Excerpt from "The Dumb Bitch 2"

Everybody's been asking me about the sequel to The Dumb Bitch.  Just to show that I'm actually working on the next book, here's the intro from The Dumb Bitch 2: Dee’s Story:

What’s up y’all? I know I’m the last person ya’ll wanna hear from after what I did to that hoe La-La, but fuck her!  She was a dummy - ain’t have no sense. A real bitch woulda peeped game a mile away. Y’all can say I was dirty all ya want, but that hoe was lucky all she got was 20. She had that fine ass brother backin' for her, so she took the plea. I even heard the bitch tried to snitch, but it was too little, too late. She had it all and didn’t even much know it. She always had her grandma. I ain’t have no muthafuckin' body but Dee’Adra Yvonne Reese! Whatcha know 'bout suckin' dick at thirteen to sleep in a nigga's pissy-ass closet just to keep warm cause yo momma won't let you in? Yeah, exactly - not a muthafuckin' thing! So sit back and get ready to hear a real Ratchet City Tale….

Staying Motivated to Write

I'm still hard at work on The Dumb Bitch II, trying to hurry up and get this thing done.  Fans have been asking for the sequel since the first book got published in mid-November.  It's still hard to believe that yesterday marked three weeks since I became a published writer.  It still feels weird.

 

I'm working hard to stay on point, though.  Still, it can be difficult to stay motivated to write every single day. (In that way, I suppose it's a lot like having to go to the gym and work out every day.)  There's a temptation to fall back into the old routine: watching TV, goofing off online, etc. 

 

Plus, there's all the stuff that goes along with publishing that I never thought about, such as marketing. I'm constantly having to find ways to promote my work, whether advertising on Amazon, posting on Facebook, and so on. It's something that almost all indie writers have to do if they want to be successful.

 

All in all, there are a lot of things that can cut into your writing if you let them. That's why I'm focused on keeping my eyes on the prize: becoming a successful author. I'll still have to do those other things, but writing every day is the one thing that is simply mandatory.

My First Book Signing

I had my first book signing last Saturday (Nov. 21, 2015), and it was an amazing success!  I sold every copy I had (and have been receiving requests for more)!

It seems that readers are really liking the story.  That's great, and also very encouraging; it's made me want to hurry up and finish the next book in the series, which I've already started.  Hopefully readers will like it just as much as the first story.  Thanks again to everyone for your support.

I'm finally published! Yay!

The Dumb Bitch: A Ratchet City Tale is finally published and available!  As everyone in my family knows by now (as well as a lot of my friends), this book was a labor of love.

I'm so glad to finally have this story out there, because writing a book is a lot more exhausting than I ever thought it would be.  That said, I think it's an engaging story, and I hope people will enjoy reading it just as much as I enjoyed writing it. (And if you do enjoy it, please leave a review on Amazon.)

My heartfelt thanks goes out to everyone who has supported me in this, and to those who have encouraged me in general over the years.

Well, there's no rest for the weary - gotta get started on The Dumb Bitch II and The Dumb Bitch III after that.  And if people like them enough, I'll probably keep going until the world is filled with Dumb Bitches.  (Wait, that didn't come out right.  Oh well...)

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Excerpt from "The Dumb Bitch"

This is my first post and - to be honest - I'm still trying to get the hang of this entire blog concept.  Nevertheless, here's an excerpt from my soon-to-be-released first book, a gritty urban drama called The Dumb Bitch (A Ratchet City Tale): 

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I remember like yesterday the day that changed my momma’s life forever. She was standing at the stove (cooking yet another damn pot of beans) when there was a knock at the door. She sent my brother Reggie to answer it, and when he opened the door there stood a woman dressed in purple bike-in-tights and a gold halter-top.

She looked down at my brother and said, “ Go get Big Ken for me, baby.”

Reggie was about to run and get him when Yogi came to the door behind him and asked the woman what business she had with her husband that couldn’t wait till he came in the street.

The woman looked at my mother, rolled her neck and said, “First off, bitch, he ain’t yo muthafuckin’ husband. He the same thing to you that he is to me – my baby daddy.”

Yogi calmly asked ole girl to follow her into the house to get Big Ken and talk about what was going on. As they reached the kitchen Yogi grabbed the now-scorched pot of beans and threw them in the woman’s face. She then grabbed a knife off the table and commenced to cutting that woman till it was nothing but skin and meat hanging from her face. It was as if she snapped. (It took me years to get the sounds of that lady’s scrams out of my head).

Big Ken heard all the commotion and came running down the hall in his boxers, pistol in hand. As soon as he seen the woman on the floor screaming and holding her face he looked at Yogi and said, “Damn, Yo! Now what we s’pose to eat?”

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