Tag: Featured
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A Serene Study of Love: Review of A Particle of You
“To truly enjoy poetry, we must leave behind our preconceived notions of what the art form is supposed to be; and instead, let the words freely come and speak to us. The same goes for love, actually. The more we embrace it, the more we grow.” Cendrine Marrouat “Love can mean so many things to…
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Co-Writing a Duology: Berneta and Lornett Talk Faders and Alphas
As some of you know, I recently ventured into co-writing with my spouse, Lornett B. Vestal (founder of Evolving Man Project). Coming to retailers on June 1, 2021, Aya and the Alphas will be the final novel in the Faders and Alphas two-part series or duology. Lornett and I sat down to discuss our journey…
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Aya and the Alphas by Berneta L. Haynes and Lornett B. Vestal
When a young girl, Aya Wright, develops extraordinary abilities and becomes a target of the world’s most powerful fader, Eve must protect her. But at what price? In the twenty-five years since she exposed the existence of faders, Eve Cooper has survived the collapse of her country and the loss of her closest friends. Now…
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New Short Story Serial Coming Soon!
Dear Readers, In the coming weeks, I will be sharing episodes from a short story based on my ongoing duology Faders and Alphas, as my co-writer and I prepare to release the final novel this summer. Aya and the Alphas, the sequel to Eve and the Faders, will hit stores in June. Stay tuned for…
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A Letter from the Editor: Looking Ahead at 2022
Dear Readers, I hope you are enjoying the content here at Waking Writer. Our readership has grown so much from when I started this site in 2016. Last year was a busy year here at Waking Writer as author interview requests poured in, and I even launched an 8-episode short story serial called Harmony Project.…
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A Letter from the Editor
Dear Readers, I hope you are enjoying the content here at Waking Writer. Each day I am appreciative of how much the readership has grown and how many writers reach out for interviews and other opportunities. As an author, this space allows me to do one of the things I enjoy almost as much as…
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Self-publishing success stories and more!
LJ Ross: The self-published crime writer making a killing (BBC) Since 2015, Louise has written 18 books in the DCI Ryan series, four novels chronicling the exploits of forensic psychologist Dr Alexander Gregory, a short story anthology and the Cornish cove crime thriller. For the previous 10 years, she had been a financial services lawyer…
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Serialized Fiction, Authors turning to Substack, Self-Publishing, and more…
Stephen Vizinczey, ‘In Praise of Older Women’ Author, Dies at 88 (NY Times) Stephen Vizinczey, whose novel “In Praise of Older Women,” about a man’s sexual education by paramours not in his age bracket, caused a stir in the mid-1960s and became a cultural reference point, died on Aug. 18 at his home in London.…
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Meet Sohini Dutt, author of The Ghastly Secret
What inspires you to write? The answer would be almost everything! I believe one of the most interesting skills of a writer is that he/she takes note of every detail of human life. At times, it can simply be the curiosity about something that leads one to sit down with a pen and paper. At…
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Kindle Vella, LGBTQ Publishing, Janelle Monae’s Debut Fiction…
An evening with Kindle Vella: First impressions of Amazon’s new attempt to reimagine reading (GeekWire) The serialized story is a mainstay of the literary world, a tried-and-true formula for creating a tantalizing tale, from opening hook to closing cliffhanger. But it’s the rare author who can keep readers engrossed in a narrative when the unparalleled…
