Back with another personal invitation. If Super Bowl Sunday is a secular holiday, then Super Bowl Saturday is the new Christmas Eve, and if you’re in the area I’d love …
Just a quick note to celebrate another lap around the sun for My Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and The Battles That Made Us, which officially hit bookstore shelves two …
Starting in September 2023, I put on a full-court press to promote my first book, My Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and The Battles That Made Us. I plastered my …
CLEVELAND — As you grow in the craft, you experience at the annual National Association of Black Journalists Convention and Career Fair evolves, too. When you’re young, you slash your …
Like the headline says, we’ve made a slight adjustment to my author talk at the NABJ Convention next month in Cleveland. I’m still onstage alongside the incredible Coley Harvey of …
The only appropriate reaction to any award nomination is gratitude, and that rule applies whether or not you wind up clutching the big cheque and hoisting the trophy at the …
Toward the business end of The Professional, that classic boxing novel by the peerless sports writer W.C. Heinz, the action shifts from a resort in the Hudson River Valley to …
I’ve been sitting on this news for a couple of weeks and for the first 10 days it was an easy secret to keep, mainly because I didn’t quite believe …
Don’t call it a book tour, because it’s not. It’s just me running around with my debut memoir, My Fighting Family, introducing my best work to new audiences, and signing …
Every Tuesday before anyone else in my house wakes up, before the sun rises, before I’ve even had my daily red-eye, I sneak downstairs, fire up to my laptop and …








