The EyeCU Reading and Social Network recently celebrated its 15th anniversary as a group that supports authors in profound ways. It’s not just reading for these ladies; they host authors, promote their books on social media and create events around authors and books. It has received an NBCC Community Service Award and its founder, Ebony Evans, was a Featured Author at the 2023 NBCC with her debut novel, Dead To Me. Now, this group of nine members has crafted a must-read anthology, Karma. The authors […]

Wil Haygood is a former renowned journalist and author of NY Times bestselling book, The Butler: A Witness To History, which was transformed into the box office film starring Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey. Haygood will lead a discussion about the film on the first-ever NBCC Movie Night after it is shown on Friday evening in the Grand Ballroom. Haygood has also written dynamic biographies about Adam Clayton Powell, Sammy Davis, Jr., Sugar Ray Robinson and Thurgood Marshall, among others. Retired from […]

Kimberla Lawson Roby is the New York Times bestselling author who will release this year a companion Workbook & Discussion Guide for her hit book, The Woman God Created You to Be. Kim is fulfilling countless requests from book clubs and women’s ministries that have implored her to craft such a work. “I’ve discovered that the topics in that particular book always seem to be current, and that many of my readers now follow me on Facebook, specifically for my devotionals […]

Sadeqa Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the House of Eve and The Yellow Wife. She also was the 2018 recipient of the NBCC Author of the Year Award. Her latest gem is The Keeper of Lost Children. In this new novel, one American woman’s vision in post WWII Germany will tie together three people in an unexpected way. Ethel Gathers, the proud wife of an American Officer, is living in Occupied Germany in the 1950s. After discovering a local […]

Tayari Jones is the New York Times best-selling author of four riveting novels, including An American Marriage, which was an Oprah’s Book Club Selection and also appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list as well as his year-end roundup. The novel was awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize), Aspen Words Prize and an NAACP Image Award. It has been published in two dozen countries. Tayari’s next work is the highly anticipated: Kin, which explores the complex and enduring bond […]

Marita Golden is an award-winning author of more than 20 works of fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent book is the memoir How To Become A Black Writer Creating and Honoring Black Stories That Matter. Her books include the novels The Wide Circumference of Love, and After and the memoirs Migrations of the Heart, Saving Our Sons and Don’t Play in the Sun One Woman’s Journey Through the Color Complex. Her most recent work of nonfiction is The New Black Woman Loves Herself Has Boundaries Heals Every Day a sequel to her book The […]