Fat Tuesday

 You're Invited
Book Signing of Nappily In Bloom 
Las Vegas
Tuesday, February 16 @ 6:30 PM

2190 N. Rainbow Blvd. 
Las Vegas, NV 89108

Co-hosted by Evibe

Family WEDDING

Why all the hoopla about inter-racial unions? It's 2010 for God's Sake. You'd think we'd be over all the nonsense...who is marrying who. Evidently not, especially when it comes to Latino and African-American unions. From reading the many posts after the USA Today article the evidence is in black and white, or in this case, black and brown. Black folks and brown folks have a long standing feud. Ironic as this news may be for non-people-of-color, Latinos will correct you in a snap, swirl, and head roll, letting you know they are not black. This is not news for me, having grown up in Southern California with a large majority of Mexican-Americans who will tell you point blank, dating a black man is akin to bringing home an ass kicking. YOU ASKED FOR IT.


But in Our Family Wedding, a romantic comedy opening March 12, both the bride and groom are people of color, just different hues. Their prejudiced fathers, however, can see only red.
America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) stars as a law student, the first from her Latino family to go to college, and Lance Gross (House of Payne) is a black medical student, who proposes a quick wedding before whisking his love off to a foreign land as part of Doctors Without Borders. Read full review
 I can't wait for this movie. It releases early March. I'm truly anticipating this film. I hope it mends, heals, and brings some peace between the black and brown pot of potential gold. Heaven forbid people of color actually like each other. I mean, how crazy would that be? Heaven forbid, we all acknowledge each other for whatever struggles we have experienced and move on. Love is love, friendship is friendship. The only requirement is showing up and offering good old fashioned respect.

Trisha R. Thomas @ CSUN

Discussion and Book Signing
Hosted by BSU Evening of Black Authors

Feb. 4th, Thursday @7pm
California State University of Northridge
Northridge, CA
Reseda Room 
Books available for purchase

Amazon Vs. Macmillan

As some of you may have noticed, a few Nappily titles are no longer available for sale on Amazon. That's because Macmillan, my publisher, is taking a stand against the all might-tee book selling giant. In retaliation, Amazon has decided to pull all titles in an attempt to strong arm the publisher(s). I use the plural add-on, because you can be sure they're going to try this on the rest of the publishers.

We lowly authors feel like the children in an ugly divorce, watching as our parents fight. We all know, it's the children that get hurt in these battles. However, adversity creates change. If everything remained status quo, we'd never improve and get to the next level. I'm hoping Macmillan taking a stand will be the change publishing needs. I'm hoping Amazon(Jeff Bezos) will not let all of his power blind his ability to adapt and move forward with the competition. Same way authors and publishers adjusted when our books were being sold for a penny. We adjusted. We adapted.
Until then, for all the Nappily readers who are dying for the next installment of Venus's journey, there are many brick and mortar retailers and fine independent sellers online.
Barnes and Noble
Powells.com
Elliot Bay Book Co.
Borders
BooksAmillion.com

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Un-Nappily In Love - 2010

The sixth book in the series will be released May 2010. Un-Nappily In Love makes me smile. I'm so excited about this book. That feeling of knowing this is exactly what fans of the Nappily Series have been waiting for (asking for) just makes me giddy. I'll try to contain myself. I don't want to rush the new year just so I can start talking about it and meeting with you guys to talk about it, but this one is going to soothe the soul and release a good long exhale. This one is for everyone who waited patiently for Venus to get it right. See you in the New Year.

NEW Review from Fresh Fiction Reader

Nappily In Bloom, a novel by Trisha R. Thomas

In this installment of the Nappily series, Venus is making a go of her flower store, In Bloom. She's hoping that she and Jake will finally be able to live a quiet, normal life raising their daughter, Mya. But then Legend, a figure from Jake's hip-hop past, shows up. Where Legend goes, trouble follows, at least that's the way Venus sees it.
Meanwhile, as the wedding coordinator for Keisha's impending nuptials, Venus also has to find a way to keep Televangelist Trevelle and Judge Delma apart, as the two mothers vie over their shared daughter, a task that proves near impossible.
The action in NAPPILY IN BLOOM just kept coming and never once felt contrived. Every time Venus thought things couldn't get worse, they did. Every time it seemed that Trevelle and Delma had gotten as bad as they could possibly get, they proved the reader wrong.
The story was fun and fast-paced, and although I hadn't read the first four books, I quickly understood who all the players were and their relationships to one another without wading through a dry, "commercial break" chapter. Thomas' characters reflect the urban reality of folks who'd prefer not to interact with the police, blue collar husbands, Ivy League lawyers, entrepreneurs, and more, who share the same space, interacting with and interrupting one another as they each carve out their own journey.
I can't imagine how I managed to miss Trisha Thomas' books before now, but that's a state of deprivation I absolutely plan to do something about.

Fresh Fiction Review



Nappily In Bloom is the 5th book in the Series!



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