Contemporary Fiction. It’s a broad category but the most accurate since I don’t currently write novels with speculative elements and my characters and target audience are adults.

My style is heavily influenced by soap opera.

If identity is important to you, my primary romantic pairings are between adult Black men. The extent to which this means I write Queer Fiction or Black Fiction (BISAC codes notwithstanding) is a conversation I don’t object to, but I’m generally here to have fun.

For reasons including clear and elegant prose, escalating tension, messy drama and melodramatics, nihilism, female perspective, cultural/political influence and work ethic my inspirations are James Baldwin, Jackie Collins, Anne Rice, Kevin Kwan, Bret Easton Ellis, Tia Williams, Danyel Smith, E. Lynn Harris and Stephen King.

If I wanted to write about poor people I’d release a memoir.

That photo is a misrepresentation of my lifestyle. I was pretending to buy a timeshare so they let me sit on it.

Audiobook production is a pricey and complicated process for indie authors, especially if they want their audiobooks available across multiple platforms. I’d produce them myself if I could stand the sound of my own voice and wanted to hide in my closet for hours on end.

For now, the answer is that I would like to release audiobooks one day.

Take the time to create something you’re proud of. It will show in the final product. I’ve rushed out a book before and years later was horrified I let it see the light of day.

If you want to upload an unedited Word doc to KDP and make your cover in ChatGPT - don’t let me stop you. However, you should expect a fair amount of your marketing language to rely on “support” and “please.”

Also, if your book ends on a hard cliffhanger, I should assume the next one is available for preorder. Don’t ghost your readers. (I’ve been burned before.)