Sable Lit Reviews

Title: Annual Martha’s Vineyard African-American Film Festival Location: Martha’s Vineyard, MA Link out: Click here Description: LIGHTS CAMERA INSPIRATION Sponsored by Macy’s, the 8th annual Run and Shoot Filmworks Martha’s Vineyard African-American Film Festival celebrates the African-American film community by featuring up and coming filmmakers. Start Date: 2010-08-11 Start Time: 09:30 End Date: 2010-08-14 End [...]

The mixing of races is not just a social construction within the human race. We’re not just talking about mixed breeds of cats and dogs. While it is not referred to as an interracial relationship when a polar bear and a grizzly mate, the reasons it happens can be similar to mating among the races- [...]

Title: AAMBC National Meeting Location: San Antonio, Texas Description: Join your favorite authors at the African Americans on the Move Book Club in San Antonio, Texas where authors and readers are brought together to experience southern hospitality and build relationships around their favorite books. Start Date: 2009-06-13 End Date: 2009-06-14

With enough scandal to make a soap opera script seem tame, Sylvia Hubbard’s Secrets, Lies and Family Tiesis filled with intertwining plot-lines where everyone is related or connected to everyone else if not by blood then by lust and deceit. Lust and love have more in common in this novel than just being comprised of the same number [...]

I mentioned several posts ago that I am a magazine junkie. I was reading Success magazine when I came across a successful entrepreneur who combined her love for food, culture and environmentalism into a business–the chocolate business to be exact. What’s the big deal about organic chocolate? Well, after earning a degree in psychology and [...]

Shobhan Bantwal takes the complex, rich Indian culture with customs about which the western public at large may not have deep knowledge of and weaves a story that often reads likes a riveting morality play. The author shows how greed can spiral into a mountain of increasingly more devastating actions and how the injustice of [...]

Creating believable multicultural characters involves more than just making appropriate appearance changes to the character in the story to mimic society’s view of a given race or ethnic origin of people. To create a balanced and authentic character, writers should incorporate the richness of the chosen ethnic background. In the post Multicultural Identities II, I [...]

As writers, we take the slightest detail to make our character’s lives more authentic. I mentioned in the Details of Writing post how researching an element within your character’s home environment can tell the reader something about the character and his or her lifestyle.  In that instance we were talking about pools for stories set [...]

Multicultural character development isn’t just about skin color or ethnic origin. Many occupations and jobs carry a culture all their own. As a result, the vast details of multicultural character development are some of the most interesting research work you can do for your novels and stories. Many authors choose to fictionalize a dream job [...]

Title: BET Black College Tour Location: Prairie View, Texas Description: Occuring at Prairie View A&M University, in its 7th year, BET hosts the back to school college tour. Support BET as it creates excitement and social activites while boosting community awareness regarding the longevity of US Historically Black Colleges. For more information about the tour [...]