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Username: Jackie
Post Number: 123
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 06, 2006 - 01:45 pm: | 
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Hey everyone, it's Hill Harper, and I am writing you today because I NEED YOUR HELP.
As a lot of you know, my book: Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny is coming to bookstores this April. The book is part memoir/part motivational tool for young men and is all about the issues surrounding the transition from "boyhood" to "manhood."
The publishing community believes that young men of color do not read and are not a market that deserves any attention. In one of my book pitch meetings with another publisher, I was told point-blank, "Hill, please don't write a book for this population, we want to do a book with you, but please not this book, you are proposing a book for a population that doesn't read."
I AM ASKING YOU TO HELP ME PROVE THEM WRONG.
As all of us know, young men are generally not camped outside of bookstores just waiting for "the next hardcover to drop." For many, this is going to be a "gifted book," much like the books that have been gifted to and inspired me such as The Purpose Driven Life.
Many of our young men today lack mentors, role models, and suitable males in their lives that can provide answers to their questions. My book is written as a mentorship on paper, from the perspective of an "older brother" rather than that of a judgmental "elder." The proceeds from the book go toward my MANifest Your Destiny Foundation, set-up to award scholarships to young men and women who want to further their education but cannot afford to.
It is also important that Letters to a Young Brother sells because we have a similar one in the works for young women. But, our publisher will only get behind it if this book sells well. Please pre-buy multiple copies and gift them to any young men or parents of young men you know. The book is currently available on Amazon.com at a 35% discounted, pre-sale price. Please pre-buy and FORWARD THIS E-MAIL to others and ask them to pass it along as well. Letters to a Young Brother means so much to me, and I believe it can change lives!
Thank you so much for all of your support,
Hill Harper
P.S. Another great new book that deserves our support is The Covenant with Black America, edited by Tavis Smiley. It is fantastic, and I think the books compliment each other well.
Pre-order Letters to a Young Brother from Amazon.com
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