Sassy - Brossura

Author Gloria Mallette, a winner in the USA Book News Best Book 2007 Awards for African American Fiction, was first published in 1995 by Holloway House with the title WHEN WE PRACTICE TO DECEIVE while she was employed part-time as a Federal Perkins Loan Coordinator at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York. One year later Gloria resigned her position to pursue writing full-time. However, by 2000, with five manuscripts and several rejection letters from major publishing houses in her file cabinet, with a nudge from her husband, Gloria stepped timidly onto the self-published track.In April of 2000, Gloria self-published SHADES OF JADE and within the first three weeks, she sold out of he first run of 2,000 copies. By July, Gloria was in her third print run of 5,000 copies when Strivers Row, an imprint of Random House, expressed interest in republishing SHADES OF JADE. That edition was published in June of 2001. Gloria sold a total of 13,000 copies of SHADES OF JADE on her own.Since SHADES OF JADE was initially published by Gloria Mallette, it has made several best sellers lists, including Black Board, Essence Magazine, The Dallas Morning News, The Washington Post/Washington is Also Reading listing and Upscale Magazine. Gloria has been featured in ToDay’s Black Woman (2003, 2007), The New York Daily News (2000), USA Today ( 2001) and has a novella, COME TOMORROW, featured on the USAToday.com website. To date, Gloria has nine titles: LIVING, BREATHING LIES, IF THERE BE PAIN, WHAT’S DONE IN THE DARK, DISTANT LOVER, THE HONEY WELL, PROMISES TO KEEP, WEEPING WILLOWS DANCE, SHADES OF JADE and WHEN WE PRACTICE TO DECEIVE. Her tenth title, SASSY, will be released June 2008.Gloria Mallette resides with her family in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.

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