Thankfully Reading Writer’s Muse Magazine

Iconoclast Productions supports Thankfully Reading Weekend…

http://www.jennsbookshelves.com

(from Jenn’s Bookshelves): “Thankfully Reading Weekend, November 26-29! Want to avoid the crowds & shopping on Black Friday? Plan on spending a nice, quiet holiday at home? Join us!”

Iconoclast Productions would like to highlight Writer’s Muse Magazine. We worked in concert with the Writer’s Muse Group to publish six issues of the publication between 2012 and 2014.

Writer’s Muse Magazine December 2012

Writer’s Muse Magazine Summer 2013

Writer’s Muse Magazine: Fall 2013 Issue

Writer’s Muse Magazine: Winter 2013 Issue

Writer’s Muse Magazine: Spring 2014 Issue

November 21, 2015 0

Thankfully Reading Weekend

Iconoclast Productions supports Thankfully Reading Weekend…

http://www.jennsbookshelves.com

(from Jenn’s Bookshelves): “Thankfully Reading Weekend, November 26-29! Want to avoid the crowds & shopping on Black Friday? Plan on spending a nice, quiet holiday at home? Join us!”

Iconoclast Productions would like to highlight “60 Black Women in Horror.” Compiled by our vice president for Black History Month and Women in Horror Month, the eBook is available for free at Smashwords:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/412513

February is African American History Month here in the United States. It is also Women in Horror Month (WiHM). In 2013, as an Ambassador for Women in Horror Month. This list of black women who write horror was compiled at the intersection of the two. The booklet also includes interviews with nine of the women. The eBook version includes a bonus: an essay, and four short stories not found in the paperback.

The electronic (eBook) edition contains the following bonus materials: four short stories, and an essay, not found in the paperback.

Includes:

60 Black Women in Horror
Interview with Linda Addison
Interview with Darlene Black
Interview with Valjeanne Jeffers
Interview with Jemiah Jefferson
Interview with Briana Lawrence
Interview with Nnedi Okorafor
Interview with A.L. Peck
Interview with Eden Royce
Interview with Sumiko Saulson

There is an associated print edition that does not include the following bonus materials found in the eBook:

David Watson article: On L.A. Banks and Octavia Butler
Short Story: Amber’s New Friend by Crystal Connor
Short Story: The Last by Sumiko Saulson
Short Story: Rhythm by Eden Royce
Short Story The Funeral by Annie J Penn

November 21, 2015 0

60 Black Women in Horror now on Smashwords (Free)

Get 60 Women in Black Horror for FREE on Smashwords!

Sumiko Saulson

The eBook includes:

You can pick it up on Smashwords here

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/412513

I am working on a near-cost paperback book. By “near-cost” I mean that I will round it up to the nearest 50 cents. The goal is to have it come in at $4.00 or less. I’m aiming for $3.50. I am going to have omit some of the content from the paperback to keep the cost down, so the paperback will only include the list and the interviews. I’ll post when it is available.

The eBook contains…

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March 3, 2014 0

Two ways to win: 60 Black Women in Horror [paperback]

Iconoclast Productions is proud to be involved with “60 Black Women in Horror” as its publisher. Enter to win a paperback copy of the book.

Sumiko Saulson

60 Black Women in Horror is available as a free eBook via Smashwords and over the next two months, will roll out to other distributors including Barnes & Noble and Amazon. It will soon be available for free on Goodreads. The eBook contains bonus materials consisting of an essay and four short stories that are not in the print edition. The print edition is currently available for $5.50 on Createspace. It will be rolling out to other distribution points over the next several weeks.

Giveaway on Goodreads

Win a free, signed copy of the paperback edition of 60 Black Women in Horror on Goodreads! You will need a Goodreads account to enter. You don’t have to “like” my author page there, but as long as you’re there of course I would appreciate it if you did.

Click here to enter to win: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/84071-60-black-women-in-horror-fiction

Includes:

60 Black Women in Horror…

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March 3, 2014 0

Keep it Lit! Help Support Marcus Books!

Marcus Books just launched a crowdfunding blitz (found here: http://bit.ly/keepitlit) to raise $1,000,000 dollars to keep Marcus Books in the Jimbo’s Bop City building for generations to come! Here is their message to you:

A Message from Karen, Greg, and Tamiko Johnson (Marcus Books Proprietors)

Marcus Books opened its doors 54 years ago on Fillmore Street in San Francisco’s historic jazz district. It’s the oldest black book store in the country. It has been located in the historic Jimbo’s Bop City building since 1981. A family owned business, Marcus Books is more than just a book store. It is a gathering place. It is a center for Black culture. But more importantly, Marcus Books is a community. Over the years, it has hosted authors such as Rosa Parks, Toni Morrison, Harry Belafonte, Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, Amiri Baraka, Bill Cosby, Iyanla Vanzant, and many many more.

The Bop City building was once home to the one of the most innovative Jazz clubs in the country and now Marcus Books is threatened with the prospect of moving out. The Marcus Books community is waging a campaign to ensure that this does not happen, and you can help. The building was sold last year and the new owners are offering the store an opportunity to buy the historic landmark site. So far, we’ve raised more than half of our full 2.6 million dollar goal, but we need you to get us to the finish.

Forward this link far and wide — to your friends, throughout your networks, and to the media: http://bit.ly/keepitlit

Here is a sample FB post: Marcus Books, the oldest black book store in the country, is located in the historic Jimbo’s Bop City building in San Francisco (once one of the most innovative jazz clubs in the country). Donate to keep Marcus Books in the Jimbo’s Bop City building! Keep it Lit! http://bit.ly/keepitlit

And a sample tweet: Keep it Lit! Support Marcus Books in SF! http://bit.ly/keepitlit. Nation’s oldest black book store needs your help.

Thank you for your support!

Sincerely,
Karen, Greg, and Tamiko Johnson (Marcus Books Proprietors)

February 7, 2014 2

Iconoclast wants volunteers to paint tomorrow!

Iconoclast Productions volunteers will be on the corner of San Carlos and Courtland Avenues in Oakland. The nearest main streets are High Street and Foothill – this is behind the Fremont High School campus, about one block in from High Street and three blocks up from Foothill. Iconoclast Productions has adopted the corner – one of our board members adopted it through Adopt a Spot and we are going to re-paint the sculpture Walter Hood put there about twenty years ago.

Since then, the sculpture has gotten some graffiti, which was covered over with a darker gray paint. We want to restore it all to the original light gray.

Meet us there at 1 pm and help us get the sculpture painted!

Friends of Courtland Creek is donating the paint and brushes.

September 20, 2013 0

Keeping Up with Iconoclast (September 2013 Newsletter)

Catching Up with Iconoclast Productions

African American Media Arts Association at City College of San Francisco

Carolyn Saulson and Andres Wemiz at CCSF Multimedia Arts Gallery

City College of San Francisco is home to the African American Media Arts Association, which is supported by Iconoclast Productions. As many of you already know, City College of San Francisco has been in danger of losing its accreditation over the past couple of years. According to the San Francisco Examiner, CCSF may have another opportunity to save its accreditation.

Despite its woes, City College of San Francisco has managed to teach and graduate students from many different backgrounds, and it especially offers opportunity to low income students. Iconoclast Productions supports CCSF and acknowledges its valuable media arts programs, and its wonderful broadcast arts programs. We hope to see the accreditation of CCSF restored so that it can continue to provide affordable arts and media arts courses to the public.

Iconoclast Productions would also like to acknowledge two of our former AAMAA members who have graduated from CCSF and gone on to state colleges: Deeann Mathews, who went on to San Francisco State three years ago, and Andres Wemiz, who started at San Jose State this fall.

Art at Courtland Creek Park in Oakland

Since our last newsletter, we have been excited by the progress that has been made regarding Courtland Creek Park. Roberto Costa and his crew of mosaic tile artists have completed three sides to the trash can at the corner of San Carlos and Courtland, and Sumiko Saulson of Iconoclast Productions has painted the fourth side. Consulting with the newly reactivated Friend of Courtland Creek Park organization and with representatives from Iconoclast, and from the NCPC 27x Beat Melrose High Hopes, Mr. Costa decided to create a work that would honor the Key System Streetcars that once went down Courtland.

Saturday, September 21, 2013 is Creek to Bay Day.

Iconoclast Productions is looking for volunteers to meet at 1 pm at the corner of Courtland and San Carlos, to repaint the sculpture created by Walter Hood nearly 20 years ago on that corner. The tall, gray sculpture has carvings in the side that represent the various maps for the street car lines. Over the years, graffiti on the statue has been repaired with gray paint that is a darker color than the monument itself. The goal is to paint it all a uniform shade of gray.

September 19, 2013 0

Iconoclast Productions connects with a broader community

Glamarama Tutu booth at the Summer Fiesta in Oakland

When Iconoclast Productions was founded in March 1993 in San Francisco’s Fillmore/Western Addition community, it had a very locally focused mission. The organizational goal was to bring media arts education and exhibition to the African American and disabled artists community and to close the digital divide that prevented these artists from fully utilizing the internet and digital media production technologies to display their works in music, film/video, and electronic arts such as animation and digitally produced or enhanced visual arts, but the served community was initially just the Fillmore/Western Addition.

In 1997, the organization embarked on an initiative to expand its served public to include the BayView/Hunter’s Point area, the Tenderloin, and other places where there were large populations of African American and disabled artists. Due to the economic conditions affecting both African Americans and disabled communities, there was a lot of overlap in that the served communities quite frequently were found in large population centers in the poorest parts of San Francisco.

By 2001, due to gentrification and the rising property values and rental fees in San Francisco, the African American population was down to approximately half of what it was in 1990. With large segments of its served public forced to leave San Francisco, Iconoclast Productions needed to expand its geographic focus even further to include the entire San Francisco Bay Area.

Iconoclast Productions is currently working on projects in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, and Vallejo.

August 12, 2013 0