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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Precious Love, author of Jailed by Blood: Inmate 798175

Posted on March 22nd, 2009 in 5 minutes 5 questions with, african american author, african american authors, african american book, african american books, amazon.com, drugs, interview, love

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, [...]

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Michelle Larks, Author of The Legacies

Posted on January 30th, 2009 in 5 minutes 5 questions with, african american author, african american authors, african american book, african american books, amazon.com, drugs, interview, love, myspace, romance

JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Michelle Larks, author of The Legacies (Urban Books/Kensington) The Legacies is a tale of two young people from very diverse backgrounds who meet and fall in love while attending college. Noah Stephens is a minister’s son, and Morgan is the daughter of a drug distributor. The two [...]

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Tremayne Johnson, author of A Drug Dealer’s Dream

Posted on December 12th, 2008 in 5 minutes 5 questions with, african american author, african american authors, african american book, african american books, drugs, interview, myspace, street lit, urban fiction, urban lit

JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Tremayne “GS” Johnson, author of A Drug Dealer’s Dream (Strip Kidz Entertainment) (click on the picture to see reviews of this book on Amazon.com) Take a walk with one of the most relentless drug kingpins to ever promenade the streets of New York: Ahmed Yung. His father [...]

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Joseph Henderson, author of I Don’t Want to Die Alone

Posted on December 05th, 2008 in 5 minutes 5 questions with, african american author, african american authors, african american book, african american books, criticism, drugs, interview

JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Joseph Henderson, author of I Don’t Want to Die All Alone (AuthorHouse) (click on the pictures to see reviews of this book on Amazon.com) Joseph, the sixth child of nine children, describes a sad but shockingly true story of growing up on the streets at a young [...]

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Moses Miller, author of The Trifling Times of… and The Game of Trife

Posted on November 18th, 2008 in 5 minutes 5 questions with, african american author, african american authors, african american book, african american books, amazon.com, drugs, interview, myspace, sequel, street lit

JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Moses Miller, author of Nan: The Trifling Times of Nathan Jones and Nan: The Game of Trife (Mind Candy Media) (click on the pictures to either go to see each book’s review on Amazon.com or to go to Mind Candy Media’s website) Nan: The Trifling Times of [...]

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Book Review: Torn by Keisha Ervin for Triple Crown Publications

Posted on May 20th, 2008 in african american author, african american authors, african american book, african american books, amazon.com, book review, book reviews, criticism, drugs, keisha ervin, sex, st louis, street lit, torn, triple crown publications, urban fiction, urban lit

(Hover cursor over book cover to see the Amazon.com prices.) Torn follows the bittersweet relationship between lovestruck Mo and eternal-playboy Quan. The line between right and wrong in their relationship is hazy because Mo and Quan have invested nearly a decade of love, time and money in each other. Although the fruits of Quan’s hustling [...]

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Say Word! My review got banned by Amazon.com!

Posted on May 14th, 2008 in african american author, african american authors, african american book, african american books, amazon.com, book review, book reviews, crave all lose all, criticism, customer service, drugs, erick s gray, hip hop, street lit, urban book source, urban fiction, urban lit

I knew it had to happen eventually. I mean, the realness I write is just too much for the mainstream to digest. Just kidding… Well, I usually post the my reviews on Amazon.com within 48 hours of submitting them to the websites I review for. So I sat for a couple of days after I [...]

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Yeah, but naaaah…

Posted on May 08th, 2008 in african american author, african american book, criticism, drugs, sex, street lit, urban lit, violence

On the heels of my last post, this is the same thing in reverse. Instead of lumping everything together because of a common denominator, black authors, Simmons Teen Reading writes about a librarian urging her colleagues keeping urban lit separated from the other books in the young adult section. I have to agree with the [...]

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