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Remember Mandela
Rest in peace Nelson Mandela.
Arrested in 1962, imprisoned until Feb, 1990, I’m so happy that he got to live long enough to know how many he inspired and how much he was admired. Remember Mandela
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What’s upcoming, and RIP Paul Walker
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Two Queens and a Knight
Finishing up more editing on Queensrealm and The Queen of Comedy. It’s the battle of the sexes (Queensrealm) vs. A war of words between comedic relatives (TQOC). I’m debating whether to release OFFWORLD next, but first I have to get familiar with Amazon’s categories and key words for scifi, urban fantasy and scifi romance.
More ebook covers:
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New Excerpts
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Valkyrie Jones book trailer and more excerpts
Here’s the Valkyrie Jones Book trailer. The Cinematic Choir was created by Xelaplus, whose music is on Looperman.com:
I’ll be updating this post to show the links to new excerpts. A two chapter excerpt of Valkyrie Jones can be found here
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Character crossovers and more excerpts TBA
Nevaeh and Josh from HEAVEN, and Derek and Nicole from the soon to be released The Stone Boy have their stories continued in the adult novella MAKE ME YOURS.
The teens appear as college students who bond with the recently divorced lead female character who returns to school in order to earn her degree.
Working on: Editing, and book trailers for The Stone Boy, Valkyrie Jones and QUEENSREALM.
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I Scifi. Do U?
Gotta share this tumblr post by way of Racebending.com:
Let me tell you a story about media representation and how it informs creativity
I love science fiction. Octavia Butler and Ray Bradbury are a few of my early writing influences, and so we’ve got a couple of scifi offerings coming up this fall: QUEENSREALM and OFFWORLD
How to categorize these ebooks on Amazon will be a challenge, so don’t be surprised to see them bouncing in several different categories once they’re released. For example, my daughter and I decided to put HEAVEN in both African American women’s fiction and also a sub category of teen fiction, because of the adult content. However, whenever Amazon changes its algorithms (like this week, when the site went down without explanation) after making a comeback up the charts, we’re now working hard to regain the traction we had before Amazon’s site snafu.
More sneak peek offerings to come, which include a five chapter excerpt of OFFWORLD:
Pictured: from left to right: Kadek No’am, Janhoy 1st Class. Upper right: The Child King, Tydaris Ridae, Cura Regis Divine. Lower right: Leonidas Sinclair, Man of Many Centuries
Credits for Steampunk model with braids: wardrobe and styling: Kit Stolen.
Photographer: http://nadyalevphoto.com/?/projects/anachronaut/
Steampunk model with leather mouth piece: Famke Backx, photographer
Goggled hat Steampunk model: inhauscreative photography
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Asian Men Deserve More . . .
This BUZZFEED article is a must read! Asian men need more representation, not just on film, but in books:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattortile/asian-leading-men-who-deserve-more-airtime
BOYS ‘N LOVE AND MAGIC has Malia Toussaint paired with Corey Yune.
In VALKYRIE JONES, Valencia Perez is paired with Kai Ioki: