Publishing

2008 Essence Literary Awards

February 11, 2008

On February 7, 2008 I won the Essence Literary Award for Children’s Literature. I was surprised to win and didn’t have a speech prepared. Like always, I spoke from my heart. When you do that you really can’t go wrong. It was an excellent ceremony and I had a great time.

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The Real Story Behind How My “Fake” Publicist, Alan Chase, Landed me a Six Figure Publishing Deal

January 9, 2008

The New York Times has given me some light (I want to give a big thanks to Ann Farmer, her editor and Jan Legnitto for making that happen), but my recent article has sparked some controversy over my use of a “fake” publicist. This is a bit unexpected because using an alias (Troy CLE is [...]

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I am going to set it straight…

January 9, 2008

There is a huge story behind how I was able to get my six figure deal with Simon and Schuster and audio deal with Random House. I had to self publish, market, sell, act as my own publicist via an alias, among other tasks to do it. Now I am so happy that I have [...]

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