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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Dawn, author of Everything I Miss At Home

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Dawn, author of Everything I Miss At Home
(Xlibris)

Everything I Miss At Home is a sexy and dramatic thrill ride that’s emotional highs and lows race like a roller coaster. Karma, lust, ambition, greed, and life collide as fading athlete Nikki Brown, her corporate-upstart girlfriend Erin Powell, and Erin’s sexy assistant Devyn McAllister play winner take all with life, and each other.

The debut novel from author Dawn is a deliciously addictive narrative that feels like a dark fantasy solidly in touch with real life. Dawn effortlessly directs Everything I Miss At Home from the boardroom, to the bedroom, and to the streets crafting a suspenseful, salacious, and soul-stirring look at love and life through the character’s eyes.

Each perspective is distinct, raw, edgy, and unfiltered as the intimacy of each character comes alive off page after page.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Everything I Miss At Home?

Dawn: Art and life was the muse. I had to develop rust in my imagination even when it had a twisted feel to it. The realness of Everything I Miss At Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Dawn, author of Everything I Miss At Home →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Robert Dugoni, author of Murder One

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Robert Dugoni, author of Murder One
(Touchstone/Simon and Schuster)

Murder One is the fourth novel in the David Sloane series. Thirteen months after the murder of his wife, Sloane makes an appearance at a legal event. He runs into a former adversary, Barclay Reid. Reid is suffering from her own tragedy, the loss of her daughter to a drug overdose. When the dealer responsible walks from a federal courtroom, Reid turns to Sloane to go after the dealer in a civil action.

Sloane is reluctant as he is developing feelings for Reid. Sloane takes on the case. Before it gets going, the dealer is found with a bullet in the back of his head and all the evidence points to Reid. Now Reid wants Sloane, the “lawyer who does not lose”, to defend her. Sloane reluctantly agrees but soon finds Reid to be a woman of many secrets.

Reviewers are calling the book a cross between Presumed Innocent and Basic Instinct.

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

Robert Dugoni: I sat in on a capital murder case in King County Washington for three months and was introduced to homicide detectives, Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Robert Dugoni, author of Murder One →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Saleem Little, author of Crying For Tears: The Sasha Pierce Story

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Saleem Little, author of Crying For Tears: The Sasha Pierce Story
(Mitanni Enterprises)

Every woman faces her own individual heartache at some point or another in her life. Whether it is dealing with the jaded feelings of lost love, the misuse of an abusive man, the disappointment and embarrassment of divorce, or the financial woes of being a single mother; all women must survive some personal tragedy in their lives.

In this gripping tale of lost souls, misguided teens, rapists, bastardized children, disease, human trafficking and abuse; three women’s lives are tested, nearly torn apart, and then tied together by one motivating force…their wills to survive.

After Sasha’s father dies from a heroin overdose and her mother gives her up for adoption, she is quickly lost to the allures of the street life: drugs, sex, and money. Infatuated with men older than her years, she lies to them about her age so they will sleep with her, uses fake IDs to get into clubs, and eventually inherits the burdens of being a single, teen mother with an ailment she must live with forever.

Denise s life is scarred by dysfunctional men, drug use, divorce and a mother’s agony of dealing with a rebellious child. Since her first divorce, Denise’s been caring for her two sons alone. From sacrificing for their sakes to spending sleepless nights waiting for them to return safely from the streets, Denise faces a mother s ultimate pain when her son becomes a suspect in a murder.

Amina is a poor girl from South Africa. Like so many children in her village, her parents have passed away from AIDS. She is forced to care for her brothers and sisters alone at the age of fourteen. Enticed by a friend to come work for her friends in Norway, Amina soon finds herself in a brothel being forced to prostitute by brutal traffickers.

See how six degrees of separation ties the lives of these three women together in this spell bounding novel by Saleem Little.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Crying For Tears: The Sasha Pierce Story?

Saleem Little: I stumbled across a few startling facts and some data that gave me some insight into a problem that I wasn’t too familiar with. When I Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Saleem Little, author of Crying For Tears: The Sasha Pierce Story →

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