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JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview
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Barbara Grovner, author of We Belong Together
(Third Eye Publishing)

Step into the mind boggling world of Mavis Rollins, a woman who wants her granddaughter to marry Makai Wilson, the grandson of the wealthy woman who stole her very own husband back in the day. While raising her granddaughter Sandy, she [...]

Urban Lit is DEAD! by Joey Pinkney
Yep, I said it… Urban Lit is dead. Done. Finito.
Flatline…
Who am I to say that? I don’t have the same status in the Urban Lit industry as Nas has when he said the same thing for his music. I don’t have to. I read a lot of Urban Lit, [...]

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JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview
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Portia Cosby, author of Too Little, Too Late
(Distinct Publishing)

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Tameka James has always been a confident, outspoken, strong-willed woman with her one weakness being her ex-boyfriend, TJ. That weakness soon becomes the catalyst to a new life of [...]

JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview
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Barbara Grovner, author of Even Numbers
(Third Eye Publishing)

(click on the pictures to buy this book from Amazon)
Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the idea and inspiration to write Even Numbers?
Barbara Grovner: The inspiration to write Even Numbers came from a very close person in my life who had [...]

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Queen is the debut novel from one of Triple Crown Publications’ newest authors, Cynthia White. The namesake of this alluring novel is daddy’s little girl. Queen’s daddy just happens to be Hershey Aaron, the Boss of St. Louis’ most powerful organization, the Black Mafia.
The murder of her unfaithful mother sends Hershey to death row and [...]

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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 [...]

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