![]() ![]() Somehow, I managed to make it through my presentation ignoring his intense stare. A man who was as charismatic and confident as he was sexy. A man who my heart despised - yet my body obviously still had other ideas about. Because the gorgeous man who crouched down and looked at me like he wanted to eat me alive was none other than my ex, Gray Westbrook - a man who I'd only just begun to move on from. My coffee spilled, my files tumbled to the ground, and I almost lost my balance. Until I walked into the conference room and collided with the man I was supposed to pitch to. After two years on shaky ground at work because of my screw up, an opportunity to impress the senior partners was just what I needed. ![]() Until the big boss asked me to make the pitch for a prospective new client. From New York Times best-seller Vi Keeland comes a new, sexy stand-alone novel. ![]()
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![]() She taught English and composition at Dona Ana Community College in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Mailhot was a columnist at Indian Country Today and was Saturday Editor at The Rumpus. In 2016, Mailhot received an MFA in fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Mailhot graduated with a bachelor's degree in English from New Mexico State University. Mailhot got her GED and attended community college. Her maternal grandmother, who she was close to, was raised in the brutal Canadian Indian residential school system. Mailhot's background is Nlaka'pamux, part of the indigenous First Nations people of the Interior Salish language group in southern British Columbia. She was in foster care periodically and eventually aged out of the system. The role of Wahzinak was portrayed by Sara Ramirez in the musical. ![]() Mailhot's mother had a letter-writing relationship with Salvador Agron, and shared the correspondence with musician Paul Simon, who used them for his Broadway musical, The Capeman. ![]() Her father had been incarcerated and was an alcoholic who molested Mailhot when she was young, and was often violent. Her mother, Wahzinak, was a healer, social worker, poet, and radical activist, and her father, Ken Mailhot, was an artist. ![]() Mailhot grew up in Seabird Island, British Columbia, on the Seabird Island First Nation reservation. Terese Marie Mailhot (born 15 June 1983) is a First Nation Canadian writer, journalist, memoirist, and teacher. First Nation Canadian writer, journalist, memoirist, and teacher ![]() ![]() ![]() The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties of the homeless. ![]() Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. ![]() “Tells the story of housing in all its complexity.” -NPR ![]() Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice.A Planetizen Top Urban Planning Book of 2020.Runner-Up General Nonfiction: San Francisco Book Festival.Named A Must-Read Book of 2020 by Apartment Therapy.Named one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2020 by Fortune.Named a top 30 must-read Book of 2020 by the New York Post.Finalist for The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction.A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. ![]() ![]() ![]() John Jennings and David Brame aren’t the only comics to make it into the Illustrated and Art Book Category at Locus Awards 2022. Honored that our first Abrams/Megascope book has been nominated for the LOCUS AWARD! Thank you and ! : /qQ2Jey2utG ![]() FOUR! □ĪFTER THE RAIN for Best Illustrated and Art Book #africanfuturism #africanjujuism #LocusAwards /xOk7PEAh0WĪfter the Rain is the debut book from John Jennings’ new Megascope imprint at Abrams and the Locus Awards 2022 finalist nomination will help give the publishing line that extra little bit of clout. Wow! FOUR of my works are finalists for Locus Awards. ![]() |