The Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund

The Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship will enable writers of color to attend one of the Clarion writing workshops, where Octavia got her start. It is meant to cement Octavia's legacy by providing the same experience/opportunity that Octavia had to future generations of new writers of color. In addition to her stint as a student at the original Clarion Writers Workshop in Pennsylvania in 1970, Octavia taught several times for Clarion West in Seattle, Washington, and Clarion in East Lansing, Michigan, giving generously of her time to a cause she believed in.
The first Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship will be awarded in 2007. We'll announce details of the application process later this year.

Our goal for a fully endowed scholarship fund is $100,000. At this time, we welcome your tax deductible gift of any amount to this fund. Please use the button to the left of the page to donate via PayPal or a major credit card. If you'd prefer to make your donation in the form of a check or money order, please make it payable to "The Carl Brandon Society" and note that it is for "The Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund."

For More Information go to: http://www.carlbrandon.org/butlerscholarship/

Good Book Club featured on "Book Club in Your Pocket" Podcast

Be sure to tune in and listen to the GBC Houston Chapter discuss last month's reading selection "George and Rue" By George Elliot Clark


Bookclub In Your Pocket Show

Featuring Award Winning Canadian Poet turned Author George Elliot Clark, discussing his book GEORGE AND RUE. The book is about a death that brims with fierce vitality and dark humor. Infused with the sensual, rhythmic beauty that defines Clarke's writing, this is a literary debut that is marked by celebration-and controversy...

Listen to the Podcast:

http://www.tricompodcast.com/site/archive/aiyp/gecgbc

News From PageTurner.net

Greetings PageTurner.net Family and Friends,

We hope that you are ready for summer, and to relax and read some great books! There are some hot new releases available for all of your exquisite literary tastes. Watch out for some new steamy summer releases that are bound to keep you up turning pages all night!

What's on my night stand? Well, I just finished Changing Faces by Kimberla Lawson Roby, and When a Sistah's Fed Up by Monica "Dr Moe" Frazier Anderson.
I am currently reading Just Short of Crazy by Nina Foxx and listening too (yep I do audio books also) Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book Two: City of Night. For you Techies out there I am also reading Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML. My next read is Baby Brother's Blues by Pearl Cleage (Good Book Club June Selection).

As I mentioned before, I listen to a lot of audio books (on my new IPOD that my husband gave me this past Christmas.) If you are into IPods or MP3 players, you are going to love the Podcast show "Authors In Your Pocket." Each week, they bring you a new interview with some on the country's top authors. Last week's interview was with PageTurner.net author Evie Rhodes, author of Criss Cross.

And last, but certainly not least I hope to see some of you next month at the Black Writers Reunion and Conference in Dallas, TX. I will have the pleasure to presenting a workshop titled "Put Your Best Foot Forward," or as I affectionately refer to as "everything you wanted to know about web sites but were afraid to ask" :-) If you are planning to attend, please stop by and say hi!

That's all for now, I have books to read and web sites to build!

Have a safe and prosperous month,

Pam

Click Here for the June Newsletter: http://www.pageturner.net/news2006/june2006.html

Congratulations June Best-sellers!!!

June 2006

• Kimberla Lawson Roby - Essence® Best-Seller, Hardcover Fiction #3 -Changing Faces
• Bernice McFadden - Essence® Best-Seller, Hardcover Fiction #10 - Nowhere is a Place
• Victoria Christopher Murray - Essence® Best-Seller, Fiction Paperback # 9 - Grown Folks Business
  

Criss Cross by Evie Rhodes

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