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Puppy's first snow (Whudda-'chu doin?!)

2009-12-08T10:51:00.001-08:00

My puppy dog enjoying his first snow.

WGN Midday News Interviews Author Dena Tyson

2009-09-07T10:17:00.001-07:00

WGN Midday News Interviews Author Dena Tyson

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Dena Tyson- Best Selling Author-Writer-Screenwriter-Playwrite & Poet

2009-06-11T19:45:00.000-07:00

As a young girl at 17 you’d think the least of my worries should have been about finding a secure place to live and more about my hair and what I should wear or the big zit that appeared on my face from out of nowhere, a critical state of mind wondering how much longer before it would disappear. That’s what teenagers do right…? It’s considered our right of passage. A time to live and explore freely, having the love and support of our mother and father, our family’s to secure us as we experience some of life’s fragile insecurities. Life is all about making choices but unfortunately I spent those years looking over my shoulders in fear, hoping the nightmare of abuse would come to an end, and I would finally be able to enjoy my life no longer locked in fear, after all hadn’t I gone through enough in the years before? In the months my mother left I will always remember this one day… I was 14 years old and thrown out on the streets of the west side of Chicago by my own sister no less, with no place to go and no one to turn to. Yet here I was now 17, and my abandon this time was to flee.“Xceptance” is my story of trying to find a place in the world, and the abuse I suffered in “Black Beans ‘N Rice” as I found the strength to walk away and the courage to let go. I never knew the fruits of the reward in store for me would be finding real love for the very first time at 25. In my journey I learned that I am worthy and so are each and every one of you, and I hope that I am able to captivate, motivate, and inspire you as well.

In addition to writing books I am also an Advocate for Stroke survivors, and the creator of the Kuckabug Collection of African Dolls.

I have released myself from Corporate America and am pursuing my gift of writing.

What I crave... I love to write drama, and suspense stories that capture you from the very first page and lock you in to a journey you won't soon forget, but will find yourself laughing at the memories you recall. Are you ready...?

In addition to writing other novels, I am working in future developments bringing my novels to film. Currently I live in Illinois with my husband and family.

See you at the movies!

“Continue to Greatness”

To learn more about me and my other projects click on the link here http://www.denatyson.com/index.html

Enjoy some of my books!

2009-06-11T15:37:00.000-07:00

WGN Midday News interviews Dena Tyson as she discusses her novel "Black Beans 'N Rice" click on the link below to view the footage. http://www.wgntv.com/news/middaynews/middayfix/wgntv-hblock-090409,0,5400649.story

More about Black Beans 'N Rice...

Book Trailer for "Black Beans 'N Rice"
It's about my life at 17 with a man 15 years older than I was, who gave me a place to live when I otherwise didn't have a place to go. Unfortunately during the time we lived together he began to abuse me both verbally and physically, and even after I got a place of my own I was still afraid to leave him. Later on in my life at 22 I finally found the strength to walk away and the courage to let go, so you journey with me as I struggle to overcome the scars of low self esteem and lack of self worth, one day finding real love for the very first time at 25 years old.

About the story...
Spooney was old enough to be her father but he didn’t care. It made him feel like he still had it and that made him feel good.It’s not all about how you do what you do because Binx was young and didn’t know any better. She had fallen head over heels for him because he was different.As Binx applied the finishing touches to her face, her mother walked in and stood next to her, a questioning look in her eyes. She glared from the mirror and said something Binx would never forget.“You too pretty of a girl to be with such a old man. You’re young and smart… he’s just taking away all of your youth.” She was quite solemn in the way she spoke.What her mother didn’t understand at that time was the damage had already been done, and she stayed not because she wanted to, but because she had to. She suffered Spooney’s abuse both physically and mentally, and walking away wasn’t easy because she was afraid. *Check out the full excerpt here http://www.denatyson.com/aboutus.html

Xceptance

Exceptance

A story about a child that was never wanted or loved, blamed for all things bad happening to everyone else around her, having to face the world alone at 14 with no place to go and no one to turn to.

About the story...
In the 1960’s, Mississippi born Loraine would take Chicago by storm. This gal was built (as they would say), like a coke-a-cola bottle and could belt out a tune that would make Aretha Franklin stand up and take notice. Chicago wasn’t the only place. The folks down in Memphis gave her praise and would come from miles just to listen.All that glitters ain’t gold and after having six children, she would eventually have a lot of explaining to do, particularly to Walter her husband at the time in Chicago. If the Panama Limited could talk a lot could be said, especially about Stigg who worked the 57 line from Chicago to New Orleans.She walked away from her children more than 13 years before, and now has to face her lies and deception head on struggling to seek forgiveness.So many lies had been told about who Augie’s father really was, Loraine didn’t have a clue and Walter wasn’t about to claim ownership and didn’t give no never mind about the situation either, and would not be moved. *Check out the full excerpt here! http://www.denatyson.com/BookXceptance.html

Give Me the Strength

Give Me the Strength

A truly inspiring, witty and courageous story about taking back control of your life. Depicting a young man who suffers a stroke behind the wheel, finding himself in the middle of rush hour traffic. Taking a quote from the novel "the more you do the better you become" were the words of his wife of eighteen years who took his life into her own hands. She never allowed him to stop believing that he could, he never lost hope and he never gave up. Give Me The Strength is about so much more than surviving a stroke. It focuses your attention to what love truly should be in a marriage, a relationship. A true commitment and a bond that should never be broken. About the story...What if on today you came home a different person.Let me say this again, what if... on today... you came home a different person. (Let’s think about that for a second...) Life can change for any of us at any given time in a matter of seconds, and not in our control. What would you do... could you trust your spouse to be there? Your significant other, your family, do you even have family... friends...? Or would you be forced to entrust your life to a complete stranger.These are questions we take for granted each and every one of us. We never prepare ourselves for the unexpected, instead we go on about our lives worrying and complaining about the things that really don’t matter, completely neglecting the things that do.May Four-tenth was like no other for a young couple that was the best of friends and the epitome of what a marriage should be. After eighteen years you think you know the rules of the game but what happens when the game and the players change. You have a whole new set of rules and this time around "time" is not exactly on your side, and where do you begin. This story is about taking back control of your life. It doesn’t matter what the circumstance. It doesn’t matter what you have fallen from, or how far you have fallen. But it is about believing in yourself and getting the strength to moveforward with your life, and that’s what this novel inspires.
Based on a true story*In theatres soon!* Check out the full excerpt here!http://www.denatyson.com/BookGiveMeTheStrength.html

Coming Soon!

2009-06-11T13:29:00.000-07:00

So Said To Be

Suspense Thriller Novel

About the story...

Brooks had so much to offer and gave so little to his only son. Truth be told Langston was a family secret, and based on that type of union… one that would be taken to the grave.For most of his life Langston had grown up on the outside looking in. His mother forbid him from going to Brooks’ house, but when he discovered just how close he lived he rebelled finding his way to his father, laid in the bosom of another woman. Treated like a stranger he high tailed it home recalling the face of Dok, his sister, for the very first time.The death of her father lead to a Pandora’s Box and a brother she never knew. Or is he…? Stepping into the past unknown revealed the good, the bad, and the ugly secrets behind Brooks, the man known to have been her father. *Check out the full excerpt click here! http://www.denatyson.com/SoSaidToBe.html

Individual Woman My Journey to Dreadlocks

About the book...

I've spent a great part of my life trying to appease the world , guided by the standards for which I had to hide in shame the natural beauty bestowed upon me by the heavens above. You learn better you do better... I proudly embrace the coilyness of my hair otherwise known as my nappy head and that's fine to say as well, in fact I thank you for recognizing. The most important thing I've learned is to do me... I'm spiritually gifted nappy and free, and unlike anyone else... I am an Individual Woman.

Coming soon!