Lakisha, the Author

Writing didn’t find me!

Being a author, whether through a publishing company or being self published, takes hard work. Why? Because writing isn’t for wimps! Nawl! But it’s not just the writing because them comes the hustle and flow! See, what’s the sense of spending all of your extra time writing to simply allow your work to sit idle. You have to grind extra hard being a new author just to get your name out there. Then you have to keep up the hustle and the grind to keep your name out!

Yea, you’ll have a few bad reviews but your work won’t please everybody, all the time, so keep grinding. Yea, you’ll have folk, even some family and close friends that won’t support you but even Jesus knew this for He said in Mark 6:4, “A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his relatives and his own family.” Yet don’t stop the hustle.

I pray daily for God to kill more and more of my flesh so that I can be spiritually better than yesterday. This doesn’t mean in order for me to stop writing fiction books (unless God says it) but so that even they will be anointed!

I told you that writing didn’t find me; it was etched in my soul even before my daddy’s sperm met my mother’s egg! How do I know? God told me. He said He knew me before I was formed which makes my writing (whatever genre) ordained! It is my prayer that the mark I leave on your life is a good one. I pray that when you look at me, you see God. I pray that God will use me abundantly to save folk. And I pray that He allows my gifts to take me places I’ve only dreamed of.

It’ll happen … In God’s time! Don’t give up, hold on! (that’s for somebody) #transparentSaint

Daily Devotional – 12/5/15 “Writing didn’t find me!”

It’ll happen … In God’s time! Don’t give up, hold on! (that’s for somebody) #transparentSaint

It’s RELEASE day y’all

I don’t know about you but I’m excited! Excited for you to read the final book in the Ms. Nice Nasty Series, Ms. Nice Nasty 2. I’m excited that this is my seventh (7th) fiction novel. And I am excited that God still finds me favorable!

See, I never thought I would be an author yet here I am, nine books later. God is amazing! I owe Him all the credit because He was the one that deemed me worthy of a writing gift. Writing didn’t find me, it’s was created in my loins. God knew exactly who I’d be because He tells in Jeremiah 1:5, “He knew me before I was even formed in my mother’s womb.” Isn’t that great news!

Even when I didn’t see it in myself, it was there festering in my spirit. I’d feel it from time to time because it was growing in my belly. And some years later, at the appropriate time, I gave birth. Yes, I pushed out what was already inside of me. I tapped into part of my destiny. Writing isn’t my only destiny, it’s part of it and I am excited that you all get to share it with me.

So I invite each of you to download Ms. Nice Nasty 2. It’ll be available in paperback next week.

Click HERE to get your copy!

Thank you for the support!
–Happy Reading
Lakisha

Daily Devotional – 12/4/15 “Are you excited?”

I’m excited! Not just because my seventh fiction novel released today but I am excited at what God is doing in my life. Not only that but I am excited about what God is going to do, in my life. See, I’m excited about the fact that God is going to bless me. I’m excited about the doors that God will allow me to walk through. I’m excited about the tables He’s going to allow me to eat from. I’m excited about the places I’ve yet to even go. Why? Because as long as I hold out on the possibility that it can happen, I have something to look forward too. God told me if I ask Him, it shall be given so I get excited during my waiting. Beloved, sometimes we need to make our own selves excited. We should get excited when we think on what we ask God for, even if we’ve yet to receive it. We ought to be excited just knowing that God will. We ought to get exceedingly glad just knowing that God can. Why? Because He does and He never fails!

Yea, I could compile the long list of ‘you got this but want this’, things that should be, things that you’ve been praying for but haven’t got, I could probably tell you the numerous times you’ve knocked but haven’t gotten an answer but why do that? We all know what God is capable of, don’t we? We’ve seen Him work in others and for some of you, He’s worked on you too so why can’t we get excited for what we haven’t received yet? As long as I have assurance that it’ll be here, I’m excited. Some folks are excited right now that tax time is around the corner. Well, why can’t we be just as excited about the blessings that God has, around the corner? Why do we have to wait until it’s dropped in our lap? Baby, I don’t know about you but I get excited looking at my vision that’s about to come into fruition. I get excited when I sow the seed knowing that I’ll soon reap from its benefit. I get excited when I think about where God is going to take me. I get excited when I sit down and think on what He could have done but didn’t. We need to get to a place where we can get excited about this spiritual walk. It isn’t easy all the time but it’s surely worth it. I’m excited about God. I’m excited about what He’s done, getting ready to do and will do. What about you?

One More Day – Ms. Nice Nasty 2

Pss … Have you heard?

Ms. Nice Nasty 2 is releasing tomorrow! YAY!!!

Synopsis:

Didn’t your mother teach you that actions have consequences?

For Camille, her dream job has landed in her lap but it has come at the worst possible time in her life. Her already shaky marriage is crumbling before her eyes and she has to decide whether it’s worth saving. Add in her husband’s pregnant side chick and all the skeletons in her closet that are starting to peek out, she may be in over her head!

After accepting her new position, she’s looking to celebrate a silver lining in the chaos of her life but karma comes knocking, HARD. On the night of her party, she comes face to face with a gun and the last person she’d ever expect to be holding it. Now she has to get out, alive, without alerting the media and the ballroom full of people waiting downstairs?

She thought she could handle all the scandalous secrets she’d been hiding but when they all start coming out at once, she quickly realizes she’s dead wrong. Therapy hasn’t helped yet but will an unexpected death open her blinded eyes? Or will it be too late? Has her actions left her with more consequences than she can conquer or can she survive with her mind, marriage and career intact?

You can pre-order your copy now by clicking HERE.

I hope you will!
Please download, read and review!

–Happy Reading
Lakisha