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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Larry Benjamin, author of What Binds Us

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Larry Benjamin, author of What Binds Us
(Carina Press)

What Binds Us is, at its heart, an inter-racial love story although race does not play a significant role. Because the characters’ difference in race and social class and sexuality creates no conflict, the story becomes a universal story—of love, of loss, of family.

When, at 17, Thomas-Edward escapes southern New Jersey and the tyranny of his parents love, he thinks he is ready for anything. Anything quickly arrives in the form of one Donovan Dion “Dondi” Whyte who is like no one he has ever met before and who introduces him into “a looking-glass world in which everything was familiar yet larger, more exquisite, more precious than anything he had ever known.”

Dondi is sophisticated, passionate, urbane—the man Thomas-Edward has dreamed of loving since childhood and yet it is not Dondi but rather his brother, Matthew, in whom he finds the love he has dreamed of.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write What Binds Us?

Larry Benjamin: I was inspired to write it after seeing Jonathan Demme’s “Philadelphia” which I thought didn’t do a very good job of portraying the Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Larry Benjamin, author of What Binds Us →

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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… Paloma Corredor, author of La gestión del yo

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Paloma Corredor, author of La gestión del yo
(Editorial Círculo rojo)

This is a story of love and self-help.

Three women: Alicia, Violeta and Diana. A man, Jorge. One goal: the pursuit of happiness in these times of obsession with “me”.

It all begins when Alicia, as the heroine created by Lewis Carroll, dives into the bewildering and attractive world of workshops and books about personal growth. A world ruled by the law of attraction, which says that “the secret” to get anything is to desire it ardently, and that the only obstacle in the way is the ego, with its limitations and requirements.

Alicia, tired of her boring life, wants to find happiness within and love without expecting anything in return, as does Violeta. The problem is that both women choose the same man, Jorge. The same one that Diana left years ago to choose a conventional marriage.

But things get complicated when the liberal Violeta tries to seduce Alicia.

Is happiness really a state of mind that does not depend on others?

If true love is unconditional, would you accept that the man you love also loves other women?

Those are the dilemmas faced by Alicia…

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write La gestión del yo ?

Paloma Corredor: Here and there. I find inspiration everywhere when I’m writing!

In this case, I was working as a personal growth journalist at that time, and I always ended up listening to the same message: “True love is unconditional. Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Paloma Corredor, author of La gestión del yo →