Cordaro Santiago is a first time author and is very happy to tell his story to the world. Cordaro is 30 years old and was born and raised in Chicago Heights, Illinois, which sits right outside of Chicago. Cordaro is the eldest of his siblings. Cordaro has done a lot of theatre, so he is not a stranger to pulling his thoughts from the paper, but now has embraced putting those thoughts on to the paper. Cordaro is currently working on Volume II of his highly anticipated book “I Will Never be Number 1 in His Life: The Story of Dating Downlow Men” which doesn’t have a release date. Cordaro also plans to release a single that would be a promotional tool for his second book.

About his book, I Will Never Be #1 in His Life

“You’ll laugh, you'll cry, by then....you'll be hooked!' 
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I'll Never Be #1 In His Life: The Story of Dating down Low Men is about a young black man and his journey into becoming a gay, black man. The book dives into the author’s childhood and exploring his sexuality at a young age and how it affected him as a young adult. The reader is also given a glimpse into the lives of those close to the author and how their men played a part in his self-identifying as a confident gay man whose sex life was rather spontaneous and at times confusing. This book was birthed from a WORLD OF HURT! 

She has a Degree in Computer Network Engineering, and currently works as an IT Specialist and Internet Manager for a new car dealership. Yet, her first love and passion lies within her writing. She has humble beginnings and lived first hand in the perilous, poverty stricken neighborhoods and surroundings depicted in her writing. Her writing engrosses you, tugs at your heart’s strings and then inspires you.

​About her book

Witnessing a brutal rape and beating at the tender age of five, was only the beginning of life’s vendetta against Jamika. As she grows older, family secrets taunt her. Her first love, Mark Rosier, was more than a handsome face with stability and charm, he was finally an escape for Jamika, then ends up shattering her heart. Family betrayed her, her past loves broke her heart, and it seemed that everyone around her wasn’t loyal.  
Her only solace is the rare, sultry singing voice she possesses. Her voice is her only escape from reality and also her self-proclaimed ticket out of the hood.
Then, out of nowhere comes handsome, sensitive and wealthy Deonte Bryant. The wall she’s built around her heart comes crashing down. Sex, betrayal, revenge and even death will pull you into the never ending saga of Jamika’s quest for happiness. While trying to turn life’s lemons into lemonade, her life is turned upside down once again by the hands of the very person she would had never thought. She must now take extreme measures to save her dream and ultimately her life, or die trying.
www.tanishahope.com
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Her diverse coaching and mentoring methodologies encourage teachers to create change within their instructional practice. Dr. Martin inspires teachers to use love as their shield, in order to foster relationships and develop a harmonious culture and climate in the classroom environment. 
 
About her book
 
"Love Notes" is a delightful manuscript that leads readers on a spiritual journey that is designed to evoke thoughtful reflections about what it means to develop compassion and teach with purpose. "Love Notes" was developed out a need to create an awareness within the education community about the importance of fostering students' interest to guide them on a path to find their purpose.  Educators will be inspired to demonstrate compassion and humility towards others to help make the world a better place. Dr. Martin's message will also empower, uplift, and motivate readers to seek the highest version of themselves in an effort to gain fulfillment through meaningful work, personally and professionally.  The meaningful work associated with being an educator is the critical need to instill positive beliefs and principles within children to reveal their greatness (gifts and talents) to create a moral shift in the world for the betterment of mankind. Dr. Martin's manuscript adds value and helps educators to rekindle their passion for teaching and learning, while living with purpose.
 
www.drsoniamartin.com
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Patrick Burton’s passion is family. He wrote his first book because he personally has watched children affected by abandonment. He has spoken to adults who are still trying to get closure from it, and he had this thought of not having the great father that he had and what would his outcome had been if he did. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his beautiful family.
 
About his book 

Ronnie Whelms has taken a great pride in the fact that his education in Child Psychology has allotted him the luxury of giving back to his community.  His current case, sixteen-year- old David Jones has the not-so-rare-situation of being raised by his mother and step-father. While David can appreciate the fullness of family with them, he can’t help but desire the closure he needs from a relationship with his biological father. Knowing that David’s biological father has no more interest in him other than the final child support check, Ronnie has every intention of championing the mending of their relationship by getting them back to what a biological father and son is truly supposed to be.

There’s only one problem… Ronnie has his own new found abandonment. While on her death bed, his mother lets him know that the man he has called father all of his life is not his real father. With his world now up-side down, he finds himself outside of his textbook resolve to dysfunctional families.  It will take the navigation of David’s case in conjunction with deep, dark family secret held by a long distance relative in order for Ronnie to truly come to grips with his abandonment issues.
 
Websites- www.patrickburtonbooks.com

Pastor Erika T. Moore was born to Sandra Williams September 5,1969. She was born and raised in Wyandanch New York. Pastor Erika has five beautiful daughters Jocelyn, Joyelle', Jewel, Jornee' and Charity. She has worked as a licensed Teacher's assistant since 1998. Pastor Erika also holds an associate degree from Suffolk community college in liberal arts. She has attended Bible College completing and graduating in Evangelism. She accepted Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and Savior at the age of 21 in New Jersey. Receiving spiritual impartations, Pastor Erika was ordained in the office of a Prophetess May 30,2009. In June of 2009, "United Voices of Social and Spiritual Concerns Ministries “was birthed. From this ministry Real Talk and Sisters with Purpose was developed.

In February 2012, Pastor Erika heard the call to pastor and was released with the blessing of her Pastor of Olive Branch Ministry, Pastor Craig Dowd Sr., in September 2012. In January 2013, "Charity House of Prayer and Worship Center was born. On December 21st, 2013 Pastor Erika and Apostle Adolph Moore joined together in Marriage. Currently Pastor Erika T. Moore is the Pastor of Praise God International Ministries, Inc in Lillington, North Carolina by the side of her husband Chief Apostle Adolph Moore. Pastor Erika enjoys spending time with the Senior Citizens at Green Leaf Nursing home in Lillington NC, every Thursday mornings. She is also the co-founder of MEP Publishing with her husband. Pastor Erika has published two great books, “A Mother’s Time To Heal’ and “Sister’s With Purpose. I am My Sisters keeper”. Pastor Erika also written the play “You Don’t Know Jack,” coming soon.

Pastor Erika enjoys spending time with her family and church family. She enjoys singing, writing, reading, and outreach. "I believe in the spirit of servitude. I enjoy serving my community. I enjoy feeding the homeless and providing clothing for the less fortunate," says Erika. Above all, Pastor Erika enjoys worshipping God. You can find her always giving God his just praise. 

About her book: Sex, Lies & Church

Have you ever had a secret that you hope it will never get out? This book is about three different families in a small community trying to not let the hidden things from their past hinder the future. Lives and businesses was established on the lies that was kept hidden from generations and now are about to be surfaced to the top. Find out how "Sex, Lies and Church" can either break you or make you free indeed.


www.erikatmoore.com

Christy Sanderson is the Founder of  GloryNation, an author, and an entrepreneur. Christy is from a small town in Mississippi.  She now lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her son. All Christy's life, writing was her passion and  a way to escape her problems.  At the young age of 23, Christy fully committed herself to God, let Him take total control of her life and started her own ministry Glory Nation. Her purpose in life is to fill God's Glory and to fulfill God promises to help others become closer to Jesus Christ and to help them find their purpose in life.

Author and entrepreneur, Christy Sanderson is the founder of GloryNation. She is 27 years old, from Canton, Mississippi. Her life story begins when she was 8 years old. Her mother died in front of her face while she was talking to her. So she never had a positive female role model in her life. Her grandmother died when she was 11 years old. By the time she was 14 years old her family told her she was nothing and she would grow up to be nothing. They called her everything but her name and they turned completely against her. Her self-esteem was completely shot. In life she always felt like she wasn't pretty enough, thick enough, tall enough or good enough for anything. So of course, she turned to ungodly things for attention and love. By the time she was 19 years old she become a mother. By the time she was 23 years old she tried to commit suicide. But that was her turning point because that's when she met God face to face. That's when she said "I surrender to Your Will, I will do whatever you say and I would say whatever you want me to say." She was tired, heartbroken and was tired of living life in sin. It seems like after that she went through Hell, she was living from place to place. She remembers sleeping on someone floor just so her son could have a bed to sleep in at night. There were days she would go hungry just so her son would have food to eat. So finally she told God it has to be a better way out, she didn't care what she had to do, she had to make a better future for her and her son. So finally she stepped out on faith, moved to a place she never been to before. Of course it was Atlanta, Ga, she knew no one there, she had no family or friends. All she had was God and that's when God open doors of opportunity for her. She was hired in education but that still wasn't enough. She was tired of living from paycheck to paycheck so she asked God to open up more doors for her and that's when she wrote her first book Woman of God: Who Did God Create You to Be! Then she wrote her second book From Nothing into the Woman of God: Spiritual Life. Her life changed forever because she became an entrepreneur and her ministry start growing through God. What Christy is trying to say is no matter what you have been through God will make a way for you. Once you see an opportunity that comes your way take action so you won't get left behind. We are average people; everyone has a story to tell. Trust her you can win in life, change your life and walk into your purpose in life! So she will not allow anyone else tell her what she won't and cannot do. God says all things are possible through him. So Christy is making the impossible into possible.

About her book
 
Your life has a purpose, you might have been through Hell and back but God still has a purpose for your life. Your life is not over with yet!!! Sometimes God will take you from one place to the next in order to move you into something greater. In this book Christy reveals her shocking story and shocking truths to the world, how she went from nothing into the woman of God. How she went from being homeless, from trying to commit suicide, from her family turning against her, from sleeping on someone floor into a whole new lifestyle. God changed her life around in a blink of an eye. How she made God her only option and how she learns to listen to that small silent still little voice inside of her head. Christy now tells her story to help others find their purpose in life to become the person they were created to be.
 
 
http://www.glorynation.org/

​Erica Franklin-Carter is a new author from the small town of White Castle, Louisiana. She is the daughter of Donald and Vera Franklin. Erica is not only an author; she’s also a wife and mother. She met her husband, Marcus, when she was only thirteen-years-old. They have been happily married for ten years. They have three children together (Marcus Jr., Enijah, and Marcayah) who they adore. Although she is a homemaker, she acquired her Bachelors of Science in Criminal Justice with a concentration in human services.
 
Erica broke into the book world on September 13, 2016, with her debut novel, My Best Friend’s Deceit. Since then, she has released three more books. My Best Friend’s Deceit 2, I Thought She Loved Me, and I Thought She Loved Me 2 are just a few of many books Erica plans on releasing. She has a standalone novel, Yearning For His Love, that will be releasing soon.
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Erica never dreamed of becoming an author. She feels as though it was something she was destined to do. Erica says her inspiration to write books come from life. Her family and loyal readers are her motivation to continue pushing forward with her writing career. She feels that if one person takes something away from any of her books, she’s done what she set out to do.
 
About her book, My Best Friend’s Deceit
 
Tremaine Martin and his fiancé Karlie Lewis were two average Americans living in the small town of White Castle, Louisiana. Tremaine worked as an A-class carpenter in industrial plants to provide a living for his family while Karlie attended school working towards becoming a marriage counselor. They both grew up in conditions that drove them to be the close knit couple they have become. With each of them experiencing levels of abuse from their mothers, they were determined to be there for one another. All they want is to live a simple life and provide better conditions for their own children they plan to have in the future.  
 
For the most part, that is exactly the life they have been living. That is until one of Tremaine's best friends Joshua came back into the picture. Joshua moved away right after high school but jumped at a job opportunity in his hometown. Now he is back and has some secrets and hidden agendas he is anxiously awaiting to reveal.   
 
Jacobi, another childhood friend of Tremaine and Joshua, quickly senses that things just aren't right with Joshua.  He tries to warn Tremaine, but he does not take heed to Jacobi's warnings.  Joshua is willing to silence Jacobi at any cost.  When secrets are revealed and jealousy rears its ugly head, will Tremaine and Karlie continue to live the simple life they love or will it all come crashing down once Joshua puts everything on the table?