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LOGLINE: A recovering alcoholic falls for another woman during her intermittent jail sentence and tries to save her new girlfriend from her abusive ex.

STATUS: Available for sale

WILD

LOGLINE: A young woman home alone in an isolated cabin in the woods is visited by an injured man and must decide whether she can trust him or not.

STATUS: Sold

MOTHER HOOD

LOGLINE: A widow in debt to the Detroit mob has to pay them back or they’ll keep her kidnapped daughter. Using her dad’s old number running connections she fights the mob and the gentrification encroaching on her old neighborhood.

STATUS: Draft

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The Misty Copeland Barbie Is a Mirror for Brown Girls

Motto, Time, Inc.

Growing up, I had two big interests—and they both started with the letter B: Barbie and ballet. My mom enrolled me in a local ballet company as a little girl, and I loved the music and the movement of ballet. But I couldn’t help but notice at practices and recitals that little girls that looked like me were few and far between. While I felt resplendent in my pink leotards, ballet slippers and “flesh-toned” tights, those tights were never quite the color of my own little legs, nor did they reflect the variety of hues that were found in the skin tones of the women in my family. But that didn’t deter me from dancing my heart out at each and every recital….

An Interview With The Gentleman #1: Darkness of the Void Writer Greg Anderson Elysee

Black Sci-Fi

The Gentleman #1 is the 3rd SFC Comic comics solo series, published by Evoluzione Publishing. This will be a 32-page comic written by Greg Anderson Elysée of the graphic novel  Is’Nana: The Werespider series, drawn by Massimialiano Veltri of Marvel Comics and Titan Comics, with colors by Marco Pagnotta of SFC and Kasai.  A Lovecraftian inspired horror noir story about the haunting ghosts from the past along with the ghosts from the forth coming future.

In this 4 Part miniseries, The Gentleman finds himself drawn to Espere St. Lanmé, mysterious and alluring, seeking help and protection from a being of possibly supernatural origins. Unfortunately to protect her, Oliver must succumb to his special abilities, a hereditary curse that uses his body as a key and vessel to the Void, an ancient evil with the means to destroy all life as we know.

Can Oliver protect Espere without losing his humanity? And if he can, can she be trusted? What is her connection to Oliver and the Void itself?

I spoke with the author of The Gentleman, Greg Anderson Elysée. Elysée is a Brooklyn, NY born Haitian-American writer, film-maker, model, and teacher.

Black horror out of the margins

Black Sci-Fi

We are currently at peak Black Horror, a genre that was once marginalized itself and that has also been fraught with poor representation of Black characters is now seeing its heyday. With the 2017 critical and financial success of the social horror movie Get Out and now the domestic and international success of the recently released The First Purge a film in a popular franchise that focused solely on its Black characters, Hollywood is finally seeing that Black horror is both popular and profitable.

The irony is that horror as a genre in film has always skewed higher with minority and female viewers than other film genres, but only now have decision makers made the connection that films focusing on Black characters can be successful. 

KENESHA WILLIAMS | BIO

Kenesha Williams is an independent author, screenwriter, speaker, and Founder/Editor-in-Chief of Black Girl Magic Lit Mag.

She took to heart the advice, "If you don't see a clear path for what you want, sometimes you have to make it yourself," and created a Speculative Fiction Literary Magazine featuring characters that were representative of herself and other women she identified with. She has happily parlayed her love for the weird and the macabre into Black Girl Magic Literary Magazine, finding the best in undiscovered talent in Speculative Fiction. 

Kenesha has been a panelist and speaker at StokerCon, the Horror Writers of America convention; Boskone, the longest-running science fiction & fantasy convention in New England; ECBACC, the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention; the 2017 African Americans Expo, and BSAM, the Black Speculative Arts Movement convention.

She has been interviewed by Black Nerd Problems, and several podcasts: Katara’s Café, Cinema After Dark, Talking with Authors, SORMAG’s Writers Café, Minister Faust’s Galaxy, and RCR Reviews. As an, essayist she has written for, Time Magazine’s millennial imprint, Motto. Kenesha is also a screenwriter who is in pre-production on a horror based web series and a short horror film.

An Army Brat who’s travelled the world, she currently lives in the DC Metro Area.

Kenesha is currently represented by Stacey Graham .