John Grisham with a Female Twist! #Author, #motivational speaker, #attorney, #OWNer #OWNAmbassadors
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"Empower yourself by embracing the possibility of failure as a step toward success."
Stop fearing the fall and start respecting the process.
Success is often built on the courage to keep going after things did not go as planned.
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WE WON! Last night, Dwayne Alexander Smith & I were honored to win at the 2026 Black Authors Matter TV Awards in the Mystery/Thriller/Crime Fiction category for our Sounds Like A Plan and Sounds Like Trouble series. Thank you to Gwen Richardson and all the readers!
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The Black Authors Matter TV Awards Show is coming tomorrow! I will be attending as follows:
8:00p.m. CST | 9:00 p.m. EST
Category - Mystery/Thriller/Crime Fiction
You can watch the awards show on Facebook page where it will be live-streamed
facebook.com/nationalblackbo…
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Happy Mother’s Day to every woman raising, loving & mentoring children who are not only biologically hers. Your care reaches further than titles. It shows up in stability, guidance, discipline paired with compassion, and in the kind of love that does not depend on recognition.
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TWO DAYS TO VOTE! My co-author, Dwayne Alexander Smith, and I are deeply grateful to be finalists for the 2026 Black Authors Matter TV Awards.
Voting is open until April 28: bit.ly/3wzACFV
We’re nominated in the Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction category.
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I found out I had to have BOTH of my hips replaced. Now I’m back better than ever!
I owe much of my incredible recovery to my amazing physical therapist Amy Mourad at AIM Sports Medicine in Hermosa Beach. Under her guidance, I went from walker to cane to hiking for two hours.
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I’m so excited to share that I was a panelist for Transformative Career Journeys.
I had the honor of joining Tina Tchen of the Obama Foundation and Sarah Shadonix of Scout & Cellar Wines, with the discussion thoughtfully moderated by Beth Hecht of Xeris Pharmaceuticals.
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This experience meant so much to me. We reflected on those pivotal moments that shaped our careers, talked about how legal training influences the way we lead and make decisions, and explored the many ways lawyers can take their skills into entirely different industries.
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I’m so excited to share that I was a panelist for Transformative Career Journeys, a powerful conversation with women whose paths began in the law and led to extraordinary leadership roles beyond the traditional legal field.
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We are Finalist for the 2026 Black Authors Matter TV Awards! My co-author, Dwayne Alexander Smith, and I are grateful that readers loved our books enough to vote for us!
Start voting April 14-April 28.
Vote for us in Mystery/Thriller/Crime Fiction
bit.ly/3wzACFV
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We are Finalist for the 2026 Black Authors Matter TV Awards! My co-author, Dwayne Alexander Smith, and I are grateful that readers loved our books enough to vote for us!
Start voting April 14-April 28.
Vote for us in Mystery/Thriller/Crime Fiction
bit.ly/3wzACFV
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About the Authors
Dwayne Alexander Smith is a screenwriter and author of Forty Acres, winner of the NAACP Image Award for Literary Work by a Debut Author.
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About the Authors
Pamela Samuels Young is an attorney, an NAACP Image Award winner for Outstanding Literary Work, and the author of several books, many of which feature characters with legal backgrounds that mirror her own.
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Congratulations to all the other BAM TV finalists in their categories. You can view them all at facebook.com/share/v/1C9gxup…
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Book club discussion of the “Trouble Series” with Pamela Samuels Young us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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Feb. is the 20th anniversary of my FIRST book, Every Reasonable Doubt, (Vernetta Henderson Series). I want to celebrate that all year long.
Check it out a.co/d/0gIeHLm1
Published Feb 1, 2006. It has 2,775 Amazon Reviews and on Goodreads 1,824 Reviews!
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My co-author Dwayne Alexander Smith and I were featured on the Faber website in an article, Behind The Book: Sounds Like Trouble. You can read the entire article at
lnkd.in/gTw28Dzw
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16 Dec 2025
Take a peek inside The Law of Karma: read.amazon.com/sample/B0CLK…
Pamela Samuels Young is back with a gripping crime thriller filled with passion, deceit, and murd*r cases.
Amid the suspicions and overpowering desires, is there still a chance that love can conquer all?
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16 Dec 2025
Merry Christmas! If you haven’t read my stand-alone novel “The Law of Karma,” here’s your chance.
Just click this link to grab your copy - a.co/d/aE7Z3Ax
The Kindle version will be free on Amazon from Monday, December 15th thru Friday, December 19th.
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