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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Suzetta Perkins, author of In My Rearview Mirror

by Joey Pinkney on May 20, 2013

JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview
5 Minutes, 5 Questions With…
Suzetta Perkins, author of In My Rearview Mirror
(Strebor Books/Simon & Schuster)

Margo Myles is over 40 and giving birth to twins. But she doesn’t know who the father is – her soon to be ex-husband, Jefferson, or one-time fling, Malik Mason.

Malik is running for a political office and unbeknownst to Margo and Jefferson, Malik is also getting ready to marry their daughter. Scandal and politics seem to make perfect bedfellows as evidenced by the bizarre triangle mother and daughter find themselves – fueled by Malik’s desire to possess political power, an heir and a woman to call his own.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write “In My Rearview Mirror”?

Suzetta Perkins: “In My Rearview Mirror” is the third and final installment in my Behind the Veil series. In this novel, I wanted to bring the Myles’ family full circle and hopefully iron out some of the wrinkles of the past. [click to continue…]

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Ben Burgess, Jr., author of Monster

by Joey Pinkney on May 18, 2013

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With…
Ben Burgess, Jr., author of Monster
(Wasteland Press)

“Monster” begins with Ken Ferguson, a guy in his twenties, that is put through the wringer growing up in a dysfunctional family. As an adult, his heart and ego are ripped to pieces when his girlfriend. He thought she was “the one”, but she emasculates him and dumps him for a bad boy.

Ken begins his transformation. Fueled by anger and being tired of the “nice guy” routine, Ken drowns himself in one-night stands, threesomes, affairs with married women, and sleeping with one conquest after another. He adopts the philosophy of having no commitment and no attachments, but he meets his match with Ashley.

Ashley makes him want to stop his promiscuous ways, but she turns out to do even more damage to his ego and his heart, wounding him deeply. With his philosophy reinforced, Ken spirals out of control and becomes a MONSTER.

Sleeping with and mistreating random women he meets at bars and clubs, Ken uses sex to forget about his insecurities, his anger and his sadness. He becomes a predator that uses and abuses women to no consolable end.

Will Ken learn to let go of his heartbreaks, or will he be consumed by them and continue to be a MONSTER?

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write “Monster”?

Ben Burgess Jr.: The poem “Ugly” from my first published book “Times Have Changed and Life is Strange” is the poem that inspired me to write “Monster”.When I was writing that poem, I reflected on my life and felt this would be a good story that would teach and possible change people’s lives. [click to continue…]

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Curtis Edmonds, author of Rain on Your Wedding Day

May 14, 2013

JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Curtis Edmonds, author of “Rain on Your Wedding Day” (Scary Hippopotamus Books) “Rain on Your Wedding Day” is a modern Southern Gothic novel about one family’s tragic past and the consequences that it holds for their future. Five years ago, Will Morse was arrested and charged with [...]

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Greatest Poet Alive, author of Revenge of the Orgasm

May 9, 2013

JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Greatest Poet Alive, author of “Revenge of the Orgasm” (GPA Media, Inc.) “Revenge of the Orgasm” is an erotic autobiography. It has all of the elements of a “tell all”, but it contains the discretion of a gentleman, speaking only of himself and his exploits but not [...]

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Kennedee Devoe, author of Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right…It Makes Us Even

May 6, 2013

JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Kennedee Devoe, author of Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right…It Makes Us Even (Pink Kiss Publishing) “Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right…It Makes Us Even” details my shocking past: good, bad, and ugly, along with dating relationships and all the life lessons I learned in between. Joey [...]

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Larry Benjamin, author of Damaged Angels

May 2, 2013

JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Larry Benjamin, author of “Damaged Angels” (Beaten Track) “Damaged Angels” is my first collection of short fiction. The stories give voice to the invisible, the damaged: the drug addicts and hustlers, the mentally ill and the sick and the questioning and the men who fall in love [...]

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Dyphia, author of “Dicmatized: The Doctor Is In”

April 29, 2013

JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Dyphia, author of “Dicmatized: The Doctor Is In” (Gemini Phoenix Publications LLC) Dr. Lenese Stringfield Puts the “Sex” in Sex Therapy as she takes the profession by storm with her new and innovative techniques. Her seductive nature and sexy demeanor has her clients eating out of the [...]

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… V. Brown, author of I Am Her, The Mistress

April 26, 2013

JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… V. Brown, author of “I Am Her, The Mistress” (G Street Chronicles) “I Am Her, The Mistress” is about a chick named Tyquasia “Ty” Roberts who is a good girl turned mistress. She was born and raised in Miami, Florida. Ty finds out some secrets about her [...]

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Arthur J Gonzalez, author of The Photo Traveler

April 24, 2013

JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Arthur J Gonzalez, author of The Photo Traveler (Fahrenheit Publishing) Seventeen-year-old Gavin Hillstone is resigned to being miserable for the rest of his life. Left alone in the world after his parents died in a fire when he was four, he was placed in foster care. This [...]

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Desiree Future, author of The Pastor’s Heart

April 21, 2013

JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Desiree Future, author of “The Pastor’s Heart” (Self Published) Sinclair Madison is the workaholic owner of Aged Out of Foster Care, Inc., an agency that helps former foster kids now aged-out of the system. After spending many years building her business, she ignored her love life because [...]

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