Tune in to hear Ashley M Coleman discuss her new novel Good Morning, Love in conversation with Pauleanna Reid! This is a VIRTUAL EVENT in partnership with independent bookstores Cafe con Libros in Brooklyn, NY, Kindred Stories in Houston, TX and Shelves Bookstore in Charlotte, NC!
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For fans of My (Not So) Perfect Life and Jasmine Guillory’s While We Were Dating, a disarmingly fun debut novel follows Carlisa Henton as her life comes undone after a chance meeting with a rising pop star.
Carlisa “Carli” Henton is a musician and songwriter hoping to follow in her father’s musical footsteps. But, biding her time until she makes it big in the music industry, she works as a junior account manager at a big-name media company to cover her New York City rent. Carli meticulously balances her work with her musical endeavors as a songwriter—until a chance meeting with rising star Tau Anderson sends her calculated world into a frenzy. Their worlds collide and quickly blur the strict lines Carli has drawn between her business and her personal life, throwing Carli’s reputation—and her burgeoning songwriting career—into question.
A smart, timely, energizing romance, Good Morning, Love shows us what the glamorous New York’s music scene is really like and takes us into the lives of a rising but somewhat troubled R&B star and a promising protégé who knows her job better than she knows herself.
With fresh and honest prose, Good Morning, Love examines the uncertainty of being a new professional looking to chase a dream while also trying to survive in a world that’s not always kind to ambitious women.
About the Author:
Ashley M. Coleman is a freelance writer and music industry executive. While working in the music industry for more than ten years, she also wrote for Essence.com, The Cut, Apartment Therapy, and GRAMMY.com, among others. Her passion, whether working with music makers or writers from marginalized communities, is in creating safe gathering spaces and providing educational opportunities for creatives. In 2017, she launched a community for Black writers and writers of color entitled Permission to Write. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband. Catch her tweeting through the writing process
Check her out on Twitter and Instagram: @ashleymcoleman_
About the Moderator:
Pauleanna Reid is a celebrity ghostwriter who helps high-profile leaders and doers turn their personal stories into powerful brand assets. As a result of years of experience building brands and serving as a communications advisor across industries, authority figures trust Pauleanna with their legacies. Leveraging these achievements, she founded The WritersBlok, a full-service ghostwriting agency composed of a team of content ninjas responsible for some of the most talked-about pop culture moments, books and noteworthy speeches. Featured in Black Enterprise, Essence, XONecole, and with leadership partnerships alongside WealthSimple, Google, LinkedIn and many more, Pauleanna’s wit, ability to manage high stakes crises and mastery of impossible deadlines are exactly the traits that today’s tastemakers find so remarkably appealing.
Check her out on Twitter and Instagram: Twitter: @PauleannaR/IG: @pauleannareid