Keshia Robertson's Blog

I have books out with White men and Black women. Here are my books. My Amazon Book Page

My Asian men series is coming in a year. “Twelve Steps Back” inspired by the actor Gong Yoo.

I'm an author who has been through her books and couldn't find a way to complete Asian men black women books with those white boys calling my name. I date white boys now and have had bumps online but not offline. I'll have my ir books remade and will be giving you more action in 2020. I am working on a Space Opera and paranormal series. No more Asian men.

I am going to start making Asian drama stories instead the interracial stories I’ve been making. I am going to be writing stories of African women and Asian men. We don’t belong to white men and this life is a journey. I’m finding that the white guys in my town are racist to black women. I wrote stories based on the U.S. writers writing about interracial stories but I’m finding that that kind of love does not exist with even white people here. They are just going through the motions.

The new series that I’m working on is the Abliss series where Asian men take care of African women. They are inspired by Asian dramas. I can’t wait to share them.

On the Here’s To Hound Dogs promotion schedule here is a Giveaway on Romance Novels in Color and an interview on Abiola Abrams website that introduces myself as one of the youngest romance writers.

Now that Here’s To Hound Dogs is coming out I’m back to work on my next book The Root and My Place both books off of the Canadian Men series. I will be looking up recipes and doing a lot of cooking for research in the book and will be posting recipes on the site and inside the book. Next up on the list is fan questions for Ray and Lily to get to know the characters more. 

The Love Arts with Ray and Lily’s – Fan Questions

My ex broke up with me and I can’t seem to get over him. This is my third failed relationship this year. I feel like quitting at love and just getting a puppy instead. Please help me Ray and Lily.

Lily’s answer: The best thing you can do after a breakup is take care of yourself first. I don’t know what happened in your relationships but if you feel like giving up you need to take a break. The feeling of being lonely isn’t a dark place. It’s a place for growth. If he left your life then for sure he wasn’t meant to be there. No woman needs men who give up on her. You’re not hard to love goddess; you just need someone who loves you for you.

Ray’s answer: This is your third failed relationship this year. Either you are picking the wrong men or you are treating yourself like the wrong woman. What I mean is do you bringing “love loser” energy into your relationships? Don’t over think. Focus on what you needed from men in those relationships and why you got into those relationships in the first place. You can get a puppy without forcing yourself to give up on love. The energy that you will bring into your relationships should be of openness. The next man who is lucky enough to have you will bring out that energy in you as well.

To be released on October 4th 2014. 

The official release date for Here’s To Hound Dogs is October 4th 2014. Here is a link to the excerpt and the summary of the book. I will be posting book event times and locations as I make them. Thanks to everyone for their support. 

“You date white boys?”

That phrase really doesn’t bother me and I barley even hear it any more. After years of blogging about the kinds of guys I like and writing interracial romances the fact that people date interracially is the new normal. It’s just day to day life around Toronto as well.

So why write interracial romance? Why bother?

The world has changed but mainstream romance is still considered to be white on white action. Until I see women openly reading the interracial writing world’s Fifty Shades of Grey then I won’t stop writing.

Our interracial romance world is the real world in colour with sexy skin contrasts. It’s your new sister or

brother-in-law and the way our world is working right now. We are mixing up and it’s a new day. I don’t know what else we can do but reflect our world as it is. As a writer I can’t help but make up stories that inspire me and that I can relate to. We date white boys. We date all kinds of boys and like it.

I won’t pretend like its normal everywhere to everyone—it isn’t. I write because women believe in the dreams in my stories and because I believe in them too. The world belongs to dreamers believing in new paths and interracial romance pushes new paths in love. If you didn’t believe that the handsome Asian cop who almost gave you a traffic ticket was flirting then read one of my upcoming stories and go find him at your local station.

Truly interracial romance writers are some of the hardest believers out here. We dream a world where the color of your lover doesn’t matter and it’s thankfully given to us legally by the Lovings’ fight. So your baby’s a different color who cares? Kiss him or her a little harder and be grateful for the chance.

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Read last year’s Loving’s post “How My Natural Feels.”

Enter the Giveaway.


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Finish the Loving Day Hop by visiting Author Eve Vaughn.

When I saw the hashtag #WeNeedDiverseBooks it really resonated with me on all levels. As a young reader I’ve always wanted to see myself in books as well. The first YA I read that inspired me to become an interracial writer would be Romiette and Julio by Sharon M. Draper which was a retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliette with an African American heroine and Hispanic hero. I related to the book and the storytelling and wanted to find more books like it.

I read a lot of mainstream romance books but until I found ebooks I never found my face in the romance world. POC women and men want to see their love lives and fantasies in romance books and I write for them and people who want to read a different kind of romance book. I live in Toronto and my world has always reflected my books so when it comes to conversations about race I live with a double consciousness. It feels like people are ignoring our existence and truth. As a black woman living, dating, and trying to find love in the world I’m just like my characters and millions of other women who share my skin color. I want to see my mocha girls win at love in stories and in the real world.

Readers who support our books are the ones that help the interracial/multicultural novel world to exist so I’d like to salute them as well. Join the conversation on twitter #WeNeedDiverseBooks, on twitter @startswithakesh and on facebook.

I’m finishing off edits for Here’s To Hound Dogs and trying to find the right inspiration the sports writing and Canadian series that I’m working on. For Toronto our three biggest sports would be hockey, baseball and basketball. Men here cry out for gold rings and the cup like women did with Beyonce on “Single Ladies.” The truth of the matter is that the story is hard to right since I’ve never branded myself a Toronto Raptors, Leafs fan, or Blue Jays fan with jerseys and hats. I had a stint in a community basketball league where I was basically head cheer leader for the team. That’s when I finally understood basketball world. It’s the complete dedication that it takes and pushing yourself to physical limits because athletes do it every day. No days off as they would say.

The feeling of Canadians wanting gold is in our branding. We always want gold during the Olympics and from birth feed our children what it takes to help them succeed in their leagues. We also brand them giving them Maple Leafs, Raptors, the Blue Jays shirts, hats etc. Our men want it bad but our ladies want it just as badly as they do. This story would have to be for our ladies who would give it up for the cup. The girls that understand that sport is this our guy’s religions and are waiting alongside them for gold. The guys who start from the bottom (as Drake would say) and brought her along side up.

Updates for Turnover, and Canadian Series are always on twitter @startswithakesh

For now here is a sneak peek at Here’s To Hound Dogs.

Prologue

Just try to keep your cool man. It’s almost over.

Ray Dalton talked himself down but it wasn’t working. There was no way to leave the pressure of the bright stage lights and with the audience looking on at him blankly it impossible to reach up and catch all of the sweat rolling down into his tuxedo collar. On Live TV there were only two real choices when caught lying: sit in sweat like you just finished running a marathon or try to mop yourself off like a wet dog. Either way Ray knew he looked guilty and was screwed.

No dating history. No dating history. Definitely no dating history questions.

He warned his manger with that mantra when he signed on to do an interview with Christina Grey on her show Modern Dating & Love. Ray had been reassured over and over again that he wouldn’t be asked about his love life.

Everyone lied.

“Don’t be quiet now, Ray. Our audience would like to know why the most successful Dating Coach in twenty years hasn’t met an ex-girlfriend’s parents to signify, you know, a long-term relationship? And I’m not going into all of those times you went just for the anecdotes you put in your books,” Christina said. “‘Guess Who’s Never Coming to Dinner?’ can be the title of your next book.”

Ray returned her smile with something short of a Joker grin. Avoiding anger at this point seemed unnecessary. He had been thrown to a lioness in light pink lipstick and expensive perfume with his career hanging in the balance. Being trustworthy was at the center of his work. Complete strangers gave him control over their love lives. Christina’s questions chipped away at that trust and dropped zeros off of his royalty account statements.

In the past year alone, he could count ten short term girlfriends. Women who knew what the deal was when dating a public figure. Or at least wanted to be Ray Dalton’s arm candy. The last woman who flipped the script on him—even after she had been briefed on the rules of his love life—he affectionately nicknamed Private Investigator or P.I. for short. The woman should have been an amateur detective the way she was able to break through his cell phone and computer passwords. God knows he couldn’t resist the temptation. She was a plus-sized model who was blessed with curves on curves. But that kind of detective skill was required for a purpose and he couldn’t connect the dots until that moment. P.I. would be more than able to track down his ex-girlfriends to see what was up with his love life and sell it to the highest possible bidder. Ray reached for his bottle of water to buy time when he remembered the line that he used on her and all of the women before her.

“This isn’t going to be the kind of relationship that you want. Not the kind of relationship you deserve…”

Ray’s perfectly crafted words made sure everyone woman who heard them was out the door after hearing them but instead of moving onto her next boyfriend, P.I. had zoned in on his “commitment phobia.” As a career driven man he was focused on collecting data from his dating life instead of settling down. But the truth was hidden within a phobia that gave Christina Grey his family jewels to twist whichever way she wanted. A relationship guru without a long term relationship in all of his thirty-three years, the contradiction would be a boring tagline for a rom-com movie in the middle of a summer blockbuster lull. But the empire Ray built was about to fall down faster than the author who was exposed as a liar after getting on Oprah Book Club.

“Mr. Dalton, did you not hear the question? Our audience would like to know how one of the most successful Dating Coach’s… has never even had a successful long-term relationship,”Christina repeated.

Her tone was neutral but it would have been less painful to take a knife to the chest. He needed O.J.’s lawyer or Clinton’s publicist. Anyone who would be able to get him out of the hot seat and into the lazy boy recliner in his bachelor pad with a cold beer in his hand.

“Well, you see, Christina…” he began.

Ray knew exactly where the truth would get him, in the bargain bin or a garage sale with other writers who were hung in the jury of public opinion. Ray ran a hand through his hair. This is going to be my last interview. I might as well do it in style.

Ray began with his dating history andwatched as the audience’s faces changed as he spoke. From shocked gazes to annoyed looks to their watches. It wasn’t hard to imagine people watching at home switching off their televisions sets or just going to bed early. There would be no more advances and no more books.

Too bad because the radio silence after he finished speaking inspired him to think of one of his best opening lines: The best revenge after a break up isn’t plotting your comeback but their downfall. Complete ex-lover destruction is how you recover quickly from an unfair breakup. Or how you end up on prime time news. 

The novel Deflowering Lily now Here’s To Hound Dogs has gone through many changes since I’ve worked on it in 2011 but now it is book 1 of a series called the “I’m An Animal” books and will be coming out early this year. I’m happy to finally be bringing it out and now the characters and the book cover can officially be released as well. The novel is a sexy, drama-filled, and really asks the question: “Career or Love?” but from a male’s point of view. Get ready for the first man of the series: The Hound Dog!

Liana Parker the heroine of Here’s To Hound Dogs owns her own online pottery store, Lily’s Garden and shares a large home with her grandmother after being estranged from her parents after university. With secrets of her own, Liana wants to take her time going back into dating and who better to date then a “hound dog”? A full of games so you know what your dealing with.

Ray Dalton the hero of Here’s To Hound Dogs is a famous dating coach, author and speaker who is down on his luck after an interview with Christina Grey of Modern Love & Dating destroyed his well-built reputation. Ray needs to find a “virgin or old maid” to transform into a sex goddess in order to back a career comeback.

Blurb, excerpt and and release date for this book coming soon!