Deals.* Dave Chappelle's How to Play the Race Card and Win!, the incomparable comedian's take on race in America, to Mark Chait at Hyperion, in a half-million-dollar-plus deal, by David Vigliano and Michael Harriot at Vigliano Associates. * Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, his diary of the struggle to produce the 1971 movie classic, to Neil Ortenberg and Catheline Jean-Francois at Nation Books, by Bob Silverstein at Quicksilver quicksilver: see mercury. (1) (QuickSilver Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA, www.qstech.com) A mobile communications company that specializes in a reconfigurable logic chip for cellphones and PDAs. See adaptive computing. Books. The book will be the official tie-in to Sony Classics's film BAADASSSSS!--written, produced, directed and starring Melvin's son, Mario Van Peebles. * Sharon Epperson's Working It Out: Financial Fitness for Couples to Steve Hanselman and Kathy Huck huck n. Huckaback. Noun 1. huck - toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric huckaback toweling, towelling - any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels at Harper Resource, for publication in January 2006, by Caron Knauer at Caron K Uterary Enterprises. * The story of Christopher R Gardner, who built a multimillion dollar brokerage firm, Gardner Rich Gardner Rich, LLC is a NASD-registered broker-dealer firm that was founded by Christopher Gardner in 1987. Gardner sold his small stake in Gardner Rich in a multi-million dollar deal in 2006. & Co. of Chicago, written with Quincy Troupe Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr., born July 22, 1939, in St Louis , Missouri, is a poet, editor (recently the Styx River Magazine), journalist, and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, California. , to Dawn Davis at Amistad/HarperCollins. The deal, upwards of $250,000, was made by Jennifer Gates at Zachary Shuster Harmsworth. Film rights were optioned at Columbia Pictures for Overbrook Entertainment and Escape Artists. Will Smith is scheduled to play the lead. * Claude McKay Claude McKay (September 15, 1889[1] – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican writer and communist. He was part of the Harlem Renaissance and wrote three novels: Home to Harlem (1928), a best-seller which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature, Banjo , a two-volume study of the Harlem Renaissance figure, by Columbia University historian Winston James, to Peter Dimock at Columbia University Press Columbia University Press is an academic press based in New York City and affiliated with Columbia University. It is currently directed by James D. Jordan (2004-present) and publishes titles in the humanities and sciences, including the fields of literary and cultural studies, , by Deirdre Mullane at The Spieler Agency. * Tony Lindsay's third novel, Chasin' It, sold to Carl Weber of Urban Books in a two-book deal by Audra Barrett of Barrer Books. Angela P. Dodson: E-mail your news to angela@cmapublishing.com |
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