I'm interested in reading, love the movies, travel... but here's some stuff I bet you didn't know about me:
I would like to first thank you for visiting this site and supporting my work!
You may or may not be aware that I write under several names--so many that sometimes the aliases get crazy and confusing (smile.) So, bear with me while I take a moment to introduce my full writing portfolio to you, given that I write various genres under multiple pseudonyms using the names: L.A. Banks, Leslie Esdaile Banks, Leslie E. Banks, Leslie Banks and Leslie Esdaile, simultaneously with five major publishers: St. Martin's Press (NYC), Simon and Schuster (NYC), Kensington Publishing (NYC), BET/Arabesque (NYC), and Genesis Press (MS.). Parker Publishing was just added to the mix, too!
Müzik
Musically, I'm just as wild (all over the place)... I have laughed at the nasty lyrics of Pit Bull's "Culo" (MIAMI)
thinking of Carlos Rivera in his early days, to mellowing out with Luther. Recently one of my readers, LaShonda turned me on to Terrell Carter, and the song "Better Than" inspired a romance I'm working on now--I run that song into the ground. But I can just as easily go to Luda, ha ha ha, talks a LOT of trash, or need to get spiritual with India... or can do Celine Dion's "I Surrender" as quickly as I listen to Seal's "Kiss from Rose," then switch to Yolanda Adam's "Victory," or holla to Kirk Franklin, Mary Mary, and then double back on Lil' Jon and the Ying Yang twins, hit Nelly, then "Lean" -- LOL. My CD collection is as strange as the books I read and my research stacks on the floor!
Filmler
Anything martial arts, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Sin City, Blade (episode one only--yeah, I'm a
purist), From Dusk Till Dawn, Alien, Aliens (my fav line being, "Game over, man!"), Predator, Alien vs Predator, Independence Day, Matrix, -- the list is long... action/adventure (down to Raiders of the Lost Arc, yep), James Bond movies, Spiderman, X-Men, Triple X, when I go to the movies, take me on a ride! Every now and then I can go totally cerebral... The King's Whore, with Timothy Dalton, Dangerous Liaisons, with diva "Close"... or foriegn films like, Chocolate, etc., I love stuff that takes my mind somewhere outside the box. Intrigue flicks also keep me riveted, Conspiracy Theory, and things of said nature.. Enemy of the State, All the President's Men, there are so many by category... hey, I'm a film major, and have seen so much stuff and appreciate it all for different reasons, from the cinematography to the dialogue or suspense... what can I say? BIG SMILE!
Televizyon
Sadly, I don't get to watch it as much because of my writing deadlines, and usually wind up on three channels = The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, The Nature Channel... for research. But I did manage to watch the first episode without fail of 24, and West Wing... to me, those were diametrically opposed--the lines in West Wing were AWESOME, so i'd watch that for intrigue and dialogue, whereas the tension and action in that first season of 24 was off the chain... so i'd study both shows while enjoying them immensely, for those elements. Then, of course, i got hooked on HBO's Sopranos, and just had to MAKE myself stop so i could go write, LOL!
Kitaplar
Hmmm, I have an eclectic taste and mix of reading... anything from Anthony Browder and Wayne Chandler's work (on ancient Kemet)--anything like that, The Metu Neteru, etc., I consume! Yet, I'll read a romance in a minute to clear my head... I loved Tina McElroy Ansa's "The Hand I Fan With," and anything by literary diva, Tananarive Due...
Kahramanları
Wow... those come from real life. My parents--loved them both, God rest their souls. But people like Mandela, Malcolm, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Angela Davis, people who went to the wall for what they believed in and did not waver -- takes insurmountable courage... Ghandi, Mother Theresa, Joan of Arc, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman... the historical list is long... Nzinga... When you put your life, your family, ALL that means anything to you on the line for a cause larger than yourself, to me, that's heroic...
Phaze, in partnership with editor, Alessia Brio, is proud to announce Coming Together: At Last, a multi-author anthology of interracial erotic fiction edited by Alessia Brio with an Introduction by NY Times Bestselling author, L.A. Banks.
All proceeds from the sale of these special anthologies benefit Amnesty International. Coming Together is erotic altruism at its finest!
So, make sure you pick up this collection of interracial erotic fiction which celebrates the diversity of desire. (January 2009)
In THE THIRTEENTH (Book 12) by LA BANKS The entire Neteru Guardian team is on the run, having now been labeled as America's most-wanted terrorists following the gruesome demon battle that felled the Washington Monument and crashed the front doors of the White House. The Anti-Christ is positioned for emergence, the powers of darkness have released the pale horse of the apocalypse, and half the Neteru team is pregnant. Plagues from hell that ravage the country are being cited as stemming from bio-terrorism. The nation is under martial law. The Neterus and their team are underground. If things weren't bad enough the Dark Realm breaks the sixth Biblical seal, which plunges the world into perpetual darkness…and irrevocably into the Armageddon. (February 2009)
UNDEAD ON ARRIVAL (book 3) in this six book series by LA BANKS, hits book stores everywhere Spring 2009. Expect to see the Fae join in on the action, along with new romantic twists and turns for Sasha and Hunter!
Watching Hunter shoot up with demon-werewolf anti-toxin clawed at her insides. As the squad leader for the U.S. Military’s Paranormal Containment Unit, she couldn’t passively witness this and make it all right, personal relationship notwithstanding...Read More of this Excerpt
Also, take the time to brush up on your shadow wolf history by visiting the official website for the Crimson Moon Novels(March 2009)
In LOSERS WEEPERS BY LA BANKS, Vampires! Ohhh! Beware! Into the heat and into the fire! Come sizzle with Banks' stories of Desire if you dare! Overcoming mob attacks and death, with the assistance of Odette—a gorgeous vampire who just couldn’t allow him to die—now Tony (Antonio) must make the adjustment to living as one of the undead.
There are rules and politics this new vampire must learn, and the dangers are many. Odette attempts to delay his desire for vengeance as along as she can by replacing that with desires for erotic encounters designed to seduce him away from his quest. From Finders Keepers to Losers Weepers, are you up for it? (December 2008)
In THE ANCESTORS by LA BANKS, Brandon Massey and Tananarive Due, Essence Book Club Recommended read, Talented African-American authors L.A. Banks, Brandon Massey and Tananarive Due explore ancestral roots in intriguing horror novellas.
Banks puts a time-travel twist into Ev'ry Shut Eye Ain't Sleep, in which antique dealer Abe Morgan helps a friend, Rashid Jackson, protect Aziza, Rashid's granddaughter, from the shades after Aziza inherits her grandmother's house. All three contributors successfully combine scary themes with rich historical detail. (December 2008)
In BITE THE BULLET by LA BANKS - Sasha Trudeau considers herself a soldier first and a werewolf second. But while her secret government-sanctioned task-force faces its greatest challenge so far, Sasha faces something much more primal: the undeniable pull of the moon—and her own desires.
With rogue wolves savaging both the human and paranormal worlds, Sasha’s team of elite operatives has one job: destroy the rogues and isolate the deadly toxin that’s poisoned their blood. But the challenge is far more complicated than Sasha could have imagined. Soon she is thrust into a full-scale supernatural war for supremacy—and the only man left who Sasha can turn to might be the biggest danger to her of all...and in more ways than one. (September 2008)
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jkust sending you some love from me your number 1 fan and my daughter your soon to be number 2 fan...i just have to teach her to read first 11 months might be alittle to early to get into the serise but we are working on it
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