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Friday, October 02, 2009

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Real Housewives of Atlanta


Okay I know I have some issues right now. How in the heck did I get hooked on this silly show? I don't know, I need to read the Bible more and turn this crazy TV off. With friends like these, who need enemies.


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Friday, August 07, 2009

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Meet Prioritybooks Publications Newest Author







**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**


August 7, 2009

For more information or interviews contact:
Contact: Rose Jackson-Beavers
Phone: 314.306.2972
Publisher’s website: http://www.prioritybooks.com/
Email: rose@prioritybooks.com

Surviving Sexual Indignities through Redemption

After surviving years of rape from the trusted men in her life, Renita Marie Lamkin was sure the she would never recover from the abuse and likewise never be able to trust men. From sexual abuse, to a failed marriage rife with adultery by both partners, Renita Lamkin believed that she would never love again, or be able to enjoy the warm embrace of a man. In Holy Moly! The Spirituality of Sexuality Rev. Lamkin explores her past sexual pains, and proves that redemption and true sexual gratification is attainable.

Lamkin beautifully weaves her sorrowful stories of sexual abuse with the redemptive words from the Bible. Through the thoughtfulness of her terminology, and the transparency of her past, Reverend Renita Lamkin’s Holy Moly! The Spirituality of Sexuality is sure to abound the lines of gender, age and religion. Lamkin’s own personal story of sexual abuse, misdeeds and now sexual redemption within the confines of her marriage are inspiring and easy for all to relate to.

Not only does Lamkin provide her struggles of a past that is wrought with sexual betrayal, she also provides the reader with solutions toward a trustful and joyous intimate life. Not claiming to be an expert, she offers tips and advice that helped her and others in the past. Regardless of a couple’s marital status, Rev. Lamkin’s words offer help and power to transform any and all relationships.

Lamkin’s honesty is a refreshing breath of air that allows the reader to relate to her story, without the fear of feeling condemnation. Renita Lamkin’s experiences range from rape, to sexual adultery, thus allowing her to have a profound voice that speaks to many without the sense of judgment or damnation. Rev. Lamkin proves that no matter how hurt a person can be from sexual oppression, love and intimacy is still possible; and waiting for all who are willing to accept it.


For information about this author or to set up an interview please email Prioritybooks at info@prioritybooks.com or the author at www.renitalamkin.com .

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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Where are senior activities on the south side in Chicago?

Help! My aunt called me last night crying because she is so lonely. Even though she is married and have grown kids, she said sometimes she does not feel like living because she is so lonely. She is a senior citizen about 63, I think. She said that hubby works all day, and when he comes home, after 45 years of marriage, he eats and goes to bed. She said all she wants is someone to talk to.

I think people stop taking her calls because last summer she almost died on the operating table and they gave her too much morphine. Well, although she survived, it seems that she has a memory problem. She repeats the same conversation, revisits the same topics, and ask the same questions every time she talks to you.

But I love her dearly. At this time in her life she should be a part of senior activities? Shopping with them, dancing with them, etc.

Does any one have any contact information so that I can contact a senior citizens' organization who could pick her up at least three times a week. Seniors hate to feel isolated and lonely? She lives on the south side about 15 minutes from downtown Chicago.

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Thursday, January 22, 2009

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God Saved His Life


By Rose Jackson-Beavers

In Kareem’s words, It doesn’t matter how, why or when you find God, but it’s important that you do find Him.” Now, he wants the world to know that he knew God even before he was ever incarcerated. He was young and smart, yet easily impressed by the wrong things. He was this way because he wanted to support his mother and siblings. After his father left his family to fend for themselves, he felt he had to be a man, so he turned to the streets to save his family from economic depravity. Kareem graduated from being a sweet, honest young man to a hardened street thug. He sold drugs and did whatever it took to make a dollar. It didn’t start that way for him, but the more seasoned thugs told him that in order to survive Charlotte’s hard streets of crime he would have to become coldhearted. See, if you are coldhearted you can’t feel the pain of what your negative choices have done. Unfortunately, for the young seventeen-year-old, being in the streets and being a part of a powerful negative element made him realize that if he didn’t do something he was going to die early.

Knowing no other way to undo his negative ways, he got on his knees and asked God to save him, to take him off the streets. He needed God to help him because the streets consumed him with all of its evilness. God answered his prayer, and three months later he was arrested for selling drugs and being a part of what was called the West Charlotte Posse street gang.

Kareem informed Rose Jackson-Beavers that he had no regrets about being incarcerated. He was paying for his sins, and God saved him from certain death. That is where he felt he was heading, if God had not intervened. The kind of life he was leading would eventually land him in one of three places—the grave, jail or hospitalized in a perilous condition.

Although God gave him another chance, unfortunately for Kareem the system didn’t. He wasn’t treated fairly. As most young African Americans are unjustly convicted, so was he. For one thing, he was transferred from juvenile to adult status illegally. With nearly seventeen years in prison, he was known as the youngest member of the alleged notorious West Charlotte Posse of Charlotte, North Carolina. Robbing drug dealers, selling coke and even heroin, Kareem appeared before a federal district court judge as a juvenile. He received forty-five years and was sent off, not to a Federal Juvenile Correctional Institution, but to a Federal United States Penitentiary where the government sent all alleged hardened criminals. He has been incarcerated for an extended period of time as a direct result of unjust laws and a district court judge abusing his discretion by illegally allowing him to be tried as an “Adult” defendant and not as a “Juvenile” defendant.After settling down enough to see his way through the fog of the underworld life and ways of thuggism, Kareem devoted himself to a life that leads to positive growth and development. He credits his journey of change to his personal relationship with Jesus Christ and The Autobiography of Malcolm X…. Now with a passion for writing, Kareem has completed his first novel, Death, No Exceptions!


Death, No Exceptions! is a story of uncompromising revenge. The story is not an attempt to glorify the street way of life, but to paint a picture to readers about how far some human beings will go to hurt and harm others over material things that are here today and gone tomorrow. Tomblin wanted to show just how much damage and pain an individual can cause when he/she is being motivated by the negative spirit of uncompromising revenge.

Kareem said he wanted to help others stay out of jail and do the right thing. He encourages fathers to remain visible and involved with their children. He does feel that if his father was in the home and had pulled his coattail he would be a different person today.

He also feels that God works in mysterious ways. He asked God for a publisher and a way to make an earnest living. He went back to school to get his General Education Diploma and earned a certificate equivalent to an associate’s degree and he spends more than three hours everyday in the library studying law or anything he can get his hands on. He believes that education is the key to success in life. Though he knows that had it not been for imprisonment he would still be an uneducated young man. In wanting to help other teenagers navigate away from the streets, he works with and counsels young men entering into the prison system. For some it is not too late to change.

Another thing that God did for him was send a prisoner to where he is housed who hailed from East St. Louis and often read the East St. Louis Monitor newspaper. It was the East St. Louis Monitor that contained an article requesting submissions for Prioritybooks Publications. Not only did the publisher reach out to him, he found that he was working with a Christian who not only talked about God, but encouraged him to remain faithful to Him. Now, almost ten months later, he is a published author with several books coming out to help teens remain focused on the positive way of life. He does intend to write about thug life but not without telling the truth about how the streets will wax your heart cold. All of his work will lead people to understand that God is calling them to save their lives.

Kareem is thankful for God, his family, Prioritybooks Publications and the East St. Louis Monitor. He is grateful that God made it possible for the newspaper to be in the hands of another prisoner at the right time. He also prays that God will lead an attorney who is willing to look at his case and the documented evidence to free him from bondage. Finally, Kareem hopes that readers will enjoy his books and put them in the hands of young men who need to know that all that glitters is not gold. If pure gold is what they desire, they should look to God who promised us that if we live for Him we can walk on Heaven’s Golden Streets.

For more information about Death, No Exceptions! or to schedule an interview with Kareem Tomblin call Prioritybooks at 314-306-2972 or write to info@prioritybooks.com. You may also contact the author: Kareem Tomblin #10119-058, Federal Correction Center, Post Office Box 52020/Unit B-2 Bennettsville, SC., 29512. Death, No Exceptions! is available at http://www.amazon.com/, http://www.barnesandnoble.com/. If it is not on the shelf, ask for it.

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Thursday, December 25, 2008

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Thursday, December 11, 2008

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Coming February 2009


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Thursday, November 27, 2008

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**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**November 19, 2008




Prioritybooks signs Kareem Tomblin

For more information or interviews contact:
Contact: Rose Jackson-Beavers
Phone: 314.306.2972
Publisher’s website: http://www.prioritybooks.com/
Email: rose@prioritybooks.com

LOCKED UP BUT NOT DOWN

With nearly 17 years in prison, he was known as the youngest member of the alleged notorious “West Charlotte Posse” of Charlotte, North Carolina. Kareem Tomblin was sucked into the thug way of life at a young tender age. Robbing drug dealers, selling coke and even heroin – Kareem found himself before a federal district court judge as a “Juvenile”, received 45 years and was sent off to not a federal “Juvenile” correctional institution, but to a Federal United States Penitentiary – where the government sends all alleged harden criminals. He has been incarcerated so long not just on the basis of being a hard-core young ex-thug, but as a direct result of unjust laws and a district court judge abusing his discretion by illegally allowing him to be tried as an “Adult” defendant and not as a “Juvenile” defendant.

After settling down enough to see his way through the fog of the underworld life and ways of “thuggism”, Kareem devoted himself to a life that leads to “positive” growth and development. He credits his journey of “change” to his personal relationship with Jesus Christ and the autobiography of Malcolm X…. Now with a passion for writing, Kareem has completed his first novel, DEATH, NO EXCEPTIONS!

DEATH, NO EXCEPTIONS is a story of uncompromising revenge. The story is not an attempt to glorify the street way of life, but to paint a picture to readers about how far some human beings will go to hurt and harm others over “material things” that’s here today and gone tomorrow – like coke and cash…. Tomblin wanted to show just how much damage and pain an individual can cause when he/she is being motivated by the negative spirit of uncompromising revenge.
Prioritybooks Publications is a book publishing company that started as a result of the owner, Rose Jackson-Beavers desire to control her own publishing destiny. Since its’ inception in 2005, she has published more than 20 authors including herself. Prioritybooks has also expanded its services to include advertisements, Press Kit Preparation, Target Market Press Kit Distribution, Target Market Promotional, Mailings and publishing workshops.

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Editor’s note: For more information about Death, No Exceptions, or to schedule an interview with Kareem Tomblin call Prioritybooks at 314-306-2972 or write to info@prioritybooks.com. You may also contact the author at Kareem Tomblin #10119-058, Federal Correction Center, Post Office Box 52020/Unit B-2 Bennettsville, SC., 29512. Death, No Exceptions is available at http://www.amazon.com/, http://www.barnesandnoble.com/. If it is not on the shelf ask for it.

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