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Just a short note to inform you that this site will phase out after August 20th. Please join me on the new site at www.booksavenuemagazine.webs.com See you…

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Hello Friends,

As you all may already know. Books Avenue is a one person publication, I've been conducting my own research, writing and layouts, and guest what? MY COMPUTER CRASHED!!!! This is why you did not see the April/May/June issue. I am working hard at getting the July/August/September issue out there...AFTER I move into my new place. So bare with me, and before you know it, Books Avenue Magazine will be back up and running, I've just got to get my computer in order.…

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The Watch Night Services in Black communities that we celebrate today can be traced back to gatherings on December 31, 1862, also known as "Freedom's Eve." On that night, Blacks came together in churches and private homes all across the nation, anxiously awaiting news that the Emancipation Proclamation actually had become law. Then, at the stroke of midnight, it was January 1, 1863, and all slaves in the Confederate States were declared legally free.… Continue

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Everyone Can't Be in Your FRONT ROW



Life is a theater so invite your audiences carefully. Not everyone is holy enough and healthy enough to have a FRONT ROW seat in our lives. There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a distance. It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you let go, or at least minimize your time with draining, negative, incompatible, not-going-anywhere relationships, friendships, fellowships, and family!

Everyone Can't Be in Your FRONT… Continue

THE WRITER'S PRAYER



Open my mind, Lord.

Grant me the talent to write with clarity and style,

so my words go down rich and smooth, like fine wine, and leave my reader thirsty for more.

Open my heart, Lord. Grant me the sensitivity to understand my characters--their hopes, their wants, their dreams--and help me to confer that empathy to my reader.

Open my soul, Lord, so I may be a channel to wisdom and creativity from… Continue