Nika C. Beamon - I Didn't Work This Hard Just to Get Married

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Hello SCBC, Inc.,

I just briefly wanted to introduce you to an upcoming non-fiction
title, I Didn't Work This Hard Just to Get Married: Successful, Single
Black Women Speak Out. The book willbe released on May 1, 2009 by
Chicago Review Press

It's a new and startling fact: Most American women spend more years
of their adult lives unmarried than married. Several factors
contribute to the trend. Women postpone marriage till an older age,
they divorce more frequently, and they choose to live with their
partner rather than marry. Motherhood, and even pregnancy, no longer
require a significant other. Women once saw living single as a
transitional period, singles marked time till they found the one." But
now marriage is the transitional stage, connecting one unmarried
period of life to another. Black women reflect and impact this overall
trend. Statistics show that 70 percent of African American women live
without a man, despite traditional expectations within the community.

In I Didn't Work This Hard Just to Get Married, through lively and
revealing interviews with women from various walks of life, Nika
Beamon explores the challenges and issues affecting single black women
who defy expectations. They candidly discuss aging without a man and
reevaluate dating, single homeownership, career, and children. The
book speaks directly to the black woman's experience, addressing
unique challenges such as income discrepancies between genders, the
high rate of male incarceration, and the Baby Momma Syndrome. The
women discuss the false expectations they face from men, from
families, and from friends.

Written in the best tradition of women talking to women, and
girlfriend to girlfriend, the book delivers tales of lessons learned,
hard times and good times, told by women who found ways to achieve
their dreams by defying convention. Their conclusion: Singlehood,
whether temporary or permanent, and though often challenging, is a
fulfilling state.

I've also embarked on a campaign to launch several video clips
introducing potential readers to the book. You can view the first two
at the following links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8DcbQsQawk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JXmfP4XOpk

Additionally, I have put an excerpt from the introduction to the book
on my website, if you would like to view it: http://www.mcbeamon.com.

Click to preorder: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556528191/thesistacirclboo

Again, thank you for your time.

All the best,

Nika C. Beamon
Author
E: Nika.C...@abc.com