You only have one life to live and a short time to live it….
I was trolling through Facebook groups when I came across the letters “R.I.P.” in front of an author’s name I worked with in Summer 2011: Nate “Nati” Holmes. I read somebody’s “Rememberence of his Lifetime Achievements” in a mild daze. Although I never met him in person, we communicated with each other here and there on Facebook and Twitter and through email.
JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview
5 Minutes, 5 Questions With…
Cynthia White, author of Boss Bitch Swag
(Pulse Publishing)
How does a married woman who has never once been unfaithful to her husband contract HIV?
Meesha Clark, a gorgeous young wife, mother, and budding fashion designer is forced to ask herself that very question when what she thought would be a routine prenatal checkup turns out to be anything but routine. Meesha discovers that Malcolm “Boss” Clark, her heart’s true desire is a well-connected gangster.
Boss is also next in line to head the mob that controls the entire city of St. Louis, so Meesha must make the most difficult decision of her entire young life. When she decides to stand by her man, it becomes painfully clear that, even though she’s the only woman in his heart, she’s not the only woman in his bed.
Certain that Boss contracted the virus from one of his numerous affairs, an emotionally distraught Meesha locks herself in a bathroom with her husband, then proceeds to point his own gun in his face and demand answers. Will the truth set her free, or just keep her bound?
Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Boss Bitch Swag?
Kidra is about a woman who has had her destiny laid out for her the minute she was born. She is plunged into a world of Vampires, blood, lust, hunger and thirst, and the knowledge that she is Dracula’s daughter from Africa.
For the second time in her existance, she finds Micheal, a man that she has chosen to love for all eternity, but there is one problem. A Vampire named Mattheu, that she rejected long ago, wants revenge for the pain and suffering her rejection of him has cost him.
Mattheu blames Kidra for his plight. If she won’t give herself willingly to him, Kidra will have no other. Mattheu has decided that Kidra’s death would be his satisfaction in spite of the fact that he is in love with her, too.
“I will always love you”…. Sometimes, we suffer because we love. There are different types of love… The love for what you have, the love for what you lost, and the love of what you want. Kidra has faced all of this. She has lived out her life in fear. In fear of wanting, yearning and desire, for all eternity.
With all her wealth, with all her powers, there’s the one thing she doesn’t have: the right to love and hold on to it. Mattheu, because she spurned him, will see to it that not only will she never love, but she must die to avenge his plight. He too suffers from love…..
Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Kidra?
