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JoeyPinkney.com Book Review: XXXPleasures: Seductive Bliss by Chris Mainor

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XXXPleasures: Seductive Bliss
by Chris Mainor
3 of 5 Stars

Visualize the vignettes from a man with a mind for the sensual. Chris Mainor’s XXXPleasures: Seductive Bliss is a book full of scenarios where sex and seduction are the two main ingredients. If this book was a movie, the first three letters of the book’s title lets you know which rating it would be given by the Motion Picture Association of America.

XXXPleasures: Seductive Bliss’ cover sets the tone appropriately – a naked couple locked in a passionate embrace. That lets you know what you are in for before embarking on the book’s journey. And just to keep that visual motif rolling, more sensual pictures that rev the imagination are interspersed between the chapters.

Before reading this book, you need to grab a few items: an oscillating fan, a Continue reading JoeyPinkney.com Book Review: XXXPleasures: Seductive Bliss by Chris Mainor →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Eyone Williams, author of Secrets Never Die

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Eyone Williams, author of Secrets Never Die
(DC Bookdiva Publications)

Secrets Never Die is the first of a few novels that I have written that are based on true stories. I pride myself on writing real street fiction and urban tales.

The storyline for Secrets came from a female friend of mine that went through some very trying events in her life where she lost everything close to her and had to find a way to make it, living one day at a time in the D.C. streets.

The main character’s name is Niya, she young, smart, and at some times naïve. However, she finds herself caught up in a world where no one is to be trusted and even the one or two people she thinks she can trust turn out to be questionable. The weight of the world is on her shoulders as she is forced to take care of herself while trying to get her mother out of prison and find the person that murdered her sister.

Over all, this book is about a young girl growing into woman and learning everything the hard way along the way. No one is to be trusted freely.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Secrets Never Die?

Eyone Williams: Honestly, I have a friend that really went through most of the things that became the plot of this novel. The things that she told me Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Eyone Williams, author of Secrets Never Die →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Rena X, author of Trouble

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Rena X, author of Trouble
(Editing Couture)

Trouble was inspired by actual events. It’s about a girl growing up in Chicago, overcoming sexual molestation, drug dealing and growing up too fast. She learns forgiveness, redemption and how to trust again.

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

Rena X: It actually started out as a diary. I decided to throw a little fiction in it and turn it into a novel. Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Rena X, author of Trouble →