Murder, Mystery and Mayhem Laced with Morality

Alicia is a two time Golden Heart® finalist and Silver Quill Award winner.

Alicia finds her inspiration in exploring the dark, dusty corners of the human experience.

She recently released her book, Fractals, and also has a Blood Secret Series you need to check out!

Connect with this amazing author on Instagram: @aliciaanthonybookd

Astrid V.J. is a USA Today Bestselling and Literary Classics award-winning author, social anthropologist, and transformational life coach. She grew up in South Africa and currently lives in Malmö, Sweden. Elisabeth & Edvard: The Siblings' Tale is her debut fantasy duology. She shares many of her insights and truly hopes it will inspire a generation of indomitable change-makers to work together to correct some of the major social problems this current century brings with it.

Connect: @astrid.v.j_author_official

This episode brings us a true detective Sergeant Alan Jenings🕵️‍♂️

He is a police officer/detective at the Clay County sheriff’s office in Jacksonville, Florida and was a former police officer at Jacksonville Sheriff’s office.

Angie Thomas was born September 28, 1988 in Jackson Mississippi. She is an American young adult author, best known for writing “The Hate U give 2017. Her second Young adult novel, “On the come up,” was released in 2018.

Growing up she was subjected to multiple instances of gun violence at a young age. She grew up near the home of assassinated civil rights activist Medgar Evers, stating her mother heard the gunshot that killed him. When she was six years old she witnessed a shoot out. In an interview with the guardian she recounted her her mother took her to the library the following day to show her that “there was more to the world than what she saw that day.” This inspired her to take up writing.

As a teenager, Thomas shared her skills as a rapper, although her music career was short-lived. She was, however the subject of an article in Right on magazine. She went on to obtain a BA from Belhaven University. She was the first black teenager to graduate from her creative writing course.

Jacobs (1814-1897) was born to two African-American slaves and who grew up in slavery.

She was an African-American writer, who’s autobiography, “Incidents in the life of a slave girl,” was published in 1961 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an American Classic,

Born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina, she was sexually harassed by her enslaver. When he threatened to sell her children if she didn’t submit, she hid in a tiny crawlspace under the roof of her grandmother’s house. After staying there for seven years, she finally managed to escape to the free north, where she was reunited with her children and brother. She found work as a nanny and got into contact contact with abolitionist and feminist reformers. During and immediately after the Civil War she went to the union occupied parts of the south together with her daughter, organizing help in founding two schools for fugitive & freed slaves.

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is an American attorney and author who served as a First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She was the first African-American woman to serve in this position. She is a wife of former President Barack Obama. She was born January 17, 1964 in Chicago Illinois she was educated at Princeton University and Harvard law school. She has won a Grammy for the best spoken word album, More.

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was an African-American poet, Author, and short story writer. He was the only African American in his high school and became friends with Orville and Wilbur Wright, the inventors of the airplane.

He was one of the first African-Americans to not only have a national presence but an international following.

He died from TB at the age of 33.

Connect with the bloggers who took home the 2nd place award for successful blog of 2021 in the Blue Mountain Christian Writer's Conference.

This behind the scenes interview is a raw, honest, uncut interview featuring the contributing writers to a blog with an audience in the thousands. Readers report connecting with the authenticity and transparency of the writers. The diverse group of female contributors are the following:

Katherine Hutchinson-Hayes 

Crystal Johnson

Evelyn Collins

Vonyee Carrington

Arianna Dunn

Sharon Johnson

Taylor Wehri

Past contributors: 

Shai Johnson

Sharique Ellison

Annonette Campbell*

*=Guest contributor

Joy K. Massenburge has built and maintained successful businesses for over twenty years. As a result she wants her own business coaching program.

She has written two novels, independently and traditionally published, making her a hybrid author with Lighthouse of the Carolinas, as well as a contributing author for Our Daily Bread.

Joy would love to connect with you!

@joymassenburge

https://www.joykmassenburge.com/

Born 1989, and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett earned her undergraduate degree at Stanford university.

She went on to earn her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan. Her debut novel The Mothers was a New York Times bestseller, and her second novel The Vanishing Half was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Her essays have been featured in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel.