What do you mean by "serious" writers? Thanks.
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "ravenadal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would say the difference is that the white "serious" writer can > still get published. I read literary magazines and the NY Times and > Chicago Tribune Litery supplements. White serious authors get > published and reviewed every week. Not so for black serious > authors. Black agents won't even represent serious black authors > because it ain't nothing but a heart ache for them and their > clients. Literary agent Marie Brown is a trooper and I know she > tries, but it is a grind and she is a business woman, first and > foremost. Most of her contemporaries don't even try. > > ~(no)rave! > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Hayden" <Frofidemus@> > wrote: > > > > (The great African American author is out there. He and She are > just > > like the great White American author, nobody is reading them. > > > > I hate it when people try to act like black folks are doing > something > > that white folks are not. A majority of WHITE adults in this > country > > did not read even one book last year. > > > > Those that are reading are reading trash. Don't tell me you equate > > Dean L. Koontz and J.K. Rowling with Hemingway, Mailer, > Shakespeare, > > et al. > > > > This is sour grapes. > > > > When you set out to write literary fiction you resign yourself to > > obscurity. If the literary authors are so damn good they will > write > > something that will put the so called trashy authors to shame and > > outsell them. > > > > But they can't, can they?) > > > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "Tracey de Morsella (formerly > > Tracey L. Minor)" <tdlists@> wrote: > > > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > > Subject: What Happen to the Great African American Author? > > > Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:25:55 -0500 > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <soulive- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > > What Happen to the Great > > > African American Author? > > > by LaShelle Turner > > > <http://www.thesop.org/html/writers.php?writer=turner> Posted > > October > > > 12, 2007 > > > > > > Something is inherently wrong with the publishing industry > > > <http://www.thesop.org/article.php?id=7762#> when former hip hop > > video > > > star, Karrine Steffans, is the most interviewed and talked about > > African > > > American author this year. > > >
