ENAKO BLUE by Brenda Woods
Posted by Daniel on August 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Who was Enako Blue? She was beautiful and good-hearted. She was Monterey’s best friend. She was the only girl Jamal cared about, the one who saw through his player act. She was the one who understood the burden of Eddie’s family. She was the best singer anyone had ever heard, with a voice like vanilla [...]
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Q&A: Teri Woods (Library Journal)
Posted by Daniel on August 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
By Vanessa Morris — Library Journal, 7/15/2009 (posted with permission from LJ)
In 1992 Teri Woods, then a Philadelphia legal secretary and mother, finished her first novel and spent the next six years submitting True to the Game to more than 20 publishers. Undeterred by their rejections, she self-published the novel in 1998 and sold thousands [...]
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