Week 6 Assignment 3 Three Subgenres

Are you looking for African American Christian Fiction? Try this fan website Readin N Writin with Patricia. I used Google to find this site. The people on this site a true believers. Sharon Foster, Kendra Norman-Bellamy and ReShonda Billingsley are bestsellers in this genre.


Are you into Gangsta and Hip-Hop fiction? It's get rich or die trying. It may be on stage or hustling the streets, but it is always about the bling. You may want to look for Teri Woods, Ashley and Nikki Turner. Check out this Twitter site. HipHopFiction 



If Erotica and love stories are what you are after...check out Kiki Swinson (Hardhitting and plenty hot), Francis Ray(Bourgeoisie and Romantic) and Zane (Just plain hot.)

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Week 6 The Prezi Affair Urban Fiction Subgenres

Urban Fiction Subgenres are:   

Borough Warfare 

 

 

 Christian

Erotica

 

Literary

Hip-Hop

                                                     

Week 6 Assignment 1 What I Discovered

At Street Fiction you are able to find books set in cities that interest you by looking in the Places link.

Once you have read an interview from an author you will find a heading for Help Improve Street Fiction. You'll find a link for writing reviews and if you are a writer there is a link for requesting an interview.

Week 5 Assignment 3

Flavorpill's 30 Most Anticipated Books of 2013

Wise Men 

With bigots, racist, rich and poor as well as being a period piece if you liked the Help this book might appeal to you.

Week 5 Assignment 2 Early Word

What came first the chicken or the egg, the book or the movie? Hunger Games the movie and Twilight the movie created a great deal of interest for the book. I think it was just the opposite for Harry Potter.

Early reviews on upcoming books to movies such as Mortal Instruments: City of Bones can spark interest in the book. Very nice feature at Early Word

Week 5 Assignment 1 NPR & Street Fiction

I did not know that NPR has a Bestsellers List. I don't think that I have every been asked for it, but it's nice to know that they have it.

The Street Fiction site allows users to link to OCLC. I thought that was a nice service. There are also links to library systems that offer book list for Urban Fiction. I thought that was also a nice touch.

Week 4 Goodread Impression

I found this to be a nice social site for sharing books with friends. However, I thought some of the recommendations were a little off.

Week 4 Assigment 1

Hi Becky,

Thanks for being my friend. I looked and I looked for a book just for you. And here is what I found.

You might want to try The Almost Archer Sisters. From the review I read it seems like a life is not what you thought it was book.


Hi Lori,

Thanks for being my friend. I looked and I looked for a book just for you. And here is what I found.

You might want to try The Perfect Man by Naeem Murr. From the review there seems to be strong relationships, but always more than meets the eye.

Hi Kate,

Thanks for being my friend. I looked and I looked for a book just for you. And here is what I found.

I read a review for a book entitled Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor. It seems to have some of the same elements...the rich, the heartbroken, those who want to move on and those that can't let go.

Week 3 Conversation 3

I have a book that I think you will like. Endurance is the story of  Ernest Shackleton who set sail aboard the ship named Endurance. They were headed to the Antarctic, but Endurance became trapped in ice and permanently crippled. For months Shackleton and his crew survived on drifting ice before they were finally able to set sail in one of the ship's lifeboats.

Week 3 Conversation 2

Well, I have not read any good vampire books...so let's take a look at Novelist or Goodreads they may have a few good titles. Have you ever read the one that started it all?

Week 3 Conversation 1

Sounds like strong, independent and outgoing women in real situations appeal to her. I would recommened  Under the Tuscan Sun

Week 3 Assignments

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and Lost sound like pretty good reads.

Week 2 Assignment 3

I hope Becky L. likes the titles I picked for her.

Week 2 Assignment 2

A couple of recent titles I enjoyed:

L.A. 56 is a fast paced true crime police story that reads like a noir classic. Writer Joel Engel paints a dark picture of a sadistic rapist and racist’s cops that even James Ellroy can’t pen in his fiction. The year is 1956 and there have been a rash of rapes in predominately white areas in and around L.A. The victims are white, the perpetrator is black and to make matters worst he’s posing as a cop. White officers have made up their minds that a former black police officer is the culprit. But one good cop, Detective Galindo who worked the Black Dahlia murder case, is determined to get at the truth.      

Most Wanted is the first person account of Massachusetts’s State Police Col. Thomas Foley who spent nearly twenty years of his career trying to capture the most wanted man in America. From the late 50’s through the early 1990’s Irish gangster Whitey Bulger was the most vicious and violent gangster in Boston history. He was feared by politicians, the Mafia and law enforcement alike. After more than a decade on the run Whitey Bulger was finally captured by the FBI. But Col. Foley knew the painful truth. The FBI may have captured him, but it was the FBI that gave him a license to kill and shielded him at every turn for years.