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Cardyn Brooks

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Cardyn Brooks writes literary erotica as sexy, fun social commentary. Her C. X Brooks persona writes edgier variations on similar themes.

She reviews books at her Blerdy Binge Reader blog, and for romancedailynews.com.

Check out the mix of workshops, readings, and other bookish content at
https://www.thewritewomenbookfest.org...
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Cardyn Brooks Thinking of writer's block as an integral part of the writing process helps me to embrace it. Writer's block forces my brain to figure out a way aroun…moreThinking of writer's block as an integral part of the writing process helps me to embrace it. Writer's block forces my brain to figure out a way around, under, over or through the obstacles.(less)
Cardyn Brooks Taking an idea from a thought in my brain to a completed manuscript for readers to enjoy is the best thing about being a writer for me.
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Seducing the Burks: Five Er...

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More Than Enough

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Grieving for What Could Have Been

Continuing to celebrate Black love, Black joy, Black triumphs over adversity, Black friendship, family, community is one of my coping strategies for processing anxiety. Here are three satisfying reads for encouragement and pleasure. 
[front cover art of a trade paperback book: profile view of two adults embracing; only the bottom half of a woman's face is visible] 
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Ne'er Duke Well by Alexandra Vasti
Ne'er Duke Well
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Selina and Peter's love story is a tenderhearted farce of a romp grounded in emotional substance about honoring commitments with love and compassion toward family, friends, and fellow human beings. Mix in precocious children, tenacious animals, and w ...more
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Love & Whiskey by Fawn Weaver
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Made the rookie error of starting to read this book last night after a long, fantastic, exhausting day of author tabling at the Jazz & Wine Fest at Marietta House Museum. Fifteen chapters into this fascinating amalgamation of memoir, journalistic inv ...more
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Bruno by Delaney Diamond
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I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself by Glynnis MacNicol
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In a world that works hard to shove women over forty into irrelevance and invisibility, this author celebrates life as viewed, lived, experienced to its fullest by one grown woman and other grown women in the present and from the past. The breezy, co ...more
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Sharks Don't Sink by Jasmin  Graham
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Seeing the author during a recent appearance on CBS Mornings made me curious to learn more about her life and her scientific pursuits. To quote a passage from chapter 13, "As is so often the case in science, you go looking for the answer to one quest ...more
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Your First Million by Arlan Hamilton
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Underestimated.
Underrepresented.

Two labels that apply to millions (billions?) of people who have ideas, dreams, and goals that are often ridiculed and dismissed, that this author reframes in practical ways while offering realistic steps for making
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A Run at Love by Toni Shiloh
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This sweet romance organically includes the characters' religious beliefs while offering a compelling tale of high-stakes horse breeding and racing along with the layered impacts of transracial adoption. ...more
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[(Prison Love)] [By (author) D. Braxtonbrown-Smith] published on by Denise Braxtonbrown-Smith
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Prison Love offers readers an intimate look at incarceration as experienced by a woman whose education and other advantages weren't enough to protect her from being tangled up in the criminal justice system. With compassionate candor, the author uses ...more
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A Ruse of Shadows by Sherry Thomas
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Radiating a tone of a 19th-century mashup of Mission: Impossible with Scooby Doo makes this most recent installment of this clever reworking of the Sherlock Holmes canon bubble with absurdist fun despite its serious themes and multiple crimes. Lots o ...more
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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Suzanne Somers
“Codependence - Someone who lives someone else's life.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Neil deGrasse Tyson
“People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson

Douglas Adams
“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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