November 15, 2022

Of the Publishing Persuasion - With Nikki Payne, Debut Author of PRIDE AND PROTEST

1 hour 2 minutes

We had the BEST time chatting with debut author, Nikki Payne. Her energy is CONTAGIOUS! And her book sounds absolutely perfect.

A bit more about Nikki:

By day, Nichole Carelock, is a curious anthropologist, asking the right questions to deliver better government. By night, she's Nikki Payne, dreaming of ways to subvert canon literature. She works at Facebook as a qualitative researcher and has a PhD in cultural anthropology.

https://www.nikkipaynebooks.com

Add Nikki's debut PRIDE AND PROTEST to Goodreads here: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60751788

Order a copy here: ORDER PRIDE AND PROTEST

BOOK BLURB (from Goodreads)

A woman goes head-to-head with the CEO of a corporation threatening to destroy her neighborhood in this fresh and modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice by debut author Nikki Payne.

Liza B.--the only DJ who gives a jam--wants to take her neighborhood back from the soulless property developer dropping unaffordable condos on every street corner in DC. But her planned protest at a corporate event takes a turn after she mistakes the smoldering-hot CEO for the waitstaff. When they go toe-to-toe, the sparks fly--but her impossible-to-ignore family thwarts her every move. Liza wants Dorsey Fitzgerald out of her hood, but she'll settle for getting him out of her head.

At first, Dorsey writes off Liza Bennett as more interested in performing outrage than acting on it. As the adopted Filipino son of a wealthy white family, he's always felt a bit out of place and knows a fraud when he sees one. But when Liza's protest results in a viral meme, their lives are turned upside down, and Dorsey comes to realize this irresistible revolutionary is the most real woman he's ever met.

You can find Nikki here on

Instagram: @nikkipaynebooks

Twitter: @NikkiPayneBooks

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