For someone who is new to your work, which book
would you recommend they read?
I Ain’t Me No More is book one of my three book “Always
Divas” series. It’s also one of my favorite books that I’ve
written, not to mention that 80% of the book is based on
my life. I would recommend this book to someone who is
new to my work because they’d be killing two birds with
one stone. They’d get to learn about me as well as my style
of writing. In addition to that, if they are new to not only
my books, but to the Christian fiction genre, this book
will definitely wipe out any preconceived notions that
Christian fiction books are preachy (this is the book in
which the opening scene is in the strip club by the way).
One reviewer referred to I Ain’t Me No More as “The
Christian version of The Coldest Winter Ever.”
What prompted you to write the sinners have souls
book series?
I didn’t actually write any of the stories found in the three-
book “Sinners Series,” which includes Even Sinners Have
Souls, Even Sinners Have Souls Too, and Even Sinners Still
Have Souls. I did, though, compile, edit and publish the
series under my company, End of the Rainbow Projects.
As a former writer of urban lit (I wrote for Triple Crown
Publications under the name JOY), we used to get a lot
of flak as far as the art of literature. Because of the type
of genre that we chose to pen, we were stigmatized and
rumored unable to create literature without glorifying a
trigger happy, drug dealing thug, or a burgundy micro
braid wearing, gum poppin’, promiscuous gold digger, or
a television stealing crack head (in addition to at least two
cuss words per paragraph). I know that writing (great
writing) is a God given talent no matter the genre being
written. I mean, who are we to say whose pen God is going