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Washington, DC July 12, 2004 - Less than four months ago, Charisse
Carney-Nunes, a Washington, DC mother of a precocious pre-schooler, successfully
published and began marketing her original anthology, SONGS OF A SISTERMOM:
MOTHERHOOD POEMS. In the midst of the wild whirlwind that only another
struggling self-published author can understand, she learned that her
acute exhaustion, dizziness, and stomach upsets were not solely due to
her tightly wound schedule. Carney-Nunes learned that she would not only
be tackling the merciless world of self-publishing, but that she'd be
tackling it pregnant. "Just what the publishing world needs - a pregnant
book peddler," the mom remarked.
Now past the exhaustion of her first trimester, Carney-Nunes has sold
more than 700 books. Her next splash on the literary scene will be on
Friday, July 16, 2004 at Baltimore's 23rd annual Artscape
celebration of the arts, where she will participate in a literary arts
panel entitled, "Rap & Poetry: Close Cousins or Distant Neighbors.
Beginning at 6:30 pm in the Family Performance Tent in Pearlstone Park,
Carney-Nunes and the other panelists will discuss "where poetry is
headed: Eminem, Adrienne Rich or Langston Hughes?" Then, on Saturday,
July 24, 2004 it's off to the historic Harlem
Book Fair. This is the largest book fair of its kind, and is expected
to draw more than 40,000 New Yorkers and visitors to West 135th Street
(between Fifth Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard in Harlem),
from 12 PM to 6 PM. Over 250 booths will be set up along West 135th Street,
offering books, story-telling, readings, and opportunities to meet and
greet authors on two stages that will feature spoken word poets, celebrities,
and music throughout the day.
Carney-Nunes was inspired to pen SONGS OF A SISTERMOM by her own experiences
along with her association with Sistermoms - a support group for African-American
mothers that she and other Washington DC metro area moms co-founded in
the Fall of 1999. Today, Sistermoms, Inc. boasts more than 150 members
nationwide, and through her lyrical poetry Carney-Nunes challenges the
mothers she meets along her journeys to band together and "sync up"
with Sistermoms. "Have you heard, have you heard, have you heard
of the motherhood movement?" she writes.
"The poems leap off of the page and dance soulfully into your heart.
From the whimsical 'Nappy' to the mournful, 'Leroy's Song,' this masterful
work captures the essence of the African-American experience, and at the
same time, offers a poignant message about the struggles of sisterhood
and motherhood. Read it and weep, shout, or laugh, but read it."
Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree, Author of ALL
DELIBERATE SPEED: REFLECTIONS ON THE FIRST HALF-CENTURY OF BROWN V. BOARD
OF EDUCATION.
Carney-Nunes invites "everyone in the Baltimore and New York metropolitan
areas who is a mother, has a mother, or loves a mother - any mother -
to join me at these events to celebrate life!!" She also pleas on
website that people everywhere will "help a weary pregnant book peddler
sell out before baby-Nunes is born!" SONGS OF A SISTERMOM is a not
your high school English teacher's abstract book of poetry. It is an introspective
examination of four different phases of motherhood and a celebration of
the diversity of feelings that mothers experience everyday. Though presented
in the African-American context, the themes of jubilation, frustration
and sorrow traverse both color and gender lines.
About the author:
Pregnant self-published author sells 700 books in only four months. Sets
sights on 2,000 before baby arrives. Next stop for mom and baby-to-be -
Baltimore's Artscape & the Harlem Book Fair.
Charisse Carney-Nunes is a freelance writer and attorney. She resides
in Washington, DC with her husband of more than eight years and her daughter.
Her baby-to-be will arrive in December 2004. For more information on Charisse
Carney-Nunes visit www.brandnuwords.com.
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