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Cover Girls

Posted on 09/26/2015 by wikkidsexycool Posted in Contemporary Romance, E books Leave a comment

I don’t believe in ambiguity when I edit a stock photo for a book cover, because African American women have long been under-represented in this area. Because I put together a number of cover models (from the many wonderful stock photos from some great photographers) I’m able to play match maker to see which models work together to help tell a story. Here are a few of my upcoming ebook covers:

Asian and African American couple copy with FX

Interracial couple – African American and Asian (edited stock photo)

Interracial couple – edited photo –

Young Adult romance

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Nathelie Childress and Tanner Joseph become an unlikely couple in the NA mystery romance The Saint of BOYSTOWN Click the photo to read an excerpt

Nathelie Childress falls for Tanner Joseph, in the ebook The Saint of BOYSTOWN

Couple cuddling – more IR couples can be found in the WSC Romance Image Gallery

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Waiting in the Wings

Posted on 04/05/2015 by wikkidsexycool Posted in Adult Novella, Adult Novellas, Contemporary Romance, E books, Excerpts, Historical fiction, Historical romance, New Adult, Paranormal romance Leave a comment

Like Imani, a ballet dancer who waited for her chance to shine in the novel HUI, I’ve got a number of other novels in both the adult genre and new adult genre that I’m currently editing in order to release.

One of my earliest novels dealt with females – specifically a fictional group of gritty women on a navy vessel with interconnecting story lines. I’m going to put up an excerpt shortly. Right now I’m focused on getting HUI ready for release.

Sisters of Mercy ebook cover

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Andre in Beast mode with watermark

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Too Close for Comfort

Posted on 08/08/2014 by wikkidsexycool Posted in Contemporary Romance, E books Leave a comment

Back in October of 2013, I put up an excerpt of one of my NA novels on this site and other places around the internet. The ebook title is “Before I Let Go” and its the story of a girl who has to drop out of college due to her abusive boyfriend, and how she rekindles a romance with her childhood crush, a young Hispanic male who’s wounded while fighting in Iraq.

Well, wouldn’t you know it, but this must be a popular concept, because its already been released. By someone else. So either great minds think alike, or what the hell, I dunno.*

*ETA: Well, this just got more effed up. Seems this same author was called out before regarding plagiarism. However I need to stress it’s my understanding that a premise, or “concept” cannot be copyrighted, so I guess that’s that.

In any event, I don’t wanna dwell on this. I’m just hoping if it wasn’t a sheer coincidence aka mind hive sort of thing, the author/associates now realize that “borrowing” a premise isn’t cool, and that jumping over to the minority side to get your next new novel can still back fire big time, because the internet isn’t as large as some would like to believe. But what’s more important, is that I didn’t create a Hispanic male lead for nothing. It’s because DIVERSITY IS MY PLATFORM. And it’s not as simple as giving a character an ethnic last name, but part of his/her racial identity imho.

Here’s my original blurb:

Twenty year old Skylar Torres is back home, trying to forget a volatile college romance and hoping to reconnect with her first love, Damon Salas. Twenty three year old Damon doesn’t recall the road side bomb that ended his tour of duty in Iraq, leaving him unable to speak his thoughts as clearly as before. Struggling with his new normal, Damon’s determined to live life on his own terms, and that includes a future with Skylar. But Skylar’s dealing with a controlling ex, while questioning her decision to stay away from Damon, in order to keep them both alive.

I’m still gonna release my ebook, since I’ve got a digital trail (I entered the excerpt in the Wattpad contest last year). In addition, I believe the writing inside the other author’s book is totally different than mine, though her premise has similar elements. But I’m committed to this story, because I wrote it with two Hispanic leads in mind who were both trying to cope with issues that affect young people today.

Please click the photo if you’d like to check out BEFORE I LET GO:

Woman is Boss

Posted on 05/12/2014 by wikkidsexycool Posted in Adult Novella, Adult Novellas, Contemporary Romance, E books, Scifi Leave a comment

That’s the fictional hit song of a Trini rapper named Ozzy AKA The Great OZ from The Player. This ebook is part of my Caribbean Queens Series.

The Great Oz, from T&T

Caribbean Queens Promo2 smaller copy

I’m releasing excerpts from all three books (excerpts from The Player and Love and Baseball are already up on this site). Next comes Game.Set.Love. featuring Tristan “Didi” Botha and Sinead Landon, two tennis doubles pros who fall madly in love. Carnival is what connects all three heroines. Sinead is from Jamaica,

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Last Day for FREE excerpt downloads on Amazon

Posted on 05/11/2014 by wikkidsexycool Posted in Contemporary Romance, E books, Excerpts, Historical fiction, New Adult, Scifi Leave a comment

Thank you, thank you THANK YOU! To all those who’ve tweeted and spread the word about the free Sneak Peek downloads this weekend. Since these are excerpts from novels, there was no way to know if any readers would be interested. So I’m very happy about the progress of The Scifi Sampler:

FREE rankings for Excerpts on 5/11

Multicultural Scifi is another passion of mine. And QUEENSREALM is the next book coming out, so I hope all those who like to read scifi or futuristic military tales, or read about hot alien virgin heroes, or even THE ONE books (but this time a woman of color saves the world), well, I hope this book will appeal to those who like conflicted, but kick ass heroines.