We have now reached the month of NOVEMBER!!! The second to last month of the year. Time has surly flown by, this year. Weren't we just celebrating new years, just last week...? Now the year is almost over. It seems like the older you get, the fast time goes by.
As we are now in November, help me to celebrate the TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY of this blog!!!!! Ten years ago in 2011, I first started this blog (November 10th, to be exact). I wasn't really sure if I should start a blog or not, as I wanted to be consistent with its content. Starting the blog was a testament to my desire to build my writing career, as I was in the process of releasing my second book, at the time. This blog was to be a platform for both my political activism, especially concerning Afro Latino issues & affairs, as well as a vehicle to help me promote my books, and later, novels. I have to admit, it's been a struggle to maintain this blog. People have fallen off with their support, and there were times when I struggled to have content to post here. People seem to not know that I get viewership analytics, whenever I log into my account. Basically, I can see how many people have actually viewed my posts; recent, or otherwise. But...I'm still doing it. The blog is still here. I'm still posting content, and promoting my works. In certain ways, it kinda beats having an actual website to maintain, but it also has its shortcomings. Here's to another decade of posting content, and spreading my philosophy....
November also marks the ten-year publishing anniversary of my second book "Raise Your Brown Black Fist 2: MORE Political Shouts of an Angry Afro Latino" (Outskirts Press, 2011).
Ten years ago, I published the follow-up sequel to my first book. I expanded the "Black Thoughts" essay series, and expanded it to sixteen essays, from the original seven. It was warmly received when I originally published the book. Of course, there were a few folks who shitted on me, and didn't support it, claiming that they had never received their copy of the first book, so they didn't want that to happen with the second book (even though I used a totally different publisher with this book). But, yet...niggas never called customer service to let them know that, or even me for that matter, and I paid for it with their nonsupport. But....I digress...
RYBBF is available in both paperback AND eBook formats. If you don't feel like buying the physical copy, you can always download it for $1.99 through the various eBook outlets of Kindle, Nook, Kobo, iTunes, Scribd, and in eBook format through libraries, as well.
November marks TEN months that "Knuckle Up" (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2021) has been released. Sales are still stagnant, though I'm doing what I can to promote it. Haven't received any reviews for it, either. I've tried promoting it to actual female fighters through social media, but that has been a no-go. Oh, well....it's out there, and I'm still promoting it.
November also marks the beginning of my Holiday Economic Support Initiative. Lasting from "Black Friday" until New Years Day, this campaign is meant to bolster economic support for Black-owned & Latino-owned businesses & entrepreneurs. If WE don't support our businesses & entrepreneurs, who will?!?! Don't be talking all of this rhetoric on social media, and then you don't even back up that shit you be talking about. Stop trying to act all 'woke' & shit, when yo ass, ain't! I've being doing this initiative since 2014; if you want to support, you can tag a business of entrepreneur that you know on social media, and use the hashtags #HolidayEconomicSupportInitiative, or #HESI to help to promote & support that business, or entrepreneur that you know, and have actually supported. Also...SPEND YOUR MONEY WITH THEM!!!! I'm hoping that this campaign will catch fire, and cause us to actually support our own. Considering how corporate America disrespects us, and our community (and the larger society, for that matter), let's try to hit them where it really hurts. You don't have to be marching in the streets to be involved in activism. Let's start using whatever social media powers and influence that we have for good, hmmm....?
That's about all for now. Help me to celebrate my anniversaries, and to support my economic campaign. Also...buy a couple of books....and leave a damn review, while you're at it!!! I'll keep you guys updated on my progress.
Keep the fist raised.
#AlwaysOnMyLiteraryGrind
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