Authors: Lori Jean Grace,S. Jay Jackson
Sister's Revenge: Action Adventure Assassin Pulp Thriller Book #1 (Michelle Angelique Avenging Angel Assassin) (22 page)
Sister’s Revenge
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I truly hope you had a fun time following Michelle, Deja, Nikky and the rest as they struggled with and triumphed over the challenges of the hood.
Now, will you help Michelle come back? Reviews are golden to a series like Michelle’s because your review tells Amazon you enjoyed this book and want to see more like it.
I am asking for your personal help. Please go to
Amazon.com on the Sister’s Revenge Page
and scroll down to write a review. Just tell others how much fun you had reading
Sister’s Revenge
. It doesn’t matter how short; all feedback is precious to me.
Your reviews help me know you want to hear more from Michelle and the ladies. I love your encouragement, and honestly, I personally need it to keep up the work.
Thank you for reading
Sister’s Revenge
. I know how precious your reading time is and am very grateful you chose to spend it with Michelle and me.
If you had fun meeting Michelle, Nikky, and Deja, then there’s good news! Michelle and the girls are coming back in several more books. As of the publishing date of
Sister’s Revenge,
the next three books,
Get Even, Baller Down,
and
Ho’z Hope
are all written and in some level of editing. After those, five more have already been plotted and planned for the series.
Want to know more? Where do the three ladies go from here? What happens to Daryl or Trevon? Who comes up in the hood, taking Jackson’s and Lewis’s places? Michelle doesn’t like killing, but she is
sooo
good at it. How does that work for her?
Get Even
is an exciting look into the hood as changes take place, showing who’s down, who’s a punk, and who betrays whom . . . (Hint: It isn’t always the men.) One thing’s for sure, Michelle stays strong and can always count on her rows, Nikky and Deja.
It’s true, writing is a lonely business. It’s also true a book is only as good as the whole team who helped to make it what it is. As to the lonely business, I thank my family for letting me close the door every day without complaint or interruptions that I know you wanted to do. Ed Benjamin for friendship and support every step of the way. Thank you, Kimberly Grenfell for your through and patient editorial support. Your support has made this book professional where I never could. Thank you, Stephen Campbell of
www.theauthorbiz.com
for your insights that were only matched by your generosity. Thanks to D. Peach, D. Ferris, J. Scotson, M. Cox, and the whole group of dedicated anonymous writers at Bookvetter.com for your generous beta reads and oh-so helpful insights. May God bless each and every one of you, fulfilling your deepest desires and greatest dreams.
Lori Jean Grace and S. Jay Jackson are a writing team. They co-write the complete Michelle Angelique series.
Lori Jean & Jay as a team
Lori Jean is the “personality” of the writing team. She makes sure Michelle, Deja, and Nikky have enough fun while covering each other’s backs in all of the stories. She adds the reality of the hood, sex, and family, from a woman’s perspective.
Jay, the thinker, comes up with the plots and the characters. He also makes sure the men are real, the punks are weak, and the players are strong but flawed, like he knew them to be.
Lori Jean Grace
I’m a regular person with a pretty average history.
My parents were great and gave us kids tons of love. Sundays were all about Mom, grandparents, and church. I sang in the choir. The rest of the week, I hung out with my dad and his friends, watching them play cards or dominoes. Somewhere along the line things changed, and eventually my parents divorced.
As a result of my parents’ divorce and my unwed teenage pregnancy, we wound up living in Compton, a gang stronghold of Los Angeles.
Our house was deep in the hood. In time, most of my cousins and my brother all joined gangs. Because we lived in different areas, they were in rival gangs, which made things very interesting at family gatherings. Warring loyalties are difficult to live with and hard to watch, but they make for exciting storytelling after the violence is over.
Eventually, I married and divorced and struggled with being a single mother. Balancing kids, work, not enough money, not enough education, an occasional worthwhile or sometimes worthless boyfriend, and not enough self-belief, I lived many of the struggles I write about in my books.
My love of reading books didn’t come until later, and I’m grateful for their introduction into my life. I’ve been most influenced by Walter Mosley for the down-home reality you can feel and jazz that jumps off the page, Robert Parker (the real one) for his Spenser character who never changed “Yikes!”, Jean Auel for her amazing storytelling, and David Baldacci for his full family action–gotta love Marlene.
I love to hear from readers. Drop me a line at
[email protected]
and let me know your thoughts about Michelle Angelique or any of the other people in her books.
S. Jay Jackson
I’m not a stranger to the environment we write about. I was born in the county hospital to a single mom on welfare. From my early childhood and throughout my teen years, we bounced around a lot, always in the hood and often in the government housing projects.
As the only boy in the family, I was surrounded by women. My mother’s house was where the neighborhood women gathered to talk. If you’ve ever been around that type of situation, you know how little boys become invisible and the women talk about anything and everything. If women talk about it, I’ve heard it.
My world oscillated between outside, with the guys being stupid and tough on the playground and eventually on the streets, and the women inside, talking about the idiot moves us guys did. My “safe place” was books.
We didn’t have a TV, so I grew up reading. From early on, I could get lost in
The Little Train That Could
, or later in books like
Lobo in the Wild
. Reading was a joy, but because we moved so often, school was arduous. After attending eighteen schools, I dropped out of high school during my senior year and joined the army. When my military duty was finished I returned to night school where my love of words paid off. Eventually, I became the first in my family to graduate from university.
In more recent years, I worked overseas. For ten years I lived in Vietnam and Thailand, where Michelle Angelique went through her training. The things Michelle talks about in our books are made up, but they are also based on my real experiences. Of course, I never did any of the ninja stuff. To get a free copy of our starter library of
Sister’s Revenge
and
Get Even
, Michelle’s first two books, plus the short story
Extra Credit
, just visit us at
www.lorijeangrace.com
.
An original publication from Lori Jean Grace
SISTER’S REVENGE
Dyslexic Dog Publishing
Copyright © 2014 by Lori Jean Grace.
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-9716609-4-6
Edited by Kimberly Grenfell
Cover by Pjae
All characters and situations are fictional. Any resemblance to real people, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
This is fully copyrighted material with all domestic and international rights of reproduction and sales belonging to the author. If you find you’re the illegal recipient of this book, kindly do me a couple of favors. Please tell your friends how much you enjoyed reading
Sister’s Revenge
and encourage them to purchase it at
Amazon.com
. Also, check my
Amazon Author page
for my other books, and buy the rest of the Michelle Angelique series. Help a sista out . . . I worked for well over a year without pay to write and edit this book. Like you, my bills still have to be paid. Unlike Michelle Angelique, I am not a skilled assassin. Writing is how I earn the income to pay them.
Nineteen: Girls Get Their Hur Did
Twenty-Four: Trevon—Check, Please
Twenty-Six: An Asshat Gets Paid
Twenty-Eight: Opportunity Knocks
