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For this month’s Author Spotlight, MRN is doing something a little different. Instead of featuring one author for June, MRN is hosting 4Writers4Love and their just released anthology, today in fact, Because My Heart Said So – A Friend-to-Lovers Collection. ?If you don’t know who 4Writers4Love are?yet, you will…
Truly I haven’t been this excited since I published my first book, Sticky Moon, eighteen months ago. The collaboration that I’ve been working on with some of my favorite writers for the last two months has finally been accomplished and is now available for PRE-ORDER on Amazon and set to release on June 15th. Because … More SAMPLE SUNDAY: Because My Heart Said So
It’s been a minute since Jacinta Howard’s USA Today Must-Read book Happiness in Jersey hit bookshelves and Jersey and Zay stole our hearts. I picked up the book when it first came out but I waited to read it the way some savor a great dessert ’cause I just knew I’d love it and I was not wrong. … More What comes after Happiness in Jersey?
One of my recent reading pleasures has been checking out Chicki Brown’s Stafford Brothers series. I’m excited to say that her latest is out and by all accounts it’s another hit. Fifth in this wonderful family series, I Want You Back, features the youngest Stafford brother, Nick. Synopsis I Want You Back: Cherilyn Vernon had been dating … More Chicki Brown’s I Want You Back.
Today is release day for the Women: Withstanding All Anthology, which features short stories from fourteen women authors whose work spans the spectrum from urban fiction, to romance, to women’s fiction; and also spans the different stages of women’s lives, from childhood to maturity. The unifying theme is that it features women, persevering. And here … More Women: Withstanding All Release Day!
It was two and a half years ago that I turned on my Kindle to hunker down and read the novel Unsuitable Men. Little did I know that I was beginning a passionate admiration for a writer whose voice seems to magically coexist rhythmically and figuratively with the inner voice in my head. And now … More Women: Withstanding All/Meet Nia Forrester
Day two of my introductions to the authors of the anthology Women: Withstanding All gives me immense pleasure because I so appreciate all this particular woman has to offer as a writer and a mentor. Out of respect I sometimes call her Ms. M but I think I also have the great honor of calling … More Women: Withstanding All/Meet Angelia Vernon Menchan
Note: Today is the one year anniversary of the death of my late husband M. I’ve been trying to think of a way to acknowledge him on this day without being too maudlin. I’d also like to do it in a way he would have liked and still share our lives together in a way that I … More M. Stories: The Proposal
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