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Michael Baisden Wants to Hear from Book Clubs

Promote Your Favorite Author and Get on His Radio Show

Shamontiel
Best-selling author, radio host, and motivational speaker, Michael Baisden, is on his grind. After selling over 400,000 copies of his extremely entertaining book, Never Satisfied: How and Why Mean Cheat, as well as successful sales of his self-published book Men Cry in the Dark (1997) and The Maintenance Man (1999), he is a force to be reckoned with. His book, The Maintenance Man, was on a 25-city tour and starred actors like Billy Dee Williams and comedian Arnez J. Men Cry in the Dark was also a play, starring actors like Richard Roundtree and Allen Payne. In 2001, he had a brief show on 98.7 Kiss FM in NYC, but because the show aired after September 11th, it didn't have the opportunity to fully progress. But, that's not the case with his latest radio show first aired in 2003, Love, Lust, and Lies on www.broadcasturban.net. With his success, he's giving back to his community via radio by reaching out to African American bookstores, which helped his book success, and book clubs.

If you are a book club member, please visit www.michaelbaisden.com to talk about the history of your book club and who you feel is a great author. Talk about your top book/author selections and your book club might have the opportunity to be a guest on Michael Baisden's radio show. He will be picking ten book clubs each year, and the author who is chosen for each show must be willing to do book signings at ten African American bookstores. Visit www.michaelbaisden.com now and go to the Boards section to promote those books and authors. And Black bookstore owners, don't miss out on this opportunity. Visit Michael Baisden's Boards today as well to promote your own bookstore with the potential opportunity for your store to be one of the locations that the chosen author will do a book signing at.

For more details, listen to his radio show at www.broadcasturban.net or visit his Webpage today. His radio show talks about various topics and includes a lot of "grown folks music." Think beginning hip hop like Doug E. Fresh, R&B dusties, and a little bit of pop. And while you're listening to his station on your radio or computer, remember to pick up his latest (2002) read, God's Gift to Women.

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Shamontiel is the author of "Round Trip" and "Change for a Twenty," and in mid-October became the Chicago Tribune's Digital News Editor. She works on National Travel, Health and occasionally Breaking News, a...   View profile

  • The Maintence Man and Men Cry in the Dark, both of Baisden's novels, were turned into plays.
  • Michael Baisden is the host of radio show Love, Lust, and Lies.
  • Michael Baisden says that African American bookstores helped his book sales succeed.
Michael Baisden was born on June 26, 1963 on the southside of Chicago.

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  • Shamontiel 7/6/2009

    Besides myself, feel free to visit http://www.shamontiel.com/shamontiels-bookshelf.html. Some authors are Black, some aren't, but they're all good books.

  • black authors 7/6/2009

    i love too read black fictional authors, can you refer me any good one's worth reading.

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