And the drums keep beating! Things are going incredibly well for LOVE IN A CARRY-ON BAG. It has been nominated for the 2013 QBR Wheatley Book Award for fiction. Would you believe that I’m in the same category as New York Times notable book award-winner Bernice McFadden and Pulitzer prize and Noble
Read more →Mega big news! My work is being published, again! I am one of the twenty-one authors featured in award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s new book The Motherhood Diaries. I know! It’s so crazy how things happen. I saw the jacket cover on Facebook one day and I sent ReShonda a
Read more →They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, and a long distance relationship is the epitome of that statement. I never thought this type of relationship would work, so I was reluctant to try it when the time came. I had recently moved to Philadelphia and transferred to a local
Read more →We met the summer of 95’, when I still felt cool enough to wear cut off shorts and my Daddy’s v-neck white tee, hair long and loose and very little make-up. Honey was from D.C. living in Philly. I was from Philly living in New York, and I just loved
Read more →LOVE IN A CARRY-ON BAG has won the 2012 USA Best Book award for African-American fiction! When I heard the news I ran through my house screaming at the top of my lungs, waking the children who were too happy to get out of the bed and do the two
Read more →My first guest blogger, an appearance by my Honey! Enjoy! I’m in charge of morning drop off. Every weekday at 7:40am I back out of my driveway loaded with our three children and three of the neighbors. The twenty-minute car ride is eventful to say the least, with our time
Read more →I have to choose between witnessing Middle Diva’s first gymnastic’s competition, or going to the Baltimore Book Festival and selling Love in a Carry-on Bag to a whole new market of book lovers. I have been in turmoil for the past two days over this decision. My stomach is twisted
Read more →I must be crazy for sharing Honey’s homemade behind the scene’s video with you, but since we are family, and because you have been with me for the entire ride, here it is! When I make the New York Times best-sellers list, we’ll all look back on this and laugh!
Read more →My girlfriend brought the Book of Questions with us on a week-long vacation. If you aren’t familiar with the book, it’s a small paperback with questions that are meant to be thought provoking and stimulate good conversation. We must have answered close to eighty questions during our time together, but
Read more →So I’m working on my next best-selling novel. I say that with affection because LOVE IN A CARRY-ON BAG has not become a best-seller, not yet. Since it’s release in March we’ve sold almost 2500 copies. Not bad, and the best-seller part is coming. I can feel it. In fact,
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