OFF THE PAGE ON WBAI NEW YORK 99.5 FM

Bringing books to life
On the Airwaves: WBAI New York 99.5FM
 On the Web : US, UK, Norway, France, British Virgin Islands, South Africa, Ghana
The Weekly One Hour Radio Talk Show About the World That Creates Books
Lively : Dynamic : Provocative : Thoughtful :  Global
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Off The Page on WBAI New York 99.5 FM is the one hour lively weekly radio talk show about the world of books with those who write, critique, profit and publish, publicize and organize, agitate, inspire and pioneer. Provocative, personal, dynamic, vibrant, Off The Page brings books to life. Off The Page is unique in we do a creative media franchise. Off The Page goes from the print, to the airwaves to the webscreen. You can hear Off The Page on the radio, you can watch segments of the show online, and you can get the books you hear us talking about. Welcome to 21st Century creative literary media! The audience is global. Due to the creative media franchise, Off The Page reaches audiences in the US, UK, Norway, France, South Africa, British Virgin Islands, Ghana.

Meet Your Host!

I'm Esther Armah, the host of Off The Page. I'm an international award winning journalist and an author, playwright, company director too. My first book 'Can I Be Me? was adapted into a one woman show that played to audiences all over New York. I've written my second play Forgive Me? this hits New York's stages in May 2008. I'm a print, radio and TV journalist who has worked in the US, UK and Africa. In print, I've written for a range of publications including Essence magazine and Pride magazine, in radio I've been a documentary maker, investigative reporter and a radio host; in tv I've appeared in front of and behind the camera. In the US I've appeared on BETJ's 'My Two Cents', I've hosted 'What's At Stake? on KPFW in Washington DC and Wake Up Call at WBAI in New York. Centric is based in London, New York and Ghana. Off The Page is owned and produced by my company, Centric Productions. Centric  specializes in innovative and creative literary entrepreneurial media projects. Want to know more? Check my website: it is www.centricproductions.co.uk Can I Be Me? Click to order via Amazon Esther Armah penned her first book, which was adapted into a one woman show, starring Beverley Prentice.

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Want to Know More?
Here are the sections of the program:

	Literary Leaders Roundtable - Hot button issues discussed
	Between Me & You - The debate section
	First Timers - Literary virgins reveal all about penning their first book
	Spotlight - A writer and their body of work discussed and explored

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LITERARY LEADERS

Lit Leaders regular roundtables discuss hot button issues in the world of publishing; from the word on the increasing power of book clubs, to asking whether  the rising number of publishing imprints means there's a literary apartheid being created, to exploring the leading ladies of literature. Who are the Literary Leaders? 

Meet Off The Page's Literary Leaders
Linda Duggins Director Multi-Cultural Publicity, Hachette Book Group USA	Renee Flagler Author and Director of Aspicomm Media, Inc	Rosalind McLymont Author and Editor-in-chief of The Network Journal

LITERARY LEADERS ROUNDTABLE - THE RISE OF THE BOOK CLUB

The Lit Leaders debate the rise and power of the mighty book club. From the celebrity book clubs of Oprah and queen of media Wendy Williams to men and women in cafes and bookstores across America, the Lit Leaders talk book clubs.
Oprah Winfrey	Wendy Williams

LITERARY LEADERS ROUNDTABLE - LITERATURE'S LEADING LADIES

Who are your leading ladies of literature? In our roundtable on Literature's Leading Ladies, our Lit Leader's choices?
Toni Morrison	Terry McMillan

LITERARY LEADERS ROUNDTABLE - LITERARY COVER UP!

Do you judge a book by its cover? We explore what ends up on a book cover, whether you'd buy it and why it matters so much. Special guest GILDA SQUIRE, former Publicity Director of Amistad weighs in with expert knowledge
Unexpected Interruptions by Trice Hickman	Gilda Squire talks book covers   Click Play Button Listen to This Conversation	sex.lies.murder.fame. by Lolita Files

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BETWEEN ME AND YOU

This is our debate segment where two or more people go head to head about an issue. Off The Page asks the tough questions, challenges, questions and always seeks the answers. Previous debates include: 'Between The Sheets: The Rise and Rise of Erotica on The Page'; 'God On The Page: How Christian Fiction has taken the world of publishing by storm'; 'What's Happened to the Literary Activists?' Gangster Literature or Literary Literature: Which Would You Choose? And Why Should you Have To? and 'Essence Literary Awards: What's the 411?'

BETWEEN ME AND YOU - GANGSTER LIT. VS CHRISTIAN FICTION!

Debate guests include urban lit best selling author K'wan; author and commentator Herb Boyd; erotica anthology editor Samiya Bashir; poet and spoken word artist Mo Beasley; lawyer and book reviewer Kathryn Stanley, Essence Senior Editor Books and Arts, Patrik Henry Bass; New York Times best-selling author Tavis Smiley; Princeton professor, academic, scholar and author Dr Cornel West.

Herb Boyd K'wan Herb Boyd and king of gangster lit author Kwan go head to head on the rise and rise of gangster lit   Click Play Button Listen to This Conversation

Kathryn Stanley challenges the rise of Christian fiction

BETWEEN ME AND YOU - ESSENCE AWARDS, EROTICA!

Patrik Henry Bass defends Essence first Literary Awards

Mo Beasley gets between the sheets (the literary sheets) in our erotica debate   Click Play Button Listen to This Conversation

BETWEEN ME AND YOU - SAYING GOODBYE TO A SEVEN FIGURE BOOK DEAL!

New York Times best-selling author Tavis Smiley takes the literary world by the teeth as he saunters away from a seven figure deal in a mainstream publishing house and launches his own imprint Smiley Books. One of the authors is Princeton professor, academic, scholar, author and public intellectual Dr Cornel West, author of 'Race Matters'. Smiley and West engage in thoughtful, passionate Off The Page debate. They discuss the business of integrity versus the business of economics, taking editorial control, who really effectively markets black books and striking out in a bid for literary self-determination.
 
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Dr. Cornel West

Tavis Smiley

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FIRST TIMERS

Off The Page highlights the Literary virgins - the first time writers from both the self-publishing world and the mainstream publishing world that have lost their literary virginity and lived to tell their tale. We ask about their process, the lessons learned, why they felt the urge to write and where we can get their book. Previous first timers include Stacey Patton author of That Mean Old Yesterday; Randy Kearse author of 'Changin' Your Game Plan'; Hayden Horsham author of The Power of My Pen; Min Jin Lee author of Free Food For Millionaires.

First Timers features mainstream published authors, self-published authors and a range of genres including memoir, fiction, and non-fiction.  From the airwaves to the web screen, watch as Esther Armah talks childhood, surviving war, landing in fashion, managing modeling and the politics of black beauty with Sudanese refugee turned supermodel, Alek Wek on her first book ALEK.
 

FIRST TIMER - SUDANESE REFUGEE TURNED SUPERMODEL TURNED AUTHOR

Alek Wek Click to Watch Part1	Alek: From Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel (Click Cover to Purchase Book)
Alek Wek Click to Watch Part 2

FIRST TIMERS - ABUSE, PRISON, POWER, PEN

Hayden Horsham The Power of My Pen

Stacey Patton That Mean Old Yesterday

Randy Kearse Changin' Your Game Plan

Stacey Patton reveals the pain from an abusive adoptive mother and a passive silent father and compares her childhood to that suffered by slave children on the plantations in her debut memoir 'That Mean Old Yesterday'. Click Play Button Listen to this thought provoking interview

Off The Page, Min Jin Lee Off The Page specializes in communities of color, this Korean author tells more

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SPOTLIGHT

Spotlight focuses on one specific author and the themes and issues raised via a body of their work.

SPOTLIGHT - VIXEN, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, GOLD DIGGING EROTICA

Karrine Steffans, New York Times Bestselling author who gives a revealing and in depth interview about the legacy of using sex to earn her living and the cost she paid.

Allison Hobbs, best-selling Erotica author, who shared her story of how she couldn't get published because her work was dubbed too racy, but through that challenge became part of the Erotica genre and is now a six times best selling author

Hobbs talks stepping outside of the box, the challenges of creating characters readers respond to and the pressure to keep up that best-selling status in the explosive world of erotica.

 
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Karrine Steffans		Allison Hobbs
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CREATIVE MEDIA BY CENTRIC PRODUCTIONS Centric does a range of creative literary media projects  fusing the internet, film and drama. With these tools, a global audience gets to meet authors, get a taste of their work using this virtual literary world created by Centric Productions. In partnership with TOTALBLACKTV.com, a visual website with an established demographic in the UK, US, France, Norway, British Virgin Islands, South Africa and Ghana, authors voices are being heard and writers are traveling the world without spending a dollar.

 

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Click on the links below, and check out the trailers, watch the filmed events, discussions and creative media projects:

Authors on Tour! Divas of Literature, Brooklyn, New York The Divas of Literature Tour 2007 is the second of the creative marketing events on literature by Aspicomm Media, Inc. The tour hit five different US cities in five malls.

Book Trailer! Watch Middle Ground, the trailer. Drama, Diaspora, Passion, all encapsulated in the power of film.

Dramatized Reading! Watch this the latest powerful in creative marketing Middle Ground, a powerful debut novel is brought to life in this edited excerpt from the dramatized reading.

YOUR TRAILER, YOUR FILMED DRAMATIZED READING

Are you an author? A publicist? Want to know more about creative literary media projects using drama, film and new media? Want a dramatized reading for your book, want a trailer that you can upload?  Want to know how much it would cost? Email: info@centricproductions.co.uk

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