Cy Black’s Followers (4)

Cy’s Bookshelves

to-read (0)
currently-reading (0)
read (0)
did-not-finish (0)

Cy’s Friends (19)

Humphrey Hawksley

219 books | 322 friends

Deena Schoenfeldt

526 books | 4,925 friends

Jane Friedman

54 books | 4,978 friends

Dan Blank

87 books | 625 friends

Teodor Flonta

9 books | 5,010 friends

John Donoghue

10 books | 1,891 friends

Alanna Zabel

23 books | 301 friends

Charity Finnestad

120 books | 8 friends

More friends…

Cy Black

Goodreads Author

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.cyblack.com

Twitter

dragonpress1

Genre

Chick Lit, Spirituality, Romance

Influences

Rumi ...more

Member Since

July 2013

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/cyblack

edit data

Cy Black was born in London in 1969. She never dreamt of being a novelist for, at the age of eight, she was diagnosed with severe dyslexia. Always one to embrace a challenge, she went on to read English at Bristol University, before pursuing a successful career in investment banking.

Following the birth of her first daughter, Cy Black resigned to become a full-time mother yet, throughout her child-rearing years, a love story kept plaguing her. It was about how a young woman, who had grown-up without a father, seemed incapable of accepting love from well-intentioned males, and instead fixated on men just as unavailable as her own father had been. It was the tale of a girl who, despite all of her privileges, did not know how to, or care to, ho Cy Black was born in London in 1969. She never dreamt of being a novelist for, at the age of eight, she was diagnosed with severe dyslexia. Always one to embrace a challenge, she went on to read English at Bristol University, before pursuing a successful career in investment banking.

Following the birth of her first daughter, Cy Black resigned to become a full-time mother yet, throughout her child-rearing years, a love story kept plaguing her. It was about how a young woman, who had grown-up without a father, seemed incapable of accepting love from well-intentioned males, and instead fixated on men just as unavailable as her own father had been. It was the tale of a girl who, despite all of her privileges, did not know how to, or care to, honour herself. In fact, to Cy Black's surprise, the resulting book ruthlessly deconstructed the psychology of a slut, and tracked a tragectory with which she was uncomfortably familiar.

After four decades of life experience, Cy Black had finally worked out that a woman's self-respect is a gift bestowed on her by a loving, present father, and that the girls who form without such a father, become easy prey for predatory men for, all too often, they are grateful for little, emotionally confused and easily used.

When Cy Black found herself raising her daughters, in a fatherless home, she knew she had an obligation to write the story that had haunted her. After one too many nights interrupted by forceful spurts of inspiration, Cy Black surrendered to a call that seemed to come from beyond and, tentatively, put fingertips to keyboard until, eventually, 'False Gods: the ecstasy' was completed.

'False Gods: the ecstasy' is Cy Black's humble gift to other such young women, indeed to her own daughters, offering entertainment, while hoping to provide just a smidgen of perspective.

Currently Cy Black is living in West London working on the sequel.

All comments on the above are gratefully received on our Facebook 'False Gods' or 'Cy Black' page, or on the 'DragonPress1' Twitter account. ...more