by Daniel Johnson
April 6, 2025
Talbert’s memoir got here out of conversations he has had together with his personal son.
Director, author, playwright, and producer David E. Talbert has bought his memoir titled “The whole lot I Know About Being a Man (I Realized From a Lady)” for six figures to Storehouse Voices, a Penguin Random Home Publishing Imprint and can also be creating a tv with the identical title.
In line with Deadline, Talbert’s memoir got here out of conversations he has had together with his personal son, which induced him to appreciate that all the classes he has realized about being a person have been imparted to him by his mom, a single mom.
Storehouse Voices, per their web site, is targeted on “selling the richness of Black storytelling by means of intentional acquisitions and hiring efforts, strategic partnerships, and genuine, equity-minded group outreach,” which it accomplishes by means of issuing non-fiction and fiction books.
In line with Folks Journal, Storehouse Voices was launched in January 2025, created in partnership with Tamira Chapman, out of the success of Chapman’s Ladies & Phrases program, which was launched with assist from Storehouse In A Field and Penguin Random Home, which aimed to “demystify the publishing business and its processes” for underrepresented authors.
An announcement asserting the imprint reads, “Storehouse Voices is knowledgeable by a deep understanding of the distinctive cultural and historic contexts of the Black expertise in America and dedicated to making sure that literary works by underrepresented authors are offered authentically, respectfully and powerfully throughout the publishing and media panorama.”
This, after all, dovetails with the overall arc of Talbert’s profession, which, like Tyler Perry, started with stage performs geared toward telling Black tales to Black audiences.
In 2024, in an interview with Blex Media, the multihyphenate shared that “Jingle Jangle,” the 2020 Christmas film he wrote and directed which starred Forest Whitaker and Keegan Michael Key, was created due to his childhood expertise of feeling excluded from the fantasy style as a result of he didn’t typically see Black kids represented within the media of his youth.
In line with Deadline, in 2023, Talbert launched HBCU Subsequent, a fellowship program that he based and funded alongside his spouse and manufacturing companion Lyn Sisson-Talbert, in an effort to enrich the academic alternatives obtainable to aspiring filmmakers at HBCUs by bringing them to USC’s Faculty of Cinematic Arts Summer season Program.
As Talbert advised Deadline relating to this system, “Our general goal is to foster an surroundings for college students from HBCUs and USC to have interaction in cultural alternate, studying from each other’s experiences and backgrounds, and to supply entry to an schooling conducive to giving Black storytellers a pipeline to the leisure business.”
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