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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Odessa Rose, author of “Water In A Broken Glass”

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Odessa Rose, author of Water In A Broken Glass
(La Callie Nous Publishing, Inc.)

Meet Tonya Mimms, a talented sculpter who puts her artwork above and before everything including her thirst for love. One drizzly morning, she bumps into Malcolm Holland – a handsome accountant with a gap between his teeth. Later, Tonya meets Satin Pierce, a beautiful bookstore owner who has one of Tonya’s sculptures in her bedroom.

Soon Tonya becomes the centerpiece of a love triangle, in which she finds herself satisfied by a glass of love that she gulps freely and a glass from which she sips fearfully.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Water In A Broken Glass?

Odessa Rose: I was inspired to write Water In A Broken Glass because of a friend who was afraid to tell me that she was gay for fear I would no longer want to be her friend. In questioning what I did or said that would make her think this would be the case, the story’s main character Tonya Mimms popped in my head. Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Odessa Rose, author of “Water In A Broken Glass” →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Deep, author of “Naughty Girl: The Kya Chronicles”

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Deep, author of Naughty Girl: The Kya Chronicles
(Deep N Wet Publishing)

Some women go all their lives without knowing true, toe-curling passion. They’ve settled for safe and secure – instead of hard and deep. Not Kya…

Kya Garner has known for a long time that if she wanted to be pleased right she had to take the matter into her own hands – literally. She also knows how to go after whom and what she wants and who she wants right now is Ray. Ray is off limits, and so are a few others that have caught this naughty girl’s eye.

Follow Kya’s escapades in this hot erotica tale by Deep.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Naughty Girl: The Kya Chronicles?

Deep: I was inspired by my experiences as a young woman and also by the secret desires of many women who want to be sexually free and also thoroughly satisfied. Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Deep, author of “Naughty Girl: The Kya Chronicles” →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Aja, author of “I Am Yours”

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Aja, author of I Am Yours
(She Loves Words Publishing)

Amara Harper has a problem: Noah Farrington. Well, not exactly. I mean, he is the love of her life. Passion-filled days and nights are all she can think about when she is close to him. But, so is fear. Fear of him taking her heart and ripping it to pieces, so she decides that leaving him and his love for her is the best thing for her.

But love is a mercurial thing. It has a way of pulling back up to you when you think you have deserted it. This is what happens when Amara finds a reason to work with Noah on an upcoming project at work.

Things that complicate this even more? Keith, her current boyfriend, and “the past” – which she seems to want to also run away from as much as she runs away from Noah. Can Amara overcome her fears and give into what makes her feel whole? Can she finally begin to trust the love that Noah has always had for her?

Find out in I Am Yours…

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write I Am Yours?

Aja: I got the inspiration to write I Am Yours where I get all my inspiration: from inside of myself and my experiences, my dreams and from observing life around me. Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Aja, author of “I Am Yours” →