Tag: romance
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Meet Dee Rose, author of Forbidden Love
When did you first consider yourself a writer? I first considered myself to be a writer when I published my first book called Cloning Around. How do you think you’ve evolved creatively? I think I’ve evolved creatively because I’ve written in different genres that I wouldn’t have trusted myself to do when I first started.…
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Feyisayo Anjorin, author of One Week in the Life of a Hypocrite
What inspires you to write? Inspiration comes from a variety of sources. Sometimes I’m inspired by a news report. I hear about a scandal or something interesting and then I ask, “What if…?” Sometimes it’s a book that triggers an idea, music, or a conversation. I get inspired too when I’m in a quiet place…
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Meet Annette Austin, author of Between Love and War
What inspires you to write? I am fascinated by history and what people can do to others in pursuit of money and power. Also, I am interested in the area of conflict and how the characters in my novels react to different situations and changes. Why did you choose to write in your particular field…
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Karina Kantas, author of Broken Chains
When did you first consider yourself a writer? When I got my first paycheque. It’s still sitting in a frame in my office. Why did you choose to write in your particular field or genre? I’m a prolific author and I write in nearly all fiction genres. I read a book, get a craving for…
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Hidden Valor by Patricia M. Muhammad
Duchess Arabella leaves the House of Wellington for the king’s court without notice or permission of her mother and father. Two murders occur in the royal palace. Duke Everett is accused amongst the courtiers. He pursues the duchess to take her hand in marriage. The Crown sequesters all of the king’s court to the royal…
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Murder By Dissent by Patricia M. Muhammad
Protests, riots and someone who hides under the flame that scorches the possibility of improving race relations in America during the Civil Rights era. Jacqueline Sadie Thompson, a detective in a colored precinct in New York, is assigned murder cases which occurred during protests. When she visits a scene, someone tosses a Molotov cocktail and…
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Between the Sea and Stars by Chantal Gadoury
A Legend, A Magical Shell A Girl Who Dreamed Of Something More… Lena, a Merrow girl, lives in the Skagerrak sea with her father, Carrick and her brother, Javelin who tells her of the legend of the Merrow Queen murdered by her human lover when greed takes over. But what’s worth spilling the queen’s blood?…
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Sonya Jesus, author of Knights
When and why did you begin writing? I started writing in high school. Mostly poetry at first and short stories. I wrote my first length novel while I was writing my master’s thesis in microbiology. I never published it, but the Knights Series started while I was writing my Ph.D. thesis. It’s a way to…
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David Russell, author of Self’s Blossom
When and why did you begin writing? My first poem was triggered by acute personal tensions; through writing it, I got some sense of control over those tensions. When did you first consider yourself a writer? From my early 20s, though it took a long time for my opinion to be vindicated. Why did you…
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Last Exit to Montauk by Phillip Vega
When he approaches her at the market, he has no idea the next three weeks of his life would change him forever. It’s the late 1980s, summertime, on the North Shore of Long Island. The air stirs with possibilities as it often does during this time of year. And so begins the romance between one…
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