Author’s Note
We've reached the end of this trilogy, and I'm sad to leave this universe!
Writing this series in many ways for me was like coming home.
I've written about black characters before, but not like this.
Inspirations
I wrote characters who were like the people I grew up with. My cousins. My extended family. The kids I went to school with.
You see, African-Americans just have this way about us. Call it a swagger. Like any culture, there's something special about my people that you just won’t find anywhere else.
Sometimes these special things are hard to replicate in the written word, like how we talk, or how we feel about certain topics like racism. Hell, sometimes we can't even figure out how we feel about things. That's a history lesson for another time.
Diversity in Fic
