From time to time, people have asked how I feel about the lack of white readers reading African American books. Almost always my response is a shrug of the shoulders while my mother’s voice plays in my head, “One monkey don’t stop no show.” Now before everyone get all up in arms I’m not calling [...]

Sorry, byrdies. I had to disappear for a little while. My producer partner and I have been busy filming our first short film. It’s a wonderful little comedy called THE CONVENIENCE STORE written by Michelle Auda. We’re both so excited. We have a couple of more days of shooting and then the project is off [...]

Despite my cynical nature, I really am a believer in love. I am a romance writer, after all. And in a world where it seems that Cupid is M.I.A., it does my heart good to see some couples stick it through thick and thin. Bill and Camille Cosby are such a couple. Regardless of Bill’s [...]

Whenever I finish one project usually it’s time to start on another one. However, it’s not always easy to dive right in and start creating another world, new characters and whole new set of circumstances. The problem isn’t that you don’t have oodles and oodles of ideas–far from it. In fact, ideas for new stories [...]