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Joey Pinkney starting writing books reviews back in 2006 for an all Black newspaper, The Nashville Journal. At that time, he also launched joeypinkney.com. He started writing on his site about weight loss and acne prevention in 2006 and transitioned to doing book reviews highlighting African American authors. Joey has done over 500 author interviews with African American authors with works from various genres. He is starting to starting to do more reviews of book by international authors.
During our chat, Joey shares about various subjects including the reason why he charges authors to have their books reviewed and be interviewed by him and authors reaction to it and why it is worth it, how has used social media to help him grow, how much work interviewing takes, how did he get over 46,000 Twitter followers, the reading habits of African Americans, his belief that Black American readership is undervalued and why there are more African American writers and why.
Joey closes our chat by tell us how he manages everything on his own, the future of Black books and urban fiction, his future and a message for Black History month.
You can connect with Joey via:
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@joeypinkney (Email)
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Dr. Vibe
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