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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… KR Bankston, author of A Deadly Encounter

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KR Bankston, editor of A Deadly Encounter
(Kirabaco Publishing)

Dezi Gianni is a very much a man used to getting what he wants. Kayla DeWitt, the beautiful woman dining in the restaurant, where he and his partner are having lunch, is no exception.

Dezi finds himself in a constant battle of keeping the true depth of his criminal activities secret from Kayla, as he seeks to keep her happy and unequivocally his. When Dezi’s empire becomes under siege by the FBI, another man has set his sights on Kayla. Dezi has had enough.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the idea and inspiration to write A Deadly Encounter?

KR Bankston: The inspiration for A Deadly Encounter actually came from my husband, who jokingly told me to go write a book. The idea was a culmination of both my imagination and real people and situations I’d encountered.

JP: If you could create a genre for A Deadly Encounter what would you call it? And why?

KR: I would classify A Deadly Encounter as Crime, Thriller and Suspense. I classify it as such because of the various elements of violence, mystery, intrigue and irony that run throughout the novel.

JP: As an author, what are the keys to your success that lead to A Deadly Encounter getting out to the public?

KR: Honestly I would have to say that getting out and making acquaintances, networking and an intense grass roots effort to spread the word about this novel has really contributed greatly to the buzz currently being generated about it.

JP: As an author, what is your writing process? How long did it take for you to start and finish A Deadly Encounter?

KR: I can’t really say I have a by-the-book process. I can get an idea at any given time, and I’ll begin to process it in my mind. I’ll sit down and begin to put it on the screen allowing it to flow as it comes.

I seldom write down any of the novel, I’m not really a pad to paper type person. I prefer a keyboard because I can type far faster than I can write. From start to finish, A Deadly Encounter was an intense labor of love that took me roughly about 2 years to totally complete and release.

JP: What’s next for K.R. Bankston?

KR: Well, I’m still working to acquaint the world with the legend that is Dezi Gianni with A Deadly Encounter. I’ll be in Harlem this summer at the bookfair doing that as well.

I have also released the sequel, Sins of the Father, and I am currently working on the last book of the trilogy.

Kirabaco Publishing
PO Box 500072
Atlanta, GA 31150
Telephone: 678.561.2053

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Marilynn Griffith, editor of SistahFaith

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Marilynn Griffith, editor of SistahFaith
(Howard Books/Simon and Schuster)

SistahFaith is about healing. It’s about women–holy women, smart women, women in leadership–lifting their skirts and showing their scars. It’s about nodding slowly to the woman who comes in church with a black eye and a skirt that’s too tight and whispering to her that it will be all right, telling her you know because you were her once and God made it all right for you.

It’s about keeping it holy and keeping it real. It’s about testimony.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the idea and inspiration to write SistahFaith?

Marrilynn Griffith: As for the idea, I didn’t come up with it. Not really. It was 2004, and God was doing something. It was a healing season. I had a blog and a friend of mine, Claudia Mair Burney, had one too. She was bleeding over there, saying things that women weren’t supposed to say out loud.

I wept in front of my laptop and whispered, “Me too.” By phone, another friend, Dr. Gail Hayes, was getting to the root in her way. “Why do you say that? What happened to you?,” she’d say now and then. It was a year of testimony, a time of truth. I went and spoke a lot that year.

Often, women in fine suits and long skirts would whisper into the folds of my clothes, “Me too. That happened to me too.” I began to see that there was a secret sistahood, a sistahood of shame that had to be broken, to be turned into something bright and beautiful. So I didn’t come up with it, not really. God did.

JP: What sets SistahFaith apart from others in its genre?

MG: There are many wonderful story collections that minister to women, but this time we wanted to get REAL about the thing. There are stories from celebrities like Bunny DeBarge and well-known authors like Sharon Ewell Foster.

But it wasn’t about a who’s who, it was about coming together and testifying of what God has brought us through so other women can know that they don’t have to be ashamed. God’s grace is shameless!

JP: As an author, what are the keys to your success that lead to SistahFaith getting out to the public?

MG: We’re doing a lot of online promotions, including the blog tour with TyWebbin Creations that you’re participating in. The book is the title of the month in our SistahFaith Book Club on our Ning community as well.

We’ll be doing face-to-face events as well like the Garments of Praise conference in Fayetteville, NC, March 26-29 (http://ladylifers.com/Page_2.html). Churches, book clubs, prison ministries, women shelters…all types of organizations will be using this book to bring hope, healing and restoration to women.

JP: As an author, what is your writing process? How long did it take for you to start and finish SistahFaith?

MG: This book took a lot of time. First there was the living all of us had to do to get to the place to be able to say the types of things we had to say in these stories while still being uplifting and encouraging.

Then there was the writing, the selections, the ups and downs… Truly it’s been a journey. The whole thing started about six years ago.

JP: What’s next for Marilynn Griffith?

MG: Thanks for asking! I have a novella in A Million Blessings, an anthology with Angela Benson and Tia McCollors, that releases later this month. After that? I’ll be working on whatever God says is next. Thanks so much for having me.

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