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The Rise of Black Cool and Black Glamour
The beautiful woman with the hourglass figure gracing the cover of author Nichelle Gainer’s book “Vintage Black Glamour” is actress/singer Eartha Kitt.
Beautiful and talented, the late great Eartha Kitt So don’t let anyone tell you that black people didn’t have a middle class or wealth during segregation and during the swinging 60s, because there are a number of photos and writings that prove otherwise. From Madame C J Walker, to sports heroes, educators, inventors, businessmen and businesswomen and entertainers, African Americans resided in a variety of socio-economic lifestyles.
We were, and still are, not a monolithic group. Whether through education or ambition, undeniable talent or heart stopping beauty, blacks back in the day became successful in spite of obstacles like inequality.
The book Vintage Black Glamour can be purchased on Amazon
Brief bio on Eartha Kitt from The Guardian.com:
” ‘Once called the “most exciting woman in the world” by Orson Welles, Kitt became a singer and dancer whose suggestive and sensuous performances captured the public imagination in the 1950s. Her former lover Charles Revson, the billionaire founder of Revlon cosmetics, even created a lipstick for her, calling it Fire and Ice. In the 1960s she made the role of Catwoman her own when she became the first black woman to achieve mainstream TV success in America with Batman, even breaking racial taboos by flirting on screen with Adam West in the lead role.’ ” – Adam Luck
Read more about Eartha Kitt here
Additional examples of black cool and glamour:
Popular band leader and singer Billy Eckstine. Women swooned mightily over this man. 
Singer Della Reese 
Before Sidney, before Denzel, there was fine as hell trailblazing actor James Edwards 
Boyishly handsome Sam Cooke not only sang, but also wrote his biggest hit “A Change is Gonna Come.” Other songs by Cooke include “You Send Me” “Only Sixteen” and “Bring it on Home to Me” (Lou Rawls also sang on this hit). 
Lola Falana and Sammy Davis Jr Can you name these famous black celebrities?
Highlight the blanks for the answers: 1. Nat King Cole 2. The Nicholas Brothers 3. Josephine Baker
4. Sammy Davis Jr 5. Dorothy Dandridge 6. Lena Horne
7. Sidney Poitier
Here’s my fictional glamorous heroine from the soon to be released The Queen of Comedy:
Click the photo to read an excerpt from The Queen of Comedy 
Dinah Washington was known as the Queen of Jazz and also the Queen of Jukeboxes 
Nina Simone. The Legend. 
Jazz artist and actress Nancy Wilson 
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The Boys R Back in Town
From left to right: Ronin Bey, Firedrake. Ash the Hellraiser, (center) Andre Santana, Alpha X Werewolf, Karnage Xian, Gargoyle The Werewolf art is by rhabwar-troll-stock.deviantart.com, and you can view more of this artist’s work here
Check out a rock classic written by the founder and frontman of Thin Lizzy, the black Irishman himself, the late, great Phil Lynott (singing lead and playing bass) called The Boys Are Back in Town:
I also needed a smaller GIF for social media in order to promote HUI
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What he said . . . RIP David Bowie
“My attraction to her was immediate and all-encompassing. I couldn’t sleep for the excitement of our first date,” he told HELLO!. “That she would be my wife, in my head, was a done deal. I’d never gone after anything in my life with such passion in all my life. I just knew she was the one.”
– David Bowie. Quote from OKAY magazine.
David Bowie and the love of his life, his wife IMAN Like a number of Bowie’s fans, I’m in shock over his death.
Bowie’s music was a major part of my life. And his declaration of love for Iman in the OKAY mag quote above, could have been written for a romance novel. In the same interview, Bowie stated that he was already naming their children when he met IMAN. It’s something anyone would want to hear from the person she (or he) loves. RIP David Bowie. Your genius and talent will be missed.
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Paranormal for the People!
I’ve got another new release, this time in the paranormal genre.
First though, Wikkid.Sexy.Cool books is now on Instagram. So I worked on a new promo for HUI that features the female lead, Imani:
Ballerina Imani Fairchild falls for North Korean prodigy Le Jong Hui, in the interracial romance set in the world of ballet, titled HUI Paranormal for the people means stories that not only feature a variety of creatures who go bump in the night, but also inclusiveness and diversity in the world building when those beings are in human form.
Confessions of a Shapeshifter cast. Julian Armitage Larouche, the Victorian era vampire, Kris, the dark child, and Andre Santana, the werewolf 
Confessions of a Shapeshifter 
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Deadlier than the Male
I love, love, love this photo of supermodel Ajuma Nasenyana
Beautiful Supermodel Ajuma Nasenyana This picture embodies a smoldering hot fierceness that I’ve tried to capture in some of my scifi heroines, like Ziona NIM
And the head sister-witch Lilith:
LILITH, an African American witch from the upcoming paranormal romance Long Ago and Far Away -
The Shape of Things to Come
So, this year I’ve added adult fiction to my YA, New Adult and YA paranormal bookshelf.
Next up will be a greater focus on my Afro-futurism works, like:
OFFWORLD, featuring (upper left) Kadek No’am, Janhoy 1st Class (upper right) Tydaris Ridae, Cura Regis Divine, (lower right) Vlahos Leonidas Sinclair, The Man of Many Centuries 
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Witches 3
Talking #blackgirlmagic:
Witches 3 from left to right: Pagan, Ondine, Lilith 
Lilith is featured in Long Ago and Far Away 
Pagan, the youngest witch of the trio who identifies as GNC (Gender Non Conforming) 
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Witch just got Real
More promos for my trio of sister-witches:
Lilith – the head Sister-witch – edited stock photo 
Lilith- The Dark witch of Shadows – edited stock photo See, what happened was . . .
Ondine – The Red Witch of Sorrows – edited stock photo The youngest sister witch of the trio is PAGAN:
Pagan – Mistress of the Grey Moors – edited stock photo