This week LUV is spotlighting, Rochelle Alers, who's the bestselling author of more than eighty novels with nearly two million copies in print. LUV: Tell us about your newest book. Is there a particular inspiration? I just completed a novel that has been more then twenty years in the making. I had originally submitted a proposal to Kensington Publishing in 1999, however, an unforeseen problem prevented it from being published at that time. Fast-forward to 2022, and I again submitted the same proposal to Kensington Publishing and TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME will be released later this summer. Growing up in the 1960s I was an eyewitness to the social upheaval going on within the United States and around the world and I can still recall many of the images we were bombarded with through the medium of television, newspapers, and magazines. I was cognizant of these images when writing TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME – a story told through the eyes of a twelve-year-old Black girl growing up in rural Jim Crow Mississippi. The novel is longer than any I have written in my thirty-five-year career as a published author, but I believed the story had to be told, because many of the social challenges during that era are still with us today. It is as if history is repeating itself.

Posted by LUV Team at 2023-01-23 20:00:57 UTC