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Enjoy this Author Interview between The Novelette & Nikesha Elise Williams about her new book, Beyond Bourbon Street!
✨ Nikesha’s Bio Per Her Author Website ~ “I am a storyteller. There are many different ways to tell a story, but my preferred medium is through contemporary/literary fiction. In my novels, my focus is on the lives of Black women in all of their nuanced intricacies and various complexities. My sweet spot is at the intersection of race and gender in familial, communal, and cultural relationships. I am a Black woman. Writing about Black women. For Black women. This work has taken shape in my novels Four Women, The Appeal of Ebony Jones, Love Never Fails, Adulting, my poetry collection and one woman show, Lessons We Were Never Taught, and my forthcoming fifth novel Beyond Bourbon Street, which I will publish under my company — NEW Reads Publications — in August. In these novels I touch on various themes including domestic violence, addiction, the price of ambition on a Black woman’s life, and the health disparities Black women face within the medical system. Due to my background in journalism, and work for eleven years within the broadcast news industry, I have always been attuned to stories that were and were not covered in regards to Black women. Specifically, stories such as breast cancer rates, maternal death rates, infant mortality, stand your ground, police brutality, sexual assault, domestic violence and more. These issues, and many others like them, for the most part affect Black women at a deeper rate, higher statistical percentage, and at a cellular level that is rarely acknowledged or addressed in local or national media, or even within our own community. In my writing, it is my goal to take these issues and dissect them from the express viewpoint and perspective of Black women to end a cultural cycle of shame and silence when it comes to speaking up for Black women. However, my goal is not to write trauma or tragedy porn for the world to lament the burdens that Black women sometimes bear. As much as I shine a light on issues that are harmful to Black women, I also relish depicting and writing about Black women’s joy, laughter, friendships, relationships, and sexuality. In my work, I want to decapitate stereotypes and archetypes of “Mammy,” “Sassy Black Woman,” and “Strong Black Woman,” and replace them with the messiness and complexities that mirrors the real lives Black women actually lead. As I continue to develop as a literary artist, and a voice in the Black community, it is my goal to create a body of work that invalidates the perception that Black people, and Black women specifically, are a monolith. I want to continue to explore, detail, and record the experiences of all Black women, until their presence is widely recognized, their humanity promotes empathy, their place and right to be in the world is never questioned, and their story is universal.
✨You can find her on Twitter @Nikesha_Elise & Instagram @Nikesha_Elise.✨
Nikesha Elise Williams Website: www. http://www.newwrites.com/about
✨The Novelette (also known as Ivana Sanders) is a Book Blogger, Book Trailer Creator, Graduate Student, and Debut YA/Thriller author! I host author interviews on my Instagram LIVE series. My debut novel, The Beckwith Brothers, is a YA/Thriller set in the 1990s releases October 2020.✨
Twitter: @TheNovelette | Instagram: @TheNovelette1
✨The Beckwith Brothers is a story of Teen Angst, Forbidden Romance, Secret Societies, and Murder all intertwining upon the return of three (3) mysterious brothers Halloween night 1995. See the Official Book Trailer here: https://youtu.be/hADgop8hRcI!✨ #TheBoysAreComingHome 🐺 #WritingCommunity #AuthorInterview #Writers #Authors #YALit #ThrillerBooks #TheBeckwithBrothers #Kidlit #BlackBoyJoy #BlackGirlJoy #Books #BeyondBourbonStreet #blackauthors #blackbooks #blackwriters
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