The Chocolate Pages Show

Kendra Norman-Bellamy and her award winning titles have been featured in such magazines as Essence, Upscale, EKG Literary, and HOPE for Women. She has been a contributing writer for HOPE for Women, Precious Times, and Global Women magazines. Kendra is the author of One Prayer Away, Crossing Jhordan’s River, and A Love So Strong. She was the winner of the 2008 Best Christian Fiction Award and the 2008 Best Anthology Award from the African American Literary Award Show in Harlem, New York. Hear her on the Chocolate Pages show as she discusses her new title: Fifteen Years! Visit her website: Kendra's Website # Paperback: 288 pages # Publisher: Lift Every Voice/Moody Publishers; (February 1, 2010)

The World Is Yours! If you don't risk everything, you risk even more. Amy DuBois Barnett—author of the new book Get Yours! The Girlfriends' Guide to Having Everything You Ever Dreamed of and More Hear the conversation on how to dream bigger, go further, risk smarter, and live more fully than you ever thought possible. Amy's website TAKE RISKS! GET YOURS! START TODAY!

Dr. Roberts of the ‘Little Rock Nine,’ the group of African-American students that desegregated Little Rock High School, will discuss his experiences and observations of America’s moral and social evolution since the 1950’s. His new Book: LESSONS FROM LITTLE ROCK and SIMPLE, NOT EASY: Reflections on Community, Social Responsibility, and Tolerance.

Have you ever wondered what your true life’s work really looked like? Not the part that resembles the mundane tired existence you so hesitantly pursue every day but the bold, innovative, passionate you bursting with brilliant ideas, poignant solutions and inspiration. The only thing that stands in your way is the gap between your frustrated reality and the true vision you see when you dream. Your true life does not have to be only a dream, it can be a dream manifested in 3D! In this show, author Paul Wilson Jr. will talk about how to learn to Discover, Define and Drive your desires by unleashing the God given muse to help you envision yourself in a B.I.G way. God designed you for greatness so stop dreaming small. Uncover your legacy. Now is the season for a Bold Innovative God-Inspired Life! You owe it to yourself to see just how far your true dreams in life can take you. Paul's Facebook

These ladies wrote stories that crushed the devil! Twenty-five women, including Bunny Debarge, Sharon Ewell Foster, Stanice Anderson, Claudia Mair Burney and Marilynn Griffith, tell their stories of coming full circle from tragedy to triumph. Each contributor keeps it holy, keeping it real in these raw, relevant tales of redemption and restoration. Think of it as Prozac for the Christian Woman’s Soul! Join us! Sistah Faith Ning

Rhonda McKnight is the owner of Legacy Editing, a free-lance editing service for fiction writers and Urban Christian Fiction Today, a popular Internet site that highlights African-American Christian fiction. She’s the vice-president of Faith Based Fiction Writers of Atlanta. When she’s not editing projects, teaching workshops about writing or penning her next novel, she spends time with her family.

This is an awesome interview of author and FM98 WJLB's Gospel announcer, Dr. Deborah Smith Pollard in an interview she did on WDRJ 1440 with Evangelist Arlynda Thompson during Black History Month last year on "Contend for the Faith" in Detroit. www.DeborahSmithPollard.com to get free chapter from her award-winning book, "When The Church Becomes Your Party: Contemporary Gospel Music"

Publicity professional Jordan McAuley offers tips on tapping celebrity power to sell one's product or self. Like it or not, we live in a celebrity culture. Stars dominate, so why not ride their coattails and benefit by getting your product associated with an appropriate celebrity? McAuley presents intelligent, insider advice on matching product with celebrity, plus simple-sounding but effective information such as using FedEx over UPS, as FedEx radiates importance. He provides a variety of sources for celebrity contact information, notably his Contact Any Celebrity website (see http://bit.ly/celebrityleverage) though to his credit Jordan McAuley doesn't stint on providing his competitor's contact information. "This incredible book shows you how to 'hitch your wagon to a star' in your upward climb." - Brian Tracy, President, Brian Tracy International "Using celebrities and celebrity tie-ins are a couple of the absolute best ways to get free publicity, especially on the radio. Jordan's book tells you exactly how to capitalize on celebrities. It's an indispensable tool. I highly recommend it." - Alex Carroll, Author of The Radio Publicity Manual Manual http://bit.ly/celebrityleverage

At 475 pounds and a size 60, Calvin Nowell decided to start --- somewhere. But his weight loss was more than that ...it means letting go of other stuff to cleanse the body, mind, and spirit! Though at the beginning of the year most folks vow to lose weight, the body (and mind) deserve the rewards of self-reflection all year round. Author, singer/song writer Calvin Nowell, had a "burning bush" revelation which led him to shed more 200 pounds. Hear how he did it and what keeps him going. It will inspire you to give yourself permission to be healthy in not just body - but in the soul too. Calvin Nowell is a worship leader, recording artist, and songwriter known for his debut album, Start Somewhere, and his personal accomplishment of losing over 215 pounds. He has toured or recorded with some of today’s top artists, including Michael W. Smith, CeCe Winans, Fred Hammond, Nicole C. Mullen and Michael McDonald. Visit Calvin online at www.CalvinNowell.com

Hear Stacy Hawkins Adams, an award-winning novelist, nonfiction author and inspirational speaker talk about her new release on MLK Day. She weaves matters of faith, social issues and contemporary women's issues into creative plots that leave you rooting for some characters and furious with others. You'll put down one of her books feeling like you've left behind a friend. http://www.StacyHawkinsAdams.com

As a special Chocolate Pages show, I wanted to give tribute to the person that impacted me the most and inspires my life - Dr. King. I was only 8 when he was killed - but I still remember it like it was yesterday. This speech by the late, great Dr. Martin Luther King is the most remembered speech in history. It was prophetic too. Because dreams don't have an expiration date! Look at 2010 - the U.S. has the first African American President. WOW. Words shape our world. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King you will live forever in our hearts!

Hear Yolanda Adams talking about her new book, Points of Power: Discover a Spirit-filled Life of Joy and Purpose. She shares her story of the triumph of faith in her life and will inspire you to achieve as well. "Don't just survive, thrive & go for the victory." Go to Pam Perry's www.ChristianBookBuzzOnline.com

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – the late great Jim Rohn Listen to this show on how to STAY motivated to REACH YOUR GOALS! Author and motivator Bill Starr is the creator of My Life List®, a goal achievement social networking Web site. Starr is hoping to inspire a whole new generation of goal achievers to go online (www.mylifelist.org) and use the power of social networking to engage a wider community to help them accomplish their 2010 goals.

INTERVIEW TACTICS! is the only HOW-TO be interviewed and media training survival guide that lays out the STEP-BY-STEP power tools you need for GOING ONE-ON-ONE WITH THE PRESS, CAMERA, MICROPHONE (or any gate keeper) so you can give that KILLER INTERVIEW! Author Gayl Murphy will tell you how! THE HOLLYWOOD "TALK OF FAME"

Motherhood is a beautiful thing. For "career" women, making the transition can be bit of a shock. Many of today's mothers can't really look to their mothers for advice on how to "have it all" or "balance it all" because for many African American mothers - we are the first generation to be working in high level, corporate career jobs. Best-selling author, Kimberly Seals Allers has created a movement with the Mocha Manual books. It's like "a black mom's guide to life." www.MochaManual.com