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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 …
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 …
Photo Credit: www.thenonconformingprofessional.com Despite an abrupt push into adulthood – and let me be clear from the beginning that this was of my own volition, my parents didn’t give me any ultimatums at 16 – I’ve reached far beyond what anyone’s …
Wow, there’s been crickets here lately, huh? I promise you that the silence has been neither intentional nor without good reason. I’ve spent the last few months getting adjusted to a new job, staring at two manuscripts in progress without …
By the time you find yourself reading this, I will have hit a fairly significant milestone. Exactly one year ago, I took a deep sigh and looked upon the empty bottle with mixed emotions. I felt fear. Longing. Sadness. Disgust. …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
When I launched my first novel, The Place We Went to Yesterday, back in November of last year, I had no idea what to expect. I had no author platform. I had no experience doing anything like this. I thought, naively, …
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