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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Shampriest Bevel, author of Today I Marry My Best Friend: Myself

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Shampriest Bevel, author of Today I Marry My Best Friend: Myself
(Pulse Publishing)

Today I Marry My Best Friend: Myself, focuses on single women living in a world with limited good men and unlimited drama. These women are tirelessly dating men in hopes of marriage. Each woman’s story has its own twisted journey, but the ending will be familiar to them all. The characters are all waiting for proposals of marriage which, after many wasted years, will never be heard. They are all in relationships with the type of men who prove not to be ready for marriage.

Talia Sands, who is the most ready for marriage, is left broken-hearted after five years by a man who she accidentally learns is having an affair with the neighborhood trick. This becomes a turning point for Talia. Talia decides not to allow a nugatory man destroy her dreams of marriage. She decides to marry herself as a symbol of self-commitment and self-love.

Today I Marry My Best Friend: Myself tells the story of how a woman can stop tirelessly and painfully waiting for a man to ask for her hand in marriage. Talia takes control of her life by getting her middle finger sized, purchasing her own wedding ring and marrying herself.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Today I Marry My Best Friend: Myself?

Shampriest Bevel: I have been a part of one too many pity parties. I would get together with my girlfriends to talk about one thing and then the Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Shampriest Bevel, author of Today I Marry My Best Friend: Myself →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Bill Campbell, author of Koontown Killing Kaper

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Bill Campbell, author of Koontown Killing Kaper
(Independent)

All the rappers in Koontown are being killed, and rumor has it that it’s vampire crack-babies doing the killing. Desperate the police reach out to Genevieve “Jon Vee” Noire, ex-super model/ex-homicide detective/private detective.

Together with her former partner, Genevieve must navigate the dangerous world of gangsta rappers, shady record executives, corrupt cops and politicians, ’80s pimps, welfare queens, secret sistah societies, Ubernoggin, and the National Guard.

Can the ex-super-model survive the chaos and insanity to save her beloved Koontown while it explodes all around her?

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Koontown Killing Kaper?

Bill Campbell: I guess, in an odd way, the birth of my daughter. Like so many people, I was just going along living my life, thinking that a lot of the Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Bill Campbell, author of Koontown Killing Kaper →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Cleopatra Sinkamba Islar, author of My Odyssey from Guyana to America – via Africa

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Cleopatra Sinkamba Islar, author of My Odyssey from Guyana to America
(self-published)

This is an epic account of my experiences after leaving my native land at nineteen years old. I started this journey as an adventurous, young woman in pursuit of a career path.

As a young girl growing up in Guyana, I had big dreams. I would look up at the sky as the planes flew by and wondered what life was like in other lands. I knew that there was a world out there that I wanted to explore, but I did not know how I was going to get there. I did not have the resources that would make this even a remote possibility.

Nevertheless, as I subsequently learned, miracles do happen, and the key was to be able to discern the opportunities that would make them a reality. My curiosity propelled me to explore every opportunity that came my way, and this led me through an extraordinary path which I now call “My Odyssey.”

My Odyssey is a timeline of wanderings, tragedies, triumphs and new beginnings. I have taken the long route to North America, through a myriad of African countries, languages and cultures. All these experiences have molded my character and made me a believer in the power of faith and the resilience of the human spirit.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write My Odyssey from Guyana to America – via Africa?

Cleopatra Sinkamba Islar: My children are my inspiration. So many women have faced sudden changes in life but faith and just knowing that no matter Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Cleopatra Sinkamba Islar, author of My Odyssey from Guyana to America – via Africa →