Barbara Davis is a native Oklahoman and a retired U.S. Air Force veteran.  She is the mother of two beautiful daughters.  Alhough her first baby girl was stillborn, she was blessed six years later with another beautiful baby girl. Motherhood has been her greatest accomplishment to date.

Writing Pieces of Us, has been another one of her accomplishments. Writing was always a cathartic experience for her. She would conjure up stories and poems to express how she felt and how she viewed the world. Over the years, Barbara accumulated several poems and short stories and would often share them with anyone who would listen. After retiring with over 20 years in the U.S. Air Force, she decided it was time to gather a collection of her best poems and self-publish her first book. In 2016, Pieces of Us was published.  She has recently transitioned from poetry to writing short stories and is currently working on a book of shorts titled Shattered Pieces. The projected publication date is June 2021.

Barbara holds a M.S. in Information Systems Management and a B.S. in Computer Information Systems, both of which have afforded her the opportunity to become an adjunct professor at one of Oklahoma’s two-year colleges.  She currently work as a Computer Scientist for the U.S. Air Force. 

About her book
Pieces of Us Poetry and Pearls for the bold, broken, and beautiful, is much more than your typical collection of poetry, each piece is based on a real-life subject in which I eloquently scribed to evoke a heart-to-heart connection with my readers. I take my readers on a vivid journey through joy, pain, triumph, and tragedy. My intent is for my collection to encourage and inspire the bold, broken, and beautiful among us.

Website:
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Born in Shreveport, Louisiana he has claimed Houston as his home. Darine shares a unique writing style that tends to pull the reader into his world. He tries to put the reader in the characters shoes by using everyday situations and events that the reader can truly relate to. His timely humor and sharp wit comprised with a thought-provoking message tends to grasp the reader’s attention and keeps it throughout the entire book. He is a Navy veteran and graduate of the University of Houston-Victoria with a BA in Information Systems. 

Bayou Drama – Love in the City: Many stories of love and dram filled the Bayou City’s air. Bayou Drama is a collection of short but intense stories told in five different points of view.
 
Michael is an emotionally charged husband caught in a tangled web of confusion and deceit. He is feverishly in love with his wife of fifteen years but she takes his love for granted and puts career before marriage. Can Michael accept his wife's decision or will he be tempted by another and bring even more drama in an already strained equation.  
 
Alice is a woman who has it all; a career, her independence, and a sincere confidence of who she is. No man can tame her and she feels no man will until she meets Greg a shy but confident man who knows what he wants in his life as well as his relationship. When the two meet sparks fly but has Alice truly met her match? Or has Greg bit off more than he can chew?
 
Shonda a newbie to the Houston area looking for love and a new start allows her to meet Tony a very comical employee who is taken by her charm and her beauty. Shonda is intrigued with his honesty and humor as well as his ...appetite. Can they live happily ever after or will drama intervene one more time in this seemingly modern day fairytale.
 
These compelling stories in Bayou Drama will grip your heart; making you laugh, cry and fight for the lovers. In the end, you will view your relationships and the drama surrounding them in a new light.
 
EXCERPT LINK - http://issuu.com/PHEink/docs/darine-davis-bayou-drama-excerpt

Shana Burton, a native of Macon, Georgia, is the best-selling author of the critically-acclaimed Flaws series (Flaws and All, Flaw Less, Flawfully Wedded Wives, and Flawbulous); a memoir, Note to Self: The Diary of a Divorcee; and Georgia Author of the Year (GAYA) Best Fiction nominated book, First Comes Love. She was also nominated for a GAYA award for Flaws and All.  Her tenth book, Kiss and Tell, was released in 2020.

Synopsis for Kiss & Tell- Closed doors don’t always keep secrets...
Alexis Woodford fled Charlotte, NC, stripping herself of mistakes and regrets holding her captive from the drama-free life she longed for. With her skeletons tucked discreetly in the confines of her new home on Bald Head Island, Alexis forges on, guilt free…and smitten with her neighbor – scrumptious actor Roan Carter.

Impossibly addicted to the benefits of bachelor life on Bald Head’s beachfront community, Roan Carter inexplicably finds himself caught up in monogamy with feisty Alexis, quickly romancing and pledging forever to his stunning bride in a seaside wedding void of the Hollywood frills he left behind. But when his past crashes the honeymoon, will Roan lose the love of his life forever…or will it be Alexis’s own indiscretions which pull them apart?  

​Website- https://shanaburtonbooks.wixsite.com/website

Born in Akron, Ohio, I was raised on the north side of Columbus.  I am a loving wife and mother to 5 and now I’ve taken on the role of authorship. I was always known to have a wild imagination, however I didn't begin to put my pen to paper until I was about ten years old, which was still more of a hidden talent. Over the years, I would get little bursts of energy and a nagging to write but it wasn't until my early twenties, that the nagging I once felt became more of a necessity to create stories and I haven’t looked back since. I’m ready to share my creative world with the real world, so embark on this journey with me as we take a ride through my mind. 

About her book

​You ever been pulled in two different directions? Your heart is pulling you down the right path, but your mind is right there making you look left. Greatness finds herself stuck in a love triangle. Leaving Genesis in the past has been hard, but Cashius makes it easier to let go. Will the pressure make Greatness into the Diamond she is meant to be, or will too much pressure cause her to crack?

​Brooklyn native Steven Van Patten is the author of the critically acclaimed Brookwater’s Curse trilogy, about an 1860s Georgia plantation slave who becomes law enforcement within the vampire community. In contrast, the titular character in his Killer Genius series is a modern day hyper-intelligent black woman who uses high-end technology as a socially conscious serial killer.
 
SVP’s short fiction includes contributions to horror anthologies like Hell’s Kitties, Shopping List 4  and  the Stoker Award nominated New York State of Fright. A collection of short horror and dark fiction stories entitled Hell At The Way Station, published by his Laughing Black Vampire Productions publishing company and co-authored by acclaimed storyteller, Marc Abbott hit shelves in 2019.
 
Along with a plethora of other honors and accolades, SVP won three African-African-American Literary Awards in 2019, two for Hell At The Way Station (Best Anthology and Best In Science Fiction) and one for Best Independent Publisher. He’s also written four episodes of the YouTube series, Extra Mythology, and an episode of Viral Vignettes, that starred veteran actors John Schneider and Max Gail as embittered ex-rock and rollers.
 
He uses his full name on Facebook but goes by @svpthinks on Twitter and Instagram. When he’s not creating macabre literature, he can be found stage managing television shows primarily in New York City and occasionally on the West Coast. Along with being a member of the New York Chapter of The Horror Writer’s Association, he’s also a member of The Director’s Guild of America and professional arts fraternity Gamma Xi Phi. His website is www.laughingblackvampire.com.

About his book
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Synopsis: Imagine if you lived in a world where you couldn’t be racist, sexist, an uneducated bully, or even a career criminal without being killed. That is at least part of the vision of The Killer Genius, the most elusive serial killer in human history. Her methods are diverse and her knowledge is unfathomable. Sometimes she kills up close, other times she can be miles away. No matter how she decides to kill, one thing is clear – if you’re chosen, you’re as good as gone.

T.L.Jackson has always been interested in writing about sexuality and erotica ever since reading various books in high school from Flyy Girl to The Coldest Winter.  A few years went by and she thought to put her dreams of writing in this genre to rest until she was encouraged by boyfriend to go for it.
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As a Boston native with Jamaica heritage she wants to share with the world what lives inside her mind. Sometimes it gets a little nasty, but that’s normal. T.L. Jackson is currently finishing her final book in her short story trilogy titled, “Dirty Talk Before Dark”.

Author Bio: China
 
China, a self-proclaimed lyrical storyteller, camped out on floors in recording studios throughout the city of Memphis in the late nineties, listening to music and allowing it to inspire her writing. Her first love was music and the ability to envision the stories behind the music was innate. Throughout the years, she mastered the art of character development and used Hip Hop and R&B as a way to bring her characters to life. As the nineties gave way to the two-thousands, she was able to circumvent the changing world of Hip Hop and continue to share her stories with underground rap audiences in Memphis, Chicago, and Atlanta. Then, one night in a studio in South Memphis, she was recording a song about a young girl who would not allow people to love her. The producer was so blown away by the story, that he asked her if she knew the person in the rap. China told him that she had created the character and the character’s background. He told her that she should turn the rap into a novel. After producing several more “rap stories” and receiving the same response, China knew that it was her destiny to introduce her stories to the world, in written form. However, it was not until an old friend; B’Shone, who was a published author, and shared the same love for Urban Fiction that she did, re-entered her life and presented her with an opportunity of a lifetime. They combined their writing styles and co-wrote her first novel; Tangled in a Lover’s Web 1, and released it in the summer of 2019. In the winter of 2019, she delivered her first solo novel; LACY: Caviar to Collard Greens. It was one of the two prequels to the Tangled in a Lover’s Web story. The second being, B’SHONE: How It All Starts. With no plans of slowing down, China teamed up with her co-author for the second time, and they produced Tangled in a Lover’s Web 2: Collapsed Web. It was released in early summer 2020.
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China was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee and graduated from the University of Memphis with a bachelor’s degree in Public Relations, and Union University, with a master’s degree in English Education. She was introduced to Urban Fiction when her cousin handed her a copy of Sister Souljah’s novel, The Coldest Winter Ever. The novel opened the door to a world she never knew existed, Street Literature. The plot lines and characters were so real, that she became an instant fan of the genre. Over the past twenty years, she has read over three-hundred Urban Fiction books. She believes that a good writer must first be an avid reader.  

​Currently, China lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where she teaches English to high school students. When she is not developing young minds and training future authors, she is spending time with her daughter and a granddaughter.

Tangled in a Lover’s Web Part 1
by B’Shone and China
 
Memphis, TN, is the “Home of the Blues” in more ways than just music. The atmosphere of the “Blues” hovers over the city like dark clouds, so it is no surprise that the wicked storms of Murder, Adultery, Sex, Lies, Revenge, and Dark Secrets rain down on the weary and desperate citizens of the “Bluff City”.
In the tale, Tangled in a Lover’s Web, the weary and desperate become “spiders” caught up in the web of deceit. The “spiders” crawl in and out of each other’s lives leaving a trail of destruction behind, as they struggle to distinguish between “Love” and “Lust”.

28-year-old Luther Stewart is at a crossroads in his marriage to Victoria Walker-Stewart, when he has a chance encounter with an old flame; Malaysia Garrison-Tong. Regret, selfishness, and lust drive him to her doorstep and eventually into her bed. Unfortunately, Malaysia is married to one of Luther’s clients; Ji Tong, but she is still in love with Luther. While she slowly becomes entangled in the marriage of Victoria and Luther, she is forced to question the materialistic foundation of her own marriage. As Luther continues to spin his web of lies, he does not realize that Malaysia and Victoria are unknowingly weaving webs around each other. Eventually, the web that Luther spins around his failing marriage entraps him, and he is forced to face-off with his worst enemy; himself. Amid Luther’s infidelity and inner turmoil, Victoria seeks attention and ultimately finds what she thinks is love, in a talented Urban Fiction writer; B’Shone. As B’Shone enters the web, his presence goes unnoticed until the web he spins, catches all the “spiders”.

In the end, all the webs become one, and the life of each “spider” is permanently altered, when dark secrets are revealed, and the web collapses.

Will Luther and Victoria Stewart continue to be Tangled in a Lover’s Web, or will they find their way back to each other and honor their vows?