DEBUT NOVEL
PLAY THE GAME
I am so excited to announce my debut novel, PLAY THE GAME will debut January 2023. #PlayTheGame.
“This book is so vital (and so very fun to read, too). Thrilled to be a part of this team.”
-Elizabeth Bewley
“Y'all really want to read this thrilling YA mystery w/restorative justice themes!!”
- Carolyn Tara O’Neil
One of My Favorite Inspirations
My Grandpa
My grandpa, who everyone called Papa, owned and worked his own farm and, in his spare time (which he can’t have had much of with nine children), he ran the molasses mill in the town, where he turned stalks of sugar cane into hot molasses for anybody who brought him their crop. When my mom and her siblings grew up, most of them became a part of the great migration, in which thousands of Black people fled the segregated South to start new lives in the North. Papa missed his children sorely and made sure that all nine of them visited often and brought their own children with them. He didn’t ask much when we visited– just a few quiet minutes sitting next to him under the car port. And like my favorite characters in books, he was always ready with a story.