Nominations Process

The nominations process for 2010 will start on May 17, 2010 and will end on June 30, 2010. The nominees will be announced at the Nominations Brunch on July 17, 2010 at Melba's Restaurant in Harlem. In order for books to be nominated, they must be published between July 2009 and June 2010.

 

Fiction

• Donna Grant & Virginia DeBerry - Uptown
• E. Lynn Harris – In My Father’s House (St. Martin’s Press)
• Carol Taylor – The Ex Chronicles
• Pearl Cleage – Till You Hear From Me
• Donna Hill – What Mother Never Told Me

Non Fiction

• Sherri Shepherd – Permission Slips
• Kirk Franklin - The Blueprint: A Plan for Living Above Life's Storms
• Jamal Bryant – World War Me
• Shoshana Johnson - I'm Still Standing: From Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen--My Journey Home
• Nene Leakes - Never Make the Same Mistake Twice: Lessons on Love and Life Learned the Hard Way

Biography/Memoir

• Harold L. Turley - My Darkest Hour: The Day I Realized I Was Abusive
• Todd Bridges – Killing Willis: From Diff'rent Strokes to the Mean Streets to the Life I Always Wanted
• Wes Moore - The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
• Byron Pitts - Step Out on Nothing: How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life's Challenges
• Pam Grier - Foxy: My Life in Three Acts

Christian

• Victoria Christopher Murray – Sins Of The Mother
• Patricia Haley – Destined
• Vanessa Davis Griggs – The Truth is The Light
• Michelle Larks – Faith
• Jacquelin Thomas – Samson

Romance

• Beverly Jenkins – Captured
• Francis Ray – It Had To Be You
• Maureen Smith – Recipe For Temptation
• Rochelle Alers – Breakaway
• Brenda Jackson – Hidden Pleasures

Self Published Author of the Year

• Takerra Allen  - Heaven's Hell
• Caroline McGill - A Dollar Outta Fifteen Cents IV
  
• Ni'cola Mitchell – The Appetizer: When You're Not His Main Course
• Tamika Newhouse - The Ultimate Moment No Regrets
• Elissa Gabrielle – Whisper To A Scream

Erotica

• Allison Hobbs – Pure Paradise
• Dr. XYZ – Nasty
• Noire - Unzipped: An Urban Erotic Tale
• J. Tremble – My Man, Her Son
• LaDawn Black – Tease: Steamy Short Stories

Street Fiction

• Nikki Turner – Relapse
• K’wan – Section 8
• JM Benjamin – Heaven & Earth
• Dutch – Dynasty
• Dashawn Taylor – Kissed By The Devil

Self Help

• Karen Hunter - Stop Being Niggardly and Nine Other Things Black People Need To Stop Doing
• Karyn Langhorne Folan - Don’t Bring Home A White Boy: And Other Notions That Keep Black Women From Dating Out
• Elaine Brown, Marsha Haygood and Rhonda Joy McLean - THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF SUCCESS: LAWS OF LEADERSHIP FOR BLACK WOMEN
• Hill Harper - The Conversation: How Black Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships
• Carol Mackey - Sistergirl Devotions: Keeping Jesus in the Mix on the Job

Historical Fiction

• Bernice L. McFadden – Glorious
• J. California Cooper – Life is short but wide
• Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson - It Is Well with My Soul: The Extraordinary Life of a 106-Year-Old Woman
• Victor McGlothin - The Secrets of Newberry
• Dolen Perkins-Valdez - Wench

Comedy

• Sherri Shepherd – Permission Slips
• Tracy Morgan – I am the new Black
• Charlie Murphy – The Makings Of A Stand Up Guy

Publishing House of the Year

• Kensington
• Simon & Schuster
• Grand Central
• Kimani Press
• St. Martin’s Press

Independent Publisher of the Year

• Peace In The Storm
• Delphine Publications
• Black Dawn Books
• Anexander Books Inc
• Concrete Rose

Author of the Year - Female

• Carol Mackey - Sistergirl Devotions: Keeping Jesus in the Mix on the Job
• Victoria Christopher Murray – Sins Of The Mother
• Kendra Norman Bellamy – Fifteen Years
• Kimberla Lawson Roby – Be Careful What You Pray For
• Ernessa T. Carter – 32 Candles

Author of the Year - Male

• K’wan – Section 8
• Walter Mosley – Known To Evil
• Eric Jerome Dickey - Resurrecting Midnight
• Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due & Steve Barnes – From Cape Town with Love: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel
• Carl Weber – Big Girls Do Cry

Mystery

• Iris Bolling – A Heart Divided
• Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due & Steve Barnes – From Cape Town with Love: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel
• Walter Mosley – Known To Evil
• Teresa McClain Watson - Murder Through The Grapevine
• Pamela Samuels Young – Buying Time

Humorist Award of the Year (Stand Up Comic)

• Sherri Sheppard
• Kevin Hart
• Steve Harvey
• Mike Epps

Children's Books / Young Adult

• Jihad - The Survival Bible
• Dana Rondel – The Sunflower and the Rose
• Tina Campbell & Erica Campbell - Be U: Be Honest, Be Beautiful, Be Intentional, Be Strong, Be You!
• Andre Sanchez – Touch down
• Jerry Craft - Mama's Boyz: the Big Picture: What You Need to Succeed!

Short stories/Anthologies

• Terrance Dean, James Earl Hardy and Stanley Bennett Clay – Visible Lives
• K’Wan, JM Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson & J Rod Nider – Massacre
• Ashley and Juavis, Erick S. Gray, Treasure E. Blue,  Nichelle Walker, Dashawn Taylor and J. Tremble - Flexin & Sexin Volume 2
• Marlon McCaulsky, K. Roland Williams & Ben Blaze – Romancing for the Streets
• Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Bonta, Shawn Trump & LaShonda Teague - What's Really Hood!: A Collection of Tales from the Streets

Poetry

• Evan Quitelle – Indian Summer
• Anika Oahu Alexander - Welcome To Speak Easy: A Poetic Intoxication
• Sonia Sanchez - Morning Haiku

Book Club of the Year 

• Black Expressions Book Club
• African Americans On The Move
• RAWSISTAZ Literary Group
• African American Literary Book Club
• OOSA Online Book Club

Magazine

• Ebony
• Uptown
• Black Enterprise
• Upscale
• The Network Journal

Literary Magazine

• Mosaic Books
• Booking Matters
• Written
• African Voices

Television Writer

• Shonda Rhimes – Grey’s Anatomy
• Tyler Perry – House Of Payne
• Ali LeRoi – Are We There Yet
• Mara Brock Akil – Cougar Town
• Tyler Perry – Meet The Browns

Screenwriter

• Micheal Elliott – Just Wright
• Reggie Rock Bythewood – Notorious
• Geoffrey Fletcher – Precious
• Tyler Perry – Why Did I Get Married Too
• Michael Martin – Brooklyn’s Finest

Comic Strip

• Aarron McGruder - Boondocks
• Jerry Craft - Mama’s Boyz
• Ray Billingsley – Curtis
• Keith Knight – The K Chronicles
• Robb Armstrong -Jumpstart

 CookBook

• A. Breeze Harper - Sistah Vegan: Food, Identity, Health, and Society: Black Female Vegans Speak
• Afya Ibomu - The Vegan Soulfood Guide to the Galaxy
• Barbara Smith – B. Smith Cooks Southern Style 

 Breakout Author of the Year

• Anna Black – Now You Wanna Come Back
• Carol Mackey - Sistergirl Devotions: Keeping Jesus in the Mix on the Job
• Latoya S. Watkins – In Love With Losers
• Brian Ganges – Piecing the Puzzle Together
• Pamela D. Rice - The Sunday Morning Wife