tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63469160760501968862024-03-12T21:41:50.076-07:00 Reading You LaterLa Sheera Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379143566577260611noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346916076050196886.post-69865705874281734352021-01-03T13:52:00.000-08:002021-01-03T13:52:39.720-08:00Kick butt heroines, finer than wine men, awesome messages, and plots that will grab your mama’s attention<p> </p><p><br /></p><h1 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kick butt heroines, finer than wine men, awesome messages, and plots that will grab your mama’s attention. Oh, and a few other of my musings.</span></h1><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ijOXs8inuI4/X_Ffm-P9wcI/AAAAAAAASBI/JWSkBuQdLTgS8hSvqjk8WdJgLS9spe41gCLcBGAsYHQ/s942/3C54CE8E-7448-4282-A694-13FA80ED6DE1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="942" data-original-width="941" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ijOXs8inuI4/X_Ffm-P9wcI/AAAAAAAASBI/JWSkBuQdLTgS8hSvqjk8WdJgLS9spe41gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/3C54CE8E-7448-4282-A694-13FA80ED6DE1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Honey, 2020 was literally and figuratively one for the books! At times, reading provided me with much-needed relief from the perils of the world. I am going to share some of my few favorite books, that I read in 2020. There were so many wonderful books I read this year. Unfortunately, I could not place them all on my list. My list is not in any particular order. I just flow with my muse.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Join my mailing list to get cool updates. <a href="https://sendfox.com/lp/3egvdz" target="_blank">https://sendfox.com/lp/3egvdz</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b>Love Belvin-</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Our Reckless Hope</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Wanna Bumble with the Bee huh?” Baby, these are are the vibes I receive from reading each and every one of Love Belvin's Book. “That Chick” never disappoints me. She always weaves her plots, characters, and dialogue into a beautiful tapestry of artistry. In </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our Reckless Hope</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Ashton and Tori muted and reckless relationship, at times, appeared to be a train wreck at the end of each tunnel. Deceit, trauma, and insecurities hindered their paths. Will hope prevail for these two reckless souls? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b>Brenda Jackson</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Entangled Pursuits</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brenda Jackon’s pen must be set on hot. She gives you a strong storyline and characters you don’t want to miss. Mrs. Jackson is an icon in this game. </span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entangled Pursuits</span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, continues to celebrate the dynamics of her pen. Detectives Logan and Oliver have a personal case that appeared to go cold. When lives are on the line, will they allow themselves to reopen the case to new possibilities? </span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Cheryl Polote-Williamson-</b></span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Soulful Prayers Volume 2 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Honey, PRAYER is one of the key ingredients I use to keep me sane. This year, more than ever, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I emerged and covered myself in prayer. Yes, you can cover yourself. God is straight wholesale, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">you </span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">don’t have to use the services of a middle man. Yes, it is great to have two or three gathered… </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">but </span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">if you are in trouble or torment, you better call Him for yourself. Soulful Prayers is the book full of the inspiration you need. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b>Brit Bennett</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Vanishing Half</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">This book tells the tale of living with the consequences based on choices that challenge our values and fears. There are a lot of moving parts to the plot of this book. What lines would you cross if given the chance?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b>Brian W. Smith-</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Paper Bag</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you have ever read a Brain W. Smith’s book, you know that a plot twist or a moral dilemma is somewhere in the bag. Each of his books showcases the best and worst in humanity. Each ride of his literary book chain is exhilarating! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b>Bailey West</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Depth of Love</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Honey, don’t get it twisted. Bailey’s books can give you that sizzle factor. However, she also </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">manages to give you messages that transports you to a country church on a little dirt road. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">She takes you there. Every book she writes manages to hold dear to those Kindle Quotes. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t sleep on her.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Christina C. Jones</b>-</span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Behind The Scenes</span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CCJ’s writing is the vibe of my favorite neo-soul song, cocoa butter, and fine wine. </span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The girl is smooth, folks. Anytime, anyplace should be the tagline for CCJ’s world. The communities and products she creates in her books, take you on a journey. Everything she creates (videos, book covers, digital images) haves that special touch. In short, she is a creative force. </span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Behind the Scenes</span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">features two characters who transitions propel the dialogue and plot development of the story along in true CCJ fashion. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b>Olivia Deici</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Diego: A Zambrano Crime Family Novel</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">This book is full of action, drama, and suspense. Your literary palate will get a lot of flavors</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from this book. This is book four in the series. Each book takes you on a whirlwind ride. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b>Kennedy Ryan</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Queen Move</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kennedy Ryan is a storyteller. She is not afraid to confront the unthinkable in her books. Ezra and Kimba are caught holding baggage that was created by other people. However, as life would have it, they also have learned to pack their own baggage. As past secrets unravel, the plot explodes with drama.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b>LaKisha Johnson</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Marriage Bed</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Baby, this book was a fireball that never fizzled. This was the first time I had read a book by this author. I quickly downloaded more books in her backlist. Her books are engaging, insightful, and riveting. This book deals with a married couple whose poor decisions cause jaw-dropping drama to unfold. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b>Beverly Jenkins</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">On the Corner of Hope and Main</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am convinced that Ms. Bev. is that favorite auntie that knows how to keep you entertained every holiday. She holds court in every genre she writes. I positively get lost in all of her books. In my mind, Henry Adams is a real town. We were introduced to the town in her historicals. The Blessing Series continues to make me feel good. There are surprises around every corner in this book. We all need the hope of tomorrow on our personal corner of hope and main. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b>Vanessa Riley</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A Duke, The Lady, and a Baby </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before there was Bridgerton on Netflix, there was Vanessa Riley telling you that people of color held the position of prominence in the Regency Era. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Patience Jordan is far from a wallflower. She is feisty, smart, and persistent. The Duke of Remington is caught off guard by her presence. This book is full of rich history and careful banter that makes it a great read. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b>Iris Bolling</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A Piece of Her Heart</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ms. Bolling has masterfully woven a complex series of plots to form a book that is hard to put down. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is never a dull moment in this book. The characters are larger than life. We first meet </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Monique when she was a bratty teen. Now, she is a sexy CIA Operative that does not take </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">n</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">o for an answer. When she is on a mission, she does not back down from trouble. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">See what trouble follows her and the other cast of characters in the fast-paced book. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b>Tiffany D. 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Enchanted Jones is caught up in a world that is full of abuse, lies, and fears. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ms. Jackson does an awesome job of characterizing the injustices surrounding the stereotypes of black women. The ill-conceived stereotypes often lead to our girls being victimized and groomed without </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">little </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">justice for the victim. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b>Alexandria House</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Them Boys Series</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are somewhat accustomed to reading books surrounding female trauma. However, this series takes an introspective look at how trauma can impact three physically strong African American Males. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">These brothers fight through the strongholds and complexity of the past to forge a new path. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">But will the past be so easily shaken? </span></p><p><b><br /></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Danielle Allen</b>-</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Women of V Series</span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">You will not see this series coming. Danielle Allen thinks </span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">she is slick. She likes to draw you in like a moth to a fire. She likes to have you thinking you have </span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">things figured out. Only to realize you were as wrong as two left shoes. I should be tired of being tricked. However, I keep coming back for more of her book shenanigans. </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Stephanie Nicole Norris</b>-I</span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mpromtu Seduction</span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ms. Norris has not been playing fair. The Valentines are smoking. I have seen online catfights over these imaginary men. There is a nasty rumour that this is the last book in this series. </span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is time for readers to go into their secret book closets. Lol. Kyle and London story lives up to the hype and legacy of the other books in the series. Where will her pen take us? We will have to wait. </span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Joan Vassar-The Black Series</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chile boo, grab your petticoats and shifts. This series is off the chain! Her words paint a vivid picture of every character and setting. </span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her storytelling commands the story from the beginning. Purchase each book in this series. </span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Y</span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">ou will not be disappointed.</span></p><p><b>K'wan-Black Lotus</b></p><p><span style="color: #0f1111; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When you mention the name K’wan, you know the writing is about to get real. He literally puts his pen into everything he writes. He returns to ignite us with more flames. The Black Lotus is not be played. She has placed her former professions in the retirement zone. However, when life comes to play hardball with her, she returns the favor. Baby, K’wan takes you on that ride!</span></span></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-cfd04791-7fff-a249-48ee-ac194848dfd3"><br /><br /><b style="text-align: center;"> Books You Might Want to Read</b></span></p><p><b>President Barack Obama-A Promised Land</b></p><p><b>Sherell Green-Carter's Undoing</b></p><p><b>Resilient Love-Summer Fling</b></p><p><b>Sabrina B. Scales The Bricks Series</b></p><p><b>Alexandria Warren-Oops!</b></p><p><b>Farrah Rochon-The Boyfriend Project</b></p><p><b>Angelia Vernon Menchan-Womanish Confession</b></p><p><b>Elle Wright-The Way You Hold Me</b></p><p><b>Christina Hammond Reed-The Black Kids</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XZSDF8jWBUY/X_I6cRu0QPI/AAAAAAAASBo/XirbPvBoJNAxod5S-d2bL9Q4c8OBIlwKACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/340D2E37-EDBB-406A-B9A7-23909123F3A3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1322" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XZSDF8jWBUY/X_I6cRu0QPI/AAAAAAAASBo/XirbPvBoJNAxod5S-d2bL9Q4c8OBIlwKACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/340D2E37-EDBB-406A-B9A7-23909123F3A3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>Shop at my store. <a href="https://curveyourbeauty.com/">https://curveyourbeauty.com/</a></p><p>Follow me on Twitter and IG @readyoulater</p><p>Visit my website at <a href="https://www.readyoulater.biz/">https://www.readyoulater.biz/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p></p>La Sheera Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379143566577260611noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346916076050196886.post-34536782666712443182020-11-01T09:43:00.006-08:002020-11-01T09:46:49.095-08:00Cool Conversation With La Sheera Lee-Featuring Colette Harrell<h2 style="text-align: center;"> </h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: center;">It is Harvest Time</h2><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Onm9Ofd_S00/X57NTT-Fb1I/AAAAAAAAR4U/I_AGl1r5tAspOU-NhMSUdjtnk3-DwRaewCPcBGAYYCw/s963/BB78F126-1927-457F-9A0F-12C9781A39C9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="773" data-original-width="963" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Onm9Ofd_S00/X57NTT-Fb1I/AAAAAAAAR4U/I_AGl1r5tAspOU-NhMSUdjtnk3-DwRaewCPcBGAYYCw/s320/BB78F126-1927-457F-9A0F-12C9781A39C9.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Baby, you have endured enough misery. Now, it is time you reap your harvest. Those good seeds you sowed in the ground shall not come up void! It Is harvest time. Do you need some inspiration in your life? Listen to the latest episode of Cool Conversations with La Sheera Lee. 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<br />La Sheera Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379143566577260611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346916076050196886.post-10923265091763704852020-03-27T17:25:00.001-07:002020-03-27T17:25:27.158-07:00Todd Dulaney | Online Experience<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aP57GQWfY9E" width="459"></iframe>La Sheera Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379143566577260611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346916076050196886.post-17615309460530251012020-01-20T11:35:00.000-08:002020-01-20T17:17:19.153-08:00Kick butt heroines, finer than wine men, and plots that will grab your mama’s attention. Oh, and a few other of my musings.<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bartender. Bartender. Chile boo, you will need a couple of rounds reading this series. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sadik </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is a brother that is loving, smooth, and plain old criminal at the same time. Honey, where do you want me to start? The brother has kaleidoscope eyes, that change with almost every situation. And there are situations around every corner in this book. In fact, he has to call the right good “Passa” Ezra Carmichael, from the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bonded Series</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to help. Girl, let me grab my fan, as I turn the page. Grab your copy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Danielle Allen</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Danielle Allen can write her Edgar Allen Poe off. First, she pimp slapped me with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Broken Clocks</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Next, she’s bringing sexy back with her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Women of the V series</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. You will enjoy each one of her books.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That dang gone Alexandria House is putting her pen to paper, baby.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am not going to even begin talking about the McClain Boys. The way my life is set up, I don’t have time to chit chat for hours. So I am going to leave you with three words, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jah</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Chile, do I hear Missy playing in the background? Singing Hot Like Fire.......They are both short reads that are long on all the good stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stephanie Nicole Norris</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This sister has game. First, she entices you with her book covers. Hot, steamy men that.... Well, you get the picture. Then she seduces with her words. Kim Got Books Knight will talk about her books every day on the phone if I let her. Start with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No holds Barred</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Did I mention Travis Cure is on that cover?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bailey West</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This sister pen game runs deep. When you can get a group of women at the beach, to read through your entire series, baby you have done your thing. Her messages are woven through the words of the book, like a fine fabric. You can’t go wrong with the Bluette Men.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Te Russ</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She mixes her book spices to give you great characters and awesome plots. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nicole Falls</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She also has a nice catalog. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sheryl Lister</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She writes romance that gives you great vibes and energy. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her stories have a nice flow. She is also one of the founders </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of Rose Gold Press.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Midnight Ace told me about this gem three years ago. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her books are like Lays Potato Chip, you can’t just buy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">j</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">ust one. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I love the realism is her short stories titled the </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">am also a fan of her Champion, Valentine, etc. Oh, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I can’t forget my boy Royal. Chile boo.....</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First, she baits you with her colorful characters. Next, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">she seduces you with her steamy scenes. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Honey, it works. Grab a copy of E</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ngaging The Enemy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">J</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">anet Jackson; anytime, anyplace. Not only does she </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">writes it all </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">but she writes it well. She takes you from the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">past in her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eternally Tethered Series</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, to a futuristic world in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wonder.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She writes for any reader in mind. One of my favorites by CCJ is</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Love Notes</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. You can’t sleep on CCJ.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Beverly Jenkins</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">She is just that good. Her plots and characters will draw </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">you into </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">her lair, like a spider. She has managed to </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have received. You can catch her in a few genres. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Try reading </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Indigo </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Lace.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> You can thank me later. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">One of her books was made into a film by Siri Austin Entertainment. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The book and the movie are called </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Deadly Sexy.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> You can watch it on Amazon Prime.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Kennedy Ryan</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Great storyline and storytelling. Give the book a shot.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Deborah Mello</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I also enjoyed her new series on </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Harlequin Romantic Suspense line. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I think she should try her hat at audible books. I</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">f you place her on the same book with the guy who </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">reads for Alexandria House, honey, that would be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the book version of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fire and Desire.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Sing it ya’ll</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Baby, after reading </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Midnight Hour</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I almost purchased a pool table. She is a master </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of creating </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">family lines and book series. She makes the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">m connect </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in a style that is truly her own. One of her books from the </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Granger Series</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, is available on PassionFlix.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Brian Smith</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Brain’s plot twist will make you want to throw your </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Kindle across the room. He’s the champion of I did </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Cheris Hodges</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Cheris words come across like her personality; bold. This is a </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">no-nonsense sister. Therefore, you expect her books </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">have the same kick. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Betting on Love i</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">s a good read. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Also, tap into </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I Heard A Rumor</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Angie Daniels</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I have been rocking with the diva ever since she </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">characters on her covers. I love how her characters </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">pick them up and lay them down. I am a true fan of her </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Beaumont Series </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Careful of the Company You Keep.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">B Love</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">B Loves loves to explore relationships at their </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">best and worst. She does not stop until every </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">stone is uncovered. Her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Friends to Lovers</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> is a good series.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Jacquelin Thomas</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">She is a pioneer in African American Christian Fiction. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Several of her books are considered classics in the genre. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Don’t let the genre fool you. Some of her characters are no angels. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Take her character </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Jezebel. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">She is a hot mess. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">She has another book </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Poison Pen th</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">at villainess </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">is a big dose of evil</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Sherelle Greene</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Sherelle Greene's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Social Experiment Series</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> is funny and romantic. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">You will enjoy the characters and their adventures</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Carl Webber</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">He builds on characters that create unique worlds and voices of their own.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">So You Call Yourself A Man </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">always stands out to me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Vanessa Davis Griggs</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This powerhouse will give you a huge helping of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">i</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">mperfectly perfect people, looking for a road of redemption. Give her books a try.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ris Bolling</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">All things flow through the heart. If you know I</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ris Bolling’s books, honey you know that the heart </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">is constantly pumping and thumping, with each book. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">She gives you a five-course meal with each novel. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She has created alpha men that have attached their print on readers. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Women will hurt you for</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i> the Absolute. </i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">She also has </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">television projects streaming on Amazon. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rent or stream </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Heart Series</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Vanessa Miller</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Honey, get soaked in her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rain Series</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">. She is a “dancer” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">K’wan</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">His pen hustle pounds the pavement. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Keep your elbows on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the table, before his gritty characters </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">snatch </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">both of them. A lot of readers love the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Animal Series.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Kimberly Lawson Roby</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The if loving you is wrong, I don’t want to be right, Rev. Curtis Black. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This wildly popular series has several books. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">His family will make you appreciate your folks.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">JD Mason</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Her layered plot lines never get dull. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">On the Eighth She Rested</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> is a must-read.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Delaney Diamond</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">t</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">he best and worst that can happen when we fall in love. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From royalty to heartbroken rappers, she gives her pen it all. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Read about her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Latin Lovers</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Michelle Stimpson</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This writer is widely known for</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Boaz Brown</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">However, she had plenty of good books to add to your tbr list. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">She has also collaborated with some author authors for some nice reads.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Ac Arthur</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Can you say </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Donovans</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> boys and girls. AC has continued to keep her pen to the task of giving us characters </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">we don’t forget. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is full plates of great stories</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Suzetta Perkins</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Suzetta Perkins gives you books that provokes you to talk out loud. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Each of her characters have distinct personalities. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">She switches the script with every book.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Adrianne Byrd</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Time to get your laugh on... Ms. Byrd penned some </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">the funniest romance scenes in books. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I always looking f</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">orward to her </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">witty scenes and sassy characters. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I enjoyed those King’s boys.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Francis Ray</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Francis Ray was an icon in publishing. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I have personally reread many of her books. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">She gave her readers so much insight on characterization. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">She showed complexities in her writing while being able to keep </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the dialogue engaging. You felt like you knew t</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">he characters in her book. Pick any of her books.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Mary B. Morrison</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I hope you are hungry. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Mary B. Morrison’s books are a smorgasbord. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Read </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Total Eclipse of The Heart</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh, don’t get me started on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Afterburn.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">give you a good book. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Try reading </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Forbidden Man</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">You never who will turn up dead or related.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Sharon Cooper</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Banking On Love</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>By </b></span><b><br /></b><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Iris Bolling</b></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Grace-Heather always knew something was missing from her life. It never </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">occurred to her he was always a phone call away. Discovering love filled her heart </span></div>
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Satisfied with what he saw, he opened the door, allowing Myles to step out.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You are clear to walk in,” Michael Dunning’s voice came through the earwig Jerome was wearing. “Infra-scan shows two bodies and the boss is inside.”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jerome gave a slight nod. “Say what you have to say then we leave. Clear.”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Myles nodded. “Clear.”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It would be a lie if Myles said his nerves were not on edge. Dealing with the mob was not something he ever imagined he would have to do. Yet, he was here about to confront the man who was threatening to infiltrate his bank. No one gets to control the bank but a Dunning. His father did not allow it, and neither would he.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He stood back as Jerome opened the door then stepped inside. Myles followed.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the front of the building was the name Pavel & Sons Real Estate. The man he was meeting, Nikolai Pavlovsky, was the head of the Russian mob on the east coast. He had called ahead requesting the meeting, so they were expected. He decided, when this meeting was over, he was going to kill Walker Dunning Jr. with his bare hands. It was his stupidity that had them in this position.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Inside, the building looked like any other real estate office. Pictures of available properties were on the wall. Desks with files, computers, laptops and office supplies on top lined each side of the room. Since it was a midnight meeting, the place was empty of any employees. To their knowledge, there were three people other than them in the building. Pavlovsky and two body men.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Mr. Dunning,” a man from the back of the office called out. “Mr. Pavlovsky will see you now.” He held a door open that led to a back office.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I need to check that room before my man goes inside,” Jerome stated.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The man frowned. “That would be an insult to the boss.”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Jerome,” Myles interceded. “I am good.” He walked to the room.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At a large antique desk, a gentleman with dark hair, in his early or mid-fifties looked up as he walked in. Myles wasn’t sure what to expect, but he anticipated the person would be an older man, with a bald head and dangerous looking eyes. This man looked like any businessman Myles would be sitting across the table from on any given day. Nothing about the man screamed dangerous or sinister, yet Myles knew the man was not to be underestimated.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Mr. Pavlovsky.” He extended his hand. “My name is Myles Dunning. Thank you for seeing me on short notice. May I?” Myles pointed to the seat.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nikolai nodded his head. “Please.”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Thank you.” Myles took the seat in front of the desk. “My father was Hepburn Dunning, CEO of Dunning Bank and Trust. A few months ago he was murdered. I was voted in to head my organization. As the head of an organization when someone threatens my territory I have two choices. Stand my ground or give in. 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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Iris Bolling continues to garner local and global attention with her production company, Siri Austin Entertainment. To date, her company has produced one movie and two television series; </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Deadly Sexy, The Heart Season One, The Heart Season Two</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. She has a highly anticipated movie production, based on the work of the New York Times and USA Today Best Selling Author, Brenda Jackson. The project is slated to start production in October.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We all know that social media is a method to globally connect with people. Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Google + are all platforms that can used to directly engage with audiences. Yes, the platforms are free. However, it takes time management, emotional investment and at times, a few bucks to get your platform to the next level. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Relationships. Relationships. Relationships. Our world is built on relationships with other nations, businesses, and religions. Your social media presence is also built on the grounds of networking and building relationships. Connect with influencers and bloggers that share your same interest. Share, comment and like that post. Building relationships and networking with others is key to building your social media presence,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once you have been on Twitter for a minute, you will notice that people will place you on a different list, based on the content you have shared. Research who else is on that list. The people are generally influencers or experts in their perspective fields. That generally share helpful tips and insights that will help grow your brand. Sites such as <a href="http://twitlistmanager.com/">http://twitlistmanager.com/</a> can help you target your audience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>#Hashtag Your Way to Success</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Think of #hashtags as a method of organizing central content in social media land. Hashtags serve as a new wave search function. <span style="background-color: white;"> Basically, the use of them will help others find your content or post on social media, so using them for social media will help more people find your content on social media. How you strategically use them is the key to success. Let's look at a few facts. </span></span><br />
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<li><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Try using an emoji hashtag</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">for some fun on Twitter or Instagram</span></b></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Today’s Promotion Fear -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m Afraid To Try New Platforms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s so easy to stay in place
we feel comfortable with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You love FB,
you know how to work FB and you enjoy talking to your followers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Is time to step out of your
comfort zone and try a new platform.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That can be very scary and sometimes time consuming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I promise you it’s so worth it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">You are getting yourself and
your books in front of a new audience and hopefully new loyal supporters.</span></div>
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for trying a new platform.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Believe this a good thing for your promotion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Research the new platform.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Make sure it has the audience you want and
find out all the tricks and suggestions for making this a good place for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Be selective of who you follow and who follows
you on this new platform.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t just
follow everyone because you are trying to build up your following.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember my suggestion one reader at a
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You want a platform that is filled
with people who want to hear from you vs people who just want to build up their
following</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Find out what’s the best time to promote.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then create a schedule so you can make time
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Find out what kind of content works on the
platform – Images, quotes, sales, long or short posts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Now you don’t have to ROCK this
fear anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have these tips to
help you get ready to try something new with your promotion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I would like to invite you to
register for the Don’t ROCK Fear – Promotion Mindset 7 Day challenge and kick
fear in the butt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">This challenge is for writers,
business owners and anyone who is dealing with fear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t let fear ROCK You.
<a href="http://bit.ly/PM7Challenge">http://bit.ly/PM7Challenge</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">LaShaunda C. Hoffman took her love for books and turned it
into an award winning online magazine, Shades of Romance Magazine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her mission in life is to introduce as many
books as she can to readers. She’s happily married mother of three who believes
in dreams and working hard to achieve them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She has a promotion strategy program – Virtual Tea With LaShaunda where
writers and business owners learn how to create promotion strategies for their
online promotions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In 2015 she published her first book, Building Online
Relationships – One Reader At A Time. A book to help writers stay consistent
with their promotion by building relationships with their readers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Catch her online:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>lchwriter@gmail.com SORMAG - <a href="http://sormag.blogspot.com/">http://sormag.blogspot.com</a>, See Ya On The
Net, her personal site - <a href="http://lashaundahoffman.com/">http://lashaundahoffman.com</a> , Facebook
-<a href="http://facebook.com/lashaunda.hoffman">facebook.com/lashaunda.hoffman</a> or Twitter – sormag, Instagram –
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La Sheera Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379143566577260611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346916076050196886.post-76403387963702038832016-11-15T15:47:00.001-08:002016-11-15T15:47:24.905-08:00War Room Prayer Strategies Part II 11/15 by Read You Later | Religion Podcasts<a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/readyoulater/2016/11/16/war-room-prayer-strategies-part-ii#.WCuegLzYp-o.blogger">War Room Prayer Strategies Part II 11/15 by Read You Later | Religion Podcasts</a>: Michelle Stimpson the national bestselling, award-winning author of more than 40 books and 50 short stories. A former public school teacher, Michelle takes joy in teaching others through a good story. She and her husband are the thankful parents of two wonderful adult children. They also have one crazy dog (Mi-Mi) who loves to watch televangelists. When not writing or spending time with family, Michelle enjoys teaching classes, mentoring women as they grow spiritually, and she dabbles in graphic design. Visit Michelle online at MichelleStimpson.com.La Sheera Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379143566577260611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346916076050196886.post-63071763393837757292016-07-18T19:01:00.000-07:002016-07-18T19:01:03.107-07:00<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
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<b>BLESSEDselling Author E. N. Joy is the author behind the “New Day Divas,” “Still Divas,” “Always Divas” and “Forever Divas" series, all which have been coined “Soap Operas in Print.” She is an Essence Magazine Bestselling Author who wrote secular books under the names Joylynn M. Jossel and JOY. Her title, If I Ruled the World, earned her a book blurb from Grammy Award Winning Artist, Erykah Badu. An All Night Man, an anthology she penned with New York Times Bestselling Author Brenda Jackson, earned the Borders bestselling African American romance award. Her Urban Fiction title, Dollar Bill (Triple Crown Publications), appeared in Newsweek and has been translated to Japanese.</b></div>
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<b>After thirteen years of being a paralegal in the insurance industry, E. N. Joy divorced her career and married her mistress and her passion; writing. In 2000, she formed her own publishing company where she published her books until landing a book deal with St. Martin's Press. This award winning author has been sharing her literary expertise on conference panels in her home town of Columbus, Ohio as well as cities across the country. She also conducts publishing/writing workshops for aspiring writers.</b></div>
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<b>Her children’s book titled The Secret Olivia Told Me, written under the name N. Joy, received a Coretta Scott King Honor from the American Library Association. The book was also acquired by Scholastic Books and has sold almost 100,000 copies. Elementary and middle school children have fallen in love with reading and creative writing as a result of the readings and workshops E. N. Joy instructs in schools nationwide.</b></div>
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<b>In addition, she is the artistic developer for a young girl group named DJHK Gurls. She pens original songs, drama skits and monologues for the group that deal with messages that affect today’s youth, such as bullying.</b></div>
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<b>After being the first content development editor for Triple Crown Publications and ten years as the acquisitions editor for Carl Weber's Urban Christian imprint, E. N. Joy now does freelance editing, ghostwriting, write-behinds and literary consulting. Her clients have included New York Times Bestselling authors, entertainers, aspiring authors, as well as first-time authors. Some notable literary consulting clients include actor Christian Keyes, singer Olivia Longott and Reality Television star Shereé M. Whitfield.</b></div>
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La Sheera Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379143566577260611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346916076050196886.post-80380361310161982742016-07-12T07:09:00.000-07:002016-07-12T07:09:06.392-07:00Marriage In The Hot Seat: Free Fridays By Pat Tucker<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A provocative contemporary romance
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By day, Pat Tucker
works as a radio news director in Houston, Texas. By night, she is a talented
writer with a knack for telling page-turning stories. She is the author of
Somebody Has to Pay, The Cocktail Club, Sideline Scandals, Party Girl, Daddy’s
Maybe, Football Widows (soon to be a movie), Daddy by Default, and Lachez (an
original e-short). She is the coauthor with Earl Sewell of Loyalty Among
Friends and A Social Affair and has participated in three anthologies,
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La Sheera Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379143566577260611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346916076050196886.post-10254495870587291552016-05-10T11:04:00.000-07:002016-05-10T11:04:56.343-07:00Can You Handle The Truth?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tumika Patrice Cain is an award-winning author, media personality, publisher, founder of Say What?? Book Club and motivator. Through her written and verbal expressions, Tumika aims to encourage, empower and uplift others to live their best, most authentic life. Through her weekly radio show, Living Abundantly with Tumika Patrice Cain, she offers practical methods to identify mindsets, patterns, and behaviors that interfere with one's ability to live the abundant life, as presented in John 10:10. An advocate for indie authors, Tumika works tirelessly to level the playing field between traditional publishers, traditionally published authors and indie authors, providing a myriad of opportunities to train, coach, promote and expose the works of authors who excel in the literary arts and who are serious about their craft. She is also the host of Say What?? Author Spotlights and In the Spotlight internet radio shows.Her works can be found in a number of anthologies, blogs, and publications. She is also a columnist and book reviewer for PEN'Ashe Magazine. Sharon Lucas Sharon Richardson Lucas ~ a retired wife, mother, grandmother, avid reader, book club president and event plannner can now add the coveted title 'Published Author' to her list of accomplishments and cross it off her Bucket List. Please click on the links below to read more about Sharon's journey!La Sheera Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379143566577260611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346916076050196886.post-74102338751229986202016-04-19T08:36:00.001-07:002016-04-19T08:36:54.276-07:00Are You Ready For The Truth? The Book of Jacquie<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 22.4px;"><b>I love me! Say it with me: I love me, myself and I … There is nothing like loving yourself. It is not a narcissistic kind of love, but the kind that God created in us. God is love and He created us in His own image. However, there are some of us who do not believe that we are loved. If we ask ourselves, how can we not love ourselves? We have to ignore the voice in our head—you know the one. The one that is quick to recite a list of reasons why we should place our focus on self-hate. I have often wondered how many times have I offended God by self-loathing. Imagine your son or daughter coming to you and saying, “I wish I were born white or didn’t have hair like this. I look ugly this way …” It would break my heart to hear my children say something like this. God allows us to go through life’s challenges to build our character. It was God who spoke my worth into my spirit and opened my eyes to the person He created in me. Because of my experiences growing up, I worked hard to build my children up—I showed them love instead of loathing. I encouraged them to value themselves above all else and to demand respect. I also taught them to respect others. I will not pretend to have it all together because there are still life lessons to be learned. However, I can share what I have learned so far and that is if I want others to see my value and worth as the daughter of a King—I have to first recognize her when I look at my reflection in the mirror.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 22.4px;"><b>There are people who thrive on making themselves seem more superior than others. They boast and brag on just about everything. And of course, they live perfect lives and nothing bad ever happens to them… It’s not Halloween so just remove the masks. Your life in your “mansion” is no better than the life of a person living on the streets. Sure you may be surrounded by expensive furnishings and not a cardboard box, but in the grand scheme of things is that the fabulous house you live in may be filled with hell and plagued with unhappiness. That wonderful spouse you want the world to believe you have—you know the one you boast nonstop about—he probably is a serial cheater, a liar, an abuser, gambler, etc. You get my point. He may not be as perfect as you’d like everyone to think. It’s okay to want to share your happiness but check your motives. Is it a testimony or a chance to say: my life is better than yours… Your true friends love you whether you live in a mansion or a mobile home. I get so tired of being around women who feel the need to pull out a measuring stick. “I just bought the new and it cost a thousand dollars. Blah, blah, blah.” “Look at why my just insisted I had to have. I simply can’t live in a house less than five thousand square feet. I mean, coming from this house, what would our friends think?” Who really cares? I live my life for me. I can only be myself The Book of Jacquie and if being me offends you…then you have a decision to make because I’m not going to put on a mask of who you think I should be or how I should act. Wearing masks are exhausting. It’s so much more freeing to just be you. If God has blessed you richly, enjoy it and remain humble. Let it be a testimony to God’s goodness. Do not use your blessings to lord it over others or to make yourself seem superior. You may be stepping in high cotton now, but eventually, the season may change. The most important thing to take away from this is that nobody really cares where you live, what you drive or what you wear—at least not the people who truly care for you anyway. And as for that perfect marriage of yours—I pray it is truly everything you say it is, but if it is not then I suggest you spend less time bragging and more times on bended knee in pray</b></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Jacquelin Thomas is an award winning, best selling author with 50+ titles published. Her books have garnered several awards, including two EMMA awards, the Romance In Color Reviewers Award, Readers Choice Award and the Atlanta Choice Award in the Religious & Spiritual category. Jacquelin was a 2005 honoree at the Houston Black Film Festival for the movie adaptation of her novel, Hidden Blessings. She was the first recipient to receive the Writers Achievement Award at the North Carolina Book Festival in Winston-Salem. She also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Romantic Times Magazine.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Jacquelin has published in the romance, women's fiction, inspirational and young adult genres. Her second book in the YA series, Divine Confidential was nominated for a 2008 NAACP Image Award. Jacquelin is the publishing manager of Jacquelin Thomas Presents, an imprint of Brown Girls Publishing.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Jacquelin is happily married to her best friend and is the proud mother of three children. Jacquelin and her family live in North Carolina.</b></span></div>
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fairytales, proved over time to be just that – fairytales. After what she feels has been “a lifetime” of
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Gorgeous,
artsy and charismatic was the man who Jacquie’s eyes fell upon, causing her
heart to beat in a rhythm she’d forgotten existed. Michael was more than enough man to make her
lose herself inside dreams of a future interwoven with the very fabric of all
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major problem for Jacquie’s overbearing mother.
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married, has no children and has given up hope that it will ever happen for
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herself in love. And what was funniest of all was how different he was than
what she’d always thought she wanted or been told she should want. He was
twelve years her junior, but more man than anyone who had ever come before him.
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Sweet. Attentive. Strong, but not overbearing. All things cool. So opposite of
her in many ways, yet so like her in many ways that mattered. It was a perfect
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vibrancy about him that instantly caused everything in her to perk up and take
notice. He made her want to wear bright colored clothing and flowers in her
hair. Big hoop earrings and sexy sandals to show off blood red toenails and
fresh pedicures. This was such a huge shift for her. Always prone to muted
colors and conservative clothing, she had been raised to subdue everything
about herself, almost to the point of extinction of her authentic self. At
times she didn't quite know what to make of the changes taking place in her
life. When it became scary, she urged herself to press on pass the fear. This
was such a great time to be alive, and for the first time in her life, she
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but she hadn’t realized how much of a drag her life was until being in his
presence made her feel so alive. Made her wonder how long had she been walking
around half dead just waiting on someone to breathe life into her. Well,
whatever he had, made her spirit soar high above the clouds. In his presence,
she became a bird; free to roam, to fly unhindered, to just be. He was the key
that unlocked the cage she’d lived in her entire life. Suddenly, she felt years
younger. Almost how the teenage years should have been if she hadn’t been so
bogged down with responsibilities and pressures. Finally, she felt like other
girls looked: youthful, carefree, lovely. She was loving every minute of it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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personality were still very much alive and at work. What was different was a
newness to get out from under the mundane and do something…anything!…new. This
new found state put her in a place where she could dream again. Come to think
of it, she couldn’t remember the last time she’d dreamed about doing anything.
Clueless as to how to change her life, the dreams slowly faded away like the
last refrain of a song. Repeat, repeat, then fade, fade, fade until finally it
was gone. Over. Finito. That’s what happened to Jacquie. Her dreams had died
into the empty pause that lives between songs. He was her new song.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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would start with a fresh hairdo. The signature wrap, although lovely and
perfectly coiffed, would have to go. Surely she could find some sort of
sweeping updo that could be versatile enough for both day and night, work and
play. Until the right look came along, Jacquie found herself really studying
the looks of other women who had some of what she felt being birthed in her
spirit. That’s what made her decide to finally let the soft coral nail color go
in search of something vibrant and popping. Yep….fire engine red. How about
that?! She found a similar color for her lips, as well as a plum, bronze and a
translucent shade to switch up her looks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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next. Flirty skirts, fitted tops, and big belts replaced stiff suits and
pleated pants. And for leisure, she went all out. Wide-legged pants, fitted
jeans, long tops, high heeled boots, funky jewelry. She was absolutely loving
this transformation. Her new colors were extreme. Orange, fuchsia, lime green,
hot pink, reds, plums, emeralds, bronze, cobalt – even in the winter. A host of
jewel tones to help celebrate her new found Queendom. Yes, it was high time a
daughter of royalty looked like one. She had been a King’s kid living beneath
her privilege for far too long.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Patrice Cain is an award-winning author and media personality whose works center
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friends to the readers. She is also the founder of Say What?? Book club, book
reviewer, contributing writer for The Belief Magazine, and former
columnist/book reviewer for PEN'Ashe Magazine. Her works center around the
complexities of the human experience and in uplifting the spirit. An assignment
for a second grade class sparked her interest in writing that would quickly
become her raison d'etre. As an educator, she wholeheartedly believes that each
one should reach one; each one should teach one. Tumika is also a respected editor
and publisher. When she is not writing, she may be found teaching writer's
workshops, blogging, volunteering, and otherwise beautifying the world around
her. She is the author of the award winning novel, When a Man Loves a Woman: A
Season of Change; After the Rain...a Poetry Collective; and The Heart of a
Woman: Poetry, Short Stories & Tekaisms. Book 2 of the When a Man Loves a
Woman series will be released in April 2016. Her works have been published in a
number of anthologies, magazines and periodicals. You may follow her on
Facebook: Tumika Patrice Cain and on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest &
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>A sassy novel that takes you on a journey.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Will a forty-year-old woman with everything on the line – her high-stakes career, ticking biological clock, bank account – risk it all for an intensely lusty secret romance with the one person who could destroy her comeback, for good?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Jenna Jones, former It-girl fashion editor, is broke and desperate for a second chance. When she’s dumped by her longtime fiancé and fired from </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Darling</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> magazine, she begs for a job from her old arch nemesis, Darcy Vale. The publisher of StyleZine.com, Darcy agrees to hire her rival – only because her fashion site needs a jolt from Jenna’s old school cred. But Jenna soon realizes she’s in over her head. She’s working with digital-savvy millennials half her age, has never even “Twittered,” and pretends to still be a Fashion Somebody while living a style lie (she sold her designer wardrobe to afford her sketched-out studio, and now quietly wears Walmart’s finest). Worse? The twenty-two-year-old videographer assigned to shoot her web series is driving her crazy. </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>The Refectory had once been a dorm for monks, and looked it. Elodie had taken </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>advantage of the gothic, cathedral-esque space by going for an "Eyes Wide Shut" vibe with the decor. Billowing, sheer white curtains sectioned off six separate areas - each with its own bar. Crimson candles dripped on to every surface, massive gold chandeliers hung from the arched ceilings; and overstuffed purple velvet chaises were arranged in darkened, sexy corners. As was custom with any event where models were the centerpiece, there were men everywhere.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>The book party's crowd was a sampling from every scene, a perfect storm of NYC nightlife. The Weekend and Drake were blaring - but no one was dancing, except for the guest of honor's fellow Victoria's Secret models (who had allowed their lingerie to be used for the canine portraits in the gauche photography book everyone was celebrating). Posed in clusters throughout were their boy-model counterparts, dressed in lumberjack shirts and reeking of Parliaments and Bushwick boredom. Holding court at the bar were the Suits, who kept the scene going by financing most of Elodie's celebrity pet projects.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Hovering above the crowd was a handful of NBA and NFL stars, who were a must at these things, because both the models and the Suits appreciated them. And then there were a few chic hookers (these were for the Suits too charmless to score a model). Weaving throughout were bespectacled, indie-cute journalists on the arts/lifestyle beat, and young fashion girls, who were as sexy as the models, but short and poor. Jenna hadn't been in the room for two seconds before her best friend grabbed her arm.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"I found you a man," said Elodie, who'd spent the last twenty minutes shirking her event-planning duties to play matchmaker for Jenna. "All I know is he went to Yale and he's a radiologist. He's walking toward us now."</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"Wait! I'm not ready..."</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"You haven't had sex since the Bush administration. You're ready." She shoved a glass of champagne at Jenna.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"Dialo Banin! This is Jenna Jones. Jenna, this good man has been dying to meet you. Talk amongst yourselves, while I go bounce a few VH1 reality show whores." With that rushed introduction, Elodie dashed off into the crowd. Dialo stood in front of Jenna, affixing her with a brilliant white smile. He was wearing an achingly expensive suit, a tangerine day scarf arranged just so, and aviators. Indoors. At night.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"So...what were your other two wishes?"</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"I'm sorry?"</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"Where's your sense of humor, hon?" he asked, smiling. "It was an icebreaker."</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"Oh! Well, ice broken." Coming from this man, with his florid accent, in that getup, the "wishes" line sounded like a come-on that Truman Capote would've delivered at a dude disco in Vegas.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"Would you like to sit down?"</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"I'd love to," she said, making a mental note to destroy Elodie for this. Dialo touched her elbow and led her over to an itty-bitty reserved cocktail table flanked by two high-backed, wrought iron chairs. He sat back in his chair, stretching out his legs. There was now no room for her under the table, so she wrapped her ankles around her chair legs, like a schoolgirl. Nervous, she folded her hands in her lap, and then accidentally lasered-in on Dialo's burgundy velvet YSL slippers. Jenna understood exactly who Dialo was. He was one of those fake-flashy Euro neo-dandies who hung "WC" signs on the bathroom doors in their Murray Hill rentals.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"I have to admit, I'm not a book enthusiast. But I'm glad I came," he said, stroking his chin. "You're lucky to be here."</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"I know, it's a great party."</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"No, I mean you're lucky to be here. With me. I don't usually date black women. But when I Googled you on my phone, I had to make an exception."</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"Huh. But you're black. Why don't you..." She stopped talking, because she noticed that Dialo wasn't even looking at her. He peered over her shoulder. She darted her eyes in that direction, and saw a group of twenty-year-olds in tiny dresses - the knockoff version of hers.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>An hour before, Jenna had felt a degree of excitement while getting dressed for her first night out since returning to New York. She'd almost felt like a dewy-eyed recent college grad, heading out for a naughty night of club-hopping</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>and hopefully getting pawed by a baby Leo DiCaprio in VIP. But her options were no longer limitless. She was decades older, and being ignored by a fancypants douche she wasn't even attracted to.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"I'm black," he continued, "but not American black like you. I'm from Ghana via London. And relax, I just find white women to be more easygoing."</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"Ohhh, you're one of those." Jenna swirled her straw in her drink, trying to figure out how to lose this bozo. "But I'm clearly black, so why are you here?"</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"I do enjoy some biracial women, which is what I figured you were from your pictures. So you get a pass, love." He cackled.</b></span></div>
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reluctant participant in a bet that she can’t complete initiation. Chanel, an
honor student from a low-income neighborhood, is looking to secure her status
among Moreland’s rich kids. Anna Maria, who is struggling to lose weight, sees
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Nicole J. Knight is an educator and multi-genre author. She
is a proud graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana, where she majored in
English and minored in Spanish. She is a successful educator, and has been
recognized as a campus Teacher of the Year and as a finalist for Teacher of the
Year in her school district. Her experience educating tweens and teenagers is
one of the reasons she decided to focus on young adult fiction. Her first young
adult full-length manuscript, Sapphires Social Club: Initiation, explores the
lives of four teenage girls vying for a spot on their high school’s most
popular social club. Most recently, she completed three manuscript outlines for
a Canadian publisher. The outlines resulted in three published novels about the
ins-and-outs of high school cheer-leading. Currently, Nicole resides in North
Texas, where she is hard at work on her next manuscript.<o:p></o:p></div>
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La Sheera Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05379143566577260611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346916076050196886.post-76686105365257288702016-03-29T06:44:00.001-07:002016-03-29T06:44:08.290-07:00Do You Want To Live In The Shadows<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Death forces a reserved biology
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When Mariah St. Cloud becomes a full-fledged
member of the walking wounded, she shuts down. She’s learned that men are born
heartbreakers, so the biology professor makes work her lover instead. It’s
dependable and won’t leave the toilet seat up. But the untimely death of her
beautiful, estranged sister Allegra kicks Mariah’s predictable life to the curb,
and brings ex-cop Anthony Caine into her everyday existence – intense,
protective and far too handsome for her self-imposed celibacy.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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to tumble Mariah’s reserve like the walls of Jericho and keep her safe. Mariah
just wants him out of her hair – even as she stands in the deadly shadow of
Allegra’s secrets.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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1998, right before Christmas and just before an ice storm hit and she hasn’t
moved yet. Thanks to her parents, Dana was an avid reader at a young age. Her
mother changed her reading habits when Dana was thirteen by giving her a
historical romance novel. In one week, Dana went from reading Nancy Drew to
adult fiction and she never looked back. When she was seventeen, she told her
father she wanted to write books. He said, “Go ahead.” She’s been writing ever
since. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Heat was published in 2005. Allegra’s Shadow is her first romantic suspense.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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slam dunked his career into second gear with the grand opening of his hot new
gym in Boulder, Colorado. But his excitement is tempered when his estranged
twin brother, MMA title holder Zachary "The Hammer" Barrett returns
home from Thailand. Alex has never forgiven Zach for marrying his college
sweetheart. And while they're now divorced, his bitterness lingers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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brother, but when his personal assistant and trainer, Sarai Montri, arrives,
their rivalry is soon reignited. Highly educated, not to mention gorgeous, the
former Miss Thailand captivates Alex for the first time since his heartbreak.
But Sarai's devotion to Zach only stirs up the past. Will the brothers'
competitive natures tear them apart once more--with Sarai caught in the middle?
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four, bronze-colored, shower heads, the hot water like little piercing needles
against his skin. His body hurt, and the heated shower massaging his muscles
was welcomed. His early morning workout had been a bear, but the exercise was
needed to alleviate the anxiety that had been with him since the grand opening
of Champs. As he thought about the hard work and effort that had gone into
creating and building his dream gym facility, he wanted to smile but didn’t
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he were honest, he didn’t see that changing any time soon. Thoughts of his
brother and the woman who’d called the man her friend flooded his mind.
Alexander hadn’t been able to stop thinking of either, imagining the
unfathomable. How was it possible that his twin had gotten to another woman
who’d caught his eye, the two actually living together? For a brief moment he’d
been excited at the prospect of taking her to dinner to get to know more about
her. There was something about Sarai Montri that he couldn’t quite put a name
to that had him curious, and Zachary had once again beaten him to the punch. It
felt like high school, and college, all</span> over again.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her first novel, TAKE ME TO HEART,
earned her a 2004 Romance Slam Jam nomination for Best New Author. In 2005 she
received Book of the Year and Favorite Heroine nominations for her novel THE
RIGHT SIDE OF LOVE. In 2008, Deborah won the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice
award for Best Series Romance for her ninth novel, TAME A WILD STALLION. With
the release of her second literary work, GRAYE in 2012 and her fifteenth
romance novel, PASSIONATE PREMIERE in 2013, Deborah knows that there are no
limits to her writing career.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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many career paths have included working as a retail buyer and size model for a
national women's clothing chain, a finance manager for a well-known beverage
organization, a sales manager for an infamous candy company, a
telecommunications administrator and corporate trainer for a hotel-owning
company, an art gallery director for a world-renowned artist, and an
administrative consultant for multiple organizations throughout the United
States. Deborah is also a licensed real estate broker and general building
contractor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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to be wherever the moment moves her.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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