The publishing industry is a complicated industrial complex with many different players. I like to talk honestly with those who want to write about how the industry works and why it can be so difficult to get published. You’ve written…
Be Your Mentor I hit the mentor jackpot early. In my twenties, while living young gifted, and Black in New York City, I met the groundbreaking feminist poet Audre Lorde, and the master teacher, poet, and social activist June Jordan.…
Write what you know BUT your deepest writing and knowledge of your story springs from piercing the fog of mystery surrounding what you don’t know…even when you think you do. Write What You Don’t Know Write the story of the…
Writing my new book The Strong Black Woman How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women, was as all my writing has been, another opportunity for growth and evolution. Black women today are the first generation…
For my books, article, and essays I have interviewed scores of people who possessed information, or perspectives I have needed to successfully write my stories. I have interviewed women who served time in prison, police officers, victims of rape, rapists,…