I am beyond excited to announce that my FIRST book When a Purple Rose Blooms is available!! You can order copies directly from my publisher Nomadic Press. Order here.
The book is a collection of essays and poetry about my experiences with black womanhood. There's lots of humor, pain, and love on every page. This book wrote itself. I had no intention of releasing a book of poetry and essays, but when I saw how much I've written over the last 20 years I thought, "why not?" and went for it.
The book launch is tonight, 7pm at the Oakland Peace Center. I will be launching my book along with 6 other new writers to Nomadic Press. I'm in great, literary company.
Thank you to every person who has read this blog over the years, attended my readings, listened to my radio stories or read my articles. Thank you for your support. I hope you enjoy the book!
The book is a collection of essays and poetry about my experiences with black womanhood. There's lots of humor, pain, and love on every page. This book wrote itself. I had no intention of releasing a book of poetry and essays, but when I saw how much I've written over the last 20 years I thought, "why not?" and went for it.
The book launch is tonight, 7pm at the Oakland Peace Center. I will be launching my book along with 6 other new writers to Nomadic Press. I'm in great, literary company.
Thank you to every person who has read this blog over the years, attended my readings, listened to my radio stories or read my articles. Thank you for your support. I hope you enjoy the book!
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Great post.
ReplyDeleteI have conflicting feelings about Gwen. The little girl in me loves all of those dolls, and I often wish my own daughters were into them. I was sort of set straight by an 8-year old friend of mine. She said, "Diana, if you want your daughters to get into the American Girls, you should read them the books."
Oops. I am always so excited to see the new dolls and all their (expensive) paraphernalia, that I didn't even think about the books and what those could mean to a little girl. Through the American Girls, I learned from this 8-year-old that kids really do learn about issues and historical periods from those books.
All of the American Girls dolls have a similar look, so that regardless of the doll's historical period or biography, you can pretend whatever you want about the doll once you have it. My point is that without the books and stories, the lesson of the doll's biography would be lost.
It really is a shame that American Girls are so expensive, though. I guess all girls can access the books through the library, but is there a way that all girls can get the dolls and all their accoutrement?
I guess this doll is like any other toy -- what the child gets out of it is dependent upon so many things, especially the tone set by the parents.
Thanks for the opportunity to think about this!
Your 8-year-old friend is on to something. Why not buy the books? You're right, the stories do pull in girls. Along with the clothes, restaurant, hair salon and doll hospital at the American Girl store. :) Thanks for your comment Diana.
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