 Winner of the 2009
African-American Literaray Award for "Best Short
Stories/Best Anthology"
featuring Joey Pinkney's short story "Like Father, Like Son" |
I remember when I was a child I would complete my work and commence to harassing everyone else that hadn’t. As a result my mother would be contacted, and I would be reprimanded for my mischief. Eventually my mother grew weary of the constant phone calls, so she instructed my teachers to send me to [...]
JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Latin Temptress, author of The Encounter (LT Publishing) Caught between two worlds: her husband yields great power but her lover promises true love. In losing her heart to one man and her soul to another, Bella finds herself. Will she triumph or will it be too late? [...]
EveryDay Life by MG Hardie (Llumina Press) 4 out of 5 Stars EveryDay Life, by MG Hardie, is a snapshot of African-Americana. This book can make you shudder because of its harshness and nod because of the universal truths. Many of the verbal exchanges between the characters are the same ones I experienced with the [...]
Precious Love, author of A Mother’s Cry and Jailed By Blood: Inmate 798175: Ever since I was 9-years old, I had a knack for sketching. I used to make my own children’s books by making up story lines and sketching my own pictures. I would staple the drawings together and make my own book. I [...]
JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… CJ Domino, author of Who Does She Think She Is? A Girlfriend’s Guide to Surviving a Breakup Before She Has a Breakdown (Slightly Ghetto Books) Who Does She Think She Is? A Girlfriend’s Guide to Surviving a Breakup Before She Has a Breakdown is my own personal [...]
Yasmin Shiraz, author of Retaliation. My parents took turns reading to me when I couldn’t read myself. One would sit on the edge of the bed and read Cinderella stories and bedtime tales. As soon as I could read, one of the first words that I remember is the word, “mine.” Books were mine. And [...]
JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Brian McClellan, author of A Love Letter to Black People: Audaciously Hopeful Thoughts on Race and Success (Sherian Publishing) A Love Letter to Black People: Audaciously Hopeful Thoughts on Race and Success is a book sure to challenge and inspire those who have this type of deep [...]
Darnyelle A. Jervey, author of If You Understood My Past, You Would Understand My Praise: My love for writing began at the age of ten, when through my first journal. I learned to love the possibility that words could empower and encourage others. I can recall countless teachers and school volunteers reading stories that colored my [...]
JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Precious Love aka Quiet Storm, author of Jailed By Blood: Inmate 798175 (AuthorHouse) Obtaining the establishment of being an author, Precious Love (a.k.a. Quiet Storm) has ventured out into the world of writing autobiographies about herself as well as others. These autobiographies can range from battered men/women, [...]
Books were always something that were in my life. My mother was an avid reader and it was something she passed on down to me. I remember reading Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary books in elementary school. I truly enjoyed reading. To me, it’s an escape into another world. Kisha Green the author absolutely! I [...]
