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I have just launched a literary magazine along with author Zaria Garrison.
EKG Online Literary Magazine is a free online magazine published for the purpose of entertaining and enlightening all members of the literary community including, but not limited to, readers, writers, aspiring and established authors, reviewers, agents and publishers.
Our premiere issue featured JD Mason on the cover. Future issues will feature Virginia Deberry & Donna Grant, Travis Hunter, Victoria Christopher Murry, Kendra Norman-Bellamy and William Frederick Cooper. We will showcase a variety of authors from different genres.
During the first 3 days of our July 1st premiere, EKG logged over 1000 hits. More than 50 % of those visitors marked EKG Literary magazine as a favorite for them to return.
For more information PLEASE visit www.ekgliterarymag.com
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I LOVE TO READ! I will read anything that piques my interest but the story has to hold me from beginning to end! Once i start a book I feel obligated to finish it. If I don't like it I will give it away or I won't recommend it at all. If i DO like it...it stays on my shelf as I will sometimes read the same book several times. Each time I read a book I discover something wonderful that I my have missed before. My copy of Maya Angelou's THE HEART OF A WOMAN, is so worn because I have read it at least 10 times. I've even dropped it in the bathtub while reading in while relaxing in bubbles...I guess I got a little too relaxed (smile). I think that the worst insult anyone can give a book is to NOT read it. I hate being disappointed in a book because the time that i devote to reading is precious to me. When i feel like a book has wasted my time it makes me mad....but when I read a book that takes me away from the world and places me in a nother place with vivid mental pictures and an awesome story...you'd better believe that I am telling ALL of my friends about it!
I am a writer and my main goal is to allow readers into my imagination and take them on a vivid mental journey! I want to write the book that will cause people to laugh, cry, rejoice, and most of all FEEL what I felt when I was writing it!
With that being said...My official BIO is below! I hope to make many friends on SHELFARI and discuss the books that I love while discovering new ones to read!
Ebony Farashuu, a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, began reading at an early age. Her love of the written word soon progressed to writing stories and poems. As a teen, a typical crush on an R&B singer and the friendship of a fellow writer inspired her to write all of her thoughts and dreams down on paper. What started out as a joke between friends soon transformed into, literally, thousands of pages about the life that she dreamed of living one day. She eventually grew out of her superstar musings and grew into the art and creativity of writing down whatever her mind could imagine. Throughout the years Ebony started several books but never felt enough inspiration to finish them. Her love of poetry took over and she began writing each and every emotion down on paper in the form of verse.
In 2002, she self-published “Butterfly Kisses: Poetry For the Many Faces of Love”. This book won Honorable mention in the SCBC Self Published Author Awards for Poetry Book of the Year. Coincidentally, as she was writing her book of poetry, Ebony was simultaneously working a novel called “SLOW BURN”. The emotions that she felt while writing the novel inspired many of the poems featured in her poetry book. For the first time, she poured her heart into a novel and blank pages and her wishes soon manifested into a finished project. Upon the completion of “SLOW BURN”, Ebony began shopping the book to several agents only to be rejected at every turn.
In 2005, Ebony re-wrote the first sentence of her novel. The first sentence, she’d been told, could be the deciding factor as an agent or publisher decided whether or not they wanted to read the second or third line. Ebony took this advice and re-wrote that first line. Before she knew it, she had re-written the entire book. With her new novel in hand, Ebony was once again ready to seek out a publishing company willing to take a chance on her talent. Unfortunately, without an agent, and after several more rejections, a frustrated Ebony was on the verge of giving up. It was at that time that she met Jeremy Braggs of the Braggs Literary Group. He saw something in her writing and decided to make her the first author to be represented by his newly formed agency. Within two weeks of signing with Braggs, Ebony had a publishing deal with Kobalt Books. “SLOW BURN”, the novel, was accepted.
Ebony now divides her time between being a devoted wife to her husband, caring for her son and daughter, and of course, promoting her latest project, “Slow Burn.” She is currently working on a sequel.
Ebony is a long-standing member of Sisters Sippin' Tea Literary Group, Tulsa Chapter and is also a Contributing/Staff Writer for TheGRITS.com Reading and Book Promotion Community.
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