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“So, You Want to Work with Indie Bookstores?”
"In this special presentation, Brown Babies Books, LLC founder, Tameca Lyons will share tips and best practices on how authors can market themselves and their work to independent bookstores; learn how independent bookstores source materials, and practical ways to approach bookstores for inventory selection." - Brown Babies Books Founder and Author, Tameca Lyons
www.brownbabiesbooks.com
Tameca Lyons is a Chicago-based author, career counselor, and founder of the innovative, independent, novel bookstore, Brown Babies Books children’s bookstore specializing in books that have been written or illustrated by BIPOC authors and featuring children and teens of color.
The store has been featured in regional bookstore association newsletters, bookseller panels, and media outlets including a “Chicago’s Very Own” feature with WGN News.
As a creative innovator, leader, and avid believer in a child’s fundamental right to be seen, heard, and fully represented in literature that they read, Brown Babies Books serves to bring books of cultural and racial representation to households and classrooms across the country.
Tameca’s love of writing began at the young age of 7 when she entered her first Illinois Young Authors competition and placed in the semi-finals. She would continue to participate in the Young Authors competition on multiple occasions throughout elementary school where she wrote non-fictional nature stories, picture books and poetry. After a hiatus from writing to pursue a career in counseling and higher education career services, Tameca returned to her first love of writing in 2018.
She is the co-author of the upcoming textbook, The Engineering Student’s Guide to Career Development (expected to be released in January 2024), and is in pre-publication for numerous children’s picture books
Eddie S Pierce Jr Discusses Reconciling Spiritually & Sexuality
Eddie S Pierce Jr Discusses Reconciling Spiritually & Sexuality
Get your copies of LOVE: From Behind by visiting:
www.rainbowroompublishing.com
Thank you to Charles Nelson, the Ubuntu Center of Chicago, and the Brothers of Adodi Chicago for this awesome and affirming opportunity!!!
“Who says it’s never as good as the first time? Eddie S. Pierce’s sophomore effort, Love: From Behind, is sort of a semi-sequel: while his impressive debut, Love: Something Infinite, introduced Black SGL Everyman Seron and explored his blooming relationship with Rodney, this time a member of their extended family, Lee, takes center stage. The action jumps between Lee’s years as a UNLV college student and introduction to gay social life, and his present-day raging sexual appetite—which is fueled by both the heartbreak of falling hard for his frat brother and first love(r), J, and a secret longing for the recently engaged Seron. In connecting the dots between Lee’s past and present, Pierce paints an engrossing portrait of a young man coming to terms with familial trauma, embracing his bisexuality, and no longer allowing fear to shake his faith in himself and others. And the erotic elements—and there are quite a few, including a brief but juicy sexcapade called “Hearts & Spades”—are lit. Love: From Behind is a novella, so it’s more of an appetizer than an entire meal. But it is still oh so tasty, an unexpected though welcome detour in the series. Bring on installment three, Love: After Sex, please!”
- New York Times and Amazon Bestselling Author of the B-Boy Blues series, James Earl Hardy, Creator of the stage play and feature-length film of the same title.
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Eddie S Pierce Jr Discusses Reconciling Spiritually & Sexuality
Eddie S Pierce Jr Discusses Reconciling Spiritually & Sexuality
Get your copies of LOVE: From Behind by visiting:
www.rainbowroompublishing.com
Thank you to Charles Nelson, the Ubuntu Center of Chicago, and the Brothers of Adodi Chicago for this awesome and affirming opportunity!!!
“Who says it’s never as good as the first time? Eddie S. Pierce’s sophomore effort, Love: From Behind, is sort of a semi-sequel: while his impressive debut, Love: Something Infinite, introduced Black SGL Everyman Seron and explored his blooming relationship with Rodney, this time a member of their extended family, Lee, takes center stage. The action jumps between Lee’s years as a UNLV college student and introduction to gay social life, and his present-day raging sexual appetite—which is fueled by both the heartbreak of falling hard for his frat brother and first love(r), J, and a secret longing for the recently engaged Seron. In connecting the dots between Lee’s past and present, Pierce paints an engrossing portrait of a young man coming to terms with familial trauma, embracing his bisexuality, and no longer allowing fear to shake his faith in himself and others. And the erotic elements—and there are quite a few, including a brief but juicy sexcapade called “Hearts & Spades”—are lit. Love: From Behind is a novella, so it’s more of an appetizer than an entire meal. But it is still oh so tasty, an unexpected though welcome detour in the series. Bring on installment three, Love: After Sex, please!”
- New York Times and Amazon Bestselling Author of the B-Boy Blues series, James Earl Hardy, Creator of the stage play and feature-length film of the same title.
🙏🏾PLEASE 👍🏾LIKE 🤗SHARE & 📝SUBSCRIBE
Eddie S Pierce Jr Discusses Reconciling Spiritually & Sexuality
Get your copies of LOVE: From Behind by visiting:
www.rainbowroompublishing.com
Thank you to Charles Nelson, the Ubuntu Center of Chicago, and the Brothers of Adodi Chicago for this awesome and affirming opportunity!!!
“Who says it’s never as good as the first time? Eddie S. Pierce’s sophomore effort, Love: From Behind, is sort of a semi-sequel: while his impressive debut, Love: Something Infinite, introduced Black SGL Everyman Seron and explored his blooming relationship with Rodney, this time a member of their extended family, Lee, takes center stage. The action jumps between Lee’s years as a UNLV college student and introduction to gay social life, and his present-day raging sexual appetite—which is fueled by both the heartbreak of falling hard for his frat brother and first love(r), J, and a secret longing for the recently engaged Seron. In connecting the dots between Lee’s past and present, Pierce paints an engrossing portrait of a young man coming to terms with familial trauma, embracing his bisexuality, and no longer allowing fear to shake his faith in himself and others. And the erotic elements—and there are quite a few, including a brief but juicy sexcapade called “Hearts & Spades”—are lit. Love: From Behind is a novella, so it’s more of an appetizer than an entire meal. But it is still oh so tasty, an unexpected though welcome detour in the series. Bring on installment three, Love: After Sex, please!”
- New York Times and Amazon Bestselling Author of the B-Boy Blues series, James Earl Hardy, Creator of the stage play and feature-length film of the same title.
🙏🏾PLEASE 👍🏾LIKE 🤗SHARE & 📝SUBSCRIBE
Thank you Wyatt O'Brian Evans for this amazing interview opportunity.
Thank you Wyatt O'Brian Evans for this amazing interview opportunity.
"WYATT ! 174: Eddie S. Pierce, Jr.--Taking Indie Publishing to New Heights!"
The WYATT! podcast ( #Wyattonair ) does a deep dive into those timely and critical issues that impact Gay/SGL (Same-Gender-Loving) men with a diverse set of LGBTQ movers, shakers, and change agents. WYATT! is absorbing, informative, provocative--and sprinkled with sly, spicy (and sometimes a wee bit) scandalous humor! The fast-growing podcast airs on both YouTube and Spotify.
A major mandate of WYATT! ( #Wyattonair ) is to present a showcase for LGBTQ+ indie (independent) authors--particularly those of color. And this time out, an indie publisher pulls up to the mic.
This eppy’s special guest is Eddie S. Pierce, Jr., ( @seron1914 ) founder of Rainbow Room Publishing. He provides a unique perspective into the publishing world, and just what it takes for authors to be successful.
Pierce, Jr. and I begin our sit-down by walking through the “Corridors of Time,” to explore his childhood. His answers to the question, “What three qualities best describe you as a little boy, a nipper?” will make you, well…chuckle! (Smile)
We fast forward to his college days: the businessman earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Chicago State University. He describes how that experience shaped him.
Eddie reveals that after discovering he was HIV positive, he became clinically depressed. He explains in heartfelt detail how the depression manifested itself--and how he eventually healed by using writing as his “safe haven.”
Next, the multifaceted talent, who refers to himself as a Black Christian HIV-positive SGL (same-gender-loving) writer, discusses the three works he’s penned: LOVE: Something Infinite, LOVE: From Behind, and LOVE Changes. Afterward, I ask him about the challenges he faces as a Black Christian HIV-positive SGL writer, and how he reconciles the Christian a
Thank you Wyatt O'Brian Evans for this amazing interview opportunity.
Thank you Wyatt O'Brian Evans for this amazing interview opportunity.
The WYATT! podcast ( #Wyattonair ) does a deep dive into those timely and critical issues that impact Gay/SGL (Same-Gender-Loving) men with a diverse set of LGBTQ movers, shakers, and change agents. WYATT! is absorbing, informative, provocative--and sprinkled with sly, spicy (and sometimes a wee bit) scandalous humor! The fast-growing podcast airs on both YouTube and Spotify.
A major mandate of WYATT! ( #Wyattonair ) is to present a showcase for LGBTQ+ indie (independent) authors--particularly those of color. And this time out, an indie publisher pulls up to the mic.
This eppy’s special guest is Eddie S. Pierce, Jr., ( @seron1914 ) founder of Rainbow Room Publishing. He provides a unique perspective into the publishing world, and just what it takes for authors to be successful.
Pierce, Jr. and I begin our sit-down by walking through the “Corridors of Time,” to explore his childhood. His answers to the question, “What three qualities best describe you as a little boy, a nipper?” will make you, well…chuckle! (Smile)
We fast forward to his college days: the businessman earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Chicago State University. He describes how that experience shaped him.
Eddie reveals that after discovering he was HIV positive, he became clinically depressed. He explains in heartfelt detail how the depression manifested itself--and how he eventually healed by using writing as his “safe haven.”
Next, the multifaceted talent, who refers to himself as a Black Christian HIV-positive SGL (same-gender-loving) writer, discusses the three works he’s penned: LOVE: Something Infinite, LOVE: From Behind, and LOVE Changes. Afterward, I ask him about the challenges he faces as a Black Christian HIV-positive SGL writer, and how he reconciles the Christian and SGL parts.
After learning that his first work would be “nearly impos
