Angela Benson
For those of you in the Charlotte, NC area, I’ll be in your stomping ground on Saturday, August 30 at 1p at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in (or near) the SouthPark Mall. Come by and visit with me if you have some time. I’d love to see you.
In news that I’m still trying to get my mind around, Up Pops the Devil has been chosen the November African-American Book Club Pick for Books-A-Million. This is great news as it means Up Pops the Devil will be featured prominently in all Books-A-Million stores from September 1 through November 31.
If you follow this link, you’ll see that Victoria Christopher Murray’s Too Little, Too Late and ReShonda Tate Billingley’s The Pastor’s Wife have been recent picks. LIterary great Richard Wright had two 
picks.
This is the first time one of my books has been chosen for as a book club pick for a chain bookstore so I’m very excited about it. Be sure to drop by your local Books-A-Million and look for it.
In fact, you can be my eyes and ears. If you send me a photo of you in a Books-A-Million store next to the book display for Up Pops the Devil as the African-American Book Club Pick, I’ll post the photo on my blog and enter you in a contest to win a $15 Books-A-Million gift card. Three GRAND PRIZE winners will be selected from the entries. The contest will continue through September 31 and the winners will be announced 
on October 15.
You may submit your entry (or entries) via e-mail to me at the address HERE or you may submit via snail mail to Angela Benson, PO Box 868643, Tuscaloosa, AL 35486-0077.
Each entry should include your name (first name or nickname is sufficient) or the name of your group, a photo of you standing near the book display with a book in hand, and the location of the Books-A-Million store where the photo is taken. All photos become the property of Angela Benson and will be posted on my blog at angelabenson.com.
I’ll probably run the contest again in November so if you don’t win this time, you’ll have another chance in November.
NOTE: This is the second version of this post. My computer ate the first one and I’m sure it was much better than this one. Trust me.
Now get to clicking those cameras. I can’t wait to see your smiling faces on this blog!
Congratulations on Up Pops the Devil being a Books-A-Million Book Club pick, Angela! That’s quite an honor.
I just started reading Up Pops The Devil last night. So you know how I’ll be spending my weekend (make that tonight and maybe Saturday as I’m sure I won’t want to put it down!)
Wow! Angela, that’s great. You deserve it!
Thanks for the congrats, ladies. It was nothing I did. You know how some things seem to fall from the sky–literally.
Angela!!! CONTGRATULATIONS! I just finished UP POPS THE DEVIL and I can easily see why it was chosen. I think it’s my favorite book of yours and I have read most of them. Thanks for the tip about Upscale! I went to a signing this weekend and someone handed it to me. Of course, I turned right to your book! LOL
That’s great! I’m going to be on the lookout for your UP POPS THE DEVIL in Books-A-Million. I’m sticking my camera in my bag. LOL!