New Introductions

I’ve been reading for years. Not because I had to but because I wanted to. I would read during summer breaks from school, on the bus, on the train (back in my NY days) just for the simple bliss of escaping my dismal Urban City life to travel the French Riviera, back in time, England, the islands, where ever it was I loved it.

Of course with age my reading patterns has changed, as well as my craving for certain authors. Now I know some authors have been writing for a very long time, and I never really thought to give them the time of day, but here lately in the on-line book club I’m apart of I’m receiving a bag full of new authors. Not new to the business of writing, but new to my reading cravings.

In the last six months, I’ve been introduced to Pearl Cleage (Seen It All and Done The Rest), Carleen Brice (Orange Mint and Honey) with her she mainly wrote non-fiction, but her first fiction book beautiful. ReShonda Tate Billingsley (I Know I’ve Been Changed and a couple others I have on my TBR pile), Victoria Christopher Murray (Joy…I will definitely indulge in more), Rochelle Alers (Secrets Never Told, Lessons of a Lowcountry Summer…can’t wait to read more.) I just opened the pages to Diane McKinney-Whetstone for the first time and I can see she writes in a style I’m sure to like. When I’m finished reading Trading Dreams as Midnight, I may have to venture out and find some of her earlier works to entertain my cravings for words on paper.

As I get introduced to these wonderful authors, I introduce them to my mother and anyone else I know can appreciate a good book like I can. Now we as human beings can sometimes be as selfish as ever, but make the first step today to a different you, a different world. Share an author you have discovered to be fining dining in reading, with someone you know will love it. First, share one here, you never know you might open up someone’s eyes to something new and different.