Sable Lit Reviews

I participated in my first book signing last night. It was at an RWA chapter meeting. It was a great opportunity to get the feel of book signing before I sign my books at the Tempe Arts Festival next weekend. I wasn’t expecting a stampede at the book signing table because I write multicultural romance and [...]

As my writing career has started to evolve, I’ve had to examine why I write. It is simple to say I write because I have to or it’s like breathing — if I don’t I’d die inside. Yes, those explanations are severely dramatic although they may be very true emotionally speaking.              I started out [...]

  April was filled with a series of firsts in my writing career. It was the first time:  I traveled to a new state alone without the intention of meeting family, friends or coworkers. I attended an RWA sponsored writer’s conference. I attended an African American writer’s conference. I visited Chicago, Illinois. I considered truly being self-employed without [...]

        This past April, I attended my very first writers’ conference. It was not only my first writers’ conference, it was the first time I networked in-person among readers, writers, editors and agents as a published author. The Tempe Arizona Desert Rose RWA chapter hosted the 2008 biannual writer’s conference in Chandler, Arizona. It was [...]

Minority cultures often struggle between losing themselves in assimilation or alienating their communities with acts that suggest separatism. The majority of society assumes that their rituals, morals and traditions should predominate because in terms of sheer numbers they dominate.  As a result, we have a historical discourse that features people of color as a footnote to [...]