Tenea D. Johnson http://www.teneadjohnson.com Words & Music Tue, 30 Apr 2013 05:06:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 R/evolution on the Radio http://www.teneadjohnson.com/2013/04/revolution-on-the-radio/ http://www.teneadjohnson.com/2013/04/revolution-on-the-radio/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 05:02:57 +0000 tdelenod http://www.teneadjohnson.com/?p=562 Heads up. Radio, my romantic favorite, is still out there and this week “How the Carters Got Their Name” tripped across its waves. It was featured on the Black Tribbles show’s inaugural Octavia City  episode, a showcase of all stories and topics, Afrofuturistic. Check out it here

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“The characters each had not exactly a secret, but maybe a small mystery behind them, which are  first hinted at and then revealed in each individual’s “song” which is played in the main symphony. I say “song” not because every character in the book was singing, but because at times the writing felt very musical and very passionate to me .
 . . I truly did feel that the city of Leodaire was a living breathing thing in this book; the city which was still hurting from the traumatic event of its past and which finally started healing at the end of the book.
 I really loved how the hope and darkness are both present in this story and that hope eventually prevails.”

The full review is available here.

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“Harrowing Emily” by Megan Arkenberg
“Reality Girl” by Richard Bowes
“The Witch Sea” by Sara Diemer
“Saint Louis 1990” by Jewelle Gomez
“Narrative Only” by Kate Harrad
“Nightfall in the Scent Garden” by Claire Humphrey
“Elm” by Jamie Killen
“Beneath Impossible Circumstances” by Andrea Kneeland
“One True Love” by Malinda Lo
“Winter Scheming” by Brit Mandelo
“Feed Me the Bones of Our Saints” by Alex Daley McFarlane
“Nine Days Seven Tears” by JL Merrow
“Oracle Gretel” by Julia Rios
“Otherwise” by Nisi Shawl
“Chang’e Dashes from the Moon” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
“Astrophilia” by Carrie Vaughn
“Barnstormers” by Wendy Wagner”

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]]> http://www.teneadjohnson.com/2012/08/kgb-reading-was-a-great-time/feed/ 0 T-minus 5 Days Until the Fantastic Fiction Reading @KGB http://www.teneadjohnson.com/2012/08/t-minus-5-days-until-the-fantastic-fiction-reading-kgb/ http://www.teneadjohnson.com/2012/08/t-minus-5-days-until-the-fantastic-fiction-reading-kgb/#comments Sat, 11 Aug 2012 02:21:25 +0000 tdelenod http://www.teneadjohnson.com/?p=520 Am I excited? You could say that. Back in NYC to read with the great Jeffrey Ford and revisit my old stomping grounds and good friends. It’s the perfect antidote to the Floridian heat.

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Love and Darker Passions is a collection of provocative short stories by today’s up-and-coming authors of dark, urban and Gothic fantasy. One man falls in love with an ancient monster, another becomes enchanted by a voice that drives him to a frenzy of self-punishment, and another can’t understand three very odd days he’s spending with his girlfriend. Award-winning author Karen Duvall sends a Millennial Alice through a very different looking glass, and acclaimed author Lee Barwood sends the Sighted bard of her upcoming series into the passionate world of faerie to find a child and a special destiny. Bestseller C.E. Murphy makes her twisted fairytale tell what drives a lover into the arms of her questionable beloved, and Tenea D. Johnson works a soul-stealing spell of magic. In Love and Darker Passions, edgy and cult fantasy authors combine their talents to make us question what inspires love, why we crave revenge against those who’ve stolen love from us, and why we despair when love’s pain is lost.

]]> http://www.teneadjohnson.com/2012/06/only-then-can-i-sleep-available-in-love-and-darker-passions/feed/ 0 Book Excerpt up at Shewired http://www.teneadjohnson.com/2012/05/book-excerpt-up-at-shewired/ http://www.teneadjohnson.com/2012/05/book-excerpt-up-at-shewired/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 19:33:00 +0000 tdelenod http://www.teneadjohnson.com/?p=509 Shewired has posted an excerpt of Smoketown on their site. You can check it out here.

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