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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Suzetta Perkins, author of Betrayed

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Suzetta Perkins, author of Betrayed
(Strebor Books Int’l/Simon & Schuster)

Setrina “Mimi” Bailey is carrying a nineteen-year-old secret that she’d like to remain hidden forever. She was raped by Victor Christianson, her best friend Brenda’s fiance. Mimi makes a desperate attempt to protect her secret when an event she’s unable to control brings her back to the town and the scene of the crime.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Betrayed?

Suzetta Perkins: I’ve written about a number of social issues, but I hadn’t touched the issue of rape. As an administrator on a college campus, I’ve Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Suzetta Perkins, author of Betrayed →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Laura T Johnson, author of Where Would I Be

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Laura T Johnson, author of Where Would I Be
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Once separated by time and iron bars, James is now back and claiming to be a changed man. But for every time Lisa says “no”, a little more of who he really is resurfaces. James Harris is the man Lisa Jenson thought she would marry. He turned out to be the man who would almost kill her. Twice!

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Where Would I Be?

Laura T Johnson: My inspiration came from wanting to get out all of the feelings I was having about the abusive relationship that I was in. I wanted to Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Laura T Johnson, author of Where Would I Be →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Larry Benjamin, author of What Binds Us

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Larry Benjamin, author of What Binds Us
(Carina Press)

What Binds Us is, at its heart, an inter-racial love story although race does not play a significant role. Because the characters’ difference in race and social class and sexuality creates no conflict, the story becomes a universal story—of love, of loss, of family.

When, at 17, Thomas-Edward escapes southern New Jersey and the tyranny of his parents love, he thinks he is ready for anything. Anything quickly arrives in the form of one Donovan Dion “Dondi” Whyte who is like no one he has ever met before and who introduces him into “a looking-glass world in which everything was familiar yet larger, more exquisite, more precious than anything he had ever known.”

Dondi is sophisticated, passionate, urbane—the man Thomas-Edward has dreamed of loving since childhood and yet it is not Dondi but rather his brother, Matthew, in whom he finds the love he has dreamed of.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write What Binds Us?

Larry Benjamin: I was inspired to write it after seeing Jonathan Demme’s “Philadelphia” which I thought didn’t do a very good job of portraying the Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Larry Benjamin, author of What Binds Us →