Life is tough! I mean you get up every day, you work as hard as you can and you hope that you reach your goals. YOU HOPE. It doesn’t always happen. Sometimes you fall short of your goals. Sometimes you just fall. But the key is all of this is… Here’s my breakthrough of the [...]

I’ve been reading too much of my twitter feed lately. I’ve been seeing so many tweets about relationships asking such questions as:  Why get married? Why be committed? Why date? There’s been so much negativity spreading about relationships. Quite frankly, I think the media is hard on relationships. I think to learn what the point [...]

As I sat down to write yet another book, I found myself hearing voices in my head. The voices said things like, “Can you do better than Retaliation?” “Can you do better than The Blueprint for My Girls?” “Can you write better than you’ve ever wrote before?” I wanted the voices in my head to [...]

The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers has released its new anthology featuring works from teen writers who were honored for their writing by the The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2009. Taken from 452 award-winning manuscripts, Best Teen Writing features the work of 48 young writers. The writers are from 12 – 18. [...]

I recently received this letter and I wanted to share it with you. If you ever wonder why I write the kinds of books that I write. This is why: Hello. My name is [concealed.] I just read your book retaliation. I really enjoyed this book. It only     took me two days to read it. [...]