1–What is the title of your latest release? THE FALLEN FRUIT 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? A chronicle of a Black family with a time travel curse. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I always knew my story would primarily take place in Charlottesville, Virginia on the land where my sixth great-grandmother lived. After discovering Amy Bowles-Farrow (1735-1797) and her amazing life purchasing hundreds of acres as a free Black woman right after the American Revolution, I couldn’t help but imagine the lives of the Bridge family. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? In a heartbeat! My book has multiple protagonists, and each of them brings a unique perspective. Amelia in the 1920s wants to become a physician and help others, but she wrestles with survivor’s guilt. Reba in the 1810s faces the time travel curse as she wrestles with being the best mother possible to her three children. Sabrina in the 1780s loves a man she can never have and must contend with his time travelling. And finally, Cecily, a history professor from the 1960s, learns about each of these women and her inevitable fall in…

I’m so excited to visit Fresh Fiction again and chat about my latest release and how I finally got a chance to apply some of the graduate school classes I had about ten years ago. You see, I work as a web developer now, but before that I was a graduate student in information systems. A lot of my studies were related neural networks, artificial intelligence, that kind of thing. Wow, I gotta tell you I lived in front of the computer reading academic papers and right now its so much easier to write a story than write a dissertation. The sheer amount of research was mind-boggling. (Not that I still don’t have to do research, but it’s a totally different level.) I have a feeling some would disagree, but that is a story for another day. In essence, UNDER MY SKIN is science fiction fantasy about a young woman’s fight to free herself from a man who wants to take over her body. He is a relentless general who is bent on living forever and she must learn to be courageous when she never had to be. When I was writing UNDER MY SKIN, I wanted the technology behind…