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Presidential Candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton helps launch Clinton biography, Conversations, in DC (Picture Gallery)Spring...A Reason to Celebrate
WOW Press Announces New Titles for 2008
Presidential Candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton helps launch Clinton biography, Conversations, in DC (Picture Gallery)
Writing our World Press rang in the New Year with a Conversations Book Launch and Reception at the historic National Music Center and Museum Foundation in Washington D.C., on January 31st. More than 400 guests, friends, and colleagues joined author and publishing CEO Janis F. Kearney at the event. Luminaries such as Senator Hillary Clinton, U.S. Congressman John Lewis, former Secretary Rodney Slater, former White House Personnel Director Bob J. Nash, DNC Executive Lottie Shackelford; Eddie Williams, President emeritus of the Joint Center for the Economic Studies and C. Payne Lucas, founder and president emeritus, AFRICARE; were there to join in the celebration, and purchase copies of Conversations: William Jefferson Clinton...From Hope to Harlem.
Sen. Clinton greets young fans at DC Conversations Book Launch
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Former Secretaray of the U.S. Department of Transportation and Co-Chair for the evening, Rodney Slater |
You Are Invited! As many as 400 guests turned out for the Conversations Book Launch and Reception on January 31st.
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Gabe Meritaub, CEO, National Housing Foundation, and co-chair for the evening
Author and WOW Press CEO, Janis F. Kearney, and Presidential Candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton
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Janis F. Kearney with brother and Co-Chair of the evening's event, Jude Kearney, senior partner at Patton Boggs, D.C.
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Former White House Director of Personnel, Bob J. Nash and U.S. Congressman John Lewis
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Brad Mims, Co-Chair for the Evening, is Vice President at PB, an international construction firm
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Photographs courtesy of Derrel Todd ©2007 |
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Spring...A Time of Hope, a Reason to Celebrate
Spring has finally sprung. We made it through the winter victoriously and can now turn our attention to living, rather than merely getting through our
days. We can hurry while the days are long, and the temperatures pleasant…to make a difference in our lives.
Winter has, somehow, always been a waiting phase of life; a time that tested our survival skills. Farmers planned their lives around the seasons; merely
enduring the winter as they waited for spring. The sound of winter geese returning south was music to their ears. Spring had finally arrived...a time for
work...tilling the ground, planting the seeds that germinated into the cotton and corn and peas and okra… and, even the beautiful flowers that sustained
our lives.
Ah, the hope that spring allows! The opportunity for change, and making a difference. The beginning of spring is the starting line. How we choose to seize
this opportunity-to smell the roses, celebrate our blessings-are individual decisions.
I, for one, choose to celebrate through words. Offering up to God, and my fellow man, my words of thanks, words of awe, words describing pain turned into
joy; fear into understanding. Words...words...words. Thank God for the seasons, for without winter, spring would not be half as joyful. There would be a lot
less reasons to appreciate and celebrate today.
WOW Press Announces New Titles for 2008
Writing our World Press is proud and excited to announce the upcoming titles for release in 2008. Excerpts from each title will be available at our website,
in the next newsletter - coming Summer, 2007.
Something to Write Home About: Memories from a Presidential Diarist. Janis F. Kearney, author of Cotton Field of Dreams is completing a sequel to her memoir that begins in 1987, with her role as publisher of Daisy and L.C. Bates‘ newspaper. The book also includes her years as presidential diarist, and is interspersed with more memories about her life as a member of the Kearney family -- cotton sharecroppers in the Arkansas delta.
We Couldn't Hear their Voices: A biography of Black Musical Geniuses. Elaine Mack, classical musician, writer, and global educator spent years traveling the globe, talking with black classical musicians, documenting their stories. This is a revolutionary delve into the world of black classical musicians - in words and pictures.
Once Upon a Time, there was a Girl. Janis F. Kearney debuts her first fiction; an historical novel based on an actual southern race murder. In this riveting story, Kearney paints a portrait of a typical small southern town, the ‘good” people who believed race was no longer a problem, and the innocent victim whose death proved them wrong.
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