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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Russell Brooks, author of Pandora’s Succession

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Russell Brooks, author of Pandora’s Succession
(Indie)

Where would you hide if you learned the CDC and a major pharmaceutical company unleashed a hyperdeadly microbe on the human race?

CIA operative, Ridley Fox, never stopped hunting his fiancée’s killers—a weapons consortium called The Arms of Ares. When an informant leads him to an old bunker outside of Groznyy, Chechnya, Fox is captured, beaten, and left for dead.

When the informant rescues him, Fox learns that his capture was no coincidence: someone had set him up—possibly another government agent. Fox barely escapes after learning that Ares has acquired a hyperdeadly microbe—called Pandora—that is believed to have wiped out ancient civilizations.

The trail leads Fox to Tokyo where he discovers that people within the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Japanese Intelligence want Pandora for themselves. The only person Fox can trust is a woman from his past who he nearly got killed.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Pandora’s Succession?

Russell Brooks: I was inspired by the sarin gas subway attacks that occurred in Tokyo, Japan, in the mid 1990s by a doomsday cult. I found it Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Russell Brooks, author of Pandora’s Succession →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Queen B.G., author of Dealt the Wrong Hand

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Queen B.G., author of Dealt the Wrong Hand
(G Street Chronicles)

Dealt the Wrong Hand is a story of a young girl that grew up in a sheltered home but was forced into the streets to fiend for herself and her siblings. Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Queen B.G., author of Dealt the Wrong Hand →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Sharon Tubbs, author of Living in the Pink

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Sharon Tubbs, author of Living in the Pink
(Lift Every Voice Books/Moody Publishers)

Living in the Pink is a collection of humorous and insightful short stories. They each explore temptations that lead women to straddle the fence on their spiritual journeys.

My characters, for example, wrestle with issues such as adulterous relationships, drug-addicted children, church gossip and jealousy. In short, they’re “living in the pink.”

What does that mean? It’s simply the stage where so many women get stuck between what the Bible calls that “scarlet stain of sin” and striving to become pure or “white as snow.”

They say they believe in God but only enough to call themselves “spiritual” without having to make significant changes in their lives. They want to believe, just not too much.

Laura “Sister Pinky” Pinkston is a central character, a wise “church mother” whose mission is to guide women out of their pinkish state and into God’s light.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Living in the Pink?

Sharon Tubbs: Inspiration comes from my own triumphs and pitfalls in living out my faith and in simply observing the world around me. I see so many Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Sharon Tubbs, author of Living in the Pink →