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Here, at DIVERSE VIEWS, you will find how when romance and people from varied backgrounds and worlds meet, love happens! Romance is for everyone and in romance writing I try to include all peoples. Stories with African-American main characters are very central to me.       

THE FELIG CHRONICLES, Book One - It is my third romance. It is an interracial/erotic/paranormal.  Again it has a blend of African-American characters with non-African-American ones. Just like real life. My heroine is Black; the hero is White. They band together to fight aliens in a post-apocalyptic USA. In the meantime, they fall hard for each other. I like to call this a metaphysical love story. It was picked up by eXtasy Books and was released on March 1, 2010. I wrote it under my pen name, P.J. DEAN. 

My first romance novel had 16th-century Renaissance France as its setting and, oddly, no multicultural characters.It grew from my love for French history. Faithful spins the love story of Blaise, a Protestant nobleman and Isabella, a Catholic noblewoman. Their love is quite the no-no. This book incorporates everything I ever studied in school. I was proud to be able to blend history with romance to produce the characters and story. Published by iUniverse, it earned their Editor's Choice designation. 

My second book, KINDRED is near and dear to my heart.  It is the one in which I place African-Americans and Native Americans in major roles. I spun this story off something my maternal grandmother related to me about our family possibly having Native American roots. I took the thread and ran with it. I am proud of this book also as it really came out better than I had imagined. It has all kinds and types of cultures and peoples. The grandmother in the story speaks in the Gullah dialect and lives the Gullah culture in upstate New York. I am familiar with Gullah culture and the Gullah language. It is the dialect my father's side of the family spoke. He was born on one of the islands just off the Carolinas. I love the area known as the Low Country and I love the Hudson River Valley and Mohawk River Valley areas too. All settings which I use in my book. All parts of me. I wrote this story under my pen name P. J. Dean. New Concepts Publishing picked it up for its line. Think "Last of the Mohicans" mixed with "Roots."  Check out the link to an abbreviated Gullah dictionary. It should help those who find Gullah difficult to read.