April 2009

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Readings & Signings With Author Thembisa S. Mshaka My Blog: www.thembisamshaka.com Buy The Book: www.putyourdreamsfirst.com On Twitter: putyrdreams1st On Youtube: www.youtube.com/thembisamshaka LOS ANGELES, CA Fri Apr 24 5am: TUNE IN to 102.3 FM, KJLH Front Page w/Dominique DiPrima 10pm-12am: Mingle & Plei * e3rd Steakhouse * 734 E. 3rd Street (east of Alameda), Los Angeles Sat April 25 1pm: LA Times Festival of Books * UCLA Campus * Eso Won Books Booth #419D 6pm-8pm: Continental Gallery * Closing event for the French Artist * 408 South Spring Street, Los Angeles Sun April 26 3pm-5pm: Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Church * 1324 S. Normandie Ave., Los Angeles OAKLAND, CA Thu Apr 30 8:20am: TUNE IN...

24 April, 2009 /

Thembisa Mshaka, as a creative executive at Sony Music, helped launch the careers of Beyoncé and 50 Cent. Now an executive at BET, Mshaka has gathered her experience and those of almost 100 other women in the entertainment business in her new book, “Put Your Dreams First,” available as a FREE DOWNLOAD until April 22, 2009 exclusively on HelloBeautiful. The book is an instant mentorship in all aspects of the business: Movies. Music. Radio & TV. New Media. Advertising & Publicity. Style & Design. Management & Representation. We sat down with Mshaka recently to discuss how she turned the idea of...

20 April, 2009 /

VIBE MAY '09 ISSUE! Pick up the new May issue of VIBE. Not just because the Rihanna story is as eye-popping as the cover photo, but because Put Your Dreams First made the Agenda section! Vibe Magazine May issue streets April 21, just in time for the Apr 23 street of the world's first comprehensive entertainment career guide from the point of view of over 90 women: Put Your Dreams First: Handle Your [entertainment] Business. You might notice that I'm joined by Karrine Steffans in the mention. We're published by the same house and even share an editor, the fabulous Karen Thomas. Shout to Danyel...

18 April, 2009 /

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Tanisha Christie Publicity Manager 212-364-1260 tanisha.christie@hbgusa.com   Lee Rothchild Publicity Manager – Interactive One  (212) 981-5124  Lee_Rothchild@dkcnews.com       BUSINESS PLUS TO DISTRIBUTE FREE PRE-PUBLICATION E-BOOK IN COLLABORATION WITH INTERACTIVE ONE, THE DIGITAL CONNECTION FOR BLACK AMERICA   New York, NY—April 8, 2009—Business Plus, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, which is a division of Hachette Book Group, announced today that it will publish a free pre-publication e-book Put Your Dreams First: Handle Your [entertainment] Business by Thembisa S. Mshaka, a media industry veteran.  This career guide focuses on the ‘ins and outs’ of the entertainment business through the stories of women who have made great strides in the industry. ...

15 April, 2009 /

So my new favorite Sunday show, The United States of Tara comes to a close this weekend. In a nutshell (pardon the pun) Toni Collette deftly dances between her central character, named Tara, and that woman’s other personalities, or ‘alters’: T, a petulant, hypersexed teenager; Alice, a prudish but alluring homemaker cut from Donna Reed’s cloth; Buck, her male alter who lives at the intersection of trailer trash biker and delusional Vietnam vet. And then: there’s Gimme, the feral child, an alter that screeches, cowers, destroys and even pees on sleeping relatives in the middle of the night. The show has led me...

04 April, 2009 /