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Mine
Well, February has come and gone. My apologies, but I really wasn’t in a Valentine’s Day mood since my mom’s death, but I’m slowly getting better.
So, here are a few of my fictional lovers who rock:
Pagan and Karnage promo. She seems to be smitten with him in this promo, happy that he’s “mine.” And his expression seems to be “back off, because yeah, she’s mine.” 
Paranormal Power couple: Karnage and Pagan are quite adventurous in the bedroom. That’s all I’ll say for now. 
I did a few more with this couple. They are featured in an upcoming ebook. I think I’ll use this image for a new page on this site. 
Young Love – Tanner Joseph and Nathalie Childress, teen lovers from The Saint of BOYStown. I’m going to use this promo for my upcoming novel The Queen of Comedy:
And since TQOC takes place over several decades, including the 1960s, this JET magazine cover is sadly ironic:
Blast from the Past:
I want to end this post on an upbeat. So I’m posting this actual photo of an African American flapper from 1920s, by African American photographer James Van Der Zee:
See more of his wonderful photos of the past here:
The works of James Van Der Zee -
The Return of Black Cool & RIP Maya Angelou
There was a time when men and women (including African Americans) wore tuxedos and gowns on stage and on television. It’s that time period that’s revisited in the novel The Queen of Comedy. There’s a free sneak peek of the novel on Amazon, and it will be available on Kindle for free on these dates: May 31st, June 1st and June 2nd.
The Temptations, circa 1965 
Maya Angelou promo picture “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” – Maya Angelou (1928-2014)
The LA Times has a tribute to Maya Angelou that Dear Author listed this week:
Maya Angelou’s TV legacy, from ‘Roots’ to ‘Sesame Street,’ ‘Super Soul’
I’m taking a few more days to work on Queensrealm, but The Queen of Comedy will also be released in June
Poster for The Queen of Comedy -
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.
The Queen of Comedy takes center stage 
The Queen of Comedy 
New Queensrealm ebook cover copy More ebook covers:
New Adult scifi HAZE mock up cover -
Is the Historical Romance genre in trouble?
There’s an interesting discussion going on at Dear Author, regarding the woeful state of the Historical Romance genre. Here’s the link:
http://dearauthor.com/features/letters-of-opinion/we-should-let-the-historical-genre-die/
Regencies appear to be the only historical romances major publishers are promoting.
But only a handful of authors are able to profit doing Regencies, so where does that leave authors who wish to write of the past, but not in the Regency time period?
Well, I don’t have the answer to that. All I know is I’m readying a couple of books that are definitely historicals, but not so much historical romance, though loving couples are part of the storyline. One is GAIJIN. The other is an era spanning epic called The Queen of Comedy, which tells the tale of a legendary female comedian during the 1930s and 40s, and her less than successful nephew who played a hip, wisecracking manservant on TV during the 1960s.
Gaijin – A Colored Maiden’s Voyage and Recollections of Japan in the 1860s 
GAIJIN The Queen of Comedy takes center stage JUKEBOX Volume One is a YA Historical, set during the 1960s.