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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Jamie I. Hall, author of 7 Deadly Women

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Jamie I. Hall, author of 7 Deadly Women
(iUniverse)

My book, 7 Deadly Women, is about dating and disaster. The main character, Jason Mytez, constantly battles with his own flaws and the flaws of women he chooses to have around him. In his pursuit of love, he finds pain on a physical and emotional level that so many of us wish we couldn’t—but definitely can—relate to.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write 7 Deadly Women?

Jamie I. Hall: My inspiration could only come from one place—experience. I’ve dated the cream of the crop and women I wouldn’t wish on my worst Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Jamie I. Hall, author of 7 Deadly Women →

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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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JoeyPinkney.com Book Review: XXXPleasures: Seductive Bliss by Chris Mainor

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XXXPleasures: Seductive Bliss
by Chris Mainor
3 of 5 Stars

Visualize the vignettes from a man with a mind for the sensual. Chris Mainor’s XXXPleasures: Seductive Bliss is a book full of scenarios where sex and seduction are the two main ingredients. If this book was a movie, the first three letters of the book’s title lets you know which rating it would be given by the Motion Picture Association of America.

XXXPleasures: Seductive Bliss’ cover sets the tone appropriately – a naked couple locked in a passionate embrace. That lets you know what you are in for before embarking on the book’s journey. And just to keep that visual motif rolling, more sensual pictures that rev the imagination are interspersed between the chapters.

Before reading this book, you need to grab a few items: an oscillating fan, a Continue reading JoeyPinkney.com Book Review: XXXPleasures: Seductive Bliss by Chris Mainor →