2006 Harlem Book Fair Panel Discussion

July, 22nd 2:15 pm - 3:45 pm Harlem Hospital Auditorium

Panel: What’s Love Got To Do With It! Making Relationships Work.

Really getting to know someone, a process of peeling away layers, is the often overlooked, first step in a relationship. The task is further impeded by the tendency of many to focus upon the external things that in the long run do not sustain relationships. What we call love, in many cases is really infatuation that has nothing to do with the other person. From these false beginnings, we enter relationships expecting fulfillment and longevity. Statistics bear proof that the roadmap that we follow is not taking us where we say we want to go. “What’s love got to do with it” is a frank discussion regarding how individuals tend end up with the same person, though a different individual and with the same relationship outcomes. How do we let go of visions of reality that are not borne out by experience? How do we begin to get beyond the baggage and fantasies that get in the way of sustaining healthy relationships?

Moderators: Angelo Hunt, Roy Frank Marc Collins of The Flow
Panelists:
Audrey Chapman, author of Getting Good Loving:Seven ways to Find Love and Make It Last; Man Sharing:Dilemma of Choice; Entitled to Good Loving:Black Men and Women and the Battle for Love and Power; Seven Attitude Adjustments for Finding a Loving Man.

Denene Millner with her husband, Nick Chiles have co-authored three books in What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know relationship series; as well as the non-fiction titles such as A Love Story, In Love and War, Love Don’t Live Here Anymore among other individually authored titles.

LaJoyce Brookshire, Author of Faith Under Fire: Betrayed by a Thing Called Love

Joel McIver, Kimani Press Fiction author

Rene Flagler, Author and Publisher