Books & Brunch in Lawrenceville, GA, 10/25/2008

Xpress Yourself Publishing authors Hazel Mills and myself, Linda R. Herman, were in great company on yesterday at the first annual Books & Brunch event in Lawrenceville, GA. Books & Brunch was hosted by Especially Yours Events, Tamara Angela Grant, author of the upcoming novel, The Cooling Board.

Readers and authors were brought together in a cozy yet classy venue in downtown Lawrenceville. The authors in attendance, Avah LaReaux, Monica Douglas Davis, April Marquette, Daniel J. Chamberlayne, Ira J. Bolden, Sonia Chess, Tina Brooks-McKinney, Hazel Mills, and Linda R. Herman all read excerpts from their books. Also in attendance reading excerpts from their novels were Kendall Publication authors Camille Kleidyse and Tangelika Bolen. Author Shani Greene-Dowdell, who won an African American Literary Award for Best Self-Published Author 2008, also made a special appearance along with SBS Book Club President, Mashawn Mickels.

I was honored to meet publicist Carol King who has had the pleasure of working with Tamara Angela Grant and Tina Brooks McKinney.

The event was truly a success and I look forward to the next Books & Brunch hosted by Especially Yours Events!

Linda
www.LindaRHerman.com

Why should you read Xpress Yourself Publishing titles?

Be sure to check out the visual book trailer that displays the 2008 releases from Xpress Yourself Publishing, winner of the African American Literary Award for Best Independent Publishing House 2008! You also get a sneak peek at a few upcoming 2009 titles!
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Linda R. Herman
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Please reach out to a domestic violence SURVIVOR!

I am Linda R. Herman and at age seventeen, my younger cousin was raped by the father of her then one year old son. The rape occurred in the child's presence where the father held a knife to my cousin's throat and forced himself on her. He also banged her head into the floor leaving her physically, emotionally, and mentally scarred for life. The physical bruising is gone but the emotional and mental live on.

My cousin, a brave young woman, is now in her second year of college. She is nineteen years old and the mother of one. Even though she does hold down a part-time job she is having financial difficulties.

How can you help? Please purchase an autographed copy (signed by me) of Somebody Prayed for Me (release date December 2, 2008) through my cousin's website, www.ShakestaWest.webs.com. All profits from sales go to her toward her education and her son's well-being.

Please visit her site and be sure to sign the guestbook!

P.S. The short story, "Silent Cries" is loosely based on what my cousin went through as a victim of teen abuse. It is the first story in the anthology Somebody Prayed for Me.

Linda R. Herman

www.LindaRHerman.com

Please vote for Linda R. Herman

It truly is an honor to be nominated!

Hi all,

I have been nomiated in THREE categories and really need your votes.


Consequences When Love Is Blind is my debut book and to see how well its doing is truly amazing. Please cast your vote.

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And don't forget to cast your vote on AAMBC's polls as well, where I've been nominated for Best New Author and Author of The Year!

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Thank you and many blessings,

Linda
www. lindarherman. com
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Erogenous Zone: A Sexual Voyage (My Dream Come True)
Succulent: Chocolate Flava II (Almost Identical)
Mocha Chocolate: Taste A Piece of Ecstasy (The Song In my Heart)
and coming soon The Grown & Sexy Anthology (Deja's View)