You’ve explored life for 19th century African-Americans in Again, and now in Gold Mountain. What drew you to exploring the lives lead by African-Americans during this period in US history? With Again, I was particularly influenced by two books I’d previously read that depicted the 19th century in rich, detailed imagery – Robin Schone’s Gabriel’s [...]

Blurb: As a member of Eshu, those who can shift into any animal at will, Jacob Adams is used to knowing and getting what he wants. And when he meets Mary Katherine Day as they work together on the Underground Railroad, he not only knows that shes going to be his wife, but he expects [...]

Elsie Washington, Essence Writer, Novelist, Dies at 66 Elsie B. Washington, a former associate editor of Newsweek, onetime writer for Essence magazine and a novelist, died Tuesday in a Bronx, N.Y., geriatric home after battling multiple sclerosis and cancer, her brother, James E. Peterson, told Journal-isms. She was 66. A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel writer called [...]

You can’t begin unless you return to the beginning… We’ll go back to a cold day (well, I don’t know if it’s cold, but that sounds nice) in 1980 or so when Vivian Stephens, editor for Dell Candlelight edited journalist Elsie B. Washington’s “Entwined Destinies.” [1] It’s a slim volume written in the florid, yet [...]