Faye McCray

One of my favorite movies of all time is Dirty Dancing. Don’t judge. I distinctly remember being about nine years old and sitting in my friend Nikki’s room, sneak-watching her teenage sister’s VHS copy of the movie.  For two hours, I sat cross-legged with my jaw slack as I gawked at lustful, sweaty, twenty-somethings grinding…

Actor Michael Beach. If you are a connoisseur of African American movies in the 90s B.T.P (Before Tyler Perry), this face probably solicits a litany of emotions.    This is the face of the man of cheated on Angela Bassett with a wyatt woman in Waiting to Exhale… Causing her to do this…   This…

The agent/writer relationship is an interesting one. You spend months, years, maybe even decades, pouring your heart and soul into writing a novel.  After which you find someone to help you sell it.  The publishing industry is set up such that the “someone,” or agent, is the gate keeper to getting published and in most…

Music is a BIG part of my writing process.  If I need to be transported to a particular place or feel a particular emotion, nothing will get me there faster than a good song.  I’m not alone.  Stephen King, Emily Giffin, Nicholas Sparks and I am sure many, many others all claim music is a…

Me at work the next morning after I was up all night writing… Love and Light, Faye

In 2004, my husband (then boyfriend) and I attended a Martin Luther King celebration at the University of the District of Columbia.  It was the beginning of the second semester of our first year of law school and we had no business being anywhere but the library.  However, it was also the beginning of our relationship so…