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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Boyd Lemon, author of Digging Deep: A Writer Uncovers His Marriages

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Boyd Lemon, author of Digging Deep: A Writer Uncovers His Marriages
(Outskirts Press)

Digging Deep is a memoir about Boyd Lemon’s role in the destruction of his three marriages. This is a journey to understand one man’s role in marriages that ended in divorce, confusion, bitterness and blame.

The Pearl in the Oyster has been the journey of the writing, for the writer himself, and the peace that writing has brought him. Lemon lived on the cusp of the moralistic generation that grew up in the 1940s and 50s and the next generation that embraced sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, as well as equality and independence for women. The transition rocked all pretenses of his working class upbringing.

The writer’s hope is that revealing the path of his own struggle to clarity and peace leads others to their own awakening, as so many modern couples and individuals deal with understanding and defining the new order in relationships, as well as facing their own past.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Digging Deep: A Writer Uncovers His Marriages?

Boyd Lemon: I had finished 15 or so short stories, and I yearned to write a novel. My writing mentor advised me that she didn’t think I was ready to write Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Boyd Lemon, author of Digging Deep: A Writer Uncovers His Marriages →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Diallo Nkenge Frazier, author of Hood Hieroglyphics

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Diallo Nkenge Frazier, author of Hood Hieroglyphics
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My book is a book of poems that tell my story as well as the general story of growing up in an oppressive environment. I would describe it as Angoric Expressionism through poetry.

If you don’t know what Angoric Expressionism is, it is an Art form that is created through pain. This style was developed by the Modern Black Painter Reginald Rogers. The book is really about hood- and self-liberaton.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Hood Hieroglyphics?

Diallo Nkenge Frazier: I wrote this book out of frustration with my people and the regression we have gone through mentally, physically and Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Diallo Nkenge Frazier, author of Hood Hieroglyphics →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Terri D., author of Yesterday’s Lies

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Terri D, author of Yesterday’s Lies
(TDUB Publishing)

Yesterday’s Lies is a poignant tale of a circle of close friends who lives are more intertwined than they realize. That is until the blurred lines of love, lust and friendship begins to reveal the half-truths and lies that exist. Will the secrets they all hold from the past ruin their friendships and lives forever?

Toni and Jada have been friends since high school. They dated best friends David and Benjamin and the foursome even decided to attend the same college together.

A tragic event in the final semester of senior year starts the web of lies and deceit that will follow them into their adult lives. The story begins seven years after graduation from college. The secrets and lies from their past start to unravel when an old friend returns from a seven-year hiatus. Where has he been? Does he hold the key to unlock the secrets and lies from their past?

Others in this small group of friends have their own secrets they have been keeping. When the truth is revealed, will the life changing decisions that were made based on what everyone thought they knew be enough to rip friendships apart?

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Yesterday’s Lies?

Terri D: My inspiration came from a very close friend of mine. I have always kept journals and have at times shared some of my entries with her. One Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Terri D., author of Yesterday’s Lies →