Urban Book Publishers
Step Back Kids This Is The Way 2010 Promotional Designers Tag Their Urban Environments
Author: Carla M Dummerauf
You know I saw a cartoon not to long ago, it was a young graffiti artist standing beside an executive dressed in a suit ‘n hat … both with spray cans in hand. Only the executive used capital letters and punctuation marks on his tags and he looks at the kid and says…”You bet! Correct Spelling and Punctuation- that’s the way I roll.”
It’s funny how true to form this cartoon really is. The advertisers of 21st century have taken a lesson out of the urban graffiti artist’s rule book and pulled down the cluttered unsightly and more often than not… ignored… billboards; opting for a more interactive and in your face style of medium. Down in the streets, right where the high volume traffic is. Using a medium guaranteed to grab and holding onto your attention. Ok, that is until the next best thing hits the scene. But for now, this is the next best thing!
It is however relatively new so accurate data and metrics are yet to be formatted and translated into some viable white paper as of yet. I don’t see this becoming a flash in the pan “come one day and go the next” fad. No this medium is here to stay and my guess is there will be a push to grab a hold of the attention of the public “out and about” in day to day (daylight) rush hours as well, because at the moment projection marketing is restricted to indoors and dusk /dark settings for optimum view ability. Stretching the time-line availability for the medium will provide for a bigger reach and the end result a bigger bang for the advertising dollar. Just like the advent of any new idea or technology, once the kinks are worked out, cost effectiveness kicks in which in the long run making the medium more viable for mainstream marketers to utilize. For all you nay sayers that say projection technology is for dusk/dark nighttime traffic only, limiting it’s uses … look down at your iPad and tell me that again… I dare you!
Projection Advertising is well suited with the culture we live in now… where we anticipate to be “wowed” at every turn to even get our heads to turn. Movement is key in this culture. Moving Ads in the form of animations, laid the pavement towards adoption of video marketing and now eye candy of a medium. It just keeps getting bigger and better…can’t say I’m not liking it though, I am after all a part of this “entertain me culture.” (To catch a visual of how fascinating and effective projection advertising can be type in projection advertising – outdoor projection, video mapping into your web browser and buckle up for some pretty fascinating stunts.)
Video mapping has taken the still life out of advertising and replaced it with interactive “wow,” just about anywhere: on tables, buildings, floors, sidewalks, walls, windows and water even. One is only limited by the creative team it has hired and this is such a fun medium, I bet the juices and enthusiasm is at peak for each project. This form of advertising can be set up for short viewings like special events, outdoor stunts, as well as permanent installations. In many instances permits are not even required if the building being projected on is not owned by the vendor, but out of sheer politeness perhaps a heads up for the building’s owners would be appropriate. Just a thought!
Video projections are opening up doors for creative career potential as well. In my research i have came across many listings calling for creative staff with the skill to plan, design and co-ordinate video mapping activities. In addition I also ran across a free download of the type of program used for such mapping, for those who are curious as to the production process behind this highly creative interactive new form of graffiti. you can link into it by following this: http://createdigitalmotion.com/2009/03/projection-mapping-made-easy-with-free-mac-windows-projection-tools/
I am excited about where projection advertising is taking us. That high rise which has become mundane has now the possibilities to transform it’s face into a moving, entertaining billboard. Yet unlike stationary billboards which change their face here and there, this high rise can host a multiple of attractive and interactive messages before the viewer can ever get bored with the message. Anyone want to hazard a guess though where we might venture to next? What ever it is, I am looking forward to it!
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NAL – New American Library
Simon & Scheuster have an Urban division
Atria Books
BET books
Publishers
Triple Crown Publications
Macavelli Press
Q-Boro Books
Ghetto Heat
Kensington Books’ Dafina
Simon and Schuster’s Strebor Books
go to the link and click on each in turn for more detail about them
Try these links:
http://www.blackbookplus.com/
http://www.qbr.com/
http://www.bibookreview.com/NewReviews-Fiction.htm
Also have you read: The coldest winter ever? or Push by sapphire.
The first link will lead you to a very good source of Urban fiction the other links are to help you become an eclectic reader. There are a host of Black authors out there and very few readers please do not limit yourself to JUST urban fiction. Happy reading!!
“Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.”
Voltaire
“What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.”
Thomas Carlyle quotes
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
Victor Hugo
I don’t know the exact answer but i can say it wasn’t a term dreamed up to describe their urban work as they also wrote a book called The Charged Void : Architecture
They were members of a group of architects called Team 10 and the bibliography at the link below shows they didn’t use the term for more than 2 books and no other members of the group used it so the best guess is that it was a term specifically used by the 2 of them.
Truthfully the genre keeps expanding. Paranormal is now in romance, fantasy, sci fi, mystery, drama, and young adult sections depending on the author. You can find paranormal comedies, with traditional gothic paranormal. The female heroines are so powerful that it makes women feel empowered through them. Similarly these characters despite their masculine ways, and their magic and positions they always seem to find some sexy hunky alpha male. That makes real women believe in love, remember that there is a top for every pot.
—- Star Wars debuted in 1977 since then we’ve had more movies and television shows based on space travel and the future, not less. Trends grow they don’t tend to stop and with each generation of writers comes a new generation of readers and they don’t want to all read about stuffy old vampires some want to read about the modern day transformation. Some want to read about how werewolves have stayed hidden so long and how witches have assimilated into society.
— Readers will keep demanding fresh stories on old themes otherwise the publishing industry would have come to a grinding halt many years ago.
My favorite kind of book guy, would be the dangerous egdey guy. The ones who use sarcasim as a weapon and have some deep dark secret. Tatoos and scars are often seen on these kind of fictional characters.
When will John Kerry apoligize
Book Lists
New Urban Fiction — May 2007 — from Miranda Doyle
Urban Fiction Booklist
Sex, Drugs, and Drama: More Books Like “The Coldest Winter Ever” VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates) VOYA article
Urban/Street Lit Reading List Suitable for Public Library Collections by Vanessa J. Morris Urban/Street Lit/Public
Urban/Street Lit Reading List Suitable for School Library Collections (Grades 6 and Up) by Vanessa J. Morris Urban/Street Lit/School
Urban Fiction Resources by Vanessa J. Morris Urban Fiction Papers & Booklists
Urban Fiction Titles for Teens, from Edith Campbell, Arlington High School, Indianapolis Posted on Crazy Quilts Blog [1]
My Favorite Urban Fiction Titles for Teens, from Miranda Doyle, San Francisco
What are some African American Publishers that publish urban books?
The New Republic , liberals cant even trust their own magazine?
Winter Soldier Syndrome
It only be cured when the costs of slandering the troops outweigh the benefits.
By Michelle Malkin
The tale of Army Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp, the discredited “Baghdad Diarist” for the discredited New Republic magazine, is an old tale: Self-aggrandizing soldier recounts war atrocities. Media outlets disseminate soldier’s tales uncritically. Military folks smell a rat and poke holes in tales too good (or rather, bad) to be true. Soldier’s ideological sponsors blame the messengers for exposing anti-war fraud.
Beauchamp belongs in the same ward as John F. Kerry, the original infectious agent of the toxic American disease known as Winter Soldier Syndrome. The ward is filling up.
U.S. military investigators concluded this week that Beauchamp concocted allegations of troop misconduct in a series of essays for The New Republic. “The investigation is complete and the allegations from PVT Beauchamp are false,” Major Steven Lamb, a spokesman for Multi National Division-Baghdad, told USA Today. The New Republic is standing by Beauchamp’s work. But Michael Goldfarb, online editor and blogger at The Weekly Standard who first challenged Beauchamp’s writing, reported Monday that Beauchamp had “signed a sworn statement admitting that all three articles he published in The New Republic were exaggerations and falsehoods — fabrications containing only ‘a smidgen of truth,’ in the words of our source.”
To illustrate the soul-deadening impact of war, Beauchamp had described sitting in a mess hall in Iraq mocking a female civilian contractor whose face had “melted” after an IED explosion. “I love chicks that have been intimate — with IEDs,” Pvt. Beauchamp claimed he said out loud in her earshot. “It really turns me on — melted skin, missing limbs, plastic noses.” Beauchamp recounted vividly: “My friend was practically falling out of his chair laughing. The disfigured woman slammed her cup down and ran out of the chow hall.”
It wasn’t true. After active-duty troops, veterans, embedded journalists, and bloggers raised pointed questions about the veracity of the anecdote, Beauchamp confessed to The New Republic’s meticulous fact-checkers that the mocking had taken place in Kuwait — before he had set foot in Iraq to experience the soul-deadening impact of war.
Military officials in Kuwait tried to verify the incident and called it an “urban legend or myth.” Beauchamp’s essays are filled with similarly spun tales. How much of a bull-slinger was Beauchamp, an aspiring creative writer who crowed on his personal blog that he would “return to America an author” after serving (which he told friends and family would “add a legitimacy to EVERYTHING I do afterwards”)? The very first line of his essay “Shock Troops,” which opened with the melted-face mockery, was this: “I saw her nearly every time I went to dinner in the chow hall at my base in Iraq.”
“Nearly every time.” At “my base in Iraq.” Complete and utter bull.
Defenders of The New Republic, a left-leaning magazine infamously duped by another young and ambitious fabulist, Stephen Glass, say the Beauchamp saga has been 1) blown out of proportion; 2) perpetuated by sloppy, rumor-mongering bloggers; 3) used as a distraction from the troubles in Iraq; and 4) exploited by “chickenhawks” who deny that war atrocities happen.
But the truth is, you won’t find a single Bush Kool-Aid drinker among the military bloggers, embedded independent journalists, and active-duty troops who prominently questioned the Beauchamp sham. They know it ain’t all going swimmingly overseas. But unlike Pvt. Beauchamp, they’re committed to telling the whole truth about the war, not just approximations and embellishments that will score easy magazine gigs and future book deals with elite New York City publishers. The doubters of Scott Thomas know atrocities when they see them. But, unlike the TNR editors, they know steaming bull dung when they smell it.
Ever since John Kerry sat in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and accused American soldiers of wantonly razing villages “in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan,” the Left has embraced a small cadre of self-loathing soldiers and soldier wannabes willing to sell their deadened souls for the anti-war cause. Think Jimmy Massey, the unhinged Marine who falsely accused his unit of engaging in mass genocide against Iraqis. Think Jesse MacBeth and Micah Wright, anti-war Army Rangers who weren’t Army Rangers.
Winter Soldier Syndrome will only be cured when the costs of slandering the troops outweigh the benefits. Exposing Scott Thomas Beauchamp and his brethren matters because the truth matters. The honor of the military matters. The credibility of the media matters. Think it doesn’t make a difference? Imagine where Sen. John Kerry would be now if the Internet had been around in 1971.
Alison and Peter Smithson (the British Architects) have a book named “the Charged Void- Urbanism” why?
Why is the book “The Charged Void- Urbanism” called this? I would be delighted if someone could tell me if this is a term the smithsons used or something used by the publishers to describe their urban work? Good luck
Anybody have a list of urban fiction publishers?
I need a list of publishers who publish urban fiction that i can reach online and off. Please detail the list. My manuscript is ready to go. I’ve already had a book published before called Urban Poetry Stories.
Anybody have a list of urban fiction publishers?
I need a list of publishers who publish urban fiction that i can reach online and off. Please detail the list. My manuscript is ready to go. I’ve already had a book published before called Urban Poetry Stories.
Do you think there are too many authors writing paranormal these days?
I’m writing an urban fantasy trilogy with werewoves, shapeshifters, fairies, and power….do you think that these days there are too many authors writing this kind of stuff? I mean with Sherrilyn Kenyon, Charlaine Harris, and the lot of them. I mean they all bring something different to the table, I know because I have an entire book case full of paranormal series but do you think publishers are tired of seeing them or they are okay with it because they are selling?
I can’t find anymore good publishing houses for my book?
My book is considered a temporary fantasy or maybe an urban fantasy. Magic is the only fantasy element. Rejection is normal for getting traditionally published, so I want more publishing houses in mind. Here’s what I need: 1. They publish my book’s kind of fantasy. 2. They accept unsolicited manuscripts. 3. They take books less than 25,000 words(there are publishers like that). 4. They have a variety of genres they accept. 5. They are not to competitive and don’t take too long with the publishing process (According to writer’s market, there are smaller publishing houses that don’t take long. My preference is 9 months or less. There is such thing). I need good suggestions please. I’m not going to be stuck with three publishers. What if they all reject me? I need more options. Also, please don’t say self publish or suggest small presses. Those don’t really sell that well.
My three ideas are Black Rose Writing, Tiny Horn, and American Book Publishing.
Can anyone name some African-American and/or Urban Book Publishers?
What Do You Like In A Male Protagonist? (For Women)?
I was reading that editors and publishers tend to deny books that have a male protagonist when the audience of the book will be primarily women. It says that “Women like books centered around women, especially pertaining to romance.”
I’m actually attempting to do this, despite the warning. My idea is too good not to write about, not to mention I’ve already started and I don’t plan on quitting just because it might not get published. The book I’m writing is an Y/A Urban Fantasy, and does have a large romantic plot-line.
So, the question I’m going to ask is, what traits of a male protagonist do you find particularly likable? How do you connect to them? How to you relate to them?
Yes, I’m a woman, and I do have my own opinion. I do read books more with a male protag than a female, but there aren’t a lot of them that I like. I enjoy the shy, clueless kind of guy that doesn’t know how to get a girl, the sarcastic loser, the kind of guys that are surprised to get the girl. And then I’m going to tell you that I’m a bit of a tomboy, and full-on romance tends to bore me. So my opinion most likely differs from most.
So what is your opinion. What do you like in a male protagonist?
My character being male is important to the plot.
(I know, another risk. I might come out to look sexist. Who cares?)
But it’s something that I can’t change. I know I’m the writer, but the world is set. Once it’s set, I can’t change it.
What story should I write for National novel writing month?
Okay, I found out about this cool activity where everyone signs up and tries to write a novel(la) (at least 50000 words) in one month (November)
I have always wanted to write, and I have a few main core ideas that I have in my head, I love all my babies and I can’t really decide which one would be a good fit for the competition (for lack of a better term, no one is “competing” per say) I know its bad to get ahead of myself before I write anything at all but I can’t help thinking about it. here goes.
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So here are all my ideas.
1. The Powerless- (Young adult/Sci-Fi)
Everyone on earth has super powers except for the main character, by twist of fate he ends up becoming a vigilante masked hero.
(This is a HUGE project of mine, the one I have put the most thought into so I kind of want to really work on it. Like I said, I know its not good to get too ahead of yourself but this would be part one in a 5 book series in my head. So I don’t think this is it)
2. The Machine- (Sci-Fi/Time Travel)
A group of high school students discover a time machine and after some abuse it they must deal with consequences that come with it.
Was what I was going to do originally beacuse its the freshest idea in my head, but there are just too many characters for a novella.
3. Witchpact (Urban Fantasy/Young adult)
All that wicken/witchcraft stuff that Goth kids in highschool are into turns out to be real. A normal guy accidentally gets involved in a summoning spell gone wrong and a demon is brought forth. In order to defeat the demon one of the witches makes a pact with the hero making them both very powerful…but also enslaving her to him. (but not in a bad way, he is a good guy…at first.) They deal with the rules of the pact and other magical forces in the world.
This is very influenced from anime I watched when I was younger and the concept originally started as a way to force me to practice writing female characters (of which their are a majority of in this) beacuse I was having trouble writing women in my other works. This is not a romance book, It has a real plot underneath the magic and monsters.
4. UNTITLED Pulp Sci-fi adventure
A fugitive on the run for a crime he didn’t commit. He has to make his way from Prison on Pluto across the solar system to Mercury.
The problem with this one is that I really want it to be a very hard Sci-fi story, very factual and realistic. (The trip would take more then a year) and It would be a lot of research to get all the physics and stuff right.
These are the four main stories that have been in my head. In writing this question I think I may have already answered it though, I think I’m going to go with Wtichpact. The website even says that this is just for fun and I would hate to rush stuff that I really take seriously like Powerless or the Machine. Witchpact started as an exercise anyway and even if I did write it its probably the least marketable of my ideas to real publishers (God and the Devil get involved). So at worst I could put it up for free to advertise my writing prowess.
But I would still like opinions.