BlackBrooklyn.net an Internet Portal targeting African-Americans

BlackBrooklyn.net an Internet Portal targeting African-Americans

BlackBusiness.net will be providing living information, news, education and more. Features of the site include a highly circulated e-newsletter, multiple tiers of advertising, a business directory, faith and belief listings, personals listings, event calendars, entertainment, current news feeds, and classifieds.

(PRWEB) April 27, 2006 -- BlackBrooklyn.net serves the purpose of providing a readily identifiable icon in the Brooklyn Metropolitan Community. BlackBrooklyn.net goal is to be a very comprehensive resource for Brooklyn-based African American business and family.

BlackBusiness.net will be providing living information, news, education and more. Features of the site include a highly circulated e-newsletter, multiple tiers of advertising, a business directory, faith and belief listings, personals listings, event calendars, entertainment, current news feeds, and classifieds.

About BlackBrooklyn.net

BBK Talent TV - Local talent including singers, rappers, models, fashion designers, athletes, and more can feature live footage and or electronic press kits.

BBK Shopping Network - 60 second commercial spots available for local business owners to market their products and services via our web video player.

Celebrity Spotlight - featuring interviews with national celebrities (actors, recording artists, and public figures)

Real Estate channel - BlackBrooklyn.net is planning to join forces with the Public and the Real Estate Professionals to provide you with a phenomenal opportunity to get your residential and commercial properties in front of our visitors.

Realtors, feel free to list your houses on our site also. We support marketing materials and images of properties. Contact us today for specials!

BlackBrooklyn.net has several target demographics to assist Real Estate Professionals in their marketing:

Business to Business: Businesses looking to market and serve other businesses look to BlackBrooklyn.net for marketing opportunities. Using the Real Estate Channel gives businesses the opportunity to buy, sell, or rent commercial properties

Business to Consumers: Using the reach, rank, and traffic of BlackBrooklyn.net allows Real Estate Business Professionals to effectively reach an affluent target demographic market which is ready and prepared to purchase residential and commercial properties.

Consumers: By targeting consumers, BlackBrooklyn.net has a great niche for the Real Estate Market. Those currently living in "Black Brooklyn", those looking to visit the city, or those wanting to move to the city will potentially see your properties.

BlackBrooklyn.net has a loan loan calculator where realtors can submit html coding for virtual tours to be listed and much more.

News articles

Events Calendar - community can list events such as family reunions, free events, etc.

Special Feature Columns:
"Say It Loud" - Oronde Takuma comments Brooklyn's Black History and heritage and present social justice issues in today's world. Access to external forum.

"Speak! Sista" - Wanda "SoulGirl 411" Mateo speaks to the ladies about love, life and everything in between - sometime touchy subjects that some people are afraid to touch upon. Access to external Live Cam sessions and forum.

BlackBrooklyn.net is managed by Focus Music Group, Inc. For more information on this company, please contact us at 877-879-2882 or log on to our web site at www.blackbrooklyn.net

RushPRnews.com named as media sponsor for 2006 2nd Annual Queens Book Fair

RushPRnews.com named as media sponsor for 2006 2nd Annual Queens Book Fair. The Queens Book Fair 2006 also recently announced early Author sign-up bonus for 2006 Queens Book Fair.

This year's book fair will be held on August 19, 2006 at Rufus King Park in Jamaica, New York. Last year the Queens Book Fair was held on April 30, 2005 and was featured in Newsday, May 3, 2005, article "This book fair’s for the self-published" New York City Edition Neighborhoods section pg. A52.

Self-published authors from around the country flocked the 2005 Queens Book Fair, along with book lovers around the tri-state area.

Queens Book Fair 2006 Announces Author sign-up for 2nd Annual Queens Book Fair. This year's book fair will be held on August 19, 2006 at Rufus King Park in Jamaica, New York.

Last year the Queens Book Fair was held on April 30, 2005 and was featured in Newsday, May 3, 2005, article "This book fair’s for the self-published" New York City Edition Neighborhoods section pg. A52. Self-published authors from around the country flocked the 2005 Queens Book Fair, along with book lovers around the tri-state area.

The Queens Book Fair committee is looking foward to working with Rushprnews.com during the upcoming months preceding the 2006 Queens Book Fair.

About RushPRnews.com

Anne Howard, RushPRnews' founder, has worked for the past fifteen years in New York, San Francisco and Montréal in the public relations industry. She has harnessed her vast promotional and Internet marketing experience to offer the best press release distribution services with the most up-to-date media lists, which she has built over the course of her long career. Anne is also available to develop complete public relations campaign, from scratch to completion. Projects are accepted on a case-by-case basis. As the Director of RushPRnews, she will make sure that customers receive personalized care and are offered the best option for their promotional needs.

Anne studied Translation and Communications at Concordia University in her native Montréal and is fluent in English and French. Besides work, Anne enjoys reading, traveling, raising her boy and walking the dog and no, she is not looking for someone to date on the Internet.

RushPRnews' mission is to support and enhance any public relations efforts by simplifying the distribution and media follow-up process and the obtainment of press clippings.

The 2nd Annual Queens Book Fair is pleased to announce RushPRnews.com as media sponsor for the upcoming 2nd Annual Queens Book Fair.

To be placed on our email list for the 2006 Queens Book Fair or to join our authors club you may log on to our web site at http://www.cbbooksdistribution.com/ or you may email us at cbbookdist@aol.com.

The Queens Book Fair is offering a $25.00 bonus discount for all authors who register before the June 25th deadline. Log on to our web site at www.cbbooksdistribution.com for more information or to inquire about the 2nd Annual Queens Book Fair early registration bonus.



Phil Andrews
CEO
PA Public Relations Company
www.papublicrelations.com

Queens Book Fair 2006 Announces Announces Author sign-up

Queens Book Fair 2006 Announces Announces Author sign-up for 2006 Queens Book Fair.This year's book fair will be held on August 19, 2006 at Rufus King Park in Jamaica, New York. Last year the Queens Book Fair was held on April 30, 2005 and was featured in Newsday, May 3, 2005, article "This book fair’s for the self-published" New York City Edition Neighborhoods section pg. A52. Self-published authors from around the country flocked the 2005 Queens Book Fair, along with book lovers around the tri-state area.

Queens, New York - Thu Apr 20 2006] Queens Book Fair 2006 Announces Announces Author sign-up for 2006 Queens Book Fair.This year's book fair will be held on August 19, 2006 at Rufus King Park in Jamaica, New York. Last year the Queens Book Fair was held on April 30, 2005 and was featured in Newsday, May 3, 2005, article "This book fair’s for the self-published" New York City Edition Neighborhoods section pg. A52. Self-published authors from around the country flocked the 2005 Queens Book Fair, along with book lovers around the tri-state area.

Queens Book Fair 2006 Announces Author sign-up for 2nd Annual Queens Book Fair. This year's book fair will be held on August 19, 2006 at Rufus King Park in Jamaica, New York. Last year the Queens Book Fair was held on April 30, 2005 and was featured in Newsday, May 3, 2005, article "This book fair’s for the self-published" New York City Edition Neighborhoods section pg. A52. Self-published authors from around the country flocked the 2005 Queens Book Fair, along with book lovers around the tri-state area. Queens Borough President Helen Marshall proclaimed the month of April as Book Month in Queens.

In 2005 the Queens Book Fair presented a Power Networking Breakfast prior to the opening of the Queens Book Fair to "Connect the Dots" between Corporate, government, Small Businesses and the literary world.

The fair has generated local buzz for emphasizing the growing phenomenon of self-published African-American authors. The writers have seized mainstream publishers’ attention by independently printing small quantities of their work and controlling all of its creative and financial aspects.

The authors’ success hinges on marketing strategies as diverse as door-to-door sales, street vending and arranging book signings at popular restaurants or nightclubs. But before this year, only Harlem had established an annual book fair where writers are exposed to thousands of readers in one setting.

The Queens Book Fair attracted hundreds of people to Jamaica Market, and Piper and Rogers were counting on the event to introduce some writers to a bigger audience than they've ever enjoyed.

"It was packed," Rogers said. "And I was shocked. It was rainy and we didn’t think people would show up. But they still came out."

To some degree, the women are all about taking chances. They started their book business almost by accident a decade ago, while selling gift baskets and floral arrangements at the St. Nicholas of Tolentine Flea Market in Jamaica.

C & B Books Distribution began bringing used books from their own collections to sell at the market, selling out each week. A frequent customer soon asked if the pair could get their hands on books by other African-American authors.

"She asked how soon we could get them, and I said we'd have them for her the next Saturday," Rogers said. "And I thought, ‘I don't know how I'm going to get these, but I'm going to find out.’"

Rogers, 44, not only supplied the requested books, but soon found herself fielding requests for work by other black writers. Within weeks, she and Piper were visiting distributor warehouses that stacked dozens of titles from tiny imprints around the country.

By 2001, the women sensed a revolution stirring in the African-American literary community. Sister Souljah’s 1999 cautionary coming-of age novel "The Coldest Winter Ever" had reinvigorated an urban-literature market that had hibernated for decades, provoking a new generation of black writers to eschew the mythic glamour of drugs and violence.

Other genres took shape around the same time, including revenge melodramas, romance thrillers and inspirational memoirs about overcoming abuse, addiction and lives of crime.

"It’s a whole industry booming within an industry," said Angela Wallace, whose self-published novel, "Secret Dramas," earned acclaim for its unique hybrid of soap opera and mob intrigue. "[Writers] are implementing their own imprints. As a result of that, they're bringing other black authors in under their umbrella. I think mainstream publishing is noticing that."

Brenda Piper and Carol Rogers established their own tiny umbrella on the Internet in 2002. In March 2002 Mr. Phil Andrews joined C & B Books as its Public Relations Director to strengthen C & B Books brand name recognition in the literary community. C&B Books Distribution eventually opened its first physical location at the Jamaica Market in October and introduced its newest location in a compact corner store in Flushing in January.

The partners built their stock through consignment deals with self-published authors, advising writers through labor-intensive processes such as mission statements, cover design, press releases and book signings.

While she tirelessly provides encouragement and advice, Piper, 53, insists that no book will sell without its author’s own follow-through.

"They have to be willing to get out," she said. "They can't just drop their book at the store and expect the stores to sell their book. We support authors through C & B Books authors club which promotes self-published authors.

But the women treat the Queens Book Fair like a community service as much as they do a business endeavor.

The event, which offered seminars and workshops for published and unpublished writers alike, kicked off with a networking breakfast to help forge partnerships in New York’s independent literary scene. Readers had the chance to meet and solicit advice from their favorite authors, as well.

"Harlem and Brooklyn, they already have their recognition - even the Bronx," Piper said. "Queens was very low-key, and it’s just starting to blossom."


To be placed on our email list for the 2006 Queens Book Fair or to join our authors club you may log on to our web site at www.cbbooksdistribution.com or you may email us at cbbookdist@aol.com. The Queens Book Fair is offering a $25.00 bonus discount for all authors who register before the June 25th deadline. Log on to www.cbbooksdistribution.com for more information or to inquire about the Queens Book Fair early registration bonus.


Phil Andrews

CEO

PA Public Relations Company

http://www.papublicrelations.com/

AALBC.com named as media sponsor for 2006 2nd Annual Queens Book Fair

AALBC.com named as media sponsor for 2006 2nd Annual Queens Book Fair. Queens Book Fair 2006 recently announced Author sign-up for 2006 Queens Book Fair. This year's book fair will be held on August 19, 2006 at Rufus King Park in Jamaica, New York. Last year the Queens Book Fair was held on April 30, 2005 and was featured in Newsday, May 3, 2005, article "This book fair’s for the self-published" New York City Edition Neighborhoods section pg. A52. Self-published authors from around the country flocked the 2005 Queens Book Fair, along with book lovers around the tri-state area.

Queens Book Fair 2006 Announces Author sign-up for 2nd Annual Queens Book Fair. This year's book fair will be held on August 19, 2006 at Rufus King Park in Jamaica, New York. Last year the Queens Book Fair was held on April 30, 2005 and was featured in Newsday, May 3, 2005, article "This book fair’s for the self-published" New York City Edition Neighborhoods section pg. A52. Self-published authors from around the country flocked the 2005 Queens Book Fair, along with book lovers around the tri-state area. Queens Borough President Helen Marshall proclaimed the month of April as Book Month in Queens

AALBC.com was founded by Troy Johnson in 1997, AALBC.com is a widely recognized source of author profiles, book recommendations, intriguing on-line discussion boards, writer's resources, articles, and critical reviews of books written by and about African Americans.

AALBC.com is devoted to promoting African American authors and their work. AALBC.com's goals include;

Promoting the diverse spectrum of African American literature

Satisfying readers’ book buying needs

Serving as a resource and vehicle of expression for aspiring and established writers

Introducing and making African American literature more accessible to a broader spectrum of readers

Providing a forum for the exchange of constructive opinions on African American literature

Fostering positive trends in African American reading and literature.


AALBC.com is also the highest ranked and most frequently visited web site dedicated African American literature. Explore AALBC.com and immerse yourself in the richness of the African American literary culture.

The 2nd Annual Queens Book Fair is pleased to announce AALBC.com as media sponsor for the upcoming Queens Book Fair.

To be placed on our email list for the 2006 Queens Book Fair or to join our authors club you may log on to our web site at http://www.cbbooksdistribution.com/ or you may email us at cbbookdist@aol.com. The Queens Book Fair is offering a $25.00 bonus discount for all authors who register before the June 25th deadline. Log on to www.cbbooksdistribution.com for more information or to inquire about the Queens Book Fair early registration bonus.



Phil Andrews

CEO

PA Public Relations Company

http://www.papublicrelations.com/

The Literary Dish Blogspot.com

The Literary Dish Blogspot.com is the premiere syndicated literary and media infused hot spot on the net with your host, Heather "The Heat of the Literary World" Covington

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