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Dickey publishes Decadence which follows a woman named Nia who has satisfied most of her desires but now wants to experience marriage and motherhood. Before she is able to truly experience these things, her past comes out to haunt her.
On what’s next:
The book tour has started, so I will be in planes, trains and automobiles for a while. Then back to Barbados to continue working on the next novel.
Dickey’s book An Accidental Affair follows James Thicke a man whose mysterious past runs as deep as his violent streak. He’s become very successful as a screenwriter and his marriage to movie actress Regina Baptiste is better than ever. In the midst of filming his latest script, starring Regina and leading man Johnny Bergs, James receives a video of his wife caught in a compromising situation.
Dickey’s book Tempted By Trouble follows Dmytryk a respectable, married, and college educated man. He has a great job in the automobile industry and he has a great future ahead of him. But when he and his wife finds themselves without jobs, Dmytrky realizes you cant find a good job trying to live honestly.
Dickey’s book Resurrecting Midnight follows Gideon who trusts no one. But when his former lover resurfaces in need of his skills, Gideon accepts. The assignment leads to Argentina and a team of international mercenaries who will kill and torture to achieve victory. One of them has a connection to Gideon that neither assassin is aware of, a secret link that reaches into Gideon’s past and plunges him into a double-cross so explosive no one will make it out alive.
Last night I got the news that Resurrecting Midnight debut on the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers list. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Dickey’s book Dying For Revenge is a story about a steamy underworld of crime.. Gideon is convinced that an old score with a former client from Detroit was settled a long time ago. But the lady from Detroit has never forgotten-or forgiven-Gideon. Now, Gideon’s on the run again, embarking on a chase that takes him from London to Nashville, and back to the Caribbean where those on both sides of this battle are dying for revenge.
Dickey’s book Pleasure follows a woman named Nia who realizes her boyfriend can’t fulfill her sexual appetite. Nia decides to push the envelope and hook up with twins, one of which is married. After the wife becomes suspicious of her husbands infidelities, it’s life changing for everyone.
In the latest book Pleasure, the main character Nia she has desires and curiosities but at the same time she questions why the things she wants to do and try, “Why is it wrong to do for me as a woman?”
Dickey follows Gideon in Waking With Enemies. A heated encounter inside a London hotel room leaves Gideon waking up to a world where there’s no one to trust. Someone has taken out a hit on the hit man—but who? The clock is ticking as Gideon tries to pin down the man who was sent to kill him while also finding out who from his past might have ordered the hit. As the hunter becomes the hunted, Gideon will need to find his friends and his enemies to get out of the game alive.
It picks up exactly where Sleeping With Strangers leaves off. So if you read Sleeping With Strangers first you get a lot more information on the characters.
Dickey follows a hit man name Gideon in the book Sleeping With Strangers. He’s a man who lives off the grid, drifting along while making love on the run. His lovers don’t know what he really does for a living but there is something intriguing about him. Gideon is broken hearted and looking for revenge. But like everything else, it comes with a price.
A lot of other writers of characters who are hit men, you know, so for me it was just an extension of trying to find a different character based on what I’ve done before. You know, I’ve done con man. I’ve done grifters. I’ve done engineers. I I’ve done stand-up comics. And so for me, Gideon was just this perfect character for this particular type of story that I was craving to do. How much of Gideon do you want, you know.
Dickey’s book Chasing Destiny follows a woman name Billie who is in love with her soul mate, but her soul mate just happens to be legally married to someone else. Whenever Billie needs to get away from everyone, she just hops on her bike and chases the wind. Once her lovers family finds out about their affair they will not stop until Billie is ruined.
Well, you know, it opens with the main character, one of the main characters, Billie, she’s pregnant and she’s going to tell her boyfriend, Keith, and at the same moment Keith is coming to tell Billie that he’s going back to his wife.
Dickey’s book Genevieve follows a husband and wife who have great careers and a nice home in Los Angeles. When Genevieve learns that her grandmother died, she must travel back to Alabama, something that she dreads. She hopes that her husband does not learn of the secrets she left back there. On the novel’s length:
It varies and depends on the novel. Some are shorter, like Genevieve, and others are more complicated and require travel and being out of my comfort zone for a season or two, like A Wanted Woman and the Gideon series.
Dickey’s book Drive Me Crazy follows a woman and man whose reckless desires could destroy them both.
Dickey’s book Thieves’ Paradise is an interesting novel about con artists looking for love and making ends meet—on the wrong side of the law.
The thing about jail, you go in and you’re housed with criminals and you come out a criminal. You don’t get a B.A., you come out knowing more about crime. You see in movies and in real life, when you’re leaving jail, they say “we’ll see you again, son.” Once a criminal always a criminal.
Dickey’s book Naughty or Nice explores the lives of three sisters, each with their own problems with men. During the holiday season, Frankie, Livvy and Tommie McBroom are not only getting together, but finally understands how it is to have things work together for their good. They are able to discover what family, sisterhood, and love is all about.
Dickey publishes The Other Woman. This book follows a man and his wife who grows apart by the second. One works days and the other work nights. One day Freckles husband, Charles, get fired from his job. Freckles soon finds out that he lied about why he got fired. Once she finds out that he is having an affair with a P.E. teacher at his school, she decides to get even and have an affair of her own.
On becoming a writer:
I guess you could call me an accidental writer. I had thought I’d be an engineer until I retired or became a victim of the Peter Principle.
Dickey’s book Between Lovers follows Nicole, a woman who has to pick up the pieces of her broken heart. Nicole, who has just been left at the altar by her fiance, relocates to Oakland. She finds herself falling in love with a woman but still misses her fiance. She’s playing with fire, not to mention the feelings of the two people who love her most in the world until the truth is set free.
On coming home to Memphis while on tour for Between Lovers:
I really got emotional that day. Being home and getting welcomed like that – it was overwhelming.
Dickey’s book Liar’s Game tells the tale of Dana who leaves New York to escape a roller-coaster relationship. Vincent lives in Los Angeles and is trying to forget his own shattered marriage. They want to plan a future together, but first they have to stop running from their pasts. On how reading Judy Blume helped write this book:
Some of her (Judy Blume) scenes are pretty explicit and I decided that was the way I wanted to write this book. I wanted to be able to write objectively about Vince and Dana getting into a fight. It’s not about me or any relationship I’ve been in. It’s not a broad statement about relationships. It’s just about where Vince and Dana are at this moment in their lives. They really love each other, but the straws of discontent on both sides of the room are just so heavy that things just snowball.
Dickey’s book Friends and Lovers follows four young African Americans, two men and two women, through heartache, love, and laughter.
On what is next after this book:
The book tour has started, so I will be in planes, trains and automobiles for a while. Then back to Barbados to continue working on the next novel.
Dickey’s book Cheaters describes how even good people can have bad luck when dating. Character Stephan loves them and leaves them, just like his father. Character Chanté thinks she’s found her dream man, until his wife and kids come banging on her door. Character Jake on the other hand is a player and he just can’t shake the bad dreams he’s been having. Darnell is faithful to his wife, but the temptation to step outside his marriage is getting tougher every day. Tammy is caught between the man she loves, and the woman he’s promised to. And Karen is constantly lecturing her friends about fooling around, but she is not living up to her own high standards.
In Cheaters, I had a character, Darnell, who wanted to be a writer, and now I wanted to write about somebody who had been in the business for a while. So I thought about making the narrator Darnell, but that would mean that the woman who’d left him would have to be Tammy, and getting those two characters to this place just wasn’t going to work.
Dickey follows Jordan Greene who moves from the deep south to New York City and finds more than he ever thought he would in Milk In My Coffee. When he shares a ride with a young white girl, a romance grow between the two–much to the surprise of Jordan’s friends and family. Love forces him to examine his own values and makes him stand up against what everyone expects him to do.
Dickey follows the lives of three sisters in the book Sister Sister. This book describes the lives of three young African American women. First there is Valerie, scheming social worker Inda and broken-hearted flight attendant Chiquita. Their lives are coming together and falling apart in Los Angeles.
I actually started writing in novel form seven years before (that book was published). I was still engineering (then). I was in software development, but, there was this whole creative part of me that really just started to take control. When I was a software developer, I was doing stand-up comedy; I was doing community theater; I was doing theater; I was auditioning at every college for some student film; I was hanging out with comics—and even when you’re hanging out with comics you’re hanging out with writers.