growing Up in the Jackson Family by LaToya Jackson  Jackson Family Values: Memories of Madness by Margaret Maldanado Jackson (gives a lot of insight on what went on in Hayvenhurst mansion)  Bad : Special Edition, Extra Tracks

  

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Book-Remarks.com is ranked among the top-visited websites for African-American books and authors. This prestigious website is popular with a prime audience that consists of national book clubs, major publishers and small presses, veteran and aspiring authors, literary event organizers, libraries, and thousands of avid readers. All books featured on the BookRemarks' home page routinely receive high visibility and increased awareness.

The Hot Spot Advertisement: Book covers featured at the top of the website are hyperlinked directly to Amazon and receive a high rate of click-throughs.

Sidebar Advertisement: Sidebar advertising (also located on the homepage) promotes your book cover, and offers a direct link to Amazon.com, and to your official author website.

Click here for more information.

 

Blogs

Check out the links for some of the authors & other people that are blogging...and if you read the blogs, make sure & leave your cute little comments for the authors (it's not much fun if no one leaves a comment).

Abiola's Goddess Factor Blog NEW
Ajai - Author of Indiscretions of the Heart  
Aisha - Discover Kai Blog http://www.discoverkai.blogspot.com  
Alvin C. Romer - Verbatim
Angelia Menchan - Author of Is No Not Clear Enough For You NEW
Angela Henry - Author of The Company You Keep
As the Page Turns - 3 Chicks On Lit NEW
Barbara Joe Williams - Author of Dancing With Temptation
Baron Son: Vade Mecum 7
Black Entertainment Blog
Bettye Griffin - Author of If These Walls Could Talk
Bettye Griffin Blog
NEW
Blogging in Black - The Writing Life, Publishing, and Anything Else on Our Minds
Brandon Massey - Author of Dark Dreams
Afrika Midnight Asha Abney - www.clearbogs.com/afrikamaabney
Carleen Brice - Author of Orange Mint and Honey - www.pajamagardener.blogspot.com
Cheryl Lacey Donovan www.virtuouswoman-31.blogspot.com
Denecian Angeleia Blogspot
Dwan Abrams Blogspot - Author of Only True Love Waits
Electa Rome Parks Blogspot
Farrah Rochon Blogspot - Author of Deliver Me
Gail McFarland
Janaya Black - Author of Breaking Point
Jakeshia Lewis -
http://new-age-erotica.blogspot.com
Janete Scobie's Blog http://janete-scobie.blogspot.com/ NEW
Karinne Steffans Blog - Author of The Vixen Diaries NEW
Keith Gaston - Get Published Do or Die
Kim Robinson - Author of The Roux in the Gumbo
Leslie Esdaile Banks Blog  
Lipstick and Liars Blogspot
Rachel Howzell Hall - www.writinginmycar.blogspot.com NEW
Robert Fleming - Author of Havoc After Dark: Tales of Terror
Rhonda Jackson Joseph Blogspot - www.rhondajjoseph.blogspot.com
Rhonda McKnight - www.urbanchristianfictiontoday.com NEW
Rhonda Swan - Author of BUSTED: Never Underestimate a Sista's Revenge - Literary Diva Blogspot

Preston Allen's All or Nothing the Novel Blog
Preston L. Allen Blogspot - Author of All or Nothing
Shelia Goss Blog Author of Double Platinum
SJ Foster - Author of Champagne & Butterflies New
Tinisha Johnson Author of Searchable Whereabouts
Sammie Ward - http://sammieward.blogspot.com

Stephanie Worth - Author of Where Souls Collide

VASS Blog
Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant Blog - Two Mindsfull
Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant MySpace Blog NEW

For a complete list of Blogs, click the Book-Remarks.com Extra Extra link

Are you an author with a blog? Email me


 

July Updates

July Releases: Don't forget. New releases this month include:  Beautiful Ugly by Sheila Lipsey, Chaser by Miasha, Children of the Waters by Carleen Brice, Friends and Fauxs by Tracie Howard, Heaven Right Here by Lutisha Lovely, Jericho's Fall by Stephen L. Carter, Love and a Gangsta by Erick S. Gray, Love Trumps Game by D. Y. Phillips, Reality Check by Eric Pete, ReShonda Tate Billingsley, The Vixen Manual: How to Find, Seduce and Keep the Man You Want, Turned On: Summer Series by Angel Hunter, Unconditionally Single by Mary B. Morrison, Why Men Fear Commitment by R.M. Johnson, You Make Me Wanna by Nikki Rashan, and many more.


Random Book Drawing

 

Men, Money & Gold Diggers

Three (3) copies of MEN, MONEY & GOLD DIGGERS by Je'Caryous Johnson will be randomly given away during the month of July.

Click here to enter the contest and don't forget to include your name and mailing address with your entry.

Winners of OBAMA'S BLACKBERRY are:

Lareeta Robinson of Little Rock, Arkansas
Robin Harrison of Williamsburg, Virginia
Dinah Scott of Cincinnati, Ohio
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IMPORTANT CONTEST NOTICE: If your e-mail address/name is pulled as a winner and we don't already have your address, you will have one week to respond to our e-mail winner notification. Many winning names have forfeited their prize because we didn't receive their address within 1 week. Email going into Spam folders, people being on vacation, or not checking email on a regular basis will not be an excuse. If we only have your email address but no mailing address, another winning entry will be pulled and your prize will be forfeited. In order to prevent this from happening, you're welcome to send your address when you first enter the random book contest.


Industry News News briefs or press releases include info regarding the following:

From Cover to Cover Literary Talk Show, Loure Bussey, Janete Scobie, Barbara Mix, Stacey-Deanne, Sister2Sister Magazine Writing Contest, and more.  

There's also a short list of authors with anticipating releases for 2009/2010.
 


 

Books Tours/Event Info:

Literary event info is available on: Romantic Times Booklovers Convention 2009, National Black Book Festival 2009, National Book Club Conference 2009, Black Writers Reunion & Conference 2009, Romantic Slam Jam 2010, Baltimore Book Festival, 2009 Memphis Black Writers Conference and Southern Film Festival, 2009 Miami Book Fair International.

 

  Cydney Rax Info

Cydney Rax is the founder and maintainer of Book-Remarks.com. She's also the author of MY DAUGHTER'S BOYFRIEND, MY HUSBAND'S GIRLFRIEND, MY BEST FRIEND AND MY MAN, and MY SISTER'S EX (selected as an AOL Black Voices June 2009 Hot Summer Beach Read). Cydney has sold nearly 100,000 copies of her books since her debut in summer 2004.

Read an excerpt from MY SISTER'S EX (Release date: 8/4/2009)

Her new author website went live in July 2009.

 

 

My Best Friend and My Man was an editor's pick for one of Black Expressions Book Club Best Books of 2008.

My Best Friend and My Man

The new Cydney Rax novel - now available

My Best Friend and My Man is endorsed by USA Today

Preview chapters 1 and 2 on BN.com (Barnes and Noble Book Reviewer)

My Best Friend and My Man is a Black Expressions Main Selection

 

My Best Friend and My Man by Cydney Rax is featured in Essence Magazine's June issue as one of this summer's Top 10 hottest beach reads.

PRAISE FOR MY BEST FRIEND AND MY MAN:

"Refreshing...has a wise emotional core about pain and jealousy."

--Deirdre Donahue, USA Today

"Whatever's in the water in Houston, Cydney Rax should drink eight glasses a day."

--Patrik Henry Bass, senior editor, Essence Magazine

"Cydney Rax is phenomenal with her pen game. My Best Friend and My Man pulls you in from the very first page and doesn't let you go until the last word.
...blueprint on how to win in the game of love."

--Joy King, author of Hooker to Housewife and Superstar

"My Best Friend and My Man glows with sexuality, warmth and drama! Cydney Rax has done it again!"

--T. Styles, Essence Magazine bestselling author of A Hustler’s Son and Black and Ugly

I want to know if you are reading my book. Send me an email (especially if you are in a book club).

BOOK CLUBS

Here's a list of the book clubs that have recommended and/or selected My Best Friend and My Man as a Selected Read including:

Passion4Reading Online Book Group

 

 

My Husband's Girlfriend (MHG) by Cydney Rax is now in it's fourth printing. It keeps selling and selling and selling.

Advance Praise for My Husband's Girlfriend is phenomenal. Here's what some reviewers have to say:

My Husband's Girlfriend by Cydney Rax
 

Publishers Weekly

"Rax manages the fallout...with insight, zip and wit, and airs multiple conflicts within black middle-class life in compelling detail."


MHG Highlights

 

My Husband's Girlfriend was featured in the December issue of Essence Magazine (with P. Diddy on the cover). Books Editor Patrik Henry Bass describes My Husband's Girlfriend as "The Book We Can't Put Down...scandalous...the perfect escape...and juicy."

My Husband's Girlfriend is the Book Choice special feature in the winter issue of Jewel Magazine (with Ciara on the cover).

It's also featured in the January issue of Ebony magazine (Will Smith and son Jaden on cover) and reviewed in the Dec./Jan. 2007 issue of Today's Black Woman (Mary J. Blige on the cover).

 

I always like to acknowledge the clubs that are reading my books. If you have read or plan to read My Husband's Girlfriend, send me an email.

Here is the link to the Readers' Guide Discussion Questions.

Meanwhile, here are mega shout outs to the book clubs that have recommended and/or selected My Husband's Girlfriend as a Selected Read including:

Black Diamonds Book Club, Washington, DC
Black Pearls Book Club, Houston, TX
Circle of Essence Book Club, Galveston, TX
Design Divas Book Club, Houston, TX
The Diamond Divas
Imani Book Club, Montgomery, AL
In the Company of My Sisters, Indianapolis, IN
KC Girlfriends Book Club, Kansas City, KS
Ladies Enjoying Literature, Alexandria, VA
People Who Love Good Books, Fort Mill, South Carolina
RAWSISTAZ Online Book Club
Sarcastic Lady Reading Group, Norristown, PA
SistahFriend Book Club, Columbia, South Carolina
Sistahood Book Review, Houston, Texas
Sisters With Assurance and Power (S.W.A.A.P.) Cleveland, Ohio
Thick N Sexy Online Book Club

 



 

Book-Remarks.com Advance Interest
Updated 5/4/09

Check out the top titles that are getting pre-ordered:
(Orders placed February 1 - April 30, 2009)

Sisters & Husbands Connie Briscoe June 2009
Alibi Teri Woods August 2009
Thug Lovin' Wahida Clark August 2009
Bedroom Bully Trista Russell September 2009
Sex Appeal Meta Smith November 2009
Snapped Tracy Brown January 2010


 

Book Reviews

Recently posted books on the Book Reviews page include:

  • In Love With A Younger Man by Cheryl Robinson New

  • Not Even If You Begged by Francis Ray

  • The Things We Do For Love by Xavier Knight

  • The Re-education of the Female by Dante Moore, Sr.

  • Something He Can Feel by Marissa Monteilh

  • Do Me Twice: My Life After Islam by Sonsyrea Tate

  • Reasonable Doubt by Mark Anthony


 

Book Previews

Recently posted books on the Book Previews page include:

 

  • You Gotta Sin to Get Saved by J.D. Mason

  • Gather Together In My Name

  • Street Vengeance by Evie Rhodes

  • Bodyslick by John H. Sibley

  • Stacie and Cole by RM Johnson

  • Single Mama Drama by Kayla Perrin

  • Seven Figures by J.L. King and Tremell McKenzie

  • Something He Can Feel by Marissa Monteilh

 


Upcoming Releases

 

 

Dozens of new links are added each week to provide info regarding the title, author, and publisher of anticipated releases for the year 2007 and beyond. Some of the authors scheduled for new releases include:

  • RM Johnson

  • Pynk

  • E. Lynn Harris

  • K'wan

  • Mary Monroe

  • HoneyB

  • Tracy Brown

  • Omar Tyree

  • Gloria Mallette

  • Nikki Turner

  • Meta Smith

  • Deja King

  • Kimberla Lawson Roby

  • David Alan Grier

  • Dwayne S. Joseph

  • Darrien Lee

  • Deja King

  • Treasure E. Blue

  • Patricia Haley

  • Adrianne Byrd

Click here to view the complete BookRemarks' list of upcoming novels

INFRINGEMENT NOTIFICATION:

Please feel free to reference the information, however outright copying from the Book-Remarks.com List of Upcoming Books and posting the info on similar literary websites is strictly prohibited. Thanks for your cooperation.

DID YOU KNOW that...?

Book-Remarks.com is a literary resource used by libraries all across America?

Authors such as Cecelia Vaughn, Cheri Paris Edwards, Lori Bryant Woolridge, Gayle Jackson Sloan, Deborah Fletcher Mello and many others consider Book-Remarks.com a favorite website?

Self-published books sell very well via BookRemarks?

Reviews written by Book-Remarks.com have appeared on the cover or inside pages of novels such as: The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson,  Playing With Destiny by Phillip Thomas Duck, Wifebeater by Mister Mann Frisby, If It Ain't One Thing by Cheryl Robinson, Grown Folks Business by Victoria Christopher Murray, Acting Out by Benilde Little, Minion: A Vampire Huntress Legend by L.A. Banks, I Am Woman by Sha Givens, May December Souls by Marissa Monteilh, Fate's Redemption by Keith Lee Johnson, The Honey Well by Gloria Mallette, and more?

Book-Remarks.com will celebrate it's ninth anniversary in March 2009?

An interview conducted with author Erica Kennedy (Bling) was linked to a Tavis Smiley archives website?


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DISCLAIMER

Book-Remarks.com is not affiliated with Bookremarks.com (an imposter site).

When referencing or linking to this site, please make sure to include the dash so that it reads Book-Remarks.com. The link is www.book-remarks.com. Thanks.

 

 


Literary Alliances

Cydney Rax Website
Author of My Daughter's Boyfriend

Essence.com

G.R.I.T.S.
Book Club

Author Cydney Rax on MySpace.com

Publishers Weekly

Nevaeh Publishing

WorldCat - world's largest network of library content

African-American Literature
Book Club

R.A.W. SISTAZ

The Sistah Circle
Book Club

FictionAddiction.Net

MosaicBooks.com

The Literary Cafe

Awareness Magazine
AMAG, Inc.

AmiGals Literary Retreat

The Romer Review

Disilgold.com

Romantic Times Book Club

 

Author-Promotion.com

Overbooked.org

BlackExpressions.com

Booking Matters National Book Club Conference Harlem Book Fair 10th Anniversary
Urban Reviews People Who Love Good Books BlackLiterature.com
RollingOut  
Rolling Out Magazine The Good Book Club  Real Page Turners

 
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