Monday, June 04, 2007

Urban-Reviews.com - June 2007 Newsletter


Urban-Reviews.com Monthly Newsletter

June 2007- Keeping you up-to-date on African-American Fiction, Hip-Hop, and R&B!
Hip-Hop




WE HAVE THREE GIVEAWAYS THIS MONTH THAT WILL RESULT IN 11 WINNERS!

Read all the details on our CONTEST PAGE!

Good Luck!



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Check out this month's edition of INSIDE OUT featuring Exclusive Author and Artist Interviews with:





Tracie Howard talks to Radiah Hubbert about:
- Her new novel 'Gold Diggers'
- Her literary journey
- Her upcoming projects
- Her outside ventures into fashion
- Her advice for aspiring authors
- And Much More!!!


Click here for our Exclusive Audio Interview
with the Author of 'Gold Diggers'
Tracie Howard



Urban Reviews Updates
Don't forget to visit our Feedback Forum! Tell us how you feel about a particular review or give your own reviews. You can also check out Press Releases and Postings for AA Fiction and Press Releases and Postings for Music, an ever-changing list of Online Bargains for online shopping including discount codes and free shipping codes, read about Industry News for books and music, and much more.

We've also updated the New and Upcoming Releases page for African-American Fiction, and will work on updating the New Release pages for Hip-Hop Music CDs and R&B Music really soon!

We still have a bunch of video playlists in the Media Center. We have over 150 links to African-American Book Excerpts for you to preview books before you decide to buy them!

The Author Connection page - A Monthly Feature of different links to things like author webpages, Blogs, Myspace pages, Publisher sites, Literary sites, and now we've added Poetry to this section!



We're on Myspace too! Check us out at WWW.MYSPACE.COM/URBANREVIEWS. We have hundreds of Myspace friends who are authors, literary agents, book reviewers, and other industry insiders.

We've also recently started a Yahoo Group! We hope to have all of you join and participate. The purpose of the group will be exclusively to converse about, promote, and inform each other on anything related to AA Fiction. We will eventually have exclusive giveaways ONLY among group members. So CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE URBAN REVIEWS YAHOO GROUP today!!!

And last but certainly not least, we have updated our BLOG to include our very own PODCAST! Yes, you can see our opinions on books and music AS WELL AS check out and subscribe to our Podcast. We now have a new feature called The Forthcoming where we post a new book preview everyday on our blog!!! Just visit The Pinnacle to learn more!

Email Us your comments at Info@Urban-Reviews.com, and let us know what you think about all the new updates and features. This is an exciting time for Urban Reviews, and we thank you all for your continued support. Thanks again!








In addition to the two reviewers we added in April, we have ANOTHER BRAND NEW REVIEWER on the site! Please join us in welcoming LASHONDA to the Urban Reviews team! She will be providing book reviews for the site. We wanted to expand our review base by adding someone who could review Sci-Fi/Horror/Paranormal books by Black Authors, and Lashonda was the perfect candidate. Her first review will be in July, so stay tuned! We have also provided a scale to help with interpreting the ratings on the site now. Please visit the About Us page for more information about Urban Reviews.

WE NEED YOUR HELP IN SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT OUR SITE...AND THIS IS HOW!

The best way for us to gain additional exposure is to vote for our reviews on Amazon.com website. This will help push our reviews to the spotlight position. We only ask that you vote for the reviews that you deem helpful (hopefully they all are, but you never know!). Below is the link to a listing of the books reviewed by us. You will have to click each book to get to the product page in order to find our reviews and the voting buttons.

PLEASE DO NOT VOTE AGAINST OTHER REVIEWS! We are not trying to build ourselves up by breaking down others. Thanks to all, and hopefully we can show the world that Urban Reviews is on top of the game!



WE HAVE FINALLY REACHED OUR PEAK! THE MAILING LIST HAS REACHED IT'S MAX!

We will be discontinuing this mailing list as of July 1st.

As an alternative, we are asking EVERYONE to please sign up for our Yahoo Group! We have over 50 people signed up for the Yahoo Group now and have been sending THE FORTHCOMING and links to relevant articles as well. We have also started some dialogue on related topics amongst members.

AGAIN, PLEASE NOTE: This list will be no more after the July 2007 Newsletter is sent!

To just get information on the updates to our site, you can
1) visit the front page of the website at the beginning of each month,
(2) sign up for the Yahoo Group, which is the BEST OPTION, or
(3) subscribe to THE PINNACLE blog feed.

THE ONLY WAY TO BE ELIGIBLE TO ENTER OUR CONTESTS EACH MONTH AFTER JULY 1ST WILL BE TO BE A YAHOO GROUP MEMBER!

NO EXCEPTIONS!!!

We hope everybody will make the transition to the Yahoo Group. We will send out instructions during the Mid-Month updates in April, May, and June on how simple it is to join the Yahoo Group and what options you have as far as just receiving the newsletter via the Yahoo Group.


Don't forget to CAST YOUR VOTE! in our Mini Poll on the front page of the website. See the main page of the website for more info!

And don't forget to FORWARD THIS NEWSLETTER to all your friends, family, co-workers, and associates that might appreciate what we have available at
Urban-Reviews.com

We just completed our 23rd month of existence, and we've climbed past 70,000 hits on the website!

We THANK YOU for the continued support!

Info@Urban-Reviews.com

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