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Celebrating our friend E. Lynn Harris
CAPTION: Posing with E. Lynn Harris and my mother, Patricia Stephens Due, at Books & Books in Miami.OK…send prayers up. I'm off to my meeting with one of Hollywood's most powerful ladies. Got the...
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Apps & the Art of Relaxation
A few months ago, my sister Lydia gifted me with an iPhone. While I'm not thrilled with the cost of keeping it up and running, my relationship with my iPhone has become so strong that I often joke that...
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EXCLUSIVE book excerpt: FROM CAPE TOWN WITH LOVE (May 18, 2010/Atria)
I can't believe it, but in May we'll be publishing our third novel in our Tennyson Hardwick mystery series, From Cape Town with Love. These are the books I'm co-authoring with my husband, Steven...
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Hollywood, meet Tennyson Hardwick... (NEW VIDEO TRAILER!)
I first met Blair Underwood years ago through his efforts to mount a film version of a novel I sent him when I was a new writer. My husband, Steven Barnes, and I have been collaborating on...
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From Cape Town with Love: Launch week! Blair Underwood on "Today"
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyThis week marks the hardcover publication of From Cape Town with Love (Atria Books) and a Vook video e-book edition with...
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From Cape Town with Love: Now showing on an iPad near you! (Or an iPhone...or...
One glance at our new novel, From Cape Town with Love (Atria Books), will tell you that it wants to be a movie. The title is a riff of the James Bond movie From Russia with Love. The...
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My African Immortals Series--next installment, My Soul to Take (2011)
In 1997, I published a novel entitled My Soul to Keep that marked the beginning of what I now call my African Immortals series. The story centers around a 500-year-old Ethiopian immortal named Dawit...
View ArticleEXCERPT: MY SOUL TO TAKE (Sept. 2011)
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: This excerpt was the original prologue to MY SOUL TO TAKE, although it has now been moved to Chapter Three. I chose this excerpt because it takes the readers full circle to my...
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Family: the most important story
I am generally a private person, but I was moved to write publicly about my mother's battle with thyroid cancer with an essay for CNN.com: "Behind Mom's dark glasses: A civil rights leader's...
View ArticleVIDEO: Writing speculative fiction
Recently, I had the opportunity to take part in Art Sanctuary's "Celebration of Black Writing" in Philadelphia. After I gave a talk on writing science fiction, I was interviewed by Maurice Waters from...
View Article"Secrets to a Writer's Life": my first audio MP3 on writing...for writers
When I was four years old, I folded several pages of typing paper in half to create my first book, which I misspelled on the cover as "Babby Bobby." It wasn't a page-turner, just a simple story about...
View ArticleVIDEO: Book trailer for MY SOUL TO TAKE (Sept. 6)
What happens when you combine a giddy author fresh from Hollywood with an iPhone video camera? A book trailer on a shoestring budget! (In fact, all it cost me was time and a 1.99 iPhone app called...
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Reflections on my mother: Patricia Stephens Due (1939-2012)
Photo credit: Tallahassee Demorat My mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, died on Feb. 7, 2012 after a long struggle...
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Devil's Wake (VIDEO trailer): bringing our "zombies" to life
The first zombie movie I remember seeing was George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, probably when I was in high school—and I was mesmerized by its iconic shopping mall gore and mayhem. My...
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Book excerpt: DEVIL'S WAKE (July 31)
Thankfully, Longview's streets weren't stacked with cars and bodies. Kendra drove past the industrial districts, those smokestacks that no longer belched white, the waterway now clogged with logs...
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Book excerpt: SOUTH BY SOUTHEAST: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel (Sept. 18th)
PROLOGUE ALL ACTORS DREAM of a meeting that will change our lives forever, but I didn’t dare hope that Gustavo Escobar would be mine. Even my agent had no idea why Escobar had called me....
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Book excerpt: DOMINO FALLS (2/19) (sequel to DEVIL'S WAKE)
Our young protagonists, including Kendra and Terry, are on a dangerous road trip in a school bus after Freak Day, when an infection causing rabies-like symptoms in humans swept the nation...and...
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My first short film: Danger Word -- two weeks of fundraising left before the...
Big news! After years of circling and being circled by Hollywood, my husband, Steven Barnes, and I have written our first short film, Danger Word, based on our characters from our YA post-apocalyptic...
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"Danger Word" (2013) -- Horror short film adapted from Devil's Wake (starring...
I can't believe it: I actually made a zombie movie! This short film is my first foray into filmmaking--as a co-screenwriter and co-producer. My husband and collaborator, Steven Barnes, and I adapted...
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Join the Hollywood Revolution: 30-Day Screenwriting "Boot Camp" with...
Are you working on a screenplay, or do you have a screenplay idea you’re not sure how to start? Do you want input from industry professionals on your screenplay or idea? Are you an author who would...
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Online Screenwriting Workshop January 10-31, 2015 with Tananarive Due and...
Are you working on a screenplay or want to get started on you? Would you like input from industry professionals on your screenplay idea?Are you an author who would like to learn to adapt your books to...
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Tananarive Due's first short story collection, Ghost Summer (Sept. 1)
Publishers Weekly (Starred review) - “In these extraordinary tales, American Book Award–winner Due (My Soul to Take) uses a clear-eyed view of history to explain (but never excuse) the present.” READ...
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The toxic racial imagery in Fear the Walking Dead -- and why Black Lives...
DeRay Mckesson (left) and Ferguson protesters in Missouri in 2014. No photo credit provided. As a lifelong horror lover who has co-written and co-produced a short zombie film, I've often pondered why...
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Free webinar Friday: "Avoiding the Top 3 Mistakes New Writers Make" (and...
EDITED 10/10/15-- WEBINAR LINK AT THE ENDWhat a week!Last week, I launched my new short story collection, Ghost Summer, at EsoWon books in Los Angeles, where I was interviewed by awesome "Project...
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On being a "revolutionary artist"
This week, writer/filmmaker Ava DuVernay premieres her documentary The 13th, which explores the history of and profound racial bias in our system of mass incarceration, at the New York Film Festival....
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