Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match" where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It's our great pleasure to present Denise Crittendon, author of WHERE IT RAINS IN COLOR!
Writes:
I write Afrofuturistic sci-fi/fantasy that expands the African Diaspora beyond Earth, through space and into exciting new galaxies. Most of my characters are multi-cultural visionaries who belong to a coalition of planets that live in peace and harmony. However, idyllic worlds are not always what they seem. Swazembi, the tourist-planet that is the focus of my debut novel, has a few burning secrets buried behind its perfect façade. As the novel progresses, another reality is slowly unveiled and my MC, a beautiful, shimmering planetary icon, uncovers the truth. Although the Earth was destroyed thousands of years ago, an important and powerful link exists between Swazembi and a mystical West African tribe. Once this discovery is made, the life of my protagonist and the course of the entire coalition are forever changed.
What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match:
- A dreamer intrigued by a Wakanda-style civilization
- An idealist who wants to get lost in paradise
- A rebel who enjoys a good mystery
- A fashionista who appreciates a touch of glamour
- An explorer who likes dabbling in mythology
- A thinker who isn’t scared off by deep introspection
- A reader who loves proverbs and slices of wisdom
What to expect if we're compatible:
- Supernatural powers
- Telepathic healers
- Trips to alternate dimensions
- Mysticism
- An African-centered culture
- Peculiar, other-worldly creatures and odd characters
- Surprising plot twists
- Breathtakingly beautiful garments
Lileala has just been named the Rare Indigo – beauty among beauties – and is about to embrace her stardom, until something threatens to change her whole lifestyle and turn the planet of Swazembi upside down.
Swazembi is a blazing, color-rich utopia and the vacation center of the galaxy. This idyllic, peace-loving world is home to waterless seas, filled with cascading neon vapors. No one is used to serious trouble here, especially Lileala, a pampered, young fifty year-old whose radiance has just earned her the revered title of Rare Indigo, the highest and most sacred of honours.
But her perfect lifestyle is shattered when her skin becomes infected with a debilitating disease. The unthinkable happens – Lileala Walata Sundiata loses her ability to shimmer. Where her skin should glisten like diamonds mixed with coal, instead it dulls and forms scar tissue. On top of that, she starts to hear voices in her head, making her paranoid and confused.
But Lileala’s destiny goes far beyond her beauty. Soon, a new power awakens inside her and she realises her whole life, and the galaxy, is about to change…
Science Fiction | Fantasy [Angry Robot, On Sale: December 6, 2022, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781915202123 / eISBN: 9781915202130]
Before making the big leap into the world of fantasy, Denise held a string of journalism jobs. Between 1975 and 1996, she was a staff writer for The Detroit News and The Kansas City Star and editor-in-chief of the NAACP’s national magazine, The Crisis. Later, she became founding editor of a Michigan-based lifestyle publication for black families. After writing two manuals that empower youth, “Girl in the Mirror, A Teen’s Guide to Self-Awareness” and “Life is a Party That Comes with Exams,” she became a motivational speaker for teens, an adjunct college professor and a ghostwriter. She divides her time between Spring Valley, Nevada and her hometown, Detroit, Mich.
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