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Lawana J

Lawana J

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I'm a student at a community college in my area where I'm majoring in English in order to perfect my writing skills. I write short stories and poetry, some of the erotic kind, some children. I'm a mom and a grandmother and I enjoy making friends. I love reading romance books and right now I'm into the paranormal romances (vamps, werewolves,... more »
  • Chicago, IL, USA
  • member since April 27, 2009

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  • Debra Phillips

    Debra Phillips says

    Hi Book Lover:

    Check this out…Take a spicy grandmother and two street-wise kids
    Take a missing mother, and stir in a killer who will
    stop at nothing to get what he wants.

    Someone must protect the children…….

    Read what happens next in the best selling Urban book:

    Love Trumps Game
    By d.y. Phillips

    The page-turner book that folks are talking about
    Reviews and an excerpt can be found on www.amazon.com

    * available at Black Expressions Book Club!!

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Desa the Princess Jelly Bean®

    Desa the Princess Jelly Bean® says

    The Writing for all ages group is having a poll. Come and check out the VOTE NOW!!! disscussion posted at the top of the page. Please read and leave comment.
    Thank You!
    WFAA Admins

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • james m

    james m says

    Thanks Lawana for your nice words. One of the real life characters is an interesting black woman in my book. I hope you read Man Interrupted as they have for about 10 dollars at www.amazon.com and check out the cool reviews there too. If you don't get stuff on line pop into any book store and ask for Man Interrupted by James Bailey. Let me know? best James.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Tony Carmine

    Tony Carmine says

    Here is a blurb about my new book—ON THE CREST. Comments welcome: Tige Anderson goes through a series of emotional, physical and psychological adventures in this coming-of-age roller coaster, balancing his life among his romantic trysts, his ambitions, his humanity and his gay best friend. The one thread that connects all of the people in his life is the fact that the cycle of life puts everyone through a series of ups (‘on the crest’) and downs. Whether an individual winds up on top of the wave or under it depends on them.

    Prologue:

    [A mind full of shadows which form long, dark points that pierce the heart through and bring to consciousness the fierce pain of reality. Hooded specters that travel through space and time gathering up pieces of memory and bringing them together to form one melted block of pain and pleasure called the past.

    Were it possible to disintegrate as happens to dreams and tender moments. As powerful as these dreams and tender moments seemed at their inception, we come to realize that they are made of invisible particles of nothingness. Were it possible to just vanish like hopes made of tiny particles of nothing so would I be free of reality. And in that vanishing, would I finally be able to find peace.]

    Those thoughts flooded Tige’s mind as he sat and watched the pointed shadows caused by the brand-new-morning sun crawl across the floor in front of him. He had been all alone in the solarium since the middle of the night awaiting the sunrise as he did on many nights since he was put into that place. It was his favorite time of day. Anymore, each minute of the day was filled with painful recollection and doubt except for this brief, fleeting moment. It was a time, it seemed, that the earth, like him, was confused. It brought him solace to think that at this very moment, the entire universe, or so it seemed, was in a state of doubt and he was not alone. It was the time when day was pushing back night, eliminating the last vestiges of darkness to assume domination and live out its brief lifetime before dying and willing its realm to its brother called ‘tomorrow’. It was a time of starting over, of another chance. Days rolled in one after the other like the waves at the beach. It made one think that no matter how tragic the events that occurred in one solar period, there was always another; there was always another wave.

    Tige sat in his robe and pajamas on one of the couches in the solarium watching the morning sun get stronger, watching the streams of light come through the bars on the windows, hoping that the attendant would not yet realize that he was not in his room, which was where he should have been until breakfast which was still two hours away. He had done this so many times in the past but he was never discouraged from continuing to enjoy his moment of peace, but rather would endure the lectures from the staff about how everyone there must obey the rules so that all there could accomplish what they came there for.

    The reward that he got from this solitude was worth any reprimand which may have followed from the staff. He knew that his time remaining there was brief and he could continue this practice somewhere else. This was his time to savor the self-induced, companion-until-death torment brought about by events which had happened before and could not be changed. This was his time to not only enjoy the companionship of hope for tomorrow, but also to flog himself with memories and guilt for things that he had been instrumental in bringing to existence. He had to torture himself for what he had done or for what he had not done. With an almost painful enjoyment, Tige watched the single line of gray smoke from his cigarette and recalled the days past. He watched the ashes fall off like expended days gone by. He watched the orange line of fire racing toward its end.

    Again, comments welcome.
    The book can be purchased at barnesandnoble.com, amazon.com, authorhouse.com and many more sites. Thank you. Tony Carmine.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • james m

    james m says

    Hi Lawana cool picture! If you like quirky books read the short excerpt from my published book Man Interrupted below and share your thoughts. Best James.
    http://www.shelfari.com/o1517924594

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )

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