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Kimberly Jessy’s SWIRLING Book Review on Yahoo! Shine
“Move over Steve Harvey “Think Like a Man’ and Watch out “Sex in the City” Swirling is a Tipping Point waiting to HAPPEN! This could easily be a BLOCKBUSTER FILM!” says Jessy
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Book Launch Recap: A “Lovely Day”
For those of you who weren’t able to make it, yesterday’s Swirling book signing at Eso Won in Los Angeles was standing room only, and there was a line out the door. LOVED that my BB&W peeps, Elizabeth, Lorrainne, Czarina, Masha, Demita and Kimberly came! You guys rock!
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Gone “Swirling” Today!
Artist rendering by Adam Reid Janusz (this was ALMOST the book cover for SWIRLING). I kept it because I just love looking that that hot black chick about to devour something delicious. 
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Keeping the Race Together or Keeping You Under Control?
Christelyn’s new book is on the threshold of release as I’m typing this. And with that news comes the necessary promotion and word spreading you expect while trying to get a product out there to consumers. There was a link to one such feature that had the predictable bit of grumbling and talking points. You know, the lie-filled scare tactics that never fail to come up when black women even think about expanding their dating options.
In any case, one particular sentiment stood out to me…
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Take a Look and Listen: Book Review and Podcast with ‘Cocoa Fly’
did this interview after my bedtime, so I’m pretty proud that I remained conscious.
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“Swirling” and BB&W Made it in Canada’s LEADING News Magazine–a Whole DANG Page!!
You’ll have to squint to read this, or get your old-lady monocle out, because we won’t be able to see the article in full until next week. But here’s what you need to know: Maclean’s, Canada’s leading and most-circulated weekly magazine (it’s like our TIME magazine) LOVES “Swirling,” the blog, and thinks you single black women should move the heck up there. And guess what? My buddies at Chonilla got a great quote in, too!
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Groundbreaking Columbia Study: Fear and Stereotypes keep Black Women out of Interracial Marriage
Black women in America are more likely to be unmarried than women of other races. They are also least likely to marry men outside of their race although a Pew Research Center report suggests that interracial marriage has more than doubled since 1980.
Released in February 2012, the report suggests that there are specific gender variations within some racial groups. Asian women are twice as likely to marry out as Asian men and Black males are more than twice as likely to marry out as their female counterparts.
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SheKnows.com: Four Truths About Interracial Relationships
The folks at SheKnows.com asked me to lend them some wisdom on the oft studied, oft misunderstood, oft discussed, oft debated tangle of that, that, and the other regarding interracial relationships.
Here’s a bit:
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Stila, Vaska, Barleans, SENNA, Anatasia Beverly Hills and More Wanna Make Sure You’re “First Date Ready” at L.A. “Swirling” Book Signing!
After May 15, I’ll be expecting to be on your Christmas, Kwanza and Hannukah cards because the mother of all book signings is happening in Los Angeles, and boy oh boy, we’ve got some goodies for only the first 25 people who arrive at Eso Wan book store–you know that one, where BARACK OBAMA and BILL CLINTON came down from Heaven to sign their books. And because I know people, I’ve got some folks really, REALLY excited about getting all of your First Date Ready (FDR). We want you to be FDR inside AND out, so get a relationships book like “Swirling” to get your mind right, and I’ll take care of the rest.
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