Even Sinners Have Souls Too

Michel Moore

Even Sinners Have Souls Too
Introduction by National Best selling author, K'Wan, with four stories by Darrell King and Essence Magazine bestselling authors, Michel Moore, Tysha and Victor L. Martin.  

Meet author and editor E.N. Joy
E.N. Joy is the author of Me, Myself and Him, which was her debut work into the Christian Fiction genre.  Formerly a secular author writing under the names Joylynn M. Jossel and JOY, this author has fully dedicated her writing to Christ. She is currently working on the “New Day Divas” series as well as completing the “Sinners Series” project.
 
 

Intimate Conversation with Ella Curry of EDC Creations

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Ella: Introduce us to the book, Even Sinners Have Souls TOO.
E.N. Joy:  Even Sinners Have Souls TOO is book two from the “Sinners Series”.  As editor and publisher of this project, it was my goal to share with the reading audience well written and compelling stories by some of the industry’s most respected and authority authors in the Urban Lit genre. 
 

Ella: Why was it important to produce this work today?
E.N. Joy: Books and authors of books that are categorized as urban, erotic, street, ghetto, gangster, Hip-Hop fiction, or whatever else they are being labeled, are taking hard hits in the industry, especially by these so-called “literary writers”.  Why is it that whenever black people bring the life they live front and center and turn it into art, society goes crazy?  Are we that afraid and offended of the ghetto and the projects to the point where we ridicule those who talk about it? Is growing up in the hood that taboo?

E.N. Joy: Despite popular belief, everything that comes from the ghetto isn’t all bad. There are some good products of the ghetto.  It produces great individuals, some even authors. But because of the type of genre that these authors choose to pen, they are stigmatized and rumored unable to create literature without glorifying a trigger happy, drug dealing thug, or a burgundy micro braid wearing, gum poppin’, promiscuous gold digger, or a television stealing crack head (in addition to at least two curse words per paragraph).
 

Ella: Will this book change how Urban Lit is protrayed as a industry?
E.N. Joy: There is a huge misconception that authors who write Urban Lit, referred to as Street Lit by many, can’t pen a decent story that doesn’t include foul language and explicit sex scenes.  These authors are even often accused of glorifying street life. The “Sinners Series” forces critics and skeptics alike to take a different stand when they read the storylines contained in the “Sinners Series.” 

Ella: What are some unique aspects of the Sinners Series? What stands out the most?
E.N. Joy: Even Sinners Have Souls Too offers more of Urban Lit's finest take a walk on the other side in book two, Even Sinners Have Souls Too, of the three book Sinners Series. Darrell King and Essence Best-Selling authors, Victor L. Martin, Tysha and Michel Moore bring you four smashing tales, but not before National Best-Selling author, K'Wan, hits you with the powerful introduction, "Oh Sinner Man."

E.N. Joy: The authors bring to life the same raw and gritty characters found in some of their other works. There are the dope boys, the hood rats, the promiscuity, homosexuality, the gang bangers, abuse, drugs, alcohol, etc...; all the things that exist in real life on the streets. But what makes these tales so phenomenal and unique is that in the midst of it all, just like in real life on the streets, there is also, God, prayer, and sometimes a praying grandmother. What pleased me the most about each and every story is that they never, for one moment, lost their authenticity.  The authors still walked away from this project with their street credit, so to speak.
 

Ella: What impact with the Sinners Series have on the community?
E.N. Joy: The “Sinners Series” is going to shatter the myth about urban and street literature and its authors once and for all. This project is not so that authors have to defend their work, or even compromise it. The purpose is to show that they are multi-talented with a natural gift to pen what flows through their spirit and not just what’s selling, and at the same time to add a creative twist on their already original writing styles.  In doing so, we pray that readers will be touched and moved by every single character; every single story…that they won’t be the same person as they were before reading these works.
 

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ISBN-10: 0970672659  | ISBN-13: 978-0970672650

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One of the hardest lessons that I've learned - and still reminding myself of - is that I'm worth it.

It's been on my heart and mind to sit down and talk with my aunt. I love my aunt, even in the midst of her flaws. After all, who am I to judge. Yet, it saddens me that at her age (she's edging closer to 50) somewhere deep down she doesn't feel like she is worth it. Granted, it's not my job to "fix it," but Lord knows I wish I could. I wish I could open her eyes to a lot of things about her self worth. Ironically, some of it is partly what she has inspired on me or shown me.

My own lessons of self worth developed before I had my daughter. I attracted quasi-decent guys; meaning I always looked at their social status, figured in how they would "complete" me (sorta speak) while carrying the "independent woman" sign with the disclaimer "I just want someone to love and be loved in return." Just when I had over extended myself by doing everything for them but jump through a hoop of fire baring a neon sign that says "pick me! I'm the one.." a disconnect would occur. Most of the time I was glutton for punishment and kept trying to force a connection when it was obvious it wasn't even a dial tone on the line.

Since becoming a mom it just seems like the wool has been pulled off my eyes and I see a lot of BS that floats around when it comes to people and relationships. I'm not claiming expert status. Far from that, but just the basic level of obvious bull - who really has time for that? Not I. Still what would it take for my aunt and so many other grown women to see the obvious and not accept it?

I wanna talk now, but things are hot....tense. She won't listen. I need a time to catch her off gaurd. So she has nowhere to hide to and no choice but to listen. Yes, it's time for the aunt to listen to the niece for a change.

All this over a man, that isn't trustworthy and has caused more harm to the FAMILY than good.

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Drunk 27 Years

Book Intro- Drunk for 27 Years: A Story of Victory - Her Choice to Live and Not Die
by author Cynthia Banks

The road of Priscilla’s life was paved by the people that made choices for her.  Through heartache, pain, trauma and tragedy, Priscilla’s experiences became stepping stones that forced her to make a choice that ultimately changed the outcome of her life.

Drunk for 27 Years, the compelling true story of Priscilla Gibson, mother of singer, actor and model Tyrese Gibson, suffered 27 years with alcoholicism. The book reveals the unconditional love that her children had for their mother, who despite all they had experienced remained just the strength she needed to make it through.

Suffering abuse at the hands of an alcoholic mother, Priscilla began drinking at a very young age, and continued into her adult years.  Many factors manipulated the course of Priscilla’s life, causing her to make one bad choice after another until she finally made the choice to live and not die.

PROLOGUE

“What is wrong with you?” he cried out with tears streaming down his face. “Why do you think I’ve been calling you Mommy Dearest ever since I was a little boy?  It’s because you drink just like that lady in the movie, and you act like her too!  Why can’t you stop drinking?” 

“I don’t know how to stop!” I said putting my head down on the table and crying. “I’m scared!”

“You’re scared? Mama, you’ve scared us to death for years, wondering where you were, not knowing if you were dead or alive. What did you think could happen to you living in these streets?” Junior said before crying out with loud sobs.

“I’m going to stop drinking, I promise. I’m going to stop drinking!  I don’t want to be like my mother,” I cried out loudly. I put my head down on the table and began to pray silently, ‘God in Heaven, please hear my cry. I am an alcoholic and I have become just like my mother. If you deliver me from this alcoholic disease I promise I won’t ever take another drink for the rest of my life.  I want to live and not die’  

Reviews for book Drunk for 27 Years: A Story of Victory - Her Choice to Live and Not Die

Very heartfelt, impressive, sad yet up lifting!  A Great story of survival!
-Lela Reed, Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL mom

Wow! This is an inspiring book.  It’s straight to the point on how things really were and it’s very honest.  The book touched me and told me things about my mother that I never knew.  My mother had a lot of issues that she covered up with alcohol - something that a lot of people do because they can’t express their feelings.  It’s really, really a good movie…I mean book!  I couldn’t put it down.  The book goes into depth, telling a story that kept unfolding, a story that unfolded as I read it and as I lived it.  I experienced several emotions while reading, I got upset, then mad, then sad, then happy.  God is a forgiving God.  I’m proud of my mother for having a relationship with Him and making the right choice.
-Salandra, Priscilla’s Daughter

Growing up was hell!  My mother was drunk all the time, so the streets raised us.  The older we got the more distant we became with our mother.  She never really got to know any of us, but we loved her any way and we loved her unconditionally.   We survived all that hell and managed to come out of it pretty decent human beings.  I thank God for remembering the Gibson family.
-Tyrone, Priscilla’s son

Life with my mother as an alcoholic was very emotionally draining and tough.  You never knew if she was going to have a bad day or a good day.  Her day started with alcohol – everyday!  Because of that my relationship with my mother was strained and distant.  As a child regardless of what card life deals you, you always have to try to respect and acknowledge your parents.  I never disrespected my mother during her illness, which caused a lot of pain.  As a result of being a child of an alcoholic it caused me to make better choices in my life, especially never to drink.  I went the opposite direction.  I’m proud of my mother for taking the steps to recover from her addiction.  I love her dearly.
-Shonte, Priscilla’s Daughter

I have known my Mother-In-Law, Priscilla for almost 6 years and I know that all the words in this book are true.  I was not there for all the 27 years, but 6 years of it I was there and the stories were true.  Priscilla has come a long way.  Even though the book is going to be out for the world to read, seeing it in person is beyond words – she really was drunk all day, everyday.  When Priscilla started writing the book, I was there to see her write the first page.  She didn’t even know if it was going to be a book, she was just writing out her thoughts.  I remember her asking me if I thought it would be a good book and I told her it would be a wonderful book.  This is her victory over alcohol and life to her being restored; and God’s victory of another one of His children being saved.
-William, Priscilla’s Son-In-Law

Drunk, for 27 Years: A Story of Victory - Her Choice to Live and Not Die
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Author Dwight Fryer

Fryer shares from his twenty-five years of business experience in leadership, technology, finance, accounting, marketing and publishing. He has written two critically acclaimed novels. The Legend of Quito Road and The Knees of Gullah Island. Dwight speaks about life, healthcare, business, leadership, history, literature, community and storytelling. The University of Memphis teaches The Legend of Quito Road in its Masters of Fine Arts Program in the English Department.

Dwight Fryer has inspired audiences at universities, corporations, schools, faith communities and nonprofit organizations. His passion is to help people do all they can to succeed and use his experiences to inspire others.

Fryer was diagnosed with cancer two days after a 1998 layoff. In 2001, the disease meningococcal meningitis took his youngest daughter’s life. He works as an advocate for immunization against bacterial meningitis with the National Meningitis Association. He survived a wreck caused by a driver under the influence.

Contact him today for details on how he can share at your next event via email at  author@dwightfryer.com. Website: http://www.dwightfryer.com

 
Q: What inspired you to write these stories?
My first novel was inspired by a economics paper I wrote in graduate school about a drug dealer, his massive initial economic success, and the life prison terms he eventually received for his risk taking schemes in the drug trade. When I began to research this story for the novel form, I felt a need to go to the root of the problem, illegal whiskey.

The Legend of Quito Road called to me early in the mornings of most days until I finally obeyed and wrote the book. The Knees of Gullah Island shares the family history and readers learn what happened to Gillam Hale. He was Son Erby’s grandpa by his second family after his first was taken and sold away.

I wish the modern reader knew more about their origins. This would help us unlock some of the mystery of who we are and who our children can become.

Q: What issues in today's society have you addressed in your books?
Both of my books speak to the modern reader in numerous ways. In The Legend of Quito Road, the theme is “the worst things wrong with most of us were planted by those who love us the best.” Isn’t that how our bad habits are passed on to us? We know that is how we get many of the great things we have learned, but, too often, we overlook the traits our forebears pass on that should not be present in our lives. I want readers to examine how they live and ask why is this what I view as right.

In the second novel, The Knees of Gullah Island, I advise readers to be careful of money.  Money quite often catches people up, so the wisdom Scripture that I use here is 1 Timothy 6:10; and to paraphrase it, it says that the love of money is the root of all evil, and those that find themselves in pursuit of it get caught in all types of snares. We find here that Gillam Hale, the main character of this story, loved money. We are forced to recognize that white people, and black people, and any other color people that own people love money more than they do mankind, more than even themselves. Because of the money that can be made in something as illicit as slavery, we often forget that people are people, and that they have rights concerns. All persons have a rich story of their own to tell, and it should not be involving some other person controlling them. So this book talks about that love of money.

Gillam Hale also was from a religious family, a good person; but he got so caught up in the love of money, and when things went bad for him, Gillam Hale did not pray.  So bent knees do straight and crooked deeds, and what is slavery but one of the most crooked deed that all the crooked deeds that mankind can do. We are still having slavery stories today? Wasn’t Jaycee Dugard a slave for the past eighteen years?

I want us to look at these historic tales and see how the themes reverberate in our modern lives. Slavery, love, treachery, hatred, trickery, humor, great soul food, church history, drug use and sales, Southern history, domestic violence, disparities within the criminal justice system, legal rights of children born without the blessing of marriage, and illicit sexual conduct are just a few of the topics covered.

Q: Thousands of books are published each year. What sets your books apart from other in your genre?
I am producing quality stories suitable for young and old to read. These books have great wisdom lessons and are filled with startling story lines and unforgettable characters. A major university has taught my work in their Masters of Fine Arts program in the English Department. That is rare air for any writer in any genre.

Contact author Dwight Fryer today for details on how he can share at your next event via email at author@dwightfryer.com.  Website: http://www.dwightfryer.com

The Legend of Quito Road by Dwight Fryer
ISBN-13: 9781583147061  |  ISBN: 1583147063
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The Knees of Gullah Island by Dwight Fryer
ISBN: 0373831196  |  ISBN-13: 9780373831197
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Both books are filled with rich historical details and spiritual truths that are applicable to the modern reader.

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Color Me Jazzmyne by Marian L. Thomas

I would like to introduce you to a fantastic new book, Color Me Jazzmyne. Readers of Color Me Jazzmyne have been captivated by the depth of the emotional journey that the book takes them on. It digs deep into what it takes for women to embrace who they are no matter what size, color, educational background or social status. Sisters will learn to love themselves despite what society says or the voices that surround them!

Marian L. Thomas is native of Chicago but currently resides in Atlanta.She first awakened her desire to write while in her second year of high school. She majored in Journalism but received her Bachelor of Art degree in Business Communication, graduating Magna Cum Laude. 2009 the dream of becoming a published author was realized when she was able to debut her first title Color Me Jazzmyne. She is a wife and supporter of victims of abuse and was recently featured in the Atlanta Skirt! Magazine as one of Atlanta's 9to5 Women in the Media Industry.

Motivation Behind Color Me Jazzmyne
Color Me Jazzmyne addresses a major issue in our society today..."Rape is often the "hush" word in our lives. It's the thing that we prefer to put into the closet of other skeltons that we pray no one has the key to.

Child abuse often occurs at a young age and more than often it is done by someone that is very close---a family member or friend of the family.  It's a difficult thing to get over, it's even more difficult to explain.

According to one statistic.... one out of every six women will be raped over their lifetime and 73% of all rape victims know their assailants.  In fact, studies have shown that 60% of all sexual assaults are not reported. I hope that women who read this book and have gone through something similar will find the courage to reach out and talk to someone about it."

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Intimate Conversation with author Marian L. Thomas

Ella: What impact do you want your book, Color Me Jazzmyne, to make on readers?
Marian: "I hope that women who read this book and have lived the life of Naya Mona in some form or fashion will find the voice, strength and motivation to push past the pain and live."

Ella: Why do you write?
Marian: For me, writing is more of a release from the reflection of the world around us. It is a way to express the obvious using tones that soothe,excite, uplift and allow the reader to step out of their comfort level.  That is my goal when writing. That is what drives me to create characters such as Naya Mona.

Ella: Are your characters, in Color Me Jazzmyne, a portrayal of real people?
Marian: Reality is always a part of us and as such what we read must adhere to some form of it in order to make it so that one can relate to the story that is being told. Naya is clearly a reflection of the many women that I have met over the years and the struggles that they have gone through. I do not remove myself from that reflection. Misty represents all the so-called friends that revolve in and out of our lives and Chris is what I term the 'life-time' type of husband. He represents the compassion and love that we as women need, want and deserve.

Contact Marian Online
Email: larrita@lbpublishingco.com
Website: http://www.marianlthomas.com
Author's Blog: http://findingmycolorwithmlt.blogspot.com

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ISBN-10: 0615270670; ISBN-13: 978-0615270678

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