Simply Cheris. . .

I've been in USA Today once. I wrote a letter to the editor back in the 90s. And I held on to the paper until two years ago. (No, I'm not a hoarder!) I'm in USA Today again and just like 15-year-old Cheris, I'm super excited! Michelle Monkou , author and USA Today Happy Ever After reporter reviewed Recipe For Desire. Cheris Hodges ' Recipe for Desire mixes humor, romance and delicious-sounding foods to stir the romance book appetite. This story of opposites attracting has a healthy dose of clashes, making up, and falling head over heels in love. Bad-girl Marie Charles goes down hard, but you can't count her out. She's a likable character with much passion and spunk and dusts herself off to try again. Meanwhile, Devon Harris is a master in the kitchen as a chef and a master as a romantic hero who must conduct his own soul searching. Recipe for Desire chronicles two characters' journeys who are immersed in his and her flaws and weakness...

Here's the press release for this event!!  Featured book fair writers will include Cheris Hodges, Charlotte-based author of 13 romance novels, offering a workshop on writing and marketing your work. The FIRST CHARLOTTE BOOK FAIR AND MORE IN HISTORIC WESLEY HEIGHTS      Promoting literacy is the goal of this new, open-to-the-public fun family event CHARLOTTE – The first  Charlotte Book Fair kicks off early on Saturday Oct. 6, the brainchild of a group that came together months ago with the goal of promoting literacy in the community in a fun and welcoming environment. The Wadsworth Estate and the streets of the Historic Wesley Heights neighborhood will be transformed into a literacy incubator for Charlotte. The free, open-the-public fair will be an all-day family-centered event, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at 400 South Summit Avenue. With the theme “The Joy and Benefits of Reading -- Embrace the Possibilities,” the Charlotte Book Fair w...

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This week if we haven't learned anything, I hope we've learned that Facebook and Twitter will bring fools to their knees. Two people have threatened the President's life on Twitter . Dumb ass Donte Sims from Charlotte, who according to The Charlotte Observer , "apologized for threatening to kill the president both verbally and through a written apology." Three more tweets over the next 12 minutes include Sims allegedly saying he was going to aim a gun at Obama’s forehead and that he was “plotting President Obama’s murder.” According to an affadavit, federal investigators spoke with Sims on Wednesday at his southeast Charlotte home, where he acknowledged that was his Twitter account and he had indeed posted those messages. An agent said Sims “smiled as I read the statements about him. Sims stated that he published the statements because he hated President Obama.” Then Ohio teen, Alyssa Douglas tweeted last night: “Someone needs to assassinate Obama...

Not all young people support President Barack Obama. And some of them are dumb enough to take to Twitter with death threats against the Commander in Chief. Now, for those of you who don't know, that's a federal crime. You're going to be convicted --the evidence is there, HELLO--and you will do all of your time. There is no federal parole. Well, you'll do all of your time if you're a specific race--but I'll get to that in a minute. A 21-year-old Charlotte man, Donte Jarmar Sims , is in custody after he tweeted about killing the president while the Democratic National Convention was taking place in Charlotte. What a genius. The threats were done via Sims' Twitter account on Monday morning. The first tweet was sent out at 10:06 a.m. on Monday when Sims tweeted, "Well Ima Assassinate president Obama this evening !... Gotta get this monkey off my chest while he's in town." "Ima hit president Obama with that Lee Harvey Oswald swagg,...

Labor Day:  One thing I realized, Democrats whine a lot. When you step on to a crowded Charlotte Area Transit Light Rail train, you can't expect to be comfortable. But one whiny witch complained so loudly and vehemently about my purse touching her precious arm, while my face was nearly pressed into the chest (moobs and all) of a strange man --who thank the LORD smelled good -- that people started shifting to make this heffa comfortable. Glad this witch is gone! All of NC's HBCUs have been ignored in the DNC talk of higher education. It's not in the program how student from NC A&T got the sit in movement rolling, nothing about NCCU, JCSU, WSSU. . .I'm not feeling that. North Carolina is more than UNC, Duke and NC State. I mean, really, NC State?! A quick note, the rest of North Carolina is really going to hate Charlotte forever. Hopefully enough to keep Pat McCrory out of the governor's mansion. Outsider my ass.   Question of the week, though: What th...

People waited in long lines to get community tickets to see President Barack Obama last month. Today, the day Obama will accept the Democratic Party's nomination for president, those tickets are useless. Obama's speech was moved from Bank of America Stadium to Time Warner Cable Arena. BofA Stadium holds nearly 70,000 people, TWC holds about 20,000. Delegates, of course, get prime seating in the arena. Community ticket holders get turned around. But not all holders of these tickets are angry. Portia Rice Portia Rice, a Charlotte resident, had one of those tickets but she won't be allowed entry into the arena. However, she did take part in a conference call with the President . Some of you earned your tickets through the 9-3-1 program -- nine hours of volunteer work over three days for a community credential ticket. You've registered to vote. You've talked to your neighbors. You're doing unbelievable work that's making a difference in this close...