Author Spotlights (Saturday)

December 12, 2008 by admin 

Our Spotlight Authors today are Aundrea Lacy, Gil L. Robertson IV, Regina Louise, and Darrell King.

Aundrea Lacy – http://luvsbrownies.com
Author’s Bio: Aundrea Lacy, born and raised in San Francisco, has been a model, a television journalist, and a marketing executive for Fortune 500 companies. She earned her MBA from Golden State University. In 1996, she went from baking brownies for friends to building her own online bakery business, Luv Brownies. In addition, she gives career presentations for girls and women from around the country.

Gil L. Robertson IV – http://www.notinmyfamily.com
Gil L. Robertson IV is a journalist whose work has appeared in Essence, Billboard, Black Enterprise, the Source, Los Angeles Times and Atlanta Journal Constitution, among others. He has appeared on The Tavis Smiley Show, CNN, and BET, and his syndicated column, The Robertson Treatment, appears in over 30 newspapers, reaching more than 2 million readers across the country.

Regina Louise – http://www.reginalouise.com
Author’s Bio: Regina Louise has been a keynote speaker at numerous foster care and social workers’ conventions across the country. She has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered, the CBS Early Show, and the Tavis Smiley Show, and a one-woman play version of her story was produced by the Sacramento Theater Company in May 2007. A successful businesswoman and salon owner, she currently lives in Berkeley.

Darrell King – http://www.myspace.com/dak1968
Mr. Darrell King, Sr. has been writing ever since the age of eight. His first published work of fiction was penned during the fall of 1976 as a student of Mary Field’s Elementary School on South Carolina’s Daufuskie Island. This effort, an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkein’s “The Hobbit,” was both written and illustrated by Mr. King and was published in the school’s quarterly periodical, “The Daufuskie Kid’s Magazine.” Mr. King went on to write several unpublished stories and numerous poems, several of which were published in the 1995-1996 “Poetry Anthology” by the National Library of Poetry in Owings Mills, Maryland. During the 90s, Mr. King was attracted to and inspired by the lurid tales of inner city crime and drama that he read on the pages of novels by great writers such as Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim. This, coupled with an enduring appreciation for the hard-edged, yet enlightened lyric of the era’s gangsta rap icons like Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Easy E and others prompted Mr. King to begin writing his very own stories of urban crime and inner city drama.

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4 Responses to “Author Spotlights (Saturday)”

  1. Tee C. Royal on December 12th, 2008 11:38 pm

    Welcome everyone! Please tell us more about your books and the first thing readers ask about it.

    Aundrea, tell us about your bakery, and what inspired you to move from just baking to actually starting the company.

    Gil, of all the places you’ve had your work featured, which was the most rewarding and why?

    Regina, I met you at BEA some years back and I really loved your testimony about how you met your father. Would you share that with our attendees?

    Darrell, tell us more about writing urban crime, please. Is this like a CSI for the streets? (Sorry, had to ask. I love those crime shows).

    -Tee

  2. Vanessa A Johnson on December 13th, 2008 1:03 pm

    Just wanted to stop by and say hi to the spotlight authors. Continued blessings in all of your endeavors.

  3. Dee Stewart on December 13th, 2008 9:24 pm

    Hey, Gil!! So good to see you hear. Hit me up, so we can have a mini-reunion.

  4. Wana on December 13th, 2008 10:17 pm

    Aundrea – I like the idea of “Brownie Points” as the title of your book and let me tell you those “Luv Bites” look delicious…now I want some chocolate.

    Gil – I read that you and your brother started “Not in My Family” to share the families’ journey but I’m curious how you came up with the name. Are there plans for another book and what are you working on now?

    Regina – I just left your site and listened to the excerpt for your Memoir that is now on my BTR list. Is the whole book in audio because it’s nothing like hearing it.

    Darrell – What Tee asked and do you have another site besides the myspace site?