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Five HarperCollins Authors Nominated for NAACP Image Awards!

Congratulations are in order for five outstanding authors!  Attica Locke, Steve Harvey, Chris Gardner, Nikki Giovanni and David Bergen Brophy have been nominated for NAACP Image Awards.  For more information, including a complete list of the nominees, please visit: http://www.naacp.org/news/press/2010-01-06/lit/index.htm

NAACP Image Awards – Nominees

Literary Work – Debut Author

BlackWater hc c Black Water Rising
by Attica Locke
9780061735868

Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional

ActLikeALady hc c
 Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man
by Steve Harvey
9780061728976

StartWhereYouAre hc c Start Where You Are
by Chris Gardner
9780061537110

Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry

BicyclesHC c. Bicycles
by Nikki Giovanni
9780061726453

Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens

Michelle Obama Michelle Obama: Meet the First Lady
by David Bergen Brophy
9780061779916

We wish them all the BEST of luck!  If you have not read their books, please check them out!

Enjoy!

-Bobby

Attica Locke, Books, Libraries, Mary Kay Andrews, Texas Library Association

Texas Library Association 2009 Conference

Every year HarperCollins attends the Texas Library Association’s annual conference.  Texas is big.  Their library show is big (about 8,500 total attendance!) Their hearts are big. So is their BBQ! So off we go – and we bring lots of authors.  Everyone always has a great time. This year we brought the fun-loving Mary Kay Andrews, author of the highly anticipated forthcoming novel,  The Fixer Upper.  As you can see from previous blog posts, we can’t stop talking about this book.  We figured it’s time to clam up and let the author herself do the talking.  Here she is sitting outside our hotel on a balmy night in Houston.  Forgive the lighting. (I was going for dramatic effect but it didn’t work)

Also in attendance at TLA was first-time author Attica Locke.  Her book, Black Water Rising, is a mystery set in Houston in the 1980s.   She’s already being compared to John Grisham, James Lee Burke and Michael Connelly. Ms. Locke gave an impassioned speech not about her book but about her appreciation and gratitude to librarians.  Mark my words:  this author is one to watch. 
Hear what Attica has to say about her book and her love of libraries.

-Virginia

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