Project Currently in Revision

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No need to utilize the carefully curated fictional name Amayah 'Maya' Davies in this manuscript.

Crystal, a now 42 year-old Black woman, is telling her life story. A BULLET NAMED LOVE details her love story, but this body of work takes you from her birth up until her 43rd birthday celebration at an undisclosed, private celebration with her trusted top 3 & their mates.

A Black preacher's Kid from the South's Bible belt defies the odds & shatters the glass ceiling that once threatened to limit her rise to success by opening every door that was once closed, Crystal details the trauma she faced from birth until today as she battles racism, discrimination, sexism and the patriarchy.

Memoir

 I Wasn't Built to Break is a complete manuscript at 92K words.

Readers age 18 and up

Jada Pinkett Smith - Worthy

Michelle Obama - Becoming

Leslie Jones - Leslie F*cking Jones 

Once Maya realized who she'd one day become, she fear she had yeeted herself too close to the sun to behold such a legacy, but when she finds herself on the run for not feeding cats her evil stepmother had caged on a balcony, Maya finds help in the eyes and heart of a neighbor she will soon realize shared a connection with her in several previous lifetimes.

#SFF Science Fantasy

 MACULA is a manuscript complete at 61K words.

Readers age 9 and older, fans of Rick Riordan & Rick Riordan Presents books, fans of Disney-Hyperion books and Marvel movie lovers  

TBD

 Kori - a Black 12-year-old - is being her usual scaredy-cat yet overimaginative self when a meteor strikes. 

Moments after the world doesn't end, Kori finds herself face to face with...herself. Convinced the grief over her mother's death has finally broken her brain, Kori insists she's imagining things. That is until she's hunted by a group of hooded hooligans who all share her face. 

Forced to choose between them and the first alternate version of herself when cornered - Zenaida - Kori escapes with her into a tree, which is actually a portal to other universes now unlocked thanks to the meteor. But because Kori is afraid, she continues to run from her issues with grief, and now her alternates who chase her through the multiverse.

Dazed, and fearing she might never see her dad again, Kori can only listen as Zenaida explains the multiverse. If Kori wants the other versions of herself to stop hunting her, she'll have to find a way to disconnect her pain from theirs and face them directly. Because every time she hurts, they do too. And since mom died, she hasn't stopped hurting. If she can't heal her trauma, the only way her alternates can save themselves is by trapping her in a time loop forever where her pain can't reach them. Kori must find the bravery to face her alternates and the strength to heal from her pain.

The concept for this book manifested as Crystal herself wrestled with grief over losing her maternal grandmother, Pearl, her closest friend and a mother-figure.

When a meteor opens a portal to the multiverse, 12 y/o Kori learns her actions have multiple versions of her chasing her through different worlds and she must save herself from herself.  

Contemporary Speculative Fiction - This genre encompasses a wide range of genres and themes that explore the boundaries of reality and imagination. It includes works that delve into futurism, fantasy, horror, and science fiction, often presenting imaginative worlds and scenarios that challenge the status quo.

 KORI'S DESTINY WITH THE MULTIVERSE is a 57,000 word middle grade contemporary speculative fiction novel, with #OwnVoices and BIPOC representation. 

Readers age 9 and older, fans of Rick Riordan & Rick Riordan Presents books, fans of Disney-Hyperion books and Marvel movie lovers  

This story is comparable to SAL & GABI BREAK THE UNIVERSE for the dangers of wallowing in self-pity, grief, and use of portals. It's also comparable to AMARI AND THE DESPICABLE WONDERS for its deeper mysteries outside the contemporary world, and themes of friendship, adventure and self-discovery. Fans of Marvel's Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse & WandaVision would relate to the hero's high stakes journey, meeting alternate selves & how grief can manifest our reality and alternate realities.

Frustrated by the crappy hands she’s been dealt in life - being stuck in a Podunk town, shitty friend and familial relationships, and being broker than a joke, Indira and her diverse crew of friends play a game called Devil’s Up. Every month they meet for this nefarious game and dare each other to commit petty crimes for cash. First, it’s stealing. Then, it’s blackmailing their teacher. Eventually, the game gets out of control, and someone ends up dead— thanks to bottled-up anger, a quest for revenge, and a rash of fires that turns the town on its heels. 

Desperate to break free of the toxic mess she helped create, Indira’s trapped between friends who’ve turned to mortal enemies and the dirty cop who’d rather exploit their crew than uphold the law. Indira’s life is going up in flames, and she’s desperate for a semblance of control. Now, Indira will have to come clean about her involvement, betraying her friends and face possible prison time — before she becomes the next to die.

Devil’s Up began as a game but led to fires that baffle the town where truth or dare becomes truth or scare, as a group of teens get tangled in a web of lies, revenge, betrayal and death. 

 YA Suspense is a Young Adult fiction genre built around tension, danger, and high emotional stakes, written for teen readers (roughly ages 13–18) 

PRETTY AS FIRE, AND JUST AS DANGEROUS, an 81,000-word young adult suspense novel with mystery and thriller elements.  

Readers age 13 and older,  this story has #OwnVoices BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ representation, and is told from the perspective of a love crazy unreliable narrator. 

This story will appeal to fans of the high-stakes friend dynamics in DARE ME by Megan Abbott, ONE OF US IS NEXT by Karen M. McManus and THESE DEADLY GAMES by Diana Urban 

Amayah Davies is a sheltered eighteen-year-old Black college freshman with a strict mother and a pastor for a father. Her dream was to become a writer and television news anchor after she left her Podunk Bible Belt small town in Georgetown, South Carolina. But she met Neil Hughes, a bad boy with a drug dealing past from a broken home, less than a month after being away. 

There was an instant connection. Literal sparks, a steamy meet cute. It’s hot. Very heavy. She’d rather be ridin’ front seat in a Chevy than sitting in a boring ass auditorium. Her nose was wide open, and she wasn’t the one snortin’ any nose candy — though she was all game with watching it get weighed on the scale and stashing the cash. Okay, let’s be honest, she spent a ton of it too.

To put it simply, Amayah goes from preacher perfect daughter and gets sucked in to a love that shows her other aspects of life. Amayah’s been warned not to bring him ‘round if he’s no good—but Amayah’s in deep. Neil was Amayah’s safe haven until Micah. Who knew a childhood friend since the sixth grade could turn into something more? Now, Amayah has love that is reliable and committed, more than just what was on the surface. And it’s deep. Slow-burn deep. Make it last-forever type vibes. 

However, things get complicated after Neil was ambushed by the Feds long after his split from Amayah. And they grabbed her. Now, Amayah’s on the hook too, long after actions from years prior catches up, bringing unneeded baggage into her new relationship, potentially reigniting flames with Neil as the law saw them as tied as the Feds had tracked them since the beginning.

Make no mistake. This was no love triangle, or was it? Amayah made her choice, Micah. But Amayah’s choice to align herself with Neil could literally trap her in a prison cell for twenty years — and hurt other innocent people she roped in — including Micah, her friends and family. 

Amayah must do the one thing she’s been told not to in order to dodge A BULLET NAMED LOVE, and that’s choose herself, and face the hardest relationship question of all: can true love strike twice? Amayah will have to choose between the love she always wanted and her dreams that got away. 

The concept for this book manifested after friends and family alike, including those in Crystal and Matthew's wedding’s bridal party, asked year after year if she married the Wright guy, which lead to issues in their marriage.

 As Amayah's love for her friend, Micah, deepens, she fears losing Neil, the bad boy who had her heart for 10 years

Creative nonfiction, also known as literary nonfiction, narrative nonfiction or verfabula is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.

A BULLET NAMED LOVE is a 87,000 word creative non-fiction novel, with #OwnVoices and BIPOC representation. 

Readers age 16 and older 

Queen & Slim

Hustle & Flow

 Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes were watching God