• Adult Novella,  Adult Novellas,  Contemporary Romance,  E books

    Sex and the single (paraplegic) male

    She owns three beauty supply stores around the city. He works from home, as a graphic artist. When forty something Torii Theas moves upstairs from thirty year old Ethan Forché, sparks fly. But that’s just the half of it . . .

     

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    Ethan and Torii watching TV from the ebook At Last

     

     

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    Ethan and Torii, from the interracial romance At Last

     

     

  • Adult Novella,  Contemporary Romance,  E books,  Excerpts

    A Star is Born

     

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    Imani Fairchild, from the upcoming interracial romance set in the world of ballet, titled HUI

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    “I-I didn’t get the part.” Gemma sounded as if being passed over just didn’t happen to her.

    Welcome to my world, Imani wanted to say. Instead she tossed an arm over Gemma’s shoulder, squeezing her in solidarity as they walked down the hall. “Don’t hate on Ming-ju, though. She’s cool. And she’s a really good dancer.”

    “Imani, Ming-ju didn’t get the part either-”

    “She didn’t?” The despair on Gemma’s face made Imani wonder if she’d ever looked that down and out. “I’ll tell you what, we’ll take turns listing all the reasons they made the wrong choice-”

    Her words were cut short by the pounding of heavy foot falls that were loud enough to startle them both. A thundering herd of something was coming fast and frantic. Imani glanced over her shoulder only to be quickly engulfed in a crowd of well-wishers. They were screaming at her, saying her name. Her. Name. She was in the center of a whirling carousel of faces, many from the corps and a few soloists who were shouting, some of them with tears streaming down their faces and others with smiles wider than the Grand Canyon.

    “I’m so happy for you-”

    “This is freakin’ historic . . .”

  • Uncategorized

    TCB

     

    TCB is an older term that means Take care of business. It can be heard on Aretha Franklin’s classic hit “Respect.”

    I’ve got a number of books to release, one of which is IVY League (but not before HUI, The Player and At Last)

     

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    The ballerina IMANI from the interracial romance HUI

     

     

     

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  • Adult Novellas,  Contemporary Romance,  E books,  Excerpts

    OPP and PYT

     

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    Did the man ever raise his eyes to look directly at anyone during rehearsal? Imani wondered.

    As she inwardly grumbled about Hui’s aloofness, he glanced up. Imani’s breath caught in her throat. Make the connection. Come on. She willed herself to smile, hoping against hope that it was actually a grin she’d formed and not something that made her look much too desperate, or God forbid, just plain frightening. Her trembling smile gained an ever widening grin from him. It was glorious and bright and so infectious that Imani’s lips divided invitingly.

     

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    As she moved forward her shoulder bumped against the girl next to her.

    “Oh, sorry,” Imani stammered.

  • E books,  Scifi,  Urban Fantasy

    The Beautiful and Bold Women of Fantasy

    Renditions of the main male characters from OFFWORLD have been up for a while:

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    OFFWORLD Promo

     

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    I’d searched all over for photos that best represented the men in the book, because I was still learning how to digitally edit photos.

    Now that I’ve got the hang of it, I decided to post some of my own fantasy renditions of otherworldly African American women since we’re underrepresented in the Scifi and Fantasy genre:

     

     

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    The Fantasy and Scifi women of WSC books

     

     

     

     

    The Mad Queen of OFFWORLD
    The Mad Queen of OFFWORLD – Rhandeia is the Empress Regent. She’s also a powerful Alchean Deaconess.

     

  • Adult Novella,  Adult Novellas,  Contemporary Romance,  E books

    Becoming Hui

    Dedicated. Deliberate. Humble. These are just some of the qualities Le Jong Hui exemplifies. But underneath his carefully crafted exterior is a man who fights to stay in control of his emotions . . . until he meets a woman who gets under his skin and takes his breath away.

     

     

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    Behind the beauty and artistry of his dancing is the complex and passionate man named Le Jong Hui

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Hui – An interracial romance set in the world of ballet

     

     

     

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    AT LAST – African American businesswoman has a torrid affair with a paraplegic graphic artist

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Women space pilots – boldly going where no man has gone before

     

     

    To be continued . . .