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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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INTERVIEW: Wahida Clark, author of Payback Ain’t Enough

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Nuance Art: Are you the First Lady of Cash Money?

Wahida Clark: Nikki Minaj is the First Lady of Cash Money. However, I am proud to say that I am the First Lady of Cash Money Content (CMC), the publishing arm of Cash Money. But CMC also has my girl Ashley Antoinette, the female half of the dynamic and unstoppable duo, Ashley & JaQuavis, and the Basketball Wife herself, Ms. Evelyn Lozada.

NA: What makes Payback Ain’t Enough different from Payback is a Mutha or Payback with Ya Life?

WC: Payback Ain’t Enough is the third installment of the Payback Series. Go in expecting the unexpected. I promise, and as always I deliver. It’s grimier, Continue reading INTERVIEW: Wahida Clark, author of Payback Ain’t Enough →

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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 →