Featured Interview With Authors Maritza P. Brown and Chari La’Mone
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Maritza P. Brown is a life-long resident of Connecticut. She graduated from the Rippowam High School Cluster Business Program in 1988. She holds two collegiate degrees; an Associate’s Degree in Liberal Arts from Norwalk Community College and a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from the University of Connecticut, both of which she obtained while working full time and raising a family. She currently lives in the City of Bridgeport with her husband and two children. She also holds a Paralegal Certificate and is a Real Estate/Criminal Paralegal, currently working full time at a law firm in Fairfield, CT. Maritza is a published author and her writing style is fresh, unique and captivating. She discovered her writing talent at an early age by falling love with writing poetry. Her poetry has been published in several anthologies. Being an avid reader also, it wasn’t until she read a novel by one of her favorite erotica authors that her passion for writing novels was born. Although eroticism is almost always her focus, her first novel, Full Circle, A Novel, published in 2007, followed by its sequel, What’s A Woman To Do?, published in 2010, both dealt with real life issues that the reader can relate to. Through the years, she has also delved into editing as well as developing an extraordinary skill for storyline enhancing for other up and coming authors.
Chari La’Mone is an up and coming author aiming for the universe; and is a born and bred New Yorker. From an early age no matter where she was you could always find Chari with a pen and composition notebook: Writing everything from her feelings, thoughts, events of the day, or dreams down. As a teenager she tried her hand at rapping, but after trying in both Florida and New York she realized it wasn’t her passion. In 2009 she published her first of several short stories on another author’s website. After getting rave reviews from other members and even the author herself Chari quickly realized her calling. Chari’s style of writing grabs the reader’s attention from the beginning, taking them on a journey through the cracks and crevices of her imagination; making for one heck of a ride. Her visual style of writing is sure to open the path to longevity for her. She was a contributing author for “The Devil’s Bedroom” and is coauthor of “The Chronicles of Sin: An Erotic Tale” with author Maritza P. Brown. Currently she resides in Westchester with three of her four children, and is looking to release her first of several novels to come in the very near future.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Maritza says: I didn’t realize I had a passion for writing until I was 15. My English teacher gave us a poetry writing assignments and the poet in me was born. I continued to write poems during my teenage years while delving into the works of other poets like Nikki Giovanni and ee Cummings and during that time African American writers were emerging and I became an avid reader of the works of E Lynn Harris and Terri McMillian.
Chari La’Mone says: I’ve always had a passion for writing from an early age. I would write short stories and poems, using them as an escape or release. I didn’t begin publicly writing until 2009 on the author Zanes website.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Maritza says: I now read lots of books of different genres written by authors from all ethnic backgrounds. It wasn’t until I read Addicted by Zane that I told myself I could write a book. And after a few years of creating characters and finding any free moment to write my first novel Full Circle, A novel was published.
Today my favorite authors consist of Pearl Cleage James Patterson and myself of course. I can’t say if anyone in particular inspires me it’s more of what is happening around that inspires me. Most times my storyline a are created by an incident at work or some drama one of my girlfriends are going through or something that happened in the news. My inspiration stems from life itself and sometimes death.
My latest inspiration was meeting my erotic partner in crime Chari LaMone who one day sent me an introduction of a character she wanted to write a book about.
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Chari La’Mone Says: I enjoy reading Terri Woods, Zane, Kiki Swanson, and Stephan King.
I love a good urban lit book or a freaky and creative erotica novel, but I will read just about anything if it’s written well.
I was inspired by the author Zane. I loved her ways of painting a picture and creative way with sex play.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
How Maritza sees The Chronicles of SIN:
The Chronicles of Sin is a cross between 50 Shades and sex in the city but with far more colorful characters and much better sex scenes. It’s definitely in a class by itself and truly stands alone in the erotica genre.
According to Chari La’Mone:
The Chronicles of Sin to me is that water needed to feed a garden. It’s fresh and captivating. It’s kind of like sex in the city where sex actually meets the city. I believe this is the next best thing to hit the literary world.
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