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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Corey Barnes, author of Single For The Night

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Corey J. Barnes, author of Single For The Night
(CJ Publishing)

A lot can change in two years….or can it?

It’s taken two years, but Rick Jenkins is finally ready to live again. His professional life continues to blossom, but his personal life is more fractured than a jigsaw puzzle. At the urging of his boys, he decides to try the dating thing again, but isn’t sure he can trust again…

The more things change, the more they stay the same. In Corey J. Barnes’ sequel to the sizzling debut novel What Is This Love Thing All About, he examines if time really does cure all. Can you ever really stop loving someone once you have done so? Can you move on from hurt and love again? All of these questions and more will be answered in the next installment from Author Corey J. Barnes, Single For The Night.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Single For The Night?

Corey J. Barnes: The inspiration to write this book was to finish the story that I started last year with my first book, What Is This Love Thing All About? It is a sequel. I wanted Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Corey Barnes, author of Single For The Night →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Madison, author of Scattered Lies II

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Madison, author of Scattered Lies II
(Influential Writers Publishing)

Scattered Lies II shocks us with matchless plot twists and an assemblage of characters whose lives have evolved from intimate dreams to headlining events.

Joey Pinkney: Based on the response of Scattered Lies, what have you done to make Scattered Lies II a better book?

Madison: I stuck to my gut. Being a new writer, I learned fast that people will like you or they won’t. Everyone will have an opinion. Many people wrote me after the release of Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Madison, author of Scattered Lies II →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Faze, author of Both Sides of the Fence

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Faze, author of Both sides of the Fence
(Another Faze Publishing)

Corey is a young man who was born and raised in New York City by both parents with his father being a pastor. While enjoying his twenties, he’s introduced to The Village and alternative lifestyles.

He struggles with intimacy between him and his girlfriend. Being a victim of molestation as a child plays a part in his sexual preferences. This sends him on a erotic sexual conquest journey in his prime years of his life.

He faces a dilemma that has him stressed and feeling only God can help him. He becomes tired of living his life in pain and deceit. His story will make parents, especially women, pay closer attention to their lover and one’s children.

As Corey reveals the secrets of men who are closeted and some signs to look for… As he tries to straighten out his own secret life that he lives… He struggles wondering if he had never been molested, would he be living his life on Both Sides of the Fence?

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Both sides of the Fence?

Faze: My inspiration came from being molested and research on the different people that I spoke to that have been molested and the effects that it has caused in their lives. Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Faze, author of Both Sides of the Fence →