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Authors' Resources

Cushcity.com's Authors' Resources section is designed to assist professional and aspiring authors to make publishing contacts more easily and to network with others.   Following are African-American publishing firms which can be contacted regarding manuscripts and book contracts.  For a list of publicists, click here.

African-American Publishers

Publisher Contact Info No. of books published/year Recently Published Titles
Africa World Press
11-D Princess Rd.
Lawrenceville, NJ  08648
(609) 844-9583
Publisher:  Kassahun Checole
  Why Bother by E. M. Damane
African American Images
1909 W. 95th St.
Chicago, IL  60643
773-445-0322
President:  Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
10 Black College Student's Survival Guide by Jawanza Kunjufu
Arabesque
c/o BET Holdings, Inc.
1900 W Place, N.E.
Washington, DC  20018
(202) 608-2000
Publisher:  Kelli J. Richardson
48 romance titles Flirting With Danger by Kayla Perrin
Nothing But the Truth by Roberta Gayle
Black Classic Press
4701 Mount Hope Dr. #D
Baltimore, MD  21215
410-358-0980
Publisher:  W. Paul Coates
15 to 20 The Black Panther Party Reconsidered by Charles Jones
Blackwords
Washington, DC
Founder:  Kwame Alexander
  Tough Love:  The Life and Death of Tupac Shakur
ED&C Publishing
8665 Sudley Road, #296
Manassas, VA 20110
(888) 449-8762
(703) 365-9601
Email: XcelDevCom@onebox.com
  Send manuscripts/queries: ATTN: Renita Rutherford
Genesis Press
315 3rd St.
Columbus, MS 39701
(601)329-9927
Founder:  Wil Colom
  Trade paperbacks by romance writers Robin Hampton Allen, Donna Hill and Rochelle Ayers
Kujichagulia Press, Inc.
9506 Ridgeview Dr.
Columbia, MD  21046
(800) 279-4919
Publisher:  Erriel Kofi Addae
http://www.bookpower.net
  Love Letters by Kirby Roy III
The Genocide Files by N. Xavier Arnold
(Both books are fiction titles)
Milligan Books
1425 W. Manchester Ave., Ste. C
Los Angeles, CA  90047
(323) 750-3592
Publisher:  Dr. Rosie Milligan
  Trapped by James Mays
Pines One Publications
3870 Crenshaw Blvd. #3911
Los Angeles, CA  90008
(323) 290-1182
President:  Denise Pines
  Wall Street, Main Street and the Side Street by Julianne Malveaux
Let the Brother Go If by Phyllis Akers
Third World Press
7822 S. Dobson
Chicago, IL  60619
(773) 651-0700
Founder:  Haki Madhubuti
  Afrolantic Legacies by Derrick Bell
Urban Ministries, Inc.
200 N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL  60601
(312) 920-1877
Editor:  Dr. A. Okechukwu Ogbonnaya
http://www.urbanministries.com
  Africans Who Shaped Our Faith by Dr. Jeremiah Wright
Writers and Readers
625 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY  10012
(212)982-3158
Founder:  Glenn Thompson