Book Tour - Another Tour Date Added

Greetings Everyone,

Well, the excitement is continuing to build with my new book and I'm looking forward to meeting everyone at the various bookstore events. My new book -- "Black America, Body Beautiful: How the African American Image is Changing Fashion, Fitness and Other Industries" is creating a new dialogue and response to a wide variety of issues that's currently in the news.

Today, I received another confirmation from a bookstore. Here is the next book signing date and logistics:

• Book Discussion & Book Signing -- Waldenbooks -- Durham, North Carolina inside Nothgate Mall -- September 27th -- 11:00am - 3:00pm (Address: 1058 West Club Boulevard, Durham, NC)

If you are in the area, please do not hesitate to stop by and join our conversation, discussion and networking. I look forward to signing your books at Waldenbook store.

Book Tour - Additional Tour Date

Greetings Everyone,

The excitement is building and I'm looking forward to my nationwide tour to promote my brand new upcoming book -- "Black America, Body Beautiful: How the African American Image is Changing Fashion, Fitness, and Other Industries."

As promised once I receive confirmation from bookstores, I will post the additional book tour dates on this blog. Here is the next book signing date and logistics:

• Book Discussion & Book Signing -- Waldenbooks -- New Bern, North Carolina - September 6th -- 11:00am - 3:00pm (Address: 3034 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, New Bern, NC)

If you are in the area, please do not hesitate to stop by and join our conversation and discussion. I look forward to signing your books at Waldenbook store.

Book Tour Begins -- Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Greenville, North Carolina!

Greetings Everyone,

Well, it is just a few weeks away until the launch of my new book -- "Black America, Body Beautiful: How the African American Image is Changing Fashion, Fitness and Other Industries" and I'm very excited about it!

The interests from the general public and the media in my book's topic and major themes are enjoyable and surprising. I believe that my book has hit on a topic that has been neglected or avoided in the mainstream media and even in African American communities. As I said in the video webcam, this is POSITIVE BOOK about African American body types, images and standard of beauty. All too often we don't hear or see positive issues related to African American physical images. Well, if you want to read about the African American image -- in a positive way and in a cultural historial approach, I believe that my book accomplishes these objectives.

Additionally, just in case you are interested my book tour begins in August! Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Greenville, North Carolina will be the kick-off of my NATIONWIDE book tour. Here is the date and logistics:

• Book Discussion & Book Signing -- Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Greenville, North Carolina - August 21st - 7:00pm (Address: 3040 Evans Street, Greenville, NC)

All book tour dates will be posted on this blog as soon as they become finalized.

So, if you want to attend my PREMIERE KICK-OFF OF THE BOOK TOUR, I will see you at Barnes and Nobles Booksellers in Greenville, North Carolina -- August 21st - 7:00pm!

Video WebCam - Introducing My New Book - Black America, Body Beautiful

Greetings Everyone,

I am trying something new to promote my new book, "Black America, Body Beautiful: How the African American Image is Changing Fashion, Fitness and Other Industries." I am introducing my book to you via my Webcam.

Here I give you my reasons for writing this new book and share my passion for this new area of interest which has been totally neglected in the book world.

Check out the link here: Dr. Eric Bailey's Introduction to Black America, Body Beautiful

Flyer of New Book from Publisher is Ready - "Black America, Body Beautiful"

Greetings Everyone,

I just learned a couple of days ago that my flyer to my new book has been posted on the publisher's website. If you want to see my new book flyer, go to the following site:

http://www.greenwood.com/books/printFlyer.aspx?sku=C9595

The flyer includes a description of the book and a PRE-ORDER FORM. If you want to pre-order your book, go to: http://www.greenwood.com

Look forward to your responses to my new book.

New Book Coming This Spring - "Black America, Body Beautiful"

Greetings Everyone,

I was just informed yesterday from my editor that my brand new book entitled, "Black America, Body Beautiful: How the African American Image is Changing Fashion, Fitness, and Other Industries," is scheduled to be released to the public on June 30, 2008. I am very excited and looking foward to promoting my new book this summer.

I believe that it is a very timely topic and much needed showcase of African American preferred body images and body types. It's truly amazing how we have endured so much ridicule and denial of our own beauty for centuries. Now with this book, I will show how African Americans have not only endured this challenge of how we look and how we view ourselves but I will also show how NOW more than ever OUR BODY IMAGES AND BODY TYPES ARE CHANGING THE WORLD PARTICULARLY IN FASHION, FITNESS, ENTERTAINMENT, AND POLITICS.

So there it is. This is the first announcement of my new book -- Black America, Body Beautiful: How the African American Image is Changing Fashion, Fitness, and Other Industries.
I will be providing you more updates and promotional informationn about my exciting new book!

If you would like to know more about my book, feel free to email or leave a message on the blog.

How Our Body Images and Body Types are Changing the World!

Greetings Everyone,

This is the very first entry into this blog and I feel that this is a blog that is desperately needed. Why?

First, there is no place on the web or the traditional media outlets that regularly talks about the POSITIVE issues related to African American body types and body images. Unfortunately, in our society, we have paid very little attention to African American body images and body types.

Second, in our society, we are so obsessed with following "mainstream America's" body images and body types that it has blurred the images and beauty of all of other body types and body images particularly African Americans.

Third, we need a place on the web for people to share their experiences (good and bad) on the issues related to African American body types and images (i.e.. positive or negative feedback from society about your physical image).

Finally, this blog is here to begin a CULTURAL REVOLUTION throughout the world that will show how important it is for ALL OF US paricularly African Americans to be VERY PROUD OF ONE'S PHYSICAL APPEARANCE, BODY TYPE AND BODY IMAGE!

So please join me on this journey and Cultural Revolution in CHANGING the WORLD'S VIEW OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN IMAGE.