Coming Undone
“Sometimes the death of who we used to be is necessary to become who we were meant to be.”
Category: writing
The Heavy Lifting
I didn’t expect the layers of the onion to be so fucking heavy. I figured I’d been staring at it long enough. I carefully selected the knife, holding various ones in my palm and feeling the weight of it. Putting it …
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The Gift of Time
A few weeks ago, when it became apparent that I’d be self-isolating, self-quarantining, social distancing or whatever it’s being called in this particular news cycle, I realized that maybe the struggles of the previous year had been a training ground. …
The Sunday Seven
Sometimes the world you thought you knew just crumbles and you’re left staring behind the curtain wondering what the hell just happened.
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Homesick
There is a certain amount of humility that comes along with moving almost 2,000 miles away from the part of the country you’ve lived most of your life. Packing up what you think are the essentials and driving cross-country, perhaps …
Return of The Friday Five (Grats)
Some of you have been keeping better track of how long it’s been since I’ve written anything of substance. I know you have because I haven’t been ignoring the Facebook and text messages asking me when my next novel will …
Reviewing Other Authors
I had created a fairly lofty goal for myself this year: Read one book a week. Some folks are probably calling me an underachiever while others are asking themselves why the hell I’d even attempt it. See, in the “real …
Blog Tour – SM Spencer
I want to preface this entire post with the fact that from the very first line of SM Spencer’s Absent Shadows Trilogy, I was hooked. I mean, I devoured the entire three-book series in a matter of as many days. And …
Legend of the Walking Dead by Joy Nwosu Lo-Bamijoko
Two months ago, I succeeded in getting my publishing house to not only lower the cost of the Kindle edition of my book: Legend of the Walking Dead: Igbo Mythologies, but this was possible because I had to re-do the …
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Blog Tour – Jan Hawke
For those of you who have known me for a while, you know that there is a special place in my heart for Africa. When I was working on my undergraduate degree, everyone asked me what the heck I’d even …