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For Make Believers — Sharing Space with Octavia

By Monice Mitchell Simms

I love Octavia Butler. Next to my all time favorite African-American female writer, Zora Neale Hurston, she runs a close second.

That's why I was so over-the-moon happy when I recently visited Zahra's Books-N-Things with my friend and mentor, writer and award-winning Cleveland PlainDealer reporter, Margaret Bernstein, so she could purchase my debut novel, Address: House of Corrections.

I gotta admit, I was a little nervous when Margaret wanted me to go with her to...

For Make Believers — T.M.I.

by Monice Mitchell Simms

The World Wide Web is an ingenious tool.

Both mind numbing and mind boggling, by one click of the mouse, you can find out anything about any person, place or thing. And while I appreciate this convenience much more than old school library research using the Dewey Decimal Classification system, I gotta admit, I was intimidated and overwhelmed when I first began  bumping around the Internet trying to learn about self publishing my first novel, Address: House of...

For Make Believers — Road Maps

by Monice Mitchell Simms

I'm not a snob. Really. I'm not.

But when I first set out to write my debut novel, Address: House of Corrections, I purposely stayed away from — in fact, ran away from — reading books about writing books.

You see, I'm a screenwriter. And have been professionally for nearly 14 years. A movie fan and a student of the craft,  over the past twenty years, I have attended countless seminars and read dozens of books on screenwriting. I've pretty much perused them all. And ...

For Make Believers….

by Monice  Mitchell Simms

Ever since I embarked on this journey to pen and publish my debut novel, Address: House of Corrections, I have been asked by friends and strangers alike — How did you do it?

Initially, I thought that they were asking me a creative question. You know, the answer all of us who make believe yearn to know…How to manifest our gifts from the ethos and sculpt jewels out of the muck of our subconscious to create a work of art. Following that train of thought, I would share...

Reads4Pleasure reviews "Address: House of Corrections!"

From Locust Grove, Georgia to Detroit, Michigan, the debut novel from Monice Mitchell Simms is a journey that grabs a hold of you from page one and doesn't let you go until the end.  Even then, you'll be begging for more.

Address: House of Corrections opens with the main character's, Merry, release from prison in 1965.  Through a series of flashbacks, we learn that Merry and her brother Johnson have been raised by their grandmother in the south until events force them to relocate to...

Address: House of Corrections review by Quincy Lenear Gossfield

Monice Mitchell Simms is a voice destined to be heard, whose writings I foresee becoming a part of African American literary mainstays such as Alice Walker & Toni Morrison. Address: House of Corrections was a visual journey. Monice's writing style is vivid, poetic, and descriptive, caught somewhere between novelist, poet, and cinemaphile. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel! The story was often heart wrenching, revelatory, at times comical, but always truthful and honest. A shining...

Address: House of Corrections "Work To Do" Video

Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate with me last night. I soo appreciate your love and support. I was so re-energized by last night's reading that I woke up at 6am this morning. Gots to get back on the good foot, Fam! Check me and my cast of "Address: House of Corrections" out in the studio….Let's do this!embed

A Good Summer Read…One More Again!

Sonya Vann of Detroit enjoys Address: House of Corrections. Come on....You know you want to, too!

Address: House of Corrections now on sale @ Zahra's Books-N-Things!!!

Los Angeles/Inglewood Fam — you'll find it in the new books section right behind the check out counter. run and get your copy today or this weekend! buy them all, so they'll order some more!