Okay, I owe the judges of the Lulu Blooker Prize an apology. In my last post, I called them all 45 plus and one of them is five years younger than I am. Not only that, I also inferred that they were less than hip and happening folk.

In my dumb defense, I was so excited about the competition that I didn’t have time to read their bios, I just looked at their pics and made a judgment across the board. Ironic isn’t it? I just committed an act against another that I’ve been fighting against all my life–that people look at me and just see an African American female and because of that, make sweeping judgments.

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This cover to the left, is the cover that I wanted to use for AIJAN, but at the last minute we realized that no one had gotten copyright clearance … Arghhhhh. So the cover the the right was used.

You see this image is a composition of the following two images, plus a bit extra drawing. Although the image was so pixilated that Deborah had to practically redraw the entire thing, credit still needed to be attributed where due.

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Good Morning Folks,

Since I’ve been asked this question repeatedly (and this is in no way a complaint!) let me clarify.

Although not officially released, the blook is available for sale. Just be aware that there’s no ISBN and a few typos which I’ve caught, which will be corrected at the application of the ISBN in the next month.

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Hello Folks,

Just a brief note to share the great news that all deadlines have been met and project AIJAN for Lulu Blooker Award 2006 is a wrap!

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Hi Folks,

Sorry I’ve been absent lately. I’ve been working tooth and nail on coverting one of my blogs into a book or “blook” as it has been coined, for the Lulu Blooker Prize Contest.

The deadline is January 30th. It wasn’t as simple as I thought it would be. First I had to cut and paste the entire blog into word, then reverse the date order to earliest to most recent, then decide which posts would stay, which would go, which comments would stay or go.

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