Who I Am

I'm a Black Speculative fiction writer and owner of MVmedia, LLC, a small publishing company specializing in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Sword and Soul. MVmedia’s mission is to provide speculative fiction books that represent people of color in a positive manner. I'm the author of twenty-one novels and short story collections; my most recent the Sword and Soul adventure Eda Blessed II. I'm also a contributing author to Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda, published by Marvel and Titan Books and coauthor of Hadithi and the State of Black Speculative Fiction with Eugen Bacon. I'm  editor and co-editor of eleven anthologies; Spyfunk!; Terminus: Tales of the Black Fantastic from the ATL; Cyberfunk!; The City, Dark Universe and Dark Universe: The Bright Empire with Gene Peterson; Griots: A Sword and Soul Anthology and Griot: Sisters of the Spear, with Charles R. Saunders; The Ki Khanga Anthology, Steamfunk! , and Dieselfunk! with Balogun Ojetade. My work had also been featured in Black Power: The Superhero Anthology and Rococoa published by Roaring Lions Productions; Skelos 2: The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy, Steampunk Writers Around the World published by Luna Press; Heroika: Dragoneaters published by First Perseid Press, Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal Volume Two, and Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire. Balogun Ojetade and I won the 2014 Urban Action Showcase Award for Best Script for our screenplay, Ngolo. My story ‘The Swarm’ was nominated for the 2017 British Science Fiction Association Award for Short Fiction and my story, Carnival, was nominated for the 2020 British Science Fiction Association Award for Short Fiction.