Thanks from a self-publisher.

Dear Editors:

I am a loyal reader of Black Issues Book Review. Your magazine is insightful, informative and quite entertaining. I am a library branch manager, and I use it as a selection tool to help build my African American collection.

As a self-published author, I must commend you for creating opportunities for us to have a voice and advertise via your magazine. You have helped to enrich the world of self-published authors, and your book reviews and advertisements of their works are vibrant, appealing and revealing. You are one of the few media outlets that allow us a fair opportunity to freely flow our ideas, literature and commentary, even if we are not published by Random House or Simon & Schuster. I say with a degree of certainty that most of the published authors who have advertised or had books reviewed by BIBR thank you immensely for your support.

Please keep up the good work of ensuring that everyone, from the small independent, struggling author to the literary prize-winning giants, has equity in advertising and representation in your pages.

--Ronald Gauthier

Atlanta, Ga.