"I spend far too much time worrying, far too little time lazing about reading, and not quite enough time writing fiction.

I do love fiction. I make up stories for fun. Illuminating through fiction is something wonderful when you can pull it off.

It's that place you reach when the reader knows they've read something significant, something with meaning beyond entertainment, enlightenment beyond the story. That's art, or it may be magic...whatever it is, that's what I want to do

Welcome to a world of werewolves, vampires, demons and mere mortals, where, in the name of revenge, five women are about to live out their wildest fantasies—even if it means crossing over to that other side…

Booker T. Washington wrote this almost a hundred years ago about how blacks were expected to behave as citizens within the world of white supremacy and it rings very true down to this day.

"The Negro was to accept the biracial system and his subordinate status. He was to seek advancement within the confines of his segregated black world. He was to develop the friendship of influential whites and use their assistance.

By cultivating habits of hard work, thrift, and honesty, he was to demonstrate his claim to wider acceptance and better treatment. Above all, he was never to present any organized challenge to the existing order of things or engage in movements which might be regarded by whites as detrimental to their economic and political interest." - Booker T. Washington

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