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Book Review: Her Little Secret by T. Freeman, Jr.

August 15, 2009 Joey Pinkney

Her Little Secret
by T. Freeman, Jr.
(Sleepy Eye Publishing)
5 out of 5 Stars

T. Freeman, Jr’s Her Little Secret is a masterpiece which encompasses gritty situations, the perfect use of slang and picturesque scenes from the roughest hoods to the absolutely luxurious locales from the East and West Coasts. Freeman invades the mind of his readers with the sometimes harsh but thoroughly adventurous life of Lerrez Crawford. Born in complete squalor to two drug-addicted parents, life deals Lerrez a bad hand from the very beginning. Dark-skinned, thick and undeniably beautiful, her life would be anything but sweet as she struggles to escape the grips of the cold streets of inner-city Camden, NJ.

Lerrez’s attempt at elusiveness is met with the domino effect of tragedy after tragedy. Before she can reach 18-years-old, she gets shuffled off to a foster home, thrust onto the streets, housed in juvenile detention and taken by her long-lost grand mother. During this whole ordeal, she experience sexual and drug abuse, murders and misadventures that are not too uncommon for people surviving in inner-cities across the nation. A chance meeting with a big-time producer from L.A. proves to be the ticket to stability. Just when she finds solace with the love of her life, all of the dirt she did in Camden threatens to snatch away her fairytale ending.

What really makes this novel pop is T. Freeman’s effortless use of slang and location. Being the perfect guide, he puts foreign slang words in context. He also gives you a street-level view wherever his characters are. Her Little Secret takes you from the crowded projects of Camden to the city blocks of New York City to the socio-economic extremes of L.A. Freeman doesn’t just reference a location. He gives you street names and landmarks in a way that perfectly complements the wicked plot twists.

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Dapharoah69, author of The King of Erotica 4

August 3, 2009 Joey Pinkney

JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview
5 Minutes, 5 Questions With…
Dapharoah69, author of The King of Erotica 4: The DeTHRONEment of a King
(TKOE Publications)

The King of Erotica Book 1 introduced a THRONE no one knew existed. The King of Erotica Book 2 introduced the Throne and the CROWN of a King, with gut-wrenching stories other authors were too afraid to touch. The King of Erotica Book 3: VIP showed the world a scorned, battered author with a painful past willing to change the world with his vision. Over 200 separate Five Star Reviews later, Dapharoah69 is back with The King of Erotica 4: The DeTHRONEment of a King. Could this quite possibly be the last The King of Erotica novel…ever?

FATE WILLIAMS was abused by her own flesh and blood mother over the years. After reluctantly poisoning her mother’s drink, she has to plan her mother’s funeral. But someone won’t let her forget…and it could be deadly.

Ex-prostitute, PRINCESS WEBSTER’S stomach sticks out further than her Booty-Do…because she’s in love with a one night stand and pregnant! But her best friend, Georgia, knows Princess slept with her husband, Ed. Does the baby belong to Ed? Or Thomas?

FRANCINE, FRANCINE, FRANCINE strikes! She was betrayed in Book 1. She makes a pivotal choice when she calls a cab in a wedding dress to rush home to marry the man who has her best friend Chandra hooked on drugs and pregnant. Will her heart speak now, or will her pride forever hold her…peace?

WILL THIS BE THE LAST THE KING OF EROTICA EVER…?

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the idea and inspiration to write The King of Erotica 4?

Dapharoah69: I got the idea after being betrayed by a former publishing house back in 2003. Entering and winning over a hundred Myspace Erotic Story and Poetry contests, my fans and people who read my blogs christened me “The King of Erotica”.

So like Zane’s Sex Chronicles, I decided to name my first book The King of Erotica and using sex as a weapon but giving the characters background, dilemmas everyday people acknowledge or deny and to give the characters an identity so I wasn’t just writing sex in vain.

JP: What sets The King of Erotica 4 apart from other novels in the series? And why might this be the last one?

Dapharoah69: The King of Erotica 4 is the DeTHRONEment. Book one was the actual Throne, so the message was raw, blunt and took no prisoners. Book 2 was the Crown, not as raunchy, but deeper in the storytelling. Book 3 is the VIP. Book 4 dives deeper into the scandals, digs into the core of the abuse, dives deeper into the emotional state of the characters. It shows what makes them tick. It shows why they are so promiscuous. It shows why they worship two masters.

This might quite possibly be the last because this was the hardest book to write out of the four because I had to dig deep into the abuse I suffered as a child to give the characters flesh and air. The first book took 5 days to write. Book 4 took almost 3 months. I had to stop and start. It was too emotional for me.

JP: As an author, what are the keys to your success that lead to The King of Erotica series being as popular as it has been?

Dapharoah69: The keys to my success was my faith in God, faith in my ability and doing it all to get the message out: shunning paychecks, huge bonuses and turning my back on traditional publishing blueprints. It’s kind of like Akhenaton in Africa back in the 1350 B.C. Era turning his back on the pharaohs that ruled before him to pave his own way with his own formula.

Being humble, showing readers and naysayers alike that you can be successful if you work hard to achieve your goals with good intentions was necessary. Writing to express myself, letting them know that I am not trying to make anyone happy was critical. Giving books out for free to those who can’t afford them was important. All that has made The King of Erotica a bestselling, 5 Star Series.

JP: As an author, what is your writing process? How long did it take for you to start and finish The King of Erotica 4?

Dapharoah69: Book 1 took me five days, fourteen hours a day or more I always contribute to my work. Book 2 about a week. Book 3 two and a half days. I always map and blueprint the characters, so that makes it easy for me. I don’t stop or take breaks until it’s done. I lock myself in my room, cut off all phones, no internet access, no outside world when I create. So friends and family don’t hear from me for weeks sometimes.

I research different cultures, areas, environments animals -Â everything. I write from the female, male, gay, straight, married, sheltered points of view. Book 4 took me nearly three months to write because of all the pain I had to relive. So I went through a depression phase. Book 4 was almost scrapped, but I stuck with it.

JP: What’s next for Larry Wilson, Jr.?

Dapharoah69: I have a book, Some Men Wear Panties, coming out with bestselling author of On the Down Low, JL King. And I have my first full debut novel, Call Her Queen Hatshepsut, coming in late October. I’m nervous about it because it deals with a deranged plastic surgeon who raises her son as a girl to get back at the father for marrying and fathering a child with her identical twin sister.

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Notables:

The King of Erotica Books featured in Bestselling Author E Lynn Harris Literary Cafe
A combined 210 (5) Star Reviews on Barnes and Noble.com and not a star less
Featured in over 400 book clubs worldwide
The King of Erotica Books 1, 2 and 3 were Barnes and Noble.com Top 100 Bestsellers at the same time, with book 3 peaking at #71.
I was the only self-published, African-American author with three different titles in the Top 100 at the same time.

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Alicia McGhee, author of Wet Dreams

May 7, 2009 Joey Pinkney 1 Comment

JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview
5 Minutes, 5 Questions With…
Alicia McGhee, author of Wet Dreams
(Lulu Publishing)

Take a ride on this very hot, drama-packed erotic novel that will keep you having Wet Dreams. Phil Wilmore is a sexy R&B singer who knows how to sell out shows and keep the ladies screaming his name. Read as Phil takes you on a highly charged ride throughout his sexual encounters with very seductive women. One woman in particular was more than seductive to Phil, and he knew exactly what his hunger craved. That craving was the hottest talent manager to set foot in Industry Records, Christelle Blackwall.

Not only is Christelle Phil’s manager, she also becomes his lover. Phil Wilmore and Christelle Blackwall continue to remain lovers while indulging their appetites with other flavors. Two of those flavors who ironically know one another. Phil meets his caramel dream at one of his shows in a New York nightclub. She makes herself known from the curve of her hips to the way she licks her lips. Jasmine Riley is her name, and snagging up Phil Wilmore for herself is her game. While Phil Wilmore makes a persistent groupie happy, Christelle focuses her interest on a delicious chocolate man with long, clean dreadlocks by the name of Amir Jamal.

Following behind him like a little lost puppy, Christelle stalks her prey and continues till she’s sexually satisfied. As Phil and Christelle’s sexcapades continue, they even experience a threesome in a place called Paradise with a familiar face. Before long, Phil and Christelle’s erotic play takes a turn for the worse as their secret lovers no longer remain a secret. Amir falls in love, Jasmine wants Phil to marry her and somebody’s pregnant! When the love box becomes too complicated for some to handle, Jasmine takes drastic measures in making Christelle disappear while Amir still burns for Christelle’s touch.

The drama unfolds in this urban erotic tale changing the lives of everyone involved in the sin. Find out who’s related, whose baby is murdered, who’s killed and who looses their mind in Alicia McGhee’s Wet Dreams.

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

Alicia McGhee: Wet Dreams started off as an erotic short story series I started in ’06. Due to the major subscribers making it so popular and requesting more, I was obligated to turn it into a full length novel.

JP: What sets Wet Dreams apart from other novels in its genre?

AM: Wet Dreams has its erotic points, but it also plays out as a thriller. It’s like an edgy movie which keeps you hooked till the very end. What sets my novel apart from others in its genre is that it’s very unpredictable. Wet Dreams is on a whole different level from its competitors in that respect.

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

AM: Like I said before, this novel was requested by the fans that followed me on MySpace from my very first book Pleasure & Pain which showcases twenty steamy, drama-filled short stories. That got them hooked. After the success of Pleasure & Pain and Hotter the Pleasure, Deeper the Pain II, the fans were ready for a full length novel with just as much intensity and hot erotica as the short stories but with a twist. Wet Dreams is the twist that the people were looking for.

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

AM: As an author, I’m a visual and creative writer, so the things I dream up or discuss with my reading group all plays out like a film in my mind. I stick to that layout and make you visualize what and how I perceived the material. I start off with jotting down my ideas. Then I draft out an outline to follow along with my list of fictional characters and their characteristics. I give them life. I started Wet Dreams in early ’06 and completed it in 2 years.

JP: What’s next for Alicia McGhee?

AM: What’s next for me? I’ve got a lot more novels in the works with plans of releasing 2 novels by the end of this year. I’m working on the spin off to my latest novel Everybody’s Got A Story which is truly a pleasure to create. I’m also working on a hot steamy novel jammed packed with its fair share of sex while delving into the lives of 4 ladies who share their experiences on what goes on down in the gentlemen’s cabaret. I actually interviewed strippers for this piece, so this one is one fun novel to write.

I’ve also been getting my anthology work on with a story featured in Zane’s latest anthology Missionary No More: Purple Panties 2 titled Eve’s Secret. I’ve been showcased in Noire’s online magazine “Noire Magazine” with some hot naughty stories in the October & March issue. Expect more from me because I’m not done yet. I’ve still got a whole lot to say and share.

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Pleasure & Pain
Hotter the Pleasure, Deeper the Pain II
Wet Dreams
Everybody’s Got A Story

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