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Featured & Special Guests
Eriq La Salle
Pearl Cleage
Victoria Christopher Murray
ReShonda Tate Billingsley
K’Wan
Bernice McFadden
Allison Hobbs
Joylynn Jossel
(a/k/a E. N. Joy)
Pamela Samuels Young
Curtis Bunn
Earl Sewell
Gwen Richardson
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FICTION
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NON-FICTION
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Ann Harris
Cecil Faust
Monique Bowdry
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Michael De’Lure
Ben
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Keisha Bass
Terra Couzens
James R. Hall II
MOIRS Grail Foundation Press
Connaelia
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Harper
Southern Classic Publishing
Tyffany Howard
Chester Hicks
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Ferguson
POETRY
Bonnie Hopkins
Stop the Silence Press
Tracy D. Pierce
Ava Montgomery
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Donetrus
G.
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Francee Bouvenir
Cheryl Robinson
Janice Pender
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Stephanie Jefferson
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Bridget Boyd
Nina Couture Dr. Hearley Smith R J Tolson
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Carlos Wallace
Maria Taylor
Sharon Black Hygh
Littlejohn Friends of the Houston Public
Virginia Whitlock
Therese Taylor-Stinson
Karen Brown HISTORICAL
Victor B. Johnson
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Rhonda Jackson Joseph
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Martha Kennerson
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Vernon R. Matthews Jr.
Deborah
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Jonathan C. Augustine
Pamela D. Beverly
Ralene Berry
Sonya Burrell-Pearl
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All activities will be held at Fallbrook Church Gymnasium or adjacent buildings
Exhibits, featured author sessions and seminars are FREE to the public
Tickets to special events may be purchased online at www.nationalblackbookfestival.com or by calling (281) 444-4265
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FRIDAY,
OCT. 24, 2014
10:00 A.m. tO 7:00 p.m.
AutHOr ExHiBitS OpEN:
80+ Authors from Across the u.s.
Location:
Fallbrook Church Gymnasium
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1:00 p.m.
Featured Author:
Joylynn Jossel
(a/k/a E. N. Joy)
Author of fiction titles Behind Every Good
Woman, More Than I Can Bear, and
I Ain’t Me No More
Location: Fallbrook Church Gymnasium (Rear)
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2:00 p.m.
Featured Author:
Curtis Bunn
Author of fiction titles The Old Man
in the Club, The Truth Is In the
Wine and Homecoming Weekend
Location: TBD
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FRIDAY,
OCT. 24, 2014
SATURDAY,
OCT. 25, 2014
CONTINUED....
3:00 p.m.
Featured Author:
Earl Sewell
Author of fiction titles Loyalty Among Friends
and Cougars
Location: Fallbrook Church Gymnasium (Rear)
Networking Breakfast
8:00 a.m.
Tickets:$30/person
Location:
Brook Café
(within Fallbrook Church)
Hosts:
Alvando and Lisa Ray,
Proprietors of Rise Above Books
4:00 p.m.
Featured Author:
Pamela Samuels Young
Author of legal mystery titles Anybody’s Daughter,
Buying Time and Murder on the Down Low
Location: TBD
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Author Exhibits Open:
80+ Authors from across the U.S.
Location:
5:00 p.m.
Featured Author:
Allison Hobbs
Author of fiction titles Misty: Double Dippin’ 5,
and The Secrets of Silk
Location: TBD
Fallbrook Church Gymnasium
10:00 A.m.
Seminar: Successful Self-Publishing
Presenters: Pamela Samuels-Young, Paulette Harper
and Stephanie Morris
Location: TBD
5:00 p.m.
Seminar: Bringing Out the
Book in You For Aspiring Authors
Presenter: Bonnie Hopkins, Author of Seasons,
Now and Then Again, and Destiny
Location: TBD
6:00 p.m.
Seminar: How
to Start and
Maintain a
Book Club
Presenters: Phenomenal
Divas Book Club
Location: TBD
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11:00 A.m.
Featured Author:
Bernice McFadden
Author of fiction titles Glorious and
The Gathering of Waters
Location: TBD
11:00 A.m.
Workshop: Ask An
Author: Tips From
the Pros on Writing
and Publishing
Featuring the authors of Brown
Girls Books
Location: TBD
12:00 Noon
Featured Author:
Pearl Cleage
Author of memoir Things I Should
Have Told My Daughter, and fiction
titles Till You Hear From Me and
I Wish I Had A Red Dress
Location: TBD
2:00 P.m.
Featured Authors:
Victoria
Christopher
Murray and
ReShonda
Tate
Billingsley
Authors of more than 30 fiction titles, including co-authored books
Fortune & Fame and Friends & Foes
Location: TBD
Seminar: Memoir Writing:
Reclaiming Our History,
Telling Our Stories
Presenter: Janis Kearney
Location: TBD
Seminar: Life Is Not
Complicated, You Are:
The Importance of the
Digital Narrative
Presenter: Carlos Wallace
Location: TBD
Author/Book Club Meet and Greet
Location:
Fallbrook Church Gymnasium (rear)
3:00 P.m.
Featured Author:
Eriq LaSalle
Actor and author of three mysteries/
thrillers, including Laws of Depravity
and Laws of Wrath
Location: TBD
1:00 P.m.
Featured Author:
K’Wan
Author of urban fiction titles
Animal and Animal 2: The Omen
Location: TBD
4:00 P.m.
Spoken Word Poetry
Slam
Seminar: Exploring Science
Fiction From a Biblical
Perspective
Presenter: Donavon Flegeance
Location: TBD
Host Poet:
Victor B. Johnson Sr.
Location: Fallbrook Church Gymnasium
(Rear)
6:00 p.m.
2014 NBBF CLOSES
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