House of Cards

About the Book

House Of Cards is a hard-hitting candid look at the distressed love between two newly-lesbian roommates.  Set against a turbulant college background, two young girls' lives are forever changed in the wake of a close-to-home suicide.  The two have no time to confront their growing romance before they face an onslaught of obstacles from schizophrenia to racism.  Two different people, with two different backgrounds, of the same sex, are thrown into one addictive relationship.  Will their full-hands come flush with triumph or will their House Of Cards come tumbling down? 

About the Author

I was born the last of three kids to a Christian lower-middle class family. My dad was the workhorse, my brother and sister were climbing their respective social ladders and my mom was the glue. We weren't extraordinary by any means, but we were unique in our own strange ways. When I was young, my parents used to always tell me I was smart for my age. I think I even started to believe them (junior high was my wake-up call). At eight years old I began reading a series of books titled Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark by A. Schwartz & S. Gammell. I was so enthralled by their works that I wanted to create my own anthology of short horror stories. Which worked out perfectly for me. My mom would only watch horror movies, so I had a plethora of inspiration. To this day, I'm the same way now and I love watching horror movies more than anything else. My parents were always so supportive and kind. I remember my dad and mom spending countless hours taking me to the public library so I could use the typewriter to work on my stories. Personal computers weren't as prevalent then. As time passed, my works changed. In high school I began to write poems to tap into my sensitive side. And before you judge me, I accept most of the blame. Although, this was the 90's and guys like River Phoenix, Jonathan T. Thomas and Ryder Strong were what all the girls were after. My junior year of high school saw more of me getting rejected by every sports team and woman of the school. But I was upbeat. The turn of the century gave me high hopes and dreams. Later that year, a close family member came out to me. Without hesitation I accepted my relative and dedicated my free time to researching just what it meant for someone to come out to another. The LGBT culture and community (or what little there was at the time) was interesting and warm. My relative would take me to visit friends and sneak me into bars. They spent their time trying to educate me and teach me that the societal stereotypes were ignorant. Don't get me wrong though, the gays and lesbians I met were always kind and accepted me for the little weirdo I was. But my place in the LGBT community was always on the outskirts. Neither my relative or I had any interest in making me a part of it. During my senior year I decided to start a short lesbian story titled What Is To Come. It was a wreck, but it was my little wreck. I wanted to keep writing so I started another lesbian romance novel called The Erosion Of Two College Girls. I finished the novel in college when I became an activist. I knew from then on, that I had found my niche. I continued to write but kept my works to short endeavors as I was busy with college life, and later, a military enlistment. It wasn't until 2007 that I picked up The Erosion Of Two College Girls again and rewrote it. I said writing was my niche, not timeliness. I renamed it House Of Cards and published it in 2008 while I was in Iraq. The satisfaction and rush that I got from publication was incomparable. I wanted to start a new novel but I wanted to gear it more towards drama and suspense while keeping a homosexual and romantic tone. I started a play about a man that chases his ex-girlfriend around town after she leaves him for a woman. Later, I scrapped the idea and used the scene in my second novel title Deliver Us. Immediately after I finished Deliver Us I wanted to start my next book. But I was tired of the romance genre. I was also tired of sub-par horror movies in my dvd player. I began Damnation: Judgement Of The Dead back in November of 2011 and finished it the very next year. Which brings us to current times. My dream is to write professionally. I can write speeches, fiction and reviews. In my life I've had several interests and writing has always been in the background. I'm tired of settling for my true calling and I'm ready to put writing into the foreground. Writing is what I love to do and writing is what I'm meant to do.