UPCOMING PROJECTS
Bus Stop Stories
A new book is due out in 2020 that tells fun stories about public transportation.
CURRENT PROJECTS
PODCAST
TV Talk with the Sistas
In this podcast, two sisters chat about iconic television shows and their impact on the African American and American culture. You can find it on Soundcloud. We are available on Stitcher, Apple, Google, and Spotify.
MAGAZINE
Fill in the Gap
The new magazine Fill In The Gap Magazine is designed to give a voice to marginalized groups with helpful information and entertainment. It will also give insight into different cultures.
PHOTO
Queens of Freedom
The Queens of Freedom is a photography project that will tell the story of 17 women who did extraordinary things in the fight for freedom. These women were queens in their own right, championing freedom and human rights.
Family Tree
Family Tree is the story of a family who don’t like each other, but find out that through thick and thin, they love each other. The family matriarch, Flora Hackney Jones, is challenged by her granddaughter, Kate to have a family reunion. Flora knew her children couldn’t speak two kind words to each other, less lone share a meal or party together. But Kate and her cousins manage to get almost everyone together plus some folks no one expects.
This movie show at the Oklahoma Urban Cinema Film Festival in Oklahoma City, OK and the Festival International du Pan Africain de Cannes in France in 2015.
Produced in 2014
More information on how you can book the project at your church call 817.228.9968
Produced in 2013
BOOKS
Historical Novel
Destiny’s Dilemma
An African American woman moved home to take care of her dying mother giving up the opportunity to experience a world beyond segregation. Zoraida Hughes Williams finds that some things have changed about her hometown of Fort Worth, Texas while some have stayed the same, like Hell’s Half Acre, an area where saloons, prostitution and gambling runs wild. Like most of the residents, she wants to keep her head down and stay away from trouble, but it comes in the unlikely form of an Anglo Baptist preacher. He messes up everything and almost gets them killed.
Published in May and June 2015
Devotionals
Your Emergency Response Plan is a series of devotionals that challenges the reader to examine how they respond to life’s emergencies. The first in the series is When You Forget Your Phone, a fifteen verse booklet that includes verses that God has spoken in the life of the author over the last year. This booklet gives insight into her journey with the Lord. The second book in the series, Caught in the Crosswinds, was published in December 2013. The author explains more about her journey on life’s adventure. She uses God’s word to describe who He is to her, what He does for her and what He wants from her.
Caught in the Crosswinds
Caught in the Crosswinds explores what a relationship with Christ looks like. When troubles come into your life where do you go? Experience has taught me that there is one true source. Jesus Christ. Through a series of stories and illustrations, this book points to attributes of God that have shaped the author’s life. It challenges you to think about the attributes of God as they affect your life.
Interior illustrations were created by Devin Anderson.
Published in 2013
When You Forget Your Phone
Published in 2013
When You Forget Your Phone is a devotional that challenges you to memorize God’s word. If you know God’s word, it is easier to stand on His promises when your world is turbulent.
In my phone are hundreds of names and numbers. Without my phone, I only remember two phone numbers. I don’t even know my daughter’s phone number. When you have your bible with you, or access to it, you are probably pretty confident. But when you are in the midst of a trial and your bible and the app are not available, what do you rely on? When You Forget Your Phone is a devotional that challenges you to memorize God’s word.
Connections
Published in April 2013
All Sandy wanted to do was make a living. She was a private investigator taking care of her 12-year-old daughter living in the hood with her biological mother, who loved to gamble. She would find missing relatives, spy on cheating spouses and occasionally catch a bail jumper. She knew that private investigation work would put her in some tricky situations, but she never imagined bad guys would chase her. That stuff only happened in movies.
Sandy gets mixed up with her foster sister, Kayna; an attorney, Michael Singh and his questionable clients, which lead to murder, being on the run from law enforcement and the separation from her child, who she promised she would never leave.
A young woman walked in the law office and asked for help in locating her brother. A few days later another woman came in and asked for help locating the same man. Sandy and Kayna are intrigued, while the attorney felt that something was wrong with it. Michael sent Sandy and Kayna to investigate the clients, while he checked on the missing person through his channels.
The investigation changed when some men with guns began to chase Sandy, Kayna and Michael. Michael’s house, in a posh Fort Worth neighborhood, was blown up and the dead body of a girl was found in the remains. Framed with the murder, the team went underground and set out to solve who was framing them and why.
Complicating the matter for Sandy was the attraction brewing from Michael, her only paying client. But her heart was breaking each day she spent away from her child, reminding her of her own abandonment as a child. Also coming home to roost were the demons her foster sister, Kayna was dealing with as they tried to solve the case.
Dancing During the Storm
Published in 2012
Dancing During the Storm is a collection of stories I have written over the years. They represent a desire to praise God despite the storms in my life. As the saying goes, you are going into a storm, in the middle of a storm or coming out of a storm. All of these stories tell of people who enjoy the life that God has given them and live it to the fullest. Each character has a storm in their life which they are going into, in the midst of, or coming out of.
His Favorite One is a short story about the first man who ever lived. At first he is not mentioned by name, but it is obvious. This story is not the Bible. It is just an idea of what life might have been like for Adam in my imagination. He was the only person alive with no other human companion. He knew what it was like to commune with God in perfect peace. This story also speaks to the sacrifice that is required when we step out of God’s will for our lives.
The second story, First Date, comes from an unpublished novel I have written titled, Il Pentimento. It means the regrets.
In the final story, from another unpublished novel, The Space Trader tells the story of a twenty something young woman, Aun, who goes against her mother’s wishes and joins the military. It is the most powerful military in the universe.
Privateers Saga Books
A single young woman is tricked by modern day pirates losing everything she owned. As she tries to figure out what happened to her belongings, her world crashes around her as government and private agencies treat her as a suspect. Determined to find the man who did this to her, she stumbles onto a government top secret. Finding this modern day pirate turns into a race against lethal forces.
Privateers
To be published in 2015
A single young woman is tricked by modern day pirates losing everything she owned. As she tries to figure out what happened to her belongings, her world crashes around her as government and private agencies treat her as a suspect. Determined to find the man who did this to her, she stumbles onto a government top secret. Finding this modern day pirate turns into a race against lethal forces.
ReCovery
Published in 2012
Claire Moss, a fledgling private consultant, roams through Latin America looking for La Hoya, which her partner guarantees will be a game changer. After a year of peace, Minnie finds herself on the run from the organization she use to work for and partnering with the scariest man she ever met. Even though there is a bounty on her life, she believes God can save her from some very bad people. The organization that Joe works for has hit the hardest time ever, he struggles to keep his key position in the company while some around him want him dead. Joe has a plan that will change the fabric of the company and make him the head. They are all working toward the same end, but who will reach it first, the good ones or the evil ones?
Mutiny
To be published in 2022
