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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, w...

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 h...

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 tryin...