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Radiah

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Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 09:38 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hi Everyone,

With all of this talk about mass market fiction, who would make your Top 10 list of authors that the mass market SHOULD be reading? Here's mine in no particular order:
1.Bernice Mcfadden
2. Paula Woods
3.Eleanor Taylor Bland
4. Karen Q. Miller
5.Christopher Chambers
6.Mary Monroe
7.Parry Brown
8.Penny Mickelbury
9.Sterling Anthony(I wish he would right another book)
10.Grace F. Edwards


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Filly

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Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 01:44 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Radiah--

Nice thread. I agree with a lot of your choices and I can't say enough about Grace F. Edwards. Have loved her ever since "In the Shadow of the Peacock".

Here's my truncated list...will list more as I think of them.

1) Grace F. Edwards
2) Louis Edwards
3) Marita Golden
4) Terris McMahon Grimes
5) Calvin Baker

More to come. . .
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Zane

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Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 03:01 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I would have to say:

D.V. Bernard
Solomon Jones
asha bandele
Gloria Mallette
Gary Hardwick
Dwayne Birch
Mary Monroe
Nane Quartay
Marcus Major
Bernice McFadden

Peace,
Zane
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yasmin

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Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 11:31 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

My list would include:
Jewel Parker Rhodes
Alex Pate
John Ridley
Bernice McFadden
Shelia Williams
Elizabeth Nunez
Gloria Mallette
Jenoyne Adams
Jill Nelson
Erica Simone Turnipseed
April Reynolds
Nancy Rawles
Danyel Smith
ZZ Packer
Suzan Lori Parks
Percival Everette
Ernest Hill
Jervey Tervalon
and all of those who came before contemporary fiction...including Donald Goines.
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Cmack

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Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 07:49 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

My List:

1.Mary Monroe
2.JD Mason
3.J Califonia Cooper
4.Bernice McFadden
5.Tina Mcelroy Ansa
6.Marcus Major
7.Diane McKinney Whetstone
8.Lolita Files
9.Eric Jerome Dickey
10.Parry Brown

I look forward to anything by them.

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