A Day in the Life of the American Woman: find out here.

Children's drawings illustrate Darfur atrocities. The Art of War.

Illuminations Collection, Vol II: accepting submissions for short stories, poetry and art.

$3.00 off on apparel. Expires 7/14/05. Use coupon: LOLSAV. @ the Needful Thing's Store.

Not to forget, Terry's upcoming novel The Interruption of Everything available 7/19/05.

Terry McMillan learned her husband is gay (he also learned that he was gay). Read. She's calling him a "fag", according to the article, and he's calling her homophobic. Interesting to note, she's interviewed in the current issue of Essence and it doesn't mention any of this. In fact, the article makes it seem as if all is well on the home front.

I'm learning. Self-published authors do not receive much respect from the literary community (foundations funding literary grants, publishers, legitimate contests). At least Publishers pay attention ONLY IF you've sold over 20,000 copies of your novel (within a certain period of time). But that's understandable. The bottom line for them is revenue. I'm just saddened about grants and contests that I'd like to enter but cannot because my work isn't published by a "Publisher".