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Radiah
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 09:38 am: |
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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
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 01:44 pm: |
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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. . . |
Zane
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 03:01 pm: |
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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 |
yasmin
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 11:31 pm: |
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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. |
Cmack
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 07:49 pm: |
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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. |