I talk with author Inez Moon about turning a painful marriage and a hard-won restart into All Signs Point Forward, a story built around self-liberation, sexuality, and healing. We laugh, gasp, and get honest about why the messiest scenes can still carry the clearest life lessons.
• introducing Inez Moon and her debut novel All Signs Point Forward
• breaking down Shared Hunger and writing erotica with plot
• stopping the first draft when it felt like a memoir
• leaving a relationship that crushes self-worth
• writing hypersexuality and desire without shame
• building characters with real backstory and emotional logic
• weaving LGBTQIA representation and unconventional soulmates
• adding spirituality through meditation, crystals, and intention
• using cultural details and Brooklyn influence for authentic representation
• flipping BDSM power dynamics and why readers loved it
• crafting a jaw-dropping ending and planning spin-offs like Steve’s story
• teasing His Favorite Crystal with cover reveal and release date
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We catch up with thriller author Keira N. James on the one-year anniversary of Orchid and why she now treats a release like an immersive experience. We talk craft, grief, revenge, and the real work behind showing up as an introvert while building a bigger platform and a live thriller community.
• rebranding Orchid for an anniversary edition with more intention
• using a business admin and social media marketing background to guide launches
• building a believable botanical artist through research and lived details
• writing Granny Irene from real memory and honoring loss on the page
• designing a creative, character-driven demise and why it feels “justified”
• unpacking Exodus as justice-seeker and problem-maker
• writing from the ending first, tightening drafts in edits, using a small beta team
• handling writer’s block by not forcing bad pages
• drawing boundaries around trauma and taboo topics in Black thrillers
• teasing romance without promising a romance ending
• previewing Love and War and the License to Thrill event
the anniversary edition book boxes um are available for pre-order.

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We sit down with thriller author and therapist Geletta Shavers to talk about how real trauma, caregiving, and anxiety helped shape The Inheritance of Amaya Montgomery. We dig into the gaslighting, the inheritance stakes, the characters who make you want to yell at the page, and what Geletta wants to explore next in book two.
• why the audiobook feels like a full production and changes the experience
• how dementia caregiving can reopen childhood trauma and push you toward therapy
• writing fiction as self healing before deciding to publish
• Amaya’s vulnerability and why some readers struggle to empathise with her
• the inheritance premise and how the gaslighting escalates into terror
• Bree’s future, identity, and the choice to challenge stigma in character arcs
• what got revised or cut after publication and how that affects pacing
• what Gilletta is releasing next and why she also writes under GP Jackson

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