That’s right! It’s giveaway time from Tinkyroo Promos. You can enter on any of the below social media links, connect with a choice of best-selling and award-winning romance authors who have funded this reader giveaway for your chance to win, win, win! Good luck.
Here we go again, there is no shortage of male authors of colour in the fantasy genre! Here’s best-selling author, Mikel Wilson and some fun facts to get to know. At the time of writing Mikel currently has five books published on Amazon.
Fun facts about Mikel:
I’m a Pisces
My fave color is royal blue at the moment, for some reason it changes😂
My hobbies include (Takes deep breath) playing guitar, singing, writing music, playing piano,tenor sax, bass guitar and violin. I enjoy building and customizing cars which include painting, and motor work. I love to draw anime and comic book characters as well as paint and sketch still life and scenery. I like to sew and cook as well. (Exhales) see that wasn’t so bad😂😂 I’m also married with 4 kids two boys and two girls 🙂
Meet The Author
Best-selling author Mikel Wilson took the world by storm with The Hybrid series. This science fiction/fantasy series is filled with everything one could possibly ask for: action, mystery, romance, werewolves, vampires, greek gods, and so much more. Despite such success, Wilson has not let it get to his head. Mikel Wilson was born and raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Being the youngest of nine children–four boys and five girls–Mikel Wilson was never lonely. Growing up, religion had been a major influence, mainly because he was the son of a preacher. This influence is still with him today, as he is the minister of music at his church. Mikel Wilson is married to Danielle and they have four children together.
Here’s a book Mikel would like to share with you:
Happily ever-after is only for fairytales.
Newly appointed football coach Brian and his wife Ally thought they had it all until darkness descended. Secrets from the past cause hidden scars to emerge, forming dark clouds over the family’s home. Now faced with losing everything they hold dear, they fight! Armed with prayer, hope, faith, and a mouthy godly woman named Natalie, “they will not go quietly into that good night!” Is faith truly all you need to find your happily ever after, or does it require more?
Find out if they can once again find what it takes to repair the shattered pieces of their lives. In this upcoming novel from the brilliant mind of USA Today bestselling Author Mikel Wilson “Picking up The Shattered Pieces.”
I’m rather excited to showcase today’s authors just the other week a reader of the paranormal and fantasy genre felt that, there are not many authors of colour who write here. Well here we go! Let’s meet a male author of colour who does, it’s Nick Adams. At the time of writing this Nick has two books published on Amazon, and they are bargain prices at the moment.
Fun facts about Nick in his own words:
Star sign: Capricorn (the best)
Fav colour: Red (but sometimes blue)
I would say my hobbies are, of course, reading and writing. I’m a gamer, but really only play one game (Destiny 2) which I have a YouTube channel for. I’m really not that good at it despite playing it for years 😂😂. I’m definitely an over thinker and have trust issues with anyone that doesn’t like dark chocolate lol. Married with two kids. Introverted unless I’m surrounded by friends. I love comic books (Spider-Man is the best, fantasy novels, and almost anything Eric Jerome dickey.
Meet The Author:
NICKLOUS P. ADAMS II is a writer that enjoys reading all types of books especially spiritual and science fiction. He is also an avid comic book reader. These interests combined have inspired him to take up the mantle of writing his own book. He has a wife and two young children and resides in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Aww doesn’t Nick sound lovely? Here’s a book he’d love to share.
Would you die for your friends? That is the choice Micah must face when an ancient evil destroys his city. He can either journey to his homeland, or seek help with his friends in a place he is not welcome. Soon he finds out that he may be the key to defeating the monster that threatens his world. How can he prevail against a power so fierce? Who are the Aviya? Do the answers lie in the inviting glow of a mysterious orb in a cave? Join them in their quest of peril, friendship, and love as good and evil clash in an epic battle. Check out this bargain book for just. 99 cent on Amazon here. At the time of writing Nick has some wonderful reviews too!
Oh my! It’s one spicy Sunday, here is another erotic male author of colour, an interesting one! He looks very serious and he’s another Libra *face palm.* Alexzander Christion has four books published on Amazon at the time of writing, let’s check him out.
Fun facts: I am a 41 year old LIBRA ♎️. Army vet. Favorite color is blue. Favorite wine is MOSCATO and I am a low key hedonist. ( LOL)
Meet The Author
“You would risk such wrath by stabbing a god in the back for him?”“I would stab a god in the face for him.”The red shadow of Saber has subsided and while the wounds of war still weep, life must go on.Kaharh, the Emerald Son’s ‘Dagger in the Dark’ has carved out a romantic getaway for her and her king, one last chance to build happy memories before the waves of war swallow them all.While she plans to spend both days in bed doing everything but sleeping, the mission changes when Shefa is stolen from her. Now she must tame the Mile High Woods, the most dangerous place in all Fuumashon, to get him back.New monsters, new enemies and an unbelievable new ally. Is the jungle even Shefa fears prepared for the wrath of an anger dragon robbed of her honeymoon?Ripped from the pages of Kaharh’s own journal, this adventure is filled with everything you’ve come to expect from this series, plus an incredibly intimate look at what warriors do when the door locks.
I must say this is my guilty pleasure genre, erotica LOL. Here’s one of our male authors of colour, what d’ya know about Teddy Mack? If it’s your guilty pleasure too? From his Facebook interaction with his readers I find his posts very cheeky and amusing. I often find myself smirking or flat out bursting out with laughter. Here’s some fun facts .
Star sign: Libra
Fav colour: Red
Hobbies: Video games and writing.
Hails from: Detroit
Meet The Author
My name is Michael Anthony, but my pen name is Teddy Mack. The reason why I chose the pen name of Teddy Mack because it fits my personality and my writing style perfectly. Many people say I look like a cuddly teddy bear, so I guess you can say the teddy side of me is more of the gentle, romantic and loving side of me. But far as the Mack side of me is more of a edgier, rugged and Hood side of me. Plus my closest friends used to call me Mack, that I grew up with on the Detroit eastside street called Lappin (s/o to my Lappin fam 48205 7 mile). I put both of those nicknames together and came up with the pin name of Teddy Mack which best describes the type of stories that I write which are erotic, romantic, love and then at the same time Urban, real, ratchet and hood.
Im 33 years old.
Married with no children,
I take care of my younger brother Bam Bam.
Even in my younger years I’ve been writing school stage plays, comic strips and skits for local rappers.
My goal is to become one of the best authors and for many people Nationwide to read my books.
Follow Teddy Mack: either one of the social network platforms @teddymack ( Twitter and Instagram) and also on facebook: Teddy Mack (DaAuthor)
Here’s a book Teddy Mack would like to share with you…
22-year-old Noelle Clark was what you could call a good girl, she’s from the suburb area of Metro Detroit in West Bloomfield Hills and attending college with a full-ride scholarship at U of M. She’s the type of girl that would never be caught in the rugged Hood area in the city of Detroit. But that was until spring break approaches and studying in her dorm room all day had gotten a bit boring so she decides to visit her closest 32-year-old cousin Desirae who lives near the eastside part of the city of Detroit. While seeing her cousin already dating a dopeboy, Noelle is encouraged to fall for a young, up-and-coming dopeboy herself. A 27-year-old dude named James, which in the streets everyone calls him King James. She thinks that King James is a little average nickel-and-dime type of drug Hustler but little does she know that he’s one of the youngest up-and-coming Kingpins in the East side RedZone 7 mile & Hayes area. He’s also the leader of the blood influence street gang, Eastside S.H.K ( Savage Hustle Kingz ).
Sure King James has brought excitement into her little boring college school girl innocent life. And she most definitely was getting addicted to all the gifts and cashing out he was doing for her. But this eastside dope boy is going to turn this little good girl’s life upside down. Read and become a witness to all the friction, drama, indictments, and even death that comes from dealing with a dope boy. Watch how her innocent world comes crashing down when she faced with a decision that can tear down the whole S.H.K RedZone drug operation…… and oh yeah there’s going to be a big twist to the madness but you have to read to find out what happens.
If you’ve been tuned in since the 1st July, you would have met some great male authors of colour. All month, each day one author who represents a certain genre has been featured. Myself and a few other female authors have campaigned to help them reach new readers. This weekend, we’re on to the final genre ‘Urban Kings.’ Here we have a line up of ten male authors, who represent all different areas of fiction. The one thing they have in common is that they’re all ‘urban’ writers, be it fantasy, erotica, general fiction etc they bring an urban vibe!
In the line up we have:
Alexzander Christian
Anthony Monroe
Joel Daniel
Teddy Mack
Nick Adams
Kevin Casey
Thomas J
Julian Foster
Author Pugh
Mike Wilson
We’ll get to know some fun facts, interests and a little bit about what each author brings to their urban genre. I’m rather looking forward to this group, as there is a big misconception that there are not many authors of colour who rep the fantasy or paranormal genre. I had this discussion just last week with a fellow reader and author on Facebook! There are many of them, they just need to be elevated.
If you’d like to catch up on what you’ve missed from the 1st July, we had the ‘Street Lit Kings’ week one, week two ‘Book Boyfriends/romance/poetry and non-fiction’ and the final week ‘Urban Kings.’ Just look back and the most recent blog posts to meet authors and their books.
On reflection I must say that I am really happy and proud, to have come up with this month long promo. As I said in my previous posts Dear African American Man, and Why Does He Trigger You I am a mother to a Black- British male who is just six, and my boyfriend is an African American man, from a state where the police are far from kind to black men. The UK is not innocent in it’s handling of Black-British men either, we’ve had cases like George Floyd. I covered this in my article in the up and coming July issue of Aspiring Authors Magazine LLC which can be checked out here. So, it’s really important to me that the world starts to change, following George Floyd and Rayshard Brook’s deaths at the hands of police officers. I will do all that I can to help support this demographic of men, who are often tossed aside, hurt, killed, and looked at as if they are some kind of public enemy number one. My son simply can not grow up in this environment, he deserves better as he grows up, and so does every man who identifies as a man of colour. Regardless of his descent be it Black-British, Caribbean, African, African-American, Asian etc.
So as we enter the last week of promo for male authors of colour, let’s not forget that #BlackLivesMatter and they always will, until statistics can dispute the fact that the lives of black men are under threat, and have been for sometime. No one can dispute this, especially when you use statistics to prove it. By saying ‘Black Lives Matter’ does not mean no one else does, it just means in order for ‘All Lives Matter’ to have any real meaning or relevance, we need to recognise that black lives are and have historically been wiped out brutally by police, and racism is still very much alive. I make no apology for saying it or supporting it #blacklivesmatter.
Have a wonderful weekend! We’ll kick off with the final group here soon.
Aww I really am a sucker for these cute little novella love stories. I came across this author’s work on Facebook, it was on pre-sale for just .99 cent so I snapped it up! This is the first romance I have read by the author, but I have read her book of poetry, which was an excellent five star read for me. Let’s get into what I enjoyed with the romance!
Holly Mitchell thought she had it all, a successful career, owns her own home, a best friend who would get her out of any jam she found herself in. But the one thing she desired most in life was missing—someone to spend her life with. So, she decides to delve into the tumultuous world of online dating.
Brandon Thompson has always been there through thick and thin for his best friend, Holly
has seen him through some dark days with his constant relationship drama. When Holly tells him, she has started internet dating, his whole world shifts. He realizes that he might have more than friendship on his mind.
Will the two best friends realize that they have some deep seeded feelings for each other, or will they continue the cycle of random hookups and short-lived relationships?
This is a classic ‘friends to lovers’ story between Holly and Brandon. Both characters for me were extremely likable on the off set. I did fall for them both and what they really wanted in life and love. I found that the story flowed well, it held my attention, I read it in one sitting. I enjoyed the journey that both characters go on from friends to lovers. The writing style was nice and easy to follow too. My only feeling as I read was that, I would have loved if the author allowed the characters to lead me, and showed rather than told parts. Things characters did, conversations they had, or who said what to who. For me as just one reader I would have loved to have seen this play out, in dialogue or character’s actions, rather than being told what had happened. This did not spoil my enjoyment, but it for sure could and always does develop the reading experience. I could feel closer to the characters and experience their situation, be pulled in deeper– show me it. Let them (characters) do it and lead, with less narrative from the author. But like I said, this is just me as one reader. Do not let this put you off this is a wonderful novella, I do recommend it.
Holly and Brandon initially are both looking for love in other places, however while this drama plays out ( which was fun to read about), there are two other men that take an interest in Holly via a dating app. This is the plot twist… I guessed it. No spoilers from me at all. Oh no! That does not mean the plot is predictable, far from it I just saw it coming, maybe as I tried to imagine how Holly and Brandon would become one. This is a really sweet and touching plot, with plenty of moments that made me personally smile even if imagined what the author had in store correctly before the end.
Overall, this was a lovely introduction to the author’s romance stories, and I would for sure read more no doubt about it I am a fan. I do highly recommend that all lovers of contemporary romance give this novella a try. It’s less than $2.00 at the time of writing this, and free to read on Kindle Unlimited so why not! Get wrapped up in Brandon and Holly’s sweet and beautiful ‘friends to lovers’ story, you won’t regret it. We need more of these beautiful stories especially in the African -American genre. Four enjoyable stars from me. Check out Amazon here.
Stealing one of the personal blog prompts today from 365 Days of Writing Prompts for Romance Writers . Wow my English teacher in what we’d call in the UK ‘secondary school’ I guess ‘high school’ to the rest of the world, in a nutshell he was a bit of a mess! LOL. I won’t name him, for now I’ll call him Mr. X.
Where did I go to school?
In the depths of south London, Mum actually sent me out of the local area to school. At the time she didn’t feel the standard of education was great in our local area.. It was just a short bus ride away, about no more than thirty to forty five minutes from where we lived. It was a mixed gender school also, generally the school did have a good reputation back then. Lots of parents sent their children there. The only thing was, while the general reputation of the school was good….some classes were unruly! My English class was one of them LOL. Not me personally, when I was in school I behaved well, I was there to learn. I actually really enjoyed this subject, languages and design and technology too this is where I excelled. But my classmates were a hoot, to say the least. It was mainly the boys, we had a group of popular boys who loved to wind up our English teacher. There was also one particular female student who had a big problem with listening and behaving. To me, sitting at my table I just bit my lip and tried not to laugh!
What was your teacher like?
At the time when he taught my class Mr. X must have been in his late thirties to early forties. He was tall, very skinny! Had long, stinging , dirty blond hair, ALWAYS wore black and had bad breath. Thinking about it now all these years later, I bet he was some kind of goth. I left school in ’99 at sixteen, but it never really occurred to me why he may have always wore black.
Anyway, like I said the class was a little troublesome and he spent a lot of his time shouting, mainly at the same students. His favourite line was ‘siiiiiiillllleeeence!’ Then, he’d slam a book or his hand on the desk, *cringe*. Nope, nine times out of ten that did not work, and he ended up splitting up the tables of students. In the end he gave us a seating plan, so certain students couldn’t sit together.
As a teacher, looking back now all these years later was he a good one? No, not really. I say this as I myself after I left school went on to be a high school teacher, and spent ten years in the profession in the classroom. I worked my way up to head of my subject. On reflection compared to what I know now , after teacher training he wasn’t a good one.
Did I learn…? Very little. Partly due to the class behaviour, but when the class was under control even then as I sit here and think, ‘what did I learn from Mr. X?’ I draw a blank!
Was it his fault? Hmmm it’s a hard one. In all honesty, I think he was at that stage of what we call ‘teacher’s burn out’. When a teacher is so jaded about the profession they just collect their pay and that’s it.
Did you get on?
In all honesty, I never really interacted with him much! I was one of the good kids there to learn, I just sat back and watched the ‘show’ every lesson. The battle of wits between him and the unruly kids. Did he ever shout at me? Yes, there were times when I got so bored I would talk, doodle, not really tune into what was going on. You could hardly blame me though if you were a fly on the wall. Did I ever talk back to him? Yeah, a couple of times as in all honesty I was one of the good kids, I felt ‘why are you picking on me!?’ as any teenager would at that time.
So in a nutshell, while English was one of my favourite subjects at school, sadly I never had a very inspirational or even dedicated teacher. It was more ‘crowd control’ at times in my lessons. Which is sad, because yes my grades in English did suffer, generally. And of course he did predict me and a lot of that class with low grades…. did I get a low grade for my GCSE exams? yeah I got a C grade. This is not ‘low’ technically A-C is good, especially back then this was the 90s. But I was capable of so much more.
What happened after school?
Believe it or not, after school when I left I re-studied English. I went to what you could call an ‘online’ community school and sat some extra tests for another English qualification. I came out with a B, now that’s more like it! I didn’t do this right away, I was probably in my early twenties as it was at this point I was searching for work, and what I wanted to do. Employers (at the time) wanted A-C grades in English, okay I had that I got a C but I wanted to re-do it so I did.
Generally I feel on reflection that my English teacher at school had a lot on his plate, but even if the class was golden he was very jaded and job hardened I think, on reflection. Sadly my English teacher did not spark my love for reading or writing, this came myself! Just something I enjoyed with little inspiration from the person who really introduced myself and classmates to it. You can’t win them all I guess! I don’t think I would go back and change things, as in the end it panned out okay. I just hope if Mr. X is still alive if he ever thinks about his time in the classroom, that at some point in his career he can look back and say, ‘I loved that job even if class 7PU were little shits’ LOL.
It’s Friday! And our last male author of colour to get to know in the ‘Book Boyfriends’/romance, poetry and non-fiction genres is this man in a suit! Who is that? It’s Adrian Walker the non-fiction /inspirational debut author, he has published his first book.
Fun Facts About Adrian:
NAME: Adrian C Walker II
FUN FACT(s): I am the oldest of 13, I have been to all but 10 states and been tons countries outside of the US, I’ve beat cancer twice, have my own clothing line, and I have been on a no red meat, or chicken journey for 3 years.
Star Sign: Although I don’t believe in astrological signs, I am a Libra.
( Well that’s a shame Adrian, as your star sign’s energy is absolutely lovely! I’ve really loved every Libra I have crossed paths with…just sayin’)
Here’s a book Adrian would love to share with us…
From his youthful perspective, Adrian C. Walker II, who is the eldest of thirteen siblings and now author instantaneously and subconsciously discovered that growing up sooner than later was his determining factor. In retrospect, leading a sheltered way of living was inevitable but normal, up until his vibrancy became unexpectedly shifted at the age of twelve. The plague of bad news surfaced when he and his parents got a diagnosis of Mr. Walker having a bone tumor, in which was expected by the doctors to end Walker’s life or living his life as a leg amputee. However, Mr. Walker’s distressful event of receiving his diagnosis was nothing short of the storms he faced in years to come; cancer, two failed marriages, multiple near-death experiences, alcoholism, non-illusionary premonitions, and more. As a reader of this written story, Adrian C. Walker II will guide you through the fire and into his journey as a survivor of many events that were deemed to be his breaking point of life itself. His hope is for you to master the art of humbly doing the same.
At the time of writing this Adrian’s work has some wonderful reviews, and it’s also available in audio book too! Check out the book here. on Amazon.
😲Giveaway time! I have two more signed paperbacks to give away. Closes on the 31st July, just add your email to enter. System picks the winners I have no control. Share this anywhere you wish, I wanna get these copies off my hands lol. Good luck.
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Author, Kim Knight 