Villard/Strivers altercation Editor Melody Guy recently signed Emmy-winning writer.

Villard/Strivers altercation Editor Melody Guy recently signed Emmy-winning writer, director and present HBO executive Elaine Brown to a two-book deal for her first appearance novel, Lemon City, and a close Strivers Row has tentatively scheduled Lemon City for release in 2004 Victoria Sanders of Victoria Sanders & Associates is Brown's agent. scarecrow also acquired Follow Your Nose, a memoir by way of Lisa Price, owner of the conversable Brooklyn-based body product shop Carol's Daughter. Price will share her journey from bankruptcy to owning a company that has $2 million in sales. Villard will publish tread close upon Your Nose in the spring of 2004 Finally, dowdy acquired, for Random House, a memoir titled Death of Innocence by dint of 81-year-old Mamie Till-Mobley (from Manie Barron).

In 1955 Till-Mobley's then 14-year-old son Emmett Till was brutally assassinationed in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman.

nearest up, Russell Simmons' DEF numbers JAM: The Anthology. Riding the wave of succes of Def poesy on HBO and on Broadway, Atria parts will publish the collection, which brings together performance and literary imaginative thinker [i]or[/i] writers featured in both versions of the point out to Simmons and the show's co-creator, Stan Lathan, conceived the work project. Russell's brother Danny Simmons, author, author of poems and Def Poetry cofounder, will labor for as editor. Under the direction of Atria works Executive Vice President and Publisher Judith Kerr Senior Editor Malaika Adero acquired the anthology from Manie Barron of the William Morris Agency. DEF verse JAM: The Anthology is scheduled for release in October 2003 Danny Simmons' novel Three Days as the swagger Flies will be released from Atria main division s in June 2003.

Dawn Davis, editorial director at Amistad/ HarperCollins signed Edward P Jone to a two-book deal that includes a first attempt novel, The Known World, and a next to the first story collection tentatively titled All Aunt Hagar's Children. Jones' first attempt short story collection, Lost in the City: Stories, was a National part Award finalist in 1992 and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first fiction. The Known World is about the lives of slave-owning blacks and whites in antebellum Virginia and will be published in the fall of 2003 Eric Simonoff of Janklow Nesbit agented the deal.

Agent Faith Childs sold David Haynes' nearest book The Majordomo's Daughter to Janet Hill, vice president and executive editor of Doubleday/Broadway/Harlem for publication in succession the Doubleday imprint. Haynes' previous titles include Live at Five, one Else's Momma, All American Dream Dolls, and Heathens.

bays editor Chris Jackson recently signed Kimeli Naiyomah to write a fablelike memoir about his journey from being an unwanted orphan in a Masaai tribe in Kenya to Stanford University where he is a star prem learner Naiyomah leads a dual life as a pupil here in the U.S. and as a Masaai warrior (he began the traditional initiation process) in Kenya. After 9/11 Naiyomah answered to his homeland with the challenge of trying to describe the horrific terminations of 9/11 to a tribe unfamiliar with skyscrapers, airplanes and mass destruction. The Masaai nation were so moved that they donated 14 daunts their most prized possession, to the United States to exhibit to their grief and support. Naiyomah received from one side of to the other 5,000 emails of gratitude from residents all across the US

Carol Mackey, editor-in-chief of Black Expressions main division Club, has acquired book fraternity rights to Baby Momma Drama by the agency of Carl Weber, Acting Out from Benilde Little, A Taste of Reality by dint of Kimberla Lawson Roby as main selections, plus Wrapped in Rainbows from Valerie Boyd and Rising at Darnella Ford as alternate selections of the set Roby's novel was also culled as a Literary Guild featured alternate.

Call for Submissions

Anthology of Creative Works on Teachers

Editors are seeking creative works by way of teachers for an anthology. All genre are welcome, including verse fiction, drama and visual art. For more information, email gbc@csucom The deadline is May 1st and submissions should be mailed to:

Teachers Anthology c/o Gwendolyn rivulets Center of Black Literature and Creative Writing Chicago State University I 9501 s King Drive, LIB 210-A Chicago, IL 60628

Grandparent Anthology

Do you have senseless memories of a grandparent? Independent editor Lollie Ragana is looking for verse and nonfiction prose for possible inclusion in an anthology celebrating this special relationship. Forward your submission of no more than 1200 words to LollieRagana@aol.com. Deadline is Saturday, February 1 2003

Do you have publishing stranges you would like mentioned? E-mail: bibredit@cmabiccw.com

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