WELCOME TO BLACK AUTHORS MATTER ~ INTERVIEW!!!
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Hello Romance Lovers,
In the coming weeks, I'm going to showcase one black romance author after another and their great books.
It's Tuesday! OK, go get yourself a drink, take a long sip as you chill on a lounger because you are about to meet the number 22 Black Romance Author on my list. Her name is Author Vivienne Diane Neal! Vivienne was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York but she currently lives in Manhattan, New York City, USA.
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AUTHOR: Vivienne Diane Neal
BOOK TITLE:
Café Mocha
GENRE: A Short Sensual Romance Story
RELEASE DATE: May 2015
WORD COUNT: 5,000
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We want to know a bit about your
family life
I am retired
but still keep busy writing articles about love, romance, dating, and
relationships and other topics of interest on my One World Singles Blog. I have
been doing this since 2006. Before that, as a homebased businessperson, I was a
Home Economics Consultant to several home health care agencies from 1980 until
1996. My role was to train housekeepers, homemakers, and home health aids in
home management, basic nutrition, meal planning and preparation, and
supermarket shopping and consumer education. I also published two newsletters: Gourmet
News, and Features and Information. Working from home gave me the opportunity
to devote all of my energy into running my service and setting my own hours.
What drives you to write romance
stories?
Actually, I
am not a romance writer since my stories do not end happily ever after. I had
submitted a short story titled Café Mocha to a site that was seeking romance
stories for a summer read. The story was returned because it did not end
happily ever after or happily for now. At that time, I did not realize that all
romance stories had to end this way. What I did do was changed it around and
made it a happy conclusion, but I did not resubmit the story. Instead, I
decided to self-publish it. This is the only romance story I have written and
it will be my last since I write stories that sometimes have sad or doomed
finales. But then again, I should never say never. LOL
Do you have hidden messages woven into
your stories?
Oh, yes. My
stories focus on men and women who are seeking love, romance, or marriage; they
end up meeting someone who they believe is their soul mate only to discover heartless people have deceived them. They rush into a relationship and
ignore the in your face warning signs: not everything that glitters is gold, or
the grass always looks better on the other side until you turn it over and see those
rotten spots. The message is do not jump into a relationship without getting to
know someone first, listen to what he or she doesn’t say and pay attention to
the type of friends in his or her life, which will tell you lot about that
individual.
What’s the best thing about your
writing and publishing routine?
I do not
have a strict routine when it comes to writing. If a story idea pops into my
head, I will start to write without knowing where the story is heading or how
it is going to end. I do not use an outline or storyboard. I must say my mind
works in a haphazard way. I contribute that to my age. LOL My cousin described
me as a “free style wrier” - I am free to write as I please without any
restrictions, as long as my writings do not offend anyone.
What steps did you take to publish
your first book?
I must say I
did not intend to become an author. In 1986, I started a pen pal club, which
became more of an introduction service because many people were not looking for
pals but for lifetime partners. The meetings took place by snail mail through
my publication HMCS Romance International. When the Internet was in full bloom,
my service went viral. I signed up with a dating platform; members were joining
but then the unthinkable occurred. The service closed my site without any
warnings. I was making money, and the site was getting their commission. Even
though people were signing on every month, the money generated was not large
enough for this platform. People want to make big money without giving the site
time to grow. Infuriated, I decided to write a book titled: Making Dollar$ And
Cent$ Out Of Online Dating about the trials and tribulations I faced while running
a dating service. The book started out as a paperback. I must say, I made every
mistake there is. I cannot tell you how many times I had to edit this book
before I felt comfortable selling it. It outsold all of my other six books and
three very short stories.
How did you come up with the idea for
your recent book/Who’s your favourite character and why?
In Malicious
Acts, which is a collection of five short stories, my favorite character is
Paradise Baptiste, a charlatan who pretends to be in love with a wealthy man
and ends up pilfering his life’s savings, not once but twice, but in the end, she
does something that makes me admire her.
What’s the hardest thing about the
publishing process?
The most
difficult part of publishing is that various self-publishing programs have different
ways of formatting a book, especially an e-book. If you are doing e-books and
paperbacks, formatting your work is completely different and can be difficult
to grasp.
Why
should a new reader buy your book(s)?
My stories
have a universal appeal, are entertaining, witty, wicked,
and at the same time serious when it comes to forming relationships around business,
love, romance, and marriage. The narratives exposes some twists and turns,
secrets and lies, infidelity, deception, scandal, lust, sensuality, betrayal, fraud, hoaxes, identify theft and unreciprocated
love, and there will always be a hidden message behind each story and with
endings you will never see coming.
Working
on a new book/project?
I just
wrote a very short story titled, Lurking Behind The Surface, which takes place
during the Coronavirus pandemic. A stranger, pretending to be a local government
worker, rings a woman’s doorbell; when she opens the door, she becomes
impressed with the man’s good looks and charming personality, invites him into
her unit, not realizing he is about to put together a sinister plan that will
send her world into an infinite abyss. It is a mystery with a shocking ending.
Brag about any awards or badges.
My Blog, One World Singles Blog was one of the winners of the 2017 Black Pearl
Literary Excellent Awards.
One of my books, Retribution
Unleashed ranked No. 66 of Urban Books, Authors, & Writers of American’s
Top 100 Books of 2013.
Any thoughts on Black Lives Matter Movement?
I believe if our lives
do not matter then no lives matter.
Now to the Rapid Questions:
Your ideal Partner?
Is compassionate and caring.
Favourite place to write?
Bedroom.
Choice trope to read?
Let sleeping dogs lie dead.
Preferred genre to read?
Suspense, thrillers, mysteries.
Best time of the day to write?
Anytime.
One food you can’t do without?
Chicken.
Favourite Drink Award go to?
Apple Juice with lemon and lime juice.
Best Dessert in the world?
Chocolate chip cookies.
Best Movie, or TV series Award go to?
The Haves and The Have Nots.
Beautiful Song Award go to?
The Call by Isabel Davis.
Amazing Band Award go to?
Earth, Wind & Fire.
Best Actor/Actress Award go to?
Denzel Washington/Viola Davis.
Your #1 Colour?
Black.
Perfect gift you hope to get someday?
A self-cleaning apartment LOL.
One fun thing you do?
Watch TV.
Never Have I…?
Gone bungee jumping.
Give readers your final thoughts about anything?
My mother once said,
“When it comes to writing, you can’t please everybody; if you do, you will die
trying.”
I hope you enjoyed getting to know Author Vivienne Diane Neal.
Read the blurb of Vivienne's book, Café Mocha below:
Also, don't forget to pick up any of Vivienne's other books.
Also, don't forget to pick up any of Vivienne's other books.
Cinnamon
Jones is a recent divorcée; she has decided to change her way of thinking when
it comes to meeting men. No more will
However, when he became
successful, he dumped her. Will Cinnamon meet her idyllic man, or will she end
up making the same mistake twice?
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A BIT MORE ABOUT ~ Vivienne Diane Neal
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Born in 1946, Vivienne Diane Neal is a writer,
blogger, and an author. She is a storyteller with a wicked sense of humor, has
been writing articles for over thirty-five years and started penning fictional
short stories in 2007.
Vivienne gets her story ideas from observing people, places, and things and watching true TV court cases and talk shows.
Vivienne gets her story ideas from observing people, places, and things and watching true TV court cases and talk shows.
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3 comments:
Dame Stella:
Thank you for the beautiful job you did with the interview. Continued success in your endeavors. <3
Amen, Thank you so much. It was a real pleasure to have you on my blog, Vivienne. I wish you the best always.
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