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Tananarive Due

Tananarive Due is an award-winning Essence best-selling author of Blood Colony, Living Blood, Good House, and Joplin's Ghost. She lives in Southern California with her husband Steven Barnes. Visit her website at www.TananariveDue.com.

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November 17, 2008
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Blood Colony is now available in Trade Paperback
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Blood Colony is now available in Trade Paperback
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In the Night of the Heat will be released on April 07, 2009 in Trade Paperback
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In the Night of the Heat is now available in Trade Paperback
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Blood Colony will be released on July 07, 2009 in Trade Paperback
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Chapter 1 from Blood Colony
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Chapter 1 from Casanegra
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Calendar Live, September 18, 2009
...Author Tananarive Due ('Blood Colony') and others will pay tribute to the life and work of late the author ('Basketball Jones,' 'Mama Dearest...
Calendar Live, September 11, 2009
...Laker and author of 'Character Driven: Life, Lessons and Basketball' will sign his new book. Sep. 25 Author Tananarive Due ('Blood Colony') and others will pay tribute to the life and work of late the author ('Basketball Jones,' 'Mama Dearest...
CNN, June 27, 2009
...Editor's note: Tananarive Due is an American Book Award-winning and NAACP Image Award-winning novelist. She is based in Los Angeles. Her website is http://www.tananarivedue.com/. Michael Jackson died Thursday, and my...
CNN, June 27, 2009
...Editor's note: Tananarive Due is an American Book Award-winning and NAACP Image Award-winning novelist. She is based in Los Angeles. Her website is http://www.tananarivedue.com/. LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Michael...
Atlanta Daily World, May 21, 2009
...is able to break a vicious cycle with his son. Coined as a 'master storyteller' by award-winning novelist Tananarive Due, Pitts' book was a treat from beginning to end with several expected and unexpected twists and turns. I think that Leonard Pitts Jr....
EURweb, April 8, 2009
...care plan. *Recorded Books, publisher of unabridged audiobooks, announced their acquisition of the rights to 'Blood Colony' by Tananarive Due. The book joins an extensive backlist collection recorded by the publisher. Established in 2000, the Griot Audio...
EURweb, April 8, 2009
...care plan. *Recorded Books, publisher of unabridged audiobooks, announced their acquisition of the rights to 'Blood Colony' by Tananarive Due. The book joins an extensive backlist collection recorded by the publisher. Established in 2000, the Griot Audio...
EURweb, April 8, 2009
...back. ITTY BITTY BITS: Charlie Wilson's 'Baby'; Jill Scott on Heart & Soul cover; Recorded Books nabs Tananarive Due title. *Charlie Wilson's hit song âThere Goes My Babyâ just entered its fourth consecutive week at No. 1 on the Urban Adult...
24-7PressRelease.com via, April 3, 2009
...Family Violence Prevention Fund, African American Fathers, Dr. Telle Whitney (CEO and President of the Anita Borg Institute), Tananarive Due (author), Rana Walker (life coach) For more information about 'Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys' call 267-288-7386...
PR Newswire, February 16, 2009
...citizen journalists and a number of bestselling authors. Contributors include American Book Award-winner and 2009 NAACP Image Award-winner Tananarive Due, Washington Wizards' NBA player/poet Etan Thomas, Malinda Williams, a star of Showtime's hit series...
South Florida Sun-Sentinel, January 30, 2009
...the awards ceremony, which will be broadcast on FOX television. The other authors nominated for the prize are Tananarive Due, Blood Colony; Blair Underwood (who's not a lawyer, but played one on TV), In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel,...
New Pittsburgh Courier, December 14, 2008
...writer, Valerie Wilson Wesley, expounding on the art of the murder mystery; and pages later, authors Samuel Delaney, Tananarive Due and Walter Mosley discuss the differences between speculative fiction and science fiction. Despite the many advances made...
Fantasy Cafe, October 5, 2009
...that fits but came up with a few possibilities: Sunshine by Robin McKinley My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due (which I was considering reading this month anyway) The Good, the Bad and the Undead by Kim Harrison (Although it is shelved in horror, the first...
TwoMindsFull, September 22, 2009
...Thomas LOS ANGELES, CA ESO Won Books @ 7:00 pm 4311 Degnan Blvd. Phone: 323-290-1048 Hosted by: Tananarive Due NEW ORLEANS, LA Afro-American Book Stop @ 5:30 pm 7056 Read Blvd Phone: 504-243-2436 Hosted by: Clarence Nero and Ms. Dupre NEW YORK. NY...
Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant's MySpace Blog, September 22, 2009
...Thomas LOS ANGELES, CA ESO Won Books @ 7:00 pm 4311 Degnan Blvd. Phone: 323-290-1048 Hosted by: Tananarive Due NEW ORLEANS, LA Afro-American Book Stop @ 5:30 pm 7056 Read Blvd Phone: 504-243-2436 Hosted by:  Clarence Nero and Ms. Dupre NEW YORK. NY...
Montgomery City County Public Library, Montgomery,, September 14, 2009
...You Gotta Sin To Get Saved” by J.D. Mason   BOOKS ON TAPE   “Blood Colony” by Tananarive Due “Dead And Gone” by Charlaine Harris “Fortunate Age” by Joanna Rakoff “Girls From Ames” by Jeffrey Zaslow “Language Of Bees” by...
EDC Creations's MySpace Blog, September 9, 2009
...Literary Awards in the mystery category alongside, two incredibly talented writers I have long admired: Walter Mosley and Tananarive Due. Ella:  What is your most valuable lesson about the publishing industry? PSY:  You need to have faith in your...
A Striped Armchair, August 25, 2009
...is crazy or possessed. The cover and title have me totally creeped out! Supernatural Joplin’s Ghost by Tananarive Due : a young girl becomes haunted by a famous ragtime compposer. This one sounds really interesting, and Due has lots of books that...
Impromp2, The Community Blog, May 26, 2009
...The Historical  Museum of Southern Florida hosted African Diaspora Authors: Edwidge Danticat and Tananarive  Due on May 21, 2009. The audience asked them questions after the reading....
Blogging Black Miami, May 14, 2009
...open to the public Miami is home to Black authors of diverse backgrounds. In this program, renowned novelists Tananarive Due, who grew up in Miami, and Edwidge Danticat, who lives here today, read from their best-selling works and discuss how living in...
The World in the Satin Bag, April 25, 2009
...Here goes: These four I won in some recent contests.  They are:   Blood Colony  by Tananarive Due, The Kingmaker  by Helen Hollick, Where There's Smoke  by Terra Little, and The Terror by Dan Simmons. I'm amazed I actually won...
The Pontifications of Maurice Broaddus, March 30, 2009
...white, even more specifically, all white male, horror anthology series) or writer affirmative action (because obviously writers like Tananarive Due, L.A. Banks, Wrath James White, Eric Jerome Dickey, Zane, or, I humbly submit, myself, can’t be...
Blackfolks, March 21, 2009
...Banks is still a relatively unknown author in the black community. She, along with writers like Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due and E.V. Rose, has sold plenty of books but not had the breakout success of Stephen King, Ann Rice or Stephenie Meyer. Banks has...
OBW, March 7, 2009
...Roderick O. Solomon Maya Angelou Michael Eric Dyson Pearl Cleage E. Lynn Harris Toni Morrison Nikki Giovanni Sapphire Tananarive Due Colin Channer Tina McElroy Ansa Octavia Butler Iceberg Slim James Baldwin Richard Wright Ralph Ellison Zora Neale Hurston...
Regina's Family Seasons, March 7, 2009
...Agatha Christie Frederick Douglass Charles Dickens Dr. William Edward Burghardt Dubois Edgar Allen Poe Octavia Butler Phyllis Wheatley Tananarive Due Charlotte Bronte Emily Bronte Donald Goines William Shakespeare Whew!!!!!!!!! There are more but these...
The Happy Go Lucky Bachelor., February 28, 2009
...me one way or another. So in no order they are, 1. Steven Barnes 2. Edwidge Danticat 3. Tananarive Due 4. Walter Mosely 5. Robert E. Howard 6. Charles Saunders 7. Toni Morrison 8. Jemlle Hill 9. Langston Hughes 10. Cornell West 11. Notorious BIG 12....
Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys | BlogTalkRadio Fe, February 28, 2009
...***THIS SHOW WILL AIR AT 12:00 P.M. EASTERN.*** SPECIAL GUEST: Tananarive Due — pronounced tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo — is the American Book Award-winning author of novels, screenplays and a civil rights memoir. Her newest novel, Blood Colony (June 2008),...
Nat Turner's Revenge, February 16, 2009
...white foreigner to get a deal on HBO. Indeed, it took the Casanegra series with Blair Underwood for Tananarive Due and Steve Barnes to receive the fame (2009 NAACP Image Award) they so richly deserved for their more literary works. LA Banks' sagas and...
Fierce and Nerdy, February 2, 2009
...good. If I had to pick a fictional guy to love, I’d probably go with David from Tananarive Due’s African Immortals series ( My Soul to Keep, The Living Blood, Blood Colony ) b/c he’s  smart, experienced, capable, yet incredibly human — despite...
Black Voices Blogs, December 29, 2008
...is one of the prettiest books I've ever published). Karen Hunter Publishing Casanegra (Fiction) by Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due and Stephen Barnes Atria, $14.00 Husband and wife writers, Due and Barnes team up with actor Underwood to spin a compelling...
APOOO, December 16, 2008
...     Too Little, Too Late by Victoria Christopher Murray (Day 16)–Winner is Joan Blood Colony by Tananarive Due (Day 17)–Winner is Danielle Trading Dreams at Midnight by Dianne McKinney Whetstone (Day 18)–Winner is Patricia Going Down South by...
Hollywood: As I Live And Work, December 16, 2008
...meet another great collaborating team that is flipping the script in the industry.  Actor/producer, Blair Underwood, and authors, Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes have joined creative forces to make books into movies with a different approach. FADE IN:...
the rasx() context, December 5, 2008
...form with an unusual entry like “ Bayou: comic by Jeremy Love and Patrick Morgan .” The resplendent and illuminating Tananarive Due . “ black girl lost…in a book ”—I’m being rebellious including this Blog from the woman with the handle...