![]() ![]() GOD DON'T PLAY is my seventh novel to be published, and it landed me a spot on the prestigious New York Times Bestsellers list for the first time! My eighth novel, "BORROW TROUBLE," was released December 2006. It was published in October 2000 by Kensington Books. I endured fifteen years and hundreds of more rejection letters before I landed a contract for my second novel, GOD DON'T LIKE UGLY. An excerpt is included in Terry McMillan's anthology BREAKING ICE. ![]() Martin's Press in 1985 and was widely reviewed throughout the U.S. My first novel THE UPPER ROOM was published by St. I spent the first part of my life in Alabama and Ohio and moved to Richmond, California in 1973. I taught myself how to write and started writing short stories around age four. I never attended college or any writing classes. I am the third child of Alabama sharecroppers and the first and only member of my family to finish high school. ![]()
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