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Jean Nicole Rivers

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Jean Nicole (@jeannicole19) is a National Black Book Festival award-winner and author of two psychological horror novels, Black Water Tales: The Unwanted and Black Water Tales: The Secret Keepers. She has also garnered awards for her screenplay, If I Die, from multiple film festivals including the Shivers International Film Festival (Canada).

Currently, she is working through the 3rd installment of her Black Water Tales series on a novel currently titled, To the Moon and Back.

In 2016, she launched the only novel writing software founded and owned by a black woman, Simple Stylus (www.SimplyStylus.com) and she teaches an online beginner writing course titled, Simply Writing: An Aspiring Author’s Guide to Developing A Solid Writing Process an ...more

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Midnight in Black List

A Comprehensive List of Black Horror/Thriller/Mystery/Dark Fiction Authors
(More than the same 10 you see on these types of lists over and over)









Every year around this time, I google, “Black Horror Authors” and I pull the same six or so lists made of up of the same ten black, traditionally published authors. I’m tired. While those regulars are AMAZING, there are more of us out here writing

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“I'm just not in a writing mood, but I keep going. What if the garbage man were not in a garbage mood? or the doctor not in a healing mood?”
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tags: writing-persistence
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“The easiest thing about writing a book is coming up with the idea. We all have tons of great ideas for books, right? The issues come AFTER we have the great idea.”
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“I see best in the dark.”
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