Will Packer, the groundbreaking producer behind the films “Girls Trip”, “Stomp the Yard” and many more, is hitting the road to promote his new book: Who Better Than You?: The Art of Healthy Arrogance & Dreaming Big! Catch him live on tour:

• February 17th: At the Strand Bookstore in Manhattan, in conversation with Sunny Hostin 
• February 19th: At the Tara Theater in Atlanta, in conversation with Ludacris
• February 26th: At Oxford Exchange in Tampa, in conversation with Stephen A. Smith
• February 27th: At the Bill Cosford Cinema in Miami, in conversation with Kevin Hart

Don’t wait! Tickets are selling fast.

Award-winning producer and journalist Shirley Neal’s book, AfroCentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture, has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work By a Debut Author. In AfroCentric Style, Neal explores the Black community’s ongoing influence on the world of pop culture, enhanced by more than 100 photographs of key moments, movements, and figures from the history of Black cultural expression.

Serendipity Literary Agency CEO and AALA President Regina Brooks is one of five publishing professionals chosen by Publishers Weekly as a 2024 Notable.

“Drawing on her first career working at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Regina Brooks is bringing the innovative spirit of an engineer to the publishing industry… Since joining the Association of American Literary Agents board in 2019, Brooks has played a key role in modernizing the organization by establishing a communications committee and transitioning to a more inclusive membership model.”

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