Simply Cheris. . .

If you grew up young, gifted, black and female, your story is needed. Gumbo Soup for the Soul: Stories to Inspire Gifted Girls and Women of Color  DUE May 15, 2015 Co-Editors: Donna Y. Ford, Joy Lawson Davis, Michelle Trotman Scott, and Yolande Sealey-Ruiz We have at least 20 chapters... looking for me... we encourage you to submit.. ONLY 5 pages !!!  The stories we are seeking are from professional women who had to overcome a difficult challenge in their teen years to become successful. Stories from successful Black and Latino females/women who overcame great odds/obstacles like peer pressures, poverty, low teacher expectations, teen pregnancy, early high school dropout, drug use, homelessness, etc., are solicited. FOCUS ON 1-2 CHALLENGES (does not have to be tragic). Authors should be between the ages of 25-65. So, if you or anyone you know is interested please have them contact one of us asap via inbox message here or our emails: profjoy1022@gmail.com and donna...

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Remember your first time? Not that first time. . .but the first time you got really excited about someone else's opinion of your work? As much as we authors (some of us anyway) try to take reviews with a grain of salt and then pretend we don't cry in our wine when someone says our book was trash. Oh, that's just me? Well, today, I saw that Rumor Has It , received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly . Here's the review:  Rumor Has It Cheris Hodges, Author DETAILS Hodges ( Love After War ) infuses this contemporary with complex and vivid love, friendship, and loyalty. Public-relations professional Liza Palmer is never off duty, so she ditches a wedding planning session with her best friend, Chante, and heads to the office of Chante’s fiancé, Robert, to discuss an idea for his North Carolina senatorial campaign. When Liza interrupts Robert having sex with a woman on his desk, she is outraged by his behavior, and then hurt by Chante’s r...

Post by AC Arthur's Beach Bash 2015 . Hey Beach Buddy.. Our Guest Author and Birthday Girl, Cheris Hodges, took a few minutes from her Celebration to talk with Angel Deborah .... Tells us about yourself and what inspired your career in writing? I'm Cheris Hodges, I've worked in journalism for more than a decade. But when the economy tanked around 2011, I actually had to switch industries and my day job is in sales at a place I not so affectionally called Wonderland. (I even blog about it). Writing is something th at I always knew I'd do. It was an escape, it was a chance to be creative and I could make up stuff without getting in trouble! And I wanted to tell stories about people who looked like me.  What percentage of your writing is based on personal experiences? I would say about 20 percent of my writing is based on personal experiences. If I wrote about my life, the readers would be bored to tears.  Tell us a little about your current or any ...