“Being Mary Jane” is a Black Entertainment Television (BET) show created by Mara Brock Akil, which stars Gabrielle Union as Mary Jane Paul. It centers around an African American journalist and her struggles as a black woman, a career woman, and a single woman. All of these struggles are challenging in and of themselves, but when combined, they […]
Neon Houses, the book I’m working on, is politically motivated. No, I’m not a politician, never have been, and I should know better than to try to write something I don’t know about, but it’s too tempting to resist. The book will be YA or New Adult, I haven’t decided yet. While it’s nearly finished, there […]
Right about now I can imagine that some members are thinking they could have used that Member of the Month spot. You actually have a book to promote! All I have is a blog that I work at only sometimes. I blogged in an earlier post that Rave Reviews Book Club brought me back to […]
I was still very young when I took that picture in the Captain’s Hat. I thought, incorrectly, that 40 and older was a little dusty—not like the youthful, dewy 40, 50, and 60’s of today. I had gone to Sears with my daughters, who were nine and four at the time, and I’d been lured […]