Big-six Ebook Retailers Release Novels By Booker T. Mattison
-- B.Y.O.D. "Bring Your Own Device" Parties During Harlem Book Fair Celebrate Publication --
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Nationwide (July 13, 2011) -- Books on Board (www.BooksonBoard.com), the largest independent ebook store, and the big-five ebookstore platforms Kindle, Nook, Kobo (www.KoboBooks.com), Sony's Ebookstore (http://ebookstore.sony.com), and Apple via its iTunes store have released novels SNITCH and UNSIGNED HYPE by Booker T. Mattison.
Mattison celebrated the launch of his ebooks with a standing room only B.Y.O.D. ("Bring Your Own Device") ebook Party at Globetrippin' Bookstore and Cafe in Harlem on Wednesday, June 29 (view photos at http://tinyurl.com/5tzyoy3) with a guest appearance and toast by Chad L. Coleman from HBO's "The Wire" and "I Hate My Teenage Daughter" which premieres this fall on Fox. Other authors, including K'wan and Michel Marriott gathered for the digital download shindig.
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Partyers were invited to bring a smartphone, laptop, netbook, tablet, Kindle, Nook, Sony reader, whatever they use to connect. Mattison and the "Harlem geek squad" of Curator Digital Publishing introduced guests to reading ebooks on all their various devices. Loaners were provided, along with lessons, for guests without a mobile device. While they sipped wine and munched, they learned the major digital distribution platforms for ebooks and downloaded them to their devices. After downloading the free samples of the novels, they scrolled along with Mattison from their own screens as he read from SNITCH and UNSIGNED HYPE using both a smartphone and a laptop.
Mattison's next three B.Y.O.D. ebook parties will coincide with the Harlem Book Fair in New York City: Friday, July, 22nd at 4pm; Saturday, July, 23rd at 10:30am; and Saturday, July, 23rd at 5pm, all at Globetrippin (1689 Amsterdam Avenue, between 143rd and 144th Streets in Harlem, www.globetrippin.com). Mattison will also speak on a panel on digital publishing at the Harlem Book Fair. Invitations to the B.Y.O.D. ebook parties are available from the Curator Digital Publishing exhibit at the Harlem Book Fair.
"As a filmmaker," Mattison said, "I discovered that writing for the page expanded my audience. Ebooks will allow me to even more fully realize the potential of my stories. I like the ebooks format because I've been able to include links to my book trailers and videotaped author commentaries within the ebook. Ebooks offer the screen AND the reader experience. I love that they can be downloaded and enjoyed on almost any device - smartphones, laptops, even desktop computers, and tablets like iPad, Xoom and Playbook, as well as on all the dedicated electronic readers like Kindles, Nooks and Sony Readers."
Mattison's debut novel UNSIGNED HYPE has enjoyed steady sales in trade paperback since publication by Baker Publishing in 2009. Publishers Weekly said, "This debut novel has an authentic voice, taking readers into the world of New York City hip-hop through the wide eyes of a kid who's still refreshingly innocent... readers will come to love the characters who mentor him along the way...a fresh voice..." Library Journal said, "Firmly rooted in hip-hop lore, it will have huge appeal for urban teens and belongs in all metropolitan libraries' YA and Christian fiction collections."
SNITCH, just published in trade paperback by Baker Publishing, received a starred Publishers Weekly review and has reached the #1 spot on the AALBC.com ebooks bestseller list and has been a top seller in Black Expressions Book Club. The novel explores the clash between a working man and the code of the street. It rewrites the rule to mind your own business, peers into the hearts of those who seek revenge and redemption, and celebrates the ability of a community to triumph over violence and intimidation.
SNITCH has garnered attention from such readers as Kevin Cokley, Ph.D., Editor-In-Chief, Journal of Black Psychology, Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, who pronounced SNITCH, "A captivating story from start to finish... a compelling tale about the psychic turmoil of upholding the code of the streets."
The ebooks are distributed by INscribe Digital a sister company to INgrooves, a global provider of digital distribution, marketing and promotion services to the audio and video communities.
Booker T. Mattison is an author and filmmaker who wrote the screenplay for and directed the film adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's classic story "The Gilded Six Bits," which aired on Showtime. It starred Chad Coleman ("I Hate My Teenage Daughter" "The Wire"), T'keyah Keymah ("That's So Raven," "Cosby," "In Living Color"), Wendell Pierce ("Treme","The Wire," "Ray") and Novella Nelson ("The Antwone Fisher Story"). The Hollywood Reporter said of the film that, "Mattison's direction and feel for her characters match up to Hurston's sterling piece of fiction. The short is full of atmosphere and strongly developed characters." Mattison received his Master of Fine Arts in film from New York University and his Bachelor of Science in mass communication from Norfolk State University. Mattison has taught Literary Criticism at the College of New Rochelle in New York, film production at Brooklyn College and Advanced Directing, Screenwriting and Directing Actors at Regent University in Virginia.
For more information, visit www.BookerTMattison.com
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Adrienne Ingrum
PR@CuratorDigitalPublishing.com
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