Prime Minister of Jamaica embraces Wyatt-MacKenzie Imprint

Check out this great photo of one of our new Imprint novels, THE JAMERICAN, being held by The Most Honourable Edward Seaga, retired Prime Minister of Jamaica.

THE JAMERICAN by J.J. Gumbs is a novel about an American Christian living in a Jamaican subculture in NYC. It reveals how faith and culture, though we want them sometimes to be mutually exclusive, are really mixed into one thing that forms the principle ingredient of some people's lives. 

Wyatt-MacKenzie Options Two Books for TV/Film!

A recent article in Hybrid Mom magazine asked Where Have All the Good TV Moms Gone? http://bit.ly/bmZOra Wyatt-MacKenzie aims to help Hollywood by signing Options for two of our amazing books with phenomenal mom roles!


Picture this: Mom CIA -- caring for five kids at home while fighting terrorism at work. Jack Bauer move over, you've got nothing on this mom! Real-life terrorism analyst, the first one to write about bin Laden, brings us into her life -- from the Situation Room briefing the President on national security threats to handling teen angst at home. Turns out -- bullies are the same in every arena, be it high school or the United Nations.  


Or this: It's 1977, an alcoholic mom writes a book about her stint in a mental institute; rights are purchased by biggest movie star at the time and she stars in the made-for-TV movie. Flash forward to 2010 -- the mom, now 40-years-sober, reflects back on her prolific career as a TV writer/producer that her first movie deal spiraled into and writes part two of the 1977 classic. A "Who's Who?" list of unnamed celebrities and industry-insiders are woven into lesson-laden biographical chapters and eye-opening AA meetings.


NATIONAL SECURITY MOM and WOMEN'S GROUP, have been "optioned" -- which simply means screenplays are being written and avidly pitched to producers. Two fantastic screenwriters have optioned our CIA book, and the author of WOMEN'S GROUP is pursuing her own TV/Film deal.


It's a long, long way to a "Sale"... but it sure is exciting to imagine! And, the thought of smart, heroic mom characters, balancing great careers and family life, is even more exciting. As Jennifer Rawlings asks in her article: "Wouldn't it be wonderful to see a sitcom that does what millions of moms do every day -- strive to find the balance between family and work?" Yes Jennifer, it sure would, especially if they were based on Wyatt-MacKenzie books! 

An IPPY nomination!

Suzanne Kamata's CALL ME OKAASAN has been nominated for an Independent Publisher Award in Multicultural non-fiction!  

Born and raised in Michigan, and most recently from South Carolina, Suzanne is an expat living in rural Japan with her Japanese husband and bicultural twins.

ABOUT THE BOOK: What happens when your child doesn't speak your native language? How do you maintain cultural traditions while living outside your native country? And how can you raise a child with two cultures without fracturing his/her identity? From our house to your house - to the White House - more and more mothers are facing questions such as these. Whether through intercultural marriage, international adoption or peripatetic lifestyles, families these days are increasingly multicultural. In this collection, women around the world, such as Xujun Eberlein, Violet Garcia-Mendoza, Rose Kent, Sefi Atta, Saffia Farr, and others, ponder the unique joys and challenges of raising children across two or more cultures. 


Suzanne Kamata's work has appeared in over 100 publications. She is the author of a novel, LOSING KEI, and the editor of two previous anthologies - THE BROKEN BRIDGE: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan and LOVE YOU TO PIECES: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs, and is currently fiction editor of "Literary Mama".