I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wanted to come out and be as good as any team in the state, to prove we could hang with any team at any time.
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

