Community and opportunity to learn from Award winning author Tananarive Due
RMNewsletter 4th Version August 10th 2025
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Thoughts
The community calendar entry has some really nice things to involve oneself with. If you know a Black Bookstore, check out the National Association for Black Bookstores and share the qrcode in the page. Make sure they sign up. If you know any African Filmmaker, present the opportunity to make a documentary about what freedom means to them. Both are in the community calendar entry linked below. Also... you may enjoy me mapleized in the work calendar. I rarely illustrate images to my likeness. I also have my own competition where a winner can receive 4,000 DA points which equates to $50 prize so please invite all the writers you know to try my competition.
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/August-Birthday-Writing-Challenge-1222529726
Now for anyone writing a book or screenplay, this is a great opportunity to learn from Tananarive Due, writer of the Reformatory and the cowriter of the Twilight Zone episode " A Small Town" side her husband Steven Barnes.
From Steven Barnes of Lifewriting
People have called Tananarive the "Queen of Black Horror." Her latest book, THE REFORMATORY, has sold more copies than anything in her career - and we're in post-production on our first horror short film, THE KEEPER.
We've taught thousands of writing students, and we're ready to expose three lies that keep writers struggling to reach their dreams to write horror that haunts and sells.
Why ‘talent’ is a myth (and what actually sells 100K+ books).
The one thing more important than goals.
The shocking truth about "solitary genius."
Free live webinar: The Three Lies of Writing Horror, August 13th at 8p ET / 5p PT
Stay to the end for an exclusive peek at her upcoming new novel. (She'll read an excerpt!)
Reserve Your Spot Now - www[dot]freehorrortalk[dot]com
CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK TO RESERVE
https://diamondhour.aweb.page/p/3b0523f7-6884-4da0-80ea-db2a72b132e2
MY LINKTREE
RM WORK CALENDAR
Topics- remember to subscribe to the calendar if you like my work
Malhwie the image scrambler
Me Maplelized 08/08/2018
CENTO Series episode 116
RM COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Topics- remember to subscribe to the calendar if you like work from others I share
Nollywood Animated Films
National Association of Black Bookstores Officially Launches
1800s Black Statian Fiction -FREE TO READ
WHy Freedom? Open call for African Filmmakers
The collage above is based on work from Ty Wilson https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Ty-Wilson-Collage-By-Hddeviant-Background-Version-927759567