Sable Lit Reviews

SLR:   What’s the biggest initiative going on at EDC Creations right now EDC: EDC Creations, The Sankofa Literary Society and The Black Authors Network announce the launch of their 2009 “Give the Gift of Knowledge Campaign,” bringing readers and authors together to help improve literacy. In 2004, during the Christmas holidays, Ella Curry, the founder of [...]

     SLR: Why did you decide to focus on authors and the process of better connecting them to the publishing world and the book-buying public? EDC: Often times launching your own business is difficult and the expense that comes with owning your business can be overwhelming. In an effort to increase my income and to acquire health insurance, [...]

SLR: As the owner of EDC Creations and the Sankofa Literary Society and the producer and moderator of an Internet radio talk show, The Black Authors Network, which showcases authors, publishers and community leaders across the global network, what put you on course to become an entrepreneur?    EDC: My motivation to become an entrepreneur [...]

SLR.                  Who or what inspires you? EDC: My mother who has survived, against all odds, when the doctors gave up on her life. My father who became a successful man in the South, when no one believed a Black man could own acreage and have a sizeable bank account. My best friend Samuel Barclay who [...]

SLR:  Who influenced you growing up? EDC: Mary Glass was my high school librarian. Mrs. Glass instilled in me the art of being a lady. Mrs. Glass was a chocolate, petite, Delta Diva — very refined in every sense of the word. All my life I wanted to be like her and to make her [...]

As the president of EDC Creations and The Sankofa Literary Society, located in Prince George County, Maryland, Ella D. Curry’s firm provides press kits, graphic design, website design, and branding to small and medium-sized businesses, authors of all literary genres, and individuals.  EDC Creations’ specialization in Internet book promotions, publishing website and marketing materials for [...]

More than just a catalyst to ticket sales, the predominant face associated with a film has a lot to do with the direction it will take and how it will be perceived. The same holds true for the making of The Secret Life of Bees, a New York Times bestseller by Sue Monk Kidd. While [...]

Books and their parts are often used as metaphors for life. For example, “never judge a book by its cover” or “judge a man not by the color of his skin by but the content of his character”, but Grammy-winning, multi-platinum recording artist, Alicia Keys, as she often does in her music, reveals a new [...]

In general, I don’t consider myself a movie-hyper. As a matter of fact, I tend to shy away from movies that get too much press out of the fear that I will be severely disappointed come opening night. It’s the reason why I have not seen Men In Black, Independence Day, any of the Lord [...]

With a presence that is all embracing, Dr. Maya Angelou has released to the world a volume of poetry and prose to the women she has adopted as daughters and to those who have claimed her as mother in Letter to My Daughter. Not unlike other works such as I Know Why the Caged Bird [...]