On Wednesday October 7, 2009, my interview with the editor extraordinaire, Shon Bacon went live on her site Chicklitgurrl
I was so excited when she contacted me to be featured amongst her bookshelf of authors.
See the excerpt below...
How do your beliefs, values, and cultural awareness reflect themselves in your writing?
Ahhhh, my beliefs! My belief that one must always persevere to reach their goals resonate with just about all that I write. You see it in my blogs, my poems, my prose and soon to in my upcoming novel. My values of respect and decency has its place in my writings as well. In that I’m mindful as a mother that one day my son will read my work, mindful that I have my grandparents and my mother, my elders, cheering me on. I want it to be tasteful. Not that I’m perfect but I have a sense of who I am and what I want to stand for. My culture is in my blood. My first and second collection of poetry has something dedicated to that. It’s inevitable. It may even show up in my first novel as well. How can I leave it out when it’s my genetic makeup? It won’t always be present in story lines, but it’s very much present in my being. It helps me be who I am for the readers....
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