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Simply Stunning Nigerian Bride photos
While I ready The Player and HUI for release, I thought I’d share something I found via Dear Author (by way of BuzzFeed). Please take a moment to look at these (which are just a few of many) stunning photos of Nigerian Brides! I’ve left the instagram account info on the photos, so if you want to pop over to bellanaijaweddings to leave a comment, you can.
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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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Sending the wrong message
WARNING this is just a rant, so excuse me while I scream ARRAGHHH!!
Why do some publishers do this? Why do they completely ignore the diversity of their reading audience and also diverse writers?
Before I self-published in 2012, I was and still am a voracious reader. Yet some publishers still choose to ignore people of color and other groups whenever they advertise their authors.
Note to Montlake. Crowing about your new releases that only show white couples is an EPIC FAIL. Think of the message you’re sending, that this is the only target group you either care about or that you don’t have any books ready for release that celebrate diversity.
If either one is the case. GET ON IT, quickly. If playing with the big boys of publishing means exclusivity and not being inclusive, then I repeat, think of the message that you’re sending.
Montlake isn’t alone in doing this sort of thing, so this rant also goes for other big publishers out there who fill their front web pages and newsletters with book covers that inadvertently (or purposely) tell the reader that the only romance worth having is when the couples are of the same race, or that you can never have enough covers showing model worthy white lovers. What about Asian cover models? Or African? Or African American? Or First Nation, just to give a few examples of the under-represented.
Or bi-racial, like the President of our country?
This is 2014, not 1940. Why Montlake, did I click on your site to see a WTF wall full of this:
****I decided against posting any screen shots. This is no fault of the authors themselves, and I don’t want this rant to be viewed as such.****
Okay, I’m done. And yes, I feel a bit better now 🙂
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Werewolves Rule, Bruh
I was so excited when I saw this poster, because I thought WOLVES would be a weekly TV series starring Jason Momoa.
It’s not, but who knows? Perhaps it will be. Right now its a soon to be released film about werewolves.
I couldn’t resist doing some photo editing:
I love Werewolves, and I’ve been a fan ever since the old black and white classic with Lon Chaney Jr. started playing on television. Lon wasn’t a Werewolf though. He was a Wolf Man. But his angst over becoming a monster by the light of the full moon and hurting the woman he loved was way before the whole Interview with the Vampire and Twilight craze (No surprise that I was team Jacob from the get-go).
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IR Covers that show passion and love
More interracial covers are coming from WSC books with the protags physically together. I think I may have stumbled onto a pretty good technique for recoloring photos and editing. There are a number of steps involved in matching the skin color of the model, but I’ve made new covers that I hope look a bit more natural, especially when the photos are enlarged:
This new GIF promo will be moved to the sidebar:
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Update on RUSH
Okay, so tomorrow, (
Friday May 2nd) **correction **. I had to change the dates. The freebies start on Saturday May 3rd until May 5th. there will be a free multi-chapter promo ebook release of RUSH. The download on Amazon will be FREE for three days (FridaySaturday, Sunday and Monday). It will be FREE.The Sneak Peek of RUSH is currently for sale on Amazon at .99 cents, but the free promotion starts tomorrow.
Hopefully, readers will want to purchase the full book. If you can, please spread the word.
Why should you read RUSH?
Come for the romance. Stay for the storyline of a motorcycle gang member who tries to balance his love for a Somali Bantu refugee with his criminal lifestyle.
From the novel:
“All it took was a timid finger to graze over my balls and I had a surge of lust. I started pumping like I’d been energized. Aaliyah crossed her arms around my neck and held on for the ride of her life, because I was hitting her spot hard. How did I know it was getting good to her? Because for the first time she was matching me thrust for thrust and moan for moan.” – Aiden “Ghost” De Lucca of RUSH
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The Final Four of March Madness Revealed!!
The Sweet Sixteen teams in the NCAA tournament will be set this week, but I’ve gone ahead and picked my final four Sneak Peeks for Amazon.com:
RUSH
GAIJIN
Click for larger image:
Miss Brighton’s School for Exceptional Young Ladies
And the final Sneak Peek slot goes to . . .
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March Madness! More Free Downloads this month
Download December was such a success, it’s being repeated with our own romance March Madness! Starting March 18th to March 20th, free downloads of several ebook excerpts will be available.
Multi-chapter excerpts that are called SNEAK PEEKS (these excerpts are much larger than the free views available on this site) will be up at Amazon. Get a first look at several released and soon to be released books:
Please spread the word as WSC spreads the love this March!